john goodman. in the private sector, you know, and you were largely responsible for this and in many ways as a result, as a result of your work in congress many years promoting relentlessly the idea of a health savings account so people could take make money, could take make tax free contributions to build up an account where can use that money for routine medical services and protect themselves against unforeseen health concerns. once, as we have millions of americans today in employment based health insurance who have health savings accounts, but we don't have it in for senior citizens, can't senior citizens have a health savings account? okay. is something that a lot of people understand. the health savings account for, non seniors is the best savings there is. it's better than an ira, it's better than a four and k. and the reason it's better is because during your working years you can save and at the time reach 65 and enroll in. you can use your your medical savings health savings account depo

john womack about how to seize and build labor power and solidarity. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united nations has warned russia's decision to terminate the black sea grain deal, which allowed for the safe export of food and fertilizer from ukrainian ports, will lead to soaring food prices and worsening hunger across the globe. the u.n. secretary-general antÓnio guterres spoke monday after the kremlin said it would refuse to extend the agreement. >> ultimately, participation in this agreement is a choice. people everywhere in developing countries don't have a choice. hundreds of minds of people face hunger and consumers are facing a cost-of-living crisis, and they will pay the price. amy: this comes just a week after russia vetoed the extension of a key u.n. humanitarian aid delivery route from turkey into syria. on monday, the u.n. rejected restrictions placed by the syrian government on the life-saving deliveries through the bab al hawa border crossing. syrian officials conditioned the shipments on the u.n.'s full cooperation and coordination with syria's government, amon

goodman, who gave their lives now people don't understand that. they gave they lose. they died in 64, but don't remember that they died trying to register people to vote they gave their lives. john lewis got a skull crack on the edmund pettus bridge in 1965. people say in the march from selma to montgomery. okay. you remember what that was to get people the right to vote. and so anybody who my vote doesn't matter. hey, you're statistically wrong. and it's you're thumbing your nose at people. those three civil rights workers at john lewis at martin luther king. you're that the efforts that they were choosing before and you know the suffragettes you're saying that what they did does not merit honor does not merit support and other thing is that making folks understand that if you're dissatisfied with government and the way and you're apathetic because government is not response if well government's not going to be responsive if you're not a part of the process to change the government, you know, i mean, there are other we see active and the congressman better than me you know people around guns those folks who are second amendment types i guess that's what they call gun supporters