and tom good to see you and i know you did so much good work with my friend derek kilmer, and fellow washingtonian. let me said seth the stage a little pit. i thought about comparing the work tom and derek did to hercules clearing out the aegean stables but a mor contemporary analogy is in seattle with have a place called pike place markets well known and alleyway next to it called a gum wahl and ever since 1993 people have been sticking pieces of gum on the thing. completely disgusting. like 50 feet long and 8 feet high and covered in gum. and some respect that is how the government processes work. if you look at the budget process werks go from appropriations, budget to appropriations and thors. when you first get there you think this should make sense. people have been at it a long time and ought to work pretty well. and there's a lot of structural issues we can improve dramatically. so there is only truth to the idea that we've got to change the structural things. but there is more fundamental problem. and that is that people are getting power -- the connection between what it ta