March 19, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode, Tudor speaks with Alfredo Ortiz, CEO of Job Creators Network, about the challenges facing small businesses in America, particularly under the Trump administration. They discuss the impact of regulations, the importance of business plans, and the role of the Small Business Administration (SBA) in supporting entrepreneurs. Alfredo emphasizes the need for a balanced budget amendment and the importance of investing in oneself and one's ideas. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today, I have Alfredo
or Teas with me.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
He is the CEO of.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Job Creators Network and the author of The Real Race
Revolutionaries and the co host of the Main.
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Street Matters podcast.
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eight eight eight four eight eight four three two five.
We are in the midst of all of this stuff
that Trump is doing, and people are worried about it,
and small businesses are worried about it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But Trumpers are not.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Worried about it, clearly, because if you look at the
people who voted for Trump, they are very happy. I
think it's the mainstream media that's trying to tell us
that people are concerned. And yet you look at the
difference between Trump and the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
The Democrats they are at their lowest.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Level of favorability ever and Trump is still surpassing them
by leaps and bounds.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So what's your take on what's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, tutor, first of all, great to see you, Thanks
for having me given that at Saint Patrick's Day today.
Happy see Patty's Day. Sye are wearing green? I unfortunately
forgot my green so so oh well, I guess I
get a pinched later eventually.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's from some exactly That's what my girls would say.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Although the liberal left tells me you can't do that anymore,
because that's I know, somehow not allowed. But anyways, so look,
I think what Trump is doing is exactly what the
voters asked them to do, and why they put them
back in office is because it was just a mess
for four years, you know, the Buying administration just hitting
us with regulation after regulation, almost two trillion dollars in
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regulations that hit the economy. Trust me, that really hit
our small businesses. That combined with inflation, and they were
still trying to come out of COVID. I mean, our
small business owners have really really been hurt over the years,
and so Trump to the rescue as far as I'm concerned,
and so do you think, I'm a business person, I
love it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Do you think that's the message going into the midterms
is that this is getting government out of the way,
this continued release of regulation. I mean, I know in
the state of Michigan, I mean, your podcast is main
Street Matters. That's literally the truth in the state of Michigan,
and main Street has been shut down because of over
regulation and the fact that the government just comes and
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takes your license at a moment's notice.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I mean, it's just crazy what's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean when I look across the country,
I mean, our small businesses still are hurting, don't need
a lot of support. I am so excited to be
working with Kelly Leffler, so excited that she's the new
administrator of the SBA. She gets that she's a foreigner
business person. She and I've ever been in communications. But
things that need to happen. I mean, look the SBA.
First of all, I think, just shut it down in
DC as far as I'm concerned, because when's the last
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time someone from Dubuque, Iowa, some entrepreneur decide, Hey, you
know what, I think I'm going to start a small business.
Think We're going to hop on a plane, go to DC,
you know, making appointments with somebody I mean I don't
know who in those big offices in DC and talked
to them about starting a small business. That's not the
way it works, right, So we should get all those
employees out of there to close it all down. Push
(04:03):
those people out, at least qualified people. I should say,
out to the you know, the regional offices making entrepreneurship centers,
innovation centers, right, I mean that really encourage I mean,
tootor twenty percent of small businesses fail in the first year,
and if you ask and look at the reason why,
the number one reason why they fail is because they
don't have a business plan. So entrepreneurs think it's kind
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of easy to just go out there and you know,
start selling lemonade. Well, you have to have a little
bit of a business plan, and so I think the
Small Business Administration has a huge opportunity to actually do
that and teach our small business owners how to fish,
as the old saying goes, teach a fisherman how to
fish well, isn't that kind of right down to ten percent?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Isn't that kind of the idea that we're as Republicans
And I think it should be for all Americans that
we're looking at in some of these rundown cities that
need repair, need to be lifted up, lift up within
the city, but you have give.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
People the tools that they need to know how to
do that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And I think that's what like I would even say
in Detroit, we've seen Detroit come back in certain areas,
but it's not because of detroit Ters. It's because of
people that have come in with their investment and they've
actually kind of kicked Detroiter to the side and said, Okay,
I'm going to build.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Up this area, and then it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Leaves these pockets of severe poverty and then pockets of elitism.
And that, to me, is the worst case scenario for
a city that's trying to come back, is that you
can't you have pockets that are dueling pockets of society,
and you can't lift up the folks that have ended
up in severe poverty.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, that's absolutely right. I wrote a book, The Real
Race Revolutionaries, and that's exactly what I talked about, is
the opportunity that minorities in particular have had with small
business and really being the opportunity to break out and
get part of the American dream, you know, quite frankly,
and the Biden administration started with Obama frankly, but in
the Biden administration in particular, it was really hard to
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you know, start a small business just because of the
amount of regulations, the red tape that existed, the inflation
that was killing people, you know, wages. I mean, it
was just really out of control. And so I think
for you know, for for Michigan, for example, I think
what the Trump administration is doing with small business is
going to be a breath of fresh air. I think
he understands it. He really embraces it. He knows that
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these small businesses are the you know, the growth engine
of our American economy. And I think, you know, we're
going to see kind of resurgence, thank God, of these
small businesses. Like I said, if we can get that
failure right down, let's say to ten percent. You think
about it. You have thirty three million small businesses, touitor,
you can potentially create fifteen million new small businesses in
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this country if you just focus them on you know,
the SBA, on you know, creating small business plans, for
for helping these entrepreneurs create small business plans for themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Will you talk about Donald Trump and bringing back small businesses?
And you talked about race, and one of the things
that he still touts from his first term is that
he had more minority entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurs than any
other president in the past, and he was able to
build those businesses and that economic resource for people who
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historically had not had it. Well, how do you expect
that to change in this administration?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Because you mentioned regulations.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I'll go back again to Detroit in the state of Michigan,
the most highly regulated area is the city of Detroit,
and when you try to start a business there, I've
been told that even to get through the red tape
of starting a business, you have to have one hundred
thousand dollars in hand.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Nowt people don't have. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So that's why only the elitists can come in, and
that's what pushes the actual Detroiters and the actual the
people that live in that city to the side because
the barrier to entry is too great. So how does
Donald Trump reduce that at least on the federal level,
and then we can come in on the state level
and also continue to reduce, reduce, reduce.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, I think so, you know, a lot of you know,
these small businesses you know that dealt with SBA. I
think a lot of it, quite frankly, was so focused
on like government contracts. It doesn't get these government contracts right.
