foreign reels, adds some meat to those bones on the embarrassment, united states pays 2% every year on infrastructure. china %. india 8%. we were ranked fifth ten years ago in infrastructure. now we are ranked 24th behind countries like barbados malaysia and oman and of course this morning we are talking about safety. we are talking about people who lost their lives because of our third world infrastructure but there also has a lot to do with money. $4 billion wasted with people stuck in traffic. and we just saw a report from richard haase that in the next few years, we will lose up to 1% of america's gross domestic product based on our shortcomeings and infrastructure. this is aest safety issue. this is a money issue, too. >> it's a safety issue. it's economic competitiveness issue. there is no question joe, we're