national disasters. i can tell you whatever it would have cost to have retro fitted that chemical plant so it would not -- >> do you mean state and federal? >> yeah. i mean, look, this is definitely a nationwide program. certainly the flood insurance is. but yeah, absolutely -- >> infrastructure, does it come from state or federal. >> both for sure. our federal government definitely has to look at it. what happens is nobody says it's missouri's problem, texas's, new york's problem. the military is mobile ietsd. congress is asked to move. it's a national probable. so wouldn't we want to spend 50% of that earlier to avoid those major problems. can you imagine if we were able to cool that chemical plant down before it exploded, we would have saved a lot of money. so, you know, it's an important time for our nation to realize that good spending ahead of time will save us down the road. >> lip, do you agree with that in terms of who is going to pay for it? >> well, i think the argument doesn't work in all 50 states. i do understand where depending