The Trump administration is cutting the Social Security budget,

firing workers, and grabbing hold of the most sensitive data in the Social Security system.

Millions of people in the United States are angry, they're scared, they're up in arms.

What are Trump and Musk planning? We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to

demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable,

but an imperative necessity. We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment

where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working

class, and the crimes of big business.

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Richard Wolf is the co-founder of the organization,

Democracy at Work. He's the author of many books, including Understanding Capitalism, which is

available at Democracy at Work.Info. Professor Wolf, welcome back. Thank you, Brian. Very glad to be here.

Thank you so much. Glad to be able to talk about this most

important subject, Richard. You know, many of our listeners are young people. They're not collecting

Social Security. They're not on the verge of retirement. They might be 20 years old, 25 years old,

30 years old. Remembering back when I was younger, I didn't think much about Social Security,

I didn't care much about Social Security, and I really didn't know much about Social Security.

It was only as one gets older and moves towards retirement age that people start to think about

these things. Again, some of our audience obviously is thinking about

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