be teaching the children. it s absolutely astonishing. you see the biden administration using the doj to go after parents that are showing up at school board meetings. it s staggering. laura: they keep making mistake after mistake. it s a messaging problem. it s not. it s a policy problem. thanks all of you so much. this big spending agenda of biden and the democrats has hit another snag. it s called the american people. turns out after nine months of joe biden, americans are clamoring for their government to do less. the washington post notes that since 1992, gallup has been asking whether government should do more to solve the country s problems. late last year, 54% said they wanted more from the government. a month ago, only 43% did. joining me now, kentucky senator rand paul. senator, it was in the middle of covid. it was a stunning data point in this middle of this attempted
have a special committee investigate this. don t expect to hear from the media mob about this. that s all the time we have left this evening. as always, thank you for being with us. set your dvr so you never miss an episode. have a great weekend. the ingraham angle is next. we ll see you back here monday. laura: i m laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle. the grocery store shelf are bear. the cost of renting an apartment are soaring. energy costs made worse by the biden agenda. now political revealing that biden or his team never saw any of this coming. political peril that he didn t see coming is called inflation. biden is not just asleep at the wheel. he s putting us to sleep, too. he nodded off or i did a couple
spend-0-rama. yeah, i ve been watching this. me and my wife were alarmed that people wanted more and more free things, wanted to experiment with socialism. now we ve seen eight, nine months of big government socialism coming from biden and people are starting to understand there s consequences. one of the consequences are prices are rising. we ve had the highest increase in the cost of living for social security. the question is will it keep up for prices. will they go up 10%? what happens if they re hahn social security and lower wage income? big government socialism doesn t work. people are unhappy with it. this is important for people to know. they also need to know the history of socialism. every time it s been tried in history, it ends up with authoritarianism and violence. it s economically a terrible system if you want to get ahead for you and your family.
but pay your fair share. just pay a decent portion. laura: biden, of course, took no questions. he ran off stage. sprinkled the speech with words like literally and no joke and for real, man. look, in all seriousness here. what is wild about how things have cratered, the same media thought that they were helping biden but not covering his agenda, the media have helped dig the hole that biden is now standing in. same for his party leaders on capitol hill and throw in the federal reserve while you re at it. not only did all of them down play inflation, they encouraged more piling on of debt. now the one democrat that did care, former treasury secretary larry summers is speaking out. a generation of central