I'll start. As a first principle, yes. On how you do it, I couldn't agree more that it's difficult. Although we did see fairly rapid federal spending growth all through the 2000 decade and there has to be some scope for.... Essentially, we're at a point where government has to be rethought. It has to think about words like “productivity” and “efficiency” and “service delivery”. But I think that as a first principle, given how uncertain the world is out there--
On October 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.