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TSA Agents Quitting | Fantasy of Retirement · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, what's going on with TSA? Now?
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  Speaker 2: I was joking prior to the segment before I ended
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  Speaker 2: the hour about it used to be that the TSA
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  Speaker 2: agents were for the most part, very heavy set women
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  Speaker 2: in tight black capri pants. And of course all of
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  Speaker 2: you on the show looked at me and questioned me, well,
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  Speaker 2: I got to tell you it's true. And if you
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  Speaker 2: don't think we still have some vestiges of that, go
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  Speaker 2: to a TSA checkpoint anytime over the next week as
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  Speaker 2: you try to fly and tell me how much sweating
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  Speaker 2: the TSA agents are doing. They're shitzing like crazy. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to connect the two premises, but just want
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  Speaker 2: to let.
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  Speaker 1: You know now.
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  Speaker 2: On the not so fun part, TSA agents are just
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  Speaker 2: now getting their full no paycheck, and some of them
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  Speaker 2: have quit.
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  Speaker 1: You know why because a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of people live paycheck to paycheck, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: as if tsagents make a whole lot of money. You know,
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  Speaker 2: these are not people that are paid high salaries. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not easy living, particularly here in southern California, but
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  Speaker 2: all over the country. So they missed their first full
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  Speaker 2: paycheck since the shutdown. Partial shutdown began in mid February.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know the fight for DHS funds that
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are holding up because they want restrictions on
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  Speaker 2: ICE and the administration does not want to put in
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  Speaker 2: restrictions and they're fighting back and forth, and so DHS
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  Speaker 2: has been affected. Interestingly, enough funding for ICE itself has
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  Speaker 2: not been touched. And that's because of the way the
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  Speaker 2: way that these programs, these laws have been written into
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  Speaker 2: determining which agencies get money and don't. And so the
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  Speaker 2: CEOs of major corporation airlines American, Delta, Southwest, JetBlue have
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  Speaker 2: urged Congress, please restore DHS funding.
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  Speaker 1: Please.
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  Speaker 2: And here's what's happening with the TSA agents, and this
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  Speaker 2: is part of this letter. It's difficult, if not impossible,
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  Speaker 2: to put food on the table, put gas in the car,
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  Speaker 2: pay rent when you're not getting paid. Now, relatively few
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  Speaker 2: TSA agents have outright quit, and that's three hundred out
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  Speaker 2: of I don't know how many tens of thousands, but
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  Speaker 2: a lot are calling in sick, and as every day passes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm willing to bet a lot of them are looking
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  Speaker 2: for work right now. No surprise, hundreds of TSA employees
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  Speaker 2: have quit this time around. That's Everett Kelly, national president
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  Speaker 2: of the American Federation of Government Employees.
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  Speaker 1: Most Americans would.
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  Speaker 2: Quit their jobs if they didn't get a paycheck on payday.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, about eleven hundred officers separated separated quit TA
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  Speaker 2: essay in October and November because of the shutdown, then
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  Speaker 2: TSA agents are supposed to work without pay. That's one
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  Speaker 2: of the other parts of the law is that there
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  Speaker 2: are certain members of the government that.
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  Speaker 1: Get paid no matter what. For example, the military, they're
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  Speaker 1: paid they have.
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  Speaker 2: To by law, and certain agencies, certain employees have to
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  Speaker 2: work and have to wait to get paid. There was
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  Speaker 2: a moment that the president during the shutdown said that
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to get paid.
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  Speaker 1: They did.
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  Speaker 2: And there's never been a shutdown where workers were not
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  Speaker 2: paid retroactively, never in the history of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: But this one is a much tougher one because this one,
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  Speaker 2: well maybe not because it was thirty eight days and
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  Speaker 2: we're well, we're already into a couple of weeks that
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  Speaker 2: TSA agents since the government shut down happened. And so
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  Speaker 2: if you're a TSA agent, you're gonna get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of grief because, oh my god, look what you're doing
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  Speaker 2: stopping me from flying. Now, combine the TSA the agent's
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  Speaker 2: not getting paid. Combine that with the storms that are happening.
