The good news? @paulkrugman tells @mehdirhasan there’s an end in sight to the Covid-related economic crisis. The bad news? “Once we're back to where we were in late 2019, well, that's better than where we are now, but it wasn't good."
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Why is U.S. infrastructure crumbling? Because we're "coasting on the Eisenhower years," @paulkrugman tells @mehdirhasan. "We have a system that was built at a time that there was a bipartisan consensus that you actually needed to build things. And since then, we've starved it."

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What's economist @paulkrugman think about the Gamestop/Reddit/Robinhood kerfuffle as the House holds hearings? "There are no good guys in this story," he tells @mehdirhasan, scoffing at "the idea that any of this has anything to do with the problems of inequality in America."
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @paulkrugman @mehdirhasan
There is an infrastructure gap. China invested $300 billion on NTHS expressways. Starting in 1984, China built a 168,478 km (104,657 mi) expressway network by 2020. Starting in 1956, the US built the 48,440 mi Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @paulkrugman
Because GOP government's tap into that socialist pipeline if $$$ known as the USG via Stafford Act Emergency Declarations to cover up for their failed policies to protect their citizens. Better to sound like a capitalist and ask the blue states for $$ help in emergencies. Joke
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It's capitalism..
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Didn't we have infrastructure week every for the last four years?
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Mmmmm
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Let's not forget that the railroads were originally built entirely with public resources (specifically, public land giveaways). Can a railroad be built without them? I doubt it. We just privatize profits.
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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @mehdirhasan @paulkrugman
So true!
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But you would have go be pro labor to do it though, womp womp. You'd have to rescind the GOP tax burden which is called a 'tax break' for the wealthy & corporation. Approx. 17% of U.S. is unionized? It isn't too late tho.
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Did we miss the shitgibbon's "Infrastructure Week"?
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