do you feel like it is substantively important whether or not this is pushed for by the white house as a single unified piece of legislation that can t be broken apart? i do inso far as the parts that would be broken out are very important parts like unemployment insurance. the stuff they want to do on school refurbishing, which is about $35 billion of actual hiring people to go do construction, that is very useful, useful construction, represents a long-term investment. there s a lot of there are a lot of parts of this bill that i think fall on the more kind of democratic spectrum of things and more progressive spectrum of things, and i worry about those being sort of thrown by the wayside if it is broken into parts. if you break it up into parts, first of all, we ve got to remember, we are dealing, we continue to deal with a massive what s called what economists call an output gap, which is the difference between what this economy could produce and what it is producing. it rema
stump speeches about it where he gets a lot of applause lines and gets people motivated behind the idea that he could do something. the other reason to propose a big package of legislation is that then you can pass pieces of it. do you feel like it is substantively important whether or not this is pushed for by the white house as a single unified piece of legislation that can t be broken apart? i do insofar as the parts that would be broken out are very important parts like unemployment insurance. the stuff they want to do on school refurbishing, which is about $35 billion of actual hiring people to go do construction, that is very useful, useful construction, represents a long-term investment. there s a lot of there are a lot of parts of this bill that i think fall on the more kind of democratic spectrum of things and more progressive spectrum of things, and i worry about those being sort of thrown by the wayside if it is broken into parts. if you break it up into parts, first of