jerryd, the big problem in the united states is that people are working more and getting less.au today that median household income has fallen 9% since 1999. and yet speaker boehner, eric cantor, just as karen just said, they can't be bothered to do a deal for the middle class, a bargain, grand bargain. why not? >> well, first of all, let me just underscore one of those numbers you said, because i think you need to hear that stuff a few times for it to get locked in. you correctly pointed out that the median household income, or oh the income of the household, right in the middle of the income scale. so call it middle class household income, fell 9% between 1999, okay. so we're going back 13 years in 2012. that's $5,000. we learned today that the median household income was $51,000 in 2012. $56,000 in 1999. after -- over a period, by the way, where gdp, the overall value of the economy, is up 23%. so it's -- i think it's a very clear case of how economic growth is failing to reach the middle class. and you're absolutely right. how we fix that is the key political question, one