Would You Let Bernie Run Your Popsicle Stand?

SANDERS: So, what we have got to do is now invest in making sure that we have affordable housing in this country, that we have home health care for an aging population, that we’re able to expand Medicare so that we finally can cover dental care and hearing aids, uh, and eyeglasses, that we deal with the crisis in child care — with so many families, working families cannot afford child care.

Uh, and that, in addition to all of that, it’s absolutely imperative that we deal with it, I would say, existential threat to this planet of climate change. And when we do all that, when we invest in, uhhh, health care and in education, making higher education affordable, uh, when we invest in transforming our energy system, we’re gonna create millions more good-paying jobs.

VOICE: Yeah.

SANDERS: So, that’s what the president wants, that’s what you want, and I think that’s what we’re gonna see.

BUCK: Welcome back to The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. I’m Buck Sexton. And there you have Bernie Sanders, the socialist from Vermont, talking about creating millions of jobs. Does anybody think Bernie Sanders is good at this?

CLAY: (chuckling)

BUCK: Would you let Bernie Sanders run your popsicle stand? Would you let him run your Ben & Jerry’s outlet, for that matter? I think the answer is no. But, Clay, here we are being led to believe that Bernie knows. It’s never enough. This is what everyone needs to understand right now. There’s never enough money. They call it investment.

What they mean by that is really spending your children and your grandchildren’s money and putting it on the federal tab, which is now gonna be $30 trillion it feels like any moment now. It’s never enough spending, never enough government intervention in the markets. There’s always more that they think should be done. Whenever the program fails, what’s the reason?

They didn’t spend enough money, right? It’s very straightforward. When we should be thinking about how we get back to the dine any of them of the American economy and be leaning harder to capitalism, what’s the response of those who are supposed to be in charge of leading the economy out of this artificial recession as we’ve been discussing, the covid recession, which wasn’t even really a recession in many ways.

CLAY: At all.

BUCK: It ended up just being a pause in some economic activity while a lot of other stuff continued on. But look, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, these are the people, this is the brain trust at the top of the Democrat Party, and that’s why we’re limping out of this covid period in terms of the economy. It’s not as fast, not as robust as it should be. What is it, Yogi Berra, “deja vu all over again”? It’s coming all back to us now after what happened with Obama in the recession of 2009. A slow recovery because of government heavy-handed socialist nonsense.

CLAY: Yeah, and I think also, Buck, we have to market in here is this is not — and I think you said — a traditional recession. Never before have we intentionally stopped all economic activity and effectively paid people not to work. So how do you come out of that? Again, the data that I keep going to is households added $13.5 trillion in wealth last year.

I don’t think we can call this a recession when the overall wealth goes up like that. Couple of stats for you. The S&P 500 went up 29% in 2020, and in the Great Recession it was down 38.5%. This is not a traditional recession — and, remember, Donald Trump had set up the greatest economy in the history of our country when suddenly — in February and March of 2020, last year — we hit pause, and everything came undone.

BUCK: And just only some work actually stopped, right?

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: That’s important to remember about this. While stay home for some people meant, “You no longer have a job,” for small business owners it meant, “Your life’s work may go up in smoke because of government…” ‘Cause I know they say there are PPP loans and there were these government assistance programs. But for a lot of, folks, that didn’t pay enough.

That didn’t cover everything you had to cover, and they just said, “I can’t wait this out.” But for all those different professions you talked about, it actually just meant getting rid of a commute and watching Fauci tell you to wear six masks on TV or else you’re a bad person. So let’s get calls. We’ve got a bunch. We’re gonna bring you in on this from all over telling us what you think, what you’re seeing in your industry/your business, because this is gonna be a big factor in the midterms and empower who’s gonna have power going forward.

CLAY: I don’t think there’s any doubt.