i mean if you were really concerned about how middle income people are doing and howing the unemployed are doing, how the average person who depends on their pay paycheck, not their stock portfolio is doing, you quickly resolve these cliff issues so the tax rates don t revert to get you the results you just showed. very quickly extend unemployment. i mean, i thought the point that someone made earlier in the reporting was critical. there are millions, couple million, actually, of unemployed people who have been on the rolls already. we know that they are hurting economically. there are not enough jobs out there. it is not their fault. have you that. then, of course, payroll tax holiday as you mentioned, paychecks take a hit as well. we are starting to see signs of this within the markets. i m going to put up this brafic. consumer confidence dropped from the 71.25 in november to 65.1 in december. that s four times the expected 1.25. this is quite significant. i thought it was