security began issuing social security numbers, they were only used to administer the social security program. how important it is to protect their numbers. areal security numbers invaluable target for identity theft because of the regularly use by the federal government and private sector as a unique identifier. especially by the financial industry. time and again, we are reminded to protect our social security cards in order to avoid identity theft and to be careful with what documents we throw away in the trash. our social security numbers are connected to so many personal aspects of our lives from our social security benefits and finances to our medical histories and our education. in recent years, privacy concerns have become more and more critical. when i was in law school back in the dark ages, i did our great used to be posted on the wall to bep -- our grades used to posted on the wall to keep them private with security numbers and they were posted alphabetically so it'll's not that hard to figure out who's was whose. in fact, one of my very good friend's name was zigor and sh

the rate the government has paid to the social security trust fund, to borrow that money from social security trust fund is higher for the past two decades the what the government pays on the ten year treasury bill. >> i would suggest that the rate, any new bond that is issued is issued with a coupon rate exactly to what the current effective yield radius. >> that's new bond. the average rate. >> the average rate for existing bonds is higher than the current effective market yield bond. >> thank you, sir. >> avenue suite heard today with improvements, social security faces serious challenges that americans deserve a conversation about the tough choices necessary. social security is a programmer children and grandchildren can count on, just as seniors and individuals with disabilities do today. i look forward to continuing this conversation in working with all my colleagues to strengthen social security. thank you to our witness for his testimony. thank you to our members for being here. with that, the subcommittee stands adjourned. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [ina

. >>> social security chief actuary steven goss recently testified on the current status of social security trust funds. he also discussed potential solutions for making sure the funds stay solvent. this house ways and means subcommittee hearing just under an hour. >> good morning. we have decided that we're going to start the hearing early. since you all are here or since you're here, is that all right with you? >> sounds just great. >> we all know social security provides important retirement and disability benefits that millions of americans rely on. yet, as we will hear again today, congress needs to act so we can be sure that those benefits will be there for our children and our grandchildren just like they are for seniors and individuals with disabilities today. today we'll hear from social security chief actuary about the findings in this year's report, and while a report adds some good news for the disability insurance program, make no mistake, social security faces serious challenges. the trustees report tells us the social security trust funds will be exhausted in 2034. at that po

according to a recent social security trustees report, the social security trust fund will be depleted in 17 years. the chief actuary discussed the report on capitol hill before a house ways and means subcommittee. this is just under an hour. mr. goss: >> good morning. he and i have decided we're going to start the hearing early. and since y'all are here, or since you're here, is that all right with you? mr. goss: just great. >> we all know social security provides important retirement and disability benefits that millions of americans rely on, hear again today conquer congress needs to act so that we can be sure those benefits will be there for our children as our grandchildren just like they are for seniors and individuals with disabilities today. from social hear security chief actuary about the findings in this year's report and while the report has some good news for the disability insurance program, make no mistake -- social security faces serious challenges. the adjusters report tells us the social security trust fund will be exhausted in 2034. at that point, individuals face ac

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the social security trustees report came out last week. it showed that if we did not toe any benefit reforms social security whatsoever, and all we did was raise the payroll tax to pay for the benefits that are underfunded and overpromised , we would have to raise them by a quarter. if we did tax increases when the trust fund would be exhausted in 2034, the payroll tax would have to rise by over 1/3. massive tax increases on low-wage workers and middle-class americans if we like reform programs social security and medicare. no one is really talking about it as part of the tax reform debate right now. when it comes to certain programs, the caller is right. we need to look at the welfare programs on a more regular basis . earned income tax credit, the payment rate is over 24%. payments go to people that are not eligible for it. you can collect waste or abuse. it is hurting the american taxpayer. the fact that the house budget proposes cutting medicare by $487 billion. the budget proposal put out by president trump barely touches medicare. is

