Coleman Church

So no, it didn't work.

They have runaway inflation and extraordinarily high interest rates.

And he's under, been under a lot of pressure domestically for reelection, obviously.

Well,

As Thomas Sowell says, there are no solutions, only trade-offs.

There are no solutions when you're in this situation of $37 trillion deficit.

Is that a lot?

Sounds like a big number to me.

I'm not even sure how many commas are in there.

It's a big number.

It's really hard to grasp.

But...

I think you go back, you started with ideology.

The answer is always going to depend to an extent on what your ideology is and what you're willing to sustain in terms of pain, short-term to long-term.

And for me, I was more...

I was more a proponent of what I thought the plan was gonna be, which is some deficit cutting through spending cuts.

And from what was coming out of Doge early, it seemed like there was plenty of fat to cut that would have been politically rather popular, I think, especially with the right PR guys behind it.

You know, guys were getting out there every week and on Twitter and going on podcasts and talking about sort of the absurdities they were finding.

Maybe it's a drop in the bucket overall, but I think it was a worthwhile exercise to go with.

I don't know.