well, there was a lot in there. i will start with what we can in gree on. inflation is a huge problem and gas price spikes. it was a huge concern for every day americans. the economy was the number one issue for the elections. for republicans. not so for democrats. republicans didn t put up a viable alternative. they didn t have p policies for americans jessica, hold on who gets hurt the most with inflation. the poor, middle class, fixed income? when you tax oil, when you tax gas, when you tax coal, when you tax corporations, when you tax people who had the worst year in the stock market since 2008, those are all taxes joe biden and the democratic soerplists
are going to be, throughout the country this fall, talking about we can t have any more stimulus spending, we spent too much and we re not paying for what we are spending and this gets us further into the hole. how does that square with that deficit anxiety with but we have to extend the tax cuts? that s the thing. if i m a republican, i say, well, gee, look how upset democrats are when we talk about letting you keep more of your money. but they don t ever worry about the deficit when they talk about taking more of your money and having these stimulus plans. listen. the bottom line is you know it, chrystia democrats want to spend money without paying for it and republicans want to cut taxes without paying for it. in the end, everybody loses. result is a big budget deficit is what everybody can aagree on. it has been this way a long time and continues now. you talk about the showdown that romer has. that is what we re going into this fall. democrats saying let s spin more mo
is saying is coming from the white house and the plans, what s the biggest challenge lo gist particularly when it comes to building a national high-speed rail system because it sounds good. i think one of the problems is the period of time in order to prepare for the system has not been that long, and as a result, as richard said, with all the institutional issues is we have to address the issue in order to implement the program which in most cases is going to tan 10, 15 years to get built. the president pointed out that it s something both the chamber and the afl-cio agree on. take a listen. we ll talk on the other side. they agree. on the need to build a 21st century infrastructure, and i want to thank them to push for it. and to do so in the most