some very bone jarring sets of events. so a that one, i think, is completely unavoidable and make the most eminent. so you published this work coincide ing with, and i m sure you put it to bed before the figures came out, but this week brought the announce the the the we passed the line of $34 trillion in national debt. it s a hard issue, i think, for voters to wrap their heads around. what does it really have to do with me? they hear worry about it time and time again, but the country hasn t done anything about it. $34 trillion, i was stunned at $12, $14, $16 trillion. we have become desensitized to these numbers. what people can get their head around is that there s going to be a betrayal of the promises that have been made.