media and most of their friends are bored with social media certainly facebook's. gone out of fashion then people are on facebook old people parents and grandparents young people wouldn't be caught dead on facebook now the question is maybe they'll go from facebook to instagram or snap chat but at some point i think this generation of so-called digital natives is just going to get bored of all of these things so i think and i've been saying this for years that the real reaction to social media and technology is going to come from the digital natives the people who have grown up with this stuff and are just bored and disgusted when they just going to go back to the basics are they where they're going to go with something like artificial intelligence and connect their brains to a computer and i think what you're going to see is an interesting new book out called the revenge of analog you seen in the way in which this young generation is embrace vinyl records you see in the way in which they now buy most skin pads you see in the way that they're starting to write lett

we often hear if we just raise social security tax it will solve all of social security's problems. it is important folks understand the facts for social security earnings up to a certain called the taxable maximum. what's the taxable maximum this year? if the maximum were raised what would it be this year? >> right around 250,000, just a little bit less. >> some have suggested we should get rid of the taxable maximum and instead subject to payroll tax. would social security be solvant? >> it would be solvant longer. >> so the answer is no. at what point would costs exceed income? >> if we were to enact a change with no -- let's see, if we were to enact a change with no benefit credit for the extra we would actually solve about 80% of the long term and we would be good well into the 2060s for -- >> for the what? >> 2060s. >> really? >> if we we gave no benefit credit at all and taxed all income our sal van si date would move to 2083. if we give benefit credit and then include in our computation of benefits the extra earnings that were going to be taxed then we would extend the date

security reform programs like social security and medicare. that is something to think about that nobody is talking about with tax reform right now. with certain programs, the caller is absolutely right. we need to look at these welfare programs on a more regular basis. one example, the income tax credit. the improper payment rate there is over 24% where payments go to people and you can call it waste, you can call it of these, but it is hurting the american taxpayer. host: ok, let's talk about the fact that the house budget proposes cutting medicare by 487 billion dollars, but in the budget proposals put out by president trump, it barely touches medicare. is there going to be a policy battle ahead over medicare? guest: i don't think medicare and social security will be a big priority for either the congress or president this year. i think congress is trying to work with the president. the president has taken a hard line that he is not looking at making changes to medicare and social security right now. however, the president did show willingn

i think steve bannon is project, building a social majority of anything he wants to build a social majority is, in fact, harder than my project which is pretty damn hard, then bernie sanders the link of the majority social democratic kind of consensus. so i think he finally just just in the fact a lot of these people are well educated. they are the sons and daughters of the professional middle class. they are finding out that the promises told to them that if they work hard, keep your head down they will be able to get a stable job and be able to at least maintain their living standard is a lie. and i think that's leading to people to look for solution. if you are young you might have to find a coherent worldview, agree or disagree with it. in other places on the socialist left then you would in the venues of the center that actually don't have anything else to offer. but i don't want to just assume that demographics will take care of everything. i think that's part of the problem that got us into this mess to begin with. trump's election. >> i have one more question and then i will open it

think mass incarceration fits in a similar vein although i think as opposed to previous forms of social control which were all about sort of captive black labor in the slave system freezing them in the south a sort of permanent serves now it's really more about the fact that we've gone to this globalized supply chain the sort of race to the bottom and wages and living standards all around the world and it's really instead of keeping people working in a particular context containing the social contradictions capitalism has created with people on mass not working particularly the black well if you look indian dust realize centers of america especially for african-americans we know statistically there is no work they are what marx would call redundant or surplus labor so their bodies are not producing profits for corporations however put in cages they produce forty or fifty thousand dollars a year for corporations and many people say the system is broken and i think you would agree it's not broken it works exactly the way it is designed to work you know absolutely i think that's a great po

