foreclose, if prices go down significantly from here. >> let me move on. i want to talk about the deficit and i also want to talk about taxes. here are the deficit projections from the president's 2011 budget and the numbers are, frankly, staggering. if you look at the deficit for 2010, 1.56 trillion. through 2015, they estimate it comes down with $751.9 billion. how serious is this, secretary paulson, assuming also that ten-year projections are often wrong? >> oh, i just have no doubt that it is by far the most serious long-term challenge we as a nation face. all these other issues, economic issues are minor compared to that. and it's a generational issue, because there's no way we're going to deal effectively with