folks. instead, we were going to say, if you were going to get some assistance from the government you had to put forward a desire initiative to get back to work. that's the premise behind one of these. this is the biggest savings option on the youcut menu this week. which is almost $2.5 billion a year. >> let me jump in here, representative cantor because i want to get in here and i've been reading about this. some of the critics say it is a gimmi gimmick, a distraction from what we should be doing, which is to address the biggest budget -- the biggest debt problem we've had, medicare and social security. what do you say to that? >> first, i would say, if you look, don, at the number, the totally of savings that are being proposed, either options, there's almost $15 billion of savings right here. if it's such a gimmick and if it's so easy for the other party to criticize, then let them come ahead and vote with us or let them bring a bill to the floor