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good evening and welcome to tucker
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carlson tonight there are a lot of
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things going on around the world at the
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moment but we thought we would begin
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tonight with a report from your own
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country just to give you something a
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little different from what you've been
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watching every moment of every day for
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the past three weeks
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on your screen are pictures from
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brooklyn new york these are people
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waiting in line at a food bank the queue
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stretches for blocks it's what we used
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to call a breadline
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most these people are not homeless or
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not addicted to drugs some of them have
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jobs they just can't afford enough food
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very few living americans have ever seen
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anything like this it's been nearly a
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hundred years since the united states
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experienced widespread food shortages
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that's long enough that most of us have
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forgotten what it means and here's what
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it means if you want to make a society
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volatile not just angry and divided
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which is where we are now but
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revolutionary and explosive then you
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threaten the food supply
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more governments have fallen to rising
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food prices than to any other cause by
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far
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hungry people are dangerous
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the bite administration doesn't seem to
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notice this is happening or acknowledge
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it
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like all neoliberals they treat
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unchanging truths about anything as
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heresy they censor them and shut them
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down
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they live in an entirely ideological
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world that they created they believe
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reality conforms to their theories not
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the other way around and why wouldn't
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they think that if you can change your
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sex just by wishing it so you can
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probably eliminate inflation simply by
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pretending it doesn't exist when you're
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god there are no limits
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the problem is they're not god they're
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not even very capable economists
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more than a decade of reckless fiscal
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policies have devalued the us dollar to
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the point that middle-class people can
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barely survive in the united states
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now the suffering of regular americans
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doesn't have the thrilling imminence of
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say war footage from ukraine but it's
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real and it matters and here's what it
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looks like
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in number terms
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this year according to new estimate
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rising inflation will cost the average
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american family three thousand five
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hundred dollars in extra post tax income
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now that might be bearable if you make
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250 grand a year though you would notice
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it but if you make 35 000 a year that's
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a disaster you will radically change the
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way you live your standard of living
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will plummet
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and that's exactly what millions of
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americans are facing right now it's not
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a talking point it's real
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americans for tax reform found that
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between november of 2020 and november of
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2021 quote the bottom 20 of earners
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spent 309 more on food 761 dollars more
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on energy 476 more on shelter 390 more
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on other commodities and 224 dollars
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more on other services
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and those are the numbers from november
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they've risen dramatically since then
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and they're continuing to rise
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nationally meat poultry fish eggs up 13
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in san francisco a dozen eggs is almost
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five dollars orange juice in miami is
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over four bucks so is a chicken breast
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in boston a pound of ground beef
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hamburger in la six dollars and 34 cents
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a pound of bacon in new york city 728.
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in chicago last year green grapes cost
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200 2.50 cents a pound another four
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dollars the price of chicken wings and
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the catskills went from eight dollars to
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20 bucks order something else
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if you try to drink a pint of guinness
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in california yesterday to celebrate st
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patrick's day it cost you eight dollars
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and 55 cents for a pint of beer
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prices of everything are rising far
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faster than wages are a lot faster and
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that means that in very real terms the
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most real people are becoming poorer
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and not just people who buy things
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consumers but also people who sell them
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retailers this is a disaster for small
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business watch
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for a cold hard lesson on inflation step
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into the refrigerator where carina
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gudino wallink stores the food supplies
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she just bought for her pop-up food
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stamp business in phoenix arizona so
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usually it would be the boneless would
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be about a dollar a pound
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right now it's 184 a pound this cheese
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used to be nine dollars right now it's
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on it's like 14.56 and that makes it
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hard for someone like you to run your
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business correct it makes it
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unbelievably
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difficult for us to predict any pricing
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i can't even say i'm going to charge you
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a certain price right now because in
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three days it's probably bound to change
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you know and it's never for the better
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did you catch that at the end price is
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changing every three days it's like
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vymar or zimbabwe
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that is not the picture of a stable
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economy and it's not just food that's
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moving fast in the city of baltimore the
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cost of electricity has risen 18 percent
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in a single year that does not happen
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with utilities but it just did
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in philadelphia the average utility bill
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rose from 477 dollars a month to 651
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dollars a month
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according to national association of
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home builders building material prices
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increased almost 21
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year-over-year overall lumber prices
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alone have added almost 19 000
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to the price of a home in the past six
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months
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that's one of the reasons housing prices
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are so high and then of course there's
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gasoline in los angeles it now costs
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about a hundred and eighty dollars to
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fill a chevy suburban one tank of gas
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180 bucks
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nationally gas is up nearly 40 percent
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and here's what that looks like
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these prices are eye popping here at the
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chevron it's 7.29 a gallon for a small
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car with a 12 gallon tank it would cost
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you 87
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to fill it all the way up of course we
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know this is the top end of the spectrum
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here in california it's the most
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expensive state the average price for a
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gallon here is 5.67
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but we all know that nationally these
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prices are through the roof the average
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cost nationwide now is 4.33 cents a
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gallon that's up 63 cents in just a
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week's time in fact right now the
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average cost is climbed above four
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dollars a gallon in a staggering 38
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states
