but police gave them the all clear shortly after the call was called in. gregg: new reports showing small businesses are feeling the effect if democrats and republicans don t reef an agreement soon. joining us is brenda buttner. newly smaul businesses they have to budget in advance. they have to budget for the coming quarter. so they are already tightening their belt? you budget based on what the economy is going to do or what the customers are going to spend. we had key surveys that the optimism level of small business levels is at record lows close to what it was in 2008 and 2009 when basically the recession started and financial mess imploded. 50% of small business owners think that things are going to get worse in the economy in the next six months. if you are dying to buy that