have a plan. of course they ve got a plan. stop spending. so look, the democrats are all [inaudible] on this. juan makes a good argument that they ought to try that they can show that they can do stuff, but read the elizabeth warren new york times piece, it is a left wing agenda that the american people don t want. free universal this. and free universal that. and spent gigantic amounts of money. and raise taxes dramatically. that s not the agenda the american people want or need. and as a result, they are going to be in very difficulty. it may not be the 40 seats that mike mccaul was talking about, but the republicans are he was right, they are already at 213. if they have the average election, 28 since world war ii, that would put them at 231, which is one more than they had after they took the house in 1994 for the first time in 40 years. and i think it is going to be more than 28. it is going to be a healthy republican margin in the house. sandra: wow, jeff, both mike pompeo,
have a plan. of course they ve got a plan. stop spending. so look, the democrats are all [inaudible] on this. juan makes a good argument that they ought to try that they can show that they can do stuff, but read the elizabeth warren new york times piece, it is a left wing agenda that the american people don t want. free universal this. and free universal that. and spent gigantic amounts of money. and raise taxes dramatically. that s not the agenda the american people want or need. and as a result, they are going to be in very difficulty. it may not be the 40 seats that mike mccaul was talking about, but the republicans are he was right, they are already at 213. if they have the average election, 28 since world war ii, that would put them at 231, which is one more than they had after they took the house in 1994 for the first time in 40 years. and i think it is going to be more than 28. it is going to be a healthy republican margin in the house. sandra: wow, jeff, both mike pompeo,
and your possessions. and this has had this result where americans do nearly every social thing through cons consumption, from marking the milestones of life to celebrating holidays of course, to expressing love for one another through gifts, to expressing our identities. and the result has been a whole lot of accumulating consumption. yeah. and as we said, household consumption, i think it s 67% of gdp. is it even economically smart to rely so heavily on consumer spending? your latest book, the day the world stops shopping, what would happen if we magically did stop spending or at least spending so much? my book imagines a 25% drop in consumer spending around the world. for that to happen, the heaviest consuming countries like the united states would have to make even deeper cuts to spending. the short answer is that as we saw in the pandemic, when