jerry baker good morning to you. what do you make of that number?bly well but not great. 315,000 job is in line with 15,000 jobs increase over the last year. the problem though, steve, 's inflation. we all know that. for prices rising at the time, gas prices come off of an extremely high summer. job growth and inflation is extremely strong and wages are not keeping up here that is the problem. for most people, inflation rate of 9%, 10% and wage increase of 5%. that means most people are thing every month that disposable income, their spending power actually declined. >> steve: here's the thing, if the federal government is out to put a kibosh on that because the federal reserve has made it clear, we will try to blow up the economy to the point where it is creeping along at 2% inflation. right now, we are at 8% something and have to slam on the brakes. but if you want to buy a house right now, going forward it will be much harder because the interest rate will go through the roof. speak with a bigger problem, steve, you have the federal government th

neil: okay, so, i want to go to jerry baker, wall street journal at-large, the host, great writer , greatright. jerry, i don't want to be unkind to joe biden but i know jfk. he's kind of like a historical friend of mine. that's no jfk. i'm wondering about the backdrop and using that as your launching pan, no pun intended. the comparison might be found wanting. >> yeah, no, i forgotten actually seeing that speech of kennedys. i'd forgotten that line about why does rice play texas and that's why we choose to go to the moon and a terrific example of his ability to deploy humor, you know, even at the most when committing himself to the most significant goal actually probably of his presidency. yeah, he's, biden is obviously known kennedy and look this moon shoot thing, this cancer target is no moon shot either. of course it's great, everybody be delighted everybody wants to work, everybody is working towards reducing deaths from cancer and if it can be and there's some way of getting cancer deaths down by half that's one thing, but look the important thing is the difference between that goal