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I'm Magna Chakra-Bardi, and this is the Jackpot, where on-point news analyst, Jack Beattie,

helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Magnum.

So we are at episode 84 and your headline for today.

Action completed this day.

Okay, which action and why this day? Tell me more. Well, it's a Churchill notation on memos during the war.

When something would, he would order something to happen and it happened, he would write down with great satisfaction, action completed this day.

And, you know, that's a maximum, really, for government efficiency,

for getting the job done, getting it done in time, and getting it done such that it saves lives

and livelihoods. And, you know, a month into the hurricane season, we're going to ask, how does FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, how does it match up to Churchill's ideal standard?

No government entity could meet it, but how close is it?

On Vermont this week, which is a Vermont public

program last week, Carly Berlin, a VPR reporter, pointed out that since there was tremendous flooding in Vermont in July just two years ago,

2023.

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