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