have somebody that had a day job to go back to. romney doesn t have that as well. but i wouldn t be surprised if you see at some point, some job, a commission or something that romney s invited on. don t forget, his political career, he s not going to get involved on that front. but mr. echevarria, i want to ask you a question about whether the president made a line in the sand pledge to you guys that the country will not go over the cliff? did he do that? well, no, he didn t make a line in the pledge sand to us. at least i didn t interpret that. what he did say, because he said he wouldn t do a bad deal. reporter: right. because the cliff is a measure to solve the problem. it just happens to be very austere. he did recognize that the consequences of that, however, would be dire. but more importantly, we d really miss an opportunity for uplift in the economy. the moment would get passed. so no line in the sand. joe, i have a question, all through the year i ve been hearing from