. >> i'm ken jacobs, a recently released democratic congressional staffer. [laughter] in talking about the incentive structure, i wonder if one of the problems isn't the marked trend to send both productive capacity and high skilled jobs to other countries in recent decades, and maybe compounded now by what we've seen in the last couple of years, a market lack of investment, particularly at home, companies are sitting on a lot of cash. i wonder what message that sends to people here about whether their skills are going to be appliable here with places like ge and inntel doing so much research abroad. the foreign students are already from somewhere else, and they come here, so presumably, they are willing to go somewhere else or they are willing to go home. americans, i think, tend to believe that we're the number one country on earth, and so why would they want to go someplace else? what i'm wondering about is in the absence -- and also, when it comes to innovation, it seems that for a number of years, at least what i've heard about in silicone valley, if yo