if there is the thought that we need to incentivize, then that is the form that needs to happen. san francisco has never incentivized the provision of on-site inclusion every housing units, other than creating an ever where it makes it more sweeter. that is the way it should work. if it is not working, we should figure out how to tweak things or create carrots, to do that. doing that, and unilaterally in this way, i would just, is not the proper way to do it. i have heard this from a to development leaders, turn your attention to the comptroller's report that just came out a week or two ago. it review the fiscal year 11 development impact fees. in particular, the impact of the feed their furl ordinance that this part of the commission was faced with approving a year-and- a-half ago, advanced by the mayor's office of economic development under the previous administration. it is quite astounding to look at what the report tells us. i am not sure -- commissioners, i did not bring copies. but there is a simple summary table. last year, there was a total of $14.5 million of deferred f

what we need to do is incentivize economic growth. it is not just the black community, it is all communities. we're doing everything in washington, d.c. that is counterproductive. i grew up in the same neighborhood as dr. king. i remember walking down auburn avenue as a young kid, there were thriving businesses, professionals, everything. you go to auburn avenue today, it is gone. where do we go back to blocking and tackling and understand what the sector needs? growth andvize incentivize small businesses to get back into the urban areas? america can only be as great as the sum of its parts. if the black community continues down the path that is in right now with this as exorbitant unemployment and failure small businesses, it will not happen. up with someo come tax policies and incentivize the small business growth back into the black community, thank you. [applause] >> that is so appropriate and necessary. >> to that point, many conservatives think when you talk about minority businesses, you have abandoned your conservative values.

another way of looking at this also is perhaps incentivizing for affordable offsites within a mile of the particular building, another thing that is sometimes effective. again, this applies itself more to the ownership situation than it does to the rental situation. i think this is a promising proposal and i think it is a good part of this legislation. again, it will be considered. a couple of brief things. qualifications for people to be part of this advisory group for the port. again, it is always good to have people with qualifications. i do not think i would restrict it to people who necessarily have to have a lot of expertise in a certain area. on commissions, it is good that we are citizen commissioners and we bring different perspectives. working with support is essential, especially in view of not only the america's cup, but other things. we have to make sure anything put into place does not have a deleterious effect on profits that are moving forward. finally, the awnings and screens, concern about working with members of the community in chinatown regarding this. certainly,

if we could take on the issues like pension reform, surely we could reform the tax structure to incentivize job creation, not discourage it. we must reform it. now is the time to finally get it done. small business is the backbone of our local economy and foundation of our vibrant neighborhoods. we can do more to help them. we will strengthen our office of small business and dramatically increase support for small businesses with loans and targeted investment in our commercial corridors. at the same time that we are recruiting those high-tech companies in san francisco, we need to make sure that our young people, as well of those in the middle of their career who are out of work and looking for change, to get the skills and jobs that those companies are creating right here at home. we can do it by working with people like the thing that -- like zynga to partner for nonprofits and city college. through the diversity of our people and geographic locations on the pacific, san francisco is uniquely positioned to be the preeminent gateway for goods and visitors from latin america and beyond. gro

[applause] >> having learned what they do, and what their reward system is and how they incentivize by rewarding the great initiatives that some of the film has, and when their popularity grows, they get rewarded to get their next film. i love that concept. i have an entry for you. it is something called too legit to quit. [laughter] anyway, i had a little bit of fun watching the producers of that come out as well. that should indicate to you there should be a lot of fun, a lot of information to share with the rest of the world, postseason. one of these days i am sure somebody is going to do something about occupy san francisco. i know that is going to happen. please better view me. i've got some opinions. but we are working closely about that. but there is just -- in san francisco when you're a film maker, i know there are a lot topics you can cover, a lot of lines, a lot of precious stories. this is a hot bed for opinions, for postseason and for film making. and i want to make sure that that story-telling, that ability to show the postseason, the ability to educate our world and our

