louis, good morning, democrats' line with sheila krumholz for the center for responsive politics. caller: good morning steve and sheila. i'll just let you know it's raining here in st. charles. host: that's good news, isn't it? you've needed the rain. caller: yeah, it's the first time it's rained in forever. these are -- okay. i've got a point. i'm going to run off two other clocks that i think should be up there. one that shows the accumulation of wealth by the upper 1 percent, and the other one should be the loss of tax revenue due to the bush tax cuts. let's set those clocks beside it. host: okay, thank you for the idea. let me have one final point, one of our viewers would be explain to the listeners that the party conventions are funded partially by taxpayers. tbf guest yes. since that was part of the public financing put in place in the mid '70s, both the democratig and republican convention committees, not the host committees but the party convention committees will receive about $18 million this year and then the host committees will go on to raise enormous sums of money, m