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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
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six days of my broadcasting. You may have heard, if
you've been listening to the program long enough, and particularly
for my local listeners, but for my listeners across the country,
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you may not have heard me talk much about my
belief that we have abdicated our compassion to the federal government,
and we see that being played out in real time
now with the possible that I know a federal judge
has ordered that the Department of Agriculture use some of
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their contingency funding to fund the SNAP programs. But I
don't think that that is a lawful order. And that's
a topic for maybe maybe I'll talk about that on Monday,
So you need to.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Tune in Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But the local news, at least in Denver has been
focusing a lot on food banks and encouraging people this
weekend to go give you know, can goods and other
things that food banks can accept to you know, go
do that this weekend. Well, why should we do it
just this weekend? Why shouldn't we be doing it all
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the time? And what do I mean when I say
that we have abdicated our compassion to the government because
the government can't be compassionate. The government is not compassionate.
The government, particularly the federal government, is this giant behemoth
that doesn't have feelings. They have rules, regulations, policies. You
gotta fit within a box, you got to qualify, you
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gotta do this, you gotta do that. Now, it's cumbersome
and it's inefficient. It doesn't always adhere to its own policies,
rules and regulations. Is sometimes veers off into the ether
and never knowing what they're really doing. It just makes
step up as it goes along. But we have been
so conditioned to believe that it is the job of
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the government to take care of other people that we're
not willing to do it ourselves. Our local Fox affiliate
channel thirty one KADIVR is the name of the station.
They're doing a local news story yesterday that I literally
had whiplash. I thought I was gonna have to call
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a personal injury lawyer friend of mine and sue the
local Fox affiliate for causing me to swing around so
fast that'll hurt my neck. I just want you to
The package is only two minutes long, but I want
you to listen closely to it, and I want you
to see if you picked up or if you pick
up on what caused me to snap my head around.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Taking the problem of food insecurity into his own hands.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
While the government remains.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Shut down and Fox Early Won's Ashley Michaels took a
trip up to Fort Collins to see what he's doing
and the impact it's having on the community.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Friendly Nick's Butcher is not a food pantry. It's a
small business, but.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Right now they're giving away some of their products for free.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Or a whole animal butcher shop. We break down whole animals, pork, beef.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And chicken.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The sausages and steaks have become a staple for customers.
But it's hard that now has people lining up at
Friendly Nicks.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It's frustrating for.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Me to watch people go through food insecurity, especially with
my background where I've always cooked for people.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
His idea started small.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I thought I could take five hundreds and like, I
have access to me to wholesale prices, so I can
stretch out a lot farther than people would at the
grocery store. And I thought I could make I don't know,
fifty bags of meat.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
He posted on Facebook, chicken, beef, pork and eggs free
for federal workers who aren't getting paid and anyone on snap.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Do you have your snap card? At The response, he
says has been eye opening.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
The emotion on people's face when they get that and
they're how much like they really has to help them.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
It's a great feeling, but it's also like Why is
it my job to do this?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Like it shouldn't be? The government should be doing this friendly.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Nicks has already given out about four hundred bags of
food before running out Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm happy that I can help.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It's like disheartening to see if you hear that there
are forty two million people on Snap until they lined
up outside your door, you don't put a face to that.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Sorry, it's hard. Now the community is pitching into help.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
As of Friday, a gofund me had already raised about
thirty thousand dollars. Nick says that money is now funding
a big movement. His small business didn't plan to start
all this.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Some money that I that we have, we're gonna keep
putting out these little packages even after the government's reopened,
even after Snap gets funded again. That way people can
hopefully have a little.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Bit of relief.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That go fund me is still active if you'd like
to help, we have a link to it on that's enough.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Did you catch it? Did you catch what? Really threw
me for a loop? Caused me to go seriously.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Why is it my job to do this? Like it
shouldn't be? The government should be doing this?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Friendly?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Why should I be doing it. Now he gets emotional
and he's had I think he's happy to be doing
what he's doing. Why does he believe that it's the
role of the government to do that. When do we
get when do we get to the point And I
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know it's a hurt over time, but when do we
get to the point where an individual who's operating his
own small business is really pissed off? Even though he says, look,
I can get wholesale prices whereas other people can't. And
we're happy to do this, and we're going to, you know,
start to go fund me and raise money and do
all of this.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
But why is it my job to do this?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Because you're an American, That's why it's your job to
do it. Because you've abdicated, as you clearly admit, like.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
It shouldn't be the government should be doing this.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You freely admit it's the government should be doing it.
