May 23, 2026 • 44 mins
*LA Mayoral race updates.....why Spencer Pratt has a great chance of winning
*Climate change
*The electric bus bust mayhem continues....billions wasted by the Biden administration
*Lack of planning on push to EV's.....where to dispose of electric waste such as batteries
*Redistricting?
*Proof that the rich pay their fair share of taxes plus some
*$23 million wasted in Gavin Newsom's California so 300 kids could get $76k government hearing aids
*Why do libs think it's ok to bash billionaires who are business men and women but not billionaires who are artists and stars? Why do smart, gusty entrepreneurs not deserve the month they make but singers do deserve it?
*Yale's elite war on boomers..."Tax the olds, evict them, retire them - their stuff belongs to us"
*Climate change
*The electric bus bust mayhem continues....billions wasted by the Biden administration
*Lack of planning on push to EV's.....where to dispose of electric waste such as batteries
*Redistricting?
*Proof that the rich pay their fair share of taxes plus some
*$23 million wasted in Gavin Newsom's California so 300 kids could get $76k government hearing aids
*Why do libs think it's ok to bash billionaires who are business men and women but not billionaires who are artists and stars? Why do smart, gusty entrepreneurs not deserve the month they make but singers do deserve it?
*Yale's elite war on boomers..."Tax the olds, evict them, retire them - their stuff belongs to us"
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
With over thirty years in the auto industry, he has
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really inside. This is Bowen's Cars, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Here's your host, bow Triven.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right, good morning everybody. As always, I hope everybody's
having a wonderful weekend. Got some plans to be outside,
although the uh, the weather's not really looking like it's
participating in much for this Memorial Day, but I hope
everybody is enjoying it anyways, And happy Memorial Day. And
(00:53):
let's remember what it's about, right, It's in memorial of
all of those who have given their life for us
to have the freedoms that we have, and for one
and very grateful thank you to all of the veterans
out there who have sacrificed so much so that even
the people that want to trash America have the right
(01:14):
to be able to do so. Every single day. You
know that that fascist society where you're not allowed to talk,
and they're trying to stifle free speech. But while you're
telling me they're stiflings free speech, you're talking, nobody's putting
you in jail for saying whatever you're saying or doing
whatever you're doing. So I'm not real sure how that works.
You know. I talk about this all the time. It's
(01:36):
all about common sense, just common sense. But before I
get started on the rest of that stuff, I wanted
to I wanted to take a little lighter for a second.
So last week was the eightieth birthday of one of
the most unique human beings who's ever lived on the
face of this earth. I was a My grandfather used
(01:57):
to sit there and watch Saturday World Championship Wrestling from
Florida or Florida Champion Championship Wrestling came on every Saturday
at two o'clock in the afternoon. I thought it was real,
but obviously it wasn't, but it was. What is real
is that there are athletes out there that are throwing
themselves off of toppering ropes and landing fifteen feet down
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onto a table. And I don't care who you are,
that's real. It hurts. But anyways, this human being could
drink one hundred. So apparently there's been one hundred and
seventeen billion or somewhere close to one hundred and seventeen
billion humans on Earth. But I don't think anybody could
ever out drink this particular human. He at one point
(02:41):
sat down and drank one hundred and twenty three beers
in one sitting, and that's just that's insane. We saw
a picture of him that had a beer can in
his hand, and the beer can he could hide a
beer can in his hand. I'm talking about Andre the Giant,
the seven foot He said he was seven five five twenty,
but I saw a picture of him standing beside wil
(03:03):
Chamberlain and Will Chamberlain seven to one, and Andrea Giant
looked like he might be seven to two. But he
was an insanely large human being with an insanely large
liver apparently that could process alcohol at a rate that
is just astounding. So there was a match between him
and Hulk Cogan in the Madison Square Garden one time,
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and they called it the body slam match back in
the nineties, and hul Cogan picked him up and body
slammed Andrea the Giant. What's more, amazing about that is
that he body slammed Andrea the Giant five months after
Andrea the Giant had back surgery, and supposedly, as legend
has it, Andre the Giant, in order to get past
some of the pain that he was going to have
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to endure in that particular match, drank fourteen bottles of
wine prior to the match. So let that sink in,
all right, Moving on, if you guys pay any attention
to politics, you are paying attention to a little bit
to the mayor's race in La because Spencer Pratt of
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Spencer and Heidi in from me from the I think
it was The Hills. I never watched it, but I
heard about it and saw about it, read about it
back in the day. And he's a reality star that
has just whose house burned down in the Palisades fire.
His parents' house burned down also, and over the year
of trying to get new permits pulled and live in
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his house, he has been He has decided to run
for mayor and apparently he's doing a pretty good job
in marketing himself and his election chances are continuing to
go up. But he's going up against the lady Karen Bass,
who is currently the mayor of LA. That, and I
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go back to saying things like, look to me, it's
just common sense. And he seems to be talking about
common sense things too. Karen Bass the other day said, well,
let me back up. Skid row is obviously getting larger
and larger in LA. The homeless problem is continuing to
get larger and larger, no matter how many billions of
dollars they've thrown at it. It is not an issue
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of whether the people have the ability to succeed. It
is an issue usually of either mental health issues or
drug issues. And until you address those two issues, nothing
else is going to change. I have a friend of
mine who used to volunteer in a homeless shelter in
Daytona Beach, and there was a lady that came in
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every day and got a check for something like thirty
five hundred dollars from the government every month, and every
day every month she'd get the check and within I
don't know, a couple of hours days, she'd give all
of it away. And she specifically said, I like living
on the street better. I don't want to be housed.
I tell you that, to say the Karen Bass the
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other day said, and I'm going to quote her, how
many people who are unhoused that you meet have no
teeth at all? They don't have teeth. Why Because meth
rots your teeth. You can't succeed without teeth. So there's
needs to there needs to be comprehensive health care provided
to people. So let me make sure I get this right.
You think if you give them teeth that they're going
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to stop doing meth. I think that's the other way around.
You have to get them to stop doing meth in
before you're going to give them teeth. If you don't
stop the drug addiction, nothing else is going to help
them succeed. It's backwards thinking. And I don't understand who
thinks like that. Go talk to the people's the uh.
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Spencer Pratt said in the debate the other day that
he was willing to go down to skid Row with
either one of the two candidates that were competing against him.
The problem is you go down to skid Row, he
Saidy're gonna get stabbed in the neck. The people don't
want more houses, and they don't want teeth. They want
more meth. They want more super meth. And until we
solve that problem. Nothing else is going to fix the people,
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and I don't understand. Look, I am compassionate. There are
billions of dollars a year giving away to charities to
try to help people, and churches and everything else. I
donate quite a bit of money. I'm not bragging about it.
I just I like helping people. But there are some
people who don't want help or aren't willing to do
the work necessary to make the help stick. And you
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have to solve those problems before anything else. Just giving
somebody a house doesn't mean it's not going to turn
into a drug den if you don't solve the base
underlying problem. I think that's the problem with one side
of the aisle is they continue to want to solve
problems that aren't solvable the other way around. It makes
no sense, not to me anyways, all Right, I got
(07:45):
more to rant about. This is Bonos Cars, brought to
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Speaker 2 (08:29):
Here's your host, Bowtriven.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
All right, welcome back, everybody. So I saw an interview
the other day from twenty sixteen from a gentleman who
was the lead. It was either Arizona State or Arizona
the University of Arizona, it was one of those, and
he was the head of the climate department studying Atmosphe
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changes something like that. He was a big shot that
knew all about climate change and everything else. And in
this interview he actually stated that he didn't see any
scenario that allowed for human beings to still be on
Earth in ten years. That was twenty sixteen. It's twenty
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twenty six which is ten years later, and right now
we still have quite a few humans still left on Earth,
and that things still seem to be going along quite fine.