It was like kind of a.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Doling out of the government rest.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And exactly is what it was. It was kind of like,
you know, the inside ball thing. Unless you knew somebody
who knew somebody, you were going to get support from
the SBA. Although I think is going to go away.
I think Kelly is saying, you know what, let's get
rid of all that stuff. Let's focus it back on
what it was. The original intent, let's say at the SBA,
which is really to advocate for our small businesses. I
looked through that one point four billion dollar budget, which
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doesn't sound like a lot for the SDA, right, one
point four billion relative terms of the federal government budget,
but four hundred and forty million dollars of that with salaries, suitor,
four hundred and forty million dollars in salaries. I ran
a billion dollar business myself, crop food, and I can
tell you that was not my kind of overheads. I mean,
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I can't even imagine what they were doing. Four h
and forty million dollars in salaries. This is ridiculous. We
got to refocus it. And I think when you do that,
and again with Donald Trump's direction, with Kelly Leffler at
the head, You're going to see a more approachable SBA.
You're going to be able to see I think entrepreneurs
actually being able to leverage DSBA to start their new business.
And it's not who you know, and it's not a
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government gript it's actually just hard working individuals to like me.
When I started my small business, I put everything that
I had on the line for it, everything I had,
and that's because I believed in my idea. I believe
in the Americans, you know, the American dream, and I
believe that in that idea that if you work really hard,
you can get whatever you want in life. And I
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think all that was lost with you know, especially the
Biden administration. It is all government grip and so I
think all that's going to go away. I think entrepreneurs
are going to see a renew spirit and a renewed
film because in terms of their ability to do the
stuff that they want to do.
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Speaker 2 (11:17):
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Speaker 1 (11:21):
You have seen some of that resurgence just in people's
personalities and how and how they feel and and their
hopefulness and how they feel about this. But I think
it's something interesting that you said, you said, you know,
we what did that four hundred and forty million in
salaries get us? Well, the reality is We should know,
because there should be a report coming out saying, this
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is how many small businesses we've created and helped to create,
and this is where they are now, and after a year,
this is how many we're still going, and this is
how many improved.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Because the government should be held accountable.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
While while the government doesn't create wealth in and of itself,
this is the one area where it could help to
create wealth because in this area, you're helping people to
build their own companies. And that is what the United
States has always been built on. It's always been built
on small businesses. People talk about Michigan and they're we
got to pour into the auto companies. We do pour
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into the auto companies. So you know who makes the
auto companies move every day. It's the small businesses around them.
The small businesses are over ninety percent of businesses in
the state of Michigan, and I'm sure it's probably the
same way across the country. And yet we're not getting
reports every day saying this is what we did. And
we shouldn't even want it to be like, hey, we
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were able to help out these small businesses. It should
be a very proactive thing, like this is how this
was our goal, and this is what we were able
to do. This is what we reached, and this is
what our plan is to reach next year. Because just
like you talked about small businesses needing a business plan,
SBA is getting a massive amount of money.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
They should have a business plan for businesses.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, no, this is right, and they just didn't.
They just had a lot of bodies so never showed
up to work and a lot of overhead. An empty
building in DC. It's worth about one hundred million dollars.
It's a beautiful piece of property, a beautiful building. Imagine
if you can just sell that building, you create a
little uh you know, pot of money for equity investments.
I mean, you know, with just a little bit of
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tweak you know, honestly and rethinking of that of that agency,
we can really re energize that. I think you're a
small business again. That's why I'm excited about Trump and
I'm excited about Kelly Leffler being in those positions because
they understand this. I mean again, if we imagine, just
imagine this, if we were to take that hundred million
dollars and create like a little private equity fund that
would fund maybe the future Microsofts and Apples, you know,
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and really through these innovation centers, these regional entrepreneurship centers,
have the opportunity to really invest in those businesses that
are the future of this of this great country ours.
I mean, rather than you know, just have loans. I
mean that's all the SBA B king was like a
loan administrator. Yeah wait, they shouldn't be in the business
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of making loans. Give that over the treasury. Let the
Treasury manage, Let FDAC manage that. I mean, I was
able to get his business loans with not talking to
one person. It's all completely automated. It's all I driven.
Why do we need four and forty million dollars of
salaries to process loans? For heaven's sakes, Get those people
focused on reaching out to the community and helping these entrepreneurs.
(14:27):
Quite frankly, you can also create private public partnerships. You know,
T Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Express, you know, FedEx. All these
guys tout at and T they all toout about working
with small businesses. Well guess what, call them all in,
tell them, hey, we want ten million dollars from each
want of you to create you know, an entrepreneurship regional
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training fund and get them to do you know, world
class training for our small businesses as well.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And so right, I mean that's even something we've talked
about when it comes to schooling, is partnering with corporations.
If you can't do it through the government, partner with corporations.
There is the opportunity to have a private public partnership
in so many areas. But one thing I want to
say in Michigan, there seems with Democrats in charge, there
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seems to be a focus on the quick fix. And
we know the quick fix is never really the quick fix.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It's like whether you're dieting or you're trying to bring jobs,
it's never a quick fix. And so Gretchen Whitmer has
tried time and time again to bring in the business.
It's going to have ten thousand jobs. This one business
is going to bring in ten thousand jobs. But I've
said time and time again, Look if you look at
all of the small businesses across the state of Michigan,
and you looked over the years of how many of
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them had asked the government, Hey, if you gave us
a little bit of help here, we could expand that
is your low hanging fruit, because I would much rather
have ten thousand jobs all across the state of Michigan
than ten thousand jobs in one town. Because as you
get those ten thousand jobs across the state, as success builds,
they build, and then the state becomes more heavily populated.
