I want to ask you to put your hatchet down because the report was actually meant to supplement and not to refute the working papers.
ARPA-E is supposed to fund projects that the private sector will not and cannot fund.
I think it is inappropriate.
So the answer is no.
Okay. What is the current status of the billion dollars in stimulus funding?
I respectfully disagree with my friend from New York about the success of the Stimulus Act.
I would like to remind my friend from New York there is a huge difference between Southern Company and Solyndra.
Okay. Mr. Friedman, do you have any comment? Can you answer that?
I think overall it has been an abject failure.
We were promised by the President that if we passed this stimulus bill... our unemployment rate would not go above eight percent.
You can't pour almost a trillion dollars into the economy without having some positive effects.