Would You Let Bernie Run Your Popsicle Stand?
28 Jun 2021
SANDERS: So, what we have got to do is now invest in making sure that we have affordable housing in this country, that we have home health care for an aging population, that weโre able to expand Medicare so that we finally can cover dental care and hearing aids, uh, and eyeglasses, that we deal with the crisis in child care โ with so many families, working families cannot afford child care.
Uh, and that, in addition to all of that, itโs absolutely imperative that we deal with it, I would say, existential threat to this planet of climate change. And when we do all that, when we invest in, uhhh, health care and in education, making higher education affordable, uh, when we invest in transforming our energy system, weโre gonna create millions more good-paying jobs.
VOICE: Yeah.
SANDERS: So, thatโs what the president wants, thatโs what you want, and I think thatโs what weโre gonna see.
BUCK: Welcome back to The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. Iโm Buck Sexton. And there you have Bernie Sanders, the socialist from Vermont, talking about creating millions of jobs. Does anybody think Bernie Sanders is good at this?
CLAY: (chuckling)
BUCK: Would you let Bernie Sanders run your popsicle stand? Would you let him run your Ben & Jerryโs outlet, for that matter? I think the answer is no. But, Clay, here we are being led to believe that Bernie knows. Itโs never enough. This is what everyone needs to understand right now. Thereโs never enough money. They call it investment.
What they mean by that is really spending your children and your grandchildrenโs money and putting it on the federal tab, which is now gonna be $30 trillion it feels like any moment now. Itโs never enough spending, never enough government intervention in the markets. Thereโs always more that they think should be done. Whenever the program fails, whatโs the reason?
They didnโt spend enough money, right? Itโs very straightforward. When we should be thinking about how we get back to the dine any of them of the American economy and be leaning harder to capitalism, whatโs the response of those who are supposed to be in charge of leading the economy out of this artificial recession as weโve been discussing, the covid recession, which wasnโt even really a recession in many ways.
CLAY: At all.
BUCK: It ended up just being a pause in some economic activity while a lot of other stuff continued on. But look, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, these are the people, this is the brain trust at the top of the Democrat Party, and thatโs why weโre limping out of this covid period in terms of the economy. Itโs not as fast, not as robust as it should be. What is it, Yogi Berra, โdeja vu all over againโ? Itโs coming all back to us now after what happened with Obama in the recession of 2009. A slow recovery because of government heavy-handed socialist nonsense.
CLAY: Yeah, and I think also, Buck, we have to market in here is this is not โ and I think you said โ a traditional recession. Never before have we intentionally stopped all economic activity and effectively paid people not to work. So how do you come out of that? Again, the data that I keep going to is households added $13.5 trillion in wealth last year.
I donโt think we can call this a recession when the overall wealth goes up like that. Couple of stats for you. The S&P 500 went up 29% in 2020, and in the Great Recession it was down 38.5%. This is not a traditional recession โ and, remember, Donald Trump had set up the greatest economy in the history of our country when suddenly โ in February and March of 2020, last year โ we hit pause, and everything came undone.
BUCK: And just only some work actually stopped, right?
CLAY: Yeah.
BUCK: Thatโs important to remember about this. While stay home for some people meant, โYou no longer have a job,โ for small business owners it meant, โYour lifeโs work may go up in smoke because of governmentโฆโ โCause I know they say there are PPP loans and there were these government assistance programs. But for a lot of, folks, that didnโt pay enough.
That didnโt cover everything you had to cover, and they just said, โI canโt wait this out.โ But for all those different professions you talked about, it actually just meant getting rid of a commute and watching Fauci tell you to wear six masks on TV or else youโre a bad person. So letโs get calls. Weโve got a bunch. Weโre gonna bring you in on this from all over telling us what you think, what youโre seeing in your industry/your business, because this is gonna be a big factor in the midterms and empower whoโs gonna have power going forward.
CLAY: I donโt think thereโs any doubt.
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