secondly -- secondly. >> i'm all ears. >> so what did they tell you? what did they tell you they were going to do? because i read "the financial times," too. and every statement that's come out from berlin since i read that article has been negative about euro bonds and stability. >> you want the answer? >> finish up and then we'll go to the next question. >> if they keep on saying no and they're not prepared to do anything, an extra 500 billion euro exposure has come on to the balance sheet of the german bunders bank. >> because they've agreed to it. they want it to be part of the solution. and that's what they're doing. >> that is not how it works and you know it. now hundreds of billions of euros will automatically run up under the terms of the monetary union. the germans didn't have to say yes or no. it happened automatically, and they're extremely worried about it, as you must know. >> i thought the germans could always say no. they could always say nine. they haven't said nine. they've said ya. >> no, peter. >> we're going to go to another questi

secondly, i would commend the way in which our soldiers handled the situation. and, thirdly, i can assure you that they will continue to implement the united nations' mandate to maintain a secure environment and ensure the freedom of movement. and conducts its operations in a status neutral and impartial way. i strongly regret that we saw violence in recent days. i urge all parties to do their utmost to stop violence and ensure peaceful solution to the problems in the region, but i can assure you that kafur will continue to implement fully the united nations mandate. >> we have another question from ko kosovo media. >> yes, the newly elected serbian president is sending very dubious signals to the region, telling the few towns that belong to serbs, denying genoci genocide, during the air strikes in 1999. from the perspective of having a mission in kosovo, what do you think should you be more cautious now that there is a new political elite in belgrade? >> first of all, on srebinica, i think it's for the tribunal in the hague to make the legal judgment, what they

and secondly to recognize that the costs of health care and the damage done to families by injury and lack of health treatment are considerably and that bolstering health care particularly for low income adults can make a change in our poverty levels. >> can you give an example of that coordination? >> the kinds of coordination, so in our country we have basically three different systems that provide child care to impoverished adults -- toim poverrished parents for their children. we have the head start program, we have subsidized child care and in most locales we have prekindergarten. each of those is for different sub groups of children and none of them are reaching all eligible children. unlike a system that has it more tied in to public schools as an accepted part of the schooling system or in a series as they have in france of crutches or pla creches or places that you can take children and it's universally available. >> dr. haskin, the most recent data from the department of health and human services reveals that nearly 55% of work eligible adults receiving assistance are engage

secondly, i think that the work strategy, as other witnesses said, you cannot get off poverty in the united states if you're only on welfare and you cannot get off poverty in the unite especially if you have two or more children, if you work in a minimum wage job. so we can't command that the employers pay more than a minimum wage job. we can do that but we'd lose some jobs if we did it. the better strategy is one that we've adopted which is to subsidize earnings to low-income families. our earned income tax credit, child tax credit, medicaid program even the food stamp program all made important changes since roughly the mid-1980s all the way up to the last that we know of during the recession we made a number of change in the eitc and the child tax credit that made it more generous to working families. so that is the strategy that works. that's the only thing, i think, that we've done that is -- will produce a fairly short-term impact on poverty. so we've got to increase work by single mothers and hopefully by males as well and subsidize the earnings. we need to maintain that syste

of being able to to go and talk to anyone that we need to get the aid to anyone that we need to secondly that it's important that all aid is not channeled through the syrian arab red crescent they have capacity but that capacity is being stretched russia itself for example sentences made that had to be delivered through the syrian arab red crescent the international committee of the red cross red crescent societies they're sending in aid that is being delivered by the syrian arab red crescent they're doing their own work on the ground we from the u.n. are also using that capacity so there comes a point where that capacity is so stretched that they're not able to do it or we've asked that international organizations as well as u.n. organizations themselves are able to scale up the numbers of people we have in country we've had some difficulties getting visas for example agreed so that we can get those people in quickly so these are the kinds of administrative hurdles that we're facing in terms of being able to scale up that effort though the reason why i'm asking about these conditions be

the world of goodness given amnesty and that i can just elections again and get into my own and secondly this war on terror so he's responsible if you look at say the soviet union which also had a lot of corruption but people said well that. well at least the black market is a market. so you're going to have some kind of trading it helps you get around regulations which are impeding business. what is the problem with corruption in pakistan why is why is corruption bad for pakistan just to give you know the statistics then you're not going to i am history of sixty years the total debt if you will lead to by bikes don is about five trillion in just four years the debt has gone up from the problem by closer to. we had. already. due to service our debts so if out of one point eight trillion. debt servicing is eight hundred billion harvard goes to debt service and six hundred billion goes to before the army how do they leave the million people who have two hundred million to be used as a liberal so clearly the ganges and wind so that in itself russia could still go on and gives a fuck. we're

