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3 Martini Lunch

Is Social Security Eight Years from Extinction?

3 Martini Lunch

Radio America

Politics, Society & Culture, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into Republicans pushing solutions to America’s cost-of-living problems, Great Britain scrapping jury trials for many criminal cases, and the approaching implosion of Social Security.

First, they applaud Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy for highlighting that the cost of living is too high for many Americans, especially in housing, grocieries, and medical care. In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, Sheehy dismisses Democrats’ strategy of pouring more money into every problem and instead calls for deregulation, health-care price transparency, and other market-based reforms.

Next, they blast the British government for eliminating jury trials for defendants likely to face three years or less in prison if convicted. The excuse is that there is a huge backlog in British courts. Jim and Greg blast the lefties in the UK for this attack on a fundamental part of western justice and point to ways this change could easily be used to punish political opponents of the current government.

Finally, they react to stark projections that Social Security could collapse in just eight years without serious reform. Both parties have ignored the problem for decades. The left will eventually want to raise taxes, and no one will want reduced benefits. Jim says Congress missed a good opportunity to help fix this problem twenty years ago. And he points out one other group to blame for the problem getting so bad.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the three martini lunch.

0:04.9

Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

0:10.6

Three martini's coming up.

0:13.1

Hey, really glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch.

0:17.5

So much to talk about today on major consequential issues.

0:22.0

Unless, of course, you don't want Social Security to be around when you retire, or you don't think a trial by jury is

0:26.5

important to have in your justice system, or you don't want cost to be lower.

0:30.6

Other than that, we're not talking about anything important, but Jim, we should also point out

0:34.3

that today's election day in the 7th congressional district in Tennessee.

0:38.3

And so you've got Republican Matt Van Epps, a military veteran and seems like a pretty strong

0:44.5

conservative against Afton Bain, who hates Nashville and country music and the police and the

0:50.8

nuclear family. But, you know, it's going to be a really tough choice for conservatives.

0:54.6

The important thing is to get out and vote.

0:56.5

Listeners, let's make sure that Afton Bain is a strong contender for only the 2025 Three

1:03.0

Martini Lunch podcast, end of the year awards, in one of the crazy categories, because I really

1:08.3

don't want to be talking about her in 2026 and

1:11.6

27 and beyond.

1:12.6

Let this be her 15 minutes of fame and or infamy.

1:16.6

You don't get three days in a row as a crazy martini for nothing.

1:20.6

So Tennessee 7 voters, do your thing and we'll see how it all shakes out.

1:24.6

All right, well, let's talk about our good martini, and that is Republicans, at least one,

1:30.3

finally getting serious about the fact that things are still unaffordable

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