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Eric Hovde: “Reckless spending has ignited the worst level of inflation…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Eric Hovde for U.S. Senate Speech at WIGOP Convention

Published | Video Starts at 02:46

And in a mere one year, it will even be bigger than Social Security. It is crowding out all expenditures, all this debt. And what has this debt done? And this Reckless spending has ignited the worst level of inflation that we've seen in 40 years. Food prices up, gas prices up, insurance prices up, housing costs, everything. It has hammered our middle class, our working class, our elderly who live on fixed incomes, real wages, those wages have not been able to keep up with this inflation. (02:46–02:53)

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Asserts that current inflation is the worst in 40 years due to reckless spending.

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