10-11-25 The Weekend Hour 1: María Corina Machado Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

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I want to talk out a little bit. I talked
about a little bit about this Friday on the Weekday program,
but I've since seen a story and we've had a
couple of sound bites come out about the Nobel Peace Prize,

(01:16):
and you know, there was anybody, I come on, let's
be honest, anybody who thinks that they have accomplished something
in the world of physics or chemistry, or peace or
anything else, and you get mentioned as that it is
human nature for people to think for themselves. That would

(01:37):
be really kind of cool. Yeah, I'd kind of liket
to that'd be I'd like to win that. So you
know that all the nominees for all these categories, whether
they win or not. I mean, come on, you're you're
in the Miss America pageant. Do they still have that
You're in the Miss America Pageant? You know you got
your swimsuit, you got you know, you answered the question

(01:57):
not like an airhead. You actually answer the question with
you know, a cogent thought. And so you're thinking, no,
maybe I'll make it to the top ten. Oh I
don't want to get Miss Congeniality because I mean, you're
not going to anything else. I just means you're the
nicest person. You really want to win. You want to
be in this next Miss America. It's human nature to
want to do that. So there's no question in my

(02:17):
mind that Donald Trump probably thought to himself and he
and Maloney probably talked about it late at night if
she wasn't on the phone with Vladimir Putin talking about
the kids. But I digress that they may have talked about,
you know, it'd be really cool. We can go to
Oslo and we can you know, we can excerpt where
is it? Is it Oslo? Anyway wherever they give the award,
and it'll be cool. We could pick up you know,

(02:39):
what is it a million bucks or something that they get,
and he could use that to put into the fund
for his library, because he doesn't need the money. He'd
use it for his library or something. So you know
that that's what was going on. But now there were
some logistical problems, and that is that the deadline had
passed but for pH nominees. But I suppose the Nobel

(03:00):
Committee could have done anything they wanted to do. I mean,
it's not like there's some law that says you have
to do it this way. So if they wanted to,
you know, you know, swerve around and give it to
Trump instead of giving it to Ms Maschado, they could
have done that, but they weren't. And I think Trump

(03:20):
and his heart of hearts knew that. I think we
all knew that. And that's not to say he's not
precluded from getting it next year. I mean, we're just
in the first phase of the entire agreement about the
settlement between Hamas, the Arab Nations, and Israel, and if
that really pans out as they all hope that it
will pan out, they really will be a monumental thing. Although,

(03:43):
as I explained yesterday on the weekday program, Don't hold
your breath. So I wasn't really going to talk much
about the Nobel Peace Price that they except I ran
across the story about a kid that lived in Venezuela
and Maria Corina Machado. He had an encounter with her.

(04:06):
The story goes like this, I was fourteen, So this
is a teenager. How many teenagers in this country? You
are gonna do what I'm just about to describe. I
want you to think about it. You have a teenage
kid at home, you have a fourteen year at home,
ask yourself. I hope you know if I had a
fourteen year old kid that's been a thousand years ago.

(04:28):
If I had a fourteen year old kid, I hope
they would do something like this. He says. I was
fourteen when I clambered onto a boulder along Caracas's friend
Sincesco for Hardle Highway while people call Piedro della Libertad
the Liberty Rock, and spoke at about a government that
had just ignored a referendum tyranny to me, he says,

(04:52):
was more than a buzzword. To my astonishment, a woman
that I did not know yet, Maria Karina, help me
climb the rock with her megaphone, so she apparently handed
him a megaphone, he says. I spoke of unifying as
a sea of flags from rival parties fluttered before me.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
He says.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Most of the people in the crowd dismissed Maria. Then
a woman who once called Chevez Hugo Chavez, the previous
dictator of Venezuela before Maduro came on the scene. She
had once called Chevez a thief to his face. Now
that takes him some guts. A dictator who could just

(05:39):
have you disappeared at any moment. Yes, she called him
a thief to his face. Too brash, too ideological, too
direct for the choreography of Venezuelan politics. The old hands
said she could never reach the people, that she lacked
the soothing tones, the feigned humility, the convenience and ambiguity

(06:00):
that defined our politicians. As a young member in the
National Assembly, she always got sidelined. She was too elegant,
too upperclassed, a sophrina, as Caro gossips like to say,
the visuwailan equivalent of a valley girl. How could a
man from the hills of Batar ever vote for her?

