April 2, 2026 • 44 mins
*Diagnosed mental illnesses in Leftist women and why they want to leave the country.
*Why do we allow Iranian regime leaders to send their children to American colleges?
*USAA- Founded for veterans, profiting billions while laying off Americans and importing H-1B labor
*Why do billionaires not deserve the wealth they've earned when they made their income by sticking their necks out and creating products and services that millions depend on....smart phones, Amazon delivery service, etc. etc.
*So many panic calls for the future turn out to not be accurate...Paul Ehrlick...1968 'The Population Bomb' incorrectly predicted famine.
*Norman Borlaug - awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world.
*If NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets his way, half of everything New Yorkers work their lifetime for.....homes, businesses, farms, savings, etc....will be stripped away when they die. Mamdani hopes to close what he claims is a $5.4 billion city budget gap.
*Iran continues to lie about its nuclear capacity and may now be able to hit London and other European cities.
*Automakers losses on EV's have been unbelievably high! Estimated losses from major automotive makers is $68.5 BILLION dollars and that doesn't even include German or Japanese makers! Once again, the government found a way to blow billions of dollars that will trickle down to consumers by forcing EV regulations without necessary infrastructure, valid research or marketability studies. EV's don't work for everyone!
*Governor of New York is now admitting the "climate" law she championed is crushing New York's economy and affordability for working families. She admitted the "green agenda" she backed is "not a sustainable path forward" and leaves working families behind.
*Why do we allow Iranian regime leaders to send their children to American colleges?
*USAA- Founded for veterans, profiting billions while laying off Americans and importing H-1B labor
*Why do billionaires not deserve the wealth they've earned when they made their income by sticking their necks out and creating products and services that millions depend on....smart phones, Amazon delivery service, etc. etc.
*So many panic calls for the future turn out to not be accurate...Paul Ehrlick...1968 'The Population Bomb' incorrectly predicted famine.
*Norman Borlaug - awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world.
*If NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets his way, half of everything New Yorkers work their lifetime for.....homes, businesses, farms, savings, etc....will be stripped away when they die. Mamdani hopes to close what he claims is a $5.4 billion city budget gap.
*Iran continues to lie about its nuclear capacity and may now be able to hit London and other European cities.
*Automakers losses on EV's have been unbelievably high! Estimated losses from major automotive makers is $68.5 BILLION dollars and that doesn't even include German or Japanese makers! Once again, the government found a way to blow billions of dollars that will trickle down to consumers by forcing EV regulations without necessary infrastructure, valid research or marketability studies. EV's don't work for everyone!
*Governor of New York is now admitting the "climate" law she championed is crushing New York's economy and affordability for working families. She admitted the "green agenda" she backed is "not a sustainable path forward" and leaves working families behind.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right, good morning everybody. Thank you for tuning in.
I sincerely appreciate it. If like always, I hope everybody's
having a great weekend. I'm ready for this bipolar weather
to be done. This eighty five one weekend and you know,
then got back down to sixty this week and I
have like one day it was, I have forty eight
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or forty. I'm like, what in the world. I have
had the sniffles for going on a week now. I'm
t of it. Just let's get some warm weather or
some cold weather so I know how to dress. It's
like when you used to go to school in the morning, right,
I'm from Florida and we didn't have a lot of
cold mornings, but we had some, and I'd go to
school with a jacket, and sure as the world, I
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wouldn't have it when I got home because i'd it
was warm already, right, And so the next morning I
had to go to school cold because I didn't have
my jacket. You learned that pretty early on. So it's
kind of the same way here. I don't know whether
to dress warm or not. So probably a year ago
I talked about a study or a number of studies
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that had been done that said that more than half
I think at the time of the study it was
fifty seven percent of women who identify as on the
left between the ages of eighteen and twenty nine had
been diagnosed with at least one mental illness. Not I mean, look,
they had the right when they were doing the survey,
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they had the right to not say anything. These women
were very upfront and open about yep, I've been diagnosed
with a mental illness. When fifty seven percent of them
were diagnosed with a mental illness, I'm not sure whether
they're they're trying to compete with each other to have
a mental illness, or whether it really does truly exist.
I don't know what the definition was that they used
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for mental illness, but I don't know if being leftist
is a mental illness, I don't know. If it's causing
a mental illness, I don't know. But what I do
know is fifty seven percent I think that was the
number identified as having been diagnosed with at least one
mental illness. Now it turns out there's been a new
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study done and a significant number, right large number, forty
percent of all women who identify on the left between
the ages of fifteen and forty four want to leave
the United States permanently and move overseas. Now, I'm going
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to bet that a significant portion of those women have
never lived in any of the countries they think they
want to go live in right now, and have not
visited them for any longer than a vacation and living
someplace and having to deal with the livelihoods and the
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lifestyles and the well. I guess, if you come to America,
you don't have to assimilate into our culture. You can
just bring your culture here, and we're supposed to just
assimilate to you, and we're supposed to let you bring
there to here so you can turn here into there.
I say, no, but forty what in the world are
you thinking that there's something wrong. If you think for
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a second that America is not the greatest country on Earth.
Do we have our issues? I said every time I
say this, Yep, we do. We have done some things
wrong over history. We still get things wrong. But never
in the history of the world has there been a
superpower like the United States has has used it for
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more good across the world than us. We rebuilt Europe
after World War Two. We didn't drag ourselves into World
War Two. We got drug into World War two when
Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. But we got drug
into World War Two, and then we the American economy,
spent the money to rebuild Japan, which is why Japan's
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one of our greatest allies right now, and rebuild Europe.
And we've been taking care of Europe for the last
seventy years for their defense, to keep the bad guys away.
If you think for a second that there is another
country out there that has done better for the earth,
for the world than the United States, you're not paying attention.
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You're just not. But I say, hey, I'll chip in.
If there's a number of that want to leave, I'm good.
Just call me up, tell me how much's going to
be for I'll pay for ten tickets. Ten tickets, I'll
pay for all. Right. Second thing that I want to
talk shifting shifting gears. My brain's not working shifting gears
a little bit. Did you know, because I didn't that
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all of these people that are screaming death to America
for forty seven years, like especially in Iran, that they
are currently sending all of their children over here for
us to educate them, and a significant number of them
now are teaching at American universities. For instance, if you've
been paying any attention to the Iranian war that's going on.
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Ali Lerajani, who is a top military leader. His daughter
teaches at Emory University in Atlanta in Georgia. Yep, the
guy that we just put on the kill list. His
daughter's now teaching at a Georgia university. Katami who is
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it's iatol ecatomy or something. I don't know his first name,
but he's the ex president. His daughter teaches at Union College.
There's a cabinet member whose son is a professor at
the Chicago School of Psychology, an Intel officer whose daughter
teaches at UMass. One of the iatolas has a daughter
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who teaches at University of Illinois, and their medical minister
has a son who teaches at George Washington University. These
are the same people who are continuing to say that
we are the great Satan, and that we have to
be demolished from earth, and that we had done all
of these things wrong. And now you're sending your children
to get educated at the universities in the United States
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of America, the same country you're currently chanting death. To
tell me how that makes any sense and where was
the vetting process for these people to get in When
you have a country who has their sites set on
destroying the United States of America, chance it constantly, and
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one of the people that's the head of that government,
Ali Lairezani, one of the people that's head of that government,
their daughter is currently teaching. You don't think she's been radicalized.
If she hasn't, I don't understand how she can't, because
that's a radical theology, and that radical theology teaches to
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be radical and now that's being handed down to some
of the students and the universities here in the United
States of America. Tell me how it makes sense. It
doesn't to me. I think the whole thing is suspect
at best and seriously endangering at worst, but we'll see
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how it turns out. All right, this is Bono's Cars.
