parents are hesitating, and these parents themselves may have gotten vaccinated, they re still not convinced about the risk/benefit tradeoff. this is not a benign illness. covid is not the flu, even in children. some 8,000 kids and children are hospitalized in the past year. about a third of them have ended up in the icu. around 100 kids between five and 11 have died. and when they get covid, it seems to cause more severe illness than the flu. there are really good reasons, but also in terms of being able to keep schools open and have kids be able to go for in-person learning that we know has health and other impacts on children. and what do we know about the side effects for kids that got the pfizer vaccine in these
imbalanc imbalances. i think the recent deals have put us back. there are lots of places where we should cut. there are 12 nuclear aircraft carriers in the world, 11 out of the united states. do we not have enough? i think there are lots of places we should cut, like defense. there are lots of places we can this does increase the defense spending. i think that s a massive mistake. paul ryan, if you re not willing to come to the table i think it s fair to say there s no serious budget put forth. the progressive caucus has put one forward. i applaud them. i question the math. let me talk about the poverty issue. there are two separate issues on how much you spend on poverty and what you do on poverty. what i mean by the structured programs is most of our programs work so that an extra dollar of earnings, you lose a percentage in benefits. many programs punish work. right. right. which we ve talked about repeatedly on the show that part of it is it brings you up to this marg