start developing his own plans in this bill instead of just turning it over to the people further left in the house. he s got to do that, joe. at some point you think the people in the house lead ership speaker pelosi specifically, maybe should sit down with an american family who do their budgets on the kitchen table when you have three kids and they end up telling them you can buy x but you can t buy y. affordability. that s what they have to look at, what the president has to look at. we can t afford right now what s on the table coming out of the house. in 2009 the government s going to account for 40% of our gdp. 40% of our gdp. we were winning wars. and then you add on top of that all these other bills that are going through. it s a $23 billion bailout. $23 trillion in bailout costs that started with george w. bush and continued through this administration. we are having trouble affording doing what nancy pelosi and democrats want to do. the question i put out t