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John Larson: “So this is incredible when you think that this seems to be all part of a design, a design that is geared to in fact deny…”

On the recordMay 8, 2003
So this is incredible when you think that this seems to be all part of a design, a design that is geared to in fact deny people over time the ability to respond to needs that we know, as your charts illustrate, with the baby boomers retiring, that are funds that are going to be necessitated, less the programs per the design of starving the beast, the beast in this case being social programs.
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John Larson
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussing the impact of policy on social programs during a speech.

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