he understand. and. reagan did on fiscal side something different. than this administration, he slashed taxes across the board to try to ease the pain and keep the economy working, that is not something that democrats or biden would do, are they not talking about increasing trump taxes. they want to spend more money, to cobble together pieces of build back better lowest over and force joe manchin to get onboard and raise taxes by a trillion, if they are not hammering corporate sector in word, they will hammer them indeed. that would assuming we re headed into a recession or already in one, that would make it that much worse, that much deeper and prolong a recession that much more by raising taxes in that environment.
reagan did on the fiscal sideid something different than this administration, he slashed taxes across the board to try to ease the pain and keep the economy working. that is not something that democrats or biden would do. they are talking about, they want to spend more money over a trillion. trying to cobble pieces of build back better left over and forcece manchin to get onboard, and raise taxes by a trillion, if they are not hammering the corporate sector in word, they will hammer them indeed, that would assuming we re headed into a recession or in one, that would make it that much more that much deeper and prolong a recession that much more. by raising taxes in that kind of an environment.
legislation can start to move so that we have science working, the economy working, and finally politics working, then people can start to sense that maybe we re headed into sunnier days. one report i was worried about the 70s, there was horrible inflation in energy prices. the arab countries, opec had us literally over a barrel. they sometimes spike now but we don t have the structural, super high energy prices that were driving inflation at that time. gentleman, thank you for your per suspect. if i might. go ahead. there s one other factor we haven t mentioned. and that is that as i have lived through the last 50, 60 years, i ve seen the media become more negative. this is obviously on the social media but all the media generally. nobody is talking as we are
up local capabilities. every time i went there, i was very saddened to see that the good work that we were doing, the umbrella of security that we provided, was not being leveraged with proper development programmes to get the economy working, to build infrastructure and so forth, and that s absolutely critical to win over the hearts and minds of the local people. and the consequence of that is i rememberflying over the kajaki dam a few years ago, seeing the very turbine that the 16 air assault brigade had delivered a decade earlier, it was lying there next to the dam itself, still in its bubble wrap. it hadn t been put in position to provide electricity, which would have been game changing for the people of helmand. and projects like that, or the absence of completion of projects, was right across the board in afghanistan. we didn t do enough in the time that we were there.