the president's council of economic advisers, and innine, economistsou agree. but i'm aware of the saying if you stretch economists end to end, you will never reach a conclusion. they call it the dismal science for a reason. it's not rocket science, it's modelingit that tries to predict is notoriously difficult to do. in fact, you can't do it. but we try't to come up with the best guesstimate that we can. but i think it's wrong just to look at the tax code when you're look at our economic future coupled with the regulatory relief u we've seen under the nw administration along with the congressional review acts where we repealed back some of the onerous overregulation of the economy, with consumer confidence at a 16-year high i think we all have the sense that america is coming back as an economic engine, as a leading economic engine in the world. and we need to do that. we need to lead the way for the world economy. we need to make sure that the standard of living in america be something that we can achieve a better standard of living for our children and our g