Go out, let's see if you can pay the building--let's see if you can go out and run a backhoe, dig a ditch, or operate a bus or train or whatever. No, no, no, and when they lose their job here, as they should for this vote alone--they should for this vote alone lose their job here--no, they will go down to K Street, and they will get one of those high-powered office building jobs and they'll come back and lobby us and try to tell us what we should do. I will tell them what they should do--they should take a hike right out of this building because they're the super Scrooges of this session.
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