louise in fredericksburg, virginia. what you think about the house when it comes to spending? caller: if they stick to this, i think it will be a good thing, but i'm watching very carefully. i think we need the cftc to enact the margins on people who do not use commodities. they need to do this soon. i do believe it is speculation that is driving up the cost of food. it just goes back to the 1990's. in all the states, they were hiring more state employees. where people have retired, they ended up hiring them back because of all that great experience they had. that has caused a budget crisis throughout the country. also, we have a big problem with the country. it keeps deluding itself. we did not have a big surplus. we had a $7.5 trillion stock market crash from the dot com bubble. live in washington state back then. the governor of washington state, who is now our congress secretary, he was constantly going to china. when he came back from china, he brought his brother-in-law. he brought his brother in law. he got a $10 million grant from the state and federal government to op