he is unfailingly astute and scrupulously nonpartisan and balanced, rob erlt samuelson. i put it there. he is holding a commonly-held view and he is reporting accurately, if you ask people in a poll, they think you can fix this problem if you stop foreign aid or cut something remote from them when that is not the case or close to it. but it's also there because ultimately, i'm going to come to that conclusion that we talked about, sure we can, the american people do still have self-government and the elements that make it possible at the core of our character and address openly and honestly as free-born citizens, they can understand the facts of life we are looking at. they can understand that we cannot do everything we would like to do for absolutely everybody all at the same time when we're broke. and they can support choices and maybe the postponement of things until a better day that we would like to do. i'm not equating the two at all. they're not close in size or complexity. and we have had that conversation for seven years. and you don't get everybody on board, bu