dave ikehart will tell you how critical ex-im is to his business. here's a clip that appeared recently on "cbs evening news." >> it is good for the united states because it helps create jobs, right here in arlington, texas, we're a small, rural community but we export. we export airplanes all over the world and those exports create jobs in texas. ex-im bank helps not only create jobs but it helps sustain jobs. but especially in the economic times we're coming out of, job creation and job sustaining ability has got to be critical, in my opinion, to the whole country. >> dave went on to tell me, you know, fred, banks aren't lining up five deep to finance argentinean farmers. and the loans that we help -- that's what it comes down to, manufacturing jobs, good jobs, middle class job. it's good for air tractors and their workers. it's good for olney, texas, it's good for the american taxpayer. we haven't lost -- i have it right here, a single dime on this deal and we've been working with air tractor since 1994, 18 years, not one dime. now, the reason tha