These younger politicians potentially have greater concern for the future, particularly in a country like Japan that faces these challenges for the social welfare budget of a rapidly aging population and declining birth rates.

Rob: Then there were the cuts to the welfare system in 2013 which added to the problem.

The oil industry gets $4 billion a year in corporate welfare. Basically, they get deductions

The common welfare was my business.

Lily isn't happy in liberty and moves to Freeland with a stronger welfare state.

Dojunkan. Dojunkai means people's welfare, and the apartments were a humanist response to the disaster.

Individual assistance, that includes, I'm not naming everything that's included, but just to give you a few examples, Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause.

Of course, you can't necessarily predict from a mouse or a dog what's going to happen in a human. And there have been a number of cases where substances that have proven to be toxic in animals have been proven to be safe in humans and vice versa. There are also of course animal welfare limitations to animal testing. Most people, I think, if they had the choice, would want their substances to be used on as few animals or no animals as possible while still ensuring safety. Now that's been a really difficult needle to thread, but AI might help to make that more possible.

In 2023, the police arrived at a farm in Sissonville, West Virginia, after someone called with concerns over child welfare.

It just it feels like They're intentionally tearing this apart for No good reason right it's a the common phrase that I'm starting to hear now is Suicide of a superpower, which ironically is very close to the name of a Pat Buchanan book about the United States under you know, its previous liberal democratic regime and Buchanan was bemoaning the way in which You know policies of multiculturalism and open trade degraded what he saw was good about the United States and obviously Buchanan is the ideological predecessor But Trump in many ways as a political figure and what we're seeing is that the Buchananite policies being pursued by the administration are the ones that are actually eroding the foundations of American I mean American global leadership is putting it too mildly right like America's ability to be the engine of Global human progress, whatever you think of American foreign policy specifically It's economic dynamism and scientific research have really powered tremendous amounts of Global good right of helping the world's develop new technologies that have improved Human welfare of keeping people getting people everywhere richer, right?