trillion in war since 9/11 cannot say it doesn t have the money. and 84% of the money that we spent for covid relief went to businesses and corporations. we treat corporations like people and people like things. what we need to do, and they need to have people who will be impacted. black people, white people, brown people, natives, asians. let them stand with legislators and tell their stories. and then present what this bill does. don t just put the number, that $3 trillion over ten years, but talk about what it does for health care. what it does for clean water. what it does for jobs. what it does for infrastructure. what it does to help relieve debt. and so make this a moral issue. we have actually said to the president, we are petitioning him and we said to him, he needs to sit with the religious leaders of this country, not just black, he needs to sit with poor and low-wealth people, some of our economists and voting rights experts and come together with impacted people. and then
relieve debt. and sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy is contracting, then the economy will contract further and that can add debt. now, the advantage we had is that the dollar is a reserve currency to the world. even in the midst of crisis, people were still buying u.s. treasury bills. we were not part of a broader arrangement like the eurozone. so it gave us some additional flexibility. but the key lesson that we ve drawn from our experience, and it s true that we recovered faster and better, frankly, than most of europe. is that particularly when the economy is still struggling,