. >> i am here today as part of the san francisco parra political action committee but i am the president of friends of -- valley. i would invite you to come to the farmers' market to see the number of strollers and ankle biter is running around. it is quite great. earlier you asked what are things that the board of supervisors can do to help talk about the great things that are going on in san francisco unified and with families in general. i was thinking about that. a couple things that are happening, there was talk about strings attached to the rainy day fund. that tends to be can -- conversations around proposition h funding and strings attached to that. the way the public or parents perceive their children being used whether it is a perception correct or not, there's a perception children are being used to forge a political want as opposed to honoring the public to be supporting what the voters have. it is so much easier to get out by muni then it is to get a child to get a stroller on many. that says something. when the joint committee for the board of supervisors and education has

i think the parra mount issue is recovery for taxpayers, once these loans are made for policy purposes, based on my experience in the commercial world, i think that the -- in this case the department of energy should have some flexibility to suborder nature. that may be best twi recover some money for taxpayers. by suborder naturing, it may make it possible to tract additional funding from other debt investors which can help that project succeed. sometimes these projects are going to run into trouble. they are, after all, risky. but that doesn't mean everything has to be lost. and there needs to be creative refinancing for projection as a way to protect taxpayers. and actually, enhance the probability that they'll get some of their money back. >> it seems to me that subordination in the case of solyndra did not work to accomplish that goal. thank you. i want to ask about bonus payments to follow up on what you said about taxpayers and getting the value for their money. several department of energy loan and grant recipients recently filed for bankruptcy. they laid off workers. they expe

parra a>> to me, the utility av all three are -- dow and s&p ripped out of the april 29th 2011 closes. some have not done that. the utilities have been early. they have been early before. number two is if you take a look and have so many stocks with upside gaps. november 25th and 28th and people are recovering from the turkey and turkey leftovers and had something else right between hanukkah and christmas. you had positive outside weeks and a lot of averages. you had higher highs and lower lows. guess what. low volume, holiday period and i think this market has caught people and i think it's going to have to take the bears for a higher ride. if we close below, we will take a step back. we won't take another step unless we are near 1300 and go with the pulls even with higher oil and all these other problems in europe. >> thank you. good to physically see the step back and another literally. that really drives the way home. >> i thought they would drive into times square. >> i interviewed for the training program and i didn't get the job. >> you didn't? they rejected you? >> see what ha