I never I never thought i'd hear someone say exactly
my point, prove my point about how we have abdicated
our compassion to the federal government. But this butcher up
in Fort Collins, Colorado did it for me, and I
was astonished. Now I don't detegrate or complain or bitch
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or moan or about anything that he's doing. And I'm
glad and very proud of what he's doing nixt Butchershop.
In case you're wondering, good for him, Good for him.
But I got news for Nick. This is our responsibility
as Americans. It is not the responsibility of the government.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I've always said and I still maintain, that we have
an obligation to maintain a very specific and low level
safety net for people who truly are incapable of caring
for themselves. But I think this should also be done
at the state and local level. It should not be
done at the federal level. But here he is basically
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saying what I've been saying for years, and that is
that we have abdicated our compassion to the federal government.
For twenty years now, Notre Dame University is sponsored every
year a dialogue on They'll pick a theme and then
during that year they'll have speakers come in, they'll have
panel discussions, they'll have public events, and that theme for
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the year is discussed, debated, and then at the end
of the year, you know, they put together a compendium
of everything that they've done. This year's theme at Notre Dame.
Notre Dame is called Cultivating Hope. Cardinal Robert McElroy, who's
the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, d C, participated
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in a Q and A session on campus with the
Notre Dame President, Reverend Robert Dowd, during which McElroy offered
his thoughts on ways to address political polarization in this country.
So where do you think this conversation went and what
do you think we should conclude from it? Why would
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I lead in with this butcher in Fort Collins, Colorado
who wants to know why is he doing this? Why
should he have to do this when it's the government's
responsibilit Well I'll explain coming up next. Don't go away.
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this idea that we've addicated our compassion to the government,
because I think there is a there's an effect of
this abdication that we don't recognize that we're suffering through
it because we're right in the middle of the storm.
I don't think we recognize that one of the biggest
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drivers of the polarization in this country is the expansion
of government. Now, go back to the butcher I just
played for you. I've never met this man in my life.
I have no idea what his politics are whatsoever. But
I do think that we probably are miles apart on
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issues like food stamps or SNAP or welfare programs or
any of the other entitlements, because he's asking, why do
I have to do this when this is the role
of the federal government. It's not the role of the
federal government. But as the government has grown larger and
larger and gotten more expansive, more invasive into our private lives,
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when they want control over so many aspects of our lives,
it really does matter who controls the government. Now, who
controls the government if it were people like you and me,
we could start to unwind this, but the people that
control the government right now, I want to actually keep
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expanding it because they know the more they can expand it,
the more they can capture us, the more they can
control us, and the more they can depend upon us
for our votes so they can remain in power.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It's a horrible cycle that we're in.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
If you want our society to be less polarized, if
you want our society to be less political, if you
want our side, you know, have you ever thought of,
let me just stopping that point for one moment, have
you ever thought about how much time you may spend
not reading, you know, a biography of Thomas Edison, but
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instead you're reading Benjamin Franklin or Franklin Roosevelt or Theodore Roosevelt,
Or that you spend when you're on X or Facebook
looking at political information, or that your discussions are all
around politics. Politics has permeated every aspect of our lives
when it should be a very very tiny part of
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our lives. So if you want a less polarized society,
you would reduce the size of government. You would give
individuals more control over their own lives. You would allow
them to fail and recognize that, Yeah, failure happens, whether
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you know, if you're a baseball player, professional or otherwise,
or a basketball player, you lose more than you win.
