money. $8 million in market cap. what does that mean for the company? target shares are down 9 billion dollars. that s 12% drop for them. bud light down 18 billion dollars. that s real. money talks. what is fascinating how little. message is getting through to companies. they find a way to infuriate both sides. here s the prospect. problem. you are engaging in sexual evangelism. nobody goes to target for that. they are in the wrong business. they are mass market brands. they exist to appeal to everybody. the tail is wagging the dog. they are not there to serve customers. they want to convert them and that s why it s playing out this way. pete: something is different.
commentator for the washington post. catherine, good to see you. they had this huge system friendlier. their phone system sounds woefully antiquated, even play attendance cannot get through on their phone system. they had all these other technological failures. they got seven billion dollars, let me give you some context, so during the pandemic, this was the ppp relief funds the airlines cut. america 18 billion dollars, delta got 12 billion, united got close to 11 billion and southwest got more than seven billion. could they have used any of the ppp money to upgrade the systems? so the pandemic relief funds were really intended to keep people on their payrolls, that is what this was supposed to be for, to prevent layoffs, pay for wages, salaries, benefits. they couldn t have used any other. money is fungible. in theory, they could ve made investments to upgrade their systems, and the pilots have been calling for them to upgrade the systems for a long time, but that was not the in
ukrainians. it s so much more than the ukrainians. it s about nato. it s about western europe. it s about making sure that putin is not able to succeed in a way that he is using the brutality of his activities. let me give you some figure. since january of last year, the u.s. has provided more than 18 billion dollars of additional military aid to ukraine. the question remains, can the u.s. afford to keep supporting ukraine at this level? yeah, alex. that s not the question. the answer to that question is so obvious. the overall federal budget is in the neighborhood of four trillion dollars. that is what we have spent. what we have sent to ukraine right now make no mistake, it s around an error on what the united states government to spend. it s a rounding error. it is a rounding error which is being spent in the service of not just defending our democracy against the
russians war in ukraine now and a 234. like yesterday, the biden administration authorized an additional $725 million in military aid for ukraine in total. the uss committed more than 18 billion dollars since russia invaded. the latest aide comes as the russian military attacks rams attacks on civilian targets using missiles and iranian main kamikaze drones. the latest round of a ten strikes starting monday, continue throughout the week. several dozen ukrainian civilians were killed in the attack, most of which were taking place very far from the front where the war was being fought. let s be clear, the majority of these strikes seem to have no strategic military purpose relating to the battlefield. other than to instill terror among the civilian citizens. at the same time, ukraine
this is the most destructive and deadly hurricane in the modern era in florida. and it is going to be a long road to relief. we are still in the search and rescue phase. and god bless all of the first responders and the folks with aid, the aid is pouring into the state. i ve seen truckload after truckload after lineman after lineman, the delivery of fresh water and food. in lee county, a county of about 750,000 residents, very few have power. they have no water, very little cell service. right now, it s a matter of life and death here in the first few days after the hurricane surged in. congress passed a spending bill last week that include more than 18 billion dollars in federal aid for natural disasters. there is this, concept i m sure