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By race and class. >> for folks that are watching, atlantic yards is one of the most controversial in the last decade, it was fought tooth and nail over. a.c.o.r.n. challenged it and endorsed the development only after concessions were made on precisely this issue which is how much of the housing will be affordable for folks? >> you get big towers that go up and you get to have members of the city council come can out. with this program, this building is being built under, it's been around for eight years. we don't do any other income support programs like this. if we took food stamps and said...

Decade, it was fought tooth and nail over. a.c.o.r.n. challenged it and endorsed the development only after concessions were made on precisely this issue which is how much of the housing will be affordable for folks? >> you get big towers that go up and you get to have members of the city council come can out. with this program, this building is being built under, it's been around for eight years. we don't do any other income support programs like this. if we took food stamps and said instead we'll take steak houses and set aside 15 of their meals and sell them to middle income people and then...

Earlier, the focus on deficit reduction is odd. unemployment is still in the 7.5 to 8% range. it's not going down particularly rapidly. and what i think we want right now is to focus all of our attention on lowering unemployment. ultimately full employment is the best deficit reduction program, it's the best way we have to reduce the amount of money the government spends. just people are putting in more tax revenue. less of a need for income support programs when there's full employment. as a whole, i find washington's obsession with reducing the deficit to be very, very odd, given the circums...

But what he said is, look, next year i want to sit down with chairman camp. i want to sit down with senator baucus and see if we can, you know, do something that broadens the base, simplify the code, get rid of some of this back door spend i spending in the tax code and use it to reduce rates. he's also shown real flexibility on his ability to negotiate, reducing some of the entitlement programs. the speaker on the other hand not only has he put revenues on the table, but he's been, you know, i think very candid in the offering made last week where he doesn't mention a thing about premium supp...