wrong because if putin i m sorry, if president xi successfully invades taiwan that would have a huge impact on the global economy, whether it s on semiconductors, closing off shipping routes. it would have a massive impact and what it would show is it would show that china and its authoritarian allies are on the march and that s what we cannot allow to happen. neil: all right, former and brief british prime minister liz truss saying she s concerned about a comment made by emmanuel macron is a u.s. fixation. and the leaks keep coming out how china, taiwan, and china and russia, and all of these things are sort of joined at the intelligence hip and the revelations that we ve heard. and alexandria hoff is looking at what we re continuing to get. the young man accused in all of this, he may have been accessing classified intelligence networks right down to the wire how close they were to finding the breach. jack teixeira was searching leak on the government issued computer one
costs 401(k) s and ira s, 3.4 trillion dollars in the first half of 2022. neil. back to you. neil: all right. gerri, thank you for that. i want 0 to go to martin and aaron, and passionate souls, i m sure they would help out family members if they were in duress. scott, one thing that s happening, parents are doing it at their own expense and retirement security. what do you make of that? well, it s tough. it s a tough decision, neil, i m not sure which way, my kids are 12 and nine and don t have to worry about it too much, but they re expensive. in the days of crazy inflation nicely flattening out finally you have to be careful about your retirement savings and what you spend on items, luxury goods and discretionary items, too. going forward, i think we re going to see a more deflationary environment and the market is going to continue to rebound and therefore, folks concerned about retirement as
diabetes, both agree that americans love her super sized meals and lack of exercise is courting disaster. the doctor says if diabetes is not reduced health care costs will keep increasing. in 2010, we were at 194 billion dollars and by 2020, if we do nothing, we ll be the at 500 billion dollars a year. and over that decade, that s 3.4 trillion dollars. and that s staggering. the y is making a significant intervention to reverse at that costly trend and the c.d.c. and united health group are recruiting more organizations to help limit diabetes and united health group will make the diabetes prevention programs available to medicaid recipients for the first time, initially starting right here in the new york area and then spreading out. plenty of folks will benefit. yes, 79 million people pre-diabetic right now.
close that gap of what is due and owing to the state workers when it comes to pensions and retired health benefits. harris: so in connecticut they want to do it without touching the unions? they want to freeze pay and raise the retirement age in connecticut and you re right, essentially that s basically it, not touching the collective bargaining rights, harris, so, we ve seen in wisconsin it s a fight about collective bargaining rights and the governor wants to stop that. he also wants to stop the dues that are paid by state workers and we saw, you know, last year, in about 25 states a lot of union activity where the unions took those dues and used that money to lobby for state tax and spending increases to cover their pay in 25 states. the next 29 states raised taxes by 24 billion dollars. harris: so that kind of takes it into a political realm as well. so potentially 3.4 trillion dollars, that has to be paid and the pensions and benefits