so it's like social security, social insurance and a shared responsibility.because your point earlier on we want to allow employers to do what they would like to do, with so many would like to do that they can't. so let's make it possible for them to do it because we have people of goodwill. it's not that all employers are capable. that is not the case. >> so many of them say we are an employee business we don't want to penalize for taking time off when they are sick or have a child. i agree with you. your mother was a strong role model for you. she encouraged youth and other women to get into politics but you also write about how tough it is. tell us a little bit about that. the instances you write about. >> guest: my mother is 103-years-old. she lives with us in new haven and is an extraordinary woman. she finished formal school at the age of 13 and went to night school for high school but was kept home for a year because at that time you couldn' could infl you were 14-years-old. so she went to work at age 14. she worked at my grandmother's pastry shop for

whatever is to lift the cap and you will have a solvent social security system. when social security reached its lowest point, we had ronald reagan and tip o'neill who came together and acted, and the congress acted to make social security solvent into the futu future. all of this rating of ten about social security into being involved and can be solved immediately by lifting the cap and there are those that just don't want to do that. social security has been one of the most successful programs with big people out of poverty in this nation. i lived through the privatized social security on wall street. i note that in the book as well. we can solve this problem and we can solve it easily. what we need to deal with, we need to have a hard look at what we do with tax cuts and as we've seen in the past, tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the nation and over the years, we have seen the gap of the separation of people at the very top that are doing very well and that middle class families and working families that are struggling to send their kids to school and the

there says that social security, they have been taking money out of social security. question is, when is congress going to pay it back? the was the guy that took money out, they would have foreclosed on my years ago, i to that e to talk banker. guest: i think that is a onderful question, one reason the budget tries to be able to make sure the funds are long-term, that is why we need reforms to limit ongress' ability to rob specific programs like this. it's crucial that we make sure are reaching the ages do have a program, they years, d into for many they can rely on and confidence in. in bloomberg,line another issue on the president's proposal.ax reform trump's massive tax cut plan places train wreck on the calendar. what is your impression of the president's proposal and how do do think congress -- when you think congress, the house can take that up? guest: on the right track, simplifying the tax code is what decades, longd for before we served in washington, d.c., not been a legit nat mid-80s, 1986, i believe. it is important while keeping charit ons, education, gi

baby toby certain social good. -- maybe there will be more social good. imagine that.to being employed in the working class to being just poor. i want to foreground politics without being anti-technology. >> there is this media narrative about young people in america being very far left and arguably the farthest left generation the countries ever seen. there's a new generation of socialists, is that narrative true? is there a generational shift happening? >> at think it is true in this instance, in the united states, it is ascribed to youth and other cultural factors. france, notat deterred back to france, yes not to turn -- not to turn back to france. very are people that have similar cultures that americans have. there are all sorts of reasons for this. yes, young people are moving to the left. a lot of that has to do with politics. they have to do with the success of organizers. they have to do with a certain degree of cultural traits that makes america better than certain european countries, it ashard to build a xenophobic no nationalism in a state th

es distinto a las redes sociales. las redes sociales te permite generar mÁs violencia.an prd. este hombre no lo hizo directamente. cÓmo uno se puede defender? carolina: utilizando la redes sociales para tratar de defender a otros. ademÁs, por ejemplo, en la vida diaria evitar frases como "quÉ linda que estÁs, bajaste de peso? ". son cosas que uno la toma como inocente. carolina: pueden herir a una persona. que agradecemos por estar con nosotros en este 4 de julio. javier: gracias. carolina: en redes sociales hay muchas herramientas que pueden utilizar cuando uno de un comentario que tiene que ver con el -- hostigamiento. uno no puede reportar. ellos lo revisan. javier: en relaciÓn con este tema, te cuento que investigan la muerte de una mexicana de 24 aÑos que ingiriÓ durante un mes pastillas para adelgazar. habrÍa sufrido y cayÓ en coma . carolina: la joven compra por internet el producto que estÁ prohibido en mÉxico. tras su muerte deja una pequeÑa de un aÑo. cabe mencionar que las autoridades mexicanas estÁn investigando quiÉnes son las personas que siguen vendiendo

