the gsa has also seen projects come inhead of schedule and underbudget.ost bids i'm told with the gsa are coming 8 to 10% below the timated costs. recovery dollars are going further and working harder than the vast majority of people have anticipated. they're the facts. 100 days ago in june the 8th i stated that we had -- i believed that we had saved or created 150,000 jobs in the first 100 days. and i went on to say, again, over the objection of some of my more cautious advisors -- i went on to say that we will create another 600,000 jobs in the second 100 days. on september the 10th, the council of economic advisors plans to report to the nation their projection of jobs or saved is relative to the recovery act. i'm optimisticnd as a matter of fact i'm confident that that report will show that we met or exceeded our goal -- that goal as well. to state the obvious, we will emerge from this great recession and i believe that is only -- that's necessary but not sufficient. we have to emerge better positioned to lead the world in the 21st century as we did i