saudi arabia is or venezuela is. it looks prettier than those other states. what is being lost is how much of a petro state the united states has become. that's not being discussed very much. we've had about 5.6 million jobs created in the last term. many of those came in the gas job sector. those will disappear. there's been a lot of growth in this country and clearly an employment increase, and that's come a lot to a large degree based upon an oil and gas sector. i've never seen an economy where hard assets like oil, grains, copper and various other commodities really hit the skids to the degree this has, and yet we all go skating away happily in terms of the rest of our assets around. oil is a scary part of what we're looking at in the global economy, but also in the u.s. economy right now. how that plays out over the next six to eight months, that's really the question. in my view, it's a lot scarier