between 58% and 59% with no improvement whatsoever. literally no -- the only growth in employment, uma, has been population growth. we have a larger population now so the same percentages give us a slightly larger number. there has been no recovery whatsoever in employment or in real gdp once you take the trend out. just none. we need a change in government, we need a change in policies, we need something to get this economy going. >> yet in some areas of the country we have seen improvement, for example, in home sales and construction happening in certain sectors. why is that? >> well, what you have is very different economics in the states. we have a battle going on in two groups of states. those states that are cutting taxes and pro-growth states like the state i live in in tennessee, we're having a good housing market here. texas is having a great housing market. but then you look in other states that have been high taxers, increasing, doing all the wrong policies, those states have been very lackluster and so