So, some of the money that's coming from the Federal Government, in fact, is going into the Treasury and you reinvest that money, right?

So, these stimulus funds, and this goes into a question, and I'm sure it's raised--they're being used to supplement additional spending--you're not substituting for city spending?

According to the revenue architects, we need over $2 trillion in repairs for infrastructure.

Even though we're in an economic downturn, we intended to continue with those positions. We did not have the funds to do so until the full stimulus money came through.

I think that the money that could stimulate business in communities like Bedford-Stuyvesant, I have greater concern, because unless there is some intentional mechanism to open up avenues that have been previously been closed, the money is…

How much longer we can go on spending these ridiculous amounts of money, especially in a time when we are adding $4 trillion to our national debt?

It seems to me that we have to take another look at what we are doing.

I have always thought that we should have trade and tourism with other countries, and we should have cultural and educational exchanges, and we should help out during humanitarian crises.

But we are spending money that we don't have.

I look forward to joining you in whatever it takes to ensure that every child in America has access to high quality, full-day, full calendar year pre-Kindergarten education.

Our haphazard, complex, regressive, inefficient method of delivering health care has been in desperate need of an overhaul for decades.

I believe the root of our health care problems is simple: It is the health insurance companies.

I believe it will lead to the president signing a health reform bill in 2009 that will very much benefit the country.

In listening and reading Usher's comments, when people act on a desire to change the world to make it a better place, that is the genesis of causing other people to become involved.

I would like to address these remarks to the panelists.

I would say yes. And in particular, you have a lot of people running around this town who want to further cut the benefits that baby boomers have in the name of generational equity, which is rather perverse to me.

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