B
Uh, yeah, I'm getting pretty, kind of disgusted with the, uh, uh, you know, the fact that they're counting a reduced deficit as being some big step. Right. I mean, first of all, we were, we've already hit the largest deficit, this proposed budget has the largest deficit ever, and, two, a deficit is, I mean, the deficit is only, uh, is, is as far from a balanced budget, you reduce the deficit, you, you're still not, you're still not, you're still overspending.
A
Uh-huh.
B
Right. I mean, it's just the amount that you're overspending, and this is, you know, for some reason, the way that the reporting is going on now, it seems like, like the goal is to reduce the deficit to some, you know, still outrageous amount, um,. Yeah, I, I, I think in the long term something is going to have to be done with, uh, sort of the, the, uh, well I mean, it seems to be kind of inherent in the political process, right, that you've got, uh, people, you know, trying to, trying to corner money for their state or for their constituents so that they can get reelected.
A
Uh-huh.
B
And, uh, there isn't any sort of overall accountability, and, and, uh, I don't know, I, I suppose that, that, that the only kind of solution ultimately that we're going to have, is, is, is exposure and information. And I don't know that in general the American people are that interested, you know, to listen to, to as much, uh, uh, you know, I mean, you're going to have to know what people are doing, and, uh, you know, and how, and how, how partisan and how and how self-interested their, their motives are --
A
Uh-huh.