understand, jason. prices are up on almost everything, and at the same time you ve got millions of people saying take this job and shove it. i don t need the stability of a regular paycheck. i m going to do something else or i think i can find other work that pays more. how do you square two? i don t think anyone fully knows the answer to that. that s why i m asking. people who want jobs have jobs. the issue is there s still lots of people who don t want jobs. the labor force participation rate hasn t come close to recovering. i think some of that continues to be the fallout of covid, the way it s affected people psychologically and the like, nervousness about getting back in jobs. some of it is people got some extra cash last year, and so they don t need to be in quite as big a rush. i expect that to solve itself over the next few months, but i don t think anyone fully understands what s going on, so it s hard to be confident about when and whether those people
instinct, we shouldn t worry about gym equipment and we have lower expectations,s you quoted the washington post, this crowd on the far left, which despises free enterprise capitalism, they don t want growth, they don t want prosperity, they don t want jobs. they don t care about typical middle-income families. what they want to say left-wing ideological agenda, which has no basis in fact, and that s why they are crazed about global warming, and they will destroy our power base. that is why they want to tax large and small businesses, and the burden of that will fall on middle-class people. that is why they want to create incentives, not to work. listen, sean, i have to give manchin some credit, because he is out there saying these entitlements and social welfare programs should have work you
about gym equipment and we have lower expectations, as you quoted the washington post, this crowd on the far left, which despises free enterprise capitalism, they don t want growth, they don t want prosperity, they don t want jobs. they don t care about typical middle-income families. what they want is a left-wing ideological agenda, which has no basis in fact, and that s why they are crazed about global warming, and they will destroy our power base. that is why they want to tax large and small businesses, and the burden of that will fall on middle-class people. that is why they want to create incentives not to work. listen, sean, i have to give manchin some credit, because he is out there saying these entitlements and social welfare programs should have work you should not be eligible unless you are looking for a job and they should be strictly means tested.