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And you have all of your eggs in multiple baskets,
not just one basket.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Absolutely, and you know you spand it across the whole country, right,
and the SAME's truth, We don't. I mean, you know,
that's the beauty is that President Trump through a lot
of his you know, we talk a lot about terrorists,
probably in the past couple of weeks, and you talk
about some of the tax plans that he has. I mean,
it all makes sense because it's about bringing jobs back
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to this country. It's actually that's why I sit there
and I almost kind of laugh at the Left when
I see their coverage, especially like on terrorists, these government
layoffs I saw this morning. You know, they were having
protests on the government. You really, do they really think
that the American public is sitting there, you know, sobbing
over these government layoffs. They're like, dudes, welcome to the
(16:52):
real world. This happens to us left and right. If
you don't if you don't produce, you get fired. It's
really easy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And the problem is, like when I talk to people
about this, they say, oh, how can you have no feeling. No,
it's not that way, because I know everybody's story is
an individual story, and.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's never easy to lose your job.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So if I pick out individual people and say, you know,
am i oh am I joyful someone lost their job.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Never.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Never. But the reality is that when you are even
in your house, if you were going into massive debt,
you can't just have everything you want. You have to
make cuts. You have to make cuts no matter what.
And cuts are painful.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And I'm sorry it's sad, but there are other jobs
in this country, and the idea should be that we
are building up more jobs within the country rather than
within Washington, d C. And I think that's what you
would hear from Elon Musk, and that's what you would
hear from Donald Trump, is Hey, we want to expand
jobs across the nation, and to do that, we need
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to make sure that they're going into the country rather
than just expanding Washington DC and this Washington DC bubble.
And as you look at I think the American people
are not so unhappy with this because as they see
how this money was being spent, they're horrified by how
this money was being spent.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah. No, absolutely, And like I said, when you look
at the numbers, say they're about thirty three million small
businesses in this country with bigly rate of twenty percent.
Right you drop that to ten percent, you potentially create
fifteen million new businesses employing two persons. That's thirty million
people right there. I'm sure that we can take some
of those government employees and those small business would love
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to employ them. I think the problem is that these
governm employees. And look, I have a heart, of course.
I mean I came from nothing to where I am today,
so I know what struggle is like. But I also
know that I worked my behind off to get to
where I am. And I think the people who work
their behind off are going to be successful and are
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going to be just fine because they are going to
figure it out. They're going to figure out how to work.
The people that are bogging are the ones that are like,
wait a minute. For four years, I didn't have to
go to the office, and now you're asking me to
go to the office. Wait a minute, now, you're asking
me to like produce emails that says what I'm actually doing, right?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I mean I always had to do at my office.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
There was never a time when I could just go
to work and do nothing. I always had time sheets
and always had to fill out what I was doing.
It's outrageous to think that people are upset about this.
And where were all the protests when the Keystone pipeline
got shut down, right and they said, go build solar
panels for ten ninety nine an hour? And where were
all the protests when everybody got fired for not having
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a vaccine?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
About that, because I'm like, I didn't see anybody freaking
out about what. Every time Joe Biden cut jobs, they
were like, this is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Those losers deserve it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
What And we're not saying that, We're saying this is how,
this is how you rebuild the country. This is how
you become well after being so many years of being sick.
And if you don't believe that the United States the
economy is sick, right, no, now you are out of
your mind. And people say, why is it Donald Trump
doing this? It's gonna make it worse. Like I said,
you got to feel a little.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Pain when you have overspent, when you are totally overextended,
you have to make cuts. You're gonna have to feel
a little pain to get yourself back on track. He
knows what he's doing, and he's not shy about it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It's not like he's going, oh no, no, no, no, this
I think it's gonna work.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
He's saying, this is a serious situation.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And you know what, I know that there's going to
be a few months in here that are going to
be rough.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
But I have four years to turn this around.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, you know, I sit there. I just boggles my mind, right,
I when we're thirty seven trillion, thirty six thirty seven,
I don't even know the number anymore, something like that.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Trillion, And think about how you say that and people
don't even have the concept of one trillion.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You could be off one or or I know.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
At this point, I don't know trillion sixty seven thirty eight.
I don't even like it's it's so mind boggling. We
are going to go bankrupt as a country period. I mean,
we all have households, we all have household budgets, we
all know that if we have spending that's a thousand
times more than what we make, we're not going to survive.
But our households will just go belly up, I mean,
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And so there will have to be there has to
be some pain, just like we all do in our
own households. Right, when times get tough for people lose
their jobs, right, you cut back, right, you pull back,
and you make some sacrifices. But you have to do
that to restore kind of where you are and get
your balance back. We are out of balance as a country,
I mean, with that kind of debt. I mean, nobody's
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really talking about. And the problem also too, is that
the economy under Biden. I'm not sure if you know
we talked about this enough, tutor, but the economy slowly
shifted from a consumer driven economy to a government driven economy.
Used to be sixty percent. Remember, sixty percent of the
economy was consumer driven, sixty five percent, so only about
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thirty five percent of government driven under Joe Biden. It's
almost flip flopped, right, And so we were basically funding
the economy through federal spending. That's crazy, so like so unmanageable.
You can't keep that long term, and we were starting
to break. We're going to have to make some sacrics.
We're going to have to make changes in the century
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or we will go belly up.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So with that in mind, what do you tell people
who are wondering how to invest right now?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, I mean that that's a tough part, right because
with uncertainty there's always you know, Wall Street and Main
Street are like two totally different things. I mean my
advice people is investing yourself right. I mean quite frankly,
I mean invest in education and you're training as much
as you can investor your ideas right now, because I
actually think there's never going to be a good time
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to invest in your ideas right. You just have to
go for it. You have to put your business.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I had this conversation with someone the other day about
having kids. Like people were like, oh, I don't think
I can afford it right now, And I said, I
will tell you what my parents told me when I
said I don't know if I can afford kids right now.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
There's never a time when you think you can afford it, right.
There's never a time when you.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Think you can just go out there and start a
small business and be successful. But people do it despite that,
they do it and then and sometimes, as you just said,
some of them aren't. But if you don't take the risk,
you will regret that. You won't regret trying, you will
regret not trying.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, and like I said, you know, obviously, do take
the time to write the business plan. Take this time
to you know, at night after work, and you know, investigate.
