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He can get everything he wants. He can get [00:28] immigration, climate change, guns, whatever he thinks [00:32] he wants to get. But if he doesn't stabilize Social [00:35] Security, for 75 years and get health care reined in. [00:39] So it doesn't consume the entire gross product, he will [00:43] have a failed presidency. It's just a total lack of [00:47] communication, and a very unfortunate thing [00:50] happening with this president, which discloses an [00:52] arrogance and an unwillingness to compromise, and a [00:57] loftiness, which is not pleasant. Like, these things are [01:00] happening. He's sayin, why I'm so shocked at that, [01:03] we're going to do something about it. Well hell he's the [01:06] president. He shouldn't be shocked at what his IRS is [01:08] doing or his National Security Council. That is beginning [01:12] to leak down through his White House, that you gotta [01:16] get to the big stuff. So they're getting on a plane and [01:19] going somewhere else every other week. Anyway, I [01:22] admire him and he made me, you know, he just [01:25] appointed me to this commission, but, you know, [01:27] madness. People of America are very sad about it, and [01:31] disgusted. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Alan Simpson on Obama","description":"Alan Simpson on Obama","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/SLYttuxe/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-06-26T21:30:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SLYttuxe.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/SLYttuxe/","duration":"PT1M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/SLYttuxe/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```