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August 5, 2011
self-sustaining cycle where people are spending and companies are hiring and our economy is growing. shannon: stu varney joining us from the fox business network. stu, i mean, the numbers could have been worse. should we be celebrating? >> reporter: now, that is a very good question. the question that everybodys asking is, are we on the brink of another recession? what is the real health and the state of americas economy? this jobs report was supposed to give us some indication. and wh...
July 10, 2011
lists. .. >> next weekend. city people from all corners of the book industry will gather at book expo america. to discuss every aspect of the industry. i suspect many topics you about today will be the same subjects discussed next week. so please sit back and we offer you the c-span viewers an exciting chance to see behind the curtain the power of what you will see in the future. michael is a senior analyst in the research firm simba information. without further ado, i will turn things...
July 9, 2011
>> if you think about it, almost all the vendors are not in the united states. theyre outside the united states and theyre building their infrastructure for an ecosystem that extends well outside our borders. so we push in this context to have a spectrum that is internationally harmonized so that when they build technology, whether its for sprint or u.s. cellular or at&t or verizon or t-mobile, theyre also building that technology for some of the other foreign carriers and therefore dr...
July 7, 2011
for every $100 this president has added into the deficit this year, that airplane tax is only going to save 2 cents. 2 cents total of $100. mr. president, what about the $999? what about the other $999.99? we need a serious discussion, and we are not getting it yet. >> it seems so obvious that if you want more of something, in this case jobs, that you make it easier or not harder. raising taxes is something we think will make it harder on job critters to make jobs. but i believe that a...
July 7, 2011
>> assuming crisis, assuming nothing at all. real women i know never knew how we grew up so fast. divorcees, would it your we become addicts, abuse, lies. we become all we didnt understand about the adult world. real women i know dont bug them about their husbands. let them back in when they come knocking at the door. real women i know are in therapy and badly in love with our shrinks. happy to talk about the sad part, sat to ta...
June 25, 2011
adult day health care with redesigning it into a new program that will still qualify under federal labor and so forth but they also slashed the budget 50%. our coalition, we have nine centers and two here in the richmond district and we are concerned because we dont know what this conversion process is going to look like. theyre still gathering information for that. part of the concern is we anticipate that 50% of the participants that are enroll made not qualify and theyre going to ne...
June 11, 2011
streams or protect critical safety net services for seniors and others. a couple other questions. mr. mayor from the audience, are you aware of the layoffs that the director of the sfakehougs authority has imposed on unionized labor and the horrible effect it had on the tenants and namely it was supposed to serve elderly and children? health and sanitary conditions are breaking down rapidly. do you want to respond to that? >> i can find out. the housing authority, of course, as you kno...
June 5, 2011
i live near the mission and shop in that area. and i use medical marijuana for chronic joint pain. it helps me so that i can focus on other things that my pain -- other things than my pain and carry on a normal life activity. i am also a member of healthy san francisco. i agree that the city doesnt need anymore pot clubs. but i do believe that we need better marijuana dispensaries, especially ones that are connected with other holistic medicines. we need dispensaries also that are in a...
June 5, 2011
entrance would be located at the far north id of the building for qualified health care patients to make it clear theres no access from the cafe to the m.c.d. and vice versa. the entire property would be designated as a nonsmoking building to not disturb other neighbors. other issued were safety concerns. we will be hiring a company to provide us unarmed presence at the door, along with a vehicle controlling the premise and surrounding block on a bee ottic basis. enforcing rules and mo...
June 4, 2011
i agree that the city doesnt need anymore pot clubs. but i do believe that we need better marijuana dispensaries, especially ones that are connected with other holistic medicines. we need dispensaries also that are in a safer location. 8th and mission, 4th and howard really arent safe places to visit. they have no parking. and also just undesirable people that i really dont enjoy being around. the 3100 block of mission has good public transportation good street parking, and a safe, com...