Rant's about lots of other stuff. These cars are kind
of boring now, brought to you by Chevrolet Buick GMC
of Murphy's Borough. Come on back. After the break.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysborough. For all of your automotive
needs call six one five six four five one zero
seven five or online Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysboro dot com.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
All right, welcome back everybody, so very quickly, this is
very quick. Aside, that's an article that I read not
too long ago about USAA and uh I have quite
a few family members who have USAA. That bank there,
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but UHTED was started by army officers and was built
to serve military families. They just recently laid off six
hundred American employees in a single round while posting a
seven point nine billion dollar profit, which was a record,
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but the Heritage Foundation also flagged USAA for hiring h
one B visa workers through outsourcing firms. So a good
old American company that was founded by American military officers
to help American military families is now laying off American
American workers after posting seven point nine billion dollars in
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record profit. I can tell you that I had USAA.
When I read the article, my wife switched all of
our insurance over. I'm not supporting that company. I'm just
not do what you want. Everybody's pretty world for everybody.
But I'm just telling you, if you're a military veteran
you have USAA, just know they are. If you're doing
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it to try to support the US military, you're not.
If you're doing it to try to because you got
the best deal have at it. I don't don't begrudge
that to anybody. When will people figure out excuse me that,
and I don't know that they ever will. There is
no utopia. There is only hard work and effort, and
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there are unequal outcomes, and equal outcomes are never going
to be guaranteed because the same amount of effort, the
same amount of intelligence, the same amount of everything cannot
be equally distributed. Elon Musk is so much more brilliant
than I am that I would never begrudge him anything
that he earns nothing. He's about to be a trillionaire,
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and there are people that think that's just too much.
Why look at what he has given humanity. Bill Gates
was the first cent to billionaire. What did he do?
He put computers on everybody's desk. He had a vision
that worked. But for every dollar, there was a study
made that said that billionaires that are out there, for
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every billion dollars that they create for themselves, there is well,
let me say it a different way. The public, the
overall market, the people benefit from ninety five percent of
the wealth created by these billionaires. They achieve five percent,
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but what they actually give back to the world, we
get ninety five percent of that. Elon Musk is putting
Starlink and the ability to have Internet access anywhere in
the world in people's hands cheaply. Why shouldn't he be
able to make money from that. Amazon came out and
Jeff Bezos figured out a way for you to sit
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on your couch and order products and be able to
do whatever you want. And in the comfort of your home,
and do it cheaper and deliver it instantly. I don't
know how they do it so fast. Why does he
not deserve to make money from that? He is benefiting
society as a whole. When Nelson Rockefeller came or John D.
Rockefeller came out and started standard oil, he put cheap
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oil in or cheap energy in the in the grasp
of everybody out there. And look what it's done to
our societies. Why do these people not deserve to make
the money. Just because they're getting rich doesn't mean they're
not providing way more benefits to the earth and to
the world than they're getting for themselves. They get a
few dollars, Look what we all got without without John D. Rockefeller.
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We're not sitting here with lights on. We're still burning
kerosene lamps, We're still burning candles without Bill Gates. We
don't have the computer technology we have without Jet Bezos.
We don't have without Elon Musk, we don't have Starlink,
we don't have a whole lot of things right now.
Why do these Why do you begrudge the people making
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money but they do. Anybody on the left begrudges people
on the right. Until you used to hear Bernie Sanders
rail against the millionaires. You can't we got we have
to take it. They're not paying their fish? Are these
millionaires until Billie, until Bernie became a millionaire, and all
of a sudden, it's the billionaires are not a problem.
If you made Bernie a billionaire. Right now, he's saying
the center billionaires or the problem, it's not the billionaires.
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Just because you couldn't do it, don't does not mean
that the people who did it don't deserve to benefit
from that. In a socialist point of view, they seriously
believe that somehow, if if we went to socialism, that
the bread would bake itself out of some moral need
to take care of people. It doesn't work that way,
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and it's never going to work that way. And now
I'm going to give you two instances of the lying policies.
Zora and Memdami got elected into office in New York
City as the mayor. He told you who he was.
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He said it, we all said it. I talked about
it on this show. And I'm just some guy sitting
in Nashville, Tennessee, on a show that that goes on
for an hour a week, and I was saying, you guys,
vote that man in, you're going to regret it. It
is a problem. And now, because he can't get all
of the policies that he wants passed through New York's
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state government to raise the taxes on the rich, he
has decided, and I want you to listen to this,
that he is going after a fifty percent the state
tax fifty percent of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
estates and above. But here's the catch. If you hit
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that magical seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars mark, the
entire seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of your estate
gets taxed. So he takes half of it. So all
of those people who have been living in those houses,
the average house in Westchester County, I believe it was,
the average home is the median home median half or more,
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half or less was eight hundred and thirty two thousand dollars.
That means people that lived in their house for thirty years,
that built up the only thing, the only asset they
have is their house, and they want to leave it
to their kids because they've lived in it for thirty years.
It's the kid's house. But immediately when that title gets transferred,
kids are gonna have to sell it because they're gonna
have to come up with half of the eight hundred
thousand dollars just to pay the tax because their parents died.
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Right now, the tax is a sixteen percent tax on
a state's worth seven million or more. But here's the catch.
It only taxes the more than seven million dollars. The
first seven million dollars you get to keep. I think
that's ridiculous. I've paid tax all along the way on
everything that I've earned. I've paid property taxes that I'll
never get back. Why do I now have to pay
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a death tax on top of all of the other
tax because I paid? Oh? I get it. Because you
can't stop spending on crazy things that don't do anybody
any good, and you can't stop wasting money. You can't
stop grifting. But somehow or another, you're going to act
like the people that made the money, the people that
are out there. Oh did you may back up a second?
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So here where Kathy Hochel Now? Two years ago she
was telling everybody moved to Florida. You don't represent New
York values. You don't represent your values. Guess what they did.
They all packed up and moved to Florida. And now
she's saying, I need some of those people with the
wealthy to come back and write check so that we
can have these generous social programs. Oh, now you're in
the fo part of FAFO. You found out what happens
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when you tell people we're going to take all your
money from you. They go, no, you're not. I'm going
to Florida, or I'm going to Tennessee, or I'm going
to Texas. Washington, the state of Washington is one of
the seven or eight states that didn't have a state
income tax until they just voted it in recently, a
ten percent state income tax on anything over a million dollars.
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Guess what happened. A millionaire started leaving instantly, Howard Schultz
being the richest of them. But one other policy that
I want to talk about real quick, this is just crazy.
There was an apartment complex in Maryland Baltimore to be exact,
I think Prince George County, a condominium complex where they
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had this condominium complex, somebody had set up a homeless
encampment near it, and the homeless people were overrunning the
apartment complex and or condominium complex and stealing all the
water the boilers and out of the boiler room and
making it impossible for these people to live. So a
judge ruled not to clean up the homeless encampment that
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was destroying the values of the people who are paid
for its property. But he voted to evict all of
the people from their homes and make them homeless too,
instead of just cleaning up the homeless encampment that are
terrorizing all of the people who live in the condominium complex.
Make it make sense, because I can't. A judge literally
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is going to make more people homeless because the homeless
encampment destroyed their homes that they had paid for it.
And if you think leftist policies, don't just continue to
do that over and over and over and over again
everywhere they're tried. It doesn't work. Free market is what works.
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Equal outcomes are never going to be the thing because
we don't have equal inputs. Elon Musk has put a
lot more into the system than I ever did, and
he deserves whatever he gets back out of it. By
the way, also offered to pay all the TSA agents
out of his pocket to keep them going. All right,
this is Bonos Cars Ranch about lots of other stuff,
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brought to you by Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphysboro. Come up.
After the break.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
deciding to pull back the curtain and show you what's
really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysborough. For all of your automotive
needs call six one five six four five one zero
seven five or online Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphreysboro dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
All right, Welcome back everybody. So in the last segment,
I was ranting about the incredible generosity of the rich
people that are out there. And I know you think, hm,
rich people shouldn't exist. But let me remind you that
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Bill Gates, Warren B. Steve Jobs I think was in there.
