WEBVTT - 10-29-25 Sloan with Alicia Reece

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<v Speaker 1>Do you want to be an American?

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<v Speaker 2>She got blown back on seven hundred wws. So we

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<v Speaker 2>have a coalition about half of the United States. The

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<v Speaker 2>United States and District of Columbia are suing the Trump

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<v Speaker 2>administration over the suspension of food staff benefits. With the

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<v Speaker 2>government shutdown happening right now, so here in Ohio, we

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

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<v Speaker 2>about Snap? What about TAMP what about Wick? What about

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<v Speaker 2>that money if we don't get federal funds? With looking

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<v Speaker 2>that way as we get closer to Saturday, locally, Governor

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<v Speaker 2>Dewin said he's studying options involving state money. I had

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<v Speaker 2>a council member all be on earlier this morning and

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<v Speaker 2>she said the city's looking at this too. And the

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<v Speaker 2>county held they hearing yesterday where Alicia Reese was a

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<v Speaker 2>holding court as she usually does. Commissioner Reese welcome, how

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<v Speaker 2>are you?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, I've had better days, I'll tell you that, But

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<v Speaker 3>I bet this is toughbelievable.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we got so to bring people up to speed

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<v Speaker 2>on this. To bring up to speed, one point four

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<v Speaker 2>million Ohioans reliance SNAP benefits and about forty three thousand kids,

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<v Speaker 2>so roughly one in eight folks who live in Hamlin

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<v Speaker 2>County are getting some form of SNAP benefits. Every month

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<v Speaker 2>in Hamlin County, SNAP pays out nineteen million dollars, I said,

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen million a month. With your budget and even the

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

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean it, you look at it. We can

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

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<v Speaker 3>and forty million a year, and we're looking at ninety

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<v Speaker 3>seven thousand of those people, like you said, right here

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<v Speaker 3>in Hamilton County, and you know they yesterday, the Director

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<v Speaker 3>of Jobs and Family Services. One of the things he

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<v Speaker 3>talked about, these are people who are working. Majority of

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<v Speaker 3>these people who actually work every day, some of them

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<v Speaker 3>working two and three jobs. You're looking at children who

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<v Speaker 3>innocent children. Then you're looking at senior citizens who pay

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<v Speaker 3>their dues.

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<v Speaker 2>There.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, that's a bit chunk of people.

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<v Speaker 2>Serve.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, veteran to serve this country. I mean, this is

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<v Speaker 3>uh uh, this is unbelievable. And to deny them something

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<v Speaker 3>as basic as being able to have food on the

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<v Speaker 3>table is unbelievable. And then one of the things the

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<v Speaker 3>food free store, food bank, which you know, uh, the

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

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

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<v Speaker 3>most of my life helping. One of the things that

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

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<v Speaker 3>You know, even with the money that we have, uh

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<v Speaker 3>that we had from SNAP. We had SNAP and food

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<v Speaker 3>Bank was kind of a gap filler. It was never

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<v Speaker 3>the main line, and so it won't be we won't

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<v Speaker 3>be able to. We're going to put more money toward that.

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<v Speaker 3>We as a as a county commission, we've put about

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<v Speaker 3>two million dollars with the URPA money that we did.

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<v Speaker 3>We're looking for more opera money. We know we probably

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<v Speaker 3>got at least another two hundred thousand. We're scraping to

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<v Speaker 3>sign some others so that number may go up, but

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<v Speaker 3>we know that that is just a temporary situation. Then

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<v Speaker 3>what people don't understand the economic impact of the SNAP benefits.

