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And I apologize for distracting you earlier. I was just so excited. I remembered what I wanted to say on the last question because there's something Mel said. It reminded me of what I had originally was trying to remember from last time. And that was that some of the problems that we have that we need to take care of, the people keep saying we need to take care of. They're not willing to put up or deal with the things that you have to do to fix the problem in order to fix the problem. They say, OK, it's got to be done. But they say, OK, well, in order to fix it, we've got to do this, this, this, and this. And they're like, oh, no, we can't do that. And it's like, well, that's the only thing you can do it. The only other way to do it is just let it run its course. And then it'll break. And then we won't have any other choice but to fix it. But it's going to require a worse sacrifice to fix it at that point. So it's the American people. We're our own worst enemy as well. We want things fixed. We're not willing to suffer the pain that it would take to small pain. We're not even willing to suffer the small pain to fix it now in order to avoid the big pain to fix it later. And whoever's in power at that time, help them because they're going to simply go from being the popular party to being the non-popular party because of, well, I can't say it's part of their fault because they didn't put their foot down. But whoever does end up putting their foot down to fix the problem is going to be a suicide pact because they may or may not be able to solve the problem. But they're going to be very unpopular and out of power after that because of it. And it won't be until later, much later probably, when everything is fixed that they might get credit for it. Now that I've probably confused everybody, I'm not thinking more of the Social Security and other benefits like that. That's what comes to mind when I'm talking about we're not willing to suffer the smaller pains now to fix Social Security and Medicare.