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so, yes, some of these different ideas could be helpful, but those are not going change things in a one week or two week basis, being able to pile up a few more cases. we re short tens of thousands of truckers. we re short, you know, different industry and service i mean, people who are sitting on the sidelines employment wise because they want better wages and benefits. there s a whole slew of things that are going to take time to work out of what happened over the last 18 months. eric: the president of the teamsters speaking out about that in terms of wages and benefits for truckers to hire more truckers. finally, bob, you just mentioned the infrastructure bank that you testified a year ago, look, we re talking about the infrastructure now with the president s, you know, trillion dollar bill. what did you testify about a decade ago, and what does this country need to do to stay competitive with china and all these other nations that have some infrastructure far advanced, believe it
beyond ours? what is bob wolf s solution and prescription to try and get us back up to where we should be. well, i don t think we re going to be able to catch up that quickly. the first thing i would do is pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, that s $1.2 trillion. that should be passed immediately. that s the physical part of infrastructure, but it includes, you know, getting wi-fi and computer capability to rural areas, it includes an increase in capability, it looks at next generation gps, it looks at the whole electric watery discussion battery discussion that we all should be having as we move to a more climate-resilient type of environment. you know, what i was saying back then are the same things we re saying today, but back then it was a couple trillion in needs, today it s four trillion. it doesn t get better. and i remember that governor rendell once said you d hate to see a sign don t go over that