Here's my email as per your instructions!

We are pushing back heavily on several budgets and instead of cutting costs, they are just planning to hold more of the allocation up at Corp. Some areas are better than others but essentially, the overview is moving the wrong way (UP!). We have no jurisdication over the Corp numbers.

As an aside, the technology budget is up dramatically from last year, the numbers coming from IT are huge ($735mm this year (excluding Europe) versus $600mm last year for the whole of Enron Corp). We are all over this one but progress is slow.

If you want more details - let us know.