normal. it reflects the bill difficulties we have had and it is an extreme shock to the economy which comes along pretty rarely. let me go back to the asian crisis i was observing these things but i was not in office. i was a little bit involved in the asian countries at the time who were trying to adjust. we had been for the mexican crisis. put a lot of money into mexico to ride that out. the exchange stabilization fund. i used to run that fun but did not know they have that kind of money. and i sense it was successful and mexico had a good recovery but there is a lot of political criticism over the money involved and why we had to get so deeply involved. then the asian crisis comes along and as i observed, the first reaction of the u.s. government was to stay away they said was an asian problem and don t want to get involved in every crisis in the world. thailand is a small country and that s all right and we don t need to jump in pare. indonesia is a much bigger co