You miss more shots than you make, you don't make
as many first downs, you don't throw as many completions
as what you actually lose. Your percentages are upside down.
But we look at that and go, oh, he's batting
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three hundred. Wow, that's fantastic. So why do we not
carry that over and recognize that failing is actually part
of life? Because government is so involved in our lives
that they they don't allow us to learn to fail.
They don't not learn to fail. They don't let us
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learn how to recover, how to be resilient, how to
overcome obstacles, because they want those obstacles in our place
so that we turn to them. Help us, help us,
help us. You think about every aspect I have in
the past asked. I've challenged people to do this. I've
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challenged people to keep a receipt for every single thing.
They pay everything. I don't care if you pay cash
for us. You know, a candy bar since a Talloween.
If you pay cash for that candy bar, get a
receipt for it, and every day tally up or if
you pay a bill, you pay your phone bill. You
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ever paid your cell bill? Have you ever looked at
your cell phone bill lately? Have you ever looked at
your your internet bill? Exfinity Comcast?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Sometime?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Go through that as you're paying it. Go through and
make a list of every tax and fee that you pay.
You go renew your license plate, you go get your
driver's license renewed. You've had your property taxes, whatever it is,
with every every single thing you pay every day, keep
track of how many taxes you paid. And then at
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the end of the year, look at look at your
W two and look at every your income tax, all
the fact of taxes you paid. And then whether you
owe or you get something back, you still keep track
of every amount of tax you pay and at the end,
at the end of the year added up and then
you tell me what you could have done better with
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that money than you did by handing it over to
the federal, state and local governments. I would suggest that
you do this as an exercise sometime every time you
make a decision to do something, to go somewhere, to
purchase something, to engage in some activity. I want you
to stop and think. You know, I like to do
this sometimes. I always laugh. Next time you stop to
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put gas.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
In your car, stop and look.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Around at all of the posters, or go to your
let's stick with the gas station from them. Look at
all the posters that tell you how to put gas
in your car. Now, I never think about it. The
only thing I have to think about is am I
driving in the jeep? Okay, it's on the left side.
Am I driving the beamer? Okay, it's on the right side.
That's all I got to think about. I frankly, I
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don't have to think about that because I can look
at the I can look at the panel and it'll
tell me with the little gas indicator which.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Side it's on.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
But stop, next time you go to a filling station
and just look look at all the rules and regulations.
You'd be amazed. Start looking at that. Wherever you go
go to your workplace, go find where they had to
put all the posters up, about all the safety requirements,
who you call, who you don't call if you get hurt.
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You have to do all of this, do all of
that everything. Look at the number of rules on the highway,
just look at everything that.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You ever do.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Go for a walk in the park, look at the
rules in the park. Everything you do there is some
government intervention in it. So if you want a less
polarized society, then the first thing you ought to do
is starting reducing the size of government. And then you
think that's the first thing. The second thing I would
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encourage you to do is think about this heated political
topics where well meaning individuals won't distinguish between virtues, a virtuous,
an individual behavior, or a policy which is a government
or institutional action. The next time you're having a heated topic,
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I want you to think about that. Are we talking
about virtues and individual behavior and individual choices, or are
we talking about something that is regulated or controlled by
some federal, state, or local government rule, regulation, or policy,
or even a statue. Now I'm not advocating that we
get rid of all rules, regulations, policies, and statutes, because
we need some to maintain this social compact between us.
