that after 10 years, you'll probably have paid out $16,000 and your bill by then will be $169, $170 amonth. you would be out that much money and you would have a higher bill and look forward to, hopefully not, but probably increasing rent payments for ever and ever paying it off. can solar beat that? that's where you want to start. if it can't, don't buy it. if it can plus all of the other benefits, it's a great deal. there is ways to reduce the cost and eliminate the sticker shock and one of these ways is the california solar initiative, that wonderful law that we started at the beginning of the year. the incentives are of two kinds. if you win the lottery, you can either take an upfront payment or you can take an ongoing payment for x number of years. the same thing applies here. you can take what's called an epbb which is one of the world's great ack named called expected performance-based buydown which is a mouthful for rebate. the payment is by watt of capacity. so that's what you're going to get right up front to knock down the cost. if it was $25,000 or $30,000, that's a lot, but yo

another poll showed that a measly 1% of people thought the 112 congress was amonth -- 112th the "bestmonth thg years." he takes it through the but the deal to the super committee -- the budget deal to the supercommittee. good morning, jeanie. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. this is open phones. i have been out of work since september 18 of last year. my unemployment has run out. i have gone off of -- last year, we made around $50,000. with my husband, we will make about $31,000. $50,000 last year for three of us living here. we had to pay the federal government $954 and the state $288. this taxation that the government is putting on the poor -- i consider myself poor at $50,000. we are now at $21,000. by the time they take the taxes out, we're left with nothing. host: how important is this. tax -- how important is this payroll tax? caller: it is imperative. we need to get together as a whole society. there is a gentleman who won a nobel peace prize -- or a woman, i cannot remember. she was giving micro loans in south america or the south part of mexico. micro loans. they w