unlike the federal government don't have sovereign currency, they can't -- have large deficits, so the federal government needs to run a deficit to get people employed. it's a great recession. gives big chunk of money to the states and localities, they don't have to fire all the teachers, the police officers, everyone else who services are needed. we don't have that war on women, the republican meem about how women are losing their jobs. why? because women are disproportionately in the governmental sector. >> we've lost 600,000 public-sector jobs. >> so the unemployment rate would be much lower there would be much less grief in the nation. the economic recovery would have been far faster. all due to the blue dog democrats, the conservatives, and the republicans ganging up. you wrote about this, karl, you have a study about this. and killing the bill. but the terrible political thing is obama let it die without a fight. and if he had dug in his heels and say, this is going to