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  Speaker 2: The East Coast is going through yet another huge snowstorm
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  Speaker 2: and another one behind that that has shut down airports.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the last one was the worst storm and
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  Speaker 2: I think in thirty forty years, and that just shut
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  Speaker 2: down airports all over the East coast. So it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be tough flying. If you plan on flying, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: be prepared for hours and hours to wait. Not so
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  Speaker 2: much on the West coast, but certainly if you're flying
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  Speaker 2: to the East coast and coming back, you may be
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  Speaker 2: waiting days before you get on an airplane. No fun
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  Speaker 2: right now, It's not fun at all. But that's just
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  Speaker 2: the disruptions. Now, I'm going to give you a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of good news about the price of airplane tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Good news. Oh no, not good news.
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  Speaker 2: I misread that because ticket prices are going through the roof. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now let's move on to ticket prices on airplanes. Because
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  Speaker 2: oil is increased by what thirty percent or more since
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  Speaker 2: the start of the war. Gas prices are up twenty
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  Speaker 2: four percent. The airlines, those airplanes use a lot of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of aviation fuel, and that is the number
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  Speaker 2: two cost of running an airline, Number one being being
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  Speaker 2: the cost of pilots being personnel. Now the airlines could
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  Speaker 2: do something about that, and they have, you know, for example,
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  Speaker 2: it used to be this is I'm going back years
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  Speaker 2: and technology is taking care of this. But it used
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  Speaker 2: to be going across an ocean, you needed four The
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  Speaker 2: plane needed four engines in case one went out and
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  Speaker 2: needed three people in the cockpit. Originally it was four
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  Speaker 2: people in the cockpit, but three people in the cockpit pilot, copilot,
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  Speaker 2: and a navigation slash engineer. Guy who dealt with fuel
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  Speaker 2: will also dealt with a fuel load, And so it
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  Speaker 2: ended up happening. As technology got better, it went down
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  Speaker 2: to three three engines, and then went down to two engines,
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  Speaker 2: which is what everybody flies across the world, the two
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  Speaker 2: engine planes except for a few, the A thirty, the
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  Speaker 2: seven forty seven which nobody flies anymore, and very few
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  Speaker 2: way three eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Are going around.
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  Speaker 2: So technology was able to go from four engines to
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  Speaker 2: three engines to two engines. Pilots went from four to
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  Speaker 2: three people in the cockpit to two. That is technology.
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  Speaker 2: How about the price of fuel that one the airlines
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  Speaker 2: can't do much about. And the volatility is insane as
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  Speaker 2: the airlines try to deal with this. Southwest Airlines, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you didn't know this a little bit of history,
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  Speaker 2: for fifty years bought fuel using a hedging model.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, that the every year they would.
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  Speaker 2: Hedge by say they'll be in a contract with a
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  Speaker 2: fuel producer and say we will give you x dollars
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  Speaker 2: for every gallon or every pound of fuel. They do
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  Speaker 2: pounds in that industry for every pound of fuel, and
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  Speaker 2: we guarantee that we're going to buy it at this price,
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  Speaker 2: and the provider's suppliers say, okay, we're going to make
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  Speaker 2: sure you provided at this price. Well, if the price
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  Speaker 2: of fuel goes up, the airlines do great because they're
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  Speaker 2: paying a lower price than what the market is. Because
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  Speaker 2: the market for fuel changes every day. It's a world commodity.
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  Speaker 2: And if the price drops, though, and the airline is
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  Speaker 2: guaranteed that must spend X number of dollars per pound
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  Speaker 2: of fuel, it loses money because the price of fuel
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  Speaker 2: goes down and they're paying more than they should. So
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  Speaker 2: that got to be so volatile that Southwest Airlines, which
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  Speaker 2: did this for fifty years, has said no more. Southwest
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  Speaker 2: Airlines also has stopped flying to two of its destinations.
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  Speaker 1: That was kind of a shocker yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And the war going on on top of it has
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  Speaker 2: really affected the profitability of the airlines. Not only the fuel,
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  Speaker 2: but let's say from here to Dubai, which I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to fly at in October. Well, a drone just hit
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  Speaker 2: the Dubai airport and the authorities have shut down the airport.
