trillion could soon approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in, neil. president biden is calling for more taxes on the rich. he speak recently in virginia beach. i want to make it clear, i m going to raise some taxes. any of you who are billionaires out there, you re going to stop paying 3%. not a joke. biden met with kevin mccarthy just once since he became speaker and with a debt of over $31 trillion, many republicans are concerned about potential cuts in national against, a time when the biden administration is arming ukrainian forces with billions in american weapons and with the threat from china increasing. the 2022 and 2023 defense budgets are 3% when the kennedy administration was spending 9% of u.s. gdp on defense, building up the arsenal which the pentagon says is aging and is needed upgrades to the tunes of billions ever dollars. and jfk cut taxes and shortly after his death. that was then. lucas thank you very much. i raised this issue with jo
Not the case across much of the upper midwest. yesterday in northwestern indiana about 50, 60 miles from the windy city and valparaiso, take a look at this, heavy snow coming down and walloping that area, over five inches in south bend where notre dame university is, even more and then neil, get this. if you went out on the roads in between the indiana and illinois state line, all the way up to detroit, look at this video. it was white knuckle driving, unfortunately snowplows out, slush pushed to the side. accidents all over on i-94 west and all of this system was coming up from those severe storms earlier in the week unfortunately and then neil, get this, you get to chicago yesterday evening we were expecting to see that wintery mix of sleet, snow, freezing rain and it was bone dry. people leaving work going to restaurants, all was well. the manic weather environment
Millions of piece parts and a complicated supply chain. a 3-d printing like this reduces the cost, the number of people, the time. normally it takes 24 to 36 months to build a traditional rocket. with 3-d printing they reduce that and when make it in-house in america, it reduces the volatility of a supply chain, it s not parts all over the globe. it won t have passengers yet, but it s the start of potentially making space exploration cheaper and faster and who knows, neil, you might be going to mars in a 3-d printed market. neil: can you imagine being at the office. i have one copy i have to quickly make, no, no, i m too busy with my rocket. where has technology gone? and by the way, we talked about how expensive it is. they didn t put a dollar figure on that. but if you re part of gen x, you can t afford it.
Of chicago this year, that literally could go down as one of the top 10 warmest on record in 153 years of data in chi town. average temperature 3.5 degrees above, neil, and this system is making its way into the northeast right now and it will end later tonight, head out into the atlantic ocean, but unfortunately, neil, 10 people died in the south from the severe systems, yet another week of just weather crossing the country and creating havoc in many areas, neil. to think, next weekend in chicago, the forecast is potential for snow on saturday and why does that mean anything? that s the day that the st. patrick s day parade is and thousands of people are going to watch that river get dyed green. we ll see. it never ends, neil. every single week, we re out in it. neil: could be green ice the way things are going there. thank you very much for that, robert ray in chicago.
Those symptoms when everybody is supposed to be safe, neil. neil: all right. garrett, thank you for the update. garrett tenney on what s going on in this opportunity. in the meantime, south dakota is a long way from the border from mexico, as you know, that didn t stop senator john thune to see for himself what s going on there. he has a complete report and update and let s just say he s not happy, after this. out here, you re more than just a landowner. you re a gardener. a landscaper. a hunter. because you didn t settle for ordinary. same goes for your equipment. versatile, powerful, durable kubota equipment. more goes into it. so you get more out of it.