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Claudia rankin discusses her book, citizen an american lyric, a finalist for the National Book award. Hi, everyone welcome. Im Bridget Mullins a professor here at usc in the master of professional writing program and im so thrilled to be here with Claudia Rankin today. An and i want to thank the l. A. Times festival of books curators for asking me to be the moderator and the interviewer today because there are so many amazingly qualified people on this campus at the moment, and im just sitting in the catbird seat. Couple of announcements before we start. Please silence your cell phones. And theres a book signing following this session. The book signing is located at signing area one and its noted on the festival map in the center of the event program. And that personal recording is not allowed. So i as i just mentioned i ....
Gerri well, if you watch the show anytime at all ive been warning about this for some time. Now it is taking a step closer to reality. Listen to this. The government wants to raid your retirement account. Thats right. In his new budget to congrs, next month, the president will propose a broad range of new tax hikes specifically targeting people who have spent years saving for retirement. Probably like you and me. Ric edelman, from edelman financial will be here in just a second to talk about that. But first, the whiteouse has officially thrown in the towel on deficit reduction. The president s new budget contains more spending and more tax hikes. The center of the president s plan to reduce the deficit, a cut in sociasecurity benefits, now gone. Here with the latest is heritage foundations romania. Greato have you here. Were talking in the show tonight how the government wants to crack down, have peoe save less money for retirent. My question was, what do you want to spend that on . No ....
Gerri well, if you watch the show anytime at all ive been warning about this for some time. Now it is taking a step closer to reality. Listen to this. The government wants to raid your retirement account. Thats right. In his new budget to congress, next month, the president will propose a broad range of new tax hikes specifically targeting people who have spent years saving for retirement. Probably like you and me. Ric edelman, from edelman financial will be here in just a second to talk about that. But first, the white house has officially thrown in the towel on deficit reduction. The president s new budget contains more spending and more tax hikes. The center of the president s plan to reduce the deficit, a cut in Social Security benefits, now gone. Here with the latest is heritage foundations romania. Great to have you here. Were talking in the show tonight how the government wants to crack down, have people save less money fo ....