You know what it takes to create that. If you
want to open up a restaurant, and we tell people
when's the last time, just go down to your main
street and walk up and down those those restaurants that
are locally owned. They'll be happy to talk about how
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difficult it is and what it takes to run a
successful restaurant. Like, do your homework right, do your work
now right, create a nice business plan and then hopefully
you know friends and family or your own personal alliances,
you can actually take that. But there never really is
a good time. I mean, I have to tell you
I took a leap of faith, but I believed in
myself right, and I think that's why I told you
(24:05):
tell people things are gonna get better. I know you
hear about terrorists and things like that. I mean, this
has happen. First of all, I think to actually get
to a fair trade standpoint, to get to free trade,
because right now we're far from fair trade right, let
alone free trade. So I think all the stuff that
Donald Trump is doing on the tariffs, he is truly
the great negotiator. He knows the leverage. He knows that
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we're the greatest biggest consumer economy still even though the
total government has been spending so much. So he knows
that he can leverage that across every single trading partner
across the globe. That's exactly what he's doing. And he goes, Okay,
I'll just raise your new this tariff. You're going to
raise my Eventually all the other people are going to blink. So,
I mean, and he knows that. And so this is
(24:50):
exactly what it's going to take to get back to
free trade. And we're going to have to make these
sacrifices all across the board and a lot of these
things that people talk about, we can't touch medicaid, you
can't touch you can't touch that. I mean, one thing
I would really encourage Tutor and if he can get
the word out because this is something that we're pushing
on our end. Is it actual balance budget amendment? Right?
(25:11):
We have to have that because, let's be honest, both
sides like spending. Yes.
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It's the Freedom Fighters Summit in Gala in Savannah. So
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in May second, so tell us a little bit about
the event and who's going to be there.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I'm going to be there.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well, first of all spectacular people like yourself are going
to be there, but we have other great celebrities going
to be there. Governors are going to be there. We
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We've got Steve Moore, We've got Grover Norquist. I mean,
we've got like basically all the Luminar is a conservative
movement there, but it's not just some huge gathering. I Mean,
the one thing I usually don't like about these kinds
of things were like, there's ten thousand, twenty thousand people, right,
It's not an intimate gathering. This is a we kept
it this way for a reason. It's a small, intimate
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gathering really focused on discussions of policy of what we
need to do as conservative leaders to move this country
forward and help move the country forward. We have a
couple of surprise guests hopefully I'm still in the middle
of confirming, but we've got some great folks that are
hopefully going to be on their way to that event
in May, that are really going to be focused on
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across the board from an administration standpoint, but also great
small business leaders talking about what we've been able to
do to help them also advance their businesses through Job
Creators Network. You know, it started twelve or fourteen years ago. Now,
I should say when Bernie, the late great Bernie Marcus
(29:38):
had the vision of really helping these small businesses because
he remembered what it was like to a should be
a small business. And yes, the home Depot actually was
the small business that started in Atlanta, Georgia, with two stores,
and they were actually like seven to eleven you know,
reconditioned stores. So and look now four and fifty thousand people, right,
And so the idea is that we're we're going to
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be talking about these really important topics, you know, tax
SI Jobs Act, deregulation which is so important. We're going
to talk about the dead and deficit, what we need
to do there. We're going to also talk about, for example,
reaching out to the Hispanic voting community, which, as you know,
Donald Trump got forty six percent. A lot of our
efforts went into helping him to get there. We need
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to make sure we maintain that advantage with the Hispanic
community because that voting block is going to continue to
grow and grow and grow. We've made major inroads. We
got to make sure we keep those going. And so
there's just a lot there. But indition, we're going to
have fun. We like also having fun. I think as
conservative we forget that we're going to also need to
have fun. It's okay to have fun. And so we're
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going to have great folks, great entertainment there. Lee Greenwood's
going to be there, you know, which I just love
whenever he does the same song. But we're just going
to have dancing and great food, so great people there.
So I encourage everybody to come make first and May second.
And in fact it's actually we have a couple of
things that he want to come one day earlier thanks
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to do in Savannah, which is a beautiful, beautiful city
if you haven't been, it's a fantastic location, fantastic event
that we're planning.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yeah, definitely check it out because it is going to
be more of a retreat almost to go and learn
and you're going to take home a lot of information.
It's not something that you're going to go and it's
like those all day where you sit there and you're
just kind of seeing who's actually going to come up next,
and if anything interesting is going to happen, you're going
to be learning the entire time. And there could not
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be a more critical time to go do something like
this and learn about what we need to do as
small businesses and how we need to grow the country
and from some of the greatest thought leaders in the
entire country who are going to be there, and all
in honor of Bernie Marcus as well, and we want
to just say in his memory, thank you for everything
that you've done and everything that home Depot became and
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what he's given to you as Job Creators Network.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I mean, he was truly an icon and.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
We're so grateful for what he gave as a legend
to this country.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Before I let you go tell people where.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
They can sign up and any any other way they
can find Job Creators Network.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Yeah. Absolutely. So one of the things too, I wanted
to quickly say, Tutor, is that you know, when it
comes to Bernie, is that he really set this vision
and we want to make sure that this event that
it's this vision is going to continue just because of
you know, Bernie's passing in November doesn't mean that his
vision is passing with it. I mean, we're going to
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carry this torch. We're proud to carry the torch, and
we're excited that we're able to do this the way
we are. And so again, you know, we encourage folks,
you know, to be able to do that, and I
just I'm just so glad that we're going to be
able to do that with you there as well. So
thank you for being willing to be part of it.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Absolutely, thank you, and thank you so much for being
on today. Alfred or Tease. Check him out at jobs Create,
Job Creators Network and give us that website one more.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Time at job Creatorsnetwork dot com or joinjcon dot com.
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Awesome, all right, thank you so much, and thank you
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Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today, I have Alfredo
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He is the CEO of.
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We are in the midst of all of this stuff
that Trump is doing, and people are worried about it,
and small businesses are worried about it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But Trumpers are not.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Worried about it, clearly, because if you look at the
people who voted for Trump, they are very happy. I
think it's the mainstream media that's trying to tell us
that people are concerned. And yet you look at the
difference between Trump and the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
The Democrats they are at their lowest.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Level of favorability ever and Trump is still surpassing them
by leaps and bounds.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So what's your take on what's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, tutor, first of all, great to see you, Thanks
for having me given that at Saint Patrick's Day today.
