bring down inflation, particularly over the next two years. david: yeah, but what do you say about the penn wharton model and 230 economists who say that s not going to do that and folks who say, look, you ve got to look at this in the first five years supporters say it s only years out to inflation will actually come down because of these reforms. in the meantime, what are americans supposed to do? well, again, one thing about economists, you can get a lot of them to say virtually anything. david: that s true. i would point to another group often quoted by your network, which is the committee for responsible federal budget. a group that i rely on a lot. they have said as well this is anti-inflationary, a number of former treasury secretaries, democrats and republicans have come out and again, i wish there was a magic switch that would turn off inflation overnight, i mean, the closest we ve got to that is the federal reserve raising interest rates. if they overdo in raising
somebody can stop a situation like this with a firearm. and certainly they have repeatedly over time. it s not a guarantee certainly. it s not a guarantee of preventing these shootings from happening, as we saw in buffalo where there is an assault weapons ban, and the shooter bought his new york legal version of his rifle and modified it. there s no single magic switch that you can flip, whether it s about hardening schools or banning guns as people propose, that s going to instantly solve this problem. agree with you, no magic switch. but if we can just reduce the number of deaths, shouldn t that be the goal, stephen? that should be the goal. it s just about reducing the slaughter. of course. what do you think the media needs to be doing in covering guns? stephen, you ve been on this beat for years. i always rely on you for coverage of gun issues. what does the rest of the media need to do differently? or what should we do to be
to do, massive expansions to the earned income tax credit. ending max incarceration. we d have 20% less poverty in america if our incarceration rates were the same as other industrial nations. there are a number of things. there is no one magic switch to flip to fix all the problems. but we do need more of a leadership to get us back to the ideals of creating a beloved community where we re all in this together where there is a more courageous empathy in this country to say, hey, wait a minute, we are lesser when a kid doesn t have a great public school or his water is poisoned. we actually lose as a country. i don t know if my numbers are exactly right. but about the top 10% of china s top graduating class are bigger than all the kids we have together. we can t afford to lose the genius and potential of so many children that are now being lost
natural gas. let s take a look at this, shall we? coal provides how much of everything that comes out of the magic switch there in your house, how much of it comes from coal? 45%. every time you make toast, bow down to the coal god. 45% of all of our electricity. we can t use it because it s dirty, right? the next lump of coal burns to propel to perpetual night and floods and fires. awful. it will block out the sun. oil and gas. the next largest percentage of our electricity we use in our houses but they are killing the planet, too. right? natural gas isou? we all saw the china syndrome. nukes, are you kidding the simple
natural gas. let s take a look at this, shall we? coal provides how much of everything that comes out of the magic switch there in your house, how much of it comes from coal? coal god. 45% of all of our electricity. we can t use it because it s dirty, right? the next lump of coal burns to propel to perpetual night and floods and fires. awful. it will block out the sun. oil and gas. the next largest percentage of our electricity we use in our houses but they are killing the planet, too. right? natural gas is okay. you don t hear anybody really championing natural gas on the left, do you? we all saw the china syndrome. nukes, are you kidding me? it will burn all the way to china. the simple truth is the only