Nick Hanauer

That would be seen as an act of aggression, particularly if the leader of Russia had at the same time said, yeah, they should be our 51st state or we're going to take over Greenland, et cetera, et cetera.

So we are in an area of madness that no one could have imagined, uh, I don't think at any point in my life where we're attacking our best friends because the president's twisted on this issue.

It doesn't seem like it's going to be resolved anytime soon.

So we'll be back to talking about it again, undoubtedly in the near future.

It won't go up.

So it's not a tax increase.

What do the Republicans want to do? They don't want to disturb their rich friends.

So they want to take away food, housing, medical care for older Americans who've invested in that their entire lives, taken their money based on the idea that they were going to get their money back at the end of their lives as a result of this sort of national savings program that Social Security really is.

The second thing is w-we're lacking in economic, an economic paradigm.

You know, the, the, there's, um, um, Erik Beinhocker and Nick Hanauer has done some very interesting work, uh, um, Erik Honacker, uh, uh, Honacker out of, out of Oxford, where they recently did a presentation at, uh, in, at the beginning of the year at Oxford, where they talked about the last century having had four dominant economic paradigms, and the last one being neoliberalism, which arguably kind of died or showed its significant weaknesses in around 2008.

So we got the lack of a dominant economic paradigm, uh, in, in, in, in neoliberalism.

We've got a shrinking population, and then we got these technology innovations.