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Speaker 2: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight

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Speaker 2: is the number. Okay, I want to ask all of

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Speaker 2: you at the double barreled question, do you think the

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Speaker 2: economy now has really turned a corner? Trump says we're

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Speaker 2: now at the beginning of his golden age, that the

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Speaker 2: latest jobs report clearly shows the fundamentals are strong. The

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Speaker 2: underlying strength of the economy is now there. Jobs are

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Speaker 2: now getting created, the private sector is really starting to roar.

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Speaker 2: Inflation is starting to really come down. Productivity is getting

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Speaker 2: stronger and stronger and stronger. Trillions of dollars are now

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Speaker 2: coming in and being invested. This is it now. The

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Speaker 2: underpinnings are there for really an economic boom that we

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Speaker 2: have in the likes of which we have not seen

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Speaker 2: in decades. Do you feel the economy getting better? If

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Speaker 2: you look at your situation, your personal situation, say from

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Speaker 2: a year ago, compare it to today, is it better,

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Speaker 2: worse or the same. And then the second question, why

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Speaker 2: do you think you have so many polls? There's a

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Speaker 2: shock poll, It's a Fox News poll. Fox News poll

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Speaker 2: says that fifty four percent of respondents say that the

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Speaker 2: economy has gotten worse since Trump was inaugurated. That in fact,

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Speaker 2: at the end of the Biden presidency, they say the

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Speaker 2: economy was better then than it is now, which I

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Speaker 2: just I'm like, I don't know what planet they're living on,

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Speaker 2: or I don't know what planet I'm living on. To me,

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Speaker 2: it's infinitely better than it was at you know, than

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Speaker 2: when Biden left office, I think, to me, there's no question.

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Speaker 2: But they say healthcare costs are way too high. That's

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Speaker 2: one of the things they complain about. That affordability is

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Speaker 2: still a major issue, that most prices have not come down.

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Speaker 2: In fact, they say prices, especially as we've been talking

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Speaker 2: about all morning, home heating, electricity, energy, those continue to

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Speaker 2: go up and up and up. But as I say,

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Speaker 2: that's most much of that is not Trump, that's heat

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Speaker 2: pump Healy as an example in Massachusetts. But still the

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Speaker 2: complaint is cost of living is out of control, wages

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Speaker 2: are not keeping up with this inflation or affordability crisis

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Speaker 2: that we have, and they feel that Trump, generally, I'm

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Speaker 2: going by the polls, has spent way too much time

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Speaker 2: focusing on foreign policy, on issues dealing with Venezuela, Iran, Gaza, Russia, Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: making peace deals, then with driving down inflation, driving down

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Speaker 2: the cost of living, and putting more money in people's paychecks.

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Speaker 2: And so my question is do you agree, disagree, and

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Speaker 2: what do you think accounts for these polls? Six one

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Speaker 2: seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. David in Ashland.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for holding David, and welcome.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for what you do. Regarding your question, I'd

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Speaker 3: have to say it's like two prong type of thing. Basically,

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Speaker 3: you know, Peter paying Paul, and I think that Trump

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Speaker 3: is doing all the correct things, but I think that

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Speaker 3: I'm not seeing it because I'm a senior, I'm a

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Speaker 3: disabled VET, I'm on a fixed income, and what's happening

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Speaker 3: is the state that I live in. Basically, healthcare costs

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Speaker 3: are because I work Ashually, I used to work in healthcare,

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Speaker 3: and healthcare costs I can tell you. You know, you go

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Speaker 3: to the emergency rooms and you see lines and lines

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Speaker 3: of migrants that are sitting there waiting to go in,

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Speaker 3: and I think that that's part of the reason that

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Speaker 3: healthcare costs are high. I think that regarding electric energy.

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Speaker 3: I mean mar heely, she's her and her solar. I

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Speaker 3: mean I was driving on one of the main roads here.

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Speaker 3: All the solar panels are all covered with snow, So

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Speaker 3: how is that working? You know, it's not working. So

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Speaker 3: but I'm the one that has to pay for all

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Speaker 3: the mistakes that they are doing. I mean, I have

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Speaker 3: a son in college, I'm a homeowner, you know, and

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Speaker 3: you know, I think that you know, this whole thing

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Speaker 3: regarding the economy, I think, yeah, I think Trump is

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Speaker 3: doing everything, but I haven't seen it yet. I go

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Speaker 3: to the grocery store. I see the food that they

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Speaker 3: have there. They still have. They change the size of

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Speaker 3: the containers when you used to buy it. The prices

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Speaker 3: haven't changed, and the food, you know, the packaging is smaller.

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Speaker 3: So I don't think it has happened yet, but I

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Speaker 3: think I think it's it's coming. And the problem being

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Speaker 3: is that for all of us is it's not getting

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Speaker 3: out there what he's doing. The news media is doing

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Speaker 3: nothing to tell the other people what's going on. I

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Speaker 3: can tell you I had a lot of patients that

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Speaker 3: I would have to call them at their home and stuff.

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Speaker 3: You know what they're you know what they're doing. They're

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Speaker 3: watching TV. They're watching TV, so they're getting the mainstream media.

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Speaker 3: They're not getting the information that you know, your listeners

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Speaker 3: are getting. You know, I'm I listen to you all

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Speaker 3: every day, you know, and I just think I think

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Speaker 3: that Trump is doing the right thing. But again I

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Speaker 3: think it's now Peter paying Paul so the state. Basically,

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Speaker 3: whatever money I'm saving from Trump or are getting better,

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Speaker 3: it's it's I'm paying the state for the migrants that

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Speaker 3: are here.

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Speaker 2: Well, David, first of all, I don't want to forget

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Speaker 2: because I want to answer your questions and your points,

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Speaker 2: but I want to thank you for your service. I

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Speaker 2: love you guys, really truly. I love you guys from

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Speaker 2: the bottom of my heart. And I wouldn't be behind

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Speaker 2: this microphone if it wasn't for veterans like you, and

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Speaker 2: especially disabled veterans like you, and people like you should

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Speaker 2: be number one. You shouldn't be the last in line.

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Speaker 2: You should be first in line, and we should be

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Speaker 2: taking care of you. Not illegal aliens, not welfare dead beats,

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Speaker 2: not more Healey's cronies, but people like you. People like

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Speaker 2: you should be number one. You should be our number

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Speaker 2: one priority. And look This is what breaks my heart

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Speaker 2: is they're stealing our money here in Massachusetts, and we

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Speaker 2: can beat them. I'm telling you we can beat them.

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Speaker 2: The House of Representatives yesterday past the Save Act. Now

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Speaker 2: we're going to see if we can get it through

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Speaker 2: the Senate. We passed the Save Act. It's going to

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Speaker 2: really put the Democrats on defense even here in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: We need a viable Republican party with candidates that are

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Speaker 2: willing to take the fight, to be as brave politically

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Speaker 2: as vets like you were brave on the battlefield. That's

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Speaker 2: the problem. That's the problem is that if our politicians

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Speaker 2: and our so called political leaders I'm talking about our

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Speaker 2: side Republicans, you know, had one tenth the courage of

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Speaker 2: you and your fellow Vets, we wouldn't be in the

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Speaker 2: hole that we're in. We need a party that will

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Speaker 2: take the fight to Healey because I'm telling you, she's

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Speaker 2: killing us. She's killing us.

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