And came in with 30 lbe subcontracting goal and used minority owned firm to meet the subcontracting goal. On january 22nd, we issued a notice of intent to award the contract. The alleged contractor with the local office here in San Francisco. They have substantial seaport experience and worked with the ports of los angeles, tacoma and portland. As i mentioned committed to a 30 lbe utilization goal. They currently serve as the control of Financial Advisor, work with San Francisco airport, mta and puc and work with the port since 2009. Thank you, eileen, deputy director. We are retaining Financial Advisor primarily weve used heavily for bond sales. While we dont anticipate selling Revenue Bonds in the near term we want to always have them in our hands in case we change our mind. The port does have bonding capacity at the moment and has since i have arrived but it has at capital policy at this time. We would need to find lucrative near term cash return projects to issue Revenue Bonds in t
Off russia and china to create a triangular diplomacy where opening to china and a detente with russia as we pulled out of vietnam, preserves the United States influence and power in the world after a retreat from vietnam by doing this tray triangular balance with russia, china, and to me that was a Creative Leap that even the bright people the best and the brightest, the mcgeorge bundies hat not thought spoof that helped preserve ore influence in the world. Host the wise men, six friends and the world they made, Averill Herry man, georgetown ten net, dean acheson, robert love vet john mccloy. Were they the establishment . Guest they were. I wrote that book with a friend evan thomas, because i was knew at Time Magazine. I was covering Ronald Reagan these people handing out leaflets and evan, a friend of mine from college, he had come from a more prep school background. I said evan, whats this establishment thing . Then we decide to demystify is buy writing a book at six people who at t
On the off chance that theres an impressionable staffer on the Ways Means Committee here what might the four of you and i would like to get all four of you your opinion on this him or her, the staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say this is what we might accomplish in this congress. We will go lefty right. The first thing is forget what can be accomplished. The first is lesson that only people pay taxes and corporations are fictional entities of the burden falls on people and not corporations pass through. Second the ideal rate and they use the word rate for Corporate Taxation is zero. Thats the ideal rate. Now i think what we can get done is the narrative that we are not competitive and to be competitive we should be at or equal to which means the rate should be no higher than 25 . That is still higher than i would like but at least that gets you to say we are not being competitive with our oecd trading partners but around effort so that seems to be a narrative. Im not s