also maintains the position, even though there are many resistances from the german social democrats, i am fully determined to find the agreements and we will talk about this during our lunch hour as well. >> first of all let me take sure that i correct the impression and consistently criticize germany. chancel merkel is a great friend and great ally. from the time i came into office when we were in the midst of the great recession, there had been competing economic theories in terms of what's the best way to pull us out of a financially induced crisis of this scale, and it was our strong belief that it was important for us to make the investments, to boost