ng walkaway that's coming because otherwise people won't be able to eat. They won't be able to pay their health care. So I'm a little bit worried. But on the good side the economy grew at reportedly 2.8 percent which was way faster than expected like twice as fast as expected and would be in the neighborhood of a good, that would be very solid if that kept up. But does anybody think that that's not going to be revised in a few months? So the pattern that we've seen is incredible good news to reelect the Democrats because of the incredible good news. And I think it'll be revised downward but it's way better than being negative so it's probably a healthy number. But as long as the debt is high it doesn't make any difference at all what it is. The doom is the debt and there's no GDP that can grow you out of it.

According to Theo Wald who is somebody I never heard of but you must be conservative one in five prisoners are illegal aliens. Have you ever heard that? One in five people in prison are not citizens. Now if that's true that would certainly give you an ability to calculate the amount of crime that's inappropriate. Here's what I think conservatives do wrong consistently. There'll be a story about a non-citizen who came in and killed a citizen and then there will be all kinds of attention given to that one case. And if you're trying to convince anybody on the left they're going to say hey why are you just focusing on this one crime? People of all type do crimes. It just makes you look racist. But if you were to argue 20 percent of all our crime appears to be from non-citizens people can see 20 percent as a really big number. If I were to ask you what is the total amount that the government spends on crime it's like maybe a trillion a year. I mean it's in that neighborhood right? And if 20 percent of that is unnecessary that's 200 billion a year. That starts to matter. That's a number that matters. So I would go for that one in five prisoners as a much more persuasive number than there was a bad one that got in and killed somebody. As tragic as that is it's not very persuasive.

All right the CBO according to The Hill came up with a calculation that says we're going to make over a trillion dollars extra in the next decade because of all the non-citizens who came into the country. But if you look at the details of how they calculated it and you've ever done any kind of economic calculation you can tell that it's complete nonsense. I think they probably tried but it's no more reliable than say the climate projection models. There are some things which by their nature can't be calculated. You're not going to be able to predict the temperature in 80 years and everybody who thinks that you can I don't even know what to say about that. That's so blindingly obviously not something humans can do. But here's another one that's blindingly obvious humans can't do this. You can't calculate the benefit of immigration because I think they did some clever things with excluding some groups and including some. But do you think that they netted out the crime? Do you think that the CBO said all right well we'll subtract the 200 billion per year so over 10 years that would be two trillion. So they added a trillion but they subtracted two trillion in just law enforcement and they took out another half a trillion in public services. Do you think that the CBO included the costs or just the benefits? Well I don't have to investigate it to know that they didn't include the costs. Do you? Of course not. Of course they didn't. They just looked at what the GDP would do. Now I've told you as well that there's one general rule that is pretty good that more people is a better economy. Now there's some upper limit to that of course but generally speaking immigration adds to the economy just maybe not right away for the people who come in. It might be a second generation sort of thing or 10 years later. But yeah adding immigration if it's done right. If it's not hugely criminal. I don't know what percentage is criminal but too much. If it's 20 percent in jail if 20 percent of our jail is came across the border illegally that should tell you something. Now I'm not sure about that 20 percent number by the way. If somebody wants to fact check me on that I will correct it tomorrow. But I guarantee you they did not calculate all the expenses and all the benefits. But I still think that immigration isn't