mr. strauss. >> thank you all for allowing me to come after the 9th annual san francisco business week. >> if you could speak in the microphone. >> thank you all for president adam and commissioners, director, for allowing me to come back and speak with you about san francisco's small business week, we just celebrated our 9th annual san francisco small business week, and our biggest yet, with more than 4,000 small businesses participating in a range of different events. and, we were really excited with a lot of the out comes and the involvement of the new sponsors and new workshops and the new opportunities that we were able to provide. as mark quin likes to say we were not only the largest san francisco small business week in the country which is a national sba program that happens throughout the country in small business is really a local program hosted by the local communities to celebrate small businesses and national sba also does the activities and really where the action is, and it is in the local communities. we are not only the largest small business week, we are the only small b

president, and also we're talking with winslow wheeler, he's a strauss military reform project director. gentlemen, welcome. let's start product, mreeler. under sequestration, what's happened to the defense department as far its operation is concerned? guest: chaos, given the way it's being implemented by both congress and the pentagon and the white house. decent leadership in either place, or any one of those three could have eased a lot of the pain of returning the american defense spending to its peace time norms, and we have a long ways to go downwards before we get to those norms. host: so when you say chaos, you mean as far as operation is concerned or leadership is concerned? guest: i mean everything. the chaos in congress, refusal to pass appropriations bills, going onto what are called continuing resolutions, where the accounts are frozen. their refusal to acknowledge that sequestration exists until the other party capitulates on other political agenda matters. the refusal of the pentagon to implement those 5% cuts in a way that doesn't cause chaos in the forces. picking on military readiness, rather than the least import