>> that's that whole other subject i'm going to talk about later. >> india looks like that. brazil has come to a roaring halt. china, no one really knows. of course it's slowed some but what they're going to do and how they'll handle the second half of the year. so the global economic picture is not as attractive as it was three months ago when i was here. the u.s. is about the same, rolled over a hair. exports maybe hurt a little bit. but not bad. i mean, if you come to think about it in the u.s., joe, we should be doing better and that goes to the other subject. we have free money, we have pretty strong markets, gasoline is coming back and, becky, you and i talked about housing the last time i was on and housing isn't that -- not going through the roof but it is coming back. rents are at all-time highs, mortgages are at all-time low, affordability is perfect. so housing is going to come back. it's going to come back in the second half of the year even faster than it has up to now. >> even with the slowdown? >> even so. we should be poised to do well but we are getting hammered by political forces that wouldn't deal with the cliff coming up and, andrew, i've got for you another package. i got more stuff. i brought my stuff. >> okay. let's go to it. >> let's go through the simple things like regulation. you hear about all the big regulation stories, the boiler issues, the coal issue, et cetera, but you don't hear about what those grunts down the organizations are doing. epa. that guy in the west region who said all oil and gas companies should be crucified -- >> is that dagger in the heart? >> crucify was the word. osha. i have for years in run factory. in every factory you walk through you'll see a safety sign, how many days since the lost time accident, you give prizes for no accidents, you have parties, you give money. osha has come out now saying that's against the policy of reporting. >> why? >> because they think -- this mindset, i've never even thought of it. this mindset is that if you give prizes to groups for no accidents, you are discouraging reporting and you are now -- so you can -- i couldn't even think of it. >> i could understand the argument. >> you can understand the argument? >> i can understand the argument. >> i can't! i mean, i've run factories for years, i've been in factories, i started in a factories. you want a morale kicker. the guy in the office said they're giving prizes over there so that we cannot report the guy lost his hand. the guy is not going to report a finger cut off because you're going to get $7 and a bag of chips. stop it. it's crazy. >> that comes from a mindset of thinking business is evil. >> now let's go to eeoc who has just come out with that thought piece about diplomas that if you ask somebody if they have a high school diploma -- you've seen this piece -- and you then don't hire them, you're discriminating. so now what a company is going to do, they're not going to ask. >> we're on the same page. >> i'm not criticizing. i just bring these up to you so we can chat. these are the things that are going on every day. >> they add up. >> they add up. >> you add all the other uncertainty together. something andrew and i have been kicking back and forth -- >> that's why we're not taking off in my opinion, all those things. >> something we've been kicking back and forth, andrew, and i don't know where jack comes down on this, the financial crisis we just went through is pressurefr >> -- in everyone's mind and that's where the belief is it's been a subpar recovery. >> do you remember '80, '82. unemployment was much myer, inflation was much higher. >> prime rate! >> mortgages were 17%. oil had gone from $10 a barrel -- it didn't just double, it went up five times in value. we had hostages in iran and i just wonder, jack, when you compare the two, it was a back-to-back recession in 1980. we looked into the abeneficial -- abyss in 2008. we came back with a vengeance. 900,000 jobs a couple of times in a couple of months. is it so different this time? >> look, if you look at 2009 and you look at the recovery we launched, we were getting into a traditional recovery. we had 4%, 4.5% growth, until we started getting into regulations and started getting into stimulus and these government centered, centralized control versus decentralized society -- >> the poster child for that is obamacare. >> so we had that! if you look at the 2009 quarterly numbers for gdp growth and you compare them to what we were seeing in the early days of '82 -- >> it was starting to -- >> it was starting to look the same. now there are all these people that say a financial crisis is different, it has all these other -- >> credit. >> who knows. >> lack of credit. then it's just the notion that if you -- they're going to use th