a third of your actual cost, so much of that politically can't be touched. that what we spent a lot of time about is dealing with, you know, little cuts around the margins. dealing with directional cuts and trying to slow the growth in federal spending, not actually cut it. i think that the longer term issue is are there ways to actually expand the economy enough to, you know, mean that we'll have greater revenues in the future? and those are investments in education, investments in industry that can get out there and compete on a global -- >> music to my ears. if we had unemployment at 5% and had growth at 5% or 6%, we could solve this problem. why is it that jim's very logical argument is not successfully delivered by this administration or by the democrats to be able to say, guys, everybody else is preaching crazy change, crazy change is not coming our way under this -- under these economic conditions. >> i don't know, ali. i can't speak for the message coming out of the white house and the kind of tone that they're trying to set overall.