people. i'm not aware of any mechanism by which they could do that. now, there are certain programs, and you mentioned food and nutrition programs or pell grants for that matter. those go to disproportionately low income people. they could put those on the list. but you want to take medicare off the list? health care security depends on that for our retirees. can i make another point here, melissa, related to this? >> absolutely. >> think about this. if you follow the path that you're talking about, the priorization path, you're going to be interacting $130 billion with a b dollars from this economy per month. i mean, that is the biggest negative tank the economy program i could ever conceive of. and what you're going to do to an economy that's already frail, as we know, based on recent employment reports, is absolutely double dip territory. so this has -- this goes way beyond those who are directly affected in the very harmful ways we mentioned so far. >> i truly appreciate you making that point because i know, you know, the producers, the staff, you know, me, we've been sitting