maybe there will be certain social goods we could think about it. but i am more apt to envision that future once we're at that stage than i am now, when i know how many truckers and cab drivers and whoever else will be displaced and just go from being precariously employed in the working class to being just poor. so that's kind of my stance on technology. i want a foreground in politics without being anti-technology. >> there's this kind of media narrative about the young people in america being very far left, and arguably the farthest left generation the country's ever seen, you know, kind of a new generation of socialists, and how do you -- is that narrative true? is there a generational kind of shift happening? play that out for us. >> i think it's true in this instance, in the united states today, but it's often ascribed to like youth or these other cultural transhistorical cultural factors. if you look at france for example, not to turn back to france, but the national front, le pen might win a polarity of young people, millenials, right? these

solutions to social unrest and social justice projects. from working with the children, issues around race, fighting the clan, supporting the efforts of farm workers, american indian movement is a real rich history that's been rooted in the issue of social justice and my father was the founding director. the late reverend walker was really at the helm for so many years. i came about and got connected by birth. really is a result of my own interest in social justice and doing what i can do do what we can to make this a better world. >> how did it feel? how do you process continuing the kind of social justice work that your father and others started so many years ago and i ask because a lot of folk in this generation who were just coming in to their own fight for social justice. so many different fronts. and yet, you and others are the progre progity of those fighting the fight. >> literally being a young, youngish black woman having witnessed not only the work my father did but others he sure rounded himself with saw the importance of utili

we be limited just to social networking sites. would you agree that they could be using constitutional avoidance and could be narrowed to lease those? >> are busy, your honor that i'm not sure that it can't but i'm very important for the constitutional question that that is relevant and it goes back to what how do we win this case what is the biggest problem with the statute and the biggest problem -- >> to put in context. it is important for purposes of an applied challenge because what your client use with facebook right? >> yes. >> even if it was limited to those back our position for the very reason we talked about which was that just like the law in the jews for jesus airport case from los angeles and no first amendment activity in this place and this is a law that says no first amendment activity and says indiscriminate -- one of my problems with all of the sites today is that none of them are purely or very few are purely anything anymore. take something like lincoln which many many people in our society today are looking f

it's social change more generally. the idea that social change, these are good things and this requires a very large amount of openness in your society, a large amount of fluidity which is something that anywheres find not comfortable but desirable and look down on the inability to kind of handle and ride change. but the other kind of liberal mainstream ideas. the european union was one of them, too much the european union seemed to crystallize that modern european openness, but of course it did so at the price of reducing the democratic voice. now, a lot of somewheres have stop voting in elections because they felt things that faked -- affected their lives were imposed from the outside without any -- one of the key differences actually is the way in which -- in trade negotiations, global -- all of these global negotiations, anywheres are starting -- the assumption of anywheres is some sort of deal to further open up trade and goods and services and so on, movement to people, must inherently be a good thing and we must

he takes on social forces that are not used to being criticized. he is a man of considerable courage. on my own review it will appear national review soon. i'll introduce my hudson colic who will have an exchange with david after his presentation. there is little doubt that the road to somewhere will have a significant, positive impact on the policy debates in the english-speaking world. david, why don't you take it away. >> thank you. >> thank you for that introduction. everyone seems to be giving up the par points. i just discover their value. as john said, i have written this book about the value divided british society and what i talk about as a bearing in all developed democracies. including the united states. the value divided britain has had a particularly destabilizing effect on our politics. a destabilizing effect that led to very unexpected vote to leave the european union. the very fact that it was a shock it's a testament to those who are living in our country since brexit has rise in europe there has been a lot of analysis and that thi