Happy see Patty's Day. Sye are wearing green? I unfortunately
forgot my green so so oh well, I guess I
get a pinched later eventually.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's from some exactly That's what my girls would say.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Although the liberal left tells me you can't do that anymore,
because that's I know, somehow not allowed. But anyways, so look,
I think what Trump is doing is exactly what the
voters asked them to do, and why they put them
back in office is because it was just a mess
for four years, you know, the Buying administration just hitting
us with regulation after regulation, almost two trillion dollars in
(02:35):
regulations that hit the economy. Trust me, that really hit
our small businesses. That combined with inflation, and they were
still trying to come out of COVID. I mean, our
small business owners have really really been hurt over the years,
and so Trump to the rescue as far as I'm concerned,
and so do you think, I'm a business person, I
love it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Do you think that's the message going into the midterms
is that this is getting government out of the way,
this continued release of regulation. I mean, I know in
the state of Michigan, I mean, your podcast is main
Street Matters. That's literally the truth in the state of Michigan,
and main Street has been shut down because of over
regulation and the fact that the government just comes and
(03:14):
takes your license at a moment's notice.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I mean, it's just crazy what's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean when I look across the country,
I mean, our small businesses still are hurting, don't need
a lot of support. I am so excited to be
working with Kelly Leffler, so excited that she's the new
administrator of the SBA. She gets that she's a foreigner
business person. She and I've ever been in communications. But
things that need to happen. I mean, look the SBA.
First of all, I think, just shut it down in
DC as far as I'm concerned, because when's the last
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time someone from Dubuque, Iowa, some entrepreneur decide, Hey, you
know what, I think I'm going to start a small business.
Think We're going to hop on a plane, go to DC,
you know, making appointments with somebody I mean I don't
know who in those big offices in DC and talked
to them about starting a small business. That's not the
way it works, right, So we should get all those
employees out of there to close it all down. Push
(04:03):
those people out, at least qualified people. I should say,
out to the you know, the regional offices making entrepreneurship centers,
innovation centers, right, I mean that really encourage I mean,
tootor twenty percent of small businesses fail in the first year,
and if you ask and look at the reason why,
the number one reason why they fail is because they
don't have a business plan. So entrepreneurs think it's kind
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of easy to just go out there and you know,
start selling lemonade. Well, you have to have a little
bit of a business plan, and so I think the
Small Business Administration has a huge opportunity to actually do
that and teach our small business owners how to fish,
as the old saying goes, teach a fisherman how to
fish well, isn't that kind of right down to ten percent?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Isn't that kind of the idea that we're as Republicans
And I think it should be for all Americans that
we're looking at in some of these rundown cities that
need repair, need to be lifted up, lift up within
the city, but you have give.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
People the tools that they need to know how to
do that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And I think that's what like I would even say
in Detroit, we've seen Detroit come back in certain areas,
but it's not because of detroit Ters. It's because of
people that have come in with their investment and they've
actually kind of kicked Detroiter to the side and said, Okay,
I'm going to build.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Up this area, and then it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Leaves these pockets of severe poverty and then pockets of elitism.
And that, to me, is the worst case scenario for
a city that's trying to come back, is that you
can't you have pockets that are dueling pockets of society,
and you can't lift up the folks that have ended
up in severe poverty.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, that's absolutely right. I wrote a book, The Real
Race Revolutionaries, and that's exactly what I talked about, is
the opportunity that minorities in particular have had with small
business and really being the opportunity to break out and
get part of the American dream, you know, quite frankly,
and the Biden administration started with Obama frankly, but in
the Biden administration in particular, it was really hard to
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you know, start a small business just because of the
amount of regulations, the red tape that existed, the inflation
that was killing people, you know, wages. I mean, it
was just really out of control. And so I think
for you know, for for Michigan, for example, I think
what the Trump administration is doing with small business is
going to be a breath of fresh air. I think
he understands it. He really embraces it. He knows that
(06:27):
these small businesses are the you know, the growth engine
of our American economy. And I think, you know, we're
going to see kind of resurgence, thank God, of these
small businesses. Like I said, if we can get that
failure right down, let's say to ten percent. You think
about it. You have thirty three million small businesses, touitor,
you can potentially create fifteen million new small businesses in
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this country if you just focus them on you know,
the SBA, on you know, creating small business plans, for
for helping these entrepreneurs create small business plans for themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Will you talk about Donald Trump and bringing back small businesses?
And you talked about race, and one of the things
that he still touts from his first term is that
he had more minority entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurs than any
other president in the past, and he was able to
build those businesses and that economic resource for people who
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historically had not had it. Well, how do you expect
that to change in this administration?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Because you mentioned regulations.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I'll go back again to Detroit in the state of Michigan,
the most highly regulated area is the city of Detroit,
and when you try to start a business there, I've
been told that even to get through the red tape
of starting a business, you have to have one hundred
thousand dollars in hand.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Nowt people don't have. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So that's why only the elitists can come in, and
that's what pushes the actual Detroiters and the actual the
people that live in that city to the side because
the barrier to entry is too great. So how does
Donald Trump reduce that at least on the federal level,
and then we can come in on the state level
and also continue to reduce, reduce, reduce.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, I think so, you know, a lot of you know,
these small businesses you know that dealt with SBA. I
think a lot of it, quite frankly, was so focused
on like government contracts. It doesn't get these government contracts right.
It was like kind of a.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Doling out of the government rest.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And exactly is what it was. It was kind of like,
you know, the inside ball thing. Unless you knew somebody
who knew somebody, you were going to get support from
the SBA. Although I think is going to go away.
