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We're spending a lot of money in the Gulf, ... We have to do that, but is there anyone in the world that can justify $70 billion in tax cuts? I don't think so. So before I talk about offsets, let the president focus on that.

We're spending a lot more time in our cars commuting, and we're doing a lot more in cars, especially with new technologies. We do a lot of things and we don't get caught. But in fact we're just lucky and we get complacent.

We're spending a lot more tax dollars and we're wasting lives because we're not treating them early enough to keep them from deteriorating.

We're so small, everyone has to be involved in everything. These are all volunteers. No one gets a dime and they're spending their own money on gas and babysitters as well as other donations to the play.

We'd like to combine our overall upbeat analysis of consumer spending and retail activity with our baby boom spending thesis. And this is basically grounded on the observation that baby boomers tend to spend more on quality of life and personal indulgences than their parents did when they were at the same age.

We believe that established enterprises accelerated IT, equity investment, partnerships, and other types in spending since they feared that an unexpected and superior dot.com business model would threaten their existence. With the diminution of the dot.com threat, purchase cycles should lengthen, return on investment should matter again, and the worth of business models will have to be demonstrated.

We believe that demand will remain buoyant in fiscal 2007 due to increased IT spending by organizations.

We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have seen leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina as discretionary spending is curtailed.

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

While I will continue to play an important role in the games area, I will spend more time thinking about our broader challenges and opportunities across the division.