and broadly speaking we did the right things in efforts to stop the crisis and help the economy resoever yeah, many -- like in my war plan, the first contact of the enemy, all of the sudden the plans were disturbed. there were lots of things that we would have done different. once we determined that we were going to hit this thing aggressive, i do feel we got the main things right. >> let's talk about you and your background. i know people are interested in that and how that informs ben bernanke, federal reserve, small-town jewish kid. >> yeah, right. >> as you said in the book and to me before, dodger fan because of sandi cofaks. >> right. >> you worked at a place south of the border. i know the diner that my wife and i go to in cleveland. i don't know south of the border. everybody does because all of i95 points to it. you were a middle-class kid. not poor but not rich. what did working in south of the border do for you? >> it was and is a place where the economic situation is tough and people have to work hard. i worked as a construction worker. i worked in my dad's drugstore and i wo