that s considered poverty here in the still free u.s. can we excuse it? because after all russia is fairly new at the capitalism game. by the way, sochi is a perfect example of something they re trying to build with. there was no bidding of this. there was no free market of this. nobody incentivized to do a better job. nobody going to get a pay raise, get a prize for doing this better. as a consequence, what you have is a government enforced labor also enforced labor camp to get this thing done as fast as possible. they don t care. they re a third world nation. you can see it every day if you ve ever bun been to russia. you will know. i spent five or six there. it was awful.
when was the last time you saw a great airport being built? we used to build them in the 40s and 50s. we are becoming absolutely a third world nation. you land your plane at laguardia airport. you go to laguardia airport, it is like a third world airport. so, chris, it is a beautiful example of bipartisanship, right? obviously, joe biden has been paying a lot of attention to what donald trump says. they are both mimicking the same third world couldn t tri. if joe biden were to walk you into any place at 2:00 in the morning blindfolded, where could you think you were? the only thing controversial that was said by joe biden was the blindfold. that is the only thing deeply troubling. you know who disagrees with him on the quality of the airport here? nobody. if you fly through it, it needs a lot of work. you look at the infrastructure in the united states, the world economic form ranks the united
lights out. but he hold a bunch of big houses. and combined his video with the houses. i pledge to turn the lights off. i f we want to conserve energy. you think he is unaware of the hypocrisy? boy, i just think he lives with it. this guy goes on tour and has the carbon footprint of a third world nation. the idea that he is going to turn his lights out that is going to make a difference even if you believe in the theory of man caused global warming. it seems rather ludicrous. let s move on to something else. celebrities call evil, the keystone pipeline. some actors made a short film that makes the pipeline seem like the amityville horror movie. a family buy is a new home. you are going to love this. awe off it soap beautiful, a deal.
worker, the walmart worker, fast food worker what we did for the auto worker and steel worker. not only is it important for equality. if we want economic growth. people talk about lifting demand. we need more demand to get the economy primed. how do we lift demand? the federal government can spend as much as it wants building roads. we have to create a middle class. setting a humane, decent wage floor $10 isn t enough. go to $15 and in some cases $20. that s humane and decent. that s where what the workers need to be in middle class again. look at what ctac did raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. is it feasible nationwide? i hope to god our country can do this. none of us likes being in a third world nation. i call it the 66%, not the 99. a third of us are doing pretty good. media people, knowledge workers,
dollars on mass transit. it has a role in certain parts of the country but tens of billions that could have been used for real infrastructure. dave: so there may have been a time when massive projects, there is too many regs to make it efficient. i don t see the private market stepping up to do the job. wait a minute, this country is turning into a third world nation. our infrastructure is truly crumbling. they are using private contractors and there are questions at that level. we have an oil and gas boom. our infrastructure at that level is poor. there is a bottleneck at the refineries. we re going to need more than pipelines to make that part of the economy. dave: rick has a point when he goes after monopolies but the worst is the government. all the private sector competition and that leads to corruption, no? i think you can point to