depress the numbers. you know, fabricate it in the census. let's not look at the actual literal number. 83 minus 125. let's look at the trends. what we see is the unemployment rate, the very broad unemployment rate, which captures part time, people -- workers and things of this nature, these are all trending down. we are having a recovery. that's real. that's not today even though i think people will debate it, what's worrisome is it will take six, seven, eight years to repair what happened with the jobs and we don't have that much time. >> adding to that, we have a couple of other numbers. the -- 30% drop in pending home sales. we have seen the dow at its lowest since october 30th of last year. there are also some that say if we pull become on stimulus and spending right now,s on s s o s going to be in more trouble. >> 9.5% is an improvement and it