Climate action requires policy changes, but also enormous financing needs that come at a time when the world is facing historically limited fiscal space.
i ve got to say how much higher can tuition get? inflation for tuition over the past ten years has been grotesque. it really has. middle class americans have little hope of sending their kids off to college without racking up massive, massive bills and loan debt. it s impossible. the federal government at some point has to say if you want to take part in our federal loan program you ll have to bring tuition rates down, especially for state schools but also for private schools. you were just looking at north dakota s jamestown sun, which says two counties in the state are looking at reopening areas of land for wind power development. what does donald trump say about this? he doesn t like it. two years ago the county restricted plans for wind development over concerns it could cost coal jobs. if it kills birds, the beautiful bald eagle, and causes cancer. causes cancer and kills
administration. so, with all due respect to senator sanders, i think that is a terrible political decision to do if they were to do it but i don t think they will. the other thing about joe manchin you have to understand is, yes, that may be true that he has, um, financial interests in the coal industry. but west virginia has the largest coal jobs in the country. the largest amount of coal jobs in the country. the coal industry is incredibly powerful because it is one of the driving economic factors in creating jobs in that state. so, of course, as the senator from west virginia, he is going to be partial to the needs of the coal industry. so, you have to take that into consideration also. and recent polling shows that he is very popular in west virginia. he is over 60% approval righting in the state and over 60% of the people in west virginia support his position against build back better. so in this instance, joe manchin is doing a better job messaging why he is against build back be
not fine for me in the grocery store. i remember the frustration when we had the first supply chain crisis at the beginning of covid president trump is like nothing is wrong. it s happened to every single president. you can t win elections by telling people they are wrong. it just doesn t work it we got a little bit of that in virginia. margins in tighter in virginia than we would have liked. there has to be a move here. transitory and jerome powell did push back and other economists are talking. there has to be a clearly laid out plan. people have to understand how build back better will help. american less could you plan bipartisan infrastructure plan. how much will that pump up the economy. how much jobs will that create? will that be green jobs are replacing coal jobs? that won t be good enough. and the plans have to be very clear before the midterms for sure it could be a very dark holiday season which is never good for people in power. greg: jesse, i think he was talking about
be for it. i think we all recognize for states with strong coal energies, it s a hard transition. we re very supportive of every feasible strategy of porteing those families in those communities and have been dependent upon coal jobs. let s take care of them. that s the right thing to do. and this transition shouldn t fall on the backs of fossil fuel workers. let s be there with them in powerful ways. but we can t remain to be trapped in the fossil fuel economy. you earlier in our interview caught the use of the word nightmare. obviously, you re being an elected member of congress these days, being a democrat means you probably have been hearing from friends, family, constituents, going what the heck is going on? what is taing so long, all of this thing. do you refer to it as a nightmare. does this feel part you have been here a while, does this