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  Speaker 2: No airplanes going into the airport. And why is a
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  Speaker 2: big deal for the airlines because the flights into Dubai
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  Speaker 2: International flights is where they make the money. Those are
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  Speaker 2: the most profitable routes that the airlines have. So it
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  Speaker 2: is going to affect everybody, and it happens very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I have not looked at the price of a flight
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  Speaker 2: from here to Las Vegas, and if you will take
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  Speaker 2: a look at that and let me know at some
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  Speaker 2: point in life. Spirit Airline is coming out of bankruptcy
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  Speaker 2: for the second time, and the creditors have taken equity
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  Speaker 2: positions on Spirit Airline. In other words, Spirit o's a
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  Speaker 2: pile of money. It's borrowed pile of money. And so
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  Speaker 2: the creditors that have loaned Spirit money, instead of getting
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  Speaker 2: money back, they take a piece of the company. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they have just said they're going out of business because
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  Speaker 2: the or may go out of business because the cost
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  Speaker 2: of fuel is so great that the company simply can't function.
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  Speaker 2: Pilots cost the most money but the airlines can do
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  Speaker 2: something about that. The airlines can furlough pilots, the airlines
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  Speaker 2: can reduce the number of flights. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of control except for the price of fuel. That
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  Speaker 2: one you can't do anything about, and we are going
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  Speaker 2: to get hit. And the price. I always play around
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  Speaker 2: with the whinever I fly. I go to Las Vegas
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  Speaker 2: quite often. And as you know, I know every year
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  Speaker 2: my disposable income goes to vacations. That's it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly don't spend that on clothing. Just bought another
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  Speaker 2: shirt at Costco. Talked to my best friend yesterday and
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  Speaker 2: I said, I'm in line at Costco. I can't talk
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  Speaker 2: to you right now. He goes, of course, here in
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  Speaker 2: line at Costco. And was it Friday? You guys made
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  Speaker 2: fun of me or Neil did that? I go to
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  Speaker 2: Costco four to five times a week, and I was
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  Speaker 2: so offended because it's three to four, not four to five.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, don't come up with figures that you're
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  Speaker 2: just making up about a whole cloth. We're done, guys,
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  Speaker 2: so much for that. Okay, let me talk to you
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  Speaker 2: about something that I've been talking to you about very
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  Speaker 2: long time, and something that I have been very concerned
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  Speaker 2: about since I was in my thirties, and that is retiring.
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  Speaker 2: That is retiring. I did not want to live on
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  Speaker 2: virtually no money, and I did not want to live
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  Speaker 2: only on Social Security. It became obvious to me decades
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  Speaker 2: ago that if people are only going to live on
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  Speaker 2: Social Security, it's going to be a rough go. When
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  Speaker 2: you go to Walmart, for example, and you have a
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  Speaker 2: Walmart greeter where you go to various jobs, and these
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  Speaker 2: people in their seventies and eighties are working, Oh that's sweet.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to keep busy. They've retired, they have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: No, in many cases, I'm going to even argue in
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  Speaker 2: most cases, they need the income. Lindsey was sharing an
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  Speaker 2: Instagram post or a video of a guy delivering for
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  Speaker 2: door Dash and it was being videoed by the homeowner.
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  Speaker 2: And there he is, he was in his eighties and
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  Speaker 2: he's bringing up the bags. He had two bags, one
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  Speaker 2: in each arm going up the porch steps and he
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  Speaker 2: was having a hard time making it up the steps
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  Speaker 2: and was asked, why why are you doing this because
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  Speaker 2: I need the money. Well, she started a GoFundMe campaign
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  Speaker 2: and he doesn't need the money anymore. Five hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars were raised for him, so he could actually retire.
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  Speaker 2: But he is not alone. He is just incredibly lucky.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't plan for retirement. Now, other cultures don't
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  Speaker 2: really have to worry about it because in other cultures
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  Speaker 2: grandparents just hang out with the kids, you know, until
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  Speaker 2: they die. Well, we don't do that. That is not
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  Speaker 2: the American culture. So a story in the New York
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  Speaker 2: Times was written about this, and it starts with a
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  Speaker 2: woman from Minnesota calling into se SPAN. They have an
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  Speaker 2: open forum, and she's talking about her despair the cost
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  Speaker 2: of living. She said, I'm sixty five years old, I'm
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  Speaker 2: legally blind, I'm on disability. I went to my doctor.