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But when you start thinking about the heated topics you have,
are you arguing about someone's behavior or are you arguing
about an institutional action? And when you break it down
into that level, you may suddenly realize, wait, wait, wait,
are we even talking about the same thing here. So
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those are the first two things that I want you
to think about the amount of growth in our society
of government, and then what are you actually arguing about
someone's individual behavior or institutional government actions? Hang tight, I'll
be right back.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Tonight. Michael Brown joins me here.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you with me. Tuning in.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We're talking about this all started with a sound bite
from local news station where a butcher was making little
bags of a meat products to give to people who
could either show a snap card or show that they
were a federal employee. And while he seemed to be
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happy to do it, he was also pissed off that
he was doing it because he said, and I quote,
why should I have to be doing this? This is
the federal government's responsibility. And I thought, wow, you really
are one of those individuals who has abdicated your compassion
to the federal government. And I'm certain that based on
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that one single remark did He and I are probably
on the political spectrum miles apart. He probably looks at
me as a right wing nut job, and I would
probably if I knew his politics, I might see him.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't know. I don't know him.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I might see him as a left wing nut job,
primarily because he thinks it's the role of the government
to feed people. I've always thought it was the role
of individuals to feed themselves, and that if you couldn't,
you hit a you know, you lost your job, and
so you are in a really bad spot. There was
a time when what you would do is you would
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go to the local food bank until you got back
on your feet. And in fact, that was an encouragement
to get back on your feet so that you could eat.
But now you know, I played I don't have him
in front of me. I'd play it for you. But
this week I played a story where a woman talked
about how she had been on food stamps SNAP for
fifteen years. Fifteen years. Now she is she has no
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incentive to get off, none whatsoever. And so we've created
this culture of dependency and now we're seeing it, we're
seeing it come alive. We're actually seeing it with our
own eyes now, and I think that's because we've abdicated
I'll keep saying it. I'm blue in the face. We
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have abdicated our compassion to the government. And I want
you to think about compassion for a moment, because compassion
is a human virtue. If you're a compassionate individual, I
think that is an admirable attribute. And quite frankly, compassion
is a way for people to deal with each other
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one on one in small groups. But then it loses
its meaning when it gets elevated to being a justification
for a public policy, which is as necessary, becomes a
collective policy. In other words, it becomes a Socialist or
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a Marxist policy. And policy, by very definition, deals with
the rules, the regulations, the policies, the statue compassion. Yeah,
I'm trying to sounding like George Carlin. This No compassion
is a vehicle for dealing with the exceptions, and we've
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almost eliminated all.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Of the exceptions so that we don't have to.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Be compassionate or like this gentleman that I play Now, Yes,
I'm judging him based on a two minute news story,
but he has decided that his vehicle for dealing with
the exceptions is irritating to him. Oh, he says, he's
happy to do it, but he's irritated because this is
the government's responsibility. When you governed by compassion, it doesn't
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result in a more benevolent society. What happens. Instead, you
get chaos, you get anarchy, you get a disordered society,
and you get a polarized society. See that altogether. Policies
promoted because they are said to be compassionate to the
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unfortunate few end up doing What if you have a
government policy that a politician tells you is we're being
compassionate for these people, Well, one, they should be an
unfortunate few, particularly in a country like ours, the wealthiest,
most powerful country on earth, not because of our government,
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but because of our people. But when you have a
policy that's compassionate to the unfortunate few, it ends up
creating a system of misery for the majority because it
institutionalizes unfairness, It institutionalizes oppression. It makes things see absurd,
like the one that's on food staine for fifteen years.
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What have you been doing for fifteen years? It results
in violence, and ultimately it results in societal collapse.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And that's the road we're on.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
We are on that highway to societal collapse, and we're
witnessing what that would the start of what that would
look like if the federal government just today cut everything off,
which I wish it could, but it can't because it's
just like it's just like trying to reform social Security.
I don't want to take my elderly mother and push
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her off the cliff like that Democrat commercial from about
ten years ago or so.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But I think she I think that she ought to
be grand I think people are currently on ought to
be grandfathered in until they pass away and any new
people come on. We have to have a new system.
