thank you. >> hi, my name is fred barnes. i am also a pile driver with local 34, 18-year member. local 34 has been building san francisco cents at 1877. i have personally been fitted with the local hiring initiative, at what to think personally mr. avalos and whoever supported that. thank you very much. i think it is really important, i really think we have a great opportunity with the america's cup here to benefit my family. i think it is a great opportunity for san francisco. i do appreciate your effort to try to protect the city and our budget, and also to make sure that we cut the bastille -- cut the best deal that we possibly can. the job that we do is very dangerous, but everybody who does it does it with pride and also with great safety. it is really nice we get to work in our city, that we did not have to travel so far. also, i think construction is a driving engine. i have heard it said before that construction drives the economy, and i believe that can really do so for san francisco. we're working on pier 15 and 17 for the exploratory on, which is a great opportunity, a

braden farmer, fred barnes, terry mackey, sean, julie smith, janeane antoine, kevin carol, valerie, norman pierce, james, and chrsistina. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is andrew would, with the san francisco international arts festival, and i would like to oppose that not be part of the amended resolution. i think this is our last opportunity to require the america's cup event authority to actually work with us. i don't think that we can have lots of different things happening. there has to be a guiding idea, there has to be something that is holistic and works with us. i think it will be in the interests of the city of the artsmi

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braden farmer, fred barnes, terry mackey, sean, julie smith, janeane antoine, kevin carol, valerie, norman pierce, james, and chrsistina. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is andrew would, with the san francisco international arts festival, and i would like to oppose that not be part of the amended resolution. i think this is our last opportunity to require the america's cup event authority to actually work with us. i don't think that we can have lots of different things happening. there has to be a guiding idea, there has to be something that is holistic and works with us. i think it will be in the interests of the city of the arts committee ran all of the entertainment and cultural activities that went on during the america's cup, and were part of a holistic, whole. it cannot be that the america's cup is doing one thing and the city and other. that will not work for a number of reasons. the terms of the economic benefits, crowd safety, and transportation. all of those things have to be done as one and looked over as something that is a cohesive and event. i think once we get past t

fred barnes, executive editor of "weekly standard." juan williams columnist with the hill. ted columnist charles krauthammer. fred, that do you think is going on in michigan? the santorum campaign has not spent a lot of money on the ground as of yet. it's about $50,000 roughly. compared to the romney campaign which is dumping money and commercials in there nonstop. what do you think the traction is there for rick santorum? >> he is a hot candidate. sometimes after winning free contest last week he is a hot candidate. gary hart in 1984 showed up in florida and rallied at airport. he beat mondale down there. it can happen. i wouldn't say that he is as hot as hart was then but he can get a lot out of that. secondly, i don't think he expects to win michigan. that is other thing. >> bret: campaign is putting the expectations they don't expect it. >> they say they will be happy with the second place. you are leading in the polls and say you are happy to be in second place. that means to me you won't wind up in first place. but just think, if santorum won in michigan, romney home s

let's bring in fred barns, rick klein, and charles krauthammer. charles? >> this is bad. day after a big win in florida. he only spent a -- it's not just that it strengthens the stereotype of romney as the practice tropical depression who is only aware of the poor as pool who clean the streets and wash his car. the real problem here is that it shows he doesn't have efluency with conservative ideas. they're not the one who engage in the war of the classes or division of american classes. obamas will win that kind of argument every day. the moral case for conservative economics is that our policy is going to help everybody, including the poor. two examples, school choice, which will help those trapped in the inner cities and tyranny of the teachers unions will file -- have an education, have the skills to get a job. and you lower the marginal rates and taxes so you encourage economic expansion and creation of jobs. the idea that somehow we can sign the poor to the safety net and we patch it and dependence is a liberal idea. it's not our idea and romney is a guy who came lat

i'm telling you you're going to hear a lot more from the likes of the journal editorial page, the fred barnes of the world. really concerned about the message from romney. >> well, john, here is the new message, a twist. romney even though he's worth maybe a quarter billion dollars last night he portrayed his father at least as a working class hero. >> right. >> let's watch him try to squeeze in the costume of the little guy. let's watch. >> my father never graduated from college. he apprenticed as a lathe and plaster carpenter and is pretty good at it. he could take a handful of nails, stick them in his mouth and spit them out pointy end forward. on his honeymoon he put aluminum paint in the trunk of the car and sold it along the way to pay for the gas and hotels. >> why is that relevant? why is that relevant to anybody what a guy's father did when here is a guy in his 60s, full grown, a career to talk about. it's like newt talking about his father's experience in the war. talk about yourself. you're the one running. this isn't europe where you talk about your father, as some lineage you're

. >> you probably read fred barnes column he says romney lacks big ideas or a vision.reet journal pretty much the same thing. i will quote it. if mr. romney really wants to unite his party and rally a new america majority he needs a cause bigger than his business biography. americans will not follow him merely because he slav-- saved olympics or ran a privateic equity firm? does he loack the leadership tht inspires voters? >> i don't think so. if you look foels you are siting they consistently the number one issue on the minds of voters are jobs and the economy. that's what they are most concerned about. it's not going to be a referendum on romney it will be a referendum on obama and his handling of the economy. >> because of his business background and his plans -- let me offer one of his plans. governor romney's tax plan. let's put it up on the screen here. here are the five main components of the tax plan. it was studied closely by the tax policy center which concluded it doesn't really help the middle class, instead they said high income households would win big po

we are of growth of a young movement that began back in 2007 when fred barnes coined the name about eric carter -- eric kanter, kevin mccarty of paul ryan. i want to welcome you all here this morning. -- eric cantor. i want to thank if my friends from the job creators alliance. we're here to focus on growth. growth means a stronger economy. growth means more jobs, and it means a better future for all of us. today you will hear from some of america's top growth experts, business leaders, and policy makers. our goal is to bring to the forefront ideas that can be part of the debate in washington about a four that will yield really results. thank you for coming. i want to take a moment to introduce our moderator, david thompson. he is the best-selling author and speaker who wrote a blueprint to a billion, which focused on how america's most successful growth companies made it to the top. companies like microsoft, google, event, staples, tractor supply, starbucks just to name if you. he has been described as a discovers guru who patterns behind billion dollar firms. he has been studying growt