(06:22):
She doesn't even have quote the cajones, they said, hmm,
I guess they must have been wrong. It's those people
that you always least expected, that come out of from nowhere,
and you think they're too hoity toity, or oh they're
not quite smart enough, or all they don't have the experience.

(06:44):
Those are always the most dangerous ones because we always
underestimate them. And to you know, well, not today, but
yesterday we have another active vindication, and that active indication
is that the Nobel Committee awarded Maria Herna Karina Machado
the Nobel Peace Prize, citing her quote tireless work promoting

(07:06):
democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, Venezuela and her
struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from the
dictatorship to democracy amid threats, bands and intimidation. She stayed
the course. She refused. They offered her to go, We'll

(07:27):
let you leave the country. You can go live in
the United States or Spain or wherever you want to go.
You can go live in exile if you want to.
She refused to do so, Unlike a lot of the
men you know who once praised her for having the cohones.
She was barred from appearing on any ballot, but she
led her movement to victory through someone else, which I

(07:52):
love that part of it because I always think, yeah,
and you should think about this too whenever you see
whether it's Donald Trump, or for that matter, was Joe Biden.
I mean, think about all the people behind the scenes
of Joe Biden that were really running things well while
Trump is really running things. The energizer Bunny doesn't stop. Nonetheless,

(08:14):
I can tell you from having worked in the White
House myself, that there are all these staffers, and there's
usually a key three or four members of the staff,
including a first lady. And I think Malania probably does
have a lot of influence over Donald Trump. There's always
somebody else that's really making you better than what you are.

(08:36):
And so what Maria did was she led her movement
for freedom to victory through Edmuno Gonzales, winning more than
seventy percent of the vote. This is the election that
got stolen by Maduro. She's now in hiding. She continues
to labor with unbroken discipline toward what she he eventually wants,

(09:01):
which is a peaceful transfer of power to mister Gonzalez,
who actually won the election. So what are people here
and around the world saying about her winning this Nobel
Peace Prize. I want you to hear what they say,
but I also want you to hear what she says.

(09:21):
This is a woman who truly understands her power, her influence,
and she knows how to use it. It's the weekend
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about Maria coming up next. Welcome back to the Weekend
of Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. I
appreciate you joining in. We're talking about the Nobel Peace

(10:05):
Prize and Maria Karina Michada, who won the prize instead
of Donald Trump. Why even talk about this because people
are upset that Donald Trump didn't win. So who cares
about this? I care about it because this woman personifies,
for the first time in a long time, exactly the
kind of person that should be winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

(10:27):
I mean, compare and contrast what she's doing, which I'll
explain to you in just a minute, compared to what
Barack Coussein Obama did. Barack Causseana Obama got elected president
and bam, let's give him the Nobel Peace Prize. What
you winning change the face of Jill international pop politics? No,

(10:48):
the Nobel Peace Prize in that regard is a broken prize.
But they may have redeemed themselves ever so slightly, not completely,
but ever so slightly this award. Now, I know that
a lot of people say that it's skeptical, you know,
they call her when puzzling, particularly when they watched Trump,

(11:12):
who is mediating a ceasefire in the Middle East. But
here's a woman who refused to go into exile, although
many other Venezuelans have done so. Now she isn't hiding, though,
but she continues to work with unbroken discipline. She continues
to push for a peaceful transfer of power in her

(11:35):
native country, just like she supported that fourteen year old
boy who a decade ago climbed a rock and asked,
you know, for let we've got to push Chavez out.
I understand the complaints, and one can certainly hope that

(11:56):
when peace materializes in the Middle East, and that if
this plan goes through and they actually stick to the plan,
that not just that, but all the other wise seven
eight or nine wars that he has stopped and negotiated
pieces piece with. I think Trump will get his Nobel

