10-4-25 The Weekend Hour 3: Democrats, Medicaid & Illegal Aliens.

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speaking of Venezuela and illegal aliens. Are you surviving the shutdown?

(00:32):
Because clearly the Democrats want to keep the shutdown going.
I saw a list yesterday. I don't remember everything on
it of things that they're trying to put back into
the spending bill, into this continuing resolution in order to
stop the government shutdown. Now, I know, it's like, you know,
it's like, you know, Night of the Living Dead out there.

(00:55):
You know, you have to fight the zombies on the highway.
You've got to fight the zombies in the grocery store.
Everybody buying up ice and toilet paper because the government's
shut down. Planes are falling out of the sky. I mean,
there's you know, China's invading as It's horrible, horrible. Pay
a minute, No, it was a movie. I saw the

(01:17):
Democrats in the meantime keep going back and forth about No,
we don't want to, We're not trying to provide Medicaid
or healthcare or whatever to illegal aliens. Yes they are,
we know that they are. We don't have to. I mean,
I guess I could go back and play all the
sound bites, so you know. For example, the best one

(01:38):
is where they were asking twenty twenty during the presidential campaign,
how many of you, they are, like ten or twenty
of them on the stage, how many of you, in
your healthcare plan would provide healthcare or health insurance to
illegal aliens? Please raise your hand, and every single one
of them raise their hands. We know this is what
it's about, because those Medicaid provisions were taken out during

(02:03):
the One Big, Beautiful Bill, which many of the Democrats
voted for. So their latest Medicaid maneuver is not a
policy choice. It's actually a political scheme. So despite federal law,
let me say this again, despite federal law that explicitly

(02:24):
bars Medicare coverage, I'm sorry, Medicaid coverage for illegal aliens.
Governors like Gavin Newsom Mountain California, and legislative Democrats Chuck
Schumer and all of his ilk they've actually engineered what
is effectively a back door that launder's federal dollars into

(02:46):
state programs that will do exactly that. It will provide
Medicaid coverage for illegal aliens. And it's not speculationist, basic math.
Let me walk you through it. Spending on something called quote,
emergency services for undocumented aliens close quote that's the program

(03:09):
in California Emergency Services for Undocumented Aliens in two thousand
and three. That cost us, and I say us because
it's even though it's a California program, it gets its
money from the federal government. In twenty twenty three, that

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program costs one point six billion dollars. In one year,
that program went from the one point six billion dollars
to six point four billion dollars, a leap, an increase
so implausible that when you start to scrutinize it, it
completely falls apart. Now ordinary emergency care usually it counts

(03:52):
for about five percent of total health care costs. That's
because we have a law in this country. You show
up or you show up, or I show up, or
the illegal alien shows up in an emergency room, they
are required to treat you. Now I show up, My

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insurance policies are going to cover the costs. You show up.
If you have insurance, that's gonna cover the costs. Now.
If you over there by on the back row, if
you show up and you don't have health insurance, then
the insurance company is going to bill you, and you're

(04:33):
gonna have to work out an agreement with the insurance company.
I mean, I'm sorry with the hospital to pay off
that er visit, or they're going to sue you in
the collections and they're going to get a judgment against you,
and then they're going to garnish your wages and they're
gonna make you pay. Now, an illegal alien shows up,
they have nothing, They have no cash, they have no savings,

(04:56):
they have no assets. They show up but they got
a gunshot wound, or they've been involved in a car wreck,
or they've broken a leg, or they've got a fever
or they've got a cough or whatever it is. They
show up, we're required to take care of them. Medicaid
steps in and reimburses the hospital. So you and I
even those of you without insurance that maybe had to

(05:19):
file bankruptcy because of medical expenses, or you're on a
payment plan to pay the hospital. You know, the five
thousand dollars that you incurb, which would be minimal by
going to the er because you had a gunshot wound.
You're paying for that too, assuming you're paying income taxes.
And even if you're not paying income taxes. Because we

(05:39):
are operating on a budget deficit. Year by year by year,
we borrow about fifty percent of everything that we spend,
then you're paying for it in a lowering of the
value of the dollar for continued inflation and for a
national debt that the interest on now accounts for at least,
if not more than, fifty of the entire federal budget.