I also saw a couple of articles that said that
the climate change cult the and look, the climate changes.
I'm not denying that in any way, shape or form.
(09:43):
I'm arguing that I'm not sure that they know what's
making it change. The climate changes. The climate for Earth
is massive and undergoes so many different facets that for
us to think we somehow can control it is just
mind boggling to me. So that said, I saw a
couple of articles that said that the climate change cult
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and the climate change scam, I don't know how else
to call it, had cost somewhere between twenty and twenty
one trillion dollars so far. And I'm telling you all
this for a reason. There was a push. I'll give
you one example. In twenty twenty two, the Biden administration
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passed a lot of things that had to go with
the Inflation Reduction Act that was basically hiding a lot
of things for the Green New Deal. One of them
was electric buses. And there was a study done regular
recently about electric school buses and it basically said, well,
(10:50):
let me just read it to you. A study in
twenty twenty four, highlighted by an EPA Inspector General audit
that found the agency failed to meaningfully track the deplay
of electric school buses under a twenty twenty two rebate program,
through which the eight hundred and thirty six million dollars
was handed out by federal officials. One example of that
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was Broward County in Florida purchased forty two electric buses
from a California based manufacturer for fifty four million dollars.
Forty two buses fifty four million dollars, that's over a
million dollars a bus. Currently, the electric buses don't work.
They broke down every six hundred miles, and the company
went bankrupt and now all fifty four buses, or all
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forty two buses for fifty four million dollars are just
sitting there abandoned and have to be disposed of. That's
just one example of the way that things constantly got
out of hand when you just hand money to people.
There's another one in Dade County. Thirty one electric buses
are currently sitting in a remote section of a landfill
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off of US twenty seven, each one costing roughly one
point one million dollars because they're abs junk at this point.
And there was another study in New York that showed
that the electric school buses cost three dollars and eighteen
cents a mile to use, as opposed to thirty eight
cents a mile for the diesel buses that they did
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have a right. With all that in mind, and we
know that al Gore said that Florida twenty five or
thirty or forty percent of Florida was going to be
underwater by twenty twenty. That didn't happen. We know that
they said that all of the oceans were goun to rise.
They had been wrong about every prediction for the last
sixty years. Now the United Nations, who is as corrupt
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as you can possibly get, has come out and had
a By the way, there's a twenty twenty four U
in back study that asserted that failure to address climate change,
which always means, you know, using some economy killing scheme
or something and restricting our freedoms in some way and
some sort of regulation, would lead to a drop been
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thirty eight trillion dollars in global yearly economic activity. So
all of that's been used to dictate all this money
we have to spend around the world, all of these things,
the solar panels and wind farms and blah blah blah
blah blah. Turns out that Nature, which is the who
published the study, the magazine Nature, studied or published the
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study from the un has now retracted the study because
the data they used was wrong, the modeling didn't work,
and when they got under scrutiny by other scientists who
came out and said, wait a minute, this data you're
using it's not it's not lining up with everything else,
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they retracted the study. That's great, except that you've already
blown another two or three trillion dollars of taxpayer money
and given it to a lot of these companies that
are now bankrupt. The Obama administration gave something like eight
hundred million dollars a forgivable eight hundred million dollar loan
to Selend to build batteries, and within two years the
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company was bankrupt eight hundred million dollars. What in the
world do you think we could have done? You want
to help people, I got to wait to help people.
Stop giving money to all of the NGOs and all
of the companies that are scamming everybody because they don't
the technology doesn't work. We still haven't figured out how
we're going to dispose of all of the batteries that
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are in all of these cars. There's no plan five
to ten years from now, as these batteries start to
get to the end of their life on how we're
going to dispose of them. I talked about it in
these wind farms that we're building, the ability to get
rid of all of the material that are in these
windmills that are going to be going they only have
a twelve to fourteen year life span, But we don't
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have any idea how we're going to get rid of
all of the trash that accumulates once we've they've gone
through their usefulness. It makes no sense. It's the what
is it shoot aim and shooting the name or something
like that. It's absolutely insane to me that we continue
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to do the same thing and think that somehow we're
going to get different results. And every one of these studies,
every one of these models that all of these globe
these climate scientists have been using that said the same thing,
have turned out to be false. When do we say
I don't believe you. When do people open their eyes
and say that doesn't make any sense. It's not you
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continue to be wrong over and over and over and
over again, and yet we still continue to believe you
once again. It defies any kind of logic to me,
speaking of that, the redistricting war. I had somebody ask
me the other day to give me their opinion about
all this redistricting that's going on and the left which
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continues to talk about democracy. First of all, I'm gonna
go back and say it, We're not a democracy. We're
a democratic republic. We're not a democracy. A democracy is
five wolves and a deer deciding what's for dinner tonight. Right,
the deer's going to get out voted every single time.
That doesn't make it right. Anyways, they are continuing to
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talk about democracy. Well, Kamala Harris the other day had
a No Bad Ideas get together. It was over Zoom
or something where they talked about unilaterally if they took
power back unilaterally, just making DC and Puerto Rico states.
They talked about getting rid of the Electoral College. They
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talked about packing the Supreme Court. They talked about doing
all of the things that literally get rid of the democracy.
You're talking about unilaterally doing it why because you lost
one election, because the gerrymandering that you didn't get started
with the states in the Northeast somehow didn't end up
being in your favor, and so now you have to
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swing the entire pendulum of everything that we've done for
two hundred and fifty years and change it all because
it didn't work for you this one time. In California,
they are they have a jungle election, meaning that the
top two performers, and they passed it. It's part of
their laws. They passed it to say that the top
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two performers, irrespective of party affiliation, move on to the
runoff in the primary election or the regular election. So
now that it turns out that at this particular juncture,
it's possible that that's going to leave a Republican mayor
in LA and it's possible that two of the leading
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candidates for governor of the state of California might end
up being Republicans. So what do you think that the
Democratic Party in California did. They immediately started looking at
ways to get rid of the jungle primaries. Immediately. If
it's not swinging in your favor for this one time,
we've got to get rid of it. That is trying
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to you talk about trying to reg elections, that's the
way it's done. And now they're trying to bypass the
electoral college because there's no way to ever get it
passed as a constitutional amendment. So now they've got this
coalition of states that are that are joining together to say,
we're just going to give all of our delegates to
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the popular vote winner. So if you win the popular
vote in the state of Virginia, you get all of
their delegates, which is not the way it's supposed to work,
trying to bypass all of the do you talk about norms,
We're trying to blow up every norm that we've had
for two hundred and fifty years, while accusing the other
side of doing that. Makes no sense to me, never will.
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Here's your host, bow Driven.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
All right, welcome back, everybody. So the federal government takes
in somewhere around five and a half to five point
seventy five trillion dollars a year. Out of that five
and a half to five point seven five trillion dollars
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a year, about two and a half to two point
sixty six trillion of that is through income taxes. Out
of that, seventy five percent of the two point sixty
six trillion dollars worth of income taxes that are paid
are paid by the top twenty five percent of income earners,
but forty to forty two percent of all of that
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money is paid by the top one percent. If I
hear anybody say the rich need to pay their fair
share ever again, it's going to make me throw up.
