again. i look around the country. there is parts of iowa that have been hollowed out, particularly in the eastern part. i talked to folks and seen what that did for the community. we were sold a bill of goods by elites in the country putting china on the wto was going to lead to our manufacturing exporting a bunch of stuff there. instead, they gobbled up so much more manufacturing. i don t think you can be a first rate power unless you have a strong industrial base. we are going to do that here. we will work on work force education. not everyone needs to do a four year brick and ivy university. that s not the best way or only way for people to succeed. we will do skilled trades, vocational. we have done that in florida. it s going to be a really, really big thing. but i just think the middle of the country has to have those good paying jobs and we can t put the interests of some of the people on wall street over the interests of americans on main street. let s move on to social secur
let s move on to social security. a courting to the social security administration, social security will be unable to pay full benefits in a decade if no action is taken. governor desantis, you have said, you are not going to, quote, mess with social security, unquote. does this mean that you have committed to never raising the retirement age, and never cutting benefits? all seniors out there, a promise has been made to you. you paid into this. every paycheck you have had, your entire, life they ve taken money out of. the province needs to be fulfilled. that will happen when i m president, of course, i have a lot of seniors in florida who depend on social security. i know many of them. i think back to my own grandmother who lived till 91. social security was her only source of income. promise made, promise kept. on the retirement age, it used to be that people would say, well, life expectancy is going up, shouldn t it mirror that? well, the problem in the last five years is that li