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<v Speaker 3>In other words, for every dollar that we put in

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<v Speaker 3>you talked about the nineteen million, we get one dollar

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<v Speaker 3>and fifty four cents back, So we're talking about almost

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<v Speaker 3>you know, over two hundred close three hundred million dollars

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<v Speaker 3>economically in the economy to keep this economy going.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you're going to buy stuff, You're going to go

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<v Speaker 2>to the store, you're going to go to Kroger whatever,

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<v Speaker 2>and that money gets pumped back into the economy, and

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

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<v Speaker 2>you don't need that many people at Kroger working wherever

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<v Speaker 2>you get your groceries, and you can't, you can't. I

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<v Speaker 2>talked to a Kurt Ryber on Monday Show, Alicia Rees,

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<v Speaker 2>CEO of the Freestar Food Bank, and he was he

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>heading in the back half the week and all of

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<v Speaker 2>a sudden that's not looking at a certainty or a

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<v Speaker 2>guarantee for sure. But he said, look, we might have

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<v Speaker 2>to open twice a month to folks who are on

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<v Speaker 2>snap are supposed to once a month, and he's gonna

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<v Speaker 2>have to lean on his vendors as suppliers. And of

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<v Speaker 2>course the generosity of Cincinnatians and they serve not just Cincinnati,

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<v Speaker 2>but as you know, like twenty counties. So if you're

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<v Speaker 2>hearing this and like I have make a donation the

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<v Speaker 2>free store food Bank because it's that time of the

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<v Speaker 2>year and now we're getting to you know, Thanksgiving and

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<v Speaker 2>Christmas when the need is even great. It's like the

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<v Speaker 2>worst time possible for this to happen.

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

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<v Speaker 3>we looked at also the Director of Jobs and Family Services,

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<v Speaker 3>because all of the snap benefits don't happen just at

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<v Speaker 3>the beginning of the month. Right, We've got half at

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<v Speaker 3>the beginning of the month, so we've got a group

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<v Speaker 3>that will be impacted November first. Then we've got another

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<v Speaker 3>half where theirs are in the middle of the month,

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<v Speaker 3>so theirs would go out right at Thanksgiving. I mean,

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

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

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<v Speaker 3>ten thousand retails stores throughout Ohio will be affected. So

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<v Speaker 3>now we're talking about some you know, some of the

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<v Speaker 3>smaller stores as well as it affects you know, Krogers

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<v Speaker 3>and all those because the less people buy, right, the

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<v Speaker 3>higher the prices and so and then some of the

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<v Speaker 3>smaller retail stores, the farmer markets and those kinds of things.

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<v Speaker 3>Some of them have indicated they might go out of business.

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<v Speaker 3>And those are the ones that provide the fresh fruit

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<v Speaker 3>into some of these food desert areas. So it's a

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<v Speaker 3>trickle effect. Then you have senior citizens who many are

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<v Speaker 3>on medicine, and some children that have to take medicines,

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<v Speaker 3>and now you have to decide can afford the medicine

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<v Speaker 3>or the food. And everybody knows when you take medicines

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<v Speaker 3>that it says you got to eat with the medicine.

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

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<v Speaker 3>Mha a director come in and he said it also

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<v Speaker 3>affects because now we're talking about housing and his program

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<v Speaker 3>has because of the government shut down. Uh. He indicated

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<v Speaker 3>that it will affect people with affordable housing as well.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, we've been pushing affordable housing. Will people

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<v Speaker 3>be able to have a place to live? And you know,

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<v Speaker 3>it's slow, it's just everything, and you know, I've been

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<v Speaker 3>on this property taxes just chilling us, you know, and

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<v Speaker 3>we did that, We did that Bengals deals sloan and

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<v Speaker 3>they took out thirty percent, so we can't even try

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<v Speaker 3>to get the thirty percent rebate. Then the state would

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<v Speaker 3>not do anything on the property taxes. Yet they're still

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<v Speaker 3>fiddling their trying.

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<v Speaker 1>To figure out what's going on.

