you know what -- we need to deal with our deficit, we need to deal with our debt, and part themerica'sracter is understanding that the government cannot solve every problem. we do not expect it to. some folks cannot be helped if they do not want to help themselves. not every government program works. we have already cut $1 trillion in spending that was not helping families succeed. we will do some more, but we are not just going to cut and balance the budget on the backs of middle-class families, asking them to pay more taxes, asking them to suddenly not get help when they are sending their kids to college. we can ask wealthy americans to do a little bit more. we need to have a tax code where secretaries are paying a lower tax rate than their bosses, and there are a lot americans across the country who agree with me on this, because they understand the only reason they succeeded was somebody helped them. they gave them a hand up. this idea that we are all in it together, that we rise or fall as one people -- a theory of mine about how to grow the economy, we have tried that, too. we tr