This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Tom Hartman here with you, and it is Friday, it's anything goes Friday, but

also Congressman Mark Pocan is with us for the hour.

He of the, the Co-chair the congressional progressive caucus

and the uh... you know represent the second district of Wisconsin poke and p-o ca-ca-ca-n dot house that go of and you can tweet him at rep R.E.P. Mark and

the R. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. Tom.

glad to be here. It's great having you with us. Our building is doing a fire alarm drill right now

uh... which i don't think we're supposed to ignore but uh... we're going to

i don't know if it's picking up any of the noise uh... in the background of it does my

apologies but uh... uh, he, I, I, we were talking, you and I on the phone just before we went on the

air about this, this news story that just came out that the Trump administration is going to, I mean, these are my words, not theirs, but basically try to break the Social Security administration so that they can say, hey, look it, it's broken,

let's just privatize it, let's give it off to the Wall Street billionaires.

You know, a 25% staffing cut roughly at the social security

administration this is mind-bogg

you know

the when you look at what programs people say they value the most and

social security medicare are on the top of the list

and uh... to go in and try to do whatever you can to get rid of this program it's bad

enough that paul Ryan

uh... continually introduces uh... purp you know the proposal after proposal to privatize social security to you know make it a

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