and not to be too melo dramatic, but let's walk through some of the -- mellow dramatic, but let's walk through some of the realities. we have 74 million baby boomers moving into retirement. the peak of the baby boom is just a couple years away from retirement. so baby boom, 74 million, over an 18-year period. if you look at federal spending, the growth in federal spending, from 2008 to 2028, as c.b.o. has ofculated, 2008 to 2028, 91% all the growth in federal spending is interest, social security, health care, entitlements. i know this doesn't sort of fit the mantra that you so often hear around here from, you know, republicans, democrats, but it's math. we have a demographic issue. we're getting old much faster than almost any time i think in our society. and our birth rates have substantially collapsed. so one of the things we've come to is saying, how do you maximize economic vitality in our society so we can keep our promises? those promises of earned benefits, like social security, are promises such as earned benefits of medicare. and we believe we have five pillars. so we always