mr. friedman said -- commissioner walker: right. commissioner murphy: did you have the set of plans when you came back the second time? >> at the first hearing, mr. sweeney said prove they're used to be a deck. this is something from 35 years ago. i said there have always been a that, and he said to prove it. it did not see a deck on any of the plans. i have to go back into cold storage to find files from 25 or 35 years ago. i have a copy ofyou have a copyt that we did. b, the compliance letter from the san francisco redevelopment agency, who said that the decking platform is damaged. the certificate of completion from the redevelopment agency. furthermore, there is part of this report, done by it will no architecture firm, financed by the national endowment for the arts to renovate the building. >> if i could just mention one thing? the permit was done by the building of building inspection -- department of building inspection. >> in the first part, the attachment to no. 3, the feasibility study that was done references index four o

mr. friedman said -- commissioner walker: right. commissioner murphy: did you have the set of plans when you came back the second time? >> at the first hearing, mr. sweeney said prove they're used to be a deck. this is something from 35 years ago. i

mr. friedman said -- commissioner walker: right. commissioner murphy: did you have the set of plans when you came back the second time? >> at the first hearing, mr. sweeney said prove they're used to be a deck. this is something from 35 years ago. i said there have always been a that, and he said to prove it. it did not see a deck on any of the plans. i have to go back into cold storage to find files from 25 or 35 years ago. i have a copy ofyou have a copyt that we did. b, the compliance letter from the san francisco redevelopment agency, who said that the decking platform is damaged. the certificate of completion from the redevelopment agency. furthermore, e

mr. friedman. he then inspected it. i spoke to him after the hearing. we cannot commit to ai deck whee people might fall in. i sent them the structural report on the 22nd. >> ok. if you take down a deck that has been there for 100 years, adding an extension, you need plans in terms. that is why people keep 50% of stairs, so that they do not have to get land. >> and we concur with that. that is why we have the permit now, to comply. >> another question that i have is more on the category of structural capacity, that this could be construed as a deck or an assembly area. is there a limitation to the number of people liking go on deck? >> to my knowledge, there is not. >> overloaded. it stresses beyond the calculations, clearly. >> it would be addressed in the building permit. >> occupancy on the limitation of people going there is crucial. >> yes. >> hearing from the other engineer on the commission here? >> the permit would address structural concerns. >> thank you. yes. we have that structural pork and a building permit. >> can i ask a question of the c

mr. friedman? >> guest: i think we need to kind of realize that congress is representing people inadequately and poorly. to the extent maybe we should expect them to. we as voters generally have elected them. and they are not doing anything because people disagree with each other but as i mentioned before, the people who elected them disagree. it's not just that they have a bunch of people who all want the same thing and are just sort of incompetently executing. the voters all want something done but they just don't agree. yes, if we got rid of half the country then it would be a lot easier. we could get rid of all those red states and we could get rid of what is the biggest problem is divided government. i believe we could have republicans win. >> host: a republican line. >> caller: yes, i wanted to go back to a previous caller who brought up the free trade agreements. that's something that my party has pressed for years and to some extent we've success and other countries have benefited is low la

mr. friedman.st: you get a snapshot of the mood of the country and they are really angry at congress and the president. unfortunately, you have a disagreement over a what the solution is. that is the fundamental problem. democrats run the senate. they have ever constituents to voted for them than the house republicans. everyone is upset. there is yet to be any consensus on where to go. that is the basic problem right now. host: from the "wall street journal." guest: it does not seem to be helping anyone right now. it is too early to say how competitive the advantage of it will be. guest: i think your caller's statement was very moving. they have been fired. she was 61 years old and i am not too far for her age. you have one generation that says the baby boomers are they guilty party, we're living off the fat of the land in passing on this debt. and yet look at how this woman feels. there is a lot of alienation people -- a lot of alienation. some of it may not be grounded in reality. things have bee

mr. friedman said as far as the five pillars, inarguable.pillars right now that make me very sad and don't believe we're going to get through it. number one the thing that you touched on is that i think our generation, we're a bloated empire. we are not the greatest generation. we are a generation of consumers and short cuts. we are if you'd study history an empire at every level starts to turn and starts to consume versus produce. secondly, we have a -- last night you watched the debate where michele bachmann said i was the only one that voted against the debt ceiling and people cheered. something that would have brought our country to its knees. we have a republican congress now that is not -- i'm saying reality -- is not on doing what's right but on bringing down the president. >> i think, unfortunately, your second pillar is -- i think that's too short-sighted. the fact of the matter is, tom, that barack obama owned, and this is not about, again, barack obama. this is about systemic challenges that we face as americans. barack obama for

mr. obama on fire in ohio. more problems continue to play the american and global economy. i spoke with tom friedman, author of the new book "that used to be us." >> you talk about the need for a grand bargain to jump-start the american economy. you think with the jobs proposal obama is pitching that america has one? >> the grand bargain has three parts. it has to cut spending, and identify where to cut it, not just from entitlement programs. it has to raise revenue. we do not want to take everything from medicare and social security. and we need to invest in our historic formula for success -- education, infrastructure, and research. but the president has been talking about is where we are going to invest, so we can stimulate the economy and have new ideas, new infrastructure. that is important. he has promised next monday to give us the other two. that will be just as important. >> there is a political climate in the country, during the course of the republican primaries, where there is no desire by the republican party to raise revenue. you wonder whether economic policy is coin to hit politics a

mr. kleinbard? >> well, i thought chairman greenspan was quite persuasive. milton friedman famously once said that to spend is to tax. so it's really spending that drives the question of how much revenues we need. and here, i think, we are all perhaps not keeping on the table this inescapable demographic fact that the country is getting older. just look at this panel in front of you as proof. and the result of that is that our health care expenditures are rapidly growing at a rate that greatly exceeds our growth in gdp. so we need to rethink our spending patterns, our long-term entitlement patterns. those have to be phased in slowly. we have to boil the frog slowly in terms of changing those entitlement rules to a more sustainable one. and in turn, whatever's left we have to finance and we finance that through taxes. so, you know, the medium term i do not see any prospect other than higher taxes being used to help to reduce the deficit or the minimum not increase it as we make a transition to a different spending pattern. >> thank you. senator bingaman? >> thank you very mu

mr. president. your strategy doesn't work in a smartphone world. >> welcome back to "morning joe." time for the must read opinion pages. we have a few good ones this morning. one by thomas friedmanugh. the whole truth and nothing but. my fervent hope is on thursday, mr. obama will set an example and tell the cold, hard truth to parents and kids. i know, honesty, we are told is suicidal in politics. as long as every solution is off the table, the slow national decline will remain on the table. the public is ready for more than michele bachmann's promise to restore $2 a gallon gasoline. let's start a debate with the truth. tell us what you think will be required to get us out of the stagnation. what kind of collective action and shared sacrifice will be needed and why that can lead not just to muttling through, not just to being okay, but to restoring american greatness. please, don't tell us to go shopping, right? >> i think one of the things, look at our political system today. it's in such a state of disarray, you procollude from telling the truth. stand-up there and say look, i'm president of the united states. i'm going to do a couple things probably deemed unconstitutional b