(12:17):
Peace Prize. But don't dismiss Machado's recognition because to do so.
I think it's just it's wrong headed. And I know
that we have a certain pride, and particularly those of
us who support Donald Trump in many ways, really want
to see him win the Peace Prize, considering everything that

(12:42):
he's done, considering the versiarly nothing that Brack Cussein Obama did.
Obama bombed every freaking country you can probably possibly imagine
during his eight years in office. Trump, Oh, that's right,
he did bomb somebody. Yeah, he told the Iranians stop

(13:03):
building unuclear weapons and if you don't, I'm gonna bomb
the crap out of you. And I'm gonna give you
what forty eight hours, seventy two hours, whatever it was.
And they didn't do it, So wambam done. I think
there's a huge difference when you give someone the opportunity
to change your ways and they don't do it. I
think these and there are online you'll find attempts to

(13:26):
make Maria Machado appears a figure that opposes Trump. Well, really,
is that what you think, because hang on to your hats,
because you're gonna find out in just a minute that's
not that's not at all what she thinks. And of
course you're going to attack the prize itself if you
want to. Senator Mike Lee, the senior senator from Utah,

(13:48):
said that, you know, apparently the Nobel Peace Prize isn't
about delivering peace anymore. In eighteen ninety five, when Alfred Nobel,
the inventor of dynamite, who created these Nobel Prizes, he
defined the Peace Award as recognition for those who have
accomplished quote the most or the best work for fraternity

(14:09):
between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies,
and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Well,
by that particular reading, there are very few modern laureates
that really qualify. But then the Committee long a long
time ago, widened its understanding of peace to include those

(14:29):
who wage domestic campaigns rather than just diplomatic campaigns. Poland's
like Willensa, America's Martin Luther King Junior, Miah mars Ang
soun Senki. Their prizes honored movements, not treaties, conviction, not
real politics. So criticizing the prize itself, now, that's it's
it's logic, and I happen to share that logic. But

(14:52):
what makes little sense to me is dismissing Mischado's fight
Hers two is a movement civil, disciplined and the idea
that peace is not merely the end of the conflict,
but the beginning of freedom. She is what we would
call in our country, a freedom fighter, but beyond that,
as she hides in an undisclosed location, hiding in Venezuela's

(15:15):
separated from her family, continuing to do what she can
to push to overturn this stolen election, you would think
that many of us understand what stolen elections are about,
and we would honor her now. Her struggles not always
been peaceful. She's called from marches and assemblies even when
a lot of Venezuelans understandably chased, they really chafed at

(15:39):
the limits of nonviolence. I mean, when you're having to
break into a zoo to find an animal to eat
because you're starving at death, you really don't care about peace.
You care about survival. So her prize is not a consolation,
it's actually deserved. And if you think that she doesn't
recognize that, take a listen, because she does.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Madia, welcome, congratulations and tell our viewers why you decided
to dedicate this award to President Donald Trump. Thank you
very much, Rachel and to all of you or what
you have done for Venezuela. And they decided to dedicate
it to President Trump because he deserves it, because not
only has he been involved in only a few months

(16:27):
in solving eight wars, but his actions have been decisive
to have Venezuela now at the first hold of freedom
after twenty six years of tyranny that had destroyed the
lives of millions of Venezuela, to stabilized region and undermine

(16:49):
investigutions in the United States because of in Venezuela as
a safe heaven of the enemies of the United States
and using our territory and our resources to her the
American people and American institutions is certainly a threat to
the national security of the United States and the security
of the hemisphere. The President Trump has been very clear

(17:11):
courageous in terms of dismantling this criminal structure on behalf
of the Manezuelan people. I reaffirmed our gratitude and our
commitment to this cast for the whole America. So I
insist he deserves it, and we are very proud to
be working at this moment with all these allies for

(17:34):
this huge resolution.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Wow, that's pretty impressive, isn't it, in hiding in Venezuela
and saying I'm accepting it in honor of Donald Trump.
Thank you, Maria, god speed. It's a Weekend with Michael Brown.
Hang type will be right back. Good night. Michael Brown

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text message today because watching the news last night, I
wasn't necessarily thinking about this particular individual, obviously, but I
was thinking about, this is what we need to have done.

