Good afternoon and welcome everyone to the Mayors Disability Council here in room 400 here at city hall. Excuse me, hold on, please. Control room i need to caption. There we go, thank you, donna. Lets start again. Welcome everyone to the Mayors Disability Council meeting here at city hall friday, september 16 in room 400. From one4 pm so welcome to our audience and anyone are ridgeline and watching at home. I would like to turn over the introduction to our cochair chip supanich councilmember supanich, thank you good afternoon and welcome. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister streets bob via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk st. , carlton b goodland entrance is provided via a wheelchair lift. Assistive listening devices are available in our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agenda are also available in large print and braille. Please ask
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Like to know how we can protect our borders better . I know a lot of things have to be done but those are the two that interest me. Mr. Bush the way to balance the budget to get us towards a path of reducing the debt rather than accepting the level, it is growing the economy at a faster rate. Having entitlement reform. Reform the Social Security system. Cut back on discretionary spending. Shift power back to the state. The one reversal of the trend is shrinking government. We need to rebuild the military. Whatever it takes to be able to create a secure america has to be the highest priority. We can reform the Defense Department. There are more civilian employees than men and women in uniform which does not make sense to me. Their process needs to be streamlined. There is a lot we can do to shrink the cost of doing business in the Defense Department, but we have allowed our defense capabilities to flatline. We need to be modernizing it constantly so the new threats that exist can be met
One of the lessons of the last decade if it has to become pulled with a significant force on the ground. It depends on what your goal is. If youre all is to degrade urgent organization or terrorist group im a drug can be useful with the caveat that of course is very government you have to partner with saying it places a lot of political pressure because it is not popular with the people, but it is still a very useful tool integrating those organizations. Degrading and containing. That is exactly right. That is the problem with the free work when applied in syria because the president has said not only degrade, but destroyed and that goes far beyond anything he has achieved with the same framework in yemen or smalley have. Mary. I agree. Airstrikes are really an important tool and i dont think anybody believes airstrikes should be gotten rid of or drones should be gotten rid of. On its own, attrition will not deal with an insurgency. Most of these countries, that is what we are dealing