betsey: we are very far away from being france.ollect in revenue, what we spend in terms of a share of gdp is much smaller than the other countries. there are two big questions i want you to separate. how much stimulus do we need, do we need to be supporting people right now? are we going to recover quicker if the government is putting money out there? another question is what kind of social infrastructure do we want? do we want the government providing education? how much education? just k-12? university? early childhood? do we want childcare in the mix? what do we want the government to provide? the pandemic has forced a lot of people to ask that question. we got a lot of people in the biden administration with a different vision of government and the kind of support that will be provided. that is not about the pandemic but i think the pandemic caused people to say i want more from my government. tom: this is an unfair question. we talked to market economics -- do you share that view or can we not get back to morning in america b

betsey in california, betsey >> caller: hey, jim.anged my life. you had james conroy on your show and i started following boot barn's den and follow it now but that isn't really why i'll calling to thank you, jim. i'm calling because you taught me, you taught me how to listen to a conference call you taught me when a difference it made to have price earnings and growth and here is the company, jim, that has all their best events for the year ahead of them they're already up 80.63% year to date when you told me about them and i started buying them, that stock is up over 333%. >> betsey, i like the give credit where credit is due matt boss turned me on to it and he said excellence at j.p. morgan i don't want to take credit for something when someone enlightened me i teach on this show that's what this show is about and i've taught endlessly boot barn is under penetrated conray runs a great company and thank you for listening and letting me in your house to teach because that's what i'm doing at this age and that, ladies and gentlemen,

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