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On the recordMay 19, 2021
Okay, I will talk faster. I know this is a little bit geeky, but this is important. Open borders, inflation, these are components that just crush the very people who we were having so much success with for a couple of years. We all talk a great game about caring about working men and women, but we are engaged in economic malfeasance right now. I understand it is complicated, but the numbers don't lie. When you start looking at these charts right now, when you start seeing just parts of the PPI hitting a 12 percent annualized in the commodity goods last month, we really, really, really need to start taking this seriously. Do you continue to float more debt to chase more helicopter money to go out and buy more constituents? You are going to see sort of a false economy for some of the calculations this year, where you may see a number that says: Hey, income inequality also shrunk this year because we gave out so much cash, but we also created economic violence because we created detachment from work. Remember, losing a year of work, losing a year of skills, losing a year of progress in your career path even for the working poor has a multiplier effect that if you look over the lifetime career, it is pretty devastating. You saw the decisions that were made to keep schools closed and the amount of economic violence to working women in our Nation. In 2019, there were more females in the labor market than men. Today, that just isn't true.…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona

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