Particularly when there is so much money to be made. So much flows through Social Security. If you take it over by wrecking it and then sending in your private-equity friends and tech bros to get it operational again and then let them slice off a share for themselves by privatizing either it or its operations, you have created a massive new revenue stream for the superrich. So with that, I see that there are a few colleagues on the other side who have come over. It may be that it is their turn. Senator Murphy, are you OK to yield the floor?
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