. >> my name is lori readerman. every year the board of supervisors struggles with the budget. we argue over the relative to imports of health care, education, senior programs, parks and recreation, transportation, infrastructure, and so on. the federal funds - 4 and wars and weaponry would go along with desorbing -- solving the shortfalls. it is therefore totally appropriate for the board of supervisors to insist on this resolution. the fact of the u.s. congress and mainstream media treat this as sacrifice it must be challenged in every available public platform. this is what democracy looks like. thank you for sponsoring this resolution. thank you. supervisor avalos: 6 speaker, and anyone else that would like to comment on this item, please come forward. >> thank you for submitting this resolution. i happen to agree it should take on the of the policy and feinstein. a couple of points, i think this idea that in our locality we cannot deal with these issues at our level is a form of cowardice politically, because what it really says is we will let the 1% direct every aspect of