so in a very short time the poverty rate in venezuela doubled by nineteen ninety five . 66% of all venezuelans werehe impoverished. getting poorer tends to make voters radical. so inevitably venezuela gotbl radical politics. what happened next ? venezuela is now rated one of the most miserable places on planet earth. a few years ago, citizens in caracas were reduced toos eating zoo animals. there was no n food and for that matter there was no electricity. so in just half a lifetime an advance of society had reverted to the stone age. the states is not in danger of becoming venezuela next week, but we are moving closer to it . inflation is a big part of the reason of all a the economic crises a country can face. inflation isla the most dangeros inflation doesn t just make people poor. it totally destroysn their confidence in their leaders. the authorities who issued the now worthless currency they re using for toilet paper u inflation is not an act of god like a droughtin or a
farms put a lot of eggs in the wind basket and some states like california have pledged to use 100% renewable energy by 20, 20 , 40 , five .so so maybe we will have h scientific innovationav by tweno forty five that make that possible. if we don t, california will have evenn ia less power than it does now. you didn t think growing upng u in this country would come a time when they couldn t keep the lights on now that time this year that sho shocking. but if you re upset about it, we d like youik to pausere and return your attention to the fact and we re going to say this slowly so we c can sink in. our new white house press secretary is a blacks , ray wsw or was duly impressed tamed in fact, which is a point ofid telling them that . but our peter doocy did have one question. o what isur the administration doing about our collapsing economy and how exactlylaonom ic the plan to increase taxesor on american citizens going to help them pay for things? here s how karine jean-pierre
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