doctors and also an extension of the unemployment insurance that has gone on and on. >> chris: no deficit reduction or tax reform. no programs to get americans back to work. >> the only thing they anticipate being able to work on is the avoiding the phoney trigger from the supercommittees a failure that results to a lot of cuts that scares people in both party. even though you could fix it in the lame duck session they don't kick in until january 2013 they feel the pentagon has to begin its planning and that is the only immediate matter on their table for this year. >> chris: paul as a financial maven in our group here, that is a compliment. that is what we call a compliment here. the u.s. economy grew by 2.8% in the fourth quarter which is the best number in 18 months. does -- is the economy one the recovery beginning to take hold, this and two, isn't that to the degree that brit is