Im a haemophiliac. If i twist an ankle or cut myself, the bleeding, in my case, itjust carries on, basically. Very little clotting, so id need to get treatment. When i was eight years old, i was infected with hiv through my medical treatments. Im one of the few survivors of the hiv scandal. Its not something that you should go through as a child. I cant really imagine what my life would be like if i hadnt been infected. Stuart wasjust bubbly all the time, you know . He was a fun loving child. He just loved life. Great sense of humour. Notjust my son, but also a best pal. Just cuddly. Loved to cuddle and loved his mum and dad. And he loved his sister. Stuart was my older brother. He was 18 months older than me, and id like to think we were very close siblings. Big memories for me i was stuart at christmas. He would come into my bedroom, three in the morning. Hes been, hes been id follow him through the hallway to mums room and shed say, no, too early back to bed. We went in for an appoi
Eliminate the Affordable Care act individual mandate. 9 00, an assistant secretary of east Asian Affairs gives analysis of the trip to asia by President Trump. Caller good morning. Host lots of headlines coming out of capital this week from tax reform to health care and gun policy to allegations of Sexual Harassment and how both parties are responding. It we want to get all of your thoughts on this. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7848001. , 202 7488002. You can also send us its we or a spoke. Com. Congress this week is our topic. We want to get your thoughts on all the different stories are in lets take a look at the front page of two national papers. Times. The Washington Times, the new york faces senate obstacles. On Sexual Harassment, the Washington Times has the headline about al franken. The senator apologizes for misconduct. The New York Times frames it this way. You also have this headline this morning and the Washington Times, a mistrial for senator bob menendez. It the
Revenues of those are the revenues the mayor and the board of supervisors have to allocate and this is the projection from the citys fiveyear Financial Plan and you can see i have circled down here that over the four years of this projection theres an average growth rate of about 3. 5 and so we can change that or tweak that in terms of our growth assumption but if we use that number we should be growing our support by no more than about 3. 5 if were not going to continue to exacerbate the citys deficit. So what that translates to is you take this 813 which is where we should end this budget process and grow it by 3. 5 and end up at 842 and the same for the next year and the next year. So if our general fund stays within that constraints, we wont be cutting services, but well still be growing but we wont be growing at a rate that is eating in to the increasing the deficit and eat north to everybody eels else share of the general fund. And then lastly, what can you do is if you take that
Time we have a plan that is more thought out and more comprehensive than most that weve had in the history of the department and were in a gook and projected and to and were on good track. Yes, commissioner. Can you go, oh yes back to this diagram, you realize this looks like the digestive cycle dont you . [laughter] maybe these are kidneys. [laughter] i do want you are learning our language. Maybe its just conscious. Commissioners, youve been with greg now for probably almost an hour and so i do want to recognize that the depth of his knowledge of all of these areas and his leadership in this area and weve worked hard at ensuring the stabilization of the Department Around capital pieces its a sharing economy in the department where we really want to focus on our Service System so our patients and our staff will have Safe Building and weve also given up three times our ability to move this building to ensure that people here also have than opportunity so i think were the closest becaus
[laughter] i do want you are learning our language. Maybe its just conscious. Commissioners, youve been with greg now for probably almost an hour and so i do want to recognize that the depth of his knowledge of all of these areas and his leadership in this area and weve worked hard at ensuring the stabilization of the Department Around capital pieces its a sharing economy in the department where we really want to focus on our Service System so our patients and our staff will have Safe Building and weve also given up three times our ability to move this building to ensure that people here also have than opportunity so i think were the closest because one of my jobs was moving out of this building when i first started over 20 years ago and again its a volatile sometimes process and especially if the economy changes but i think were very, very close for having this solid plan for this and i am very hopeful that we can and to all this planning were doing but i want to acknowledge all the s