it was probably the longest and we took one after world war twr and almost lost the korean peninsula. it was unpopular. truman couldn't run for re-election because of it. we took a vacation. we had nuclear weapons supposedly make up for it and we had vietnam and we took another vacation. i think we got it right after the cold war. we're in to a different era. more than any ones i remember, the economic impacts of spending are a national security problem i would agree with that and agree with people who say we can't continue to lead unless we fix our economy. i think it's wrong to say we'll fix our economy by reducing the defense spending. with e can't fix our economy unless we tackle the entitlement issue. before long the entitlements would eat up put us in a terrible deficit problem. so if we have to leave, which i think we do, if we have to be able to afford to leave. which i think we must. i think we have to fix our economy. it's bigger problem than the defense budget. >> mark, do you want to -- make -- mike do you want to weigh? >> no, i'm ready to hear from the crowd, myself. rig

we ought to think about twr is the best place to have the discussions and where can and should we make the kinds of choices? >> also, when you think about job grout throughout the economy. just picture health care center that only grows 75% over the next ten years. that takes frees up $2 trillion of economic resources. $500 billion of those in the pocket of house holgtd -- hold people and their families. they can use to spend on other priority for their own lives. that has a foacial create a tremendous number of jobs elsewhere in the economy. taking the pressure of the employers, by slowing the growth of health spending. frees them up to innovation and create other jobs that aren't necessarily in the health care sector. without losing much in the amount of revenue and the potential employment in the health care sector. i think we need to look beyond the health care sector and think about how we can better use the resource to support not only public endeavor like education and public safety and roads, but also money that can be pumped to the private sector where house hold have more dis