hitting that target is not that important. i think hitting that target is important and trying to hit it that soon is a mistake. what we want is to get our fiscal house in order which debt is no longer exploding as a share of the economy. it doesn t require it over a ten year window. what happens? you re saying if you balance the budget or cut the deficit too quickly it can be counter productive. what do you expect the consequences to be? the problem is that that can exacerbate unemployment problems. what we want again is more stimulus up front, more inf infrastructure investment coupled with reduction and will gradually put us back on a solid
but we don t have a long-term transportation funding mechanism in place right now to cover a six-year period of time or even a 24-month period of time. and i think it s important to point out that the tools we are asking for largely don t add to the federal credit card, if you will. the tifia program we feel is an outstanding loan program. we feel we need an inf infrastructure investment in bank. the president has talked about this at length. we believe it s time to actually get that done on the part of the congress. so these are funding mechanisms that governments that are local governments and state governments, state of georgia is one of eight states in america with a aaa credit rating by all three agencies. so we need to have the capacity to use the federal lending structure to get infrastructure work done so we can get folks working again. and mayor, the u.s. conference of mayors released some statistics making the case that cities deserve investments saying that they account fo