Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at Tom Harbin.

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A lot in the news, a lot going on in this country right now.

Uh, well, you know, setting aside the weirdness of Donald Trump and Michael Wolf and all that, I realize you can't totally set it aside.

But there is, there are real issues that are being largely ignored because of the media circus around Donald Trump,

who the big fan of PT Barnum.

For example, Michael P.E.

Michael P.S. He said, uh... for example michael feelin of social security works sent this out a few days ago

he said in a sneak attack on social security senate republicans

are proposing cuts to the social security administration

this would result in delays in services and erosion in

confidence in the system. We must stop this backdoor attempt to dismantle our

Social Security. Here's the actual detail. In the new federal budget being

voted on this month, Senate Republicans are proposing a half trillion

dollar cut, 492, half billion dollar cut, excuse me, 492 million dollar cut to the Social

Security Administration. This is on top of the

billions Republicans have already underfunded the Social Security

administration this decade, which means longer wait times, the Social Security

offices, longer hold times when he calls Social Security

and delays in millions of retirement survivor and disability claims.

And Social Security Works.org, of course, is fighting this. Number one. Number two, flu

pandemic. I mentioned this the other day how the flu virus, you know, really

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