my name is miriam pemberton. i'm a research fellow at the institute for policy studies here in washington. it's the oldest progressive multi-issue think tank in washington. i direct the peace economy transitions project. in the last session, i touched a bit on sort of supply and demand in the gun manufacturing market for police and the military and for individuals so i thought what i would just do, in just a brief couple of minutes, is run through what are the requirements for demilitarizing our economy because that's really what i work on. so there's two things you have to do. the first is you have got to move the money. maybe these are obvious things. it's not enough to cut the military budget. you really have to reinvest that money in the domestic economy to create a sort of demand pull for what economists call a demand pull for the economy to move and so things are not looking very good for cutting the military budget. we may as well say there's clearly going to be a big move to, you know, have a big military