(18:53):
But Republicans are utterly failing to point out why we
are having a government shut down and why what the
President is doing is kind of ripping the band aid off,
and that's necessary so that the wound can get some
fresh air and start to heal. Goober number four sixty

(19:17):
seven nine Rights Michael. I love what the Trump administration
has been doing so far in this second term. I
love everything in all caps, but there's still one problem
that isn't going away. Inflation. I'm being forced to sell
my house after twenty six years. I bought it with
a VA Home loan in nineteen ninety nine. I thought

(19:39):
I'd live there until I moved on to Heaven. I'm
fifty six years old, disabled and it's physically and mentally difficult,
but I am determined to make apartment living the best
I can for my wife and kids. Making the best
of a bad situation is as American as apple pie.
People are hurting from this relentless inflation. I'd like to

(20:02):
see more effort from President Trump in addressing it. First,
my heart goes out to you, and I know this
is not comforting, but you're not the only one. A
lot of people are going through the same thing. And yes,
inflation is still high, prices are still high. But something's

(20:23):
being done, but we're not articulating it, we're not spelling
it out. And that is the reason the government is
shut down is because the House of Representatives, along with
Democrat votes, voted what's called a clean continuing resolution, meaning
that and continuing resolution just means we're going to continue

(20:45):
to spend what your current levels are. This is just
a basically an appropriations bill, except it's a resolution and
it just says to all the government agencies and departments,
continue to spend under your current budget authority until we
either pass a budget or we reach another deadline and

(21:07):
pass another cr What Republicans are just well, I can't
put all the blame on them because the cabal will
obviously distort the message and won't say the things that
I'm about to say. I don't like continuing resolutions because

(21:31):
it means that Congress is not doing its job. But
let's think about what Congress's job should be. Congress's job
should be looking at the current level of spending on everything, defense, entitlements,
discretionary spending, foreign aid, domestic aid, everything you can possibly imagine,

(21:55):
and say it's too much. Higher spending and excessive government
spending is the equivalent of a tax, and that tax
comes in the form of higher prices and higher inflation
because all of that money that is pulled out of
the private sector is money that can't go into a

(22:15):
company trying to expand and maybe trying to grow its
business buying more capital, equipment, or hiring more employees or
opening more remote locations. No, that money instead has to
go to taxes. Now, the company doesn't pay the taxes.
You pay those taxes because the company figures in its

(22:36):
pricing for whatever product or service it provides, whatever our
corporate tax is going to be. Okay, we got to
build that into the price of the widget or the
service that we provide. So you and I pay that tax,
and then because we don't have enough tax revenue coming in,
we then borrow. That's a debt that we owe and

(22:59):
then are and our grandchildren. I'm afraid to see that
our great great grandchildren are going to owe thirty seven
trillion dollars in debt. Do you know that now? Just
to pay the interest on that damn credit card is
equal to half the federal budget. So if you put
you know, whatever you paid in taxes this year. Theoretically,
half of what you paid in taxes didn't go to

(23:21):
buy a new tank. It didn't go buy it didn't
go to help somebody in a disaster area. It went
to pay interest on a credit card. Now, Democrats in
the Senate, we only need five. Three have crossed over.
We need two now in order to invoke cloture and

(23:43):
stop the debate. Chuck Schumer and his Marxist gang want
to renegotiate and add more than a trillion dollars to
an already bloated federal budget. Now, I know you may
have heard some senator say that, But now we're all

(24:04):
down in the weeds about are we going to do
this subsidy or that subsidy, or we are we really
paying or not paying for illegal aliens to have health insurance?
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Set all of
that aside for a moment and just realize that whatever
we're spending on, we're spending too much money. We have
a spending problem, and we have a bloated federal government.

