year in which, you know, i don't think that anybody in the american public would say has been very laudatory, how congress operated and how the branchs of government worked together. so we've got a budgetary train wreck headed our way come the end of this year. you know, what is going to happen if there is not some kind of agreement there? i mean, what is going to happen to our economy? what is going to happen to jobs? >> it's going to be a bad situation. and i think -- someone was making the point, perhaps it was arthur levitt, that uncertainty is killing to job creation, and that's true. so you have this major train moving down the track, which is a lot of bad news at the end of this year. i don't know. i am sometimes eternally optimistic, and i do think that politicians on both sides of the aisle are keenly aware, i hope, that, while they may be able to postpone the public's appetite for action and problem resolution until the election in november, they will not be able to postpone it after that election. people are expecting something to happen, because it needs to happen. so to me, if p