america has a labor problem. it is that simple. we have -- there are too many incentives not to work. i heard your debate with austan and steve moore earlier in the hour. the fact is delta variant is a problem but when you pay people more to stay home than they would by going to work you get people to stay home. >> sandra: the number of job openings is 10.5 million job openings. >> it is growing. two months ago it was 9.5, now it's 10.5. there are incentives for staying at home. there need to be incentives for going to work. the other thing about these disincentives for working is when you have fewer people working you have fewer products made and inflation is too much money chasing too few goods and the fewer people you have working the fewer goods you have made. the gross national product diminishes and it could lead to not only inflation but also a contraction, stagflation is a