I think the other guy that was with Microsoft, Paul
I can't remember his last name right now. All have
hundreds of billions of dollars worth of foundations, not like
the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation, where they you know,
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got people to give them money and put it in
the foundation. Note these people actually set up foundations to
give their money away philanthropically. And I have one question
for all of you people out there that think billionaires
shouldn't exist. I personally know one that is very, very
private and gave lots of money to the Boys and
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Girls Clubs of America, helped finance a wing in the
University of Miami Medical Center. That he has done so
many things that nobody knows about. And I can tell
you there are lots and lots and lots of them
out there that do things. They don't want the acknowledgement.
They just want to be philanthropic. But here's my question
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that I wanted to ask everybody, who do you think
if there was one hundred billion dollars on the table,
who do you think would do a better job distributing
that hundred billion dollars in order for it to do
the most it can to help the people it's supposed
to help the government or the person who earned the
hundred billion dollars. And I absolutely guarantee you if you
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say anything except the man who or the person who
earned the hundred billion dollars, you have no idea. You
need to go study economics. One oh one the government
wastes about I don't know, fifty percent of every dollar
minimum minimum. Rich people deserve it, they do they Now,
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some of these kids that are influencers, I don't know.
I couldn't tell you about them. But the people that
have actually changed our lives. Influencers don't change my life
one way or the other. But Bill Gates did, Elon
musk Is, John D. Rockefeller did, lots and lots and
lots of people have over the years. They built entire
industries that make people not just rich, but give people jobs.
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How do you think we've continued to go? So here's
what I want to talk about. There's two men, one
died this past week and a half or so ago,
that you may have never heard of, but they had
two opposite thought processes. One his name was Paul Erlick,
and he was a man who wrote a book. Let
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me make sure I get the name of the book
right here. Anyways, he wrote a book back in nineteen
sixty nine and talked about the coming famine that was
going to hit because there was no way that we
could sustain the number of people that the earth was
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trying to sustain in the growth population, and we were
going to have a population boom that was going to
literally cause massive famine by nineteen eighty five, and that's
why UNISEF was invented, because we had to start feeding
all of these people over in Africa, because if you
remember the pictures of the starving babies and all of
the other stuff. He was the one that also proposed
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forcibly sterilizing millions of Americans by poisoning the water supply
to make them infertile. He couldn't think of a drug
to do it safely, so it never really happened, but
he wanted to do it, but he did. He did
have a legacy that included mass sterilization programs in India,
China improved. He was the one that came across to
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China that helped them with their one child policy and
actually said it didn't go far enough. Right now, it's
going to cause a mass decline in population. Exactly what
he thought we needed to do, but it's going to
cause mass decline of population which might not be able
to be sustained because we went too far. He at
one point in India's program of mass sterilization, they did
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it on such a massive scale that in one year,
India sterilized fifteen times more than the Nazis did in
their entire campaign, fifteen times more one year than the
Nazis did in their entire campaign. He was wrong. Right now,
we're feeding I don't know what the population was when
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he wrote the book in nineteen sixty nine. Let's assume
it was five billion people, and we're now at seven
and six and a half seven billion, whatever the number is.
We're feeding all of those people with a lot less space.
We haven't grown the animal space that we have used
to farm. His whole idea was there's not enough space
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for farming. There's not a space for this, not a
space for that. He also predicted that medals. He had
a bet with a guy one time. The guy was
named Julian Simon, who was an economist, and they placed
a bet in nineteen eighty and the economist Julia Simon,
proposed that they bet on what I'm just gonna read
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it to you. Simon proposed that they bet on what
would happen to the price of five medals copper, chromium, nickel, ten,
and tungsten over a decade, And the logic was that
these medals were essential for all kinds of stuff electronics, cars, buildings.
So if Erlick was right, more people on the planet
would mean we would start running out of stuff and
the price of these things should go up. If the
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price of one thousand dollars worth of medals in nineteen
eighty went up, indicating advancing scarcity, Simon would owe Erlick
the difference. If they dropped, Erlick would pay up. And
in nineteen ninety Erlik got a check, I mean, Simon
got a check in the mail from Erlick for five
hundred and seventy six dollars and seven cents, and there
was no note, which meant the price of all those
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medals had actually gone down, indicate a level of not scarcy.
I remember not too long ago, two thousand and seven
or eight, maybe where we had hit peak oil, and
oil went to one hundred dollars barrel to one hundred
dollars a barrel. Now, because of geopolitical issues, we were
peak oil one hundred dollars of barrel. We were done,
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there was no more to find. Literally, three years later
they found another pool that said that we could go
for another three hundred years at the current rate of use.
These predictions have been wrong over and over and over again.
But here's why. Here's the other guy. I wanted to
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talk about, a gentleman by the name of Norman Borlog.
He is He was a farmer in I think in
he came over. His family came over from Sweden, but
he had a farm in I think it was Iowa,
Northeast Iowa. Doctor for Borlog, as he is now known,
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was the one who developed a wheat strand. He went
down to Mexico in the forties and fifties and he
was the one that came up with the wheat strand
that yielded way more wheat it kept it from it it. Basically,
he engineered these shorter stalks that didn't blow over in
the wind, but had more wheat on them, and we
were able to feed lots and lots and lots more people.
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Matter of fact, I think India's doing pretty well now
with a billion and a half people. I think Africa
is doing pretty well. And right now in the United States,
obesity is a much, much, much much greater problem than malnutrition.
We have learned to feed people around the world because
of doctor Borlog and his willingness to continue to do
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whatever he had to to make sure that we could farm,
and we are doing it now based on one man's
greatest efforts. I think he received in nineteen seventy or
seventy some thing. He is the only agrascist or agronomist
to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in
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creating a food source that was not only sustainable but
higher yields. We are farming. I think we're farming one
percent more land that we were in the sixties, and
we're feeding twenty five to thirty percent more people, forty
percent more people and doing it well. The power of man,
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the willingness of man to adapt, the willingness of a
society to figure out problems. We've got some really smart
people out there that are working on problems that you
and I never even thought was a problem. I can
tell you that my dad my mom weren't thinking about
starving in nineteen eighty five being a problem when they
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were trying to feed their two kids in the sixties
and going to work every day. But think the good
Lord that there are people out there that are working
on these problems every day, and who know what AI
is going to be able to do with it. I
certainly don't. But I can tell you that we are
unlocking untold wealth throughout the world. And if wealth is
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you're not starving anymore and have access to food, and
there's not food insecurities anymore. That's wealthier than we were
when we had food insecurities and people starving. And so
whoever came up with that, if he got rich from it, right,
look what you did for society. I said this on
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an article the other day. Also, I want to talk
about rich paying their fair share and taxes. Not only
do the top one percent pay forty percent of all
income taxes and the top five percent of income earners
pay something like fifty eight or sixty percent of all
income taxes generated in the United States, But if you
think that those same people aren't paying an inordinate amount
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of property taxes on those million, ten million dollars, twenty
million dollars, one hundred million dollar mansions. If you think
those same people that are buying Hermez and Chanel and
two hundred thousand dollars cars and all of those others
aren't paying an inordinate amount of the sales tax that's
collected in the United States of America. If you think
that they're not paying an inordinate amount of all of
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the taxes collected in the United States of America. You're
dead wrong. But not only are they paying the taxes.
I've said this many times, a former set one more time.
I've never gotten a job from a poor person. They
create wealth for everybody, whether you got to be a
part of it or not, is not necessarily measurable. But
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you got the benefits of their largees and their intelligence,
and you should be thankful for that. All right. Anyways,
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Speaker 3 (31:37):
All right, welcome back, everybody. So I'm just gonna I'm
not gonna talk about the war much. But I am
gonna touch on this last week Iran, who has continued
to say that they limited their own inner ICBMs or
intercontinentallistic missiles or their missile range to less than two
thousand kilometers or twelve hundred and fifty miles. That's what
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the Ragatzi, the guy that keeps talking all the time
on TV about Iran, said, Yeah, we've limited our missiles.
