the swartz administration tried to cut wages, hours and has succeeded to a certain extent in cutting 3.2% of the hours that consumers can receive, which would translate into a reduction in hours by the providers. this is not something that we initiated. there was a proposal two years ago to cut the wages. the san francisco backstopped that cut and actually provided enough money to keep the wages in place. what is on the table this budget year is a proposal to have the providers who are currently covered by the san francisco health plan, which is complete medical coverage, their contribution to that plan is $3 per month and our proposal is to increase that contribution to $10 per month so that the services and the coverage can be maintained but the city costs can be reduced. >> we've got time for two more questions. >> ok, yes. i understand that the city is going to be going through a new transit board and they're funding three projects. i'd like to know how that affects the budget, positive or negative. >> we have a few projects which we're funding in terms of the n.t.a. the big proj

swartz founder and executive director of demand progress thanks so much for being with us air and the patriot act today there was a hearing on reauthorization this month that up for renewal the obama administration pushes for it says it's important for national security but not politically fit a real reversal from the obama administration but i mean this is a guy who during the campaign talked about how he wanted to repeal the bush administration. now once he's in office he's reversed his position to continue it so i think he should stick with his original promise you know it's funny that you bring up i want to go ahead and play a little bit of sound something that obama said back when he was campaigning when he was senator barack obama and he was doing exactly as you said he said that the patriot act needed to be repealed needed to and here was his criticism about that can we roll that. you know i talked all solution along for ten years i think the constitution very seriously the biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with george bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through congress at all and that's what i and several of the one above t