to the table on the larger human infrastructure bill. and as we await the president s remarks here any minute i d imagine this hour, can you help us understand the degree to which the supply chain problems pose an economic problem if you go to costco, you can t buy more than one pack of paper towels. if you go to buy a couch, the sales associate will tell you that that couch won t arrive until maybe january or february if you are lucky. these are sort of the real world problems that people are encountering. but what does it mean on a macro scale for our economy? well, it is fascinating. and welcome to the world of rationing, something which we used to talk about in relation to world war ii and things like that. because you really are seeing extraordinary supply chain problems right now. even in things as basic as getting hold of containers to ship goods around the world. and it will be with us for quite a long time because there isn t an easy or quick fix. it is partly because good
companies from all across the country descend on that region that needs help, right? after a hurricane, power lines are down. you look at the highways you see all those trucks coming in from different states, right? arizona trucks, colorado trucks. when florida has a hurricane, what do we do? we get in the trucks, everybody drives down to florida, personnel, et cetera. when puerto rico got into trouble, what did we do? con edison, new york, rochester gas, they all went down to puerto rico. why? because help the place that has the crisis. this is that on a macro scale. new york is in crisis. help new york and then pick up, decamp and go to the next place
you have is the perfect sort of, you know, dicing machine for the democratic party opinion. if you amplify that and crowbar that and wedge it open, using disinformation, using social media as the, you know, the weapons platform of choice, then what you re going to see is if we have ten candidates, you re going to see ten massive pushes to make sure that the democrats tear each other apart. we saw it with bernie sanders and hillary clinton on the first day of the democratic national committee convention in philadelphia and now it s going to happen on a macro scale. neera tanden and malcolm nance, thank you guys very much. wish we had more time. thank you all. and up next, a clear abuse of power. that s how democrats are describing labor secretary alex acosta s role in securing a lenient plea deal for jeffrey epstein when he was a federal prosecutor. now they re calling on acosta to resign. more on that next.
committee convention in philadelphia and now it s going to happen on a macro scale. neera tanden and malcolm nance, thank you guys very much. wish we had more time. thank you all. and up next, a clear abuse of power. that s how democrats are describing labor secretary alex acosta s role in securing a lenient plea deal for jeffrey epstein when he was a federal prosecutor. now they re calling on acosta to resign. more on that next. more on that next. so, we re-imagined the razor with the new gillette skinguard. it has a unique guard between the blades. that s designed to reduce irritation during the shave. because we believe all men deserve a razor just for them. the best a man can get. gillette. coaching means making tough choices. jim! you re in!
and the good thing for trump is that lot of his supporters do follow him with the faith that he is doing greater things on the macro scale, so they will just suffer through the more limited individual stuff. but we re talking about people going to food banks. that cuts pretty deep. and at a certain point you have to wonder does this line of, okay, just wait for us, wait for us, this is for the greater good, did people still continue to follow that, do they continue to believe in that and believe in the president if there is no nod to a sense of, you know, we re sorry you re going through this. and you re not hearing that fundamental sympathy is not empathy as they are trotting it out as the public face of the shutdown. i don t want my air traffic controller on his phone trying to figure out where he can get the lowest interest rate loan. i mean that is not what i want my national security structure worried about. and the faa tweeting out that