[applause] >> we have a person from huckleberry house, patrick. i want to tell you, huckleberry house save my family, so i really want you to speak. >> my name is patrick. i am a case manager at huckleberry house, in the fifth district. i am a resident of the first district, so this works out nicely. i want to talk about the cost of living adjustments that we were hearing about. i do not think either one of you were in that committee. to talk about why there are important, i first need to talk about huckleberry house itself. we are an emergency shelter for a 11to 17-year olds in the city. we are open 24 hours a day. we are open 365 days a year. we work with children and families in crisis. if there is violence in the home, if there is a kid running away -- we get kids from all of the country and the world running away from different situations. we work with kids who are having drug abuse issues, alcohol abuse issues, we work with kids who are suicidal, any kind of crisis that the youth might be going through in the city. because of the work that w

i close huckleberry house for the month of august. it is getting tough. >> i am going to call a few names. [calling names] >> i am the executive director. i am here as a member of the budget coalition. our membership is made of of primarily grass-roots small and nonprofits who have been devastated by the increasing costs and their organizations are experiencing. they fulfill critical services to the city in that they could reach populations others cannot reach, but they do not have the resources to a absorb these cuts. they do not have the resources to raise bonds. they are in an even more difficult position of addressing these costs, and i just need to say a few things. to me this comes down to a question of values. when you want a service, and you consider that a value, and the cost goes up, you pay for it, yet our sector is increasingly ask to deal with it, and yet i hope we address this issue and deal with it and that is collectively on the city to address as very important issue. this budget committee has miraculously found a eff

i close huckleberry house for the month of august. it is getting tough. >> i am going to call a few names. [calling names] >> i am the executive director. i am here as a member of the budget coalition. our membership is made of of primarily grass-roots small and nonprofits who have been devastated by the increasing costs and their organizations are experiencing. they fulfill critical services

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the huckleberry hound show was a prepackaged half hour program sponsored by kellogg's that was firstal stations in 1958. containing three cartoons, huckleberry hound, pixie and dixie and yogi bear, the show ran once a week in most markets monday at 6:30 p.m. it was an immediate hit and within a few months they began to spin off characters and duplicate the format. yogi bear got his own show soon followed by quick draw mcgraw. as the studio proceeded to fill up local weekday time slots, abc took notice and in 1960 the network asked hanna barbera to create the first ever primetime cartoon series. the flintstones was an enormous gamble that few industry experts believed would succeed. >> on opening night you know what the review in the variety was? i don't mean a little headline, big headline. this is a pen and ink disaster. >> but the show ran on the network more than six years with more than 180 episodes and won a golden globe award for outstanding achievement in animation. the studio went on to produce numerous primetime shows including the jetsons. >> meet george jetson. >> a lot of

like huckleberry finn! now, people are bringing things up from the "titanic." how do you feel about that? >> not in favor. >> stephen: why not? >> when i found it... i went to the smithsonian, the british museum and i said look, i'm going to go back, i can recover our objects. will you display objects from the "titanic" if i bring them up? they said "absolutely not." the split sewnian said "no." the british museum said know. there's nothing down there that says "titanic." it says white star line and we have a room full of artifacts from the sister ship of the "titanic". there's nothing to learn. >> stephen: so you could make some cash. >> but to drag that thing up out of the bottom of the ocean, put in the times square, put an olive garden on the bottom... (laughter) the s.s. "cha-ching" my friend. (laughter) >> i went to the survivors. there were 24 alive when i found the "titanic" and i asked them and they said "treat it... it's the graveyard of my parents." >> stephen: the amazing thing about the deep association that things down there in an oxygen-starved e

i am the director of human resources at huckleberries youth programs. i have been there for two years. i am here to talk about rising health care costs. 10 years ago, the average health care costs per employee was $1,360. 11 years later, at this fiscal year, it is now $3,950. that is a 58% increase. when i talked to a broker about what to expect for the next year, he said, roughly 15 to 20%. over these years, cost increases in everything from health insurance to gas, food, utilities, we had to explore many options in an attempt to balance the budget. most of these cuts were absorbed -- most were absorbed on the backs of our staff. when staff leaves, positions have been left unfilled. many staff had to forgo salary increases. in addition to that, staff have had to take unpaid furloughs. in addition to that, several staff work reduced work schedules, myself included. at a time when demand for services has increased, costs have continued to climb. the mandate that was put forward about 10 years ago for the hcao. there was an attempt to have it filled by th

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of course there's nary a person who hasn't read "huckleberry fin" or "tom sawyer." as mentioned "kentucky yankee in king arthur's court," we like to refer to it is a kentucky red sox in king arthur's court. the entire board has worked tirelessly to make sure that we are able to perpetuate the great legacy of mark twain, in his literature, in his humor, and his is a tire. it's a gift for the country that everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy. just this -- last year in the house adjoining the twain house in hartford is the home of harriette beacher stow and we had the members of the congressional black caucus who came to hartford to participate in a discussion about race. and of course even today, as both mark twain and the whole issue of huckleberry fin and tom sawyer continued to come under literary discussion and debate, it also focuses on an important issue that the nation needs to continue to face and that's the whole issue of ewe manatee as it relates to how man deals with man and the whole issue of racism. there was no stronger proponent in this nation

. >> i'm huckleberry fin, obviously. you're tom sawyer.ffended by his association. >> the gong. we've got to ring it from the get-go. martin, you and i have talked about what is going on in europe. i will read to you two opposing journals, sorry op-eds, one from "the wall street journal" which says europe's voters have swept several governments from office and seem ready for more. what really needs to be swept away is the debilitating consensus that is government spending con conjure prosperity. .robert reisch saying at president should make it clear he won't follow america into an austerity trap of slower growth and higher unemployment. what is happening in europe, is it a lesson for those of us in the united states? >> david cameron is elected in may 2010 and introduces through his treasure sect a series of draconian cuts. 25% is cut from public housing. 25% frrs all nonhousing. and guess what, the british gorveths the british nation has just collapsed back into recession. the second quarter and there's a prediction there's going to be a

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i think huckleberry finn is a wonderful novel and its impulse is antiracist. antislavery, obviously over the years there have been many people who wanted the book banned or wanted to erase the word. i'm not for that. you have a white author, but he is using the term "nigger" for purposes that are clearly antiracist purposes. there are others. lenny bruce. lenny bruce was a great social sat -- satirist. he had a number of times when he used the word nigger, not to insult black people, but to turn the table on people who were antiblack in their feeling and he used the word nigger to laugh at them. using the word nigger as a mirror on race simple in order to combat racism. adore used the word anythinger in some of her short stories. she wasn't using it to be a racist. rather, she was using is as an artist to de-legitimate race simple. that's what i meant. obviously there are black people, too who have used the term nigger in ways that in my view, are completely unobjectionable. dick gregory titled his first autobiography, "nigger "an autobiography." and richard p