i help incentivize partners. thank you for your enthusiasm. and also to all of you. the bottom line is about helping our engines of growth, whether it is a non-profit, an educational institution, the city government, or the private sector. that is where the wheels turn. that is where the jobs are going to be made. san francisco is in a unique position. it is taking off, because of the investments the president has made. he has looked at investments in high tech, in energy efficiency, remapping our schools. i am so happy you are here to hear about the wonderful things happening to captivate our young people, so that learning is real to them, and it is not just sitting and listening to lectures, but also getting on the job training, critical thinking, being exposed to what the real world is, in terms of work. that is something i think all of us are learning. i run our department of labor and job-training programs. we know how important it is now, especially for our area and people, to understand it is not good enough anymore to have a ged. it has to be much more. we ha

but i think there are a lot of opportunities #6ñto help incentivize.if we could help these businesss and incentivize businesses through maybe some sort of financial incentives, that potentially we could encourage businesses to want to take that risk, to try and take that leap of faith to provide fresh food. so i think there are many conversations going on around that. i know supervisor mar, you have been talking about some incentive programs that we really would be interested in to hear more. so thank you for your leadership on this whole issue. >> thank you, mr. wu. mr. cohen and if there is anyone else who would like to speak, i don't have any other speaker cards, but please come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors, peter cohen and i'm here today just as and a citizen and activist in my neighborhood work. for the last ten or more years i have been very involved in the upper valley area on retail issues. so i guess i approved a little bit of history. i worked on the initial legislation and i'm really happy to see this level of really deep, analyti

. >> if the government wants to play a role, incentivize them. neil: he said it in french. >> the point is who is going to incentivize growth? neil: is anybody doing that? >> no. this is how we are got out of the last mess. neil: you cannot cut your way out, you have to boom your way out. any prospect? >> not if we are intent on raising taxes were intent on raising corporate taxes, what kind of motivation is that? lower taxes on small businesses, incentivize these big companies. neil, sort of got religious, have grown children, no longer for me. i have responsibilities and it has to be to this country going nowhere. i had to listen, you eventually got to me. you are to articulate in your argument. neil: i'm wondering what the message for the market is. take way the government help, they fall down. >> you know how you sa to the evidence? something called gold. nobody has any trust. i just did a quick chart today, i was stunned since the beginning of this century all the trouble in europe and everywhere else, our dollar has underperformed the euro

we have not really done anything on equity or anything like that to incentivize people. sticking to the normal task we have there is good. but it is important for people to understand, and the people and people out of the company, the way we do composition is we translate the amount of cash to what to do you into shares. if the shares are undervalued the new will get more shares for the amount of money we're going to compensate you. some people are going to look at this but i think it is a great time for people to join. it is a great time for people to stay and double the previous team that. >> can we talk product now? they like that answer. i want to talk about products. i have been rough on the company as others have over mobile that the past. as it was the achilles heel -- i said it was the achilles heel. >> we were very self critical, too. >> is mobile an opportunity for facebook or is it your weakness? >> if gets back to what i was saying before. mobile is -- more users, each user will spend more time and par amount of time this event, we will make more money than w

does it in any way incentivize building homes for larger families? >> it does not. commissioner hillis: thank you for the presentation. you mentioned some of this is geared to getting projects out more. what percentage of projects choose that option now? >> it varies year to year. we have seen a steady decline over the last decade. i do not have the statistics in front of me, but i think -- oh, yes i do. [laughter] it is amazing. from 2002, 2011, -- from 2000 to through 2011, completed projects around 60% -- from 2000 to -- from 2002 through 2011. we would like to get that percentage of. the intention is to improve upon that. >> then the ami targets -- commissioner hillis: then the ami targets, you said moh target 60% or below. affordability gaps tend to be lower in this targets. who decides who target? >> that would be a policy decision. it is not specified over then an overall cap of 120% with the exemption or the exception for the first responders. many of our programs often target lower income than 60%. 60% is a threshold that corresponds to tax credit programs,

i hope we can incentivize other cities, locales, and other elected officials because we are all in this together. as a result of the, everyone adopting the vision that we can get it done has proven itself true. we still have an opportunity to boost the number for it. i am going to keep pushing the mayor and i will keep pushing all of our social network partners as well as the non- profits and the other people that are not here at the table that need to hear about the good things that are working. it is a whole new day. it is competitive out there, but when this administration came to office, the ratio was about 7 to 1. how it is about halfway there. we tightened up, and there is a mismatch, but there is the fact that we have people around the country that are highly trained and are not mobile because of economics. we have jobs cropping up in different industries. not everybody wants to go in north dakota. but do they fit the bill that you talked about? had the right skills that? that is what we have to be concerned about, that everyone has a level playing field and we give everyone the

