i heard mary matalin in an interview with james carville.he was talking about what happens if we put the key out of business. nobody gets anything. when is a firm, real message going to be sent to all of big business. at the same time people are talking about the loss of oil, the loss of mmney from the peak. i heard another take on the fact that general motors is not building the hummer anymore. people were out crying that they would not be able to buy their homer, these big gas guzzlers. the real problem in this whole thing is that we've, the american people, we are the problem. host: should he have appealed more to the american people to make a sacrifice? caller: absolutely. is it life or money? that seems to be all that we are thinking about. money and what we are going to lose because we are so personally caught up. what obama was talking about change everyone was jumping up and saying yes, a change. americans do not want change. they want stability in the ill- gotten gain of an unfair system that was never balanced. it was that -- it wa