thing for everyone that understands the reality, the vast majority of people if they pay any attention at all, frightening thing, if politicians start talking about cutting social security, medicare and the pentagon, they are not going to get voted for again so you have to change the entire dynamic. or, or, or if you are, i don't want to use ... a politician who wants to get re-elected you are not going to do the right thing for this country and that appears to be what is happening on both sides of the aisle. >>jonathan: that is a true statement. in this time around, 1995, the last time republicans took, swept control from a democratic president, there were only like 25 percent of americans that said you needed to do something like raise taxes, cut social security, cut medicare, to balance the budget. the wall street journal had a poll last week that said it was more like 45 percent understand that very difficult things have to be done like medicare cut, social security cuts and tax