You know what the new system is, in my opinion,
showing you how radical I am.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You want to retire figure it out on your own now.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
If you think that's too harsh, then say, okay, then
what we'll do is we will take away you know,
we'll create like a government four oh one k where
every you know, every every quarter, whatever, every paycheck, whatever
you want to structure it. I'm just spitballing here. We're
going to withhold a certain amount put it into a fund.
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Now you control that fund. You can't withdraw this, you know,
like a exactly like a four oh one K or
a I R.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You can't draw it to a certain period of time.
But you need and if you can't do it yourself,
if you can't manage that fund yourself, then go get
a financial advisor. We'll get a retirement expert. But all
we're doing is just making certain that we're going to
segregate a fund over here, and we're going to segregate it.
That money is going to be held in Remember Al
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Gore's locked box. You'll be held in a lock box.
And you can do that. That's just one idea. I'm
just again spitballing ideas here. You can't just cut it off,
but you need some alternative to ease people into a
transition to a different way of doing business. But back
to my societal collapse, back to my idea that if
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we're going to be compassionate to the unfortunate people in
this society, we're going to create a system that's a
miserable system for the majority. And that's going to institutionalize,
that's going to that's going to statutorily incorporate unfairness and oppression,
absurd results, and ultimately violence and collapse.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Innocent people.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Innocent people get victimized by crime because of so called
compassionate policies that put repeat criminals on the streets. Did
you hear Judge Janine formerly a Fox, She's now the
US Attorney for the District of Columbia. She was on
television this week. They have found either Noumber three or
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number four. I forget, it doesn't make any difference. Found
either number three or number four of the suspects in
the carjacking of that doze kid that was working for
the Trump administration. He had a rap sheet that extended
from here to wherever you're listening on the East or
West coast. He was that long. I'm talking literally like
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twenty four arrests or something. He needs to be incarcerated.
If you're a repeat offender, you shouldn't be out. And
if we have judges who are letting them out with
no bond or minimal bond or personal recognizance bond where
you don't put any money up, then that judge needs
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to be removed. Just pure and simple. So the same people,
the citizens, the upstanding citizens, the citizens that make this
country hum and work, are being terrorized by the insane
people because of compassionate policies that eliminated involved and terry
commitment to mental hospitals.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
For example, I was listening to I don't listen often,
but Joe Rogan was interviewing Elon Musk in the last
couple of days. So on my walk this morning, I'm
listening to it, and Musk made a really good point.
I've often referred to the homelessness industry, which he did also,
but the point that he was making was that's a misnomer.
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I'm gonna go back and listen to it again. But
I think he's spot on because when I look, there's
an X account in Colorado called Do Better Denver. You
got to look it up and follow it. Do Better Denver.
They just find videos of what we've before always referred
to as homeless people. There was one this week of
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obviously a deranged, insane or drug adult individual crawling on
his knees on a street trying to pick what he
thought were diamonds off the street. What was he seeing?
He was seeing the sparkles in the concrete and he
was sitting there, nails starting to bleed from trying to
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dig out diamonds. That's not a homeless person. That's a
crazy person. That's a mentally ill person. If homeless ought
to be. The individual who's lost his job, is behind
on the rent or the mortgage, so loses his house
or her temporarily until they can get re employed. That's
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a homeless person. The person who's trying to scratch at
the concrete thinking they found a gold mine of some sort.
That's a crazy individual. That's a drug adult individual. So
I'm gonna start being, at least in my parlan, it's
going to be my vocabulary, going to start being very
very careful about when I refer to homeless individuals. But
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again he gets back to what do we do We
create the homeless industry, which survives only by making certain
that we keep people in homelessness. The person I told
you about, the very being of the program that wanted
to have dinner at four o'clock last night, she works
for a homeless outfit. She's a medical provider for a
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nonprofit homeless organization in Colorado, and she will tell you
that before they go to some of the site locations
they call the Denver Police Department because most of the
people that are housed in these so called homeless shelters
are actually criminals. They're drug addled criminals, and so they
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won't go in without escorts from the Denver Police Department.