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So we're all paying for this. I point that out
because that ordinary emergency care usually accounts for about five
percent of total health care costs. Do you know what
California does. California classifies more than half of its immigrant
expansion spending as emergencies. So what was once a very

(06:30):
narrow federal carve out for showing up the er for
a life threatening crisis has actually been transferred into just
a slush fund for routine care. How do they do it? Paperwork?
That's how bureaucracies do everything. The trick is in the paperwork.
By simply reclassifying the benefits, California is able to maximize

(06:52):
the federal matching funds. And what does that do? That
frees up California taxpayer money. It frees up those dollars
for illegal coverage. Federal law gets sidestepped, but taxpayers all
over the country still foot the bill. When you look

(07:13):
at Medicaid emergency services for undocumented aliens, the spending in
billions of dollars in twenty fourteen is slightly more than
two billion. It drops slightly to twenty seventeen. In from
twenty seventeen to twenty twenty to start of the pandemic,

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it increased to three billion. During the pandemic, it's skyrocketed
to seven billion, and then from twenty twenty one to
twenty twenty three it dropped back down to just about
three point eight billion, and since twenty twenty three has
skyrocketed to well over eight billion dollars. The deeper corruption

(07:58):
that's going on here is actually structural. The corruption is
built into this system. You see Medicaid is an open
ended federal state partnership. Washington meaning you and me is
federal taxpayers. We match state spending at a rate that

(08:19):
varies by formula, and states have always tempted to inflate
their contributions because the more they claim that they contribute,
whether they really do or not, enables them to draw
down more federal cash. Well, California has perfected that game,
and I want to explain to you exactly how California

(08:39):
does it because it's being replicated in states all across
the country, and that's the game the Democrats don't want
you to know about. Then I'm going to explain to you.
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(09:22):
Glad to have you with me. We're talking about this
scam going on with Medicare and Medicaid, primarily Medicaid because
that's where illegal aliens end up getting their healthcare. And Democrats,
I guess they assume if they tell the lie long
enough that eventually a bunch of dumb people will believe it.

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But it's simply not true. The six to eight billion
dollars I told you about. Let's go to Fox News.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Last year, the Golden State spend nearly six point five
billion dollars on health insurance for migrants, and through it,
Medicaid loophole has shifted most of the costs to the
federal government. Here to react to Fox and Friends Weekend
co host Charlie Herd and Chriff Jenkins. Part of that, Charlie,
is that the Medicaid is reimburse fifty percent by the
federal government, and when you go to a hospital, you

(10:16):
have to be treated. When illegal lumbrian shows up, there's
a pile of money for them to be treated.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah. And of course this is not a fluke either.
This is not just some one random thing happening in
one state like crazy state like California. This has been
a central plank of the Democrat Party for years now.
Everybody now remembers that in twenty twenty during the Democrat primary,
they were asked who hears supports giving free healthcare to

(10:44):
illegal aliens, and every single Democrat running for the nomination
put up his hand and said that they support that.
And of course this also comes after we went through COVID,
where Democrats led the efforts in all of these big cities,
including New York City, spending billion, millions of dollars, billions
of taxpayers dollars on free housing for illegals. So this

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is not some random thing. This is actually part of
their intended, intentional policies.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
You know this as a parenthetical, I remain truly fascinated
from a purely political point of view my Democrats. I mean,
I don't get me wrong. I understand the rationale. The
rationale is they think they can convert those illegal aliens
into voters, and so they're trying to, you know, build
up their own base. But the fact that politicians who

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take an oath to uphold the Constitution, to preserve, protecting
and defend the Constitution, and to preserve protecting and defend
this nation against enemies both domestic and foreign, why they
when they continue to push this bull crap onto the country.
As I said, this option is structural because, as they

(12:02):
point out on Fox News, medicaid is an open ended
federal state partnership. The matches that Washington pays varies depending
upon the procedure. This state that all of the factors
that go into treating an individual. The California perfected the game.

