we have a responsibility to preserve his social security for retirees for children and grandchildrenn. many americans rely on this program to cover expenses seniors and retirees or very hard to enjoy their retirement they must honor the promises wes have made to build the economy to earn a peaceful retirement. i find that as troubling as the rest of the committee does and the rest of the folks that we represent. there is good news in this report as well and i know you covereds it but it shows the disability trust fund when compared to last year's projections it is nice to see some good news. and i would like to get your perspective and add a record low. do applications for disability insurance go up when it is more difficult to find a job? and with high unemployment. but interestingly not only with an increase in applications but thef percentage found to be disabled drops so the increase does not rise as much as the number of applications as you would expect and of course jobs become more plentiful we see fewer applications coming in and we anticipated that in the recovery since the g