Has the intensity of these two wars that are going on and the trauma of the wounded and injured--physically, psychologically, both--has that, do you think, helped the whole sense of mission?

Now Chairman Bernanke talks about slow performance late last year, you know, the signs of a recession this year.

So if you took construction and manufacturing together, what percentage of the job loss--was it well over 100 percent?

So we have got a real weakness in the automotive sector continuing there? Correct?

I find this real interesting.

Today's news that the economy lost 80,000 payroll jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose 5.1 percent is disappointing to all of us.

Thanks for the data and the information.

I have been touring a number of places in my state and manufacturing industries had experienced a significant fall off of employment over the past several years but have been experiencing some strength recently with the declining value of…

So that is telling us that companies are not putting on temps? Is that what you are saying to us?

68,000 in all housing-related. So that would include your durable goods that you put into a house?

So that fall-off in the housing market is a key piece of this data. That is the big piece of this data?

You are saying that the duration, the mean, the average duration of unemployment decreased in March of 2008 to 16.2 weeks from 16.8 weeks in the preceding month, and a year ago it was 17.2 weeks.

So that one is more alarming than the number might portend because it has been a growth sector?

Well it just kind of jumped out at me because I had thought that would have gone differently but it would have a bearing on whether or not to extend unemployment benefits.

So that the stimulus package which put forward toward consumers is one we would hope would go at that particular sector?

Well the definition is two quarters of negative growth is what I have always understood the kind of classic definition of a recession is.

You were hesitant to use the word 'recession,' but would you say we are in a recession relative to unemployment rates?

Oh boy. So you are looking at well over 60 percent of the job loss is in the one industry alone, construction?