We don't have anything that can go that far. It's
only twelve hundred and fifty it's only for defensive purposes.
Then they launched a missile at Diego Garcia, which is
our base that we share with the UK, which is
four thousand kilometers away double twenty five hundred miles. Twenty
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five hundred miles puts anything. If they put a missile
launcher on the west of Iran, the western geographic line
of Iran, it will reach most capitals of European countries. Europe,
you're in this and if you think that they don't lie,
They literally said forty eight hours prior to that that
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they didn't have missiles that would go that far, that
they had limited the range of the missiles strictly for
defensive purposes. Then they launched one four thousand kilometers away
and completely obliterated their own lie. If you think they're
telling the truth about anything, that's not what they do.
They lie about it all, and they have been lying
about it for years and years and years. If you
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truly only wanted to enrich uranium for civil purposes, we
told you, we'll give you all the enriched uranium you need.
You don't have to understand it, you don't have to
spend any of your money. We'll give it to you
as long as it's for civil purposes. We're not going
to give you enriched uranium that can be made into bombs.
We're just not going to do it. And they have
proven time and time again they're willing to do anything
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they have to, to lash out at anyone they have to.
And if you think that wouldn't have been worse when
they had an actual nuclear bomb, you've lost your mind.
People lie, all right. Three stories came together this past
week that I wanted to kind of tie into that
I think is just indicative of the stupidity of the
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leftist policies and the green policies. The first one title
of the article one hundred just lost billions on evs
it can't sell. The second title was now you tell us,
And the third title of the third or the title
of the third article was we need more time for
costly climate law. Climate change law that's raising utility rates,
says Governor New York Governor hokeel So. In the first one,
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the article talks about the fact that Honda says it's
total write downs now for EV's because the market doesn't
want them. And if you've ever listened to the show,
you heard me saying that five years ago, this is
a bad idea. This isn't going to work. We don't
have the infrastructure. Nothing about this is going to make sense.
Honda wrote off fifteen point eight billion dollars. GM says
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that they lost seven point six billion dollars in write
downs on its GM or its EV production. Ford lost
nineteen and a half billion dollars on its EV investments.
And that's just so far. Chrysler or Stillantus, which owns
christ Or Dodge geep Ram, lost twenty five point six
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billion dollars in EV losses. That adds up the ones
I just told you about add up to sixty eight
and a half billion dollars, and that doesn't include Mercedes, Benz, Nissan,
all of the other car manufacturers. It almost single handedly,
the EV push, almost single handly has put Jaguar out
of business. But when you look at all of the
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other products out there or the cars out there that
have lost money on this EV push that was mandated
by the government when the public didn't want it, and
so now you've lost another one hundred and something billion dollars,
And that does not take into account all of the
other infrastructure losses that were suffered by people like me.
I spent on with seven hundred thousand dollars because I
was mandated by General Motors to put these car chargers
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in there that don't get used very often. EV's have
a place. They do absolutely. My mother in law is
perfect for it. She doesn't drive more than ten or
fifteen miles a day and doesn't take long trips. And
if she does, she has access to a car if
she needs one, because I'll get her one. But other
than that, they are not You don't want it to
be your only source of transportation. I can tell you
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that it'll seriously limit your your choices. So the other
one was now you tell us, and this goes back
to more of this green climate change insanity. Larry Fink,
who runs Blackrock, has been he's a CEO, and he's
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been championing for years and years pressuring companies to do
everything they could to lower their their energy footprint and
wouldn't invest in companies and just literally pushed them to
the limits because they black Rock has trillions of dollars
under management and so they control some levers. Larry Fink
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was doing a interview not too long ago, a couple
of weeks ago, and admit now that transitioning to solar
and wind is going to cause a global power shortage.
That's not possible to do. We can't transition that we
have to in order to not sabotage our energy system
and our overall drop kill everything that we need reliable energy,
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and the only thing that we have that does that
are the ones that we're relying on now, nuclear oil, coal,
natural gas. That those are not necessarily renewable. I think
they might be, but it's just my own opinion, but
they are the only reliable baseload power that we have
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right now. And there's no way you're ever going to
turn wind and Solder into that it's just not but
Ursula Vonderland, who is the President of the EU, and
a position that's not voted on. The people who run
the U aren't voted in, they're just appointed. But she
came out and acknowledged recently that nuclear power share of
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Europe's electricity dropped from thirty three percent in nineteen ninety
to fifteen percent today, and she called the reduction a
deliberate choice that has destroyed the power systems in most
of Europe. At this point, give credit to German Chancellor
Frederick Mertz, who, by the way, called the EU a
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complete failure and say that they've had wasted incredible potential
and have become a world champion of overregulation and zero growth,
which I have talked about on the show in several
different times. But they literally took all of their nuclear
power off. A nuclear power plant, when you built it,
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build it last fifty years. Does it have the chance
to have a problem like they had in Japan several
years ago from a tsunami. Yeah, that could happen, but
I'm pretty sure there's no commies that are going to
hit Europe. I'm pretty sure that that was a one
off and could only happen in Japan or one of
those coastal cities like that. But that was that was
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the base that they used for taking down all of
the nuclear power. And now what they're having to do
is buy power from everybody else in the world, and
it's causing their energy rates to skyrocket. It's absolute insanity.
And people tell you this is what's going to happen.
There were many, many, many, many many economists and people
who were smart that knew what they were talking about
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that said, if you pass Obamacare, it's going to destroy
the medical market. It's going to raise prices so high
that it's going to be almost unaffordable. So the Affordable
Care Act is going to make it way more unaffordable
for everybody, and it did exactly that. The problem is
the people making decisions on these things, our power, supply,
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our medical care, all of that an they have an agenda,
and the ones that don't have an agenda that are
just free market. Look, it's going to go where it's
going to go. But I don't have an agenda. I'm
not trying to make my family and friends rich. I'm
not doing All those people have an agenda and they're
trying to destroy the world. They want a one world power,
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and they want to consolidate that power to themselves, and
they are doing it through stupid policies that waste trillions
of dollars trillions Right now. I saw something the other
day that pegged the the UH waste on climate change
right now, it's something like twenty trillion dollars. Twenty trillion dollars,
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and they keep doing it. They keep saying, Oh, well,
we just haven't done enough yet. We just haven't done
enough yet. Which leads me to the third article, which
is the Kathy Hokal headline, we need more time for
costly climate change. So back in twenty nineteen, the UH,
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ever brilliant government for New York State led by Kathy Hockel,
passed some laws that we're trying to make all of
the energy or energy more clean. Right. They passed a
climate law that she championed that said that they had
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to get to net zero by a certain year. Right,
let's see if I can make sure I get this right.
The proposed adjustments included delaying. Oh that's the other part.
So they passed don't it's not in here. They passed
a law that said that they had to get to
net zero by a certain time, and everybody said, this
isn't going to work. If we do this, it's going
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to drive the rates of energy sky high, and shure's
the world. Just like Gavin Newsom Mountain, California driving the
price of gasoline through the roof in California through policies.
The same thing happened in New York. So this same
lady who came out, I don't know a week and
a half ago and said, I need rich people to
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come back to New York instead of staying in Florida
and Tennessee and Texas. I need him to come back
and write some checks so we can have these generous
social programs. This is the same lady who now is saying, yeah,
we're gonna have to delay some of these things that
we put in this law in twenty nineteen because it's
starting to cause our energy costs to skyrocket. And the
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average person, let's face it, energy costs are regressive tax.
