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I'm Clyde Lewis.

And this is Ground Zero.

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You know, sometimes you do a topic, and it lingers in your mind for some time, and you realize that there's something more to it that you're not getting to.

And that, of course, back when we were doing the show a few days ago, we were talking about this. that there's something more to it that you're not getting to.

And that, of course, back when we were doing the show a few days ago, we were talking about the snap and the EBT.

And, you know, I was trying to give the whole story in the full three hours of what was going

on.

And the audience, of course, really, really I think responded in a thoughtful way and

it was it was great but I'm presenting this one kind of as I don't know if you'd say it's it's the

part two I don't know if you could call it part two but it's certainly something you know

strange to be thinking about again but like said, I think that I know that the subject

of the snap and EBT, it was certainly a firecracker, but it got me thinking about what I'm

calling American vulnerability, for lack of a better phrase, American vulnerability. Remember, 42 million people

were left and still left. A lot of them trying to figure out how they're going to be eating.

You have people who are employees that work for the government. They're trying to figure out

when they're going to get their paychecks. I know a woman today who told me that her husband who is

working in the military has not been paid yet. Someone else I know is an air traffic military has not been paid yet.

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