finally, we've brought back the bari, -- the barbary, a 100- year-old belgian tent. i do not know if you all got to check it out, but it is beautiful. we focus on, be there this year, and we worked with sf sketch fest, a local comedy producer, to curate that, and they did a wonderful job. we are looking at getting a bigger tent for next year. finally, with the art, we hired juxtapose, a local arts organization, and they did most of the art for us. this year, we are giving more than $1.72 million to separate cisco's recreation and park department -- to san francisco's recreation and parks department. in the five years we have done the event, that is over $5 million we have given, and we are very proud to be able to say that. i do not know if i have officially told you, but i believe you do know we did an economic impact report last year. what we learned was on last year's event -- and we expect it to be more this year -- we brought in over $60 million to the san francisco economy with hotels and transportation, restaurants, and what not. in closing, i want to show som

of the new republic when the government was paying extortion rise to people in north africa and the barbarytates and try to stop them from attacking our ships and taking people and making them slaves. 1/6 of our u.s. budget at that time was going to pay these extortion price. along came thomas jefferson, the first democratic president in 18 01. he decided we were going to -- in 1801. he said nothing would stop the demand of these pilots -- pirates. it will be more economical to use the same means at once. he built the navy and deployed that american navy to the enemy. our troops were victorious and the message to the world was clear. we will not tolerate attacks on our citizens or our sovereignty and you do so at your own peril. [cheers and applause] it was thomas jefferson's policy of strength and determination in complete contrast to the policy of the obama administration of apology and appeasement that has been our american tradition of foreign policy. all political parties, democrats and republicans ever since. where has that american spirit gone? where are the travis' at the alamo who

those shores of tripoli came when the muslim barberry -- barbary pirates were attacking our ships. we did not have a navy, we did not have marines. and it was flabber gasting to people leek thomas jefferson who was sent over there to negotiate, why in the world would you attack americans? we never attacked you. you ought to look at us as peace-loving. and it was a shock when they were told that actually you should our religion -- that that actually under our religion, we believe if we die while attacking infidels, which we consider you to be, we go straight to paradise. jefferson and others were shocked. this doesn't mesh with most real squons. what religion would think it was ok, that you'd get to paradise, by killing innocent people. thank god that the vast majority of muslims don't believe that. but it is pure folly to ignore those that do. we owe those who serve the united states of america better than this. to those who would say this is a political season, we should not be talking about anything but jobs, i would say, before this economy can thrive, we have got to fulfill our