completely silent on what is going on in ohio that is an area near and dear to your heart and you know close to where you live. number one we ve had a home where you visit and he is telling balloon jokes he s talking about racial quotas and construction this guy s been m.i.a. on, m.i.a. on the day of the amtrak crash in missouri and montana, the supply chain faa outage that grounded flights nationwide. the shipping problems that california ports. the southwest system outage cancellation, misplaced luggage. i m been a hand to the ball, you tell me what this guy s in transportation secretary that is so great and are you telling me we can t do better than this g guy?
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i think the culprit behind the inflation, z we all know, neil, is excessive government spending coming out of the $# trillion tax and spending spree the democrats pushed through over a year ago. and their solution to solve that is to spend more. obviously, they want to do another $5 trillion on top of that. so that coupled with energy policies that have driven up cost of gasoline are the reason we have inflation. supply chain issues, yeah, there s some issues around that, and our legislation gets at that. but at the end of the day, the inflationary pressures that we re seeing in the country today have everything to do with the president and his policies. american people are paying the price for that. neil: nevertheless, there is a way to deal9 with the shipping problems that the president has outlined, a real big problem in faking inflationary problems worse. those two south dakota
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