because right now the plan is to cut social security by 25%, that is the current plan, so no one is going to introduce cuts to social security. they're already on the books. the question is can you do something sensible and not cut retiree's wages, how would you do that? >> you would actually convince the plan and have the democrats go along. chained cpi is not a technical thing, have a plan like the simpson-bowles plan. and then you would have sent a message to the united states, the syrian problems, he would have the incentive -- >> there is -- >> you would have given them some reason. >> there is essentially zero evidence that the thing that is holding back american growth at this moment is any hesitancy on the part of world capital markets that is just not -- >> how about the failure of any firms to locate in the united states when the current plan is to either let that go out of control or raise taxes to fix