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Sununu predicts a US fiscal car crash within eight to nine years
“We have eight, I think we have eight or nine years here, but there will be a, I think a fiscal car crash, so to say, where social security, Medicare the debt, you know, the interest, what interest hit over a trillion this year.”
Sununu: AI will extend human lifespans to 100-105 and cure cancer
“I do believe all this amazing AI technology is people, I think people's lifespans are going to increase exponentially. Not until like 200 years, but we're not going to be living to 75, but we're going to be more commonly living to a hundred or a 105. There'll …”
Sununu: Electricians, plumbers, and mechanics will be tomorrow's millionaires
“The challenge you're gonna have is the electricians, the plumbers the mechanics, these guys are making a fortune now, and I love it. These are tomorrow's millionaires.”
Sununu: There Is No Free Market in Healthcare
“Now, I don't, we, I don't know what you think, but there's no free market in healthcare. It doesn't exist.”
Sununu: Article V Movement Uses Convention Threat to Force Congress Action
“We don't want a convention. We want the threat of a convention because ideally if the states, if we do a convention, Congress has cut out of the process. They don't get to write it. Now what they could do is write it themselves today, like right now. And that'…”
Sununu: Funding flawed government systems accelerates effort in the wrong direction
“That's the biggest problem we have in America. We have an old system, an old design, and they say, well, you know, to make it better, we just need to put more money there. But if putting more money into something pushes harder, but if you're going in the wrong…”
Sununu: New Hampshire Opioid Death Rate Improved From Worst to ~24th
“What we did with the opioid crisis I thought was pretty awesome in that we were, you know, had the worst death rate in the country. When I left, it was, it's still not great. It was like 24th or something in the country.”
Sununu: Government budget cutting requires gradual off-ramps rather than abrupt cliffs
“So the best way to cut is to cut with a, I call it a, an off ramp, not a cliff, right? You don't want to take a program and say, well, I can't afford it. So it's gone tomorrow. No, we can't afford it. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna ratchet it down over …”
Sununu: Balanced Budget Movement Has 27 States, Eyes South Carolina Next
“We have 27 states. We're about to get our 28th state in South Carolina, I think this January.”
Sununu: Inflation is the most damaging tax on impoverished Americans
“And what is inflation? It's the worst tax on the poor. Because you can handle a little inflation, I can handle it, most Americans can handle it, but that 10 to 15% of Americans that are really impoverished, they have to turn on their light switch, they have to…”