on earth, heinz company joining me now, bill johnson. bill, of course, you have so ny well-known iconic brands. always amazes me about you, so many food products. i love the clue. you don't eat any of them. what is going on her with the companies like yound another ceos like you, who are hanging on to that cash? it's not as if you don't spend it now and then. i think in your case, that's the last time we chatted you bought soy sauce maker i think in china. but by and large, you are eping your powder dry.? what is going on? >> neil, as we talked in the past. i think after 9/11, you had fear, and anxiety. those weret palable. but we also put policies in place that i thought encouraged business to spend and could return the profits to the shareholders and invest in employees and invest in businesses in the united states. since then, i think what you have is the lack of consumer confidence and enormous uncertainty. while some of the stimulus