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  Speaker 2: I lost twenty eight pounds in this last year. I
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  Speaker 2: did not need to lose twenty eight pounds. I did
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  Speaker 2: not try to lose twenty eight pounds. I lost twenty
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  Speaker 2: eight pounds because I can't afford to eat anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So this woman is Sharon, and she is why this happened. Well,
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons is the administration cut the snap
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  Speaker 2: money supplemental nutrition assistance program that has been decimated food
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  Speaker 2: stamps and then you have the high cost of grocery
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  Speaker 2: and gas and electricity. So Sharon allows herself sixty five
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  Speaker 2: dollars a month for food. That's all she can afford.
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  Speaker 2: Now imagine that. And she's at an age when Americans, well,
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  Speaker 2: we want to be comfortably retired. But she can't even
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  Speaker 2: afford basics. Relying on dwindling government support doesn't help. She
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  Speaker 2: can't make ends meet. And a lot of young people
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  Speaker 2: are in fear that that is their future. And people
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  Speaker 2: who aren't in fear are delusional. And this is a
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  Speaker 2: tough one.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: As much as I make fun of everybody, I have
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  Speaker 2: a hard time with people in this country not eating.
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  Speaker 2: One of the wealthiest countries on the planet, where we
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  Speaker 2: produce more food than we would ever need, we export food,
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  Speaker 2: we throw away insane amounts of food. I think, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: you and I have talked about what thirty forty percent
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  Speaker 2: of the food that is consumed, or of that thirty
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  Speaker 2: percent is thrown out?
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  Speaker 1: No, forty You're right on the second time, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I was talking to Saturday night, had dinner with
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  Speaker 2: the CEO of of Oh my God that I just
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  Speaker 2: Stonefire Grill, one of my favorite restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I did that.
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  Speaker 2: So I was talking to him and talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the food that's left over that a restaurant has
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  Speaker 2: used to.
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  Speaker 1: Be thrown away.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't even donate it because of the because of
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  Speaker 2: the laws that you know, you have the FDA and
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  Speaker 2: you've got temperature controls. You have to keep a blow
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  Speaker 2: forty or above one hundred and sixty or whatever the
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  Speaker 2: figure is. I didn't know they changed a lot, Neil.
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  Speaker 2: Now restaurants caterers can donate food, and the rules about
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  Speaker 2: keeping it under temperature is there's a four hour window now.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be no window. So we're moving in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: And Dave, I apologizing for forgetting the name of your restaurant,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is you We're going to get it might eventually, no, eventually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, eventually.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do it. I didn't want to do the
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  Speaker 1: wrong one.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, there is an app and we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about this on the show before, Too Good to Go,
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  Speaker 3: and you can find out local your local restaurants and
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  Speaker 3: donut shops, bakeries.
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  Speaker 1: You can buy stuff before it's thrown out.
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  Speaker 2: We're moving in the right direction, but that's the drop
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  Speaker 2: in the bucket compared to what we're looking at, and
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  Speaker 2: it's getting worse every day, and it's a heartbreaker. This
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  Speaker 2: really does affect me. Not much affects me, but this
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  Speaker 2: one does. All right, back we go to retirement and
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  Speaker 2: some figures just came out, and there's a story in
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  Speaker 2: the New York Times about this woman who called into
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  Speaker 2: c SPAN open Forum and said, I'm sixty five, I'm
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  Speaker 2: legally blind, I'm on disability. I lost twenty eight pounds
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  Speaker 2: the last year and I didn't need to, and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have enough to eat.
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  Speaker 2: And so one of the things about America, and as
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  Speaker 2: we often say, and I believe it, also, this is
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  Speaker 2: the greatest country in the world. But which category? I
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  Speaker 2: am not an exceptionalist. There are places where we're not
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  Speaker 2: the greatest country in the world. One of them being
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  Speaker 2: infant mortality. The other one is being education on the
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  Speaker 2: lower levels of education, not university level.
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  Speaker 1: People.
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  Speaker 2: We don't take care of our old people, and we
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  Speaker 2: have people living just on Social Security. And I joke about,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to live in a dumpster, and I do
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  Speaker 2: that all the time on Saturday. Unfortunately, in many cases
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  Speaker 2: that is true, and so what is going on? And
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  Speaker 2: this also I want to point something out. And then
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  Speaker 2: the statistics. This article is the New York Times article,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how much I want to go
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  Speaker 2: into statistics, but I want to give it a general
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  Speaker 2: view which I've shared with you before. And number one
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  Speaker 2: is exactly what I said is we don't take care
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  Speaker 2: of our old people.
