money, basically teachers, fire d dfiremen are getting laid off, but we have to be careful, we have to watch the deficit. so he tried to do due diligence to both, but in the whole political scheme of things, republicans are betting that looming deficit is something that americans totally get. it's like unemployment. the minute you say the unemployment figure, people understand what that means. they also understand the word deficit. so you can talk about first quarters and second quarters and the gmp and the trade balance, but if you say we're spending x amount of dollars than we're taking in, people in trinsicallily know that's a bad thing and that's what republicans are banking o. >> i would agree with candy's predictions, but imt to cast some doubt on what christiya was talking about in the beginning, and i think steve will agree on this one. it's incredibly hard to know what deficit looks like ten or twenty years in the future