innovation, research and development, and i also think incentivizing manufacturing in the country, coming from a state that makes things, and in the recovery act, i helped champion the advanced manufacturing tax credit to incentivize 30% tax cut for making things here for clean energy, and so i wonder if you might just speak as reforming tax expenditures and looking at all of this, you know, how should we decide which ones to keep and which ones to eliminate because i'm assuming you would not want to eliminate all of them. >> yes. thank you for your support and recognizing the importance of this part of our tax code, but i believe the challenge on the tax code in general is a multifaceted challenge as you're well aware. >> right. >> our basis and our interest is getting to a point where the package, the overall system is something that allows us to compete globally, and so when we're talking about research and development incentives as well as the corporate rate and territorial system, we need to look at how do we as a country enable our companies to compete most effectively? that's in th

bonding, and loan programs and incentivize us to put up the money.hat we can't do is continue to diter in the way that they've done around the debt and the deficit. what we can't do is put our head in the sand and not acknowledge the fact that the economy -- the best way to give a shot in the arm to the economy is to put people back to work to pay taxes and generate the revenues that we need right now. in our cities we don't have the luxury to engage in the kind of debates that you've seen where democrats won't address entitlements and republicans won't close tax leap hols or raise some taxes on the wealthy. we can do all of that in a way that the simpson-bowles have kind of created a frame wok for. we can do it in a way that incentivizes localities to put up their own money. what we can't do is to continue to debate this without acting on the need to put people back to work. >> jon corzine said that the president should at least call the leaders back and start working on this right now. do you think the people should be calling people back from vaca

we incentivize the wrong kind of behavior and then we get the wrong kind of results. what we do and the federal government, we incentivize a lot of federal agencies to lease. the incentives are to lease. with the way that we call it, if you want to buy a building or something like that up front, it may not make sense long-term. we incentivize with the way we score that expansion in the first year as opposed to leasing which could be scored for 10, 20, 30 years or even more. one of the things i hope that comes out of this today aren't good discussions on how we change those discussions, we need to meet better needs to fiscal constraints of our country. i look forward to the string from a witness, we both do. share with the sure thoughts with the way to generate significant and lasting savings to the public. and with that unhappy given over to senator scott brown from massachusetts. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to our witnesses. i would venture to guess where the only hearing in d.c. right now. and it's interesting listening to mr. chairman, and i want to thank

what we do in the federal, we incentivize a lot of federal agencies to lease. the incentives are to lease. with the way that we, if you want to buy deliver something like that up front, it may not make sense long-term. we incentivize with the way we score that expenditure in the first year as opposed to leasing which could be scored for 10, 20, 30 years or even longer. one of the things i hope it comes out of this hearing today discussion on how we change those test, get improperly online. we need better fiscal constraints of or contradicts i look forward for this hearing, we both do, share with us your thoughts. with that i'm happy to turn over to senator scott brown from massachusetts. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to our witnesses. i would venture to guess we are the only hearing in d.c. right now. and it's interesting listening to mr. chairman, and i want to thank you for holding this important hearing, through a lot of our efforts, your efforts, we've been able to put the spotlight on some of the programs that just aren't doing it right. and it's f

to help incentivize officers as well. for our city because we're having our corporate institution step up and also the foundation is stepping up. and, you know, this is really a good time is place that is safer than we get credit for. how to keep the neighborhood safer, will certainly be a great by-product. >> it is an innovative program and it will be interesting to see whether this is something that catches on around the country. thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, craig. >>> sentences handed down this morning for the american hikers held for two years in tehran, so far the details in tehran. we'll have that in a moment right here on msnbc. you know when something's bad -- but you do it anyway? that's me with the blow dryer and the flat iron until i see smoke. so pantene said, "breakage and split ends? no problem." they gave me this pantene called breakage to strength. [ female announcer ] the keratin protection pro-v system helps prevent then repair split ends. zero fear of breakage, 100% more strength.

