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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Committing Career Suicide

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hour 3 of A&G features concerned millennial journalist Tiana Lowe on the failings of our 2 political parties regarding the national debt. Plus--the gloves are off (what does that mean??). And, there were problems with the Russian election interference investigation.

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0:00.0

Why do we keep talking about things that polls show nobody cares about?

0:25.2

I guess because we hope you care about it, but people don't care.

0:28.8

I don't care. People don't care about the national debt. I wish they did. We've been talking about it for years.

0:34.2

Yeah. By the way, I just saw that SpaceX rocket re-land the way they do. It's astounding. It's amazing.

0:41.6

It's a time of unthinkable technical achievements and yet we're committing fiscal suicide as a people

0:48.6

and nobody can seem to comprehend the idea that if you overspend for a long enough time, you will bring on financial ruin.

0:55.6

It's an interesting contrast in my crazy head. I feel like the Republican party, if they hadn't already,

1:02.2

send up the white flag this week or just signaled they don't care. We're not going to pretend to care anymore.

1:07.9

Right. Tiana Lo is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner. She also founded the USC

1:14.0

Economic Review. Tiana, how are you? I am doing well. Excellent. So listen, we ask most of our guests

1:21.4

to attend the USC the same question. Merit or parent check. We ask that. My parents pay at the old

1:30.3

fashion way, which was, you know, SAT Tutors, AP test, all that. The boring regular math nerds stop not

1:37.6

the half a million dollars to take my way onto a crew team. We ask that not to sew clouds of doubt

1:44.0

over your interview this morning, but to remove them. Tiana entirely merit at USC. Congratulations.

1:51.6

So hey, listen, you're a younger person. I'm guessing you hang out with, you know, at least to some

1:58.2

extent, peers, does anybody under the age of 45 give a damn about the debt bomb that is going to

2:06.5

saddle you, you people with enormous taxes? I feel like a song's running around the wake of a

2:15.8

destroyed trauma trying to explain to everyone what a debt crisis actually looks like when it is

2:22.6

year with social security and solvency actually looks like when it is year, what the ramifications

2:28.5

of Medicare for all of these different development looks like when it is year and yet no one really

2:33.2

seems to care. Yeah, we're getting that idea. And we don't have a party anymore. Those of us who

2:40.4

would like the country to live within its means as the Republicans would you agree they signaled

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