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Speaker 1: Do you want to be an American?

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Speaker 2: She got blown back on seven hundred wws. So we

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Speaker 2: have a coalition about half of the United States. The

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Speaker 2: United States and District of Columbia are suing the Trump

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Speaker 2: administration over the suspension of food staff benefits. With the

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Speaker 2: government shutdown happening right now, so here in Ohio, we

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Speaker 2: can't control DC. But now we're going, all right, what

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Speaker 2: about Snap? What about TAMP what about Wick? What about

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Speaker 2: that money if we don't get federal funds? With looking

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Speaker 2: that way as we get closer to Saturday, locally, Governor

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Speaker 2: Dewin said he's studying options involving state money. I had

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Speaker 2: a council member all be on earlier this morning and

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Speaker 2: she said the city's looking at this too. And the

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Speaker 2: county held they hearing yesterday where Alicia Reese was a

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Speaker 2: holding court as she usually does. Commissioner Reese welcome, how

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Speaker 2: are you?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I've had better days, I'll tell you that, But

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Speaker 3: I bet this is toughbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got so to bring people up to speed

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Speaker 2: on this. To bring up to speed, one point four

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Speaker 2: million Ohioans reliance SNAP benefits and about forty three thousand kids,

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Speaker 2: so roughly one in eight folks who live in Hamlin

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Speaker 2: County are getting some form of SNAP benefits. Every month

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Speaker 2: in Hamlin County, SNAP pays out nineteen million dollars, I said,

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Speaker 2: nineteen million a month. With your budget and even the

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Speaker 2: city's budget. I don't know how you overcome that, Alicia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it, you look at it. We can

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Speaker 3: overcome it. I mean, we're talking to almost two hundred

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Speaker 3: and forty million a year, and we're looking at ninety

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Speaker 3: seven thousand of those people, like you said, right here

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Speaker 3: in Hamilton County, and you know they yesterday, the Director

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Speaker 3: of Jobs and Family Services. One of the things he

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Speaker 3: talked about, these are people who are working. Majority of

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Speaker 3: these people who actually work every day, some of them

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Speaker 3: working two and three jobs. You're looking at children who

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Speaker 3: innocent children. Then you're looking at senior citizens who pay

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Speaker 3: their dues.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's a bit chunk of people.

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Speaker 2: Serve.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, veteran to serve this country. I mean, this is

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Speaker 3: uh uh, this is unbelievable. And to deny them something

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Speaker 3: table is unbelievable. And then one of the things the

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Speaker 3: food free store, food bank, which you know, uh, the

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Speaker 3: in world hunger. That's one of my it's just been dear, dear,

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Speaker 3: my heart, and I've always worked with them for you know,

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Speaker 3: was said that we can't food pantry ourselves out into it.

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Speaker 3: You know, even with the money that we have, uh

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Speaker 3: that we had from SNAP. We had SNAP and food

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Speaker 3: Bank was kind of a gap filler. It was never

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Speaker 3: be able to. We're going to put more money toward that.

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Speaker 3: We as a as a county commission, we've put about

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Speaker 3: two million dollars with the URPA money that we did.

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Speaker 3: We're looking for more opera money. We know we probably

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Speaker 3: got at least another two hundred thousand. We're scraping to

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Speaker 3: sign some others so that number may go up, but

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Speaker 3: we know that that is just a temporary situation. Then

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Speaker 3: what people don't understand the economic impact of the SNAP benefits.

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Speaker 3: In other words, for every dollar that we put in

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Speaker 3: you talked about the nineteen million, we get one dollar

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Speaker 3: and fifty four cents back, So we're talking about almost

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Speaker 3: you know, over two hundred close three hundred million dollars

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Speaker 2: Because you're going to buy stuff, You're going to go

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Speaker 2: to the store, you're going to go to Kroger whatever,

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Speaker 2: and that money gets pumped back into the economy, and

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Speaker 2: that means jobs and a few people are done. You know, Okay,

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Speaker 2: you don't need that many people at Kroger working wherever

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Speaker 2: you get your groceries, and you can't, you can't. I

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Speaker 2: talked to a Kurt Ryber on Monday Show, Alicia Rees,

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Speaker 2: CEO of the Freestar Food Bank, and he was he

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Speaker 2: was kind about you, said, well, I'm optimistic we'll get

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Speaker 2: this thing settled now here it is. You know, we're

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Speaker 2: to open twice a month to folks who are on

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Speaker 2: snap are supposed to once a month, and he's gonna

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Speaker 2: have to lean on his vendors as suppliers. And of

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Speaker 2: course the generosity of Cincinnatians and they serve not just Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: but as you know, like twenty counties. So if you're

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Speaker 2: hearing this and like I have make a donation the

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Speaker 2: worst time possible for this to happen.