federal government and we incentivize the government to lease. and if you want to buy buildings like that up front, maybe that makes sense long term we incentivize them with the way we score that expenditure in the first year as opposed to leasing which could be scored for 10, 20, 30 years or even more. and one of the things i hope comes out of this hearing today in terms of some good discussion of how we change those incentiv incentives. now, we meet the space needs of our agencies and we meet the better needs of the fiscal constraints of our country. and i look forward from hearing from our witnesses and you share with us your thoughts on how to transform our asset generates it. >> i thank you to your witnesses. i would venture to guess we are the only hearing in dc right now. and it's interesting listening to you, mr. chairman, and i want to thank you for holding this important hearing through a lot of our efforts, your efforts we've been able to help put the spotlight on some of the programs that just aren't doing it right. and it's funny, ha

i would suggest he started to do companies mondey things and incentivize them to do things for people who are on the employed. >> i need your assistance. there are seven more of you, and i am probably insane for asking this. if you can do this within one minute each as your colleague has set a precedent for, we can allow recommendations. i think there were two questions. one that said you are officially unleashed for atlanta, but what she followed up to say was how do we support you and the president in what it is to be done, so i would like you to enter one of two things how can people in this room become advocates and be engaged in actions to be a will to support the congressional black caucus of local -- to be able to support congressional black caucus and local officials beyond voting? or no. 2, what are things get local community members can do to help better prepare people in their family to be ready for a job? one of two recommendations. what do you recommend folks do to help support you and the president? no. 2, on what can they do to assist you or a family member be better pr

it seems like without a boon to be gained, it is just humanitarian, countries are not incentivized to get involved or risk their soldiers. not that i think that the solution is us innovating a muslim country or somehow trying to overthrow government or insert our politics in a sovereign nation, i think our involvement hasted be at a level that is more robust and consistent to make sure the agreement said these countries have made are honored. we have done it before. there is a handbook for. we need to be a part of another coalition. it is hard to raise that when people and not taking oil or minerals or gold. what is there to be gained other than saving lives? tavis: you are an actor-vist. --i've heard and read black i am a black-tivist. tavis: i had not heard that before. when you get a product that talks about humanity, it connects with people. i get how actors connect with issues around the globe. the question is, why is it, or are you hopeful about the world, that you do all of that inde? >> i tried to be hopeful because i have children. we have these discussions that we're having

footprint helps integrate the city's climate work into all levels of organizational functioning and incentivizes all employees to participate in this process. the program that we are going to announce today will help make our individual departments sweet -- more sustainable and help us meet the goals from our climate action plans. additionally, plugging hybrid technology and its electric vehicles represent a good start towards achieving the new fuel efficiency standards that were just announced by president obama, a 54.5 miles to the gallon. this was announced when president obama noted, just as cars will go farther on a gallon of gas, our economy move will farther on a barrel of oil. when we achieve the 54.5 mpg target, it will reduce consumption from our vehicles by 40% and cut in half the amount of greenhouse gas solutions coming out of our exhaust pipe. the electric vehicles, as you may well now, building up the electric vehicle capital here in san francisco is one of mayor lee's top anbar mental priorities. we are honored to be partnering with chrysler and the u.s. department of energy to p

or employee incentived. so it's cash accounts to participate in healthy lifestyle programs, 58%. incentives and disincentives that are based on tobacco use status where some employees have a nonsmokers discount on the health plan or they may have tobacco use surcharge so they do it both ways. and they also have incentives if you achieve specific health outcomes other than tobacco. so if you lose weight, you participate in weight management programs. some of the other things that they're doing increasingly are in 2012, 76% are using prior authorization for the pharmacy benefit. so if you're -- if you have a prescription for something that is especially very expensive or for only certain clinical problems and some may be overused you will actually have to have that authorized before it would be dispensed. also they're using quantity limits. an example would be with drugs. so perhaps some of these things you could use more often. you might want to use more often. but they have a limit. there are some -- there's

