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Charges. from studying new zealand this would cost the average american $15,000 per person per year. a new study shows just getting part of the way will cost every american $6,000 a year and possibly twice as much. there are really costs. people are not willing to pay that. again, we should spend some money because its a real problem. but we should spend it smartly. that money is spend on inovation rather than buying stuff that is not effective. >> sandra: almost every climate has been branded t...

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Experience. people get it thats why 71% of the country think we are on the wrong track. lawrence: that was jim jordan setting up the problem. as you guys know the problem has always been from the biden administration standpoint, they say demand is so up, so thats why we have a problem with inflation. this is why you cant -- we have a supply chain crisis, because people are buying stuff so much its not that we have screwed this up, thats why we cant get stuff on the food shelves. hillary clinton,...

Clogged. the ports are moving more stuff than ever before. the trouble is that because people are buying stuff because they cant consume services or theyre afraid to consume services, thats why were having these supply chain issues. so if we can get the pandemic but what i was going to ask is you wrote about the cowards and gops going on with the lies. cornell belcher said elections will be in peril in the next two elections. >> if youre not terrified or worried america three or four years from ...

Free fall. to make a lot of it has to do with the fact that he keeps yelling at us. like were popping wheelies on his front yard and he is shaking the rake. do your point about we havent lost control, that is part of the whole idea of setting a low bar. but this is the depends presidency. they have lost control. the slogan is suck it up. its being pushed by the media as you saw, the same media that allows any restrictions or housing, that would be seen as bigoted but if youre an american, you su...

Theyre spending less money on services like concerts, using money for things like that. youre buying stuff, a lot of stuff. thats one of the reasons why the global supply chain is a total mess. how long do consumers feel this? >> again, a little bit unclear, but you are exactly right that the problems are both on the supply side, rather, that there are problems basically throughout the supply chain, getting power to factories, parts to factories, getting stuff transported around the world, to st...

Everything from diapers to dishwashers and even while they sit here, somebodys paying for it, likely you. the cost of labor keeps going up. speak of the manufacturers we work with cant find workers, they have doubled their wages, even triple their wages, added signing bonuses, they cant find enough people to produce the goods or drive the trucks. >> l.a. sport directors says its not easy getting all the same players on the same page. >> weve been averaging more than 900,000 container units for t...

Is as backed up as the west coast is. we in fact took a tour of the port of oakland where i am standing and back in april to see how they were sort of considering the future. and let me just try to put it in perspective for you. i want you to listen to the executive director at the port of oakland who at that timewise staring down the barrel of what he knew was an incredible crush coming his way. have a listen. >> we are busier than ever, and the pandemic has changed peoples habits in terms of b...

Of course the pandemic has just complicated all of that. the pandemic itself has just really made things a jumbled mess. ill also throw into the mix demand. weve all been stuck at home more or less, and weve been buying stuff, all kinds of stuff, everything from appliances, computer equipment, furniture, clothing, toys, you name it, weve been buying it. the demand is as strong as its been by order of magnitude. you got all this stuff coming through the pipe and the pipe is being disrupted by the...

To peel high prices not only when they are buying steak and hoarding toilet paper but also when they are trying to provide -- >> harris: we cannot go back to hoarding toilet paper. >> emily: when people feel the supply being threatened, they panic. if people see empty shelves in stores so they start buying stuff but the bill will come after christmas. inflation will hit even higher and then the bill for all this multitrillion dollar spending, thats going to hit and when that lag hits we are goin...