that is a good lead-in to robert feldman of morgan stanley. ful to speak with you on this important day. end -- for abe, which is more important? robert: i think the import of today's number is that we have had bumps up and down. down,we had up instead of but if you look at the longer-term chart on gdp that you just showed, basically it has been flat for the past year. i think the import of this for the prime minister is they have to get to work again on some of the fiscal issues and the growth strategy so they can get investment which was weak in today's numbers. tom: governor bernanke gave a important speech and tokyo years ago where he begged japan to reflate. m.i.t.,study back to have you ever seen a nation able to reflate an economy? robert: it has happened in certain times but after 20 years of deflation, the mindset of the japanese people is still very deflationary. people are not going to think -- prices arelly really rising until they see it in front of their face. wages are doing ok, but what we are seeing his labor shortages that loo

robert jarvis. to dce anddoorstep we are ready to take that dam door down. [applause] we cast our vote as follows. dr. mark feldmane. darrell parry, too. john mcafee, 2. austin peterson, six. and gary johnson, 19. [applause] >> mr. brown. did you say none of the above had one? or was it a no vote? thank you. it was an abstention. washington. >> chairperson, libertarian party of washington. from a state that in four short years has gone from zero to feeling 32 candidates this year in 2016. mr. trainer for the hall, can you tell them where there's candidates are standing right now? there is a good portion right there. >> go ahead mr. trainer. >> from the state that is regularly beating the top two primary and has elected five libertarians last year alone. they truly evergreen state. our very titles are as follows. mark feldman, 1. austin peterson, three. john mcafee, 10. governor gary johnson, 13. thank you very much. [applause] >> west virginia. >> thank you mr. chairman. my name is john buckley. i'm the delegation chair for west virginia. west virginia, the mountain state of his small state was just barely three c