It hurts the people on the lower end of the scale,
that has the lower end of the income scale way
more than it hurts the guy that's got that makes
ten million dollars a year. If his electric bill goes
up one thousand dollars a month, he doesn't care. But
the person humping it every single day and doing the
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best they can to put food on the table that's
making fifty thousand dollars a year. A thousand dollars increase
in electric bille is a big difference. It's huge. And
they continue to pass these policies that not only waste money,
they're boondoggles, and they make people rich that aren't the
ones that should be getting rich from it. And they're
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taking it from the taxpayers, just like I talked about
earlier in this show, ma'am DOMMI, trying to propose a
fifty percent tax on the state's over seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. You're absolutely destroying the middle class. And
I think that that is their intent. I think that's
what they're trying to do. And people are not paying
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attention and they're going to let them. We have to
find a way to stop them, because if we don't,
we are going to be up the proverbial creek without
a paddle and no way to come back. I don't
know how, I don't know. If you don't pay attention
and open your eyes and start telling people the truth.
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We're going to be in trouble all right. Thanks to
all the war fighters out there, they're landing on the
line for us every single day. I really sincerely appreciate
your efforts. And this is Bonos Cars brought you by
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Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right, good morning everybody. Thank you for tuning in.
I sincerely appreciate it. If like always, I hope everybody's
having a great weekend. I'm ready for this bipolar weather
to be done. This eighty five one weekend and you know,
then got back down to sixty this week and I
have like one day it was, I have forty eight
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or forty. I'm like, what in the world. I have
had the sniffles for going on a week now. I'm
t of it. Just let's get some warm weather or
some cold weather so I know how to dress. It's
like when you used to go to school in the morning, right,
I'm from Florida and we didn't have a lot of
cold mornings, but we had some, and I'd go to
school with a jacket, and sure as the world, I
(01:15):
wouldn't have it when I got home because i'd it
was warm already, right, And so the next morning I
had to go to school cold because I didn't have
my jacket. You learned that pretty early on. So it's
kind of the same way here. I don't know whether
to dress warm or not. So probably a year ago
I talked about a study or a number of studies
(01:37):
that had been done that said that more than half
I think at the time of the study it was
fifty seven percent of women who identify as on the
left between the ages of eighteen and twenty nine had
been diagnosed with at least one mental illness. Not I mean, look,
they had the right when they were doing the survey,
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they had the right to not say anything. These women
were very upfront and open about yep, I've been diagnosed
with a mental illness. When fifty seven percent of them
were diagnosed with a mental illness, I'm not sure whether
they're they're trying to compete with each other to have
a mental illness, or whether it really does truly exist.
I don't know what the definition was that they used
(02:21):
for mental illness, but I don't know if being leftist
is a mental illness, I don't know. If it's causing
a mental illness, I don't know. But what I do
know is fifty seven percent I think that was the
number identified as having been diagnosed with at least one
mental illness. Now it turns out there's been a new
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study done and a significant number, right large number, forty
percent of all women who identify on the left between
the ages of fifteen and forty four want to leave
the United States permanently and move overseas. Now, I'm going
(03:05):
to bet that a significant portion of those women have
never lived in any of the countries they think they
want to go live in right now, and have not
visited them for any longer than a vacation and living
someplace and having to deal with the livelihoods and the
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lifestyles and the well. I guess, if you come to America,
you don't have to assimilate into our culture. You can
just bring your culture here, and we're supposed to just
assimilate to you, and we're supposed to let you bring
there to here so you can turn here into there.
I say, no, but forty what in the world are
you thinking that there's something wrong. If you think for
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a second that America is not the greatest country on Earth.
Do we have our issues? I said every time I
say this, Yep, we do. We have done some things
wrong over history. We still get things wrong. But never
in the history of the world has there been a
superpower like the United States has has used it for
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more good across the world than us. We rebuilt Europe
after World War Two. We didn't drag ourselves into World
War Two. We got drug into World War two when
Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. But we got drug
into World War Two, and then we the American economy,
spent the money to rebuild Japan, which is why Japan's
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one of our greatest allies right now, and rebuild Europe.
And we've been taking care of Europe for the last
seventy years for their defense, to keep the bad guys away.
If you think for a second that there is another
country out there that has done better for the earth,
for the world than the United States, you're not paying attention.
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You're just not. But I say, hey, I'll chip in.
If there's a number of that want to leave, I'm good.
Just call me up, tell me how much's going to
be for I'll pay for ten tickets. Ten tickets, I'll
pay for all. Right. Second thing that I want to
talk shifting shifting gears. My brain's not working shifting gears
a little bit. Did you know, because I didn't that
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all of these people that are screaming death to America
for forty seven years, like especially in Iran, that they
are currently sending all of their children over here for
us to educate them, and a significant number of them
now are teaching at American universities. For instance, if you've
been paying any attention to the Iranian war that's going on.
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Ali Lerajani, who is a top military leader. His daughter
teaches at Emory University in Atlanta in Georgia. Yep, the
guy that we just put on the kill list. His
daughter's now teaching at a Georgia university. Katami who is
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it's iatol ecatomy or something. I don't know his first name,
but he's the ex president. His daughter teaches at Union College.
There's a cabinet member whose son is a professor at
the Chicago School of Psychology, an Intel officer whose daughter
teaches at UMass. One of the iatolas has a daughter
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who teaches at University of Illinois, and their medical minister
has a son who teaches at George Washington University. These
are the same people who are continuing to say that
we are the great Satan, and that we have to
be demolished from earth, and that we had done all
of these things wrong. And now you're sending your children
to get educated at the universities in the United States
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of America, the same country you're currently chanting death. To
tell me how that makes any sense and where was
the vetting process for these people to get in When
you have a country who has their sites set on
destroying the United States of America, chance it constantly, and
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one of the people that's the head of that government,
Ali Lairezani, one of the people that's head of that government,
their daughter is currently teaching. You don't think she's been radicalized.
If she hasn't, I don't understand how she can't, because
that's a radical theology, and that radical theology teaches to
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be radical and now that's being handed down to some
of the students and the universities here in the United
States of America. Tell me how it makes sense. It
doesn't to me. I think the whole thing is suspect
at best and seriously endangering at worst, but we'll see
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Speaker 3 (08:36):
All right, welcome back everybody, so very quickly, this is
very quick. Aside, that's an article that I read not
too long ago about USAA and uh I have quite
a few family members who have USAA. That bank there,
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but UHTED was started by army officers and was built
to serve military families. They just recently laid off six
hundred American employees in a single round while posting a
seven point nine billion dollar profit, which was a record,
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but the Heritage Foundation also flagged USAA for hiring h
one B visa workers through outsourcing firms. So a good
old American company that was founded by American military officers
to help American military families is now laying off American
American workers after posting seven point nine billion dollars in
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record profit. I can tell you that I had USAA.
When I read the article, my wife switched all of
our insurance over. I'm not supporting that company. I'm just
not do what you want. Everybody's pretty world for everybody.
But I'm just telling you, if you're a military veteran
you have USAA, just know they are. If you're doing
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it to try to support the US military, you're not.
If you're doing it to try to because you got
the best deal have at it. I don't don't begrudge
that to anybody. When will people figure out excuse me that,
and I don't know that they ever will. There is
no utopia. There is only hard work and effort, and
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there are unequal outcomes, and equal outcomes are never going
to be guaranteed because the same amount of effort, the
same amount of intelligence, the same amount of everything cannot
be equally distributed. Elon Musk is so much more brilliant
than I am that I would never begrudge him anything
that he earns nothing. He's about to be a trillionaire,
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and there are people that think that's just too much.
Why look at what he has given humanity. Bill Gates
was the first cent to billionaire. What did he do?
