clarity on what you mean here. are you saying what the government needs to do right now is start, i don t know, a second stimulus plan, another yes, absolutely. i m not even afraid of the term. but we can make this is an opportunity to rebuild an infrastructure that even people like schiff would agree has to be rebuilt at a very low level of borrowing at a time when construction workers are idle across the country. we could put them to work, hire those firms that are private firms and rebuild an infrastructure. it s silly to talk about this in different ways. i would agree some of the infrastructure needs to be rebuilt, but the cost of rebuilding it is a burden. it s not going to help the economy. we have to divert resources from other uses to make these long-term investments. when the government is in charge of it, a lot of it is being wasted. we re repaving roads here in connecticut that didn t need to be repaved, and the question is what didn t we do with the resources becau
you know, we need to produce. we have to export. you know, there are plenty of people all around the world that can actually afford to buy things. americans can t. americans are broke after decades of spending beyond their means because of these foolish monetary and fiscal policies. we have to rebuild the real economy where we produce, where we save, where we invest. we can t simply have an economy with government make work finance with a printing press. this is going to lead to a deflationary progression. this is just kind of rhetoric. look at this moment. if you have any wit of business sense, we have a construction industry that has totally collapsed, we have an infrastructure that everyone agrees needs to be rebuilt collapsing pipelines. and the government can borrow money at nearly record low levels. this is a perfect time to borrow the money and rebuild the public infrastructure jenna: well, let me get some clarity. hold on for one second here, peter. robert, let s get some
with capital in the collapse we just had. i agree. but that s why government building infrastructure, it wasn t government that did that yes, it was. who lent them the money? who subsidized it? jenna: peter, let me jump in here. if it s not an additional spending project, if it s not government stepping in, then how do we soft this problem? it s about getting the government out of the way so we can rebuild a vibrant economy, so we can restructure the economy. our economy is based on consumer spending, borrow money. that has to end. we ve been building houses people can t afford. we need more factories, more production, we need to make more things and that will happen if the government gets out of the way and allows american industry to become more competitive and productive. you have all these people who are unemployed because the government has made them unemployable by driving up the cost of doing business. my opponent here says that we should take advantage of low interest