pump numbers into a macroeconomic number but people are basically anxious for future taxes because of greece, because of a million other things. they are still not going to hire. and the psychological switch has not occurred. >> a different jobs question, mark, the offer by the white house of a job, one of three jobs to democrat runing for the senate in colorado to keep him from challenging the democrat who was already in the race. this on top of the pennsylvania. >> well, actually it is the third time. the late bill sapphire had a rule of 3. he had to have 3 separate instances-- incidents before a story really got legs. this is the third one and then the david pattison, the governor of new york, they-- on the day the president excuse me was visiting new york tried to get him out of the race. he later withdrew because of ethical question of his own but then joe sestak against arlen specter and andy romanoff. >> and they all turned it down. >> that's the big thing. there are two factors come out of this. first is it violates the marvelous rule that i learned from speaker thomas p o'neill whic