Elon Musk when he bought Twitter and turned it into
X had to cash in his Tesla stock. He did
so based on the current stock price. If he had
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dumped it all on the market at the same time,
the stock would have plummeted, causing major havoc with a
lot of four oh one k's and other people's stuff.
So he can't just dump it all on the market
like that. But when he sold that stock in order
to purchase x he wrote a check to the federal
government for eleven billion dollars. One man eleven billion dollars
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worth of taxes. I don't He didn't write the tax laws.
The tax laws are set up the way they're set
up for a reason. Here's my point. The rich are
paying their fair share. They're paying their fair share in
a number of ways. Whether it's paying property taxes on
one hundred million dollar mansion that they have that there
is an exorbitant amount of money, for sure, but they're
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paying property taxes every single year on that or the
jobs that they create that allow those people to pay taxes.
The state of California and the State of New York
in the last I think it's been ten years, have
lost something like two trillion dollars worth of income that
could have been taxed because they continue to raise taxes.
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With that said, let me give you a reason why
that's foolish, and you should allow the people that make
the money to determine how they're going to use that money,
much more so than the government. There were three stories
out this past week about Gavin Newsom in the state
of California that just really there were four, but three
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of them made me sick, and one of them made
me go. At least somebody's paying the price. So last week,
Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff had to plead guilty
to a money laundering and tax fraud. Her name's Dana
Williamson and she was a chief of staff in twenty
twenty two and twenty twenty four and she fled guilty
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to count to counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud,
wire fraud, and something else. So she got caught. She's
going to jail. But here's the other three stories. That
was the fourth, but here's the other three stories. Gavin
Newsom signed a bill in twenty twenty three that basically
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said that insurance companies did not have to provide hearing
age to children. That there was a law going through
there's twenty thousand kids in the state of California that
needed hearing aids. They were trying to pass a law
that would allow for insurance companies to have to provide
hearing aids to children who needed them. He vetoed the law.
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Then he allocated twenty three million dollars for hearing aids
two children, of which only two thousand pe children have
gotten them. At this point, and at a cost of
something like seventy six thousand dollars per child for a
set of hearing aids. I could go to Cosco and
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buy my mother in law hearing aids right now for
two thousand dollars and they be top of the line.
But you're spending seventy six thousand dollars per child of
taxpayer money because it has to pass through an NGO,
which is a non governmental organization. But here's the second story.
A man who sat on the board of directors for
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one of Newsom's wife's companies apparently got awarded a contract
to provide some diapers for newborn children out of the
in the state of California. Do I think we should
provide diapers for newborn children in the state of California. Probably,
if that's what the state of California wants to do,
and you're you're helping mothers who are less fortunate and
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don't have the money to be able to provide the diapers, sure,
I'm all for that. Have at it. But when you
do it at a cost of seventy million dollars to
an NGO that's buying diapers out of Mexico, that end
up costing something like seventeen times more than you could
buy them at Costco. Four, why not just give those children,
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those mothers and fathers a gift card to Costco to
go buy their own diapers that are going to end
up being seventeen times cheaper. I know why because the
guy running the company sits on the board of directors
for your wife's company. They're laundering the money through there.
So that's two stories. One the hearing aids, two the
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diapers only give me The third, the State of California,
through Gavin Newsom, decided that they wanted to spend one
hundred and eighty nine million dollars of taxpayer money to
buy digital tablets for ninety thousand prisoners in the state
of California so that they could get online. There's two
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parts of this story that really stand out. The first
one is it was two thousand dollars per tablet. You
can go buy tablets all day long for five hundred bucks.
Why is it costing the State of California two thousand
dollars per tablet? And why are you providing ninety thousand
prisoners with their own tablets? Because here's what happened. It
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turns out that the prisoners were using them to get online,
and one of them, at least one that we know about,
was using it to groom a child that he was
in jail for abusing. So you take a man off
the streets for abusing a child, you put him in prison,
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then you give him a tablet so he can continue
to harass and groom that same child from prison. Makes
complete sense to me. So I'd given you three programs,
the diapers, the hearing aids, and the tablets that came
in somewhere north of three hundred million dollars of taxpayer money,
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and so far only two thousand kids ended up having
hearing aids out of the twenty one thousand that needed them.
The mothers are paying seventeen times more for the diapers
than they would pay if they just went to Costco
and bought them. And the prisoners are doing things that
you'd think the prisoners might do if they have access
to online, Because not only were they doing that was
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just one example, many of them apparently are using it
for pornography and other things that they shouldn't be using
tablets for. We already know about the corruption in and
the fraud in COVID. We know about the fraud and
corruption in Minnesota, in Ohio, in Maine, and that's in Chicago.
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That's just the corruption we know about. We know that
in California they were passing out money like it. It
didn't you could just go print more and it didn't
really make any difference. And based on everything I've read,
it looks like the California corruption is going to end
up being way more than Minnesota. And Minnesota was already
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like eight or nine billion dollars. There are some reports
out there saying that the corruption and fraud that they've
they're going to uncover in the state of California, we'll
top somewhere around twenty to thirty billion dollars. We don't
have a problem with revenue. The rich are paying their
fair share. The government's taking all of the governments are
taking in way more than they actually need. But when
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you blow it because you have no accountability whatsoever. I've
given you stories today between the electric buses, the hearing aids,
the diapers, the tablets, and those are just the ones
we know about. It is absolutely astounding to me that
we keep talking about having to tax people more money.
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Why don't we stop the fraud. Why don't we stop
the NGOs from getting rich, Why don't we stop all
of these other people who are who are spending the
money like it was theirs. You know, Margaret Thatcher, I've
said this many times on the show. Margaret Thatcher, who
was a Prime Minister for the UK back I think
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she went in nineteen seventy nine, said at one point
that the problem with socialism is you eventually run out
of other people's money. And that is an absolute fact.
And we are seeing it right now with all of
these blue states where people are migrating out of them
into lower tax states that are managing their finances better
and are at least trying to stop the corruption and fraud,
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not participating in it. And there's no way you can
tell me that somebody didn't get rich off of one
hundred and eighty nine million dollar contract to provide two
thousand dollars apiece tablets to prisoners in the state of California.
Somebody got rich off of that twenty three million dollars
that was allocated for hearing aids that only two thousand
kids ended up getting. Somebody got rich. But I don't
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hear anybody out there on that side of the aisle,
talking about the fact that this corruption is making other
people rich, not just the rich people who are actually
producing things. It production, bringing something to the economy. Those
are the things that grow our society. Those are the
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things that make our society better. Every time you pick
up your iPhone right now, right now, Elon Musk is
providing internet service to people that would never have it
in their entire lives through Starlink. The value of that
and does he not deserve something for that or should
it just all go to the common good? Because he's
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getting a small fraction of the good that he has
brought to all of society through Tesla, through SpaceX, through
the boring company, through Starlink, he's getting a small fraction
of the economic impact of the world that he's created,
created it with a lot of other people too. But
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they deserve something for that. Also incentivize people and watch
what happens. All right. They got other stuff to talk
about in the next segment, but I don't have time
to finish it up here, so I'm gonna leave it that.
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(30:51):
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Speaker 3 (31:33):
All right, welcome back everybody. So the Devilwar's Product Too
came out recently and it's apparently killing it And not
ashamed to admit that I haven't seen it, but I
like the first one. I thought it was a pretty
good movie. Anne Hathaway does a good job and politics aside.
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Meryl Street is a great actress. I've always thought she
was a great actress. I didn't see I know that.
