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>> and no, the private sector does everything better except this is one area where everybody says, well, this is a job for government. i mean, building subways, transportation, private sector isn't going to do that. and yet, people don't know here in new york city private companies built two out of the three subways for the first two. and what the government is doing and this light rail that biden is celebrating, it's -- people like it, trains are romantic. it seems like an efficient way to go but they're boondoggles and say so many people are going to ride them. so many are empty. we have a p...

Jobs, jobs, jobs, green jobs revolution. >> let me go back to what you were saying about the way transit funds are distributed. the way the law stands now, is that if your city population is less than 200,000, you can use federal dollars for operating costs. but if your population is bigger than 200,000, you can only use those federal funds for capital projects. in other words, building subways, expanding rail lines and things like that. you can't use it to pay transit workers. look at a city like chicago. let me explain the situation facing many large urban areas. the bus service is down 18%....