mr. feinberg how is that fair? >> eliot: what's your answer? >> my answer is mrs. jones, i am not placing a moral value on your husband's life or on the banker's life. i am simply doing what judges and juries do every day in our capitalist system by calculating what a person would have earned over a work life. >> eliot: were in you the 9-11 context able to somehow bridge some of those chasms by compressing the earn figures down to something that was more palatable? >> some of these people would have received $35 $40 $50 million. >> bankers at 35 years of age. >> eliot: right. >> i remember senator kennedy saying to me, ken, you have an impossible assignment. make sure that 15% of the victims' families don't receive 85% of the taxpayer's money. there will be a riot. >> eliot: you had the same equity issues that we're frankly debating in our political context about distribution of income. we only have a bit of time left. you also have played a critical role. you were asked by the treasury department to play a role in forcing companies to limit executive pay. >> that'