I try to keep radical personal finance positive and uplifting and encouraging and motivating.

I really do.

It's important to me to be a source of solutions and ideas rather than a source of complaining and whining.

But I think we've all got a dark side and today, well, if you're looking for encouragement,

you might want to skip today's show. Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement,

I guess, sort of a type that you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua and I am your host and today let's indulge our dark sides just a little bit because

life has seasons and not everything is always rosy.

On today's show I want to talk with you about the recent budget deal that the United States

government has come together and passed.

And this is just one of those things that I've been watching to see what would happen, but this is a nightmare.

And I think we need to face it head on.

Now, as we begin, I will end the show with some positive ideas.

And the bulk of my focus for today's show is actually going to give you with some, a list of the

today's show is actually going to give you

just some, I have a list of 10 things

that I think that you can, I can do

that will help us to weather the storms that are coming in the United States over the coming decades.

But in watching the political process over the last couple of weeks,

I have become fully persuaded that fiscal doom in the United States is well pretty much

guaranteed. Now I've done a show on it here and there but frankly I've

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