jolene kent, new york. >>> we just saw the power of social influencers. we wanted to get some best practices on working with them as a brand. mom influencer deva dell porto what laborious viral videos have amassed more than 100 million views. we recently attended to blog her conference in orlando and we sat down with her to get her top tips on how to get the most out of influencers like her. >> i think a group would hire an influencer because our followers and fans really trust us. there's data that they trust influencers, 92% of consumers trust flurrers like a friend. so if you're recommend ago brand to them, they're going to really listen to you because they are like my friends. i have lots and lots of online friends. and you're talking about something specific. so for you, it's whitmaomen, ri? but for our influencers, it might be cool 18-year-old kids. >> exactly. as a brand, with you need to find the influence hadder that's the right fit for you. for me, if you want a product out for moms, come to me. if you want something for auto a cool 18-year-old,

hurt the social sciences, meaning apply engineering to it. people could be studies and actions predicted the way they measure and track ballisticway e missiles. vietnam was about to be a test that of what was called human behavior. he looked at the darpa program and said there is numbers here there is no science. darpa had a prosecutor on staff. because of the language in vietnam to help popularize the idea of game theory and proposed building a moat around saigon was anti-infiltration became so widely divided by the press that they complained about the geography in vietnam to work on it. a very sort of well-known brands that he called the viet cong motivation and morale study. you're telling dear for us what it wants to hear witches strategic bombing is not working. they cut off a lot of funding for things that are time dependent on what it wanted to hear. pentagon needed the church. the solution they came up with is a company in cambridge. cinematic that m.i.t. professor, very well-known at the pentagon and this company has risen to fame in

real talk of social justice i think we are hearing talk of social justice from all parties and i don't think social justice is the be all of one party of it is not own social justice is not the championship of one party or another and actually i have to say that i find it very difficult that the two main parties we have in the u.k. and now embroiled in internal politics rather than politics of our country and social justice because if you really want to talk about social justice in the u.k. while spec's it is being executed what is happening to our country everything that is we should be doing the m.p.'s should be talking about education our housing crisis. social justice from the point of view of rises in domestic violence in the fact that the n.h.s. is on the it's knees all of that is being put aside because it is occupying one hundred percent of their time now that is a real travesty of social justice judy miller thank you. after the break as the chief inspector of prison slams the staggering rise in violence we speak to the prison officers association about why the high court decis

comparta su opiniÓn utilizando la etiqueta #lunes social.l obamacare. los funcionarios creen que la reforma afectarÁ sobre todo a ciudadanos de bajos recursos y a los inmigrantes. blanca: es una lucha contra el plan de salud republicano que las autoridades neoyorquinas dicen, darÁn unidas. "a los republicanos lo que les interesa es poder decir que eliminaron el obamacare porque fue una promesa que hicieron durante la campaÑa presidencial, no porque su plan sea mejor que el existente", dice. "si el senado lo aprueba, la gente que se va a quedar sin protecciÓn, va a morir en este paÍs", dice el alcalde de nueva york. >> yo me hubiera muerto, venÍa muy enferma. blanca: esta paciente tiene obamacare y sufre de problemas al riÑÓn. >> no estoy segura de que maÑana voy a amanecer enferma, y cÓmo le voy a hacer. blanca: los republicanos alegan que su propÓsito de su contrarreforma es reducir los precios de los seguros, aumentar la competencia. >> muchos confÍan en el medicare para acceder a servicios mÉdicos. muchos tienen condiciones crÓnicas, much

channel and most spread on social media. there is a special key to facebook and a key to instagram to twitter. venezuela does not have this key for the u.s. global power does that is why social media which twenty million of us citizens have access to since we are an open and free country is used to poisonous. we can defend ourselves inside the country but who will protect us at the international level who will tell the world the truth about as there is now a media lynch mob spreading hatred and anger against venezuela it's unbelievable if i were to name any president i've talked to who there is a centrist left wing all right when he would come under a domestic media sold and there would be pressure put on him. so you believe that donald trump is maintaining contacts with other presidents in the region in order to act against venezuela i always say what i absolutely certain of that if you read his correspondence and his official statements in the white house his conversations with latin american leaders the first issue on the

