A wise man.

Ah, thank you. OK, so that that is a reflection of the bigger number of unemployment taking place, rather than that people are unemployed for a less period of time.

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

You mentioned that the construction industry--when you say on month-to-month, do you see any trend lines on the export on a broader--on a longer basis on employment related to exports broader than a few months?

So there has been a steady deterioration since about the middle of last year?

I think everybody's key focus has been on the housing market and what we can do to stimulate the housing market.

Do you see any of that reflected in your employment data of either strength or less weakness in employment and export-oriented sectors?

The overall unemployment rate rose to 5.1 percent. Where was that rate a year ago?

What were the other major ones?

OK. And the biggest falloff in employment has been the construction industry?

Thank you for letting me do this, and thank you for participating with me on this.

We are trying to figure out what we should be doing from our end in order to stem the tide of all these negative statistics.

I would just remind us all, it is not the next highway bill, it is the next transportation bill.

I think we all need to back up a second and say, what fundamentally can we do to put some principles and outcomes and base results in our system.

I have been talking with some of our colleagues, including some of our colleagues on this panel, about the economic stimulus package that is before us that we will be voting on today or tomorrow, and probably again next week.

A lot of times, commissions are created, we get the reports, we file them away and they never see the light of day.

Some people say that we are on our way to becoming sort of a third-world nation with respect to our infrastructure.

I hope we wouldn't shy away from it.