Political Quotes

“I used to run a social services agency. We had a couple hundred employees, and we delivered mental health services, and we were a Medicaid provider. It was back in the day when we weren't yet receiving electronic payments, and I would go to--like, I would wait for the mail every Wednesday and Thursday to see if we had to dip into our line of credit to make payroll. We ran a successful agency, and we were one of the bigger social services agencies on the island of Oahu-- the most populous island in Hawaii. But that is what this is like. Even if you are a pretty solid social services agency or health clinic, it is always hand to mouth. You don't have some, like, cash reserves. So when they turned off that spigot, it was instantaneous, right? I think part of what is happening with 2025--and excuse me for, you know, maybe diverting our conversation slightly--is that there is just a lot of very ideological people in cubicles who haven't been outside of Washington, DC, and are actually thinking in abstractions, and they truly believe in their heart of hearts--it is the billionaires, first of all, but it is also some other people who wrote the document who believe--I mean, deeply--that no one is going to miss the Federal Government if it doesn't deliver these services. I think one of the things that has given me some comfort in the last couple of weeks--and, you know, it has been a rough couple of weeks--is that, boy, it was instantaneous, right?…”