crawling along, but we're doing better than all our partners in the g-8. >> for some reason god loves drunks, little children, and the united states of america. >> john meacham, you come to play just like cramer. it was actually the founder of germany, bismarck, who says there is a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the united states of america. >> i think we have to be kind to the french as much as possible. >> okay. >> i think that's an important shift. i think there is a certain confidence we should take -- not overconfidence and not obviously, a kind of lassitude about our problems we've been talking about -- medicaid alone we've just talked about. talk to any governor in the country, and 33%, 34%, 35% of their budgets are controlled by this. so there's a lot of money that