I think Kelly is saying, you know what, let's get
rid of all that stuff. Let's focus it back on
what it was. The original intent, let's say at the SBA,
which is really to advocate for our small businesses. I
looked through that one point four billion dollar budget, which
(08:44):
doesn't sound like a lot for the SDA, right, one
point four billion relative terms of the federal government budget,
but four hundred and forty million dollars of that with salaries, suitor,
four hundred and forty million dollars in salaries. I ran
a billion dollar business myself, crop food, and I can
tell you that was not my kind of overheads. I mean,
(09:06):
I can't even imagine what they were doing. Four h
and forty million dollars in salaries. This is ridiculous. We
got to refocus it. And I think when you do that,
and again with Donald Trump's direction, with Kelly Leffler at
the head, You're going to see a more approachable SBA.
You're going to be able to see I think entrepreneurs
actually being able to leverage DSBA to start their new business.
And it's not who you know, and it's not a
(09:27):
government gript it's actually just hard working individuals to like me.
When I started my small business, I put everything that
I had on the line for it, everything I had,
and that's because I believed in my idea. I believe
in the Americans, you know, the American dream, and I
believe that in that idea that if you work really hard,
you can get whatever you want in life. And I
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think all that was lost with you know, especially the
Biden administration. It is all government grip and so I
think all that's going to go away. I think entrepreneurs
are going to see a renew spirit and a renewed
film because in terms of their ability to do the
stuff that they want to do.
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Speaker 1 (11:21):
You have seen some of that resurgence just in people's
personalities and how and how they feel and and their
hopefulness and how they feel about this. But I think
it's something interesting that you said, you said, you know,
we what did that four hundred and forty million in
salaries get us? Well, the reality is We should know,
because there should be a report coming out saying, this
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is how many small businesses we've created and helped to create,
and this is where they are now, and after a year,
this is how many we're still going, and this is
how many improved.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Because the government should be held accountable.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
While while the government doesn't create wealth in and of itself,
this is the one area where it could help to
create wealth because in this area, you're helping people to
build their own companies. And that is what the United
States has always been built on. It's always been built
on small businesses. People talk about Michigan and they're we
got to pour into the auto companies. We do pour
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into the auto companies. So you know who makes the
auto companies move every day. It's the small businesses around them.
The small businesses are over ninety percent of businesses in
the state of Michigan, and I'm sure it's probably the
same way across the country. And yet we're not getting
reports every day saying this is what we did. And
we shouldn't even want it to be like, hey, we
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were able to help out these small businesses. It should
be a very proactive thing, like this is how this
was our goal, and this is what we were able
to do. This is what we reached, and this is
what our plan is to reach next year. Because just
like you talked about small businesses needing a business plan,
SBA is getting a massive amount of money.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
They should have a business plan for businesses.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, no, this is right, and they just didn't.
They just had a lot of bodies so never showed
up to work and a lot of overhead. An empty
building in DC. It's worth about one hundred million dollars.
It's a beautiful piece of property, a beautiful building. Imagine
if you can just sell that building, you create a
little uh you know, pot of money for equity investments.
I mean, you know, with just a little bit of
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tweak you know, honestly and rethinking of that of that agency,
we can really re energize that. I think you're a
small business again. That's why I'm excited about Trump and
I'm excited about Kelly Leffler being in those positions because
they understand this. I mean again, if we imagine, just
imagine this, if we were to take that hundred million
dollars and create like a little private equity fund that
would fund maybe the future Microsofts and Apples, you know,
(13:43):
and really through these innovation centers, these regional entrepreneurship centers,
have the opportunity to really invest in those businesses that
are the future of this of this great country ours.
I mean, rather than you know, just have loans. I
mean that's all the SBA B king was like a
loan administrator. Yeah wait, they shouldn't be in the business
(14:05):
of making loans. Give that over the treasury. Let the
Treasury manage, Let FDAC manage that. I mean, I was
able to get his business loans with not talking to
one person. It's all completely automated. It's all I driven.
Why do we need four and forty million dollars of
salaries to process loans? For heaven's sakes, Get those people
focused on reaching out to the community and helping these entrepreneurs.
(14:27):
Quite frankly, you can also create private public partnerships. You know,
T Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Express, you know, FedEx. All these
guys tout at and T they all toout about working
with small businesses. Well guess what, call them all in,
tell them, hey, we want ten million dollars from each
want of you to create you know, an entrepreneurship regional
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training fund and get them to do you know, world
class training for our small businesses as well.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And so right, I mean that's even something we've talked
about when it comes to schooling, is partnering with corporations.
If you can't do it through the government, partner with corporations.
There is the opportunity to have a private public partnership
in so many areas. But one thing I want to
say in Michigan, there seems with Democrats in charge, there
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seems to be a focus on the quick fix. And
we know the quick fix is never really the quick fix.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It's like whether you're dieting or you're trying to bring jobs,
it's never a quick fix. And so Gretchen Whitmer has
tried time and time again to bring in the business.
It's going to have ten thousand jobs. This one business
is going to bring in ten thousand jobs. But I've
said time and time again, Look if you look at
all of the small businesses across the state of Michigan,
and you looked over the years of how many of
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them had asked the government, Hey, if you gave us
a little bit of help here, we could expand that
is your low hanging fruit, because I would much rather
have ten thousand jobs all across the state of Michigan
than ten thousand jobs in one town. Because as you
get those ten thousand jobs across the state, as success builds,
they build, and then the state becomes more heavily populated.
(16:05):
And you have all of your eggs in multiple baskets,
not just one basket.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Absolutely, and you know you spand it across the whole country, right,
and the SAME's truth, We don't. I mean, you know,
that's the beauty is that President Trump through a lot
of his you know, we talk a lot about terrorists,
probably in the past couple of weeks, and you talk
about some of the tax plans that he has. I mean,
it all makes sense because it's about bringing jobs back
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to this country. It's actually that's why I sit there
and I almost kind of laugh at the Left when
I see their coverage, especially like on terrorists, these government
layoffs I saw this morning. You know, they were having
protests on the government. You really, do they really think
that the American public is sitting there, you know, sobbing
over these government layoffs. They're like, dudes, welcome to the
(16:52):
real world. This happens to us left and right. If
you don't if you don't produce, you get fired. It's
really easy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And the problem is, like when I talk to people
about this, they say, oh, how can you have no feeling. No,
it's not that way, because I know everybody's story is
an individual story, and.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's never easy to lose your job.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So if I pick out individual people and say, you know,
am i oh am I joyful someone lost their job.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Never.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Never. But the reality is that when you are even
in your house, if you were going into massive debt,
you can't just have everything you want. You have to
make cuts. You have to make cuts no matter what.
