ron in ohio? ron. >> caller: boo-ya, professor jim. >> thank you for giving me tenure, ron.> caller: i'm doing fine. how about yourself? >> not bad. thank you for asking. what's up? >> caller: i have a question about dividends. here's the situation. i own about ten stocks and i wondered, is it better to have dividend reinvestment in each of those or is it better to get the money from the dividends and have all the money go into an account and then use that money to buy maybe a bunch of shares of one stock? >> no, no. that defeats the purpose of what i try to do which is to get the reinvestment of dividends is what makes the real growth here. as long as you like the stock you're going to continue to get the reinvestment. if the company might cut the dividend we have to readjust. that's why we do home work. no. absolutely, ron, i want you to reinvest those dividends. that's how we get the power of compounding, rule 7. a lot of these things are in my books. that's how you make the big money. let's go to bill in missouri. >> caller: hi, jim. >> what's up? >> would you explain th

got to do something else >> ron, doesh put pssure on the obama administration to make sure they get public option in t health care bl? that wouldhange a lot of lives in ohio the otes to get it through the senate the way it's currely drafted now. there areany centrist democrats. i think they're in a difficult spot rht now. gives us republans an openin we've been looking for. >> jamal, what do you think? >> i think the first time of this year, wre losing jobs, 700,000 jobs a month,hat number's has been gog down,