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<v Speaker 2>That's that's a whole separate, complex issue, right, and then

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

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<v Speaker 2>Unless things change in Washington, a lot of people are

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<v Speaker 2>going to have to do without. And I, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I look at this thing, Alisha Reese's you know, and

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<v Speaker 2>we've been for example, the federal workers for example, who

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<v Speaker 2>are working out of the paycheck. And I said, when

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<v Speaker 2>this thing started, I was like, Okay, it's theater, is

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<v Speaker 2>what it is. And then what happens in about thirty

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<v Speaker 2>days that theater becomes reality. So you see the snap

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<v Speaker 2>benefits cut concerns with the FAA. You have frederial workers

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<v Speaker 2>now missing a couple paychecks. You know, the most families

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<v Speaker 2>can afford. You know, Okay, can we tighten it up

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<v Speaker 2>for till the next pay cycle? Sure we do that

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<v Speaker 2>all the time. You start talking a couple of pay cycles,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a different story entirely. And yet these people still

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<v Speaker 2>have to show up to work.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they got to show up to work not getting paid.

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<v Speaker 3>So now we're in twenty twenty twenty five right, twenty

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<v Speaker 3>twenty five people working and not getting paid. Come on,

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

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<v Speaker 3>home mortgages, they will have the property taxes. We do

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<v Speaker 3>their gas and electrics do. Now you're talking over here

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<v Speaker 3>those with the snap benefits. Now they can't get anything

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<v Speaker 3>to eat. Children and families worried, how this is outrageous,

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<v Speaker 3>and then it's song, we have until this Thursday, and

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

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<v Speaker 3>you fixed the problem on property taxes, and you saw

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<v Speaker 3>Butler County. In Warren County, they looking to double the

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<v Speaker 3>homestead to help the seniors. But it doesn't look like

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I asked the administrator to look at all options,

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<v Speaker 3>and it doesn't seem like I'm going to get the

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<v Speaker 3>support to be able to do that here in Hamilton County.

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<v Speaker 3>So now what do we do. We can't give the

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<v Speaker 3>homeowners to break federal workers furloughs. That's your middle class

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<v Speaker 3>that they're working with no paycheck. Senior citizens have done

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<v Speaker 3>their time and they can't now get anything to eat.

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<v Speaker 3>They don't know if to pay for the medicine or

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<v Speaker 3>can they pay to get something to eat children out

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<v Speaker 3>here hungry, These ninety seven thousand people affected about the

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<v Speaker 3>snap benefits, like you said, nutrition and all that, they

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<v Speaker 3>can't even get any thing to eat. And most of

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<v Speaker 3>them are working every day. I mean, what what are

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<v Speaker 3>we doing here?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean pretty soon, I mean it's gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>You're gonna look at it and go, Okay, well I

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<v Speaker 2>can feed my kids, or I can pay the electric bill.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, you can have a really good job

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<v Speaker 2>and good income stream and still feel the pinch of

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<v Speaker 2>the spadic.

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<v Speaker 1>Hell, Alicia, you got a couple of you.

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<v Speaker 2>You you make good money, and you still have a

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<v Speaker 2>hard time paying your electric bill.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, let me just say let me say this. Let

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<v Speaker 3>me say this.

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<v Speaker 1>I am.

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<v Speaker 3>I am a normal and I and I have the

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<v Speaker 3>struggles of everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>Manager.

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<v Speaker 2>Because this morning Alicia was a little late because her

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<v Speaker 2>phone died because her power went out.

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<v Speaker 1>And I said, well, I mean you gotta pay that,

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<v Speaker 1>you gotta pay, you gotta pay.

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<v Speaker 4>Duke Kennedy girl, I jumped up, saw, I said, wait,

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<v Speaker 4>mane you know my list, I got my receipt.

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

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<v Speaker 1>what it is.

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<v Speaker 2>I love the conspiracy, I really really do to do.

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<v Speaker 1>She's Alicia Ras County Commissioner on the show.

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

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<v Speaker 3>five or three release bus and we have helped thirty

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<v Speaker 3>thousand people where we got the bus going all over

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<v Speaker 3>the county. We're going to try to connect people to

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<v Speaker 3>as much help as we have available to them right now.

