garbage in that package that i'm sure you know all about like to under $50,000 for a tattoo removal parvenu in los angeles. in san francisco the idea of a tattoo removal hasn't caught on yet. [laughter] but the idea that this massive spending would somehow lift up the economy is just totally wrong and it was wrong when they did in japan. for 20 years they've had it stimulus spending in japan. when they started in 1990, the ratio of debt to the economy was 25%. now the debt is two and half times the economy, to under 50%. and you know what, over the last 20 years japan now has a gdp lower than it did 20 years ago. is an absolutely no good and when bush send out checks in 2008 it did absolutely no good. the reason is very simple and we explain it in "catastrophe". the idea of keynesian economics, that theory has been replaced by the theory of rational expectations which says we are not stupid. [laughter] when we get a check in the mail and are in danger of losing our jobs and in danger of losing our houses, we do not run out and buy a flat screen tvs. thank goodness we buy books. a [laughte

himself exercised and it did cause a great deal of consternation among officers who saw this as a parvenu who wasn't even a silly trustworthy and hadn't proven himself to be a patriot or somebody worthy of that kind of trust. so there was resentment and steuben's response to that was unusual but i think it has a lot to do with his profession of bringing -- oppression upbringing. if officers didn't like his authority and objected, the only option allows for washington to get to give more authority. so that he could silence these officers and get them to comply with the needs of the surface, not an attitude that would go over very well in the continental army where even the officer corps was fairly egalitarian. both of these believe he was both a debate could it wrong. and fuel command steuben believe after participation at the battle of mark leff, where the value of his reforms were made manifest and where he actually led troops in the field he firmly believed that this showed beyond a shadow of a doubt what he had done at valley forge was one of the things he could accomplish. he had show