once again we find ourselves on a Thursday afternoon doing some final business before everybody returns home to meet with their constituents and do that work. I must say how much I appreciate your kind words and your attention when we have…

I think in a much smaller scale, we are in that same discussion here with the American economy, which is how do we--with sequestration, which is a form of austerity----how do we make those appropriate balances.

And as we have heard earlier from earlier testimony on this panel, we are already seeing some of that flow.

So, it is a lot easier when you control both the fiscal policy and the monetary policy.

You know, there is an old expression, do not go looking for trouble. Trouble will find you.

where is the appropriate balance?

We must balance fiscal responsibility with economic development.

I think those are all important parts.

The United States and Greece are a tale of two economies.

I cannot think of a more timely topic.

The biggest challenge was probably funding and figuring out how to get money in order to make money.

We cannot continue to air drop in resources erratically when suicides spike in Indian communities and turn around and abandon those communities when patchwork funding runs out.