Pension reform and Affordable Housing so this comes from a string of successful collaborative efforts to solve difficult problems. Fortunately he tabbed two people in the system and monique, the city deputy controller who really has done the lion share of the work on top of a big day job to have this thrust upon her and really taken it on. That has been a great thing for the city. Were lucky enough to have monique here and ill give you an over view of where the task force is as it finishes up its work and its a tremendous thing thats happening for San Francisco and the mayor has been able to on reconvene that. I want to introduce monique. Thank you for having me here. Its nice to be here. As mr. Reiskin said the task force was created by the mayor and we have members of the task force who represent the operators in the area represent business and labor advocates of transportation of streets head by transit of course and we are trying to come together with consensus to identify the need
Have the arab spring and it was during the strikes against libya, and the objective was to restore democracy in libya. Two years later, its now in libya. Its no man land. And libya is destroyed, as afghanistan, iraq, dont speak about yemen, sudan, and all these conflicts. Do you think dont you think if you are going to enter military or us to other partners to make war against this socalled Islamic State, dont you think thats going to make also jordan and lebanon, maybe iran, and other countries . Second question, mr. Secretary secretary quickly. The arab Public Opinions knows that the main reason of instability in the area is because the International Community didnt find a solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict, and its not the Israeli Palestinian con. The israeli arab conflict. Dont you think if nato, European Union, eu member states, exert pressures against israel, so as to accept King Abdullah for peace which was accepted by all arab countries, without restrictions, because
[inaudible] a chance of success we must be prepared to back up diplomatic soft power with military hard power when necessary. We must not only develop the capabilities we need, we must also demonstrate the political will to use them when required. So i welcome the important efforts by the United States and other allies and partners to act against the socalled Islamic State. We have seen again and again that crisis breeds crisis. Force is still effective. And if we fail to defend freedom and democracy oppression will seize their opportunity. We have seen again and again that appeasement does not lead to peace. It just incites tyrants. Any failure to counter oppression will only invite further oppression. That is the lesson of the 20th century, a lesson we must never forget. Remains the last resort,t be able to resort to it when we need to, not to wait for but to build peace. Ladies and gentlemen, i am very proud to have served this unique alliance. Nato is the only permanent framework w
At the last debate he said congress was too dysfunctional to do anything then focus on border security. Is Worker Visa Program antiquated and leaving out a solution to do with the 11 or 12 million illegal workers. All of them are connected. What he does not appear to know is all the illegal immigration in this country is a result of people overstaying the visa program. You cannot deal with the situation by focusing as he wants to on the border only. Also what he has to understand or should understand, in order to secure the border you will have to get a compromise. Democrats and republicans in the senate and house we have a compromise. In the senate and enough in the house to pass Immigration Reform. Ll notane or boehner wi bring it up to vote. Had a program and the right wing is supporting m actually torpedoed it. His approach is to do nothing only by closing the border and not doing anything else on the other aspects. This was a question related to border security. I want to hear wha
Gentlemen, the board will come back to order now, please. Here we go. Okay. The next item, item 12 presentation and discussion regarding the work of the mayors 2030 Transportation Task force to develop a coordinated set of Transportation Priorities and identify new Revenue Sources. Thank you. Director. As ive been informed the board since the beginning of this calendar year, the mayor state of the speech identified transportation infrastructure and dealing with the funding needed to resource it as a priority for him for this year. He soon there after established a task force bringing together a wide range of stakeholders to tackle this issue in the same way he brought people together to address business tax and pension reform and Affordable Housing so this comes from a string of successful collaborative efforts to solve difficult problems. Fortunately he tabbed two people in the system and monique, the city deputy controller who really has done the lion share of the work on top of a bi