are taken for granted and it is not an abstract thing as to whether they deserve pensions or not. these decisions about how much we invest in our services have consequences for how well people can respond in emergencies. >> let me ask the culture question here. it feels like it has been coming up a bit. maybe just underneath, but the sense of, well, it was a violent movie, we feed violence. that maybe there was some aspect of this person copy catting an earlier part of the movie. is there reason to think that the cultural political conversation should be part of this sort of -- >> i saw "the dark knight" yesterday, actually. i think the movie has a lesson for this moment. and i know it is a comic book movie and not trying to draw too much from it, but "the dark knight" takes place in a failed street. elites are corrupt and law enforcement is corrupt, but the thing to mark it as a failed state is that the state lost its monopoly on violence. and in that situation, right, you have visualanties like