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rising gas prices makes people desperate
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you wouldn't know that from watching
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television because most people who bring
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you the news don't know what the price
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of gas is and a lot of them don't care
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because they don't drive themselves
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but the rest of the country cares very
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deeply what the price of gases and in
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some places the problem is so bad gas
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prices are so expensive that thieves
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have taken to drilling holes in gas
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tanks to steal it
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with the national average at 4.33 cents
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a gallon a troubling new trend is on the
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rise gas theft
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crimes of opportunity now happening
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across the country criminals are
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targeting unattended vehicles for gas
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but they're not going in through here
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instead they're drilling holes from
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underneath your car
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and draining your tank and once the tank
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is drilled it can't be fixed getting a
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new one could cost drivers more than a
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thousand dollars contrary to what you
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may have learned from sandy cortez's
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tick tock feed the internal combustion
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engine is not a sin it's not the basis
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of a moral crisis it is a miracle upon
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which all civilization rests your amazon
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package arrives because of gasoline so
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does your uber eats you can fly to see
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your relatives across the country
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because of gasoline so when the price of
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gasoline rises
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everyone is affected no matter who they
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voted for and no matter whether they
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notice it directly or not
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here's how people in the state of texas
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are reacting to the rising gas prices
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gas has reached an all-time record high
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and here in dallas texas it's four
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dollars and 19 cents a gallon let's go
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talk to texans and see what they think
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about these prices they're high real
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high it's absurd ridiculous you're
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spending more money to go do
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to make money so
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it's hard but it's outrageous you know
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it's kind of outrageous i'm gonna like
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to they've been high for a long time now
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they're too hot
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will the capital of ukraine fall to the
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russians we certainly hope not americans
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care about that
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how high will gas get americans care
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about that even more they care deeply
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because it affects their lives so
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dramatically and yet the coverage of
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this is not proportionate you almost
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never hear anybody asked what do you
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think of the price of gas but if you
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leave the tv studios of new york los
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angeles and washington you will find
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people really do care
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every product in this country with some
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exceptions but not that many is
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delivered thanks to gasoline
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and that means with rising gas prices
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all products become more expensive the
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cheapest washing machine you can buy it
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is say best buy in south carolina right
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now 450 bucks furniture and bedding
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across the country is 17 more expensive
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than it was a year ago
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12 months ago a 28 cubic foot samsung
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stainless steel fridge was selling for
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1700 bucks at home depot it's now 2 000
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and so on for everything and
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particularly for vehicles the average
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price of a used car is up more than 30
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percent nationally it's up 35 in
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massachusetts and tennessee it's up 38
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in florida and maryland it's up 40 or
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more in louisiana new york montana and
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north dakota
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that means the average cost of a used
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car in the state of montana is now more
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than 42 thousand dollars for a used car
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some with high mileage
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by comparison last march the average
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used toyota sold for 20 thousand dollars
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the average used toyota now goes for 28
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000.
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these are real numbers with real effects
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to restate the standard of living
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of americans who for almost 100 years
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have enjoyed the world's highest
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standard of living in any big country is
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plummeting
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so what's the administration doing to
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fix this what are they doing to help
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well of course that depends upon whether
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or not you're ukrainian if you are
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they can help you if you're not our
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transportation secretary recommends you
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take the bus
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you do have a lot of capacity in public
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transit and that's something that you
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know i hope becomes a a means of choice
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we need to make sure that there is less
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pressure on family budgets from
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transportation which is often the second
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biggest budget item after housing itself
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one of the tools that we have in our
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toolkit to do that is to make sure
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there's access to excellent public
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transportation
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take the bus yeah homeless
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schizophrenics have been doing it for
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generations why shouldn't you
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you can't afford to drive that's the
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transportation secretary so maybe the
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first question would be what are you
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going to do about gas prices pal
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the roads are falling apart maybe you
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could fix that no
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one of the tools in our tool kit is you
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can ride the bus with the crazy people
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and you'll like it
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but that's not their only plan to fight
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inflation their other plan
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blame others
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now that we live in an america where
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there's a lot more concentration in
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certain industries look at the oil
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industry look at
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meat industry look at groceries
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generally
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that what's happened is these companies
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have said
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you know we'll pass along costs but
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while we're at it and everyone's talking
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about rising costs let's just add an
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extra big dollop of cost increases to
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expand our profits
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you just heard from someone who's a
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sitting united states senator
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whose total reservoir of knowledge about
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the world is smaller than the sink in
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your powder room
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this is someone who knows literally
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nothing about how anything works the
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meat industry what would that be senator
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warren she has no idea what she's
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talking about she has no interest in
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learning why the dollar is less
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valuable than it was 10 years ago and
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she has no interest whatsoever in
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improving your life
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so the question once again is how long
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can this continue
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it's one thing to pretend that boys can
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compete in girls sports and that's
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totally natural it's always the way it's
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been that may be offensive to people but
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when they can't afford to buy groceries
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boy you are really teetering on the edge
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of something awful they should wake up
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soon hey sean hannity here hey click
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