isn't that what they call a mixed message? >> it's a mixed question is the problem, because the real message is you should include in your question also you have never voted once for an earmark. it's a principle that i deal with. because if the government takes money from you and you throw out your tax form, you take your deductions. i look at that the same way in our communities. they take our money, they take our highway funds. and we have every right to apply for them to come back. as a matter of fact, it's a bigger principle for me than that. i think the whole thing is out of control on the earmarks, because i think the congress has an obligation to earmark every penny. not to deliver that power to the executive branch. what happens when you don't vote for the earmarks it goes in to the slush fund, the executive branch spends the money. then you have to grovel to the executive branch and beg and plead and say oh, please return my highway funds to me. so if this whole principle of budgeting that is messed up,