Eat. How about about that organic vegan gluten free rest rft. Cant we go to the food truck. Do you want to walk or take a taxi. There is an alert right here telling us there is heavy traffic in soma. Lets walk there and then take a taxi or muni back. That new website gives us a lot of options. It sure does and we can use it again next weekend when we go to see the giants. There is a new destination section on the website that shows us how to get to at t park. There is a section, and account alerts and information on parking and all kinds of stuff, it is so easy to use that even you can use it. That is smart. Are you giving me a compliment. I think that i am. Wow, thanks. Now you can buy dinner. Sfmta. Com. Access useful information, any i am the chair of the club of science and Technology Member led forum. Im your chair for today. We also welcome our listening and viewing audience, and we invite everyone to visit us online. Now, it is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished moderato
The occupy agenda and what they want. You have articulated some of the agenda. Geoffrey sax talked about three regulating the market regulating the market. It is all there. Why is it not been articulated by the media . I think it is. It is not up to different occupys have different demands. It is up to people like the nation and other groups like rebuild the dream, National Peoples action, the progressive caucus. Occupy wall street is a spirit. Theyre committed at the moment to not having concrete demands. We have six ideas. One would be the robin hood tax. The other would be to change the way our tax structure is organized, how to get money out of politics, hold corporations responsible, support attorney generals fighting for for closure relief. There are six of 10. Have you ever been wrong . [laughter] occupy wall street is a moral compass. They are articulating what they think it should be. The lead essay is a shift. I am wrong all the time. Give me one example. [laughter] i said on
Legislation but are we now going to do hotel packages, airline packages . Unlimited liability, senator, all brought up every federal funded Health Care Clinic has limited liability set up by the federal government so the federal government does not have to take responsibility for those doctors. It is very interesting that we have tort reform pour us so we dont get sued because these clinics are all out there and we assume because they ared a and have done injured because there are a diplomad im assuming youre not getting a dog in a box and hope to work out ok. A doc in a box. Your comment that on short crime the cruiseomehow ships balks utah fault did not say that exactly but you implied it does that mean when i fly to a community and i get mugged the airline is at fault . Absolutely not. Year onremember last the coast guard reauthorization that i made sure some new rules were put in place, Safety Standards and other things so i am all for it. We have to be careful of how far we expand
Are significantly lower, so this is another way the benefits of low skilled immigration. Low Skilled Services are cheaper in markets where there is a lot of immigration. Ok. There is a variety of other things that immigration does. We talked about the productivity spillover from other types of immigration. There are other impacts. I want to drive home the idea that we benefit from bringing in low skilled workers. There is this potential cost and maybe we are raising inequality, and that is a big concern, so we might want to couple this with transfer policies. It is a lot Like International trade. Maybe you can compensate the losers. In the u. S. You do not see much of this supposedly cost side of the equation. Theres good reason to think it is small. Theres the possibility that immigrants and natives work in different kinds of jobs and that firms are very adaptable in how they react to low skilled immigration. Finally, alex asked me to talk about my thoughts on policy, and all the heat
Judiciary committee, and we had some very rancorous debate within our own party, behind closed doors, out in the committee room, here on the floor over the patriot act. Over the extension of power under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts. I was very concerned, even though we had a republican administration, and president that i liked and respected, george w. Bush, smarter, wittier than people gave him credit for, a good decent man, but we have to consider the possibilities, and we have to be specific in our laws, and when we debated these changes before the Judiciary Committee back in the 109th congress, when i was a freshman, there were people, my democratic friends across the other side of the aisle, that were very concerned about an abuse of power that might be occasioned if we dont tighten up the patriot act. Anal enough, i read the bill as it existed, i read the law as it existed, i was pushing for some things to be changed, and it did cause me of concern that the title