a doing in healey hall.my third pint at the tunes. >> he wasn't there to perform. up next, details about his challenge to students at georgetown university. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> bono challenged students to focus on social enterprise. >> willmar has the story for us. >> reporter: an exciting night on campus here in georgetown. more than 700 students in attendance along with plenty of vips including u2's fronted man bono. he delivered the key address and talked about social enterprise and the impacted that social media can have as far as change across the world. his main message, there is no them, only us. >> what am i doing in healey hall? i could be down having my third pint at the tunes. >> reporter: bono taking the stage immediately building a sense of camaraderie with the students. his message was clear. the age of social media and technology is providing what he sees as an unprecedented opportunity. >> not just facebook in the heat of tahrir square but the peaceful march across the worl

he called kerry healey, sherry healey. >> gene robinson has watched politicians over the years.ems like a stiff. a guy who doesn't hang out with the boys. >> he's not a hang out kind of guy. one thing you need, one prerequisite is that each has to know where the other stands. tip knew what reagan believed. reagan knew what tip believed, and then they could wheel and deal. i don't think that could be present with mitt romney. you don't know exactly what his core beliefs are. they seem to be so fungible and so malleable. >> are you really negotiating with a guy who has to negotiate with his people all the time? does he have to go back to his constituents, grover norquist, can't touch revenues, the neocons, the religion right. does he have to check back because he doesn't have a personal core? >> right. and so, you know, if they won't buy it in brown, let's make it in blue. that sort of business mindset i think he brings to everything he does. and so, you know, they wanted severely conservative rhetoric during the primary, so he gave it to them. now he thinks they want different rh

deputy director sweeney is up there watching things, acting director healey is up there and it works well. i think the q-matic is much and it's an expense to maintain it over time. these clip boards work just fine. i'm a small guy. if i'm assigned someone to go to see, i see that person. that's the way it works. to me it's very fair and uniform. thank you for comments. i think the q-matic is more than needed. thank you so much. >> okay. is there any public comment in any of the items under number 6? seeing none, we can move on to item number 7, commissioners questions and matters. item 7a, inquiries to staff. at this time commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. >> i would ask acting director huey, what is the process whereby we [speaker not understood] file reports and de-commission q-matics and can we bring that to the next meeting so we are formally finished with it? we need to know if it's legal, we need to know if we can go through all that and get it done. >> okay. >> comm

. >> what am i doing in healey hall? i could be down having my third pint at the tombs. >> reporter: bono taking the stage immediately be a sense of comradery with the communities of georgetown university. his message to them was clear. the age of social media and 10 is providing what he sees -- and technology is providing what he sees as an unprecedented opportunity. >> not just facebook in the heat of tahrir square, but the peaceful march across the world of mobile phones, across the parched land of the sahara and dense rainforest of the congo. technology is transforming things. >> reporter: mentioned one, his popular grassroots campaign committed to the fight against poverty and preventible diseases around the world. >> well, this generation has the chance to challenge the absurdity of where you live deciding whether you live. >> reporter: international politics major marybeth bronaham stepped up during a q and a session. her sister is working in rwanda with a little boy that has aids and she wanted to know what sort

. >> my name's tyler healey, dr. kelton might recognize my name. >> weren't you in the fourth row, third seat? >> isn't it true that federal taxes do not pay for federal spending? this question is for dr. kelton. [laughter] >> short answer. >> yes. [laughter] >> yes, sir. >> oh, okay. um, quick question. what about the kind of extranational economy? when we talk about raising revenues by taxing the rich more and everybody -- i mean, kind of the standard cynical response is that the rich will avoid paying taxes, and, um, you know, we know that people offshore money, and and also i've been reading lately about how the u.s. is also a haven for offshoring money from other, other countries. how much is that a problem in the our current situation, and how can we prevent it from being a problem in the future? >> bruce? >> well, the main problem is with corporations. pulte national corporations -- multi-national corporations which are able to arrange their affairs in such a way that they don't appear to realize any profits a