Brandon Aceto

But there's probably a lot too many people on WIC.

That program's been abused a lot.

But I would ask you guys, is it important to have a strong industrial base and is it important to have a strong middle class?

Because the goal of tariffs is to strengthen both of those things.

And I think without a strong middle class and without a strong industrial base, we're vulnerable in an economic sense and in a national security sense.

because it creates better middle-class jobs.

Do you think it's a good thing that we have hollowed out factories in the middle of America?

I actually don't think it goes far enough to.

Yeah, I think NVIDIA is going to.

I think Microsoft pulled out of what they said they were going to do.

But I think that at the very least, it's going to encourage some of them to do it.

Yeah, it's a valid point that they could put that up, but it's never going to be a good thing for America that you're hiring other countries to build your products because that's taking away middle-class jobs in America and taking away –

leverage and power from us from having our own supply line here.

Like look at all the things that we were short on during COVID, like pharmaceuticals and critical things for defense.

So I don't ever see a good situation where we're building offshore and that's going to help the middle class.

Like that's a big reason why the wealth gap has expanded so much because companies saved like 90% of manufacturing costs.

And you know, that costs a lot.

Like look at all the old factories that have been hollowed out that are thriving in the 80s.

What's wrong with the wealth gap?

I mean, the middle class has gotten hammered and the top 1% has gone up more.