and all you have to do ilook at europe today to see what happens en t markets lose confidence in youand what happens to your economic growth. if we can put our fiscal house in order, then i am confident that the future of this country is very, very bright. but i am equally sure that if we don't, we're going to stay on this path that we are currently on to becoming a second-rate power. i don't want to see that happen. >> darren: senator simpson, medicare is red hot in the presidential election right now. is-- are we in danger of medicare becoming so hot that nobody is going to want to touch it? >> thas whe its already. what news? they're all terrified to touch it and every cent of revenue that came in 2011 to this country in income and excise taxes went for only three things until it was exhausted. it went for medicare, medicaid and for social security and we borrowed to fight two wars, do homeland security, culture, infrastructure, r&d. is anybody missing what happened? >> darren: the number one thing i get from people is they are convinced the budget problem is someone else's proble