game and kill someone on our own soil it wasn't that at all factors combine in the sacrifice and secondly it isn't and we should be above you for it and so forget about what the government on i'm done with the people of the country who didn't know what was going on because it. was the it was being abused the way to get them or europe all by the way because of this either they were involved in goods but what about the people so good that there was a definitive in there was a very strong reaction born of the feeling of humiliation answer to sink that you know that the us argue that so and bin ladin is a terrorist responsible for the deaths of many americans so they have a right to go in and take him out what i'm saying is the. war on terror is the law is somehow the confusion is there to win the war on terror by bombs and . you know killing actually war on terror is one when you win hearts and minds of people if you lose the war this is that that is the word this is going to end i don't like this one as well radicalized did that it was eight years back by just under one arrest and it's a po

banking system secondly markets have to be convinced that the reason actually solid funds the why she supported guaranteed these people banks so you need to be always on the upside and no one knows frankly with one hundred million euros will be enough until the stress tests have been completed when that happens the mark will make a judgment as to whether it's sufficient or not over the more funds will be required but this is the right priority of the moment go large go big and convince the markets that you're there to support the european banking system what do you make so far of the efforts which have been made in order to resolve this crisis wastefully we have a g eight meetings g twenty summits which result basically in nothing but well are fortunate americans aren't convinced the moment there is a plan now i think there is a plan at the moment there's a lot of technics going on it negotiate is like a chess game for the chess going to go to the end and the need to be subsides you lives made to get rich markets this problem being solved in the short term it's only when that happens

secondly is to incentivize universities to keep tuition down, and many places are doing very creative things in tough economic times, not everybody, but a lot, and finally i say this can't just be about access. it's got to be about completion, so universities are building cultures around completion where first-generation college-goers and english language learners and pell grant recipients are graduating, we want to use race to the top resources to incentivize that behavior. we have to play. states have to play. universities have to play. >> a quick followup. when you talk about some of the creative solutions, are you referring to the program recently profiled in ohio where they are selling off this lease to all of the parking and privatizing the airport and -- >> i don't know that that specifically. universities going to three-year programs, going to no-frills campuses. universities doing really interesting thing, introductory class eds that half the students fail, doing really creative things with technology, driving down costs and increasing passing rates pretty substantially so th

secondly, i received an e-mail about receiving the brief by e- mail. i reluctantly said yes because i did not realize it was going to be 500 pages, but the day it was due to the court of appeals last thursday, i did get a copy at my home, hand delivered on thursday of about 5:30. this was a brief are received. over the weekend i started preparing my oral arguments, and let me back up a little bit. our reasons for appealing this are in my brees. -- my brief. if upheld your issuance, and thirdly, what supervisor avalos is talking about, the clustering in our neighborhood. going through the documents over the weekend, i felt like i had the documents. it was a well-written brief, but the exhibitors were not stabbed, -- tabbed, and i could not follow, so i said then e- mail monday morning -- i sent an e-mail monday morning stating i wanted to have a clearer and brief. they responded, saying if you need to mirror the brief filed by the court of appeals. monday night the increase was delivered to me. richard -- monday night the brief was delivered to me. it w

secondly, we point out that regarding the hotel tax allocation, the steinhardt aquarium does not get an application, but that is not shown in the administrative code. the recommendation on page 5 of the report, except for the exceptions to the interim budget, which include the hiring of 162 new positions as of july 1, 2012, positions that i stated we will analyze and make recommendations on in the next two weeks, we recommend that you do approve the ordinance, the 12-13-14 annual salary ordinance and 12-13-14 honoraria authority budget, and that you amend the business of the tax regulations code to include the annual tax allocation to the annual aquarium, which would be consistent with previous border supervisors policy. supervisor chu: thank you very much to the budget office. is there any item that you would like to speak to? >> good morning, supervisors. in the mayor's budget director. i will be presenting to you in a few moments and more thorough overview of what is in the mayor's proposed budget and how we appreciate the work of mr. rose's office. his approach at this time is ap

secondly, the city is absorbing the entire budget of the redevelopment agency into our own budget. you will see that the majority of the increase, as well as some of the increase in the mayor's budget office, is due to that absorption of that function. we are also increasing the costs related to capital services, related to the implementation of federal health care reform, and other growth in the enterprise apartment. notably the puc and airport. in general, the city's proposed two year budget has service reductions, which i think you are aware of. it also includes public safety hiring for police and fire. the police department in one class with the fire department in each year, we include the quota for nonprofit organizations in this city, as well as the $95 million in general fund capital for the next few years. i would like to point out that our reserve position is strong and improving in this budget. our general reserve, which has historically been $25 million, annually rose to 32 million in this budget. in the first year of the budget we have included a state reserve and in th