. >> i don't believe a lot of people under stood the tax incentivizing of moving jobs out and the tax disinsent ivizing. >> i have to be out doing something. i got to work. i got to be making a paycheck. >> reporter: what is unclear if it will fly with republicans. back to you. >>> the last planned job fare is towards veterans in san jose this afternoon. dozens of phorpler military personal attended -- dozens of former military personnel attended the "veteran's job fare" this was the last event of the year vets seeking jobs can look for work any time by going to its web site. two dozen firefighters laid off last year returned to work today. the 22 firefighters completed their retraining and set to be stationed in firehouses by tomorrow. they were rehired after san jose was awarded a $15 million federal grant. the money allowed them to fill 49 positions that were eliminated due to budget cuts. the remaining 27 jobs are transfers and firefighters laid off from other fire agencies i. we have new details -- we have new details about wednesday morning's armor car robbery. the police say th

we don't suffer that much, and we go on our way where is the resolve going to come or what would incentivize us to change our ways? >> i think we go the wakeup call. we are all concerned about the fiscal situation. i think we made a lot of progress. i think the deal was substantive. it doesn't give us the sustainability, the four trillion we need to get there, but it got a long way there. the two trillion in cuts are substantive. i think they will occur. i think -- >> neil: you think they are substantive? >> i really do. >> neil: 70% are after the year 2017. >> that's the way it should be because the economy is still soft and can't digest significant cuts at this time. >> neil: mark zandi, thank you very much. coming up: >> is there a risk the united states to lose its aaa credit rating, yes or no? >> no risk. >> s&p an wrong the u.s. will keep its aaa rating? >> absolutely. >> neil: pressure mounting for tim geithner to step down. michelle bachmann, herman cain who says that guy has got to go. [ male announcer ] 95% of all americans aren't getting enough whole grain. but actually, it's neve

unfortunately the legislation right now, as it stands, ab 109's funding mechanisms does seem to incentivize and kind of disproportionately reward counties unlike san francisco that have been sending foam state prison for all of these years. don't believe san francisco should be enabling those counties to continue that same kind of behavior. all right, there's too much uncertainty about what the numbers are going to be. it runs throughout -- [tone] chairman mirkarimi: please, finish your thoughts. >> thanks. it runs throughout the plan that the numbers are very uncertain so while it seems that we have a lot of capacity right now in our jails, i don't think we should take for granted the fact that that's going to actually be the case. so i encourage you not to get into the jail rental business. and finally, just thinking about front and sentencing reform i know that that's not something obviously that the board of supervisors can implement, but it should be on the table. and there should be legislation. the aclu is pushing for legislation to try to reduce the sentences for low-level drug crim

continuing supporting and incentivizing businesses to go green, with a focus on san francisco's small local businesses with an eye toward their expansion and the resulting local job creation. and finally, leverage the city's climate planning actions to achieve health benefits in community addition proportionally impacted by toxic pollution. given the long-term and complex nature of climate planning policy and economic environmental justice issues in the city, we recommend the city create an independent panel to maintain accountability at city departments and others. this group would meet regularly over a multi-year time scale and report back on the city's progress integrating climate planning and environmental justice. the members of the advisory panel look forward to working with the city and private sector employers in identifying further specific actions to promote green jobs in san francisco. on behalf of the panel, which includes myself, kevin daniher, laurie bernstein with goodwill industries, teresa, and elliott hoffman with true market solutions , inc. thank you. [applause] >>

there will publish the results of a security audit to incentivize companies. i take it that is not a mechanism that the isa can get behind. guest: it's the wrong sorts of incentives. you need to understand what we are dealing with, with the modern attacks, going back to the notion that we are not dealing with 2005 cyber security. we are dealing with these very sophisticated attacks. i mentioned before the advance persistent threat. these guys are pros. this is their day job. they are not kids. these guys are very sophisticated, very well funded. they are probably state- supported . so for a corporation to be going up against a nation state that is attempting to attack them, it is similar to dick clark's analogy, similar to the pentagon going to the u.s. steel during world war ii and saying that we might think that the germans will attack in pennsylvania. it's entirely the wrong model. these modern attacks are designed to be stealthy. in the old days, attackers publicized their attacks. now they hide. you do not know you have been attacked. what the administrat

