than they were last year. unemployment rate didn't drop. spending consumer spending didn't do anything there. nothing happened. it was just like people got the extra money but nothing really happened to him. you know what? because gas prices went up and that evaporated and took all the money away from the folks. number two, if you knock out deductions for affluent people what do you think is going to happen to the home industry? if you can't deduct your home mortgage what do you think is going to happen? boom,going to totally collapse, is it not? >> first of all limiting deductions to 28% and only applies to upper income americans. >> bill: who do you think is buying all the big properties? >> it's not going to have a huge effect at all, you know, most people are not going to be affected by this at all. and to the extent that upper income people are, it's just limited to 28%. now, by the way, this recovery is much better recovery in terms of private sector employment than the bush recovery ever was. and i think that these kinds of things really help. >> bill: i don't know what you are talking about because if you had the same amount of