u.s. economy, that increases revenue for washington. >> well, if we can link and show that this is not going to be simply kicking the can down the road and that this would be linked to, as the economy recovers, some level of kind of the serious decifit reduction conversation we had last week when we actually did get a bipartisan 60 percent of the people on the president's decifit commission come out and take a pretty bold move from both the left and the right saying this is a serious issue, we've got to look at both revenues and dramatically cutting back government entitlement programs, i think there needs to be more linkage at this point than exists. bill: you punted in the answer there. has washington kicked -- you mentioned pickup trucking in the answer there. has washington kicked the can down the road? >> as 20 years as a business guy and four years as governor where we balanced a budget. i may have only been here two years but the one thing i've learned is, if washington can kick the can down the road and simply