I read this book a while back, but I cost good intentions and I'd forgotten how many notes

I took on it. So I was bringing it back up on my phone and it's one of those books

every once in a while I come across where I'm practically highlighting everything.

Which is, yeah, you know, at some points become you, at some point becomes useless.

A couple of things off the top of my head, reforming entitlements is about math, not

ideology. It just has to be done. And this I remember really stuck stuck stuck out to me.

The scale of federal entitlement assistance today is unmatched in human history.

Interesting. Never been done before. John Cogan is the author of said,

Tom, the high cost of good intentions. He's also a Leonard and Shirley Eli senior fellow

at the Hoover institution, but more than being a senior fellow, he's a hell of a nice

fella and he joins us now. Hello, John. How are you? Hello, guys? How you guys doing?

Oh, we're fine. The end of show. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Hey, listen, one of the things

we enjoyed so much about your presentation that the Hoover institution at Stanford and

the book in general is that you're talking about when we were invited to Stanford.

Right. Yeah. That was a good personally invited to lecture. Sorry. But anyway, the thing

I'd like so much about the book is that it's not a partisan pitch. It's a really informative

look and entitlement programs and how they tend to work. And no matter which way you swing

politically or philosophically, I think this stuff is really useful. So let's dive in.

What has remained consistent about entitlement programs from, you know, for instance, the

revolution through today? Well, before getting into that, I would say that guys, I've

listened to the show since you were at Hoover. That was about two or three weeks ago. And

I've noticed a big improvement using bigger, bigger words, longer compound sentences.

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