You can't declare bankruptcy as a state, by the way, but we can make things better and we can do it, you know, if we put shoulder to the wheel. So we've made a ton of progress. We have balanced budget seven years in a row. Hasn't been balanced for 20 plus years before that. Our pensions are in a better position today than they were when I took office. Where, where we've moved from like 39% funded to 48% funded. (53:45–53:48)
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