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No. what congress did when they wrote the law is they said these cuts will begin to take effect january 1st, 2013, then they will go out through the next ten years. so they could even all be backloaded toward, like, 2020, 2021 and they would still be in compliance with the law. 2013 is what's key. because, you know, as your show talks about every night, there's something pretty important that's going to happen between now and january 1st, 2013. a few important things. >> yeah, let me think. let's see, oh, yeah, there's going to be a presidential election. >> a presidential election. yeah. and ...

And we just paid for jobless dissensions that cost the same amount and we did not pay for that, what is wrong with doing that if you are trying to justify paying for spending versus paying for a tax cut? >> it is a reasonable debate and all i will say as you pointed out, this is not a large amount of money and i don't think we should overstate the case about how this will be the one thing that will tip the economy into a double dip recession. there is too much fear talk. >> why would you risk it? >> i think because there is a competing, we have competing interests. first, getting growth going....