we re talking about that after the fda approved a request from pfizer that could see people as young as 16 getting a third dose of the shot. here now dr. brett giroir, the former hhs secretary and former covid czar. what was your reaction to what we just heard from the cdc with regard to what they learned so far about omicron? it s still very early. hospitalizations have gone up in south africa. it reinforces that we need to be calm. the cases in the united states, if you ve been investigated and you get the sniffle for two days, that s not a failure. it s a success. all the cases have been mild. as they expand, we ll have more severe cases. keep calm. we have weapons. we can keep this under control. martha: so what is your message for parents? your background is in pediatrics.
under joe biden, as covid recedes, it is going up even higher because they are no longer using covid as a pretext. through the end of this august, which is just a month and a half ago, the federal government has already spent more in 2021 then it did over the entire calendar years of 2019 and 2018. so, all of this drives inflation to scary levels. but they are not scary to everyone. if you are a massively leveraged financial institution that was a lot of money to a lot of people and that is how you re making your money, this is not necessarily bad news. if money is worth less, that means your debt service costs last. you don t fear inflation, inflation helps you. the problem is it crushes the american middle class. now, in a normal country, this would be a huge concern, but because the people who make our policies don t care about the middle class, this is a bargain well worth making. bloomberg news just published a piece with his headline which we are not making up, they are still w
and actually hold people in jail when we are being defunded. heck, they want to close the nation s largest jail with no alternatives and just have everybody i guess walk away. tucker: i hope you run for office. i think a lot of people would vote for you no matter what party you are representing, because we are so desperate for people to speak as you just did. sheriff, thank you so much for coming on tonight. i appreciate it. you got it, tucker. tucker: so from a pretty interesting story in washington the other day, a pentagon official quit because he says the united states is not winning the global tech war with china, and he would know. he joins us next to explain. s
here are a few. the federal reserve was created way back in 1913 by an act of congress and had two main. maximize employment and keep prices stable, keep inflation under control. those are virtuous goals. but it may be a measure of the way bureaucracies work that over time, the federal reserve has actively undermined both of those objectives. it is the classic story of the firemen turned arsonist or for that matter, the covid czar who helped create covid, irony of ironies, seems like we have a lot of those, lately. in the case of federal reserve, quantitative easing, the main thing it has been doing since the financial crisis of 2008. every month, federal reserve officials print more than $100 billion new, in american currency, and they inject those dollars into our system via buying assets like bonds and security. this is not a normal thing to do, it is a radical thing to do, it was supposed to be temporary, in response to a crisis. in medical terms, quantitative
,here are a few. the federal reserve was created way back in 1913 by an act of congress and had two main. maximize employment and keep prices stable, keep inflation under control.on those are virtuous goals. but it may be a measure of the way bureaucracies work that over time, the federal reserve has actively undermined both of those objectives.. it is the classic story of the firemen turned arsonist or forbj that matter, the covid czar who helped create covid, irony of ironies, seems like we have a lot of those, lately. in the case of federal reserve, quantitative easing, the main thing it has been doing since the financial crisis of 2008. every month, federal reserve officials print more than $100 billion new dollars, in american currency, and they inject those dollars into our system via buying assets like bonds and security. this is not a normal thing to do, it is a radical thing toot , it was supposed to be temporary, in response to a crisis. in medical terms, quantitative easing