Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight Happy Friday. So what would happen if you gave a group of angry ignorant ideologues the same people who tell you that all lives dont matter? What would happen if you gave them the keys to the? U dot s economy? We dont need to guess about that. We are finding out now because all around us there are signs that, under this White House, things are getting dangerously flaky in our economy. Here is one example: the official government jobs numbers came out today. Unemployment is up far higher than expected. Close to fourteen million Americans say they want to work but cannot find a job. That is an old story. Here is the new twist at the very moment that unemployment is rising, fewer people are working, american businesses say they cant find employees and its obvious. They cant go to the nearest Strip Mall and count the help wanted signs on the doors they are everywhere. Restaurants are closing because

they cant find anyone to hire so our manufacturing plants. That means America now has far too many workers, but simultaneously far too few workers. How can that be another question? What happened to all of the consumer products? Many of the things that you buy add me to buy are more expensive than they have ever been. Inflation is real. At the same time, a lot of product seem to have gone missing, complete we, the United States, is currently experiencing shortages of chicken generators, ketchup, bicycles, diapers and munition automobiles, plastics appliances, chlorine, pork, propane tanks. Among many other things, keep in mind. This is peace time we havent mobilized for foreign war, yet we are now getting reports that we should brace for a gas shortage this summer. Why is this all happening? Well, because things are so great in the economy. That is what they are telling us

on television this week there were more signs that the? U dot s economy is roaring back to life and they come as President Biden is proposing trillions of dollars. Government spending really good news. This week we found out in the first quarter of this year the economy expanded at a six point, four percent annualized rate. That is huge. Could we see a great economy and a lousy return for the stock market? I think the Good NEWS for everybody, as we are probably going to see both, that we are going to continue to see a strong economy and we are also set up actually for some great market returns here. There is an awful lot of lying and financial journalism. No one ever says that, but it is self evident, but they are telling us things are great, and why are they telling us that, because the stock market is way way up, could it be overvalued? I dont know take a look at the price to earnings ratios. Can they continue? Is that reality based? Should we be worried, oh just relaxed, but be sure to

stock up on gasoline and diapers? If you can could be looking at soviet grocery shelf soon and whatever you do, keep ignoring the inflation right in front of you? Oil prices, for example, have risen twelve percent in a single month, sale prices have tripled, since last year, chicken breasts have doubled. Since Joe Biden became president price of zero percent. Major appliances up almost fifteen ground beef and fresh fruits up almost six percent per year, the median sales price of existing homes has shot up by sixteen percent, and then there is a lumber. Come have you noticed lumber since last year the price of dimensional lumber has gone up by almost three hundred percent. Want a one thousand board feet that will cost you one thousand three hundred and fifty nine dollars. The price has never been higher according to the National Association of Homebuilders, the cost of building materials as more than thirty five thousand dollars to the price of an average new home. Why is this happening? Well, there is too much cash in

the system. That is a big reason for it. When you print too much fake money, the value of that money declines, people start to figure out that it is not real and you get inflation. That is always true. No one disputes it. The White House just doesnt care here is the new Treasury secretary telling you not to worry about inflation, because it is not a concern and I think the economy is going to get back on track. I dont anticipate that inflation is going to be a problem, but it is something that we are watching very carefully. I dont think there is going to be an inflationary problem. You know. President Biden has also proposed further substantial spending packages. We would look to see enacted int law. Oh so just keep spending trillions of made up dollars to pay off your constituents because they will not be a inflationary problem right thanks genius.

How did you get that job anyway? They are hoping will not notice. You cant afford anything anymore. You will be distracted by the fact you do not have electricity. The Sacramento Bee reported a few days ago that California, energy officials cant promise. They will be able to keep the lights on in the summer no lights in your home. No big deal just use candles Texas, which is supposed to be sane. The Dallas morning NEWS is telling us that inefficient homes are to blame for the states. Massive power outages this winter. So it was your fault. The power went out. You have the wrong kind of house. I definitely was not the fault of stupid and corrupt renewable energy schemes, the ones that were forced to the entire state to rely on windmills which froze when I got cold. No, it wasnt their fault. It was your fault that your house did it get a better house to bed. Lumber is so expensive question, even if you can afford lumber who is going to do the construction, as we said in the middle of rising on employment. Somehow we

dont have enough workers, they keep telling us in Washington a labor shortage, and that is presumably why we need to open the borders and letting million of new foreign workers immediately. So what is going on here? Probably a lot of things, its a huge country at a pretty complicated country, but Heres one reason behind what we are se. The government is paying people to stay home thanks to Joe Bidens two dollars trillion coronavirus relief bill everything by the way and done under the justification of the pandemic. Some people in this country are getting checks for up to seven hundred dollars a month, not to work. This is true across the country. Even Louisiana, and that is the state with the lowest weekly on employment benefits, you can still make a most five hundred dollars a week for not working for a forty hour work week that works out to about twelve dollars an hour a little more. Actually, that is above the minimum wage in the states with the highest on employment assistance. You can be making close to twenty dollars an

hour for not working, and we are not attacking anyone or calling anyone lazy its pretty easy to see why people arent working. They are not nuts, they are rational. So no wonder the economy is sputtering in bizarre ways. America created just two hundred and sixty six thousand jobs last month, that is in a nation of three hundred and fifty million people. Economists, the people who predict these things very often incorrectly, were expecting four times that number the result. The unemployment numbers were so shockingly bad that even CNBC didnt believe them at first, they had to double check those numbers on the air. It looks like two hundred and sixty six thousand. It looks like it was a big disappointment at two hundred and sixty six, but maybe I have that wrong. Let me double check the bureau website here, one second, yes, two hundred and sixty six is correct. Fear of unemployment, six point one percent,

so there is not to restate and actual shortage of american workers, citizens who could fill jobs. They are just telling you that, so they can justify opening the borders and changing the electorate, so they never lose another election and no one ever takes their power away. But that is not true. What is true once again is that the government is paying people more not to work than to work, and so why would they work? Would you the question is what do you do if youre an employer at some point when we devalued the currency so completely that printing more dollars will not help? We are going to meet actual employers in this country and what do they do? Well, a reporter at the Pittsburgh Business Times looked into this question. We talked to businesses around Pittsburgh that had managed to hire people. How did they do it? What was their secret? They just had to double the wages and ice cream parlor that has been around since one thousand nine hundred and twenty three hiked its starting wage from seven dollars and twenty five cents to fifteen dollars an hour more than doubled it.

The nearby sports bar now guarantees waiters and bartenders twenty dollars an hour that is happening in a ton of places around the country and big companies. Needless to say, can compete more effectively because they have more money. A burger king in Pennsylvania is offering a one thousand five hundred dollars bonus to new workers. A Mcdonalds in Florida is giving people fifty dollars just for showing up to a job interview. A an energy company in Texas is offering new truck dollars. Fourteen thousand dollars a week Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, has raised wages for nearly half a million employees. In February the Companys average wages are now fifteen dollars an hour in some ways. That is good news. You want to see people make more. Of course you want dollars to be worth more, and now they are worth less, but there are effects of this. We could be living with for a long time. There are millions of small businesses that cannot afford to compete, they are not Walmart and many of them will go under because of the pressure applied

by the: U Dot S government on the labor market and when those small businesses.