for 20 years they have had spinned stedman shaw stimulus spending in japan. when it started in 1990 the ratio of debt to the economy was 25%. now the debt is two and a half times the economy, 250% and over the last 20 years to you know has a gdp lower than it did 20 years ago. it is done absolutely no good and when bush sent out checks in 2008, it did absolutely no good. the reason is very simple, and weeks flanagan "catastrophe." the idea of keynesian economics, that theory has been replaced by the theory of rational expectations, which says we are not stupid. when we get a check in the mail and we are in danger of losing our jobs in danger of losing our houses, we do not run out and buy a flat screen tv's. thank goodness we buy books. [laughter] but, not flat screen televisions or cars, so in the month of april, the total household income in the united states rose from-- rose $120 billion, 50 billion of which was the stimulus money coming back to us, but savings rose by $131 billion, $10 billion more than the household income went up. what that meant was we