Mr. Buckley down to discuss a collection of his from the book, happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, footnotes. On the cover of your new book, it says the sections of the libertarian journalists. To call yourself a libertarian. Often on. As of course you know, the movement was encouraged by National Review. In the late 50s and the idea was to put a dot to the libertarians and the conservatives too much they had in common. And how effective it would be between them. And known that i am a libertarian. In the term, and most of whatever ideas and or intended to those or diminish the human liberty. Host remembering say you saying, made when you ran for the bear new york. They just seem people throw the garbage out the window. If the people would pick it up and deal with it rather than government deal with things. William no. Your memory is in which he was defending, lettering of the streets. On the grounds that is a form of something against the city.
My wife and i, 31 years ago, began our business. Honestly, over all of these years, we had faced some adversity and challenges, but to be honest, nothing like we are today. We have literally had to reinvent our business several times since the beginning of the year just to stay afloat. We our revenue, for example, is off about 40 . We have half of the employees that we had precovid. And our customers are a little scared, our employees are sometimes afraid to come to work because of the covid. And to be honest with you, i am just frustrated. I dont understand how we got here. We are the greatest nation in the world. And it just seems to me that, maybe if we just came together on this one issue alone, maybe , as americans and being united, we can overcome it. Yeah. Thank you, scott, for sharing your story. I am sure many Small Business owners feel the same way that you are feeling now. We wish you the best for your business and, of course, for your family. Now i would like to turn to mar
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Line as we give a pause for call tim hortoncallers to call in. We have two callers on the phone line and zero callers vented the Public Comment queue at this time. The final reminder to all callers on the line, dial star 3 now if you want to join specific comment. We will wait three more seconds and close Public Comment. Im seeing one caller with a hand raised and you hear a moment of silence as that caller is elevated. Hello, commissioners, my name is inaudible . Welcome, caller. My name is Richard Rothman and i dont know if you remember me but last year i had a lot of trouble with delta dental telling me different stories of what is covered under the smile program and what is not. How do we know this information is correct from delta dental . You know, when i dealt with them, the representative kept telling me different stories. Its covered, its not covered. Its covered. Its not covered. So how do we know for sure that what they say is accurate. They put me through a lot of trouble,