want the plant back, with everything it had? or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have a coal plan. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we move from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad wasn t a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer but my dad was in sales, and there was no work so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolley in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenue, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood, the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people lived, there was a you d go by a wall that my recollection was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. and it went essentially a city block. and you could see the coal piled up to the very top o
workforce. entire countries, many of them. the u.s. government, in other words, is astoundingly large world, historically big scale without precedent. truly, gorgan. so what do all those people who work there do every day maybe wondering that? what s a good question? actually , nobody s really sure, including many of the employees themselves. fundamentally, the federal government is a mystery like the universe. it goes on forever. it makes you feel small thinking about it, which is probably the point. the good news is every once in a while our government does something you can actually understand that happened recently when joe biden signed a 700 or fifty billion dollar piece of legislation called the inflation reduction act, which is the inflation reduction act du come on , what do you slow the interest right there in the name? the inflation reduction act is an act that reduces inflation. it s an inflation reducing act and that s welcome news because inflation is indeed a pr
marketplace fairness act. it s just an internet sales tax which big companies like amazon support. why? because it helps amazon priced out smaller competitors and according to congress, that s marketplace fairness. so we should all be very, very, very concerned that congress just passed something called the inflation reduction act. it mandates hundreds of billions of new dollars in spending that will increase the money supply in thisal country and that will in turnue devalue the currency and that in turn cause more inflation. that s basic supply and demand.a butti before we get to the specifics of the legislation, keep in mindhi life is already so expensive ins this country that we literally have bread lines in major cities foxes. jeff flock to spoke toke volunteers at one food bank in camden, new jersey, who say that many people cannot afford rice and beans. nd look at all these people. this is a line that runs almosta around the block herelm. y yeah, thingsou cost more . an
And into a containment van and ultimately taken care of. But were left with a lot of questions as we close the show this morning. That does it for us for now. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. We begin with that very breaking news. Two more packages found this morning. One addressed to senator cory booker and another to former director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Nbcs Investigative Reporter tom winters joins me now via phone. Tom were up to 12 potentially suspicious packages. Walk us through this. Shortly after 8 00 a. M. This morning, we first got word the package that was addressed to cory booker but was found at a Mail Facility in south florida, at that time, we understood it, the package was addressed to booker in camden, new jersey. The package obviously does not appear to have ever made its way there. They were able to get
subsequently, about the same time, a Mail Sorting Facility in New York City. Thats certainly kind of the we were edge of midtown ma
The old Grumman mail trucks are still out there, bursting into flames. But the USPS plans to replace those, and Great Barrington just got eight new Mercedes vans.