and maybe take advantage of the tax credits available to hire veterans and disabled veterans, incentivizing businesses to take advantage of the tax credits the president has put forward, to say it is good for us to make those investments here in the u.s., to bring jobs home, to do in-sourcing, and cut the loopholes that have incentivized corporations to go abroad. we know it is a competitive global environment. it is fine. but make sure we take care of our base. our base is around this table and around the country, looking for leadership. we need the mayor, civic leaders, and business leaders to make the investment. that is what it is about. i am here to listen, to hear what exciting things you have been involved with, and hopefully take that back and encourage our leaders across this country, and businesses to get engage. it is about all of us working together, and about equalizing opportunities. i still believe, in my heart of hearts, that this is the best place to grow up and live in this great country of ours. it has so many opportunities. our young people need to understand that it is

we need to use our trade policy to incentivize countries like china to open their markets and play by the same rules but what we shouldn't do is have protectionism that is simply designed to aid manufacturers against fair and healthy competition. [applause] >> thank you. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. next weekend down here on the national mall the national book festival will be taking place. this will be the twelfth annual. booktv will be live on c-span2 but if you are in theory and want to stop by and gravel booktv that come and see us by the history and biography tent. here on booktv on c-span2 we want to introduce you to offer elizabeth ames who has written a book with book with steve capitalism will save us: why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy". first of all tell us about yourself and your personal experience particularly when it comes to economics. >> i have been a financial journalist but also on both sides of the press release so i

of macramÉ seeing the quarterly office. >> dgc and if these incentives that could be changed to incentivize >> absolutely. but think a lot of the department of commerce help small and medium-sized businesses. 50% of their jobs to train our small come and medium-sized companies and small have an advantage because they are doing things. they can afford automation, making products rooted in their communities. and the reason i'm so passionate to some of these attacks on commerce is because some people say, well, we can just eliminate all of that. this subsidy, government assistance. well, the people who need the governments help in a world where their countries are subsidizing multinational corporations at the small and medium-sized businesses. there are a number of programs that help and are designed to help small and medium-sized program, an extension partnership, the export promotion agencies, a number of others that i describe in the book. i think sending men and coming to a bipartisan is that we need to work with some of them can be the one step in offsetting the disadvantage they are unde

so, we need to use of our trade policy to incentivize countries like china to open their markets and a plea by the same rules. what we shouldn't do in my judgment is that protectionism that is designed to aid the manufacturing against fair and healthy competition. >> thank you. [applause] >> the world is a big place with the most additives are these corporations like goldman sachs, for instance. because i spent so much of my life in the developing world, places like africa, latin america and the middle east to give a small example. i saw what happened when commodity futures are bought up by corporations like goldman sachs which have increased by the price increase by 100% i saw the human consequences, the children that were malnourished and even some cases died of starvation because they couldn't afford to eat. the war in both iraq and afghanistan are very little popular support, yet for a handful of corporations, lockheed martin, northrop grumman and halliburton, they are immensely profitable as the war is for his journey to the concert in tiny segment. as said war is a racket. so w

rebates in what's called disproportionate share hospital payments so the hospitals are being are incentivized to create these gigantic bills because they get paid even when they don't get paid the insurance companies another counterintuitive thing they they actually want the patients to go to the highest priced hospitals because they make a whole bunch of their money on something called claims repricing ok what are the repricing so in the instance of the arizona woman she had an eighty three thousand dollar bill in her insurance company paid fifty seven thousand of it so the insurance company rode into the rescue and discounted the bill by twenty seven thousand dollars well what they don't want you to know is that they've been back charge the employer's group plan a percentage of that twenty seven thousand dollars kind of fall savings and many times it's thirty five percent of the savings and a lot of the money that the insurance companies make comes from claims repricing and if you if you think through their surance company is still billing for the discount that it worse than. yes exactly th

wide is the government incentivize me to take on deck? ahold policy structure the federal home loan bank there are multiple government entities that encourage us to buy homes and we cannot afford with the debt we cannot pay back the batteries serve helped interest-rate stay below the rate of inflation what happens then you tell people get that because it is cheaper the value loses faster than interest payments to us would american people did? they took on debt to the that is a government led crisis did some bankers misbehave? absolutely. wall street? yes. think of the incentives. if you make money u.k. keep it. if you lose money you are bailed out. it is coulter big to fail. it has created incentives it has subsidized the behavior it is a crisis that could have never happened in a truly free market. >>host: alert ayn rand cedis is being implemented, used and successful? >> in our individual lives living to the extent that we can but hundreds of thousands would say their lives are changed. the way they pursue happiness is different. think