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The Paragon Institute describes this as a money laundering operation,
and I would fully agree with that because California love
is your tax on insurance. So when you buy a
health insurance policy, the insurance company is paying a tax
on those policies, and so they raise payments to those

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same insurers to cover the tax, and then claims the
higher payment because of the tax as a qualified expenditure
that's eligible for federal matching. So the insurer, the insurance
company has made whole the state's books look balanced, the

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federal treasury gets raided, and with those extra federal dollars
in hand, California can then redirect their general revenue programs,
their general revenues into programs that Congress has explicitly forbidden,
namely medicaid for illegal aliens. So California claims, hey, we're

(13:31):
complying while actual actually they're hollowing out the intent of
the law. The scale of that operation is staggering, truly staggering.
Some analysts estimate the estimate that California will extract more
than nineteen billion dollars in federal reimbursements through this tax
shuffle between April twenty three and December of next year. Now,

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at the same time, the cost of covering illegal aliens
under the cal expansion is projected to reach just gone
is like at six point five billion. The federal reached
nine point five billion annually by twenty twenty five, So
by the end of this year, that six point five
billion is going to easily increase to nine and a

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half billion dollars. Now, if you ask state official in California,
they'll insist that illegal aliens contribute roughly half that amount
or roughly that same amount in state and local taxes.
But that's a slide of hand that does what think
about this carefully. Okay, let's say that, yes, illegal aliens

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are paying state and local taxes because they go buy things,
But that slide of hand ignores the federal share. Federal
taxpayers in Texas, Florida, Colorado, Ohio, wherever you are. We
didn't vote for California's experiment, but we're all paying for it.
And even worse, the government in California under Gavin Newsom,

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they've already borrowed three point five billion dollars from their
general fund to keep medical afloat. Now that's a move
that all but guarantees pressure that eventually they'll do what
they'll run to the federal government for a national bailout. Yeah,
there's a moral hazard here, and it ought to be obvious.

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Blue states run reckless expansions knowing that Washington, if it
ever gets back under Democrat control, will socialize and nationalize
the losses. So much as I at the very beginning
of this program, we talked about, look at what the
once great country, the United Kingdoms Kingdom is doing in

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terms of socialized medicine. Look what they're doing about forbidding that.
Oh you wanted a regular cocat dinner, you can only
have one. It's literally against the law to have two.
Socialize the losses. That's what California is doing. That's what
Democrats want to do with virtually everything. They want to

(16:07):
socialize everything. So it's their grand experiment when it fails
as socialized everything normally does historically always has you and
I will bear the brund of that. So every Blue state,
including unfortunately where I'm sitting right now, Colorado, will do
exactly the same thing. I've watched Colorado senators as this

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shutdown continues, go online, post their little videos to Instagram
and Facebook and X and talk about, oh my gosh,
this is horrible. We're hurting people, we're denying people healthcare.
They never use the term even migrants or immigrants, it's
just people. They don't want to address the real issue,

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and they don't want to address the real issue that truthfully,
the con game that's going on in California is the
same calm game that's played at every single blue state.
And while I'm att, might as well just point out
that this is a game that's played with just about everything.
Let me give you an example. So when I was

(17:17):
Undersecretary of Homeland Security, we had we would give grants
out to localities for fire engines, fire trucks. They might
get a million dollars for a fire truck. Well, that
released a million dollars in their general fund for that
municipality to go spend that million dollars in something else,

(17:39):
and then when the maintenance comes to, oh, we don't
have any money, can you help us out with that?
The grift continues, and that's what's got to stop. It's
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
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(18:32):
get all the Michael Brown you need. So back to
the illegal aliens in Medicare, because I'm just sick and
tired of Democrats screaming about this is not what we
want to do. This is exactly what you want to do,
and it's what you are doing. And what we took
out of the one big beautiful bill was passed earlier
in the year. They want to go back to this.