a parable. , muche given paradise better than socialism or social justice because the was no death, no pain, no suffering. you do not have to work, the fruit fell from the trees. in order to enjoy this, you had to forgo the knowledge of good and evil and the knowledge of evil. and human beings are prone to the corruption is within us. once you understand that, you are a conservative. [applause] host: it comes down to your understanding of human nature. david: the only -- other thing that people ask me, were you being financed, this is the new left. moscow gold was a big thing in the 1950's. we all scoff at it. moscow was financing american communist party as we now know. they asked me, who was financing new radicals, who went to burn wanted to burn down america and the answer was, you are. getting government money and what have you. they would ask me, what about the communist party and by then, the communist party was destroyed by the revelations of the khrushchev report. that is, i remember the right wingers who we hated likely method leawood say that stalin had murdered 7 million

over eighty years ago the social security act was signed into law in the u.s. now it was intended to protect the economic security of americans especially after they hit a certain age but the system hasn't kept up with demographic changes could face a crisis sooner than we think. is here in the studio with more for us on that kind of crisis relooking at now well basically if nothing is done about social security we will start paying out more than we actually take in which would obviously be a very complicated problem to deal with the u.s. looks a lot different now compared to when social security was first introduced people are living longer and birth rates are much lower which means there are less young workers in the labor force and as a result of those changes the program hasn't been able to operate like it used to and if the government doesn't issue reform they won't have enough money to pay everyone's social security checks according to the social security administration trust funds will be depleted by two thousand and thirty four meaning only seventy seve

they are teaching that socialism is social equality. jesse: i will not be sending my children to venezuela for spring break. msnbc trashing ivanka trump for wearing a pink dress at g0. sprinkler system so it did not. i'm rob schmitt. now back to "watters world." ess type for real news you probably didn't hear this week. we begin with good news for house majority whip steve scalise who was shot by a deranged democrat. we wish steve scalise and his family a speedy recovery. if you haven't checked your 401k lately, give it a glance. the stock market is up 17% since election day. but course the trump boom is not covered by the mainstream media. a democrat threatening president trump on facebook. scott ham posting, i can't deal with you unintelligent people any more. go back to cling to your guns because you are afraid. trump is a half-term president, at most, especially if i ever get within 10 feet of that [bleep]. the secret service is aware of the posting and is launching an investigation. shia labeouf going on a racist rant against the a

sin embargo, este vÍdeo, ha estado dando vueltas por toda la redes sociales.contexto, uno no puede creer que algo asÍ suceda. pero hay una historia. te habrÍan robado el carro. carolina: iban a 90 millas por hora. sin embargo, no es excusa para que alguien reciba ese tipo de golpizas. cambiemos de tema. 16 personas perdieron la vida al estrellarse un aviÓn en mississippi. el director de emergencia del condado dijo que no hay sobrevivientes. la infanterÍa de maria confirmÓ en su cuenta de twitter el siniestro tras tener un percance, pero no entro en detalles. el aviÓn era uno de los mÁs utilizados por el ejÉrcito de este paÍs. javier: ustedes saben que estÁn continuando las reacciones en las diferentes redes sociales tras la polÉmica de la bolsa de diseÑador, confeccionado por distintos indÍgenas mayas, fueron vendidas por mÁs de $1500 cada uno. el tema es que las mujeres que confeccionaron destacar que las -- estas carteras sÓlo le pagaron 13 dÓlares. carolina: para aclarar lo que ocurriÓ, hemos invitado a gabriela zavala, directora de comunicaciones de la ide

employed social media, u.s.-based. do you see prospects for success among the movement and authoritarian regime. if so, why? >> it's a very interesting question. authoritarian regimes tend to fall very quickly and out of nowhere because very often they don't have buy-in from the population. like the elections might not be great for everything, but they acted for signaling what people really don't like, and there's some course correction whereas authoritarian regimes tend to get blindsided. so for example, in 1970 you see tons of people saying you're on, stable a as a rock. the 1979, whom. that's a very common pattern with authoritarian regimes. to sort of fall very quickly. i don't really, it's a fools game to predict exactly when and which one because the problem of lack of knowledge is true for the observer. but i will say one thing. it is plausible to me that especially china is more stable as an authoritarian regime because of social media. you might think they are censoring everything. you wouldn't, but the

