health insurance got it. so it takes a moment. you have to be ready to seize that moment. but look, i m disappointed. i came in hoping that we were going to take the lessons of the pandemic, about how much difference we can make and continue to apply them as long as there are only 50 democratic senators and one of them is from an extremely red state, it is not going to happen. there is the reality that even as employment and wages increase, people are payer more for stuff, including food and gas. a lot of people talking about this. what is the solution? mostly the solution is a little bit of a patience. which is hard with the political scene out there. but the most of the reason that we ve had inflation is that the pandemic really distorted spending. people couldn t go out to eat and so they rushed to buy kitchen appliances and stuff like that. so we have this sudden burden when we talk about supply chain problems it is not that we re
to pay more because their wages are going up. the wages aren t going up as fast as the prices. as this sinks in and about $2 trillion of stimulus funding that people carried over gets eaten away, the rubber hits the road. until real wages are rising, wages faster than prices, that will be the change. charles: you feel like that has to be around the corner. savings look like they re dwindling here. yeah, there was an enormous savings boon. people couldn t go out and that savings rate has gone back to more typical numbers. the accumulation of 2020-2021 has been eaten away and what can you live off of in your day job and the raises that you re getting there. those raises are not big enough for people to continue to spend at the rates we like them to. charles: and we ll be reminded of that thursday when
you just see these massive operations, huge greenhouses, gates locked, you see cars coming and going at all times of night, most of them with foreign plates. it was very evident something very strange was going on in this community. brandon worked for benali as a security guard. there are nojobs, people couldn t go out of reservation to go to work. when he started it, it opened up a whole new financial situation for everybody. we had 38 fields and hundreds of employees. we had 38 fields and 800 of employees. when i noticed it going fishy was when i was not allowed on some of the fields. people were stealing the hemp out of the farms, they were getting high, some of them said they were getting headaches, and just by the look of it and the smell, it didn t add up. you people are like this hemp sre allowing this kind -
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