He put computers on everybody's desk. He had a vision
that worked. But for every dollar, there was a study
made that said that billionaires that are out there, for
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every billion dollars that they create for themselves, there is well,
let me say it a different way. The public, the
overall market, the people benefit from ninety five percent of
the wealth created by these billionaires. They achieve five percent,
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but what they actually give back to the world, we
get ninety five percent of that. Elon Musk is putting
Starlink and the ability to have Internet access anywhere in
the world in people's hands cheaply. Why shouldn't he be
able to make money from that. Amazon came out and
Jeff Bezos figured out a way for you to sit
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on your couch and order products and be able to
do whatever you want. And in the comfort of your home,
and do it cheaper and deliver it instantly. I don't
know how they do it so fast. Why does he
not deserve to make money from that? He is benefiting
society as a whole. When Nelson Rockefeller came or John D.
Rockefeller came out and started standard oil, he put cheap
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oil in or cheap energy in the in the grasp
of everybody out there. And look what it's done to
our societies. Why do these people not deserve to make
the money. Just because they're getting rich doesn't mean they're
not providing way more benefits to the earth and to
the world than they're getting for themselves. They get a
few dollars, Look what we all got without without John D. Rockefeller.
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We're not sitting here with lights on. We're still burning
kerosene lamps, We're still burning candles without Bill Gates. We
don't have the computer technology we have without Jet Bezos.
We don't have without Elon Musk, we don't have Starlink,
we don't have a whole lot of things right now.
Why do these Why do you begrudge the people making
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money but they do. Anybody on the left begrudges people
on the right. Until you used to hear Bernie Sanders
rail against the millionaires. You can't we got we have
to take it. They're not paying their fish? Are these
millionaires until Billie, until Bernie became a millionaire, and all
of a sudden, it's the billionaires are not a problem.
If you made Bernie a billionaire. Right now, he's saying
the center billionaires or the problem, it's not the billionaires.
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Just because you couldn't do it, don't does not mean
that the people who did it don't deserve to benefit
from that. In a socialist point of view, they seriously
believe that somehow, if if we went to socialism, that
the bread would bake itself out of some moral need
to take care of people. It doesn't work that way,
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and it's never going to work that way. And now
I'm going to give you two instances of the lying policies.
Zora and Memdami got elected into office in New York
City as the mayor. He told you who he was.
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He said it, we all said it. I talked about
it on this show. And I'm just some guy sitting
in Nashville, Tennessee, on a show that that goes on
for an hour a week, and I was saying, you guys,
vote that man in, you're going to regret it. It
is a problem. And now, because he can't get all
of the policies that he wants passed through New York's
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state government to raise the taxes on the rich, he
has decided, and I want you to listen to this,
that he is going after a fifty percent the state
tax fifty percent of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
estates and above. But here's the catch. If you hit
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that magical seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars mark, the
entire seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of your estate
gets taxed. So he takes half of it. So all
of those people who have been living in those houses,
the average house in Westchester County, I believe it was,
the average home is the median home median half or more,
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half or less was eight hundred and thirty two thousand dollars.
That means people that lived in their house for thirty years,
that built up the only thing, the only asset they
have is their house, and they want to leave it
to their kids because they've lived in it for thirty years.
It's the kid's house. But immediately when that title gets transferred,
kids are gonna have to sell it because they're gonna
have to come up with half of the eight hundred
thousand dollars just to pay the tax because their parents died.
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Right now, the tax is a sixteen percent tax on
a state's worth seven million or more. But here's the catch.
It only taxes the more than seven million dollars. The
first seven million dollars you get to keep. I think
that's ridiculous. I've paid tax all along the way on
everything that I've earned. I've paid property taxes that I'll
never get back. Why do I now have to pay
(15:57):
a death tax on top of all of the other
tax because I paid? Oh? I get it. Because you
can't stop spending on crazy things that don't do anybody
any good, and you can't stop wasting money. You can't
stop grifting. But somehow or another, you're going to act
like the people that made the money, the people that
are out there. Oh did you may back up a second?
(16:19):
So here where Kathy Hochel Now? Two years ago she
was telling everybody moved to Florida. You don't represent New
York values. You don't represent your values. Guess what they did.
They all packed up and moved to Florida. And now
she's saying, I need some of those people with the
wealthy to come back and write check so that we
can have these generous social programs. Oh, now you're in
the fo part of FAFO. You found out what happens
(16:41):
when you tell people we're going to take all your
money from you. They go, no, you're not. I'm going
to Florida, or I'm going to Tennessee, or I'm going
to Texas. Washington, the state of Washington is one of
the seven or eight states that didn't have a state
income tax until they just voted it in recently, a
ten percent state income tax on anything over a million dollars.
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Guess what happened. A millionaire started leaving instantly, Howard Schultz
being the richest of them. But one other policy that
I want to talk about real quick, this is just crazy.
There was an apartment complex in Maryland Baltimore to be exact,
I think Prince George County, a condominium complex where they
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had this condominium complex, somebody had set up a homeless
encampment near it, and the homeless people were overrunning the
apartment complex and or condominium complex and stealing all the
water the boilers and out of the boiler room and
making it impossible for these people to live. So a
judge ruled not to clean up the homeless encampment that
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was destroying the values of the people who are paid
for its property. But he voted to evict all of
the people from their homes and make them homeless too,
instead of just cleaning up the homeless encampment that are
terrorizing all of the people who live in the condominium complex.
Make it make sense, because I can't. A judge literally
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is going to make more people homeless because the homeless
encampment destroyed their homes that they had paid for it.
And if you think leftist policies, don't just continue to
do that over and over and over and over again
everywhere they're tried. It doesn't work. Free market is what works.
(18:35):
Equal outcomes are never going to be the thing because
we don't have equal inputs. Elon Musk has put a
lot more into the system than I ever did, and
he deserves whatever he gets back out of it. By
the way, also offered to pay all the TSA agents
out of his pocket to keep them going. All right,
this is Bonos Cars Ranch about lots of other stuff,
(18:57):
brought to you by Chevrolet Buick GMC of Murphysboro. Come up.
After the break.
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Speaker 2 (19:34):
Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
All right, Welcome back everybody. So in the last segment,
I was ranting about the incredible generosity of the rich
people that are out there. And I know you think, hm,
rich people shouldn't exist. But let me remind you that
(19:58):
Bill Gates, Warren B. Steve Jobs I think was in there.
I think the other guy that was with Microsoft, Paul
I can't remember his last name right now. All have
hundreds of billions of dollars worth of foundations, not like
the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation, where they you know,
(20:21):
got people to give them money and put it in
the foundation. Note these people actually set up foundations to
give their money away philanthropically. And I have one question
for all of you people out there that think billionaires
shouldn't exist. I personally know one that is very, very
private and gave lots of money to the Boys and
(20:43):
Girls Clubs of America, helped finance a wing in the
University of Miami Medical Center. That he has done so
many things that nobody knows about. And I can tell
you there are lots and lots and lots of them
out there that do things. They don't want the acknowledgement.
They just want to be philanthropic. But here's my question
(21:08):
that I wanted to ask everybody, who do you think
if there was one hundred billion dollars on the table,
who do you think would do a better job distributing
that hundred billion dollars in order for it to do
the most it can to help the people it's supposed
to help the government or the person who earned the
hundred billion dollars. And I absolutely guarantee you if you
(21:31):
say anything except the man who or the person who
earned the hundred billion dollars, you have no idea. You
need to go study economics. One oh one the government
wastes about I don't know, fifty percent of every dollar
minimum minimum. Rich people deserve it, they do they Now,
(21:53):
some of these kids that are influencers, I don't know.
I couldn't tell you about them. But the people that
have actually changed our lives. Influencers don't change my life
one way or the other. But Bill Gates did, Elon
musk Is, John D. Rockefeller did, lots and lots and
lots of people have over the years. They built entire
industries that make people not just rich, but give people jobs.
