my paul steve moore put out a piece in the journal not too long ago. average real median income. the middle, $65,000 a year, up $4100 in a couple of years under president trump. and then again almost $3,000 family married filing jointly on the tax cut. people are prospering across the board. actually the lowest rungs are showing the highest wage increases. and so i think the economy is in pretty good shape. i think some folks have lost sight of that. >> sandra: are you concerned about the slowdown in manufacturing? >> i am. we're looking at that carefully. some things are beyond our control. the boeing problem. they stopped producing airplanes for a while. there is a gm strike with uaw. those things are not helping. europe in a recession, particularly germany. we have lost a lot of manufacturing exports to the eurozone countries and especially germany. in fact, really the usa is the only economy worldwide that's growing. i think that's a problem we would love to sell manufacturers, we're the most competitive in the world. unfortunately we aren't getting growth. as i have spoken a