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<v Speaker 3>We're bringing food, We're bringing all kind of help from

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<v Speaker 3>jobs and family services, anything we have. We're going to

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<v Speaker 3>try to connect them and answer the problems that they

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<v Speaker 3>may have. And we also try to get people. Let's

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

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<v Speaker 3>a nine to one one right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we are, and you hope that cooler heads prevail.

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<v Speaker 2>Like if I were to talk to Democrats and Republicans,

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<v Speaker 2>I think the sentiment of the country is, Okay, you

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<v Speaker 2>made your point.

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<v Speaker 1>You made your point.

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<v Speaker 2>Now now once you get past And the reason why

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<v Speaker 2>the longest shutdown was thirty five days is because after

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<v Speaker 2>you know, first few weeks at theater, once you start

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<v Speaker 2>to get past that thirty day, market really starts to

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<v Speaker 2>hurt people who don't deserve it, and you so at

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<v Speaker 2>the end of the day is you could play party

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<v Speaker 2>politics and our sides got to win and crush the

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<v Speaker 2>other side. But you know when when individual families and

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<v Speaker 2>kids and veterans and seniors are getting squeezed out and

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<v Speaker 2>literally not getting food, I think that's time both sides

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<v Speaker 2>have to go. Look, we made our point. We've eventually

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<v Speaker 2>got a govern here. We got to legislate, and let's

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<v Speaker 2>fix this problem through the legislative action, not executive order.

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<v Speaker 2>And a lot of people blame Trump for all this thing,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's party politics. It's the lines are so defined

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

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<v Speaker 2>This is why Congress largely we're sending them to Washington.

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<v Speaker 2>What are they doing. All they're doing is shutting. They

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<v Speaker 2>came and bounce a budgetalasea, you got one job, you

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<v Speaker 2>can't do that, and then you shut the government down

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<v Speaker 2>like every ten minutes on the tens.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, we got to come together. But this is an

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<v Speaker 3>economics fight we've got to fight going right now. Sloan

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<v Speaker 3>from creating the have and the have nots, and the

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<v Speaker 3>have nots is growing and getting crushed at whatever they do.

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<v Speaker 3>I encourage all of them to come together, but we

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<v Speaker 3>also got to make sure that we could afford to

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<v Speaker 3>go to the hospital. I mean, I mean it's an

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<v Speaker 3>economics fight, like you said, whether it's a snap benefit,

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<v Speaker 3>whether it's a property taxes, whether it's you know, whether

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<v Speaker 3>it's cannot afford to go to the hospital right now,

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<v Speaker 3>because you know we can't. Basically, Americans, we just can't

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<v Speaker 3>afford to pay more. We can't pay more to go

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<v Speaker 3>to the hospital. We can't pay more to go to

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<v Speaker 3>the doctors. We can't go out here and cut our

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<v Speaker 3>snap benefits. We can't pay more for property taxes. We

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<v Speaker 3>just squeezed, you know, the economy has squeezed us. And

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<v Speaker 3>like you said, here we are down at the bottom,

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<v Speaker 3>trying to trying to survive. And I think I would

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<v Speaker 3>want all of them. I don't care who you are.

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<v Speaker 3>Take the posits out of it. Fight for Americans to

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<v Speaker 3>be able to look.

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<v Speaker 2>Forward, to live, go back and negotiate and come up

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<v Speaker 2>with something. And you know, Democrats, it's about subsidy. I

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<v Speaker 2>think subsidy is terrible because it's just making affordable or

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

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<v Speaker 2>taking cash from one palm, move it to another.

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<v Speaker 1>At the end of the day.