(22:17):
How do you think we've continued to go? So here's
what I want to talk about. There's two men, one
died this past week and a half or so ago,
that you may have never heard of, but they had
two opposite thought processes. One his name was Paul Erlick,
and he was a man who wrote a book. Let
(22:40):
me make sure I get the name of the book
right here. Anyways, he wrote a book back in nineteen
sixty nine and talked about the coming famine that was
going to hit because there was no way that we
could sustain the number of people that the earth was
(23:02):
trying to sustain in the growth population, and we were
going to have a population boom that was going to
literally cause massive famine by nineteen eighty five, and that's
why UNISEF was invented, because we had to start feeding
all of these people over in Africa, because if you
remember the pictures of the starving babies and all of
the other stuff. He was the one that also proposed
(23:26):
forcibly sterilizing millions of Americans by poisoning the water supply
to make them infertile. He couldn't think of a drug
to do it safely, so it never really happened, but
he wanted to do it, but he did. He did
have a legacy that included mass sterilization programs in India,
China improved. He was the one that came across to
(23:47):
China that helped them with their one child policy and
actually said it didn't go far enough. Right now, it's
going to cause a mass decline in population. Exactly what
he thought we needed to do, but it's going to
cause mass decline of population which might not be able
to be sustained because we went too far. He at
one point in India's program of mass sterilization, they did
(24:11):
it on such a massive scale that in one year,
India sterilized fifteen times more than the Nazis did in
their entire campaign, fifteen times more one year than the
Nazis did in their entire campaign. He was wrong. Right now,
we're feeding I don't know what the population was when
(24:33):
he wrote the book in nineteen sixty nine. Let's assume
it was five billion people, and we're now at seven
and six and a half seven billion, whatever the number is.
We're feeding all of those people with a lot less space.
We haven't grown the animal space that we have used
to farm. His whole idea was there's not enough space
(24:53):
for farming. There's not a space for this, not a
space for that. He also predicted that medals. He had
a bet with a guy one time. The guy was
named Julian Simon, who was an economist, and they placed
a bet in nineteen eighty and the economist Julia Simon,
proposed that they bet on what I'm just gonna read
(25:15):
it to you. Simon proposed that they bet on what
would happen to the price of five medals copper, chromium, nickel, ten,
and tungsten over a decade, And the logic was that
these medals were essential for all kinds of stuff electronics, cars, buildings.
So if Erlick was right, more people on the planet
would mean we would start running out of stuff and
the price of these things should go up. If the
(25:36):
price of one thousand dollars worth of medals in nineteen
eighty went up, indicating advancing scarcity, Simon would owe Erlick
the difference. If they dropped, Erlick would pay up. And
in nineteen ninety Erlik got a check, I mean, Simon
got a check in the mail from Erlick for five
hundred and seventy six dollars and seven cents, and there
was no note, which meant the price of all those
(25:56):
medals had actually gone down, indicate a level of not scarcy.
I remember not too long ago, two thousand and seven
or eight, maybe where we had hit peak oil, and
oil went to one hundred dollars barrel to one hundred
dollars a barrel. Now, because of geopolitical issues, we were
peak oil one hundred dollars of barrel. We were done,
(26:16):
there was no more to find. Literally, three years later
they found another pool that said that we could go
for another three hundred years at the current rate of use.
These predictions have been wrong over and over and over again.
But here's why. Here's the other guy. I wanted to
(26:37):
talk about, a gentleman by the name of Norman Borlog.
He is He was a farmer in I think in
he came over. His family came over from Sweden, but
he had a farm in I think it was Iowa,
Northeast Iowa. Doctor for Borlog, as he is now known,
(27:01):
was the one who developed a wheat strand. He went
down to Mexico in the forties and fifties and he
was the one that came up with the wheat strand
that yielded way more wheat it kept it from it it. Basically,
he engineered these shorter stalks that didn't blow over in
the wind, but had more wheat on them, and we
were able to feed lots and lots and lots more people.
(27:24):
Matter of fact, I think India's doing pretty well now
with a billion and a half people. I think Africa
is doing pretty well. And right now in the United States,
obesity is a much, much, much much greater problem than malnutrition.
We have learned to feed people around the world because
of doctor Borlog and his willingness to continue to do
(27:47):
whatever he had to to make sure that we could farm,
and we are doing it now based on one man's
greatest efforts. I think he received in nineteen seventy or
seventy some thing. He is the only agrascist or agronomist
to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in
(28:07):
creating a food source that was not only sustainable but
higher yields. We are farming. I think we're farming one
percent more land that we were in the sixties, and
we're feeding twenty five to thirty percent more people, forty
percent more people and doing it well. The power of man,
(28:28):
the willingness of man to adapt, the willingness of a
society to figure out problems. We've got some really smart
people out there that are working on problems that you
and I never even thought was a problem. I can
tell you that my dad my mom weren't thinking about
starving in nineteen eighty five being a problem when they
(28:49):
were trying to feed their two kids in the sixties
and going to work every day. But think the good
Lord that there are people out there that are working
on these problems every day, and who know what AI
is going to be able to do with it. I
certainly don't. But I can tell you that we are
unlocking untold wealth throughout the world. And if wealth is
(29:12):
you're not starving anymore and have access to food, and
there's not food insecurities anymore. That's wealthier than we were
when we had food insecurities and people starving. And so
whoever came up with that, if he got rich from it, right,
look what you did for society. I said this on
(29:34):
an article the other day. Also, I want to talk
about rich paying their fair share and taxes. Not only
do the top one percent pay forty percent of all
income taxes and the top five percent of income earners
pay something like fifty eight or sixty percent of all
income taxes generated in the United States, But if you
think that those same people aren't paying an inordinate amount
(29:55):
of property taxes on those million, ten million dollars, twenty
million dollars, one hundred million dollar mansions. If you think
those same people that are buying Hermez and Chanel and
two hundred thousand dollars cars and all of those others
aren't paying an inordinate amount of the sales tax that's
collected in the United States of America. If you think
that they're not paying an inordinate amount of all of
(30:19):
the taxes collected in the United States of America. You're
dead wrong. But not only are they paying the taxes.
I've said this many times, a former set one more time.
I've never gotten a job from a poor person. They
create wealth for everybody, whether you got to be a
part of it or not, is not necessarily measurable. But
(30:40):
you got the benefits of their largees and their intelligence,
and you should be thankful for that. All right. Anyways,
this is Bonos Cars and it's irritated about a lot
of policy decisions. Brought to you by Chevrolet Buick GMC
of Murphysborough. Come back after the break.
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Speaker 2 (31:34):
Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
All right, welcome back, everybody. So I'm just gonna I'm
not gonna talk about the war much. But I am
gonna touch on this last week Iran, who has continued
to say that they limited their own inner ICBMs or
intercontinentallistic missiles or their missile range to less than two
thousand kilometers or twelve hundred and fifty miles. That's what
(32:00):
the Ragatzi, the guy that keeps talking all the time
on TV about Iran, said, Yeah, we've limited our missiles.
We don't have anything that can go that far. It's
only twelve hundred and fifty it's only for defensive purposes.
Then they launched a missile at Diego Garcia, which is
our base that we share with the UK, which is
four thousand kilometers away double twenty five hundred miles. Twenty
(32:24):
five hundred miles puts anything. If they put a missile
launcher on the west of Iran, the western geographic line
of Iran, it will reach most capitals of European countries. Europe,
you're in this and if you think that they don't lie,
They literally said forty eight hours prior to that that
(32:46):
they didn't have missiles that would go that far, that
they had limited the range of the missiles strictly for
defensive purposes. Then they launched one four thousand kilometers away
and completely obliterated their own lie. If you think they're
telling the truth about anything, that's not what they do.
They lie about it all, and they have been lying
about it for years and years and years. If you
(33:07):
truly only wanted to enrich uranium for civil purposes, we
told you, we'll give you all the enriched uranium you need.
You don't have to understand it, you don't have to
spend any of your money. We'll give it to you
as long as it's for civil purposes. We're not going
to give you enriched uranium that can be made into bombs.
We're just not going to do it. And they have
proven time and time again they're willing to do anything
(33:28):
they have to, to lash out at anyone they have to.