(18:52):
In fact, not only do they want to go back
to it, but they want to add even more spending
to it. Things like I made I don't know why,
sticks out of my mind, but one of the things,
not forget how many millions of dollars it was for
male prostitutes in Haiti. Really, that's what we're gonna do,
male prostitutes in Haiti. Right, It's it's insane when you

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think about I'd like to take every I don't care,
Democrat or Republican, every Democrat and Republican that wants to
add that kind of bull crap spending, and I want
to take them to you know, a stereotypical family of four,
mom and dad. Maybe mom stays at home, they got
two kids. Dad's working his butt off, working five six,

(19:35):
seven days a week. They're you know, living paycheck to paycheck.
They've got you know, a car payment made, they got rental, mortgage,
whatever it is. And I want them to I want
them those congressmen to go to that family and sit
down in that living room and explain to them, yeah,
I want to spend five million dollars of some of
the money you're gonna it's going to be taken out

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of your check for your state or federal income tax.
I want to take some of that money. I want
to spend it from male prostitutes in Haiti. You know,
there might be a few beatings. There just might be
there might be some violence involved in that in that
living room meeting. Not trying to say, well, I am
saying it's justified, but don't do it now. There are

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people that claim that this whole medicaid thing, this whole
medicaid story, is okay because they want to argue that
illegal aliens underutilize healthcare compared to US citizens. And they
claim that's because well, they're fearful they might get deported,
and of course there's the language barrier, so they're nervous

(20:41):
about going to the US hospital. Well, even if that's true,
it's still irrelevant to the scandal. It's still irrelevant to
the corruption because the issue is not the efficiency of consumption,
it's the legality of the scheme. Federal law is specific.

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Medicaid is for US citizens and particular very narrow lawful residents,
like someone who is here on a work vison as
a green card. There are a few very narrow exceptions
for emergency stabilization. But when California expands coverage to one

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point six million illegal aliens and then labels routine services
as emergencies and then launders the cost through an insure
tax shuffle, that's not bending the rules. That's breaking the rules.
The bureaucratic bull crap should not blind anyone to the

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substance of what is actually taking place here. But don't think, well,
I don't care if you think I'm cold hearted. I'm
just telling you the facts. But the cost of this
scheme goes beyond the dollar. Every dollar that's diverted to
illegal to an illegal alien, or to illegal aliens, either

(22:07):
one or thousands of them or millions of them, that's
a dollar that's not available in this case, specifically for
California's aging poor, or for any other state. Seniors on
medical have grown by forty percent in only four years,
and those elderly patients are expensive patients. They cost about

(22:28):
fifteen thousand dollars annually. Compared to other younger enrollees on
Medicaid that average about eight thousand dollars a year, yet
their needs get crowded out by the political priority of
covering non citizens. So if you want to talk about fairness,
you got a really serious fairness problem here. Citizens who

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paid into the system are now second line behind those
who have zero legal claim to be in the country
in the first place. It's an inversion and a per
version of obligation that is not sustainable, nor is it
just fair. As I keep pointing out, it's not even legal.
What California's revealed is simply not bad faith by one state,

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but a structural flaw in Medicaid itself. And this is
where I really get irritated, because Republicans, yes, you can
make the argument till the cows come home about how
you know you're wanting to spend money on illegal aliens. Okay,
we got the argument. Why don't you also make the
argument that it is against the law. Why don't you

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point that out?

Speaker 3 (23:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Come on, Republicans, grow some cajones and point it out.
Go to the Manhattan Institute, for example. They've argued very
persuasively that California's program of open into federal matching actually
encourages democrat controlled states like in Colorado or your state,
wherever you might be, to gain the system. It's almost

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if the politicians know yes, and in fact, I think
they do know that the system is being gained, but
they don't care because they don't want. I guess they're
afraid to stand up and say we should not be
doing this because, oh, then you're not very compassionate. I

