Ron Johnson: “We actually had a 1.4% decrease in our GDP.”

“A very stagnant. Stagnant growth. Even back then in the 70s, we were growing at 2%, which is better than we just had, which is. Yeah, I mean, we just had. We actually had a 1.4% decrease in our GDP. This ought to be sending alarm bells off all over the place. And a big part of that is abandoning American energy and overstimulating the economy with too much stimulus money.” (07:55–08:00)

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