i'm for incentivizing further investments in job creating activities. >> tax reform? >> i think there should be tax reform. i don't think the american people should subsidize expenditures. >> three to five years from now still working under this tax code or have something simpler, fairer, easier to understand that gets rid of loopholes and raises taxes at the federal level. >> i think we should have a flat tax. i stel steve forbes a flat tax proposal he made a couple dec e decades ago is the way to go. everybody is paying the same rate, get rid of the deductions and have these politicians working on bigger issues than our taxes. >> bob, nice to see you. don peebles, peebles corporation, diane, thank you so much, everybody. >> find out what has matt damon fired up that he's heading from the movie set to washington to march side by side with pretty angry teachers. unless you want . new splenda® essentials™ no calorie sweetener with b vitamins, the first and only one to help support a healthy metabolism. three smart new ways to sweeten. same great taste. new splenda® ess

. >> does that make it hard to actually incentivize people to go into medicine? >> this is public knowledge. we have economic difficulties. >> to swim across the ocean. all the way to florida. >> later in the day, we were filming on the beach and called over to help a man swimming. i was asked to help in any way i could. >> your leg. relax. wiggle your toes. >> is somebody coming? >> is there an ambulance coming? >> the young man turned out to be all right, but that ambulance never came, and even if it did, the question remains -- in a system with scarce resources, could this man have gotten treatment he needed? it's also part of the reality cubans face every day. hopefully that gives you a glimpse into the cuban health care systems. we're going to follow health care systems around the world and show you comparisons to the united states in the months and years to come. i do want to talk about something that's become a real american problem, though. the biggest killer of men and women alike in the united states. it's heart disease. many people believe that this is

so you can bet they will have far more highly incentivize people, but fewer people, and lots more software. so i appreciate that perspective. as a practical reality, we see customers come to us every day. >> one of the very nice things is you can move consumption from this model to a consumption model, which is really important here that is a key change. that you no longer have to buy stuff and stand it up and pay for software licenses. you can simply read them. that is a phenomenal change because you're the consumption- based. >> which has been my final question to all three panelists, which is where of the future of cloud computing going? will this be an instant gratification engine where, as you mentioned, the power of the internet is at the hands of a particular individual, or is this a way of life? >> i think it is a way of life. we are on the second year of the 20-year wave. i think 20 years is conservative. i think this is what we are moving to really as an information technology initiative. this is what the future holds now for us. i believe that the time of infrastructure manageme

they're not subsidizing or incentivizing that. hecht: every individual citizen is part of the problem and therefore every citizen has to be part of the solution. those are the street trees we want people to be planting. we do a lot of tree plantings. all of you must intuitively go, "of course it's good to plant trees," of course, i want to put a rain barrel on my house." but is there a measurable environmental impact? trees are going to take up a lot of stormwater over time and are kind of a long-term green investment. we've had more than 200 volunteers come out planting street trees. we need people to make active changes on their property. and to reduce the amount of flow that's going into the combined sewer lines, we're trying to install 4,000 rain barrels. narrator: homeowners can disconnect roof gutter downspouts from the sewer system and divert the stormwater into a rain barrel. schombert: the rain water then can be used to water lawns and gardens and infiltrate back in the ground slowly, rather than being piped to a creek wh

symptoms, so that's one of the reasons for this wide variance in the estimates -- but they should be incentivized and have the information to seek this. we clearly have in the va system an issue of surge capability. i mean, the va caseload itself is largely cissing of -- consisting of older veterans. and the va handles many individuals who need health care. the immediate growth of the new generation of veterans as you've referred to it here in the hearing is a challenge for them because they need to adapt their provider mix, and that's, those are growth problems. but to the extent that there are also providers available in the private sector, i'll suggest without the basis of research that it's certainly worth thinking about trying to figure out how to make use of extent capacity in the private sector. >> and i appreciate that. and one of the points of this hearing is cost of war just providing it in the private sector is not free. it is still a cost, and we have to keep focused on that. senator brown? >> thank you. chris, i just want to go back to you, and i apologize. i had to go down to anothe