secondly, secondly. >> i'm all ears. >> so what did they tell you?what did they tell you they were going to do? i read it too and every statement come out pro berlin, negative about eurobond and negative about -- >> you want the answer? >> why do you think it is, they keep on saying no and they're not prepared to do anything. and extra 500 billion euro exposure has come onto the balance sheet of the german bundesbank? because they agreed to it. they want to be part of the solution. >> that is not how it works. >> that is not how it works and you know it. the liabilities are hundreds of billions of euros will automatically run up under the terms of the monetary union. the germans didn't have to say yes or no. it happened automatically. they're extremely worried about it as you must know. >> i thought you said the germans could always say no. they could say nein. they haven't said nein. they have said -- >> that is not the point. >> we'll go to other question. because i think this is important. this crisis is affecting young europeans. 50% among 18 to

and secondly send a message to israel, not to strike and not to provide military solution. i think this decision was unique in the sense that it was actually the first time the european member countries supported the common foreign and defense policy. this is the first time the europeans actually agreed. there were different positions in the european union. sarkozy we on the other extreme. supporting tough sanctions. maybe tougher than obama and keeping president obama on the sanctions line. and then on the other hand, sweden was actually went along with the sanctions rather reluctantly. so there was an agreement. the european parliament has supported sanctions, and has a long time standing position that no military solution is possible. so actually the european parliament stands on diplomatic solutions with or without sanctions. now the problem is that they are leading the negotiations, but it lacks a long-term strategy on iran. contrary to the u.s. position, which actually sees iran as an enemy, the eu does not see iran as an enemy. there's no enemy picture related to the

secondly, the people that got wiped out, you no longer can have no documents and no money down and all these benefits to get back into housing. you are out of that, and so that was the number one asset basically of the middle class, and i think the people who have been saved in this recession are, frankly, it's not the top 1% but it's the top 10%. >> eleanor. >> the recent drop in wealth does have a lot to do with the loss in value in people's homes and that affects the middle class the most but, in fact, this inequality between the top 1%, 10%, and everybody sells the result of policies put in place really since 1980, and it has to do with tax policy that generally favors the rich, takes a bigger bite out of the middle class and the overall decline wages. president obama wasn't in the white house for most of the period that this report acknowledges. but the report does set up the dueling economic visions between the president and his challenger, mitt romney, and they have begun to put flesh on that this week. i think it's pretty hard for romney to talk about loss of wealth since's wor

observers carry out their plan and therefore contribute to the implementation of the kofi annan plan secondly there was never a time in the past two months when we would deny the observers access whenever they wanted to visit and inspect any area in syria except for places insurgents prevented the visiting now let me give you a short and straightforward answer we have identified three or four principles for interacting with the u.n. mission first we agree to the kofi annan plan however what they say i'm convinced that we have delivered a lot on the six point peace plan we do not agree and will not agree with many of the statements in this regard especially those voiced by parties that are known for their hostility to war because if you now plan secondly like i said we did cooperate with the un observer mission and provided it with every possible privilege and thirdly we ensured the observers personal security throughout their stay and in all of their movements around the country this is exactly what has enabled us to deliver on the peace plan in many aspects that number four we did not preven

especially those voiced by parties that are known for their hostility toward the kofi annan plan secondly like i said we did cooperate with the u.n. observer mission and provided it with every possible privilege and thirdly we ensured the observers personal security throughout their stay and in all of their movements around the country this is exactly what has enabled us to deliver on the peace plan in many aspects number four we did not prevent the observers from moving around syria and going any place they wanted. convinced and this is the opinion of the syrian government that the only feasible solution for the crisis we're facing is political dialogue supply me insurgents with any type of lethal weapon including communication equipment does nothing but impede a peaceful settlement and result in more bloodshed for syria and. the head of russia and the united states have expressed reciprocal concerns regarding arms shipments to syria russia is arguing that only supplying damascus with what it describes as exclusively defensive weapons in accordance with the existing bilateral contracts i

secondly, we do not want to hollow out the force, where you maintain a large force, less spending and the result is that we weaken everything at the defense department by our failure to be able to address the needs of that kind of force, and that was a mistake that's been made in the past. we don't want to make that mistake again today or in the future. that means we have to take a balanced approach to budget cuts. one, efficiencies. two, force structure. three, procurement reforms and lastly, compensation. let me walk through each of these areas. first on efficiencies. efficiencies yield about one quarter of the targeted savings that we have in this package. on top of the $150 billion in efficiencies that were proposed in the fy '12 budget, we added another $60 billion, primarily from streamlining support functions, consolidating i.t. enterprises, rephasing military construction programs, consolidating inventory and reducing service support contractors. as we reduce force structure, we also have a responsibility to be cost efficient in terms of the support for that force and that's t