I saw an article that said that Anne Hathaway and
Meryl Street both made twelve and a half million dollars
for the for the uh acting in the movie. Plus
they're getting a percentage of the box office, which was
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at two hundred and sixty million dollars worldwide recently, which
is great, awesome. You have a talent that not everybody
else has, and so in exercising that talent, you get
to make more money than people could make. But I
don't see anybody complaining about that. You know, I've often said,
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I don't hear anybody, including Taylor Swift, who is obviously
her politics in mind don't necessarily align perfectly, obviously, but
I don't see anybody saying anything about the fact that
Taylor Swift is worth a billion dollars. You know why,
because Taylor Swift has a talent that other people don't.
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Taylor Swift went and did something that people would readily
pay hard earned money to hear or watch or whatever. Great.
That's the way it works. That's the way capitalism works.
Capitalism is a free exchange of you worked for the money,
now I want you. I'm The money I earned is
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worth less to me than the product I want that
you made, the iPhone, a new stereo, a house. I
don't care, it doesn't matter. That is the only free exchange.
When the government gets in control of any of the
means of production or anything else, it never ever ever works,
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But it is always only directed at business people. It
is never directed at Jay Z and Beyonce, who are
worth a billion dollars. Great, I'm all for it, have
at it. If that's what the market determines your worth,
then that's your worth. I'm good with that. But I'm
also good with it on every business level out there.
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And it absolutely astounds me at the ignorance level of
people in Congress that don't understand economics, that continue to
trash the only system in the history of the Earth
that has pulled. There's a reason why humans as a
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whole for the first however, many thousands of years, only
progressed so much. Did you know that in the last
twenty years. The last twenty years, so if you're twenty
years old, has been in your entire lifetime, one third
of all of the wealth created in the entire history
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of the Earth has been created in the last twenty years.
I heard AOC the other day on a podcast and
she had some talking ahead podcaster that just kept nodding
along like yeah, you're right, you go, girl, you're right.
And what she said was, if you have a billion dollars,
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you didn't earn that. You didn't earn that, you can't
earn a billion dollars. We I'll go tell Jay Z
and Beyonce that, go tell Tyror Swift that go tell
all the people that talk into your iPhone, and tell
all the people that made apps that you use every
single day that they didn't work their tails off to
try to bring something to you that had value in
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your life that you were willing to exchange your money for.
Nobody forces anybody to buy anything. Not in capitalism. You
have to buy food, but you could go grow it.
You have the option if you live in a house
where you're capable of growing food. Maybe you don't live
in a neighborhood that you can do that in, so
you don't have that option. But there are government programs
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right now that will still feed you. There's a reason
the obesity epidemic has taken off in the last twenty
to twenty five years. Also, she said, you didn't earn
a billion dollars. If you have a billion dollars, you
didn't earn that, And the podcaster said something along the
lines of, hey, you know, I think it was something
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like Jeff Bezos is rich because somebody else isn't. And
I thought, do you really not know how it works?
In nineteen fifty the GDP of the United States of America.
We had one hundred and seventy six million people in
the United States of America in nineteen fifty, and the
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entire GDP was three three hundred billion dollars. In nineteen sixty,
it went to five hundred and fifty billion. But by
twenty twenty five our GDP had grown to thirty trillion dollars. Now,
we doubled our population, basically, but we more than ten times. Wow,
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it's one hundred times. We one hundred times grew our GDP.
Everybody in the United States of America participated in that.
Everybody got a piece. Did some people get a bigger
piece than others. Absolutely, they contributed more. They did something
that in a free market said hey, I want that.
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That's a great product. There was a reason people were
standing in line when the first iPhone came out. People
were standing in line for days and days and days
waiting to get their hands on one. Nobody forced anybody
to do that, but they freely gave Jeff or Steve
jobs and all of the people that worked at Apple
five hundred or one thousand dollars or whatever the back.
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Then they got subsidized, so it didn't cost that much,
but the cost of the phone was still five or
six hundred bucks seven hundred bucks, and they were willing
to do it freely. And then the next year when
they added a few gadgets, they were still willing to
stand in line for another week to get another one,
all while complaining about the inequalities of the world. If
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money was finite, how is it possible for us to
go from two thousand dollars per person in GDP to
ninety thousand dollars in per person in GDP. Money is
not finite. People don't get rich, now some people do.
They do. There are people who get rich at the
expense of other people. Those people are stealing, Those people
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are corrupt. Those people should absolutely be weeded out of society.
But when Tom Brady signs a contract for three hundred
and fifty million dollars to talk about football on a
Sunday afternoon, that's not even playing football, that's just talking
about it. If that's what the market is willing to
pay him, have at it. He's got something everybody else
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doesn't have a knowledge of the game that people want
to hear. It's absolutely astounding to me that they keep
thinking somehow or another, it is this inequality. If we
somehow solved the inequality, well, in order to do that,
we have to solve the other problems, which are some
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people are smarter than other people, some people work harder
than other people. Some people are get luckier than other people.
I'm as lucky as you can get. I readily admit
that I ended up in the position I'm in simply
because I was in the right place at the right time,
and I worked hard. But I was in the right
place at the right time. I could have worked. Lots
of people work just as hard as me. I got lucky.
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Doesn't mean that I don't do my fair share. I
saw a thing the other day from another great idea
from the communists and socialists here in the United States
on how to how to fix the housing problem. You
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how you fix the housing problem, get rid of the
regulations that keep us from building houses. I said this before,
I'll tell you again. In the state of Florida, I
had a housing company. Before I moved up here and
bought into the Chevy Store, I owned a construction company.
The state of Florida passed regulations after Hurricane David in
nineteen ninety two that I'm not David Hurricane Andrew in
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nineteen ninety two. That essentially added thirty to thirty five
thousand dollars per house to the cost of building that
house in just strapping and bracing for trusses. So when
you build house, you got to strap the trustes down,
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you got to brace the trustes. The amount of hardware
that goes into a house to keep the roof from
blowing off in the state of Florida adds thirty to
forty thousand dollars to a two two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars house. At the time, it's probably more than that. Now.
That's a regulation that keeps housing from being affordable, and
it's not necessary. We've had hurricanes, they still destroy houses.
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Doesn't change anything, but the cost spreading it out over
all of all of those other houses across the state
of Florida made it a problem. The way you get
more housing and make it more affordable is build more
if it's supply and demand. If the supply is high
and the demand is low, the price is going to
come down. If the demand is high and the supply
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is low, the price is going to go up. It's
just market forces. And so if you want to make
housing more affordable for young people, you do so by
building more houses. But here was their idea. This is
a Yale study and I'm just going to quote it
to you. In housing, besides circumventing the disproportionately high elder
participation in town meetings where land use decisions are made,
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I advocate a progressive tax on older homeowners to incentivize
them to downsize rapid than retain. The longer you stay,
the more you should have to pay. The funds could
allow for new construction and other projects of intergenerational justice,
especially educational ones that prioritize unleashing our young people into
the creative prime of life. So let me make sure
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I get this right. You buy a house when you're
thirty years old because you're willing to save your money,
You're willing to work a little harder than somebody else,
and you save your money, or you move to a
place where housing is more affordable, and you don't get
to live in New York City, and the longer you
stay there, the longer the more you're going to have
to pay to stay in that house that you've already
paid for just in taxes, because we're going to try
to flush you out. We're going to try to take
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care of the old people and move them out and
get them to move into retirement homes because that's where
they deserve to go. Really, that's your plan. One day
you're going to be old. You're not going to like
that plan when it comes back on you. It sounds
good when you're thirty because you're trying to correct a
problem for you, But when you become seventy and now
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in the house for forty years and you can't afford
it because they've taxed you out of it, that's not
going to feel good to you. It's always that rules
for thee not for me, thing that always gets me.
