mr. lawrence. >> ladies and gentlemen of audience and commissioners, thank you for letting me speak once again. very briefly, i would like to bring up an issue that i think one of the -- i'm not sure which one of you brought it up. but anyway, the issue of sharing a cab, like in washington, d.c.. i picked up a man from washington, d.c. last week and he said since january they recognized the gridlock problem and instituted one extra dollar per passenger and one extra dollar per bag. washington, d.c. has recognized the problem with taking one cab per passenger, because that is what they do at ffo. there is a shortage of cabs at peak time, because every one person getting in one cab. they share cabs. you have three passengers plus the main guy is $4, on top of the gate which is $3.50 and five bags, $5 more in the trunk that. should be instituted in san francisco as well. it will solve a big problem with peak -time cabs. i recall the 500 cabs put on the streets in 1999, during the so-called dot com bubble. my income dropped 65% and never came back. during 2003, during the recession, it dropp

mr. costa. we have lawrence nelson and then marcy adezman. if we do not have either applicant, maria cora -- marcy, okay. is it misspelled on the agenda? >> it's he ha edellman. it's an honor to be here today, supervisors, and i have to say how -- well this is really historical. i have spent my entire adult life working on making the lives and issues of lgbt seniors visible. and understood. and this is -- and so i have presented, over the last 12 years, at various committees, hr -- human rights commission, dass and so on. to finally have an lgbt seniors task force to me is a historical moant here in san francisco, where really we can finally put together a group of people who can -- and this is an area i'm interested in -- utilizing the best data and the best information that the city and -- can provide, to craft policy and programs that are fiscally sound, and effective, in creating a healthy -- creating healthy, long-lived lives for the lgbt community. so i know you have my application, and my over 30 years of advocacy, and education in the

thank you, and go giants. >> hi, i'm lawrence lee -- >> hold on, it's actually mr. nolty first. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> can you do everything at once? all right, thank you very much. my name's michael nolty, i'm the executive vice president for district six, a planning organization formed in 1999 to deal with district batteries and concerns. here today, i'm here today to talk about holiday plaza and the block from mason to market street. and this is this block here. this block is a part of the tenderloin, not union square. it is a part of the district, if you look at your maps, you'll see these are the boundaries of the central market c.b.d. and, this block contains the bristol hotel at 56 mason and many social services organizations at 944 market, which is right here. which i have to be a volunteer at one of those offices. please, so please place this block back into district six where it belongs. again for the audience out there in never, neverland, here again is another map of the market c.b.d. and the block that we're talking about. and here is the actual descripti

mr. ryan keeps talking about jamesville, wisconsin. but you know, lawrenceeen in washington, d.c., since he was 22. for the last 20 years, he's been part and parcel of the washington political elite, not the ordinary folks of jamesville. and again, does he somehow assume that we have no access to a properly functioning memory? >> well, martin, here's the really important question for paul ryan that he hasn't gotten yet on the jamesville auto plant. the plant employed your friends from high school. the plant employed voters of yours. constituents of yours. what did you do, paul ryan, to save that plant? you saw it when they put up the notice saying they were going to close it down. it was a republican president in office when that happened. what did you do with that republican president? what did you do with your republican leadership? what bill did you write? what did you try to push? >> lawrence, we -- >> to save that plant. >> we know what mitt romney did. he did nothing. he did zero. >> but it's really, martin, all the more pointed, this is a real congres

mr. obama in 2008. gosh, i wonder what he could be suggesting there. let's bring in msnbc's lawrenceonnell, host of "the last word," who joins us now from the convention in charlotte and his many fans are behind him. lawrence, despite all of the expectations and enthusiasm that surrounded president obama when he was elected, it took president clinton to highlight two very important realities at that moment four years ago. first, that no president in a very long time had faced such dire economic conditions, but also no president in a very long time has had to battle against such hatred from his political opponents. >> and, martin, those are two things that president obama could not really effectively say himself. imagine what it would sound like. there would be a cry baby quality to it. oh, no other president could possibly have done what i have done. it needed to be certified by a president who presided over phenomenal job growth, as president clinton did. it needed to be certified by a two-term president, who had really seen it all. there's only one person who could have done that.

mr. romney wants to talk about taxes because whenever he talks about taxes it just remind people of his own tax returns that we haven't seen. and lawrence, he paid what, 14%? 14.1% on massive amounts of money that he received. the average ohioan pays 20.1% compared to mitt romney's 14.1%. that fact alone should cause mitt romney to want to stay away fr the discussion of taxes. but i still think that there's something in his tax returns that would be so damaging that he knows that it would be a deal breaker with the american people and that's why we probably will never see his tax returns. but i think that's very telling and i think that, as well as the cayman islands, the swiss bank account, his investments in multiple countries around the world, the fact that he called paul ryan's budget a marvel us budget. this man's got lots of problems and i don't think he can solve them in the next 44 or 43 days. >> thank you all for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, another episode of mitt vs mitt. mitt romney contradicted once again, mitt romney. and in the rewrite tonight, the things paul ryan can't say anymore thanks to mi

lawrence welk music tonight. >> all right, governor clinton, you have a minute, sir. >> i think mr. perot has confronted this deficit issue, but i think it's important to point out that we really have two deficits in america, not one. we have a budget deficit in the federal government, but we also have an investment, a jobs, an income deficit. people are working harder for less money than they were making 10 years ago, 2/3 of our people -- a $1,600 drop in average income in just the last two years. the problem i have with the perot prescription is that almost all economists who've looked at it say that if you cut the deficit this much this quick it will increase unemployment, it will slow down the economy. that's why i think we shouldn't do it that quickly. we have a disciplined reduction in the deficit of 50 % over the next four years, but first get incentives to invest in this economy, put the american people back to work. we've got to invest and grow. 9 nobel prize-winning economists and 500 others, including numerous republican and democratic business executives, have endorsed t

last month, lawrence katz, labor department economist or the clinton administration is the labor market remains weak but the effects of the financial crisis and recession still lingering. mr. kass was the number of economists who participated last week in an american enterprise institute conference. focusing on federal job training programs. >> for the third and final session of this conference, we've got three distinguished expert. but be very briefly introduce them. paul decker is president and ceo of mathematical research and nationally recognized expert he is in the design, implementation and execution and evaluation of education were worse development programs. as one of the nation's leading experts on employment and training programs targeting displaced -- dislocated workers and other unemployed individuals. he's also the president-elect of the association for public policy and management. betsey stevenson, by the way, pose to my far right. betsey stevenson sitting in the middle is an associate professor of public policy at the gerald r. ford policy at the university of michigan. among her, many pastoral she served as the chief economist of the u.s. department of la