is that how you arrived at the idea of paying for this with the oil company's price subsidies? >> very much so, that and one of the goals of fast, this repair and modernization of our schools was to generate savings, so if you look at the ten-year price tag of the subsidies, about $50 billion. that's a relatively small share of the maybe $300 billion back log in repairs, but take this as a program that could last a year or two at $50 billion, probably create about half a million jobs, we think that's a marriage of a big problem the back log and the repairs and the construction folks that have been put out of work when the housing bubble went bust. >> are there parallels of these sorts of initiatives that you're recommending the president pursue here? >> not only are there parallels, you used a word earlier in the