(24:22):
think most of you, I think most people listening to
this program are very compassionate. But you don't want your
government taking your dollars and forcing you to pay into Medicare, Medicaid,
income tax, all your flight at taxes, all of that,
and then give it to an illegal alien when we
have our own citizens to take care of. That's why

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shutting down the border was the smartest thing that Trump did,
and now deporting them is the second smartest thing that
he did, because we need to focus on our citizens.
Go back to the Manhattan Institute, so they make a
very persuasive argument that this open ended federal matching encourages

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these states to gain the system. Provider taxes, supplemental payments,
intergovernmental transfers. Those are the tools that are used in
this quiver of arrows of creative accounting. The result is
a raised to the bottom in which states actually get
rewarded for inventing ways to inflate their spending, not because

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they're serving the truly needy, but because they're gaining the system.
It's time for reform, and I'd like to know where
the Republican Party is about reform. And I'm here's the solution.
You want the solution, write this down. Federalize the core benefits.
In other words, all the benefits have to run through

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the federal government. Take the states out of it. That's
number one. Then number two, cap federal long term care allotments.
Just cap them. There's beyond a certain amount, nobody gets paid.
That's in essence, taking the whole Medicaid Medicare insurance out

(26:17):
of the picture. There's a cap. Beyond that you're not
going to get paid anything. And then, lastly, the third thing,
I do make the states bear the full cost of
any optional expansion they want to do. So, California, you
want to pay for illegal aliens, then you pay for that.

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Then maybe California voters would wake up and say what's
going on here. Maybe voters in Colorado would wake up
and go, wait a minute, we already have a budget
deficit in Colorado. California is even worse than Colorado is.
So if California or Colorado wants to cover illegal aliens,

(26:59):
let them do so openly. Let them pay for it
entirely out of their own budgets. You know, when you
demand transparency and accountability, suddenly the cockroaches start to run
and hide, and suddenly that exposure to the sun reveals
that what you're really doing here is despicable. And the
implication nationally ought to be obvious, because if California can

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get away with this, then you know that other Democrat
controlled states are doing the same thing. New York, Illinois,
Massachusetts are already exploring those kinds of expansions. And I
hate say it, but in Colorado they've already done that
kind of expansion. The risk pretty clear. Medicage credibility collapses
under the weight of the abuses, and once the taxpayers

(27:46):
realize the program is just to sieve for partisan experiments,
support for that safety net, even for our own citizen,
will start to erode. And you may say that's a
good thing. I would say, it's a debate we ought
to have should we be doing these in the first place,
And if we got the government out of it entirely

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and suddenly it was all a private, free market effort. Now,
I'm not saying you just do it overnight, but over
time you'd probably lower your costs and people would take
more responsibility, even those who are less able to do it.
There might be a In fact, I think there would
be a market for an insurance policy. It would be

(28:29):
dirt cheap based upon your income that people would say,
I don't want to get stuck with those bills, so
I'll go pay that. Just pulling a number out of
my butt, I'll go pay that fifteen dollars a month
premium to cover my health care. It's not going to
happen tomorrow, but over time it would. California defiance the

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federal law. It's not just a California problem. It's a
threat to the integrity of the entire national safety net.
And in California they want to defend it by saying
it's compassion. Really it's corruption. It's corruption disguised as kindness.

(29:11):
I'll be right back, Welcome back to the weekend. With
Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. As always,
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Go back to this whole concept of Medicare, Medicaid, social Security,
all these entitlement programs. As I said, we have been

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spending like not even drunken sailors. We've been spending like
I don't know, teenage girls with daddy's American Express card,
which is even worse than drunken sailors, we've reached the
point now where the federal budget, the amount of money
that we pay every single year, more than fifty percent

(30:41):
of that is going to just pay the interest on
the money that we've borrowed, which is now somewhere between
thirty seven and thirty eight trillion dollars. Democrats want to
increase that spending in this continuing Resolution by more than
a trillion dollars. I think it's like one point six
or one point seven trillion dollars. We're operating on the

(31:04):
basis of pure insanity right now. And while we try
to rein it in and look, I'm critical of many Republicans,
including the President, in this regard because we're not really
doing the things that we need to do to cut
spending now. We can't just cut the spending off today

