Asked about inflation reduction plan amid rising cost of groceries, housing, Trump talks energy

Published: Aug 29, 2024 Duration: 00:03:35 Category: News & Politics

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[Applause] Mr President there are a lot of people who want to feel hopeful about our future I want to introduce you to Luke who is one of those people hi hello Mr President goodlooking guy thank you my name is Luke palaski and I'm a junior here at the University of Wisconsin lacrosse I'll be voting for the first time in November and I'm researching each candidate I have two questions for you first first as I've been living on my own and buying my own gas and groceries I have noticed that everything has become more expensive for me personally I try to eat healthy and stay lean the pound of meat has gone from $4 to almost $7 I also would like to buy a home someday but that seems just impossible now what's your plan to make life more affordable and bring down inflation for someone like me very good thank you good it's probably the question I get most you know they say you're going to vote with your stomach I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true and groceries food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before we've never seen anything like it 50 60 70% you take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don't eat bacon anymore and uh we are going to get the energy prices down when we get energy down you know this was caused by their horrible energy wind they want wind all over the place but when it doesn't blow we have a little problem this was caused by energy this was really caused by energy and also their unbelievable spending they're spending us out of out of wealth actually they're taking our wealth away but it was caused by energy and what they've done is they started cutting way back we were in third place when I left we were by far in first place beating Russia beating Saudi Arabia and we were going to dominate to a level that we've never seen before and then we a bad election I'll be very nice I'm supposed to be nice when I talk about the election because everybody's afraid to talk oh please sir don't talk about the election please you know if you can't if you can't talk about a bad election you really don't have a democracy if you think about it right but but what they did telsey is they took they took back the oil production the oil started going crazy that started the inflation then they went back back they said go back to where Trump was the problem is that we would have been three times at level right now we we would have been so dominant over Russia and uh Saudi Arabia look Saudi Arabia Russia a lot of oil we would have had more you know we had something in Alaska anir that we that I created I mean Ronald Reagan wanted it you remember Ronald Reagan wanted it they all wanted it and I got it approved nobody was able to get it approved I got it approved and they the first week in office they turned it back they said no it's the biggest site possibly in the world could be bigger than Saudi Arabia well we're going to start that up we're going to become the energy capital of the world we're going to pay down our debt and we're going to reduce your taxes still further and your groceries are going to come tumbling down and your interest rates are going to be tumbling down and then you're going to go out you're going to buy a beautiful house okay you're going to buy a beautiful house that's called The American Dream the American dream thank you

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