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  Speaker 1: We throw them away.
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  Speaker 2: Other communities, other cultures not only admire but cherish their
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  Speaker 2: old people and they stay at home and the kids
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  Speaker 2: take care of them.
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  Speaker 1: We don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Also, we don't have the retirement plans we used to.
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  Speaker 2: Pensions have for the most part disappeared. Social Security theoretically
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  Speaker 2: keeps up with inflation. Theoretically, housing is impossible to get.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a generation where the boomers and I'm
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  Speaker 2: a boomer, and the philosophy is you always do better
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  Speaker 2: than your parents. That has been the American mantra, you
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  Speaker 2: do better than your parents. I was told that growing up,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do better than us, and I did.
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  Speaker 2: I did, by the way, I'm the last generation that
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  Speaker 2: did that. After that, not even close. The millennials, the
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  Speaker 2: gen Zers are not doing as good as their parents.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing worse than previous generations. Why is that pensions
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  Speaker 2: have disappeared. You've got government help basically disappearing. People thinking
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  Speaker 2: they can live on Social Security, which has always been
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  Speaker 2: a myth that was never designed for people to live on.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: It's supplemental, impossible to save money because people live paycheck
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  Speaker 2: to paycheck. You've got couples, both have to work, except
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  Speaker 2: if you have children.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Where do you park your kids? With the cost of
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  Speaker 1: daycare being so expensive.
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  Speaker 2: It actually can eat up an entire income of one
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  Speaker 2: of the parents.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, things have to change. How do we do that?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: There has to be a monumental movement, and this is
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  Speaker 2: really impossible to do on a social level. I mean,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: there have been monumental movements in technology, right, The car
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: changed everything, the computer changed everything, the telephone changed everything.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I'm watching a whole series of documentaries about what has
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: changed America monumentally, But in terms of eating and working,
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  Speaker 2: that has not changed monumentally.
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  Speaker 1: It's a heartbreaker, it is. Is there anything we can do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It depends on priorities, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to prioritize taking care of old people,
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  Speaker 2: making sure people are fed?
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  Speaker 1: Does it take tax dollars. It does. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: that there's a survey that just.
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  Speaker 2: Came out that people are willing to pay more taxes
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that Social Security stays solvent. Now, we're
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: very short term people. We don't want to pay taxes
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: for the long term. That's not how we live in
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: this area. It is absolutely true we're willing to pay
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: more taxes to keep Social Security solvent. Why because people
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: are realizing you don't want to be a greeter at Walmart.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: That's a tough way to go.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: All right, we're done, guys, I shared my depression with
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: you on that one.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Why don't they just.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Let us keep more of our tax money and then
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: maybe we'll be better off.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Well, the problem is, well, if you're talking about during
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the during a democratic administration, that tax when he goes
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: to social programs or many of them, and now when
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: you have a conservative or Republican administration is another way
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: of thinking.
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  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: It's a different philosophy where social programs are not as
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: important as well, in this case immigration, but in terms
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: of defense, just the different. It's who we vote for,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: it's all, you know, which that part I love about
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: America because we vote I'm not crazy about the electoral College.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: That's kind of dumb. But all right, we're done. We
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: are done. Gary and Shannon are up next. And if
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: you're really depressed, don't be. Life is going to be wonderful.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Life is really great. You know it's wonderful. Well, you
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: just listen to your friends, especially especially the greeters at Walmart.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: They'll tell you how terrific life is. And then the
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: food because they can't afford a real meal. Okay, we
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: start again tomorrow morning with.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, it was Will here today. Nice of you to notice. No,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he's oh I did you know what? Because if I
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: don't see him, if I don't see you, you're not there. Okay, yeah, simple.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Eight fifty eight, eight fifty eight You noticed Will?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: God? Okay? Will hopefully as Will back to back on tomorrow?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Is it back?
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I don't really know.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: You may or may not be. He'll be back for
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: sure on Wednesday. Maybe. Okay, Yeah, there we go. He
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: may or may not be.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, great, all right, Amy and Will maybe, and then
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Neil and I and then Kno who loves it when
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I rip into the rest of the crowd, and Anne
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: who couldn't give me the data her life depended on it.
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