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and say, look, we're going to eliminate half the budget
so we have a balanced budget. But there are ways
to work your way into it. There have been proposals
over the decades that I've been discussing these things where
the Heritage Foundation of the National Taxpayer Union or any
number of organizations have come up with ways to simply

(31:47):
stop the increase in spending. In other words, free spending
at current levels, and that alone encourages increased economic activity.
The Federal Reserve, I think too late. Pal is a
correct moniker. For Jerome pal the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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There was a point where I was actually, although we're
not going to get it because of the but because
of the government shut down looking for a bad labor report,
not because I wanted people not having jobs, but that
might wake the Federal Reserve up to do further cuts
in the Federal in the Federal reserve rate, because we
need to get these rates lower to spur more economic
activity and quite frankly, to reduce our costs of borrowing,

(32:34):
which would help in terms of the federal budget deficit.
But nobody wants to do this. It's as if we
got our fingers glued to the steering wheel, our foots
glued to the accelerator. We see the brick wall that
we're driving into, and we just keep going faster and
faster and faster because nobody wants to speak the truth,

(32:57):
and that is these programs don't work anymore. They're unaffordable.
They are unsustainable, a word that all the greeny weenies
in the Church of the climate activists want to tell
us all the time that what we're doing is unsustainable.
How about you take your same concern and apply it
to the fiscal reality they were facing right now. Michael,

(33:18):
I were talking during the break about how long I
thought this this government shut down would last. I originally
thought it was going to last maybe through the weekend.
I honestly thought maybe naively, maybe I had maybe I
had too much night cookee, or I had too much
I had too much tequila last night that I thought

(33:38):
last night they might they had gotten three Democrats. They
needed five Democrats because they need sixty votes to invoke cloture.
Cloture is a fancy way of saying we're going to
stop debate now. Once you stop debate, it takes sixty
votes to stop debate. Once you stop debate, it's a
simple majority. So if you could five five Democrats, we

(34:02):
found three John Fetterman and a couple of others that
were willing to stop debate, which you could then have
a vote on the continuing Resolution. That would only require,
you know, a majority, So if it was a tie
fifty to fifty, the Vice President could step in break
the tie. You'd have the majority and you could, you
could stop, you could reopen the government, but setting all

(34:26):
of those procedural issues aside, do you know how long
the current continuing resolution would last? Or maybe I should
ask the more basic question, do you know what a
continuing resolution is? It just says to all the departments
and agencies, just keep spending what your current budget is

(34:49):
until we come up with a budget. We've been operating
on current concurrent continuing resolutions, well, I don't know the
past five or six years, going back to the Trump
one point zero Biden operated on continuing resolutions. The current
continuing resolution is for I think a period of about
seven weeks. Seven weeks, we're right back to the same thing.

(35:13):
Because nobody in DC understands that government is like a
business in this regard. Yeah, we can print our own money.
Business doesn't go into debt. But when businesses going to
debt and they don't have the capital or the revenue
streams to service that debt, they eventually go bankrupt. The

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country won't go bankrupt. Bill will continue to lose value
in our dollar, Inflation will rear uglyhead again, and at
some point people won't buy our bonds. Who wants to
buy a bond of a country that is spending more
than half of its budget on just paying the interest
on the bonds doesn't seem very secure to me. I

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know it's secure because it's the freaking United States of America,
the most powerful and wealthy nation in the country in
the world, who we're spending money on the wrong things
and we're not having an honest conversation about what has
to happen to decrease that spending over time so that
we can get back to fiscal reality. And until we do,

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we'll continue to have these stupid government shutdowns that don't
do anything except disrupt the lives of some government workers
and cause people like air traffic controllers or people in
the military to worry about, Oh, I gotta wait till
they get back so I can get you know, because
if it goes beyond the next pay period, they have
to wait to get a check. It's insanity, utter insanity.

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On that note, everybody, have a great weekend, and I'll
see you next weekend.