i'll tell you, gaelsburg, that's where i believe america needs to go. i believe that's where the american people want to go. it may seem hard today, but if we're willing to take a few bold steps, if washington will just shake off its complacency and set aside the kind of slash and burn partisanship that we've just seen for way too long, if we just make some common sense decisions, our economy will be stronger a year from now. it'll be stronger five years from now. it'll be stronger ten years from now. if we focus on what matters, then more americans will know the pride of that first paycheck. more americans will have the satisfaction of flipping the sign to open on their own business. more americans will have the joy of, you know, scratching the height of their kid on that door of their brand new home. and in the end, isn't that what makes us special? it's not the ability to generate incredible wealth for the few. it's our ability to give everybody a chance to pursue their own true measure of happiness. we haven't just wanted success for ourselves. we w