(24:25):
I don't like it when people lose jobs. I just don't.
I don't like it. I know that it's disruptive. It
causes panic and worry, and then people have to figure out, Okay,
what am I gonna do? How am I gonna live?
You know? And change? Change is not easy for people.
But now they have to make a lot of changes.
Maybe they have to downsize. This person's having to sell

(24:47):
their home after twenty six years. But what's happening, and
Trump's being vilified for it is. And I know sometimes
this language is probably a little two course and that
doesn't help matters. I might be a little more diplomatic,
or maybe I wouldn't be.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
But when you.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Consider the number of federal workers that we have, we
could probably eliminate a third of them and still get
everything done. I know if companies looks around in the
studio I'm working in, I know of companies that have,
over the course of three or four years since emerging
from a Chapter eleven bankruptcy, have continued to lay off people,

(25:29):
trying to streamline their operations in order to maintain profitability
and stay on the air. Now, I don't like it
when some of my coworkers lose their jobs, but I
also understand that it happens sometimes. But why is it
that we have some sort of sanqulsanct attitude toward a
federal employee and that we can't do anything and we
can't try to reduce the size of the federal government.

(25:50):
That is exactly what we're trying to do. And the
dumbasses that work in Congress, both in Republican and Democrat,
because Republicans want to increase spending two, don't recognize that
what they're doing is they're destroying the people who work
in this country and the people who produce the income
to pay all of their bills, including their salaries. This thing.

(26:14):
This When I was watching the news last night, I
had to bite my lip because they kept talking about, oh, well,
you know we're going to lose you know, these federal
workers and some people are getting getting they're getting riffed,
they're getting furloughed, and you would think that it was
the end of civilization. I want to take every member
of the cabal, every reporter, every news station, every radio station,

(26:37):
and just shake the crap out of them and say
look around. There are private companies all the time that
do this. This is nothing new. It's not pleasant. I've
had to fire people and it's not pleasant at all.
But you have to stay in business. And the federal government,
its business is not just continuing to add on more

(26:58):
and more programs and do more or more stuff, but
to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and do more with less,
just like the private sector does. That thirty eight trillion dollars.
I don't know if this is actually correct or not.
I haven't done the calculation, but that amounts to we're

(27:19):
close to or maybe we've already exceeded that. The national debt,
which is a common We have a budget deficit every year,
which means that we spend more than we bring in
on a year to year basis. So the money that
we borrow during that budget year gets added to the debt.
So if we have a three trillion dollar when I

(27:41):
say we have a four trillion dollar budget, but we
get three trillion dollars in tax revenues, so then we
borrow a trillion dollars, that trillion dollar deficit for that
fiscal year gets added to the national debt. That national
debt is somewhere now between thirty seven and thirty nine
trillion dollars, which according to one story I read, if
it was correct, amounts to more than one hundred thousand

(28:04):
dollars for every single person in this country. Could you
write a check today for one hundred thousand dollars to
eliminate the national debt. No, if the yahoo's inside the
Beltway continue to spend, we can't call them drunken sailors anymore.
Because when drunken sailors run out of money, they quit spending.

(28:28):
They stumble off out into the street outside the bar,
and then somebody come to the other buddy's pick them up,
and they go back to the barracks. So you can't
say they're spending like drunken sailors. Like that used to
be the old phrase. And Republicans are as complicit in
this as Democrats. And right now, this struggle that is
going on is so that Trump can start trying to

(28:52):
impose some fiscal discipline. Now, don't get me wrong, there
are times when Trump spends money that I just shake
my head and I'm like, why are you doing that?
We are addicted to government spending, and it's not just
at the federal level, it's at every single level yet

(29:12):
any time, and this is where I'll defend them all
to some degree, defend the politicians because when they try
to start trying to reduce or at least trying to
maybe maybe not increase spending, maybe just level it off
and say, okay, let's just stop borrowing more, let's just
stay where we are. Even if you do that, they

(29:33):
get vilified. Oh my god, you don't care about grandma.
You don't care about well. You know what, if you
really cared about grandma, you would reform social Security. Now,
you might grandfather grandmother in so that nothing changes for her.
But for the people coming up into the labor force,
you might give them different options where you might change

(29:53):
the rules for them to to be participating in something
like social Security. So we at some point have got
to cut the spending otherwise, otherwise we're doomed. On that note,
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Michael Brown USA. Here's how deficits contribute to inflation. So
there's short. I mean there's all sorts of factors. It's

