reading ricardo and endless 19th century economists who can't write and came up to wesley claire mitchell after one of the most tedious lectures everlasting hours, i would assume, and said, dr. mitchell, how can you stand this topic? this is just -- this is just awful? and mitchell looked at the student and said i have a very high tolerance for this topic. so i hope you have very high tolerance for this topic this afternoon because from the weed tops i am going into the weed bottoms. i think it's important that one of us speak about the mechanics, and these remarks are intended directed at keith and his colleagues, but they're intended not to be, in a sense, a cookbook for them, but based on the experience that we acquired here at the heritage foundation and other organizations outside of government over the years in scoring, i thought it would be useful to say a few things. so the implementation of macro economic scoring which we also call honest accounting and some other people call dynamic scoring, so there's many terms for this constitutes a major enhancement in the scoring practice o