and one of the problems we struggle with in the united states is we are deviated from the sprint boatswain again the heritage foundation has been at the forefront of making sure people know what economic freedom is about what the index. let me start a little bit with the current state of the economy because one of the reasons for writing this book is i think we have a problem with our economy. they just want to go over that. so we are now in a recovery from a deep recession. or actually two and half years into the recovery, 10 quarters. it is these people talk about, things get a little better. but the truth is the recovery has been pretty bad from the start. the way i think about that, explain not just to compare this recovery from the most recent recovery we had from a very deep recession and that recession ended in 1982. so if you look at the 10 quarters two and half years following that recession, look at that recovery and compare with us, the differences are just quite amazing. in this recovery the average growth rate has been 2.4% and that includes the most recent data in the fourth