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without the ads. This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back to our program on the line with us, our old buddy Alex Lawson, or our young buddy, Alex, Alex Lawson,

the president of Social SecurityWorks.org, Strengthens Social SecurityWorks.org, and, of course,

over on blue sky at social security works.org. So, Alex, welcome back to the program. I've been

reading your rants here, the most recent one,

watchdogs say the world's richest man, Elon Musk, has declared war on Social Security. Tell us about

this. I'd say middle-aged friend of the program, Tom, if that works. But thanks for having me.

Yeah, you know, this is, again, you know, it's one of those who could have foreseen moments

because you've been talking about it.

I've been talking about it.

It's been incredibly obvious about what's going to happen because the Republicans

only have one plan.

The interesting thing, though, is just how, like, ridiculous it is,

because it's now you have literally the richest man in the world sitting on a commission that's supposed to

find trillions of dollars in savings. And, they're pretending like oh well that's this

50 million dollar program that somebody's doing that's you know stupid on its face and you're

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