Social Security Is Running Out of Time
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to the recent ICE shooting in Maine.Then, David is joined by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, to discuss the future of Social Security, the mounting national debt, and the political dysfunction preventing Washington from confronting America’s fiscal challenges.Finally, in honor of Bastille Day, David ends the episode with a discussion of Hilary Mantel’s novel A Place of Greater Safety and the lessons one can learn from the terror of the French Revolution.The following is a transcript of the episode: Maya MacGuineas: And so you look at young people—they don't trust our economic system. The vast majority of them don't think Social Security will even be there for them, and they are starting, en masse, to resent the huge commitments that we have created for them, right?
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to the recent ICE shooting in Maine.Then, David is joined by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, to discuss the future of Social Security, the mounting national debt, and the political dysfunction preventing Washington from confronting America’s fiscal challenges.Finally, in honor of Bastille Day, David ends the episode with a discussion of Hilary Mantel’s novel A Place of Greater Safety and the lessons one can learn from the terror of the French Revolution.The following is a transcript of the episode: Maya MacGuineas: And so you look at young people—they don't trust our economic system. The vast majority of them don't think Social Security will even be there for them, and they are starting, en masse, to resent the huge commitments that we have created for them, right? Because we have made promises that a huge portion of their budget will go to programs for seniors. So a vast amount of the budget is going to be going to Social Security and Medicare.
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- Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to the recent ICE shooting in Maine.Then, David is joined by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, to discuss the future of Social Security, the mounting national debt, and the political dysfunction preventing Washington from confronting America’s fiscal challenges.Finally, in honor of Bastille Day, David ends the episode with a discussion of Hilary Mantel’s novel A Place of Greater Safety and the lessons one can learn from the terror of the French Revolution.The following is a transcript of the episode: Maya MacGuineas: And so you look at young people—they don't trust our economic system. The vast majority of them don't think Social Security will even be there for them, and they are starting, en masse, to resent the huge commitments that we have created for them, right?
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Social Security Is Running Out of Time
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