defense of ukraine. but 3 to 4 billion dollars versus 800 billion dollars for the pentagon as about half a percent, so i think my real concern is they will exploit this crisis to push for all manners of spending much of which it is not like their patriots, they saudi arabia which is using u.s. bombs to kill civilians in the thousands in a war that has killed 400,000 people so, it is almost like they want to use the ukrainian crisis to burnish that image us this which is not the case if anything we re talking about the image of this industry. andrew, let s have a listen to this famous quote from president eisenhower. we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of bass proportions. now this conjunction of an immense military establishment
media told, the lies that the administration told everyone can regurgitateteever us right w and we re seeing it all being prepared right now. and this ukraine war and this effort to get us into a conflict with russia. soso i think we need our lawmakers to actually respect the american people a enough to come back to their districts. congress, like the constitution sayshe and to tell everyone what s going to happen if we re going to continue to sanction putin, if t we re going toca continue to call him a war criminal like we didike with gaddafi and with saddam, if we re going to continue to o send 14 billion dollars of our own money over to ukraine soy that they can fight russia, re what s going to happen? what arere the possible scenaris if we continue to push the russian economy intoe the arms of the chinesese communist party , what s going to happen to our economy? no none of these discussions are maga hat. instead we re watching the road tonsnsead the iraq war part twot for this tim
been raised. this is resulted in positive action at level of states, there are a number of states for example in maine and texas, and utah. have put forward legislative initiative to try to protect their states from emp, you can protect the state, the whole country, if washington is not going to do the job our states should step up and do the job. mark: how much money would it cost to do it throughout electric grid. estimated we could protect bulk power system for about 2 po 4 billion dollars. 2 to 4 billion, nothing compared to what they are spending on covid, it is not a perfect solution. they would have to engage in
been raised. this is resulted in positive action at level of states, there are a number of states for example in maine and texas, and utah. have put forward legislative initiative to try to protect their states from emp, you can protect the state, the whole country, if washington is not going to do the job our states should step up and do the job. mark: how much money would it cost to do it throughout electric grid. estimated we could protect bulk power system for about 2 po 4 billion dollars. 2 to 4 billion, nothing compared to what they are spending on covid, it is not a perfect solution. they would have to engage in
using funds to expand the pool of counselors and mental healthcare workers in the schools that are badly needed in my view. already 27 states have announced they are using over 14 billion dollars in the american rescue plan funds to get a head start on rebuilding our nation s infrastructure. we have a hell of a lot to build and we are going to build a bunch of them and also clean water, ports and a whole range of things. we have a lot of opportunity to build back a lot better. i think it is really important, equally important to make sure we have well-trained and diverse workforce ready to fill the jobs and careers that my infrastructure law will help open up wide. that means using the rescue plan funds to support apprenticeship, community college partnerships, on the job training in key areas like