to ministers access to the vip lane. links to a tory politician. while this is for authorities to decide whether or new law is broken and i won t be commenting on the ongoing investigations, we do know that ppe was referred to the vip lane by a sitting member of the cabinet. after lobbying from another tory politician. five days, five days before it was even legally registered as a company. the house said before that this particular company was subsequently awarded two contracts worth £230 billion to supply ppe. 81 billion. million pounds to supply 210 million facemasks was awarded on may 2020. £122 million contract to supply 25 million surgical gowns was awarded injune 2020. madam deputy speaker,
checks in pockets, all the way back in 21. now we are looking at unemployment rate that is near a 50-year, low record job creation month after month, and what that does is help support consumer spending which, again, is the lion share of the u.s. economy. so, i think that that kind of a tailwind is extremely important in maintaining the progress that we have made. you remember jarred, 10:15 years ago we used to talk about the fact that unemployment is the problem of our time and getting it down. now it has been blow, the old days we used to think that 5% unemployment is called full unemployment. now we have been well below that for a long time. that is part of the thing that feeds the inflation, peoples wages are up for finally, it is a good thing that people with wages are up. people have money, 122 million of them went out to shop, and they bought stuff online. how do you square that with dealing with inflation? how do you pull back with inflation when people are actually feeling p
checks in pockets, all the way back in early 2021. now we are looking at an unemployment rate that s there a 50-year, low record job creation month after month, and what that does is help support consumer spending which, again, is the lion share of the u.s. economy. so, i think that that kind of a tailwind is extremely important in maintaining the progress that we have made. you remember jarred, 10:15 years ago we used to talk about the fact that unemployment is the problem of our time and getting it down. now it has been below, in the old days we used to think that 5% unemployment is called full unemployment. now we have been well below that for a long time. but that is part of the thing that feeds the inflation, peoples wages are up for finally, it is a good thing that people with wages are up. people have money, 122 million of them went out to shop, and they bought stuff online. how do you square that with dealing with inflation? how do you pull back with inflation when people are
sort of puritanical, you know, shutdown speech people have gone totally the other way, and now it s the left of who s concerned about misinformation and disinformation. now they re so nervous about what elon musk might do to their precious twitter. i think it s completely ridiculous, but it also is very telling about our media moment because it s not just the far left, it is people in the media. howard: yep, absolutely. journeyses, who are concerned howard: they want a lot of content control because they like having control. look, some critics say this is powerful. elon musk fires the four top executives at twitter. by the way, they re going to share a combined payout of $122 million. everybody knew he would clean house. that s what happens when you spend $44 billion for something, you get to pick your own team. right. and this everyone could have seen this coming also. i think if you can give one definite thing that everyone can free on about elon musk is that he has been co
the pressure on the economy i think is driving many people out. there might be a sort of question mark about donald trump that the january 6th committee that decision to subpoena the former president might be pulling out more of his base voters, but, you know, the headline again is that overall we re looking at a record turnout in these midterms, 2018 midterms had the highest turnout about 122 million americans voted, that was the highest turnout since 1978 and i think right now we re on track to surpass that. so, again, the intensity around these midterms suggests that voters care passionately, that they re very worried about their issues, i think they re very worried about democracy, i think we re all very concerned to see whether these elections are free, whether they re fair and especially whether they re nonviolent. as we get closer to the actual day of those elections, the