It is absolutely astounding to me. Last, but not least. Uh.
You can say all you want about Trump, but he
pulled off a coup the other day getting China to
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start buying oil from US instead of Iran, and Uh,
it's gonna start filling our government coffers up and may
solve some of the other fiscal problems we have here
in the United States. But I thought it was a
pretty good thing get them to buy all from US.
And not Iran. It'll choke off Iran and help our economy.
Good for us. Good move, mister Trump. All right, this
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All right, good morning everybody. As always, I hope everybody's
having a wonderful weekend. Got some plans to be outside,
although the uh, the weather's not really looking like it's
participating in much for this Memorial Day, but I hope
everybody is enjoying it anyways, And happy Memorial Day. And
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let's remember what it's about, right, It's in memorial of
all of those who have given their life for us
to have the freedoms that we have, and for one
and very grateful thank you to all of the veterans
out there who have sacrificed so much so that even
the people that want to trash America have the right
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to be able to do so. Every single day. You
know that that fascist society where you're not allowed to talk,
and they're trying to stifle free speech. But while you're
telling me they're stiflings free speech, you're talking, nobody's putting
you in jail for saying whatever you're saying or doing
whatever you're doing. So I'm not real sure how that works.
You know. I talk about this all the time. It's
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all about common sense, just common sense. But before I
get started on the rest of that stuff, I wanted
to I wanted to take a little lighter for a second.
So last week was the eightieth birthday of one of
the most unique human beings who's ever lived on the
face of this earth. I was a My grandfather used
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to sit there and watch Saturday World Championship Wrestling from
Florida or Florida Champion Championship Wrestling came on every Saturday
at two o'clock in the afternoon. I thought it was real,
but obviously it wasn't, but it was. What is real
is that there are athletes out there that are throwing
themselves off of toppering ropes and landing fifteen feet down
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onto a table. And I don't care who you are,
that's real. It hurts. But anyways, this human being could
drink one hundred. So apparently there's been one hundred and
seventeen billion or somewhere close to one hundred and seventeen
billion humans on Earth. But I don't think anybody could
ever out drink this particular human. He at one point
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sat down and drank one hundred and twenty three beers
in one sitting, and that's just that's insane. We saw
a picture of him that had a beer can in
his hand, and the beer can he could hide a
beer can in his hand. I'm talking about Andre the Giant,
the seven foot He said he was seven five five twenty,
but I saw a picture of him standing beside wil
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Chamberlain and Will Chamberlain seven to one, and Andrea Giant
looked like he might be seven to two. But he
was an insanely large human being with an insanely large
liver apparently that could process alcohol at a rate that
is just astounding. So there was a match between him
and Hulk Cogan in the Madison Square Garden one time,
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and they called it the body slam match back in
the nineties, and hul Cogan picked him up and body
slammed Andrea the Giant. What's more, amazing about that is
that he body slammed Andrea the Giant five months after
Andrea the Giant had back surgery, and supposedly, as legend
has it, Andre the Giant, in order to get past
some of the pain that he was going to have
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to endure in that particular match, drank fourteen bottles of
wine prior to the match. So let that sink in,
all right, Moving on, if you guys pay any attention
to politics, you are paying attention to a little bit
to the mayor's race in La because Spencer Pratt of
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Spencer and Heidi in from me from the I think
it was The Hills. I never watched it, but I
heard about it and saw about it, read about it
back in the day. And he's a reality star that
has just whose house burned down in the Palisades fire.
His parents' house burned down also, and over the year
of trying to get new permits pulled and live in
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his house, he has been He has decided to run
for mayor and apparently he's doing a pretty good job
in marketing himself and his election chances are continuing to
go up. But he's going up against the lady Karen Bass,
who is currently the mayor of LA. That, and I
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go back to saying things like, look to me, it's
just common sense. And he seems to be talking about
common sense things too. Karen Bass the other day said, well,
let me back up. Skid row is obviously getting larger
and larger in LA. The homeless problem is continuing to
get larger and larger, no matter how many billions of
dollars they've thrown at it. It is not an issue
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of whether the people have the ability to succeed. It
is an issue usually of either mental health issues or
drug issues. And until you address those two issues, nothing
else is going to change. I have a friend of
mine who used to volunteer in a homeless shelter in
Daytona Beach, and there was a lady that came in
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every day and got a check for something like thirty
five hundred dollars from the government every month, and every
day every month she'd get the check and within I
don't know, a couple of hours days, she'd give all
of it away. And she specifically said, I like living
on the street better. I don't want to be housed.
I tell you that, to say the Karen Bass the
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other day said, and I'm going to quote her, how
many people who are unhoused that you meet have no
teeth at all? They don't have teeth. Why Because meth
rots your teeth. You can't succeed without teeth. So there's
needs to there needs to be comprehensive health care provided
to people. So let me make sure I get this right.
You think if you give them teeth that they're going
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to stop doing meth. I think that's the other way around.
You have to get them to stop doing meth in
before you're going to give them teeth. If you don't
stop the drug addiction, nothing else is going to help
them succeed. It's backwards thinking. And I don't understand who
thinks like that. Go talk to the people's the uh.
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Spencer Pratt said in the debate the other day that
he was willing to go down to skid Row with
either one of the two candidates that were competing against him.
The problem is you go down to skid Row, he
Saidy're gonna get stabbed in the neck. The people don't
want more houses, and they don't want teeth. They want
more meth. They want more super meth. And until we
solve that problem. Nothing else is going to fix the people,
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and I don't understand. Look, I am compassionate. There are
billions of dollars a year giving away to charities to
try to help people, and churches and everything else. I
donate quite a bit of money. I'm not bragging about it.
I just I like helping people. But there are some
people who don't want help or aren't willing to do
the work necessary to make the help stick. And you
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have to solve those problems before anything else. Just giving
somebody a house doesn't mean it's not going to turn
into a drug den if you don't solve the base
underlying problem. I think that's the problem with one side
of the aisle is they continue to want to solve
problems that aren't solvable the other way around. It makes
no sense, not to me anyways, all Right, I got
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Speaker 3 (08:32):
All right, welcome back, everybody. So I saw an interview
the other day from twenty sixteen from a gentleman who
was the lead. It was either Arizona State or Arizona
the University of Arizona, it was one of those, and
he was the head of the climate department studying Atmosphe
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changes something like that. He was a big shot that
knew all about climate change and everything else. And in
this interview he actually stated that he didn't see any
scenario that allowed for human beings to still be on
Earth in ten years. That was twenty sixteen. It's twenty
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twenty six which is ten years later, and right now
we still have quite a few humans still left on Earth,
and that things still seem to be going along quite fine.
I also saw a couple of articles that said that
the climate change cult the and look, the climate changes.
I'm not denying that in any way, shape or form.
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I'm arguing that I'm not sure that they know what's
making it change. The climate changes. The climate for Earth
is massive and undergoes so many different facets that for
us to think we somehow can control it is just
mind boggling to me. So that said, I saw a
couple of articles that said that the climate change cult
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and the climate change scam, I don't know how else
to call it, had cost somewhere between twenty and twenty
one trillion dollars so far. And I'm telling you all
this for a reason. There was a push. I'll give
you one example. In twenty twenty two, the Biden administration
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passed a lot of things that had to go with
the Inflation Reduction Act that was basically hiding a lot
of things for the Green New Deal. One of them
was electric buses. And there was a study done regular
recently about electric school buses and it basically said, well,
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let me just read it to you. A study in
twenty twenty four, highlighted by an EPA Inspector General audit
that found the agency failed to meaningfully track the deplay
of electric school buses under a twenty twenty two rebate program,
through which the eight hundred and thirty six million dollars
was handed out by federal officials. One example of that
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was Broward County in Florida purchased forty two electric buses
from a California based manufacturer for fifty four million dollars.