herb book "digitally enabled social change" activism in the internet age. first of all professor what do you do here at the university? >> guest: i'm a professor of sociology at the courtesy of government and public policy where i teach and research about social movements particularly digital activism and the study of repression which is how state and private actors tried it control activists. plus the let's start with a digital half of this. >> guest: the book was cowritten by katrina and i am but we were trying to do in the book is really highlight a wide variety of ways in which people use digital tools for activism. a lot of times we think about digitally enabled social changes being using digital media to turn people to off-line events so it's about all the on line support the happened in the women's march. that's one popular way of thinking about the impact the digital activism or digital media on activism activism but in the book katrina and i really want us to look at it a different way that people use tools which is to try to actually engage in act

now, this is really empowering for governments, because if you're a social movement, if you want social change, you need to convince people of certain things. whereas if you're a government, you just need to confuse them. if you want to stop change, if everybody's like i don't really know what's true, and somebody says this, and there's 50 things, and there's all these claims, and there's misinformation and fake news, all of that, i don't know what's going on, that's a very effective way to -- >> [inaudible] >> curtail and distract and to curtail the power of social movements. >> right. >> so if anything, like, in many ways the filter failures the information overload that there's so much going on that we couldn't really figure out what's going on, that newspapers have weakened and all those things are, in many ways, disempowering not just movements, they're also, i think, strengthening a new form of authoritarianism that can use social media both to listen to the population without letting them have power and also to confuse them and mis-- >> or even misguide them. >> and misdivide the

my second point is if you look at health and social security together, the growth in health and social security medicare of about a trillion dollars fenn ye -- ten years from now basically is in excess of all the growth in revenues that we're expecting even if we don't have a tax cut. the third one is that generationally we're giving youth a lot, but only when you retire. so we're asking you to pay a lot more for your higher education. we're going to cut back on your support as workers. we're going to support your children less. don't worry, dourn twn the roade going to give you a lot more in social security and medicare. i'm not sure if that's the bargain you want. the second thing is health care is totally dominating the income growth in the economy and it's distorting our sense of even what's happening there, income distribution and all other sorts of things. now i've got to quickly go through these slides. this first slide shows you the growth in all the noninterest outlays of the government. this is a year old because i don't have all the updates yet. but this is cbo's estimate of

you think there is a way to cut or reformed social security? nobody wants cuts and benefits but we know that we need some change in the program. >> list a on the people not paying. i'm trying to recall the figure. 100 and - list that -- when social security reaches lowest part we had filed -- we had ronald reagan and o'neill. they made this solvent into the future. this on all of this wringing of hands about social security and being insolvent can be solved immediately.by lifting the cap and there are those that just do not want to do that. social security has been one of the most successful programs at lifting people out of poverty in this nation. and those, i lived through you know, the desire to privatize social security. and it was you know i note that in the book as well. but we can solve this problem and we can solve it easily. where we need to deal with, we need to have been very hard cuts and as we seen in the - past, tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the nation. over the years we've seen the gap and the separation for those at the

channel and most spread on social media. there is a special key to facebook and a key to instagram to twitter. venezuela does not have this key for the u.s. a global power does that is why social media was twenty million of our citizens have access to since we are an open and free country is used to poisonous. we can defend ourselves inside the country but who will protect us at the international level who will tell the world the truth about i was there is no media lynch mob spreading hatred and anger against venezuela it's unbelievable if i were to name any president i've talked to who there is a centrist left wing all right when he would come under a domestic media sold and there would be pressure put on him. so you believe that donald trump is maintaining contacts with other presidents in the region in order to act against venezuela i always say what i absolutely certain of that if you read his correspondence and his official statements in the white house his conversations with latin american leaders the first issue on th