on the upper right side of the page. david reports on where the trillions of dollars that make up the u.s. federal budget comes from and where the money goes. this is about an hour. [applause] brad, you re doing great. i was thinking maybe i d let you talk. i d find out the interesting parts of the book. it s god to be here at one of the most independent bookstores, politics and prose. assured that brad not all my friends these people that are my friends. these are people that think about the budget august, which i think it s heartening. i wanted to talk about how the book came to be. my agent is here talked about to me once about doing the budget and the editors at random house would published the book i did on the fed, said to me, well the fed was boring and you made that interesting. the budget is boring, can you make that interesting? making the fed tweeting in 2008 we were ability to tumble into the great depression. there s nothing going on with a budget. a supercommi