20231025 Nicole Sandler Show - If At First You Don't Succeed.....

I'm still getting adjusted to living in Arizona... the biggest hurdle that I've yet to overcome is that, although the show still runs at the same time --5ET/2PT, I'm not in the ET zone any longer! Where I am, the show starts at 2pm. That means I lose three hours of prep time. I know I need to start earlier... but the brain hasn't gotten the message yet. So, today was a no makeup day. Time just ran out.  And Halloween is right around the corner. Anyway, the House Republicans finally got their act together and voted in a new Speaker of the House, changing the old slogan to "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try and try again" or something like that. So the fourth time was a charm, or was that a curse? I'm not so sure... One thing that the new Speaker Mike Johnson said was that he's going to establish "debt panels" which would serve one purpose: to kill Social Security. In response, I was thrilled to welcome Nancy Altman back to the show. She's president of Social Security Works, [http://socialsecurityworks.org/] and it does...