Forty two buses fifty four million dollars, that's over a
million dollars a bus. Currently, the electric buses don't work.
They broke down every six hundred miles, and the company
went bankrupt and now all fifty four buses, or all
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forty two buses for fifty four million dollars are just
sitting there abandoned and have to be disposed of. That's
just one example of the way that things constantly got
out of hand when you just hand money to people.
There's another one in Dade County. Thirty one electric buses
are currently sitting in a remote section of a landfill
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off of US twenty seven, each one costing roughly one
point one million dollars because they're abs junk at this point.
And there was another study in New York that showed
that the electric school buses cost three dollars and eighteen
cents a mile to use, as opposed to thirty eight
cents a mile for the diesel buses that they did
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have a right. With all that in mind, and we
know that al Gore said that Florida twenty five or
thirty or forty percent of Florida was going to be
underwater by twenty twenty. That didn't happen. We know that
they said that all of the oceans were goun to rise.
They had been wrong about every prediction for the last
sixty years. Now the United Nations, who is as corrupt
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as you can possibly get, has come out and had
a By the way, there's a twenty twenty four U
in back study that asserted that failure to address climate change,
which always means, you know, using some economy killing scheme
or something and restricting our freedoms in some way and
some sort of regulation, would lead to a drop been
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thirty eight trillion dollars in global yearly economic activity. So
all of that's been used to dictate all this money
we have to spend around the world, all of these things,
the solar panels and wind farms and blah blah blah
blah blah. Turns out that Nature, which is the who
published the study, the magazine Nature, studied or published the
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study from the un has now retracted the study because
the data they used was wrong, the modeling didn't work,
and when they got under scrutiny by other scientists who
came out and said, wait a minute, this data you're
using it's not it's not lining up with everything else,
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they retracted the study. That's great, except that you've already
blown another two or three trillion dollars of taxpayer money
and given it to a lot of these companies that
are now bankrupt. The Obama administration gave something like eight
hundred million dollars a forgivable eight hundred million dollar loan
to Selend to build batteries, and within two years the
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company was bankrupt eight hundred million dollars. What in the
world do you think we could have done? You want
to help people, I got to wait to help people.
Stop giving money to all of the NGOs and all
of the companies that are scamming everybody because they don't
the technology doesn't work. We still haven't figured out how
we're going to dispose of all of the batteries that
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are in all of these cars. There's no plan five
to ten years from now, as these batteries start to
get to the end of their life on how we're
going to dispose of them. I talked about it in
these wind farms that we're building, the ability to get
rid of all of the material that are in these
windmills that are going to be going they only have
a twelve to fourteen year life span, But we don't
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have any idea how we're going to get rid of
all of the trash that accumulates once we've they've gone
through their usefulness. It makes no sense. It's the what
is it shoot aim and shooting the name or something
like that. It's absolutely insane to me that we continue
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to do the same thing and think that somehow we're
going to get different results. And every one of these studies,
every one of these models that all of these globe
these climate scientists have been using that said the same thing,
have turned out to be false. When do we say
I don't believe you. When do people open their eyes
and say that doesn't make any sense. It's not you
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continue to be wrong over and over and over and
over again, and yet we still continue to believe you
once again. It defies any kind of logic to me,
speaking of that, the redistricting war. I had somebody ask
me the other day to give me their opinion about
all this redistricting that's going on and the left which
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continues to talk about democracy. First of all, I'm gonna
go back and say it, We're not a democracy. We're
a democratic republic. We're not a democracy. A democracy is
five wolves and a deer deciding what's for dinner tonight. Right,
the deer's going to get out voted every single time.
That doesn't make it right. Anyways, they are continuing to
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talk about democracy. Well, Kamala Harris the other day had
a No Bad Ideas get together. It was over Zoom
or something where they talked about unilaterally if they took
power back unilaterally, just making DC and Puerto Rico states.
They talked about getting rid of the Electoral College. They
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talked about packing the Supreme Court. They talked about doing
all of the things that literally get rid of the democracy.
You're talking about unilaterally doing it why because you lost
one election, because the gerrymandering that you didn't get started
with the states in the Northeast somehow didn't end up
being in your favor, and so now you have to
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swing the entire pendulum of everything that we've done for
two hundred and fifty years and change it all because
it didn't work for you this one time. In California,
they are they have a jungle election, meaning that the
top two performers, and they passed it. It's part of
their laws. They passed it to say that the top
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two performers, irrespective of party affiliation, move on to the
runoff in the primary election or the regular election. So
now that it turns out that at this particular juncture,
it's possible that that's going to leave a Republican mayor
in LA and it's possible that two of the leading
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candidates for governor of the state of California might end
up being Republicans. So what do you think that the
Democratic Party in California did. They immediately started looking at
ways to get rid of the jungle primaries. Immediately. If
it's not swinging in your favor for this one time,
we've got to get rid of it. That is trying
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to you talk about trying to reg elections, that's the
way it's done. And now they're trying to bypass the
electoral college because there's no way to ever get it
passed as a constitutional amendment. So now they've got this
coalition of states that are that are joining together to say,
we're just going to give all of our delegates to
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the popular vote winner. So if you win the popular
vote in the state of Virginia, you get all of
their delegates, which is not the way it's supposed to work,
trying to bypass all of the do you talk about norms,
We're trying to blow up every norm that we've had
for two hundred and fifty years, while accusing the other
side of doing that. Makes no sense to me, never will.
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All right, welcome back, everybody. So the federal government takes
in somewhere around five and a half to five point
seventy five trillion dollars a year. Out of that five
and a half to five point seven five trillion dollars
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a year, about two and a half to two point
sixty six trillion of that is through income taxes. Out
of that, seventy five percent of the two point sixty
six trillion dollars worth of income taxes that are paid
are paid by the top twenty five percent of income earners,
but forty to forty two percent of all of that
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money is paid by the top one percent. If I
hear anybody say the rich need to pay their fair
share ever again, it's going to make me throw up.
Elon Musk when he bought Twitter and turned it into
X had to cash in his Tesla stock. He did
so based on the current stock price. If he had
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dumped it all on the market at the same time,
the stock would have plummeted, causing major havoc with a
lot of four oh one k's and other people's stuff.
So he can't just dump it all on the market
like that. But when he sold that stock in order
to purchase x he wrote a check to the federal
government for eleven billion dollars. One man eleven billion dollars
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worth of taxes. I don't He didn't write the tax laws.
The tax laws are set up the way they're set
up for a reason. Here's my point. The rich are
paying their fair share. They're paying their fair share in
a number of ways. Whether it's paying property taxes on
one hundred million dollar mansion that they have that there
is an exorbitant amount of money, for sure, but they're
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paying property taxes every single year on that or the
jobs that they create that allow those people to pay taxes.
The state of California and the State of New York
in the last I think it's been ten years, have
lost something like two trillion dollars worth of income that
could have been taxed because they continue to raise taxes.
