they are gardeners, teamsters, carpenters, and a lot of times, they are confronted, not by members of the community. you could not find a group of workers that work better with the community than the gardening staff. there are folks that come in that are attracted to the recycling center that causes trouble. it is a dangerous situation to be in, especially for the females, but for all of us, when it is dark in the morning. we have to have the courage to address that. it is not that we are opposing anything more supporting anything. we believe that as a factor, the safety of the staff. these folks go to school. they're professionals. they want to garden. they don't want to pick up after people or hide until it gets light out. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is jonathan and i am speaking on behalf of san francisco -- our mission is to create, and hands, and protect the livability of san francisco. we recognize local activists

for some of the trades, like painters, teamsters, laborers, and carpenters, there is an excess supply of unemployed workers given what the capital plan is calling for. and one can imagine that that will not be a challenge for the industry to meet. their occupations like operators, on the other hand, where virtually no one in san francisco is qualified to do the work. contractors are nevertheless required to hire local residents. one of the things they can do if there is a shortage is try to hire people away who are already working. we heard that the construction industry unemployment rate could be as high as 40%. our information from 2009 says it is 20%. even if it is 40%, that means most people in the construction industry are working. if you need to get those people, you will simply pay them higher wages to pull them away from the work that are currently doing. that does not create a job, but it potentially inflates costs. if the target is to create jobs for people who are unemployed at a minimum cost, to consider how many people are unemployed in the occupation you are making the m

especially in california with environmental air, we have 4000 teamster jobs so we provide good wages. we do a lot of things that i think are important. and i think ultimately are good for our country here, it's veryc difficult when we get in import where none of those things areei required, except for price. tho somehow that value that has to be, is applied when you farm ini america, i don't know where thau comes from. it has to be recognized. >> i'm a consumer advocate so i >> i have a long list of things that i would change if i were king for a day. to hit on a couple for the purposes of this discussion, one would be information as i saidoe before.uld be inf that's important for consumersor need to have decision, and whena there in the marketplace. m access, i would improve access , but specifically healthy nutritious food that is affordable, particularly for low income. and because i do most of my work i do have the safest food supply of the world. it's not as good as it needs to be and can be in a 5000 people to get sick every year -- die every year from foodborne illness and that

caller: i know my husband here is a teamster. we have been cut 15% then they took a week's vacation from him. if we could huge et congress like that. they make well more than we do here we don't get help with anything. i really think they need to cut spending from themselves. they get their whole spending paid for for their whole life. my concern is we do not have a spending problem. the country is revenue starved. president clinton left us with a surplus. i don't even agree with president obama's tax cuts. we can't afford middle class, upper class or overs. revenues should be raised somehow. the balance is out everywhere. we can't afford host: would you advocate with spending cuts at all? caller: r caller: efficiency in all departments. we do not have a spending cut problem per se. we have the spending now. $1.5 trillion in cash and all. we all spend it there. then it talks about the 20th amendment. p caller: thank you for your format. calling from sacramento, california. when the obama administration ran. there hasn't been enou

the teamsters did not want the trucks closely inspected on u.s. roads. kinks are not all worked out. there are still a lot of challenges that are out there. the ultimate goal is to try to get both economies working productively. it's one of the last areas in the world. the united states has a labor based that it can use and a world that wants us. mexico is pretty important to our economic well-being, as is canada. host: the impact of mexican drug- violence on the u.s. economy with ray walser. good morning. you are on the "washington journal." caller: a reporter once asked john gotti how much they were making of the mafia. the answer was, they're not in the drug business. they cannot compete with the government. you said that making drugs legal is politically not feasible right now. let me dissect the statement. the majority of the people did not want it. the majority people did not want the bailouts. we got the belt. doe majority of the people not want the wars and we get the worst. we have a government that does not represent the people. we get the gove

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caller: i know my husband here is a teamster. we have been cut 15% then they took a week's vacation from him. if we could huge et congress like that. they make well more than we do here we don't get help with anything. i really think they need to cut spending from themselves. they get their whole spendg paid for for their whole life. my concern is we do not have a spending problem. the country is revenue starved. president clinton left us with a surplus. i don't even agree with president obama's tax cuts. we can't afford middle class, upper class or overs. revenues should be raised somehow. th balance is out everywhere. we can't aord host: would you advocate with spending cuts at all? caller: r caller: efficiency in all departments. we do not have a spending c problem per se. we have the spending now. $1.5 trillion in cash and all. we all spend it there. then it talks about the 20th amendment. p caller: thank you for your format. calling from sacramento, california. when the obama admintration ran. there hasn't been enough public