to help authorities do this skillfully is change the way regulators are trained and incentivized. i think we can help with these tips. >> i lament the fact that we do not have a single credential supervisor. we advocated for that early on during the clinton administration. the country could have done better in australia, japan, during the crisis, had there been a single focus. it is critical. -- [unintelligible] i think it is essential that we implement this with prudence and care. there are only so many hours in the day and we want our financial institutors and regulators not on those days that are extraneous. >> i probably do not have much to add. in some ways, just reinforced. i made the analogy that we are trying to regulate cards that are speeding down the road at 100 miles an hour and are only 5 feet apart and it requires very careful brick relation to make sure they do not hit each other. the obvious solution is to have them have a greater buffer between them and follow each other at much greater links. that is capital. it does not solve everything here. it is about putting

some of the worst aspects of human nature tolerated, indulged, sometimes even incentivized by a state and its agencies that in part have become literally demoralized. so do we have the determinaon to confront all this a turn it around? i have the very strong sense that the responsible majority of people in this country not only have that determination, they are crying out for their government to act on it. and i can assure you, i will not be found wanting. in my very first act as leader of this party, i signaled my personal priority to mend our broken society. that passion today is stronger than ever. yes, we had an economic crisis to deal with, clearing up a terrible mess we inherited, and we're not out of those woods yet, not by a long way. but i repeat today as i have on many occasions these last few years that the reason i'm in politick is to build a bigger and stronger society, stronger families, stronger communities, and stronger society. that's when i came into politics to do and the shocking events of la week have renewed in me that drive. so i can announce today over the next

which ones aren't then it's impossible to determine who should get the tax cuts that are going to incentivize them to make matters worse the guy heading president obama's job creation council c.e.o. of general electric jeffrey immelt is one of the biggest jobs sorceror outsourcers around with over half of his workforce made up of foreign workers so why are we letting corporations get away with shipping more and more u.s. jobs overseas and what policies especially in regard to so-called free trade need to be enacted to stop the exodus of american jobs here offer her take on the issues karen us prof executive director of work in america karen welcome thank you great to have you with us what's going on here i thought that the corporations were supposed to be. the the what's of this new frank let's throw you a job creators. yeah there are they get a sweet deal i have to say they're getting tax breaks for creating jobs here in the united states while they're shifting the majority of jobs overseas all under a veil of secrecy so it's a pretty good deal they've got money coming in every which way and

they're going to publish the results of security audits in order to incentivize companies. i take it that's not an enforce mechanism that the isa can get behind. >> guest: it's the wrong sorts of incentives. you need to understand what we're dealing with here with these modern attacks going back to the notion that we're not dealing with 2005 cybersecurity, we're dealing with in many instances these very sophisticated attacks. i mentioned before the advanced persistent threat. this is nsl-level attacking. these guys are pros, okay? they're not kids in basements. these guys are very sophisticated, very well organized, very well funded, they are probably state-supported. um, so for a corporation to be going up against, essentially, a nation state that is attempting to attack them is similar to adopt dick clark's analogy, it'd be similar to the pentagon going to u.s. steel during world warl ii and saying, well, we think the germans hay attack, you guys should buy some anti-aircraft weaponry. it's entirely the wrong model. these modern attacks are designed to be stealthy n. the

government give temporary monopolies to inventors in artists for for a period of time to try to incentivize them to come up with inventions and artistic works ok so if you don't have the f.d.a. looking out for us how is how does that actually how does the market work in the absence of that intellectual property or other that safety mechanism that is created by the intellectual property set up that we have for pharmaceuticals how does the market then differentiate between effective and ineffective what we would call generic versions of the drug how that competition work after these patents expire in the next fourteen months well of course it would work like like like any other product works in the market that's not subject to significant government regulation and oversight you would have private rating agencies consumers would have an interest to look out for. you know stance the seals were provable from different rating boards things like this companies would have an interest in proving the safety of their products of course they would but what they wouldn't be able to do is go to the gover