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<v Speaker 2>This is why we've got a thirty eight trillion dollar

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<v Speaker 2>deficit with the subsidies republics. And I've talked to many

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<v Speaker 2>of my friends in the right side of the l

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<v Speaker 2>talk about, you know, empowering people to take care of

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<v Speaker 2>better care of their health and incentivizing well and it's

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<v Speaker 2>that's all well and good, but that takes ten, twenty, thirty,

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<v Speaker 2>forty years or more for that to take it. We

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<v Speaker 2>need a plan right now. We need to fix the

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<v Speaker 2>broken healthcare system right now. We don't need more subsidy,

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<v Speaker 2>and we don't need, you know, to empower people in

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<v Speaker 2>future generations to get healthy. We still need to have

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<v Speaker 2>people today that have cancer, that have diabetes, that are

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<v Speaker 2>in wheelchairs, that have mental illness, all those things. And

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<v Speaker 2>we're not addressing that. We're just kicking the can down

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<v Speaker 2>the road, and both sides are complicity.

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<v Speaker 1>That's all it is. And it's squeezing out the county,

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<v Speaker 1>the city, the state. We're screwed.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't have the rainy Day Fund, and now that

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<v Speaker 2>was in the proposals is to get to wind to

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<v Speaker 2>tap the rainy Day Fund. There's four billion dollars in

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<v Speaker 2>that I don't know how long that would fund SNAP.

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<v Speaker 1>It might get us through another month.

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<v Speaker 2>But the problem with that though is, you know, Alicia,

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<v Speaker 2>is the General Assembly needs to pass the legislation and

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

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<v Speaker 2>fund SNAP because the state it only verifies eligibility. That's

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<v Speaker 2>a federal government runs that system.

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

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<v Speaker 3>This is unprecedented what we're doing.

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<v Speaker 1>It's self inflicted. That's the worst part.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we're self inflicting and Americas are getting hurt and

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<v Speaker 3>you're reading articles that you get in ballrooms even though

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<v Speaker 3>it's private money. Can you imagine three hundred million of

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<v Speaker 3>private money immediately? We need two hundred and forty million

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

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<v Speaker 3>just squeezing everybody to having no money, and then only

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<v Speaker 3>certain people have money. And we, like you said, we

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<v Speaker 3>pay our taxes and we got to get a return

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<v Speaker 3>on it. We got to resent us stuff to Washington,

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<v Speaker 3>and damn it, Washington, we got to get it back here.

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<v Speaker 1>Problem.

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

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<v Speaker 2>take care of the workers focus. Most of the people

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<v Speaker 2>on SNAP are working families are working at least a

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<v Speaker 2>couple jobs, and County Commissioner a Lisha Reese, I'll let

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<v Speaker 2>you go before I don't know. Do you need me

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<v Speaker 2>the venue money so you can pay your electric bill?

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<v Speaker 2>Can I help you?

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<v Speaker 1>What can I do for you?

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<v Speaker 3>It's been paid? Okay, all right, it's been paid.

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<v Speaker 1>And you're wireless. Clearly words, Thank god, I.

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

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<v Speaker 3>me just say, who can't pay? And I guess I

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<v Speaker 3>got a glimpse of would have liked to be in

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<v Speaker 3>the dark. And that's.

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<v Speaker 4>Day.

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<v Speaker 2>Appreciate you so much, Alicia, Thanks for jumping on this morning.

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>Get to some cash or cricket wireless, keep that phone going.

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<v Speaker 2>She's good radio. She is Alicia Reese Hamblin County commission

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<v Speaker 2>in a very serious issue though on Saturday.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh if these benefits, it's part.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to believe that even Washington has some sense

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<v Speaker 2>and goes, you know, we really we really need to

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<v Speaker 2>come to some common ground here because people are going

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<v Speaker 2>to suffer starting on Saturday. Now, is it gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>Saturday exactly that all of a sudden, we're gonna have all,

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<v Speaker 2>now what four million people starving, and I no, it's

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<v Speaker 2>good a few days, but uh, the point has been made.

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<v Speaker 2>It's time to actually govern for a change. How about

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<v Speaker 2>that we sent you to Washington to governor how about governing?

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<v Speaker 1>Why did you do that? Sloaney seven hundred, wil