streets. that s what these policies are making the citizens feel like. i miss my great hometown of tampa and wanting it behind you. new york city, murders are up 4. la up 38 percent. chicago at 50 percent. they all have democrats and in baltimore the homicide rate is higher than guatemala. i witness this kind of shoplifting myself. they can come in and day out, weekend, week out for more than a year and a half and everything of value in my local drugstore is locked up. you have to get the ice cream is even locked up. what s going on is this is a true thing, there were several candidates for the district attorney in manhattan and for mayor in the city who believed that shoplifting should not be prosecuted. the left uses this phrase, it
against it. we re a party that wants to grow the economy, the democrats are a party that wants to grow the government. this is not a wish list, this is what the working families of this country want and what the economy needs. the build back better agenda has become the biden build back broke agenda. and the american people have figured out that what they re trying to do is institutionalize socialism. jon: jonah goldberg, editor-in-chief of the dispatch and if also a fox news contributor. you have kind of taken a look at a what s going on in washington, jonah. you say the progressives in the democrat party are actually winning this fight. they re certainly winning in terms of taking over what the democratic party stands for. and they re winning in the sense that they have rolled a president who was elected to be a moderate, a centrist, a return to normalcy, he basically only
massachusetts. what do you say to them? well, i would say the proof is in the pudding with our membership. they re probably 85% vaccinated today, and there are certain instances, folks, not just troopers, citizens alike should have alternate means to not get this shot and we re fighting for them. got it. sergeant, please keep us posted on this, we appreciate having the service to your people. the massachusetts state police association president. we told you at the beginning of each hour here on this show today about what s going on in washington or more to the point, what s not going on, one thing that does seem inevitable between the infrastructure package itself. the latter one, the one the source of this controversy, will likely go down, maybe significantly. does that mean that the tax hikes to pay for it would get ratcheted down significantly?
the whole story. just keeping track of what s going on in washington a lot of news kind of does come down the pike like that, but let me be clear with you before we bring in our experts, that s how it s often covered but this is about so much more than washington let me tell you how i see it we have been living through a horrific pandemic that has often asked most of those with the least. we ve covered those long lines to get food, the working poor uprooted from their jobs then when jobs started coming back it was a lot of working people and the working poor that were first asked to get back to work, get back in the uber, before anyone claimed it was safe while the people in america with more money got to zoom their way through this national trauma and then of course there are the nurses, the doctors, the first responders, the teachers who continue to deal with risky classrooms today we didn t just get through this recent period together
their worst days in months, even for those who never look at markets if you had a 401(k) you were certainly asking what in the world is going on. it all started in china where a massive real estate developer a chinese conglomerate is at risk of defaulting on $300 billion worth of loans. when you add that to what s going on in washington, pure gridlock, the fed eyeing a possible interest rate hike, the delta variant spreading and the u.s. government at risk of a government shutdown as well as little progress on the debt ceiling and of course infrastructure, and then throw in the annual september slump, all of this made for a terrible day for investors. is it going to be a terrible day or is it a sign of something worse to come? i want to dig deeper and bring in dom chu. let s start with china. lots of people out there are saying ever brand i have never heard of this company but it matters because if a company of that size is on such shaky waters, this could be saying that the global eco