 Oh, I just some, you know, some, I just like to do this periodically because nobody else talks about this anymore. It's like, it's like it doesn't exist. It used to be that this was a big Republican thing that they would talk about, but they don't anymore. Although it's possible that a few people in their freedom forum in the house are waking up to this and maybe trying to make a big deal of this. But then of course when they get into power and they're a Republican president, they'll forget about this. And this is the whole question of the budget deficit. I mean, the budget deficit is really insane. I mean, spending as a percentage of gross domestic product at the federal level is going to grow to 29% over the next three decades. It's been historically over the last 30, 40 years at about 20%. And the 19th century, it was under 5%. And this is of course just the federal level. If you have state and if you had local, it's not clear that government in the United States is actually smaller than government in Europe. If you add all those things, certainly if you project 30 years out, if the government is spending 29.1%, I would say 50%. Of GDP is spent by government in 30 years. That's more or as much as almost every country in Europe. It's pretty socialist, wouldn't you say, half of the economy? And nobody's talking about it. Nobody seems to care. I mean, again, the House Republicans are making some noise right now, but they're only making noise right now because they've got a Democrat in the White House. We know that as soon as the Republican gets in, they stop talking about cutting spending. It's just an ever escalating rise without any concern. Growing debt, indeed, because of the growing debt, by 2051, spending on interest will be the single largest line item in the federal budget. And that's if we're lucky, if interest rates stay high or if interest rates go up even more, that could be well before 2051. Now that means it would be larger than Social Security, larger than Medicaid, all the other mandatory and discretionary programs, more than defense spending. And that's because of how much money the government is borrowing to feed the spending binge. And, you know, this is a recipe for the destruction of the US economy. The government becomes that size of the economy. It's unbelievably destructive to the sector of the economy that actually produces the economic growth, the innovation, the progress, the moving forward, which is the private sector. The government just wafts it and makes it irrelevant. So, and this is the thing, and we'll talk about this more in a second. The longer you wait to deal with it, the more difficult it is to deal with. The longer you wait to deal with it, the bigger the debt, the bigger accumulated debt, the harder it is to pay it off. The longer you wait to deal with it, the bigger the interest payments are going to be because you're going to have to keep funding that debt. So, even if we got a balanced budget tomorrow, we still have to fund all the debt we've accumulated to date. We'd have to run surpluses to pay off the debt. That would require real cuts. Nobody's talking about that. And notice that not a single political candidate is talking about this stuff. The leading Republican candidate, Donald Trump, doesn't like cutting spending. We know that. And has taken Social Security and Medicaid off the table, which is insane because there's no way to cut any spending without reforming those programs. DeSantis would much rather talk about, you know, what do you call it, LGBTQ issues or drag shows and stuff like that, than about the fact that U.S. economy is going to long-term stagnate unless we do something about government spending. I mean, maybe Nikki Haley mentions it once in a while, but other than that, nobody, nobody cares. And I'm not even talking about the Democrats who want to spend more, who want the deficit to be larger, who want government to be much larger. With no thought about controlling it. Indeed, they want, their idea is, you know, modern monetary theory, just spend, and if an item, it makes no difference. I'm caricaturing a little bit. The MMT people. So, I mean, it's just, it's, it's scary. It's scary because as I've said, and this is one of my big problems with Trump, was basically Trump did away. With an opposition party. There is no opposition party. Republicans don't disagree about the expansive role of government in our lives, both on the social side and on the financial side and on the economic side. Now, within this issue is the whole issue of social security. So the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office just did, just did its estimate of how long the quote trust fund, which doesn't really exist. I mean, the trust fund is just government bonds. So your taxpayers, tax money is paying this off, right? How long this trust fund can still pay off self security? We're already in a negative situation where the trust fund is being depleted. And basically your regular taxes, my regular taxes are paying social security to retirees. I don't know how many of you know that, but social security today is gay. It gets in terms of revenue, less money than it spends. And because it keeps no reserve, no, the money's not there, the federal government pays for the deficit. That's the trust fund is IOUs from the government, from the rest of the government, right? So it's just, it's just moving around. There is no trust fund. Anyway, social security is going to go bankrupt. In other words, social security will actually run out of the trust fund. The trust fund will go to zero somewhere around 2032, 2033. Now that's just around the corner. We're in 2023 right now. So 10 years from now, baby boomers will be all retired, all collecting social security, even I. God, maybe I should start collecting social security now. Anyway, everybody will be collecting, even I will be collecting social security. I'll be old by then. And past the optimal time, I think the maximum time where I have to withdraw social security. So I'll be getting social security and then it'll go bust. And at that point in order to keep the program solvent, they will have to cut benefits by 25% across the board for everybody. Now notice, I'm not a fan of social security and I'd like to see it phased out. I'd certainly like to see it privatized. I, you know, some reform. But that is insane. People are planning for social security. People are making retirement plans based on social security. People are retired already assuming the money will continue coming in. And nobody has a plan. Nobody cares. Like there's massive evasion around social security. Just Republicans and Democrats, of course, pretend it just doesn't exist, that it doesn't matter, that they all force social security. They all want to maintain social security. They all think social security is fantastic and they won't touch it. At least Ronald Reagan had the audacity to have a commission look at social security and propose some things to extend its life. That commission was run by none other than Alan Greenspan. Who recommended raising taxes and lowering benefits? But at least they had a solution. Every year that they wait will require, in order to fix the problem, greater tax rises and greater benefit reductions. But they'll keep waiting. They'll just bury their hand in the sand and pretend nothing is going on. Nothing is happening. And these are politicians. This is the quality of our politicians. Not a single one of them has the guts, the balls to raise this as an issue. To say we need to solve it. Doesn't even have to propose a solution, but at least make an issue of it. Bring it up. Tell people, look, there's a real problem here. We have to deal with it. And in my administration, we will find a way to deal with it. Maybe even have a solution. But, you know, we got 10 years. Every year that goes by, it becomes more expensive to solve the problem. Just like with the deficit and the debt. Every year they go by, it becomes more difficult to solve the problem. Does anybody care? Nada. Where does that leave again, the US economy? Where does that leave our quality of life, standard of living, ability to plan into the future? Not in great shape.