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gravity of this, a vote being canceled, fine. but you have to get back and do smith. guest: they could not what i win, when they went on vacation, could they stop spending while they are on vacation? why does the register keep ticking along when they not there? each day they take a dollar they spent $2.06. they make $5 billion in a day and they spend $11 billion. why does it keep happening although they are on vacation and they do not buckle down and focus on a conclusion even if they raise taxes we say again and again on people making more than $250,000 that is enough money to run the federal government for eight days. eight days. neil: what worries me about the rest of the problem, scott, wall street came off the worst but a lot of your colleagues are convinced they cannot let this go to the brink. what if they do and in the new year we are still facing this