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Italy, france and so forth. the chart shows on average before covid to now their economies dropped by about 3% in terms of the total size of the economy where our economy went up by about .8%. obviously not a huge number but a positive number relative to what they went through. that puts us as the only major economy, which is larger than it was before covid happened. part of that is because we were going faster before covid we tend to have a strong, resilient economy but part of it is also the policy response we put in place, which you can see on the next slide clearly. the amount of resources that we devoted to attacking covid versus these other major countries. so you can see in terms of stimulus checks, extended unemployment benefits, ppe, the special spending for business, ppp to keep them going. ....
Has to. in order to pay all of the lawyers. this money will go help his web site, wikileaks, continue. web site, as you know is responsible for leaking thousands of secret u.s. documents, and the justice department reportedly is trying to build an espionage conspiracy case against him for making those thousands of formerly secret cables public. eric: earmarks, remember them? fast becoming the next battle ground on capitol hill as well, the special spending projects politicians love to stuff on the spending bills and leaders of both parties duking it out. banning earmarks is another small but important symbolic step we can take to show we are serious, and another step on the way to serious and sustained cuts in spending. if you went to h in the dictionary and found hypocrite ....