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James we've got some great guests this week but first we have to talk about the devastating

news.

Hurricane Ida devastated your state.

Describe to non-Luisiana listeners how bad it is and how long it's going to take to recover.

All right well thank you.

The first part let's get the good news out of the way.

The United States spent $14.1 billion building a new flood protection levy system in

New York.

All these people that are not understand a benefit of public infrastructure.

I'm just dying for when the sun economists are.

This is going to happen to say without but for that we would have had this.

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