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With that said, let me give you a reason why
that's foolish, and you should allow the people that make
the money to determine how they're going to use that money,
much more so than the government. There were three stories
out this past week about Gavin Newsom in the state
of California that just really there were four, but three
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of them made me sick, and one of them made
me go. At least somebody's paying the price. So last week,
Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff had to plead guilty
to a money laundering and tax fraud. Her name's Dana
Williamson and she was a chief of staff in twenty
twenty two and twenty twenty four and she fled guilty
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to count to counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud,
wire fraud, and something else. So she got caught. She's
going to jail. But here's the other three stories. That
was the fourth, but here's the other three stories. Gavin
Newsom signed a bill in twenty twenty three that basically
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said that insurance companies did not have to provide hearing
age to children. That there was a law going through
there's twenty thousand kids in the state of California that
needed hearing aids. They were trying to pass a law
that would allow for insurance companies to have to provide
hearing aids to children who needed them. He vetoed the law.
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Then he allocated twenty three million dollars for hearing aids
two children, of which only two thousand pe children have
gotten them. At this point, and at a cost of
something like seventy six thousand dollars per child for a
set of hearing aids. I could go to Cosco and
(23:38):
buy my mother in law hearing aids right now for
two thousand dollars and they be top of the line.
But you're spending seventy six thousand dollars per child of
taxpayer money because it has to pass through an NGO,
which is a non governmental organization. But here's the second story.
A man who sat on the board of directors for
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one of Newsom's wife's companies apparently got awarded a contract
to provide some diapers for newborn children out of the
in the state of California. Do I think we should
provide diapers for newborn children in the state of California. Probably,
if that's what the state of California wants to do,
and you're you're helping mothers who are less fortunate and
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don't have the money to be able to provide the diapers, sure,
I'm all for that. Have at it. But when you
do it at a cost of seventy million dollars to
an NGO that's buying diapers out of Mexico, that end
up costing something like seventeen times more than you could
buy them at Costco. Four, why not just give those children,
(24:41):
those mothers and fathers a gift card to Costco to
go buy their own diapers that are going to end
up being seventeen times cheaper. I know why because the
guy running the company sits on the board of directors
for your wife's company. They're laundering the money through there.
So that's two stories. One the hearing aids, two the
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diapers only give me The third, the State of California,
through Gavin Newsom, decided that they wanted to spend one
hundred and eighty nine million dollars of taxpayer money to
buy digital tablets for ninety thousand prisoners in the state
of California so that they could get online. There's two
(25:23):
parts of this story that really stand out. The first
one is it was two thousand dollars per tablet. You
can go buy tablets all day long for five hundred bucks.
Why is it costing the State of California two thousand
dollars per tablet? And why are you providing ninety thousand
prisoners with their own tablets? Because here's what happened. It
(25:47):
turns out that the prisoners were using them to get online,
and one of them, at least one that we know about,
was using it to groom a child that he was
in jail for abusing. So you take a man off
the streets for abusing a child, you put him in prison,
(26:07):
then you give him a tablet so he can continue
to harass and groom that same child from prison. Makes
complete sense to me. So I'd given you three programs,
the diapers, the hearing aids, and the tablets that came
in somewhere north of three hundred million dollars of taxpayer money,
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and so far only two thousand kids ended up having
hearing aids out of the twenty one thousand that needed them.
The mothers are paying seventeen times more for the diapers
than they would pay if they just went to Costco
and bought them. And the prisoners are doing things that
you'd think the prisoners might do if they have access
to online, Because not only were they doing that was
(26:48):
just one example, many of them apparently are using it
for pornography and other things that they shouldn't be using
tablets for. We already know about the corruption in and
the fraud in COVID. We know about the fraud and
corruption in Minnesota, in Ohio, in Maine, and that's in Chicago.
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That's just the corruption we know about. We know that
in California they were passing out money like it. It
didn't you could just go print more and it didn't
really make any difference. And based on everything I've read,
it looks like the California corruption is going to end
up being way more than Minnesota. And Minnesota was already
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like eight or nine billion dollars. There are some reports
out there saying that the corruption and fraud that they've
they're going to uncover in the state of California, we'll
top somewhere around twenty to thirty billion dollars. We don't
have a problem with revenue. The rich are paying their
fair share. The government's taking all of the governments are
taking in way more than they actually need. But when
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you blow it because you have no accountability whatsoever. I've
given you stories today between the electric buses, the hearing aids,
the diapers, the tablets, and those are just the ones
we know about. It is absolutely astounding to me that
we keep talking about having to tax people more money.
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Why don't we stop the fraud. Why don't we stop
the NGOs from getting rich, Why don't we stop all
of these other people who are who are spending the
money like it was theirs. You know, Margaret Thatcher, I've
said this many times on the show. Margaret Thatcher, who
was a Prime Minister for the UK back I think
(28:39):
she went in nineteen seventy nine, said at one point
that the problem with socialism is you eventually run out
of other people's money. And that is an absolute fact.
And we are seeing it right now with all of
these blue states where people are migrating out of them
into lower tax states that are managing their finances better
and are at least trying to stop the corruption and fraud,
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not participating in it. And there's no way you can
tell me that somebody didn't get rich off of one
hundred and eighty nine million dollar contract to provide two
thousand dollars apiece tablets to prisoners in the state of California.
Somebody got rich off of that twenty three million dollars
that was allocated for hearing aids that only two thousand
kids ended up getting. Somebody got rich. But I don't
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hear anybody out there on that side of the aisle,
talking about the fact that this corruption is making other
people rich, not just the rich people who are actually
producing things. It production, bringing something to the economy. Those
are the things that grow our society. Those are the
(29:48):
things that make our society better. Every time you pick
up your iPhone right now, right now, Elon Musk is
providing internet service to people that would never have it
in their entire lives through Starlink. The value of that
and does he not deserve something for that or should
it just all go to the common good? Because he's
(30:09):
getting a small fraction of the good that he has
brought to all of society through Tesla, through SpaceX, through
the boring company, through Starlink, he's getting a small fraction
of the economic impact of the world that he's created,
created it with a lot of other people too. But
(30:30):
they deserve something for that. Also incentivize people and watch
what happens. All right. They got other stuff to talk
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All right, welcome back everybody. So the Devilwar's Product Too
came out recently and it's apparently killing it And not
ashamed to admit that I haven't seen it, but I
like the first one. I thought it was a pretty
good movie. Anne Hathaway does a good job and politics aside.
(31:56):
Meryl Street is a great actress. I've always thought she
was a great actress. I didn't see I know that.
I saw an article that said that Anne Hathaway and
Meryl Street both made twelve and a half million dollars
for the for the uh acting in the movie. Plus
they're getting a percentage of the box office, which was
(32:20):
at two hundred and sixty million dollars worldwide recently, which
is great, awesome. You have a talent that not everybody
else has, and so in exercising that talent, you get
to make more money than people could make. But I
don't see anybody complaining about that. You know, I've often said,
(32:40):
I don't hear anybody, including Taylor Swift, who is obviously
her politics in mind don't necessarily align perfectly, obviously, but
I don't see anybody saying anything about the fact that
Taylor Swift is worth a billion dollars. You know why,
because Taylor Swift has a talent that other people don't.
(33:01):
Taylor Swift went and did something that people would readily
pay hard earned money to hear or watch or whatever. Great.
That's the way it works. That's the way capitalism works.
Capitalism is a free exchange of you worked for the money,
now I want you. I'm The money I earned is
(33:25):
worth less to me than the product I want that
you made, the iPhone, a new stereo, a house. I
don't care, it doesn't matter. That is the only free exchange.