And cuts are painful.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And I'm sorry it's sad, but there are other jobs
in this country, and the idea should be that we
are building up more jobs within the country rather than
within Washington, d C. And I think that's what you
would hear from Elon Musk, and that's what you would
hear from Donald Trump, is Hey, we want to expand
jobs across the nation, and to do that, we need
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to make sure that they're going into the country rather
than just expanding Washington DC and this Washington DC bubble.
And as you look at I think the American people
are not so unhappy with this because as they see
how this money was being spent, they're horrified by how
this money was being spent.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah. No, absolutely, And like I said, when you look
at the numbers, say they're about thirty three million small
businesses in this country with bigly rate of twenty percent.
Right you drop that to ten percent, you potentially create
fifteen million new businesses employing two persons. That's thirty million
people right there. I'm sure that we can take some
of those government employees and those small business would love
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to employ them. I think the problem is that these
governm employees. And look, I have a heart, of course.
I mean I came from nothing to where I am today,
so I know what struggle is like. But I also
know that I worked my behind off to get to
where I am. And I think the people who work
their behind off are going to be successful and are
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going to be just fine because they are going to
figure it out. They're going to figure out how to work.
The people that are bogging are the ones that are like,
wait a minute. For four years, I didn't have to
go to the office, and now you're asking me to
go to the office. Wait a minute, now, you're asking
me to like produce emails that says what I'm actually doing, right?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I mean I always had to do at my office.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
There was never a time when I could just go
to work and do nothing. I always had time sheets
and always had to fill out what I was doing.
It's outrageous to think that people are upset about this.
And where were all the protests when the Keystone pipeline
got shut down, right and they said, go build solar
panels for ten ninety nine an hour? And where were
all the protests when everybody got fired for not having
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a vaccine?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
About that, because I'm like, I didn't see anybody freaking
out about what. Every time Joe Biden cut jobs, they
were like, this is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Those losers deserve it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
What And we're not saying that, We're saying this is how,
this is how you rebuild the country. This is how
you become well after being so many years of being sick.
And if you don't believe that the United States the
economy is sick, right, no, now you are out of
your mind. And people say, why is it Donald Trump
doing this? It's gonna make it worse. Like I said,
you got to feel a little.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Pain when you have overspent, when you are totally overextended,
you have to make cuts. You're gonna have to feel
a little pain to get yourself back on track. He
knows what he's doing, and he's not shy about it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It's not like he's going, oh no, no, no, no, this
I think it's gonna work.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
He's saying, this is a serious situation.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And you know what, I know that there's going to
be a few months in here that are going to
be rough.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
But I have four years to turn this around.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, you know, I sit there. I just boggles my mind, right,
I when we're thirty seven trillion, thirty six thirty seven,
I don't even know the number anymore, something like that.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Trillion, And think about how you say that and people
don't even have the concept of one trillion.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You could be off one or or I know.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
At this point, I don't know trillion sixty seven thirty eight.
I don't even like it's it's so mind boggling. We
are going to go bankrupt as a country period. I mean,
we all have households, we all have household budgets, we
all know that if we have spending that's a thousand
times more than what we make, we're not going to survive.
But our households will just go belly up, I mean,
(21:12):
And so there will have to be there has to
be some pain, just like we all do in our
own households. Right, when times get tough for people lose
their jobs, right, you cut back, right, you pull back,
and you make some sacrifices. But you have to do
that to restore kind of where you are and get
your balance back. We are out of balance as a country,
I mean, with that kind of debt. I mean, nobody's
(21:34):
really talking about. And the problem also too, is that
the economy under Biden. I'm not sure if you know
we talked about this enough, tutor, but the economy slowly
shifted from a consumer driven economy to a government driven economy.
Used to be sixty percent. Remember, sixty percent of the
economy was consumer driven, sixty five percent, so only about
(21:55):
thirty five percent of government driven under Joe Biden. It's
almost flip flopped, right, And so we were basically funding
the economy through federal spending. That's crazy, so like so unmanageable.
You can't keep that long term, and we were starting
to break. We're going to have to make some sacrics.
We're going to have to make changes in the century
(22:16):
or we will go belly up.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So with that in mind, what do you tell people
who are wondering how to invest right now?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, I mean that that's a tough part, right because
with uncertainty there's always you know, Wall Street and Main
Street are like two totally different things. I mean my
advice people is investing yourself right. I mean quite frankly,
I mean invest in education and you're training as much
as you can investor your ideas right now, because I
actually think there's never going to be a good time
(22:46):
to invest in your ideas right. You just have to
go for it. You have to put your business.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I had this conversation with someone the other day about
having kids. Like people were like, oh, I don't think
I can afford it right now, And I said, I
will tell you what my parents told me when I
said I don't know if I can afford kids right now.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
There's never a time when you think you can afford it, right.
There's never a time when you.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Think you can just go out there and start a
small business and be successful. But people do it despite that,
they do it and then and sometimes, as you just said,
some of them aren't. But if you don't take the risk,
you will regret that. You won't regret trying, you will
regret not trying.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, and like I said, you know, obviously, do take
the time to write the business plan. Take this time
to you know, at night after work, and you know, investigate.