(30:42):
a very complex relationship, but in the short there's short
term pressure because in the short term deficits add pressure
to inflation through increased demand. So when government and set
aside from when borrowing, but when the government sends, if
there are any constraints on the supply side of whatever

(31:05):
goods or services that people are trying to consume, the
government spending eats up whatever that is, or it provides
more money into the money supply, and then that money
supply because if it's increase, it's it's like when you

(31:26):
subsidize higher education. So when higher when institutions of higher
education know that the governments can provide all these student loans,
so anybody can get a student loan, and anybody can
have whatever money they need to go pay for their tuition,
that increase in the money supply for tuition increases the

(31:50):
price of tuition because that increased money supply is an
incentive for the people that provide the product, in this
case higher education, to raise the prices because they know
that there's more money out there for people to afford it.
So that budget deficit, all that extra spending adds to

(32:17):
the deficit, I mean, adds to inflation. There's also the
problem of long term pressure. Because a large and persistent
deficit like we have now increases the national debt, that
itself puts upward pressure on inflation and on interest rates
over the long term. And when the interest rates increase,

(32:39):
the cost to service the national debt also increases, and
that makes it even worse on the yearly budget deficit. Now,
Power reduced the federal reserve rate by twenty five basis points,
so that helped lower our borrowing costs a little bit.
But what does Congress then do spent more money. So

(33:03):
it's like, oh, we're going to lower the rate on
your credit card from you know, twenty nine point five
percent to twenty five percent. And instead of saying, oh,
I can save some money, you go, oh, well, I
can go borrow some more money. Now it's insanity, utter insanity.
You go back to the nineteen nineties, the last time

(33:24):
we actually had a balanced budget. Congress recognized that as
long as we kept it balanced and we had we
had the revenues coming in to cover expenditures and we
weren't borrowing, none of those pressures increased. And inflation is
influenced by a lot of factors. It's a complex issue

(33:46):
that's influenced by government spending and fiscal policy, and deficits
do have an impact over the long term, but they
are just one piece of this entire economic puzzle. Fiscal
policy sees the other. And if our fiscal policy is
to spend more, to borrow more, so when the Federal

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Reserve says, okay, we're going to loan you a bazillion dollars,
then they print a bazillion dollars, which increases the money supply,
which does something else which is still inflationary, but you
don't think about it being inflationary. Gold has hit four
thousand dollars an ounce. I'm not sure what it is today,

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but do you think gold really increased in value to
four thousand dollars per ounce or do you think the
value of your dollar decreased because of all the deficit spending.
So the dollar bill that you have in your pocket
is now worth I'm just going to pull a number
out of my butt. It's now only worth, say, seventy
five cents. So it takes more of those dollars to

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buy gold, or it takes more dollars to pay your rent,
It takes more buck dollars to fill the car with gas,
It takes more dollars to pay your insurance premium. And
the same time, that takes more dollars to do that.
Because there's so much money flowing around in the economy,
then the price is increase. It's just this, It's just
imagine one of those snow globes and you shake it up.

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All of those factors in there is what's causing inflation.
And so when we come along and we get a
government shut down, that's an opportunity for the executive branch,
and quite frankly, it's opportunity for Congress, but I have
zero confidence in Congress. It's an opportunity for the executive

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branch to say, oh, we're gonna riff some people, We're
gonna shut down some offices, we're gonna shut down some programs,
and by doing that we will at least maybe not
lower the total cost of government, that we might lower
the increase in the cost of government. Either way, I'd
be happy. I'd prefer to lower the overall cost of government.

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But instead of having the government increase from a bazillion
dollars to bazillion times too. I'd be happy if we
just kept a bazillion dollars for the next ten years.
That would give some security to the market, that would
give some stability to the dollar. That means we could
quit increasing our borrowing every year, and that might start
bringing down prices. So when you hear the cabal and

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you hear Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffreys talk about because
it doesn't make any difference who shut down it is.
What really matters is what are Democrats wanting in exchange
for opening the government. They're wanting to spend a trillion
dollars more than they've already approved in prior continuing resolutions,

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and that will add to inflation. That will once again
increase the money supply because of the borrowing, and make
matters even worse. So for that, if you're losing your home,
my heart goes to you. I'll be right back