adair county on us to do that.going to incur next year. there's a point at which our lenders are not going to have that same kind of confidence. wouldn't you be willing to state that you agree with me that it is not a good idea to have a big deficit if we want to have a strong dollar? >> i agree completely that if we don't make people believe that we're going to fix the deficit, bring them down over time, then we will risk losing confidence in our financial future and that will raise interest rates, give less investment, that would be bad for the american economy. >> senator? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, why not take $30 billion in resources that the president has outlined for small business and implement a program immediately as opposed to working its way through a legislative process? >> excellent question. the best way to say it is this, we have been trying for eight months to try and get community antr small banks to, and state capitol from the treasury under programs that many of you supported, t