that rate is supposed to incentivize long-term investment in job creation.owever, it's frequently used as a tax bypass without such investment. that rate well below what most of americans are paying. 26 pbt 5%. whose fault is that? it's easy to demonize mitt romney, but really mitt romney is just one window into a culture of money in this country you're getting a chance to learn about because he decided to run for president. it is uncle sam making the rules, granted under the influence of that money. let's bring in our mega panel. karen, susan, and jimmy. your thoughts on the teaching moments that we're getting between newt gingrich and the lobbying money from fannie mae and freddie mac, and the tax code education we're getting from mitt romney. is there a benefit from this in churning through the disgusting nature of it all? >> is there a benefit? >> yeah. an educational benefit. the learning curve for america as we move away from creating villains and heros and more to understanding we have a screwy system that we need to work on the system. >> neither new

where corporations are incentivized to import workers and train those workers once they bring them herean train workers who are idle, right here. there was a time, you know, when i was a young page in congress back in the late 1980s, when people across the aisle would work together to actually get things done because they understood at the end of the day as tip o'neill used to say that all politics was absolutely local and that people in all the localities that they represented were suffering and that's what's going on right now. you know, when people say that they're just not going to work until they can run the country, then they're patient with the suffering of their neighbors. it is a moral shame and it's just bad politics. >> remarkable truth isn't it? the president and ceo of the naacp, ben jealous, yourself, seeks unity whereas a number of these republican presidential candidates use code language. it is a terrible state of affairs. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, martin. >> we'll be right back to clear the air. c'mon dad! i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy. instead i go

, i think, you know, the administration takes the idea that punishing is the focus rather than incentivizingexample, you may have read in the "wall street journal" today, the fact that the states attorneys general were about ready, are about ready to make a settlement on the mortgage issue. in the state of the union, the president offered a new task force on top of the state attorneys general, to go out and find culprits which could derare the settlement. it is, again, always looking at punitive side of things, it is just an attitude. i don't know if he really understands how badly it creates a stigma against business. how hard it is to invest when you don't know what the tax rate is going to be. how hard it is to invest when you don't know what the regulations are going to be. neil, this climate setting is extremely important if any environment. >>neil: but newt gingrich has been going after bain capital for whatever reason he has muddied the republican message on what is unfettered capitalism and what is not? >>guest: well, i think he did, and i think he has backed off of that to some exte

mitt romney and his team created hundreds of thousands of jobs because access to capital incentivizesew businesses. this oppressive 35% corporate income tax rate, the second high nest all the world, that's why we can't get companies to repatriate and come back on american soil. we need pro job pro preenterprise job policies and mitt romney is the one to put at that in place. >> we appreciate your time. >> next up, the gop candidates will slug it out tonight in jacksonville, florida. my question, a simple one. will mitt montaromney stay aggressive? our panel will help us sort this out. i was worried. i worried about my wife, and my family. bill has the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem. he was taking warfarin, but i've put him on pradaxa instead. in a clinical trial, pradaxa 150 mgs reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin without the need for regular blood tests. i sure was glad to hear that. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding, and seek immediate medical care

and yet, there's that added incentive if you're going to allow people to make returns that might incentivize them to buy something else. >> they don't shop anywhere else. they become more loyal. and that loyalty is a key driver for retail success. there's a reason they do it. there's a real economic reason to having a liberal return policy. >> reporter: inside the electronic testing area, workers listen to these ipods to sort out which ones are broken and which ones can be resold. this guy is in charge of the x-boxes. you can have my son as an intern, if you like. and then, there's the long line of flat-screen tvs, which get tested, sanitized and wrapped back up in their boxes. these tvs are being sold to carmel harris, who comes to buy in bulk, up to three times a week. >> i bought two tvs at first. and then, you know, gradually bought ten. now, i get like 20 at a time. >> reporter: and now, you have a business. he resells the good tvs and fixes the broken ones. shopping them all on ebay or craigslist. >> the resale value is really good. >> reporter: carmel earns twice as much as he did at

in terms of a policy question that you raised for our feedback, i think this is a great idea to incentivize projects that go belie the4y parking maximum. i think that that is a strong opportunity. maybe there is a certain threshold of projects. i think that the fee waivers for non formula retail is the assistant space and this makes a lot of sense as well they don't have very large margins to begin with and any sort of fees make it's difficult for them to survive. obviously waivers for affordable housing, most of them don't involve parking. those people will be users of public transit. kc'ni think this is really well thought out policies you have discussed. i think they are all steps in the right direction. >> i was not thinking about this but how will this applied to square footage for small businesses? we have existing stores on fillmore street and there are retell and someone goes out of business and someone comes in and uses the same space. >> it would be on new only or a change of use. if this is one for one, the assumption that it has been accounted for and the fleets -- the fee is no

