this is done…finished…and at what cost…this is America…and inside the belly of the beast success is marked by cost and profit…right…

yes…

so…I’ll ask again…at what cost…

hard to tell…

you need numbers…stats…figures…what.. 

well I…

no…no…your gut…it’s the gut you fuck…a guy knows or he does not…take the stacks of paper…the personal computer…and this will be done with…

there are assessments…

yes…based on…

facts…simple facts…

fuck facts…facts do not allow the possible…got it…the possible is beyond what is presented…uh…right…

the numbers give way…

to nothing…to nothing…you don’t like something…change it…with the stroke of a key…change it…

that is…

what…what…a misrepresentation…a fudging of “facts”….

I’m saying…

no…it is giving some poor fuck hope…hope…that he too can survive in the muck…he can attain something…

that’s not…

right…not just…who makes these rules…uh…who…did you…me…the mensch on the upper westside…some fuck in Queens…

O.K. …

O.K. …what…a change in perception…of face…you are either in or you are out and that is that do not ask again…clear…are we clear…

….sure…

give somebody hope…just give it to them…what’ll it cost you…