The Debt Load and the Entitlement Spending in This Country

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I don't think we're at a place of having remotely enough consensus or trust, and I think trust is probably the more important word than consensus. To begin just snip, snip, make cuts to what people feel like they were entitled to and promised will take what you call those populist flames and throw kerosene on it. For most of our national history, we actually grown at over 4% plus GDP growth. This year, last six months, we're talking less than 1.5% annualized GDP growth. Do you think that the IRA was good legislation? I mostly don't think it was great legislation. Where are you coming from on that? Because we might have

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