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Speaker 3: It's the worst time possible. And as you indicate it,

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Speaker 3: we looked at also the Director of Jobs and Family Services,

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Speaker 3: because all of the snap benefits don't happen just at

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the month. Right, We've got half at

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the month, so we've got a group

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Speaker 3: half where theirs are in the middle of the month,

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Speaker 3: so theirs would go out right at Thanksgiving. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's unbelie believable. And then you talked about Krogers and others.

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Speaker 3: They're small, there's farmers' markets, there's smaller retails. Over almost

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Speaker 3: ten thousand retails stores throughout Ohio will be affected. So

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Speaker 3: now we're talking about some you know, some of the

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Speaker 3: smaller stores as well as it affects you know, Krogers

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Speaker 3: higher the prices and so and then some of the

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Speaker 3: smaller retail stores, the farmer markets and those kinds of things.

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Speaker 3: Some of them have indicated they might go out of business.

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Speaker 3: And those are the ones that provide the fresh fruit

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Speaker 3: into some of these food desert areas. So it's a

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Speaker 3: trickle effect. Then you have senior citizens who many are

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Speaker 3: and now you have to decide can afford the medicine

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Speaker 3: that it says you got to eat with the medicine.

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Speaker 3: So it's a trickle down effect. And then we had C.

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Speaker 3: that it will affect people with affordable housing as well.

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Speaker 3: it's slow, it's just everything, and you know, I've been

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Speaker 3: we did that, We did that Bengals deals sloan and

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Speaker 3: they took out thirty percent, so we can't even try

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Speaker 3: fiddling their trying.

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Speaker 1: To figure out what's going on.

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Speaker 2: That's that's a whole separate, complex issue, right, and then

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Speaker 2: the man time it's coming up, bottom line is Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Unless things change in Washington, a lot of people are

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Speaker 2: I look at this thing, Alisha Reese's you know, and

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Speaker 2: we've been for example, the federal workers for example, who

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Speaker 2: now missing a couple paychecks. You know, the most families

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Speaker 2: can afford. You know, Okay, can we tighten it up

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Speaker 2: for till the next pay cycle? Sure we do that

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Speaker 2: all the time. You start talking a couple of pay cycles,

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Speaker 2: it's a different story entirely. And yet these people still

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Speaker 2: have to show up to work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they got to show up to work not getting paid.

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Speaker 3: So now we're in twenty twenty twenty five right, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five people working and not getting paid. Come on,

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Speaker 3: in this society, there'd be a furlough. These people have

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Speaker 3: home mortgages, they will have the property taxes. We do

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Speaker 3: their gas and electrics do. Now you're talking over here

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Speaker 3: those with the snap benefits. Now they can't get anything

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to go. The state then said, hey,

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Speaker 3: you fixed the problem on property taxes, and you saw

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Speaker 3: Butler County. In Warren County, they looking to double the

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Speaker 3: you know, I asked the administrator to look at all options,

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Speaker 3: support to be able to do that here in Hamilton County.

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Speaker 3: So now what do we do. We can't give the

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Speaker 3: homeowners to break federal workers furloughs. That's your middle class

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Speaker 3: that they're working with no paycheck. Senior citizens have done

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Speaker 3: They don't know if to pay for the medicine or

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Speaker 3: can they pay to get something to eat children out

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Speaker 3: here hungry, These ninety seven thousand people affected about the

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Speaker 3: snap benefits, like you said, nutrition and all that, they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean pretty soon, I mean it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: You're gonna look at it and go, Okay, well I

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Speaker 2: And you know, you can have a really good job

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Speaker 1: Hell, Alicia, you got a couple of you.

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Speaker 2: You you make good money, and you still have a

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Speaker 2: hard time paying your electric bill.

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Speaker 3: Hey, let me just say let me say this. Let

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Speaker 3: me say this.

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 3: I am a normal and I and I have the

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Speaker 3: struggles of everybody.

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Speaker 1: Manager.

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Speaker 2: Because this morning Alicia was a little late because her

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Speaker 2: phone died because her power went out.

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, I mean you gotta pay that,

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Speaker 1: you gotta pay, you gotta pay.

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Speaker 4: Duke Kennedy girl, I jumped up, saw, I said, wait,

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Speaker 4: mane you know my list, I got my receipt.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go waving in somebody's face. Somebody, Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what it is.

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Speaker 2: I love the conspiracy, I really really do to do.

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Speaker 1: She's Alicia Ras County Commissioner on the show.

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Speaker 3: It's no. Let me just tell people. I've got the

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Speaker 3: five or three release bus and we have helped thirty

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Speaker 3: thousand people where we got the bus going all over

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Speaker 3: the county. We're going to try to connect people to

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Speaker 3: as much help as we have available to them right now.

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Speaker 3: We're bringing food, We're bringing all kind of help from

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Speaker 3: try to connect them and answer the problems that they

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Speaker 3: may have. And we also try to get people. Let's

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Speaker 3: get these unclaimed funds, every little dollar count. We're in

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Speaker 3: a nine to one one right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are, and you hope that cooler heads prevail.

