we have former labor secretary nominee andy puzder. reaction to what ashley reported.en is naming a task force and port czar to fix it by christmas. will that stop it. >> don't you wish we had a president with experience in business to solve these problems. this isn't that complicated. if you pay people more to work not at a job than they won't work. we're overpaying people just to stay home. we have problems everywhere. we have problems with truck drivers, ports, everything else. elizabeth: the president has been aware since the summer about these problems with labor shortages as you point out truck drivers. union work rules that have the ports operating at 60, 70% capacity. so there is that going on, andy, but did you catch this? nancy pelosi is saying the quiet part out loud. she is still talking about big government spending and she talks that she did think about being quote, ruler of the world. watch this. >> do you think you need to do a better job at messaging and going forward, how do you sell this if ultimately -- >> i think you all could do a better job of se

. >> martha: here now, andy puzder from cke restaurants and author of "time to let america work again." mollie hemmingway from the federalist and a fox news contributor. great to have you with us. andy, obviously the president is going to try to put this in the best light possible when he looks at these numbers. but he says it's progress. he likes the fact that the unemployment number is lower. what is your take? >> number 1, we missed numbers two months in a row by a lot. in fact, the economists, the experts are baking in the covid problems that the president talks about. so that's not the problem. the problem is and the president went through a number of programs that he's proposing that will create more jobs and will give benefits to people that aren't working. the problem is we don't have a jobs shortage as your numbers showed at the beginning of the show. we have almost 11 million job openings and 7.7 million people unemployed. the problem is not a shortage of jobs. it's workers. so if the programs you're are proposing to create jobs, we don't need to create jobs. we have the job

but andy puzder said it's artificial demand from a glut of government spending.this route and we have seen consumer prices continue to rise, inflation is a serious threat right now, he's warning this could move from inflation to stagflation and hobble our economy. fair warning there. i also talked with bill mcgurn earlier. his suggestion is for the government to get out of the way. private businesses have been able to innovate and work around this that the private sector will find a solution to a crisis like, this his point to the white house, get out of the way. but this is an administration that is demonized these businesses. he is telling them to pay their fair share. raise their taxes. now he's asking them for help. this is an incredible situation that we find ourselves in. the supply chain crisis is a supply chain crisis. it's not just fixing the situation at the ports. you have to get the containers off the ships, on trucks, truck drivers to get them to the stores, clerk at the store shelves. we still have more than 10 million open jobs in this country. a s

come on in andy puzder. come on to this. i want you to talk to us about the holiday delays.ve a supply chain problem. how bad are these delays going to be, and how seriously will it hurt the economy. >> the delays are going to be substantial and they wit hurt the economy in that they will exacerbate the problems that already exist with respect to inflation. inflation is a tax on the working and middle class more than a tax on anybody else. if you're encouraging people not to work, they have increased snap benefits. they have the child tax credits they want to make permanent. we just ended the unemployment bonus. people still have a ton of savings from all the largess during the shutdown. you have all this government support for not working, hard to get people working in the manufacturing plants. hard to get them in the trucks, get those goods delivered. we're seeing the results. stuart: inflation is the problem of the day, the week, the month and possibly the year. we have nat-gas at six bucks. oil at 77.78. now we have got the supply chain shortage t messes it up. i have th

but as andy puzder who was the -- one of the cabinet secretary nominees for donald trump, he said thatosts zero. that is just not being honest. watch. >> what we hear is because taxpayers. because taxpayer generated revenue is going to pay for something, that means it doesn't cost anything. and then we have got the press secretary saying it's unfair and absurd for -- to assume that businesses will raise prices to cover higher taxes. you know, these statements are so economically absurd, something isn't free just because you generate the cash to pay for it, and assuming that these taxes they are talking about on the rich are going to be enough to pay for these programs is ridiculous. they are going to have to tax the working and middle class to pay for what they want to do. they are just not being honest or forthright about it. steve: at the same time they are trying to sell it and suddenly aoc said yesterday we are going to have to compromise. ainsley: chris wallace interviewing cedric richmond it's going to cost zero dollars. it doesn't cost cost zero. and cedric says at the end of th

andy puzder former restaurant ceo and time to make america work again author, good morning.end of last week you got shipping, you have the price of gas and food, you've got energy coming up this winter. where do you think we're going? how do we get out of this and how does this end? >> we're definitely headed toward higher inflation. you can't reduce the labor supply by increasing the amounts of entitlements that create for people not to work. biden's plan. we have an excess number of jobs but shortage of working messing up our supply chain. you have the shipping that you go to any of these shipping terminals and there aren't enough people to unload the goods. you don't have people to deliver goods. the price of everything will go up as goods become more scarce. add energy policy where the third largest energy producer in the world, the united states. lets the world know it will cut back on production. opec, the russians, venezuelas, saudi arabias smacking their lips at that. prices are going up on energy. bill maher had a good comment. how can you build back better if you d