if we can take on the issues like pension reform, we can reform our job structure to incentivize and not discourage innovation. we must reform this and now was the time to finally get this done. small business and the local economy and the foundation of the vibrant neighborhood. we can do more to help them. we will strengthen the office of small business and increase the support for new small businesses with loans, and the neighborhood business job squad, and targeted investment in commercial corridors. at the same time we recruit these companies to san francisco, we have to make sure that our young people and those in the middle of their career, who may be looking for change can get the skills and the training they need to take the jobs these companies are creating right here at home. and we can do this by working with people -- to establish innovated newt -- innovation and new jobs partnerships with the city college. to the diversity of our people and our geographic location -- san francisco is uniquely positioned to be the gateway for goods and visitors from the growing markets of

incentivizing, metrics, accountability. the whole shebang. people like ross perot and mitt romney have sought to introduce this thinking in government circles with mixed results but it is in the realm of charity and especially international aid where these methods are really succeeding beyond the confines of the corporation as alex perry, chief correspondent of time magazine generate convincingly in lifeblood of the digital how to change the world one did mosquito at a time. is widely praised book is for sale at the door and alex will be right here when we finish to sign copies. i am glad this evening to add alex perry to the list of distinguished authors who have spoken at i t i and it is a real added bonus for us having the protagonist of the book, ray chambers, onstage also. welcome to i p r i and the floor is yours. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. and extract practical about the morphemes in the book, and we are going to talk and then you guys are going to talk like a contagious disease of conversation. let me start off with a few f

but instead, either incentivizes their own speculation or exports money from this country. if you don't have investment in your country, yao will not have the jobs and prosperity. >> that's where people need to get upset. you talk about money outflow. but people don't -- i think people underestimate the trouble we're in and are too quick to take easy answers. >> it's one of those things where acknowledging a big, scary problem is who wants to do that? nobody wants to do that. but the other side of that coin is, if we don't acknowledge the problem, have no chance of solving it. when you acknowledge problems, you have a tremendous opportunity to solve any problem. and i think that's -- and i'm optimistic, by the way. i really am. if you look at our track record of problem solving in this country, once we identify what the problem is, we have a great history of solving them. >> you're here in silicon valley. are there lessons that can be drawn from the experiences here that may help on a broader stage? >> we're here for the 30 million jobs tour. one of my favorite books is thi

staff believes the additional parking would incentivize travel by private vehicle over walking, biking, or using transit, and this would degrade the pedestrian environment. multiple policies within the general plan and specifically the martin and octavia area envision a variety of transportation, and discourages automobiles in a transit-rich neighborhood. staff has received one letter regarding the request. it came from the hayes valley neighborhood association. the letter reiterates support of the project, but is opposed to parking beyond the principle permitted levels in the code. staff recommends the commission does approve the request to modify the existing conditional use opposition to allow the additional seven tandem parking spaces. president fong: project sponsored? -- sponsored? -- sponsor? >> i am david baker, and i am very unhappy to be here, but i am. i would say i agree with everything kevin said. in fact, i think i am one of the primary culprits, one of the players in getting these parking maximums in place. i just want to explain to you what happened to us and why i thin

the reality is that these servicing banks are incentivized to foreclose. have an incentive to foreclose. it used to be the bank that held the note didn't want to foreclose because they didn't want to be in the business of holding real estate. well, these are being paid a fee for service. they're taking money from the borrower and passing it through the to the lender, and they're incentivized to foreclose. we've got to fix that. >> given the broad gop rhetoric with not interfering with business interests and leaving government alone, is there any impetus for greater action to be taken if we see a republican in the oval office? >> well, you know, i don't know. i think you'll see -- i don't think you'd see much of any investigation if there was a republican in the oval office or in the department of justice. i applaud the president for getting this unit together, but there's been real action on the part of states, for now, for many, many, many months. there you see the servicing settlement being negotiated by tom miller. i happen not to think, i'm probably no