working alone, but they are literally using their drugs and their development of drugs to really incentivize the therapeutic uses and just like with the other tech companies, this is a very successful model that is happening between big and small, established and new. the collaboration that is going to go on here, i'm excited about this. it will especially with the two companies that you are naming today and i have to admit, terry, that when i heard prolynx was here, i thought you have finally gotten a replacement for the driving range -- you have to be a golfer to understand that. [ laughter ]. and aronora, these are very important discoveries and therapeutic uses of medin that medicine that will advance our world and 38 of them here in mission bay on a vision that i inherited, but so glad to come to fruition. these great incubators will provide information for future generations. i know. it it's right here happening in san francisco and at the same time, while we visualize the kind of push-button to some of these solutions, you have got to see how the laboratory discoveries and the very hi

as profits the only way utility can increase their profit is to cut expenses. >>> how did this incentivize the profit and change the culture >>> a bill i did that but the struck out three but to fight hard enough to take out of that though the part that would change from focusing on profits to focusing on safety critics isn't that the rule of the public utilities commission that tour we have these people appointed and financing the operation to keep utilities and mines and what's going on >>> and the bill that i had was designed to take them out of the hands a little bit in force them into that. the puc wants it but with the bill did out of the net authority but the capitol lawn initiative exercise that authority. >>> we have three new members as we talked about before and i think were doing a marvelous job of trying to bring them in line and do the right thing. the report recently outlining the changes that the first time i've seen them so critical of the utility. i see in the future and much persistent liquidity to long time and vigilance on all of our parts. >>> with that bills and pers

go back to the question that marty posed earlier, which is in effect this idea that in order to incentivize people making the decision to seek treatment that the fear of a felony conviction or possible state prison sentence could play a positive role. you talk to a lot of people charged with crimes who are trying to make the decision of what decision to make, what is the primary motivation you see coming from them. how do they decision make on dispositions related to drug possession as a felony? >> i think that for a lot of people it does have to be a personal decision and they have to come to it themselves. i don't think they necessarily are thinking about whether whether or not they'd be convicted of a felony or misdemeanor. i will also say that sometimes you'll meet someone in county jail and they're ready to get treatment, they're ready to get help and because of the lack of resources, they have to sit in county jail and wait for a bed to open up or wait for there to be an opportunity for them to access treatment. and one of the things that this bill would do ideally would be to divert

government incentivizing need take on debt. it makes absolutely no sense. the housing policy, the whole infrastructure of housing policy, friday, fannie, taxability of interest rates, interest payments, the federal home loan bank. there are multiple government entities that encourage us to buy homes that we can't afford with debt that we cannot payback periods of that's one. the second cause of this crisis was the federal reserve. the federal reserve from 2002 until 2005 held interest rates below the rate of the inflation. two and a half years. what happens when you hold interest rates below the rate of inflation? basically paying people to take on debt. you're telling people, go get that because it's cheaper than, you know, the value. the value of the money is losing faster. your subsidizing debt. guess what american people did after 2002? lower interest rates, they took on debt. we took on debt on everything. this crisis, too much debt, particularly in housing, but that is a government led crisis. some bankers misbehaved. did wall street? yes. again, thin

that is incentivizing. we need to incentivize prevention and spending less money. many of the government's entitlement programs, medicare and medicaid are all coming to a cross. they are coming towards a financial cliff where we will not be able to save them if we do not make drastic cuts now. i would propose block granting the state's money based on population to deliver health care for seniors and people over 55. i feel the state's would be more close to the people of this date, more apt to listen to the legislatures and provide you with a better service for your dollars. i think anytime you expect the government to manage your money efficiently, we can look at the record of spending money recklessly with mismanagement. i feel we really need to make some tough choices or we will all be left with nothing. >> would you like to respond to that? the haiti it is the senior has a choice in medicare. instead of having one size fits all, which is the big government solution. we're trying to allow choices. there is one thing in madison that i do not like, and that is when

of the stimulus funds and the energy efficiency block grant program they are currently using to incentivize property owners to conduct energy efficiency of prince. i was going to ask guillermo or calvin -- >> thank you for your consideration of this measure. if you have any questions, we will be happy to answer them. i was thinking of bringing a bunch of cowboy hats. supervisor mar: next time. any questions, colleagues? is there anyone would like to speak from the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward with a positive recommendation? thank you. ms. miller, is there any other business before us? >> no. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting adjourned. >> olympic fever hits the civic center on tuesday, august 7 at the recreation and park location complete with gourmet food, games, arts and crafts and plenty of family fun. some watched the games broadcast on the big screen while others got in on the action. carnival rides and the olympic- themed activities inspired kids of all ages to go for the gold. the talent competition fee " -- featured l