When the government gets in control of any of the
means of production or anything else, it never ever ever works,
(33:49):
But it is always only directed at business people. It
is never directed at Jay Z and Beyonce, who are
worth a billion dollars. Great, I'm all for it, have
at it. If that's what the market determines your worth,
then that's your worth. I'm good with that. But I'm
also good with it on every business level out there.
(34:10):
And it absolutely astounds me at the ignorance level of
people in Congress that don't understand economics, that continue to
trash the only system in the history of the Earth
that has pulled. There's a reason why humans as a
(34:32):
whole for the first however, many thousands of years, only
progressed so much. Did you know that in the last
twenty years. The last twenty years, so if you're twenty
years old, has been in your entire lifetime, one third
of all of the wealth created in the entire history
(34:54):
of the Earth has been created in the last twenty years.
I heard AOC the other day on a podcast and
she had some talking ahead podcaster that just kept nodding
along like yeah, you're right, you go, girl, you're right.
And what she said was, if you have a billion dollars,
(35:16):
you didn't earn that. You didn't earn that, you can't
earn a billion dollars. We I'll go tell Jay Z
and Beyonce that, go tell Tyror Swift that go tell
all the people that talk into your iPhone, and tell
all the people that made apps that you use every
single day that they didn't work their tails off to
try to bring something to you that had value in
(35:37):
your life that you were willing to exchange your money for.
Nobody forces anybody to buy anything. Not in capitalism. You
have to buy food, but you could go grow it.
You have the option if you live in a house
where you're capable of growing food. Maybe you don't live
in a neighborhood that you can do that in, so
you don't have that option. But there are government programs
(35:58):
right now that will still feed you. There's a reason
the obesity epidemic has taken off in the last twenty
to twenty five years. Also, she said, you didn't earn
a billion dollars. If you have a billion dollars, you
didn't earn that, And the podcaster said something along the
lines of, hey, you know, I think it was something
(36:21):
like Jeff Bezos is rich because somebody else isn't. And
I thought, do you really not know how it works?
In nineteen fifty the GDP of the United States of America.
We had one hundred and seventy six million people in
the United States of America in nineteen fifty, and the
(36:41):
entire GDP was three three hundred billion dollars. In nineteen sixty,
it went to five hundred and fifty billion. But by
twenty twenty five our GDP had grown to thirty trillion dollars. Now,
we doubled our population, basically, but we more than ten times. Wow,
(37:08):
it's one hundred times. We one hundred times grew our GDP.
Everybody in the United States of America participated in that.
Everybody got a piece. Did some people get a bigger
piece than others. Absolutely, they contributed more. They did something
that in a free market said hey, I want that.
(37:31):
That's a great product. There was a reason people were
standing in line when the first iPhone came out. People
were standing in line for days and days and days
waiting to get their hands on one. Nobody forced anybody
to do that, but they freely gave Jeff or Steve
jobs and all of the people that worked at Apple
five hundred or one thousand dollars or whatever the back.
(37:53):
Then they got subsidized, so it didn't cost that much,
but the cost of the phone was still five or
six hundred bucks seven hundred bucks, and they were willing
to do it freely. And then the next year when
they added a few gadgets, they were still willing to
stand in line for another week to get another one,
all while complaining about the inequalities of the world. If
(38:15):
money was finite, how is it possible for us to
go from two thousand dollars per person in GDP to
ninety thousand dollars in per person in GDP. Money is
not finite. People don't get rich, now some people do.
They do. There are people who get rich at the
expense of other people. Those people are stealing, Those people
(38:36):
are corrupt. Those people should absolutely be weeded out of society.
But when Tom Brady signs a contract for three hundred
and fifty million dollars to talk about football on a
Sunday afternoon, that's not even playing football, that's just talking
about it. If that's what the market is willing to
pay him, have at it. He's got something everybody else
(39:00):
doesn't have a knowledge of the game that people want
to hear. It's absolutely astounding to me that they keep
thinking somehow or another, it is this inequality. If we
somehow solved the inequality, well, in order to do that,
we have to solve the other problems, which are some
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people are smarter than other people, some people work harder
than other people. Some people are get luckier than other people.
I'm as lucky as you can get. I readily admit
that I ended up in the position I'm in simply
because I was in the right place at the right time,
and I worked hard. But I was in the right
place at the right time. I could have worked. Lots
of people work just as hard as me. I got lucky.
(39:44):
Doesn't mean that I don't do my fair share. I
saw a thing the other day from another great idea
from the communists and socialists here in the United States
on how to how to fix the housing problem. You
(40:05):
how you fix the housing problem, get rid of the
regulations that keep us from building houses. I said this before,
I'll tell you again. In the state of Florida, I
had a housing company. Before I moved up here and
bought into the Chevy Store, I owned a construction company.
The state of Florida passed regulations after Hurricane David in
nineteen ninety two that I'm not David Hurricane Andrew in
(40:26):
nineteen ninety two. That essentially added thirty to thirty five
thousand dollars per house to the cost of building that
house in just strapping and bracing for trusses. So when
you build house, you got to strap the trustes down,
(40:47):
you got to brace the trustes. The amount of hardware
that goes into a house to keep the roof from
blowing off in the state of Florida adds thirty to
forty thousand dollars to a two two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars house. At the time, it's probably more than that. Now.
That's a regulation that keeps housing from being affordable, and
it's not necessary. We've had hurricanes, they still destroy houses.
(41:08):
Doesn't change anything, but the cost spreading it out over
all of all of those other houses across the state
of Florida made it a problem. The way you get
more housing and make it more affordable is build more
if it's supply and demand. If the supply is high
and the demand is low, the price is going to
come down. If the demand is high and the supply
(41:30):
is low, the price is going to go up. It's
just market forces. And so if you want to make
housing more affordable for young people, you do so by
building more houses. But here was their idea. This is
a Yale study and I'm just going to quote it
to you. In housing, besides circumventing the disproportionately high elder
participation in town meetings where land use decisions are made,
(41:53):
I advocate a progressive tax on older homeowners to incentivize
them to downsize rapid than retain. The longer you stay,
the more you should have to pay. The funds could
allow for new construction and other projects of intergenerational justice,
especially educational ones that prioritize unleashing our young people into
the creative prime of life. So let me make sure
(42:15):
I get this right. You buy a house when you're
thirty years old because you're willing to save your money,
You're willing to work a little harder than somebody else,
and you save your money, or you move to a
place where housing is more affordable, and you don't get
to live in New York City, and the longer you
stay there, the longer the more you're going to have
to pay to stay in that house that you've already
paid for just in taxes, because we're going to try
to flush you out. We're going to try to take
(42:37):
care of the old people and move them out and
get them to move into retirement homes because that's where
they deserve to go. Really, that's your plan. One day
you're going to be old. You're not going to like
that plan when it comes back on you. It sounds
good when you're thirty because you're trying to correct a
problem for you, But when you become seventy and now
(43:00):
in the house for forty years and you can't afford
it because they've taxed you out of it, that's not
going to feel good to you. It's always that rules
for thee not for me, thing that always gets me.
It is absolutely astounding to me. Last, but not least. Uh.
You can say all you want about Trump, but he
pulled off a coup the other day getting China to
(43:20):
start buying oil from US instead of Iran, and Uh,
it's gonna start filling our government coffers up and may
solve some of the other fiscal problems we have here
in the United States. But I thought it was a
pretty good thing get them to buy all from US.
And not Iran. It'll choke off Iran and help our economy.
Good for us. Good move, mister Trump. All right, this
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a wonderful weekend. And UH cook some barbecue, have some fun,
have a great weekend. Everybody,
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