I'll defer to you if you wanted to ask anything.

No, I'm happy to just continue the conversation on that train of thought.

Yes, the compounding problem here is really being neglected in a lot of ways.

So we're talking about $350 billion request.

That's actually not the cost.

of this request, the request line is $350 billion.

The cost of that is actually about $500 billion, give or take three to four billion.

And so anyway, I just I wonder your thoughts on the possibility of a grand bargain, which seems to me the only way to address defense in a more healthy, rational, reasonable and long term way that where, you know, it's we all jump off the cliff together, grandma, veterans and everyone in between.

That's a big problem, isn't it?

It's an absolutely massive problem.

And to your point, that's what's driving our national debt, but it's also what's driving our national deficit.

And that's kind of what I want to drill down on for a second here, because it's something that members of Congress, the federal government glosses over all the time.

Everyone knows what debt is, right? It's what we're adding to our ever-growing tab that we're never paying.

The deficit is is how much we're spending over what we're taking in.

And when we deficit spend, we're adding interest costs.

Most of all, the actual employed American, don't you think?