i think that this this incentivizes the job creation and i am not certain what i will do with this proposal. i know that a lot of work went into this. i am grateful that we have some time before the final vote before the proposal is taken, when this final vote comes before the board, that i can get to a place where i am is supportive of this matter. when i added to the proposal for mr. avalos, we recognize ins in life, no one gets 100%. you have recognized a great deal of support for including the larger mission bay in district 10. that has now significantly changed. many believe moving the border to 16th street supports workers in mission bay in a much stronger way. advocacy of the ucsf campus is strengthened by dividing the area with the border at 16th street. the northern border with the 16th. the southern border would be at sixth street east of seventh. [tone!] again, advocacy is strengthened in the areas where two districts are supporting the overall mission the campus. thank you for all of the hard- working and done in support of district 10. i appreciate you have retained a view -- b

feedback, dash boards and incentivizing the system to en available that can make a huge difference. > we have at that to take a quick break, but when we return daniel shares his thoughts on some of of the most innovative and fun any medical gadgets available to consumers today. >>there's not a problem that exists in america today that hasn't been solved by somebody somewhere. >>(narrator) share your views with gavin at politicallydirect.com, a direct line to the gavin newsom show. >>focus on the folks that are making a difference, that are not just dreamers, but doers. >>(narrator) join the conversation. >> gavin: we are back with dr. daniel kraft. executive director of future med at sing layer at this university. qualcomm put up $10 million, we had peter here recently the x prize for what they call try quarter, star track is that an impose immaterial dream or is that the ultimate from your perspective, at least for the moment manifestation of these con very gents technologies. >> it's already here think the medical try quarter i was on the team that helped design that. help people co

in the letter there was reference to -- prior to 2006 the perception that developers would be incentivized to build nine-unit buildings instead of hitting the 10 mark and could you elaborate on that? >> it is a great question. the planning code stipulates that buildings can be considered a single project for purposes of the inclusion requirement. and when projects come in for their entitlement, when proposed lot substitutions -- subdivisions are made, there is a regulatory oversight mechanism that insurers the planning department can interpret that agglomeration of individual parcels as a single project and apply the inclusion requirement to it. i cannot speak with great detail to the mechanisms that moves through time. both from neighborhood advocacy and planning department, we understand the concern about avoiding inclusion very requirement through lot subdivision has been dealt with. >> i wanted to -- we have special restrictions. if future development happens, we consider it a phase project. that is the specific mechanism that he was alluding to. commissioner wu: i want to understand w

these are work incentivizing changes to the tax code. thing clinton and the republicans did in the '90s was move away from spending money on welfare, move towards spending on work. mitt romney comes along and says the effect of that is bad and it's made us moochers. it's really just the opposite. these are work incentivizing tax cuts. >> those were the best liberal ideas of that period. thank you so much. >>> up next, a video of romney was unearthed by james carter iv, grandson of former president jimmy carter, who says he doesn't like romney and republicans knocking his grandpa. i can understand that. he's going to join us to talk about how he unearthed this little sugar plum about mitt's deepest thoughts. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> this midden camera video of mitt romney telling wealthy donors what he really thinks about obama supporters has shaken up the campaign and it might have remained in obscurity had his self-described opposition researcher from georgia not brought it to light. how fitting that that research

that will incentivize a new taxi sharing program that will lower taxi fares and boost the taxi driver revenue and increase the taxi supply and efficiency in the city of san francisco. in the city of love, why not? 15 years -- this batch is another story. 15 years of unprecedented customer out reached to my data that i have supplied to both the taxi commission and the mta board. i can i get a camera on this, please? i did not see it before. the data deleted from other records with regard to pcnm process. and that has been skewed for political purpose, data that would otherwise give full transparency and accountability. [tone] it also put sfmta and taxi services 15 years behind the times if you do not digest this data. usable data, comparables, even to the untrained executive director. i have an anecdotal story -- story. i took a survey the other day about taxis at home at 8:00 on a sunday i took a survey. to 48 questions, by the way, to the average taxi driver is a little absurd. [tone] >> kory lamb, followed by david toronto. >> good afternoon. my name is kory lam. one of the things i

these are work incentivizing changes to the tax code. thing clinton and the republicans did in the '90s was move away from spending money on welfare, move towards spending on work. mitt romney comes along and says the effect of that is bad and it's made us moochers. it's really just the opposite. these are work incentivizing tax cuts. >> those were the lest liberal ideas of that period. thank you. >>> up next a video of romney was unaerd by james carter iv. grandson of former president jimmy carter who says he doesn't like romney and republicans knocking his grandpa. he will join us to tell us he unearthed this sugar plum about mitt's deepest thoughts. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. governor of getting it done. you know how to dance... with a deadline. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. this is awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is, business pro