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Episode 163: Interview with Lincoln Chafee

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The Economic Impact of the Coronavirus Crisis

I have a feeling it's going to be worse than 9-11 as we sit here today just economically psychologically also as you said this is the crisis that we should have been prepared for. The states and local governments have been making their own responses which fascinates me because they're tailored to particular localities or particular states rather than a blanket wall-to-wall solution. We can make changes in both Medicare and Social Security as people living longer I'm already on Social Security raising the age of eligibility certainly means testing Bill Gates should he be getting Social Security Medicare those types of things designing it so it's more for catastrophic costs. If we address the deficit over these decades not had these expensive wars

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