And if you think that wouldn't have been worse when
they had an actual nuclear bomb, you've lost your mind.
People lie, all right. Three stories came together this past
week that I wanted to kind of tie into that
I think is just indicative of the stupidity of the
(33:51):
leftist policies and the green policies. The first one title
of the article one hundred just lost billions on evs
it can't sell. The second title was now you tell us,
And the third title of the third or the title
of the third article was we need more time for
costly climate law. Climate change law that's raising utility rates,
says Governor New York Governor hokeel So. In the first one,
(34:16):
the article talks about the fact that Honda says it's
total write downs now for EV's because the market doesn't
want them. And if you've ever listened to the show,
you heard me saying that five years ago, this is
a bad idea. This isn't going to work. We don't
have the infrastructure. Nothing about this is going to make sense.
Honda wrote off fifteen point eight billion dollars. GM says
(34:40):
that they lost seven point six billion dollars in write
downs on its GM or its EV production. Ford lost
nineteen and a half billion dollars on its EV investments.
And that's just so far. Chrysler or Stillantus, which owns
christ Or Dodge geep Ram, lost twenty five point six
(35:03):
billion dollars in EV losses. That adds up the ones
I just told you about add up to sixty eight
and a half billion dollars, and that doesn't include Mercedes, Benz, Nissan,
all of the other car manufacturers. It almost single handedly,
the EV push, almost single handly has put Jaguar out
of business. But when you look at all of the
(35:25):
other products out there or the cars out there that
have lost money on this EV push that was mandated
by the government when the public didn't want it, and
so now you've lost another one hundred and something billion dollars,
And that does not take into account all of the
other infrastructure losses that were suffered by people like me.
I spent on with seven hundred thousand dollars because I
was mandated by General Motors to put these car chargers
(35:48):
in there that don't get used very often. EV's have
a place. They do absolutely. My mother in law is
perfect for it. She doesn't drive more than ten or
fifteen miles a day and doesn't take long trips. And
if she does, she has access to a car if
she needs one, because I'll get her one. But other
than that, they are not You don't want it to
be your only source of transportation. I can tell you
(36:10):
that it'll seriously limit your your choices. So the other
one was now you tell us, and this goes back
to more of this green climate change insanity. Larry Fink,
who runs Blackrock, has been he's a CEO, and he's
(36:33):
been championing for years and years pressuring companies to do
everything they could to lower their their energy footprint and
wouldn't invest in companies and just literally pushed them to
the limits because they black Rock has trillions of dollars
under management and so they control some levers. Larry Fink
(36:55):
was doing a interview not too long ago, a couple
of weeks ago, and admit now that transitioning to solar
and wind is going to cause a global power shortage.
That's not possible to do. We can't transition that we
have to in order to not sabotage our energy system
and our overall drop kill everything that we need reliable energy,
(37:22):
and the only thing that we have that does that
are the ones that we're relying on now, nuclear oil, coal,
natural gas. That those are not necessarily renewable. I think
they might be, but it's just my own opinion, but
they are the only reliable baseload power that we have
(37:43):
right now. And there's no way you're ever going to
turn wind and Solder into that it's just not but
Ursula Vonderland, who is the President of the EU, and
a position that's not voted on. The people who run
the U aren't voted in, they're just appointed. But she
came out and acknowledged recently that nuclear power share of
(38:06):
Europe's electricity dropped from thirty three percent in nineteen ninety
to fifteen percent today, and she called the reduction a
deliberate choice that has destroyed the power systems in most
of Europe. At this point, give credit to German Chancellor
Frederick Mertz, who, by the way, called the EU a
(38:27):
complete failure and say that they've had wasted incredible potential
and have become a world champion of overregulation and zero growth,
which I have talked about on the show in several
different times. But they literally took all of their nuclear
power off. A nuclear power plant, when you built it,
(38:47):
build it last fifty years. Does it have the chance
to have a problem like they had in Japan several
years ago from a tsunami. Yeah, that could happen, but
I'm pretty sure there's no commies that are going to
hit Europe. I'm pretty sure that that was a one
off and could only happen in Japan or one of
those coastal cities like that. But that was that was
(39:09):
the base that they used for taking down all of
the nuclear power. And now what they're having to do
is buy power from everybody else in the world, and
it's causing their energy rates to skyrocket. It's absolute insanity.
And people tell you this is what's going to happen.
There were many, many, many, many many economists and people
who were smart that knew what they were talking about
(39:31):
that said, if you pass Obamacare, it's going to destroy
the medical market. It's going to raise prices so high
that it's going to be almost unaffordable. So the Affordable
Care Act is going to make it way more unaffordable
for everybody, and it did exactly that. The problem is
the people making decisions on these things, our power, supply,
(39:51):
our medical care, all of that an they have an agenda,
and the ones that don't have an agenda that are
just free market. Look, it's going to go where it's
going to go. But I don't have an agenda. I'm
not trying to make my family and friends rich. I'm
not doing All those people have an agenda and they're
trying to destroy the world. They want a one world power,
(40:14):
and they want to consolidate that power to themselves, and
they are doing it through stupid policies that waste trillions
of dollars trillions Right now. I saw something the other
day that pegged the the UH waste on climate change
right now, it's something like twenty trillion dollars. Twenty trillion dollars,
(40:37):
and they keep doing it. They keep saying, Oh, well,
we just haven't done enough yet. We just haven't done
enough yet. Which leads me to the third article, which
is the Kathy Hokal headline, we need more time for
costly climate change. So back in twenty nineteen, the UH,
(40:59):
ever brilliant government for New York State led by Kathy Hockel,
passed some laws that we're trying to make all of
the energy or energy more clean. Right. They passed a
climate law that she championed that said that they had
(41:23):
to get to net zero by a certain year. Right,
let's see if I can make sure I get this right.
The proposed adjustments included delaying. Oh that's the other part.
So they passed don't it's not in here. They passed
a law that said that they had to get to
net zero by a certain time, and everybody said, this
isn't going to work. If we do this, it's going
(41:43):
to drive the rates of energy sky high, and shure's
the world. Just like Gavin Newsom Mountain, California driving the
price of gasoline through the roof in California through policies.
The same thing happened in New York. So this same
lady who came out, I don't know a week and
a half ago and said, I need rich people to
(42:05):
come back to New York instead of staying in Florida
and Tennessee and Texas. I need him to come back
and write some checks so we can have these generous
social programs. This is the same lady who now is saying, yeah,
we're gonna have to delay some of these things that
we put in this law in twenty nineteen because it's
starting to cause our energy costs to skyrocket. And the
(42:25):
average person, let's face it, energy costs are regressive tax.
It hurts the people on the lower end of the scale,
that has the lower end of the income scale way
more than it hurts the guy that's got that makes
ten million dollars a year. If his electric bill goes
up one thousand dollars a month, he doesn't care. But
the person humping it every single day and doing the
(42:46):
best they can to put food on the table that's
making fifty thousand dollars a year. A thousand dollars increase
in electric bille is a big difference. It's huge. And
they continue to pass these policies that not only waste money,
they're boondoggles, and they make people rich that aren't the
ones that should be getting rich from it. And they're
(43:07):
taking it from the taxpayers, just like I talked about
earlier in this show, ma'am DOMMI, trying to propose a
fifty percent tax on the state's over seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. You're absolutely destroying the middle class. And
I think that that is their intent. I think that's
what they're trying to do. And people are not paying
(43:29):
attention and they're going to let them. We have to
find a way to stop them, because if we don't,
we are going to be up the proverbial creek without
a paddle and no way to come back. I don't
know how, I don't know. If you don't pay attention
and open your eyes and start telling people the truth.
(43:51):
We're going to be in trouble all right. Thanks to
all the war fighters out there, they're landing on the
line for us every single day. I really sincerely appreciate
your efforts. And this is Bonos Cars brought you by
chevroleink Buick GMC of murvous Boro. Come on back next week.
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