allen ginsberg in maine said it is like watching a bad marriage come to an end, the recriminations, the blame, the bickering back and forth. even though the democrats are better off politically than the republicans, the process, politics and the public sector take an enormous hit. >> if it is the end of the marriage, at least you can divorce and go your separate ways. these people are stuck with each other. it is like being in a car with a drunk driver. you want to grab the keys. that is what i would like to do, but i cannot. nobody elected me to anything. the republicans just say no. president obama does not really have a plan. it is really kind of awful to watch and we will pay the price. >> beyond sequester, we have something else going on, and we saw it last year in the election. we really have two different views of which way the country should go, and that is what is holding us up. the election decided which way the country wants to go and president obama has a sense of where he wants to take it, but we have republicans resisting. we are going to have another fight later this year

that's allen ginsberg. so there were a number of protests, which eventually led to 1989 sba rate, the only time in the history of the country to government agencies, the fbi and epa have raided another agency, department of energy. it's a very dramatic chapter in my book. i'll have to tell you the short version for now. i'm almost out of time, but i want to finish up here. i went to work at the plant in 1994 when i was a single parent of two little boys the mass of the planet look like at the time. i prepared a report sent to washington and there a lot of acronyms in this reports that i didn't understand at the time. one of them was not. missing unaccounted for plutonium and over the course of 40 years, rocky flats lost or misplaced within 3050 pounds of plutonium, which is remarkable when you think 1 millionth of a program can cause they help effect. workers have been good. i'll show a couple photos of people on the boat. this is charlie wilkes, a manager when i worked out there. marshall stewart on the pr