e empl fiing the best ways to work around goals that are measurable. and that's the thing that i keep coming back to. if you're a small business, midsize business, biggest industry in the world, you have share the goals and metrics. and on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly basis you can review to see how you're doing. and and the company with the biggest budget of all time, we don't do that. and i just don't get it. so i think that's -- if we could force that kind of accountability where we had a national score card around the big deliverables and how we are doing, it would certainly make your election vote easier. it wouldn't be based on rhetoric. it would be based on deliverable. and i think that would be a way to start something that brookings could help with. >> in fact, not only do we not have metrics. in some areas we have weakened our data collection and data analysis capacities. did you want to jump in? >> no. i just want to add, and everyone in this room is sensitive to this fact but one of the things that clearly the web has done for all of