and with the fiscal cliff starting this month. it will fix a rocky relationship with the business community. no longer do we hear the fat cat talk but we hear the urgency and what strikes me is we are hearing from people we never hear from before at businesses, including the c.e.o. of walmart or walgreens or c.v.s., the c.e.o. of walmart is saying we don t need the uncertainty and the customers don t. and c.e.o. of c.v.s. is saying to washington, dc, our american families, our customers do their own budgeting, they don t need what is coming out of washington, dc, right enjoy, but they want to know you are working on our behalf and walgreens saying the c.e.o. saying the lack of fiscal chair difficult in washington, dc, this is holding back walgreens from investing and creating jobs and creating economic pregnant for economic growth for the
penetrate. our competition gets them if they don t and then what do we do with our workers? we have to learn to deal with this. it is tough, frankly, and note an easy solution. neil: there is a lot of chill in the air between business titans like you and the white house and whether it starts with the fat cat talk or the health care, and when that was law, caterpillar was among the first to say we have to take a charge. and on and on. and the administration says, if the companies say that, it is just blowing smoke. it is chilling. is it still chilly? guest: well, right now the political atmosphere running up to the election next month is unique period in our every two years we go through this. so you have to take that with a grain of salt. neil: with it has been going on a while.