Tom Steyer
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We need more people in that attitude.
Do you generally believe Israel would try to harm you because of your opinion?
So Israel is the most violent state in the world, even more than Iran?
But it seems like when you speak about Israel as the most violent state in the world, you forget to mention that it is the most attacked state
state in the world from so many enemies, like any other country in the world.
So if you don't put this equation together, it seems like we are doing it for fun or that we lost our morality.
This is self-defense.
The United States would cave in to...
Iran terror regime that controls now also the Hormuz pathway and the terror ring that it created in the Middle East, maybe it would be even worse for any citizens in the world, not only in Israel, but also in the United States.
And this is exactly what Donald Trump said.
He said that the United States would have been in danger.
So you don't believe Donald Trump?
People, especially my age, have been scorned by capitalism.
You're somebody who has benefited greatly from it in your life.
How are you planning on gaining the trust of people who maybe are against the things that you succeeded in really well?
So I know that, in fact, what's driving that up is the way that we construct the cost of labor, the cost of materials and the cost of financing.
And for us to drive down the cost per square foot of housing to a place where we can afford to build these houses and people can afford to buy them, we're going to have to make some real changes in the way we're going about this.
So let's talk about two of them, which is one about the construction on site.
And we are building houses and we are building apartment buildings the way we have been doing it for a hundred years.
And there is new technology to do this where you basically construct, manufacture the parts of the house offsite the way you'd construct or manufacture a car, and then you assemble it onsite.