Welcome to the last commentary magazine podcast of the year 2019 and the decade the 2010

I am John Pudhoritz the editor of commentary with me as always senior editor a Greenwald hi a

Hi John associate editor Rossman high-neller hi John and in Washington senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine

Hi John so as we are ending the decade ending the year I

Thought we might just do some

preposterous

Predictions for the coming year. I don't know if we could do predictions for the coming decade

I mean the obvious prediction that people on the right have been making forever is some kind of

Insolvency crisis that will hit the government as

Medicare Medicaid Social Security

Really forget social security Medicare Medicaid start eating up you know 70 to 80% of the

Medicare's hospital insurance fund. Yes

According to the trustees in solvent in

2026 see there you go. So I'm gonna predict in solvency in 2026

Straight line production. I'm just saying that's my cuz I'm trying to go with you know the realistic

Prediction yeah, are we gonna have ape are we gonna have flying cars

Flying cars a I've seen videos on YouTube. We have flying cars. Okay, what I'm trying to tell you is when I was a kid

I had a book I had a car book like this is the late 60s

And it must have been mostly Ford's but it was sort of like cars and then the last page was the car of the future and it was the Ford dream car

Which was the prototype model they had for the flying car and it said

2009 that's what it said and here we are it's 10 years later. I don't have a flying car

I don't see any evidence that we will have flying cars Christine is this part of the

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