You know what it takes to create that. If you
want to open up a restaurant, and we tell people
when's the last time, just go down to your main
street and walk up and down those those restaurants that
are locally owned. They'll be happy to talk about how
(23:44):
difficult it is and what it takes to run a
successful restaurant. Like, do your homework right, do your work
now right, create a nice business plan and then hopefully
you know friends and family or your own personal alliances,
you can actually take that. But there never really is
a good time. I mean, I have to tell you
I took a leap of faith, but I believed in
myself right, and I think that's why I told you
(24:05):
tell people things are gonna get better. I know you
hear about terrorists and things like that. I mean, this
has happen. First of all, I think to actually get
to a fair trade standpoint, to get to free trade,
because right now we're far from fair trade right, let
alone free trade. So I think all the stuff that
Donald Trump is doing on the tariffs, he is truly
the great negotiator. He knows the leverage. He knows that
(24:28):
we're the greatest biggest consumer economy still even though the
total government has been spending so much. So he knows
that he can leverage that across every single trading partner
across the globe. That's exactly what he's doing. And he goes, Okay,
I'll just raise your new this tariff. You're going to
raise my Eventually all the other people are going to blink. So,
I mean, and he knows that. And so this is
(24:50):
exactly what it's going to take to get back to
free trade. And we're going to have to make these
sacrifices all across the board and a lot of these
things that people talk about, we can't touch medicaid, you
can't touch you can't touch that. I mean, one thing
I would really encourage Tutor and if he can get
the word out because this is something that we're pushing
on our end. Is it actual balance budget amendment? Right?
(25:11):
We have to have that because, let's be honest, both
sides like spending. Yes.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Absolutely.
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senator their spouse has a nonprofit and somehow the government
has put a massive amount of money into that, or
one of the famous Republicans or famous Democrats that has
been in the office gotten out of office. Like all
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this money is going into that system and it's being
recycled into people. But we're talking about people getting rich
off of the government, which should absolutely never happen. There's
one other thing I want to talk about though, because
if you are thinking about starting a small business or
you are a small business owner, I think one of
the best things you can do for yourself is to
go to your summit in Gala.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It's coming up.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It's the Freedom Fighters Summit in Gala in Savannah. So
why wouldn't you want to go to Savannah Because that's
gorgeous anyway, So gorge Yeah, So this is May first,
in May second, so tell us a little bit about
the event and who's going to be there.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I'm going to be there.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well, first of all spectacular people like yourself are going
to be there, but we have other great celebrities going
to be there. Governors are going to be there. We
have Governor Younkin, We've got Governor Kemp Kellyan Conley, Hugh
hewittt Mike Gallagher, yourself of course, Sarah Carter, Charlie Gasparino,
(28:35):
We've got Steve Moore, We've got Grover Norquist. I mean,
we've got like basically all the Luminar is a conservative
movement there, but it's not just some huge gathering. I Mean,
the one thing I usually don't like about these kinds
of things were like, there's ten thousand, twenty thousand people, right,
It's not an intimate gathering. This is a we kept
it this way for a reason. It's a small, intimate
(28:55):
gathering really focused on discussions of policy of what we
need to do as conservative leaders to move this country
forward and help move the country forward. We have a
couple of surprise guests hopefully I'm still in the middle
of confirming, but we've got some great folks that are
hopefully going to be on their way to that event
in May, that are really going to be focused on
(29:16):
being able to make significant changes in our country, you know,
across the board from an administration standpoint, but also great
small business leaders talking about what we've been able to
do to help them also advance their businesses through Job
Creators Network. You know, it started twelve or fourteen years ago. Now,
I should say when Bernie, the late great Bernie Marcus
(29:38):
had the vision of really helping these small businesses because
he remembered what it was like to a should be
a small business. And yes, the home Depot actually was
the small business that started in Atlanta, Georgia, with two stores,
and they were actually like seven to eleven you know,
reconditioned stores. So and look now four and fifty thousand people, right,
And so the idea is that we're we're going to
(30:00):
be talking about these really important topics, you know, tax
SI Jobs Act, deregulation which is so important. We're going
to talk about the dead and deficit, what we need
to do there. We're going to also talk about, for example,
reaching out to the Hispanic voting community, which, as you know,
Donald Trump got forty six percent. A lot of our
efforts went into helping him to get there. We need
(30:20):
to make sure we maintain that advantage with the Hispanic
community because that voting block is going to continue to
grow and grow and grow. We've made major inroads. We
got to make sure we keep those going. And so
there's just a lot there. But indition, we're going to
have fun. We like also having fun. I think as
conservative we forget that we're going to also need to
have fun. It's okay to have fun. And so we're
(30:41):
going to have great folks, great entertainment there. Lee Greenwood's
going to be there, you know, which I just love
whenever he does the same song. But we're just going
to have dancing and great food, so great people there.
So I encourage everybody to come make first and May second.
And in fact it's actually we have a couple of
things that he want to come one day earlier thanks
(31:02):
to do in Savannah, which is a beautiful, beautiful city
if you haven't been, it's a fantastic location, fantastic event
that we're planning.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yeah, definitely check it out because it is going to
be more of a retreat almost to go and learn
and you're going to take home a lot of information.
It's not something that you're going to go and it's
like those all day where you sit there and you're
just kind of seeing who's actually going to come up next,
and if anything interesting is going to happen, you're going
to be learning the entire time. And there could not
(31:34):
be a more critical time to go do something like
this and learn about what we need to do as
small businesses and how we need to grow the country
and from some of the greatest thought leaders in the
entire country who are going to be there, and all
in honor of Bernie Marcus as well, and we want
to just say in his memory, thank you for everything
that you've done and everything that home Depot became and
(31:56):
what he's given to you as Job Creators Network.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I mean, he was truly an icon and.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
We're so grateful for what he gave as a legend
to this country.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Before I let you go tell people where.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
They can sign up and any any other way they
can find Job Creators Network.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Yeah. Absolutely. So one of the things too, I wanted
to quickly say, Tutor, is that you know, when it
comes to Bernie, is that he really set this vision
and we want to make sure that this event that
it's this vision is going to continue just because of
you know, Bernie's passing in November doesn't mean that his
vision is passing with it. I mean, we're going to
(32:34):
carry this torch. We're proud to carry the torch, and
we're excited that we're able to do this the way
we are. And so again, you know, we encourage folks,
you know, to be able to do that, and I
just I'm just so glad that we're going to be
able to do that with you there as well. So
thank you for being willing to be part of it.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Absolutely, thank you, and thank you so much for being
on today. Alfred or Tease. Check him out at jobs Create,
Job Creators Network and give us that website one more.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Time at job Creatorsnetwork dot com or joinjcon dot com.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Awesome, all right, thank you so much, and thank you
all for joining us on the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
For this episode and others.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Go to Tutordison podcast dot com, the irheartradio app, Apple Podcasts,
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