to work with the president to go ahead and cut waste, fraud and abuse. but we have to deal with entitlement spend if we don't deal with that. there will be a serious comupance . maybe obama will not care because he will be out of office by then. but a lot of people will be hurt if we don't act on this problem now. >> just to close things up here, what about the fact that congress took off this weekend f. world is about to end, i would think all hand on deck. the president has the weekend off and you guys have a weekend off. is that a signal it is not quite the urgent crisis we are told? >> total federal spending is going to grow by 15 billion this next year and over the next 10 years if sequestration does take place all 10 yearings, there will be a 67 percent increase. we'll go from a 3.5 trillion budget this year in the end of 10 years to a six trillion