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Speaker 2: Like if I were to talk to Democrats and Republicans,

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Speaker 2: I think the sentiment of the country is, Okay, you

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Speaker 2: made your point.

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Speaker 1: You made your point.

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Speaker 2: Now now once you get past And the reason why

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Speaker 2: the longest shutdown was thirty five days is because after

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Speaker 2: you know, first few weeks at theater, once you start

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people blame Trump for all this thing,

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Speaker 2: but it's party politics. It's the lines are so defined

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Speaker 2: and it's such a gap between the two parties right now.

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Speaker 2: This is why Congress largely we're sending them to Washington.

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Speaker 2: What are they doing. All they're doing is shutting. They

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Speaker 2: like every ten minutes on the tens.

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Speaker 3: Well, we got to come together. But this is an

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Speaker 3: economics fight we've got to fight going right now. Sloan

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Speaker 3: I encourage all of them to come together, but we

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Speaker 3: also got to make sure that we could afford to

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Speaker 3: whether it's a property taxes, whether it's you know, whether

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Speaker 3: it's cannot afford to go to the hospital right now,

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Speaker 3: because you know we can't. Basically, Americans, we just can't

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Speaker 3: afford to pay more. We can't pay more to go

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Speaker 3: just squeezed, you know, the economy has squeezed us. And

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Speaker 3: trying to trying to survive. And I think I would

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Speaker 3: want all of them. I don't care who you are.

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Speaker 3: Take the posits out of it. Fight for Americans to

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Speaker 2: Forward, to live, go back and negotiate and come up

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Speaker 2: I guess pretending to make affordable something that's not. You're

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: This is why we've got a thirty eight trillion dollar

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Speaker 2: that's all well and good, but that takes ten, twenty, thirty,

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Speaker 2: and we don't need, you know, to empower people in

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Speaker 2: we're not addressing that. We're just kicking the can down

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Speaker 2: the road, and both sides are complicity.

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Speaker 1: That's all it is. And it's squeezing out the county,

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Speaker 1: the city, the state. We're screwed.

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Speaker 2: We don't have the rainy Day Fund, and now that

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Speaker 2: was in the proposals is to get to wind to

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Speaker 2: tap the rainy Day Fund. There's four billion dollars in

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Speaker 2: that I don't know how long that would fund SNAP.

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Speaker 1: It might get us through another month.

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Speaker 2: But the problem with that though is, you know, Alicia,

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Speaker 2: is the General Assembly needs to pass the legislation and

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Speaker 2: that's not going to happen by Saturday. You can't directly

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Speaker 2: fund SNAP because the state it only verifies eligibility. That's

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Speaker 2: a federal government runs that system.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think we all got to have there's unpresident.

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Speaker 3: This is unprecedented what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: It's self inflicted. That's the worst part.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're self inflicting and Americas are getting hurt and

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Speaker 3: you're reading articles that you get in ballrooms even though

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Speaker 3: it's private money. Can you imagine three hundred million of

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Speaker 3: to do SNAP. The money is out there, but they're

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Speaker 3: on it. We got to resent us stuff to Washington,

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Speaker 3: and damn it, Washington, we got to get it back here.

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Speaker 1: Problem.

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Speaker 2: It's a problem working people. I mean, you know, let's

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Speaker 2: take care of the workers focus. Most of the people

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Speaker 2: on SNAP are working families are working at least a

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Speaker 2: couple jobs, and County Commissioner a Lisha Reese, I'll let

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Speaker 2: you go before I don't know. Do you need me

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Speaker 2: Can I help you?

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Speaker 1: What can I do for you?

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Speaker 3: It's been paid? Okay, all right, it's been paid.

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Speaker 1: And you're wireless. Clearly words, Thank god, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't want to be There's some people out there. Let

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Speaker 3: me just say, who can't pay? And I guess I

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Speaker 3: got a glimpse of would have liked to be in

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Speaker 4: Day.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you so much, Alicia, Thanks for jumping on this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks take care, have a good one. It's always bringing

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Speaker 2: the eat here. Sure you're not any money that electric bill?

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Speaker 2: Get to some cash or cricket wireless, keep that phone going.

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Speaker 2: She's good radio. She is Alicia Reese Hamblin County commission

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Speaker 2: in a very serious issue though on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Uh if these benefits, it's part.

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Speaker 2: I want to believe that even Washington has some sense

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Speaker 2: and goes, you know, we really we really need to

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Speaker 2: come to some common ground here because people are going

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Speaker 2: to suffer starting on Saturday. Now, is it gonna be

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Speaker 2: now what four million people starving, and I no, it's

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Speaker 2: good a few days, but uh, the point has been made.

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Speaker 2: It's time to actually govern for a change. How about

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Speaker 2: that we sent you to Washington to governor how about governing?

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Speaker 1: Why did you do that? Sloaney seven hundred, wil