the way. >> gee, thanks, elliss, i was always smart. >> my reasons might be different. >> mike: what are your reasons? quickly because i've got to get to elliott. >> and we still need to help those people with unemployment insurance and job training and all of that stuff. >> what about a government that backs off the employers so people could get a job rather than government assistance for not having a job, wouldn't that be the thing. >> we all want more jobs, when we get them, it's working and let's congratulate ourselves here. >> you guys are easy graders, i'm giving the president a d. >> wow? >> look, i'm going to dry this argument with my wife and come home at two o'clock in the morning, hey, i could have come home at four o'clock in the morning. yea, the economy is sleetly less terrible than it could have been. bottom line. d, it's not failing, the economy is not failing, but you call it passable? you call this good? no, no, i'm going to give the president a d, and he's going to like it because my grade could have been so much worse. >> mike: you know what? i've got to tell you, that's a