secondly, 96% of u.s. businesses, all businesses under 50 employees are exempt. third, those businesses above 50 employees, the remainder at 4%, 93% of those already provide insurance, health insurance for their employees. what small businesses get here. they get 35 to 50% of their premiums, back to them, rebated back to them through the form of tax credits. and so, you know, you heard during the course of this debate and an enormous amount of support. the round table, the business round table support this had, you have support from the hospitals, you have support from business interests on-- >> and basically, no real impact on jobs, julian, what you're basically saying. >> i think it's good for jobs and good for the economy. >> oh, my god. >> let me finish the point, guys. >> hold on, hold on, larry i'll get to you. >> we can have a conversation if we don't shout over each other. most of our industrialized competitors, they overwhelmingly provide insurance for their employees, a critical part of our international competitiveness and attract a talented work force

secondly is these problems in europe. the financial problems, the worries about spain, the worries about greece, right now there's a great amount of uncertainty there. and number three is the deceleration in the rate of jobs growth in the united states. >> susie: david, you talk about europe being a big worry. how do you think it will all play out and what does it mean for the u.s. markets? >> our base case is that germany will ride to the rescue, they will impose more conditions on doing that. it does germany no good to have the eurozone break up. that having been said, recently we raised the possibility of a messy divorce in europe in which greece leaves and perhaps other countries leave, to, from 25% up to 35%. >> susie: so should investors avoid investing in europe altogether? >> we have a small exposure to europe, selectively, and stick with the defensive sector, susie, that means health care, that means consumer products and that means utilities, and don't get involved right now with the financials, that's our short

i think secondly he likes the idea of being paired with the guy famous for creating jobs.liminating the deficit and balancing the budget. that's a good association for obama. clinton knows is he being used by a guy he doesn't like so he is going to jab him every chance he gets to bring it all down to earth. and that's what i think you are watching here. >> do you think -- bear in mind as i said hillary is not campaigning in this race. you remember how condi rice worked like crazy for george bush with the secretary of state in this race. >> she is in pakistan where she should be. she is doing her job. look, i don't think that barack obama wants' hillary clinton around campaigning but i could be wrong on that that. >> of course he does. >> you think he wants hillary clinton on the campaign trail. >> absolutely. absolutely. i think there is a personal thing. >> there she is about 20 points above him in popularity. >> i know that but it's a personal thing. it's a personal thing. all right. i could being wrong on that. >> that's for hillary not for him. of course he wants. she

through infrastructure, logistics, information, we have the ability to reach into those spaces and secondly, all of us as we work together on development, diplomacy, and defense, we need to be in these social networks. it's terrific to publish articles in the journal of nobody actually reads it. and i've published a few of those. but to exist, to move a message in the world today you have to be in these social networks. largest nations in the world, china, india, facebook, the united states, twitter, indonee sha. we need to connect and do better in this world. we're trying to do that in partnership with all of you. next, please. this is a busy slide. it wraps up this approach that i'm discussing which is if you look on the outside, of course, the slide is geared toward afghanistan. if you look on the outside you see the flags of the nations that are represented there today doing development, defense and diplomacy in afghanistan. inside that you see the logos of international organizations that are engaged. appropriately at the top the united nations, european union, you see nato over there.

secondly, we do not want to hollow out the force, where you maintain a large force, less spending and the result is that we weaken everything at the defense department by our failure to be able to address the needs of that kind of force, and that was a mistake that's been made in the past. we don't want to make that mistake again today or in the future. that means we have to take a balanced approach to budget cuts. we have to look at every area of the budget and put everything on the table, and it also means that we do not want to break faith with the troops and the families, particularly the troops that have been deployed time and time and time again. as a result of these efforts, the department, both our military and civilian leaders strongly unified behind the recommendations that we've presented, consistent with the budget control act, this budget reflects that in the next five years, we'll achieve savings of almost $260 billion with ten year savings of $487 billion. the savings come from four areas. one, efficiencies. two, force structure. three, procurement reforms and lastly, c

but i'll tell her all about it secondly if she would like. [laughter] and we are proud, she says -- we are proud of what's happened in the national health service when we look at average waiting time for both inpatient and outpatient are lower than at the last general election. [shouting] that the best performance ever has not been attained for patients waiting after 18 weeks to be treated. that the total number of qualified clinical staff is higher than at the election. that there are 3900 more doctors since election, and hospital infection levels are at their lowest level since the surveillance of them began. >> harriet harman. >> and he never answered the question about midwives, because before the election, the leader of the opposition was all yes, we can pick a since he became prime minister, it's no, we can't. services rationed, patients suffering, and satisfaction at a new low. that's the tories on the nhs. the prime minister once told a secret some of his priority in three letters. nhs. isn't it more like lol? [laughter] it obvious th