We got to start recognizing the difference between someone who's
suffering from temporary lack of shelter, true homelessness, and those
who are drug addle There's a huge difference. But we
don't dare say that, do we, Except I do because
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I live in the real world. I'll be right back.
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subscribe to the podcast. I just always want to take
a moment to tell you how much I appreciate you
listening to the program. I find it interesting that, you know,
we become victims of these egregious policies. We see our
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home values, our business values plummet because of compassionate politicians
that suggests there needs to be more dignity for homeless
people so they can live, eat, sleep your night, and
defecat on public sidewalks. Then really smart students lose opportunities
for more intellectually challenging curricula because of compassionate educational policies
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that say that every child has to take the same
classes and if you're here illegally and you can't even
speak English, we'll throw you in with all the other kids.
Is now the teacher has to make certain that they
pay attention to the non English speaking student to the
detriment of the English speaking students. And then we say
that girls have to be exposed to men they want
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to be naked in front of them in a women's
bathroom or their locker room because of a compassionate policy
that does what well. It prioritizes adult sexual gratification or
adult sexual perversion or dysphoria over the protection of children.
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Then we lose our jobs to compassionate open border immigration
policies that allow millions of unfitted people to cross the border,
And then on top of that, not only violate our laws,
but then get billions of dollars in benefits paid for
by you, while you shall love to work. They bring
in drugs, They traffic women and children for sex, They
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commit crimes. They drive this. They drive the eighteen wheelers
on our highways that we pay for, even though they
can't speak English, they can't read the road signs. They
drive drug induced and plow into other cars. We have
been victimized by egregious policies that we're told or compassion,
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and so I think we have a right to be
furious with the people, the political parties, the organizations that
are responsible for those policies. The proper response to these
abuses of our individual liberty and freedom is not compassion.
It is outrage, and we should use every lawful means
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to throw those people out of power, and then to
remedy the wrongs they have done and repair the damage
that they have inflicted. You'll continue to hear calls for,
you know, more compassion for this than that. It's everywhere.
It's in the pulpit, it's in the clergy, it's in
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our politics, it's in our culture. You'll see it in
our movies. I get fed DEI and other kind of
bull crap all the time, watching movies or something. I'm
just trying to be entertained, or listening to you know,
a singer, a you know, a rock star that I like,
and they deliver some you know, compassionate message shut up
and singing shut up an act. Now, not everybody who
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enacts or promotes these policies are necessarily bad people. Sometimes
I think they're just ignorant. I think they're actually sometimes
trying to be good, but they don't understand what they're
really doing. Now, let me be clear, there are those
who know precisely what they're doing. They're trying to create
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a they're trying to implement the Cloward pivot strategy. They're
trying to overwhelm the system, and they play to your empathy.
They play to your sympathy, and they play to your compassion,
and they try to get you to, oh, well, I
can't say anything. Yes you can, yes you can. That's
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why when you challenge these people on the consequences, the facts,
the inconsistencies, what do they do? They resort to personal attacks.
If you say, for example, that biological women cannot become
men or vice versa, then obviously you know you're transphobic.
Well call me that all you want to. I'm just
leading basic biological facts. If you point out the hypocrisy
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of allowing marches and violent riots in twenty twenty while businesses, churches,
and schools are shut down, somehow that makes me a racist. No,
that makes me a realist. If you argue that legal
immigrants should be required legal immigrants, let alone illegal immigrants.
If you argue that legal immigrants should be required to
assimilate into our culture, well then you're some sort of
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white nationalists who apparently hates brown people. I'm tired of that.
It's simply not true. But until we start having the
cajones to speak the truth, this compassion will be the
death of this country. Compassion playing on your heartstrings will
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lead to the demise of the country. You can be compassionate,
and you can have empathy, but when you start translating
that into public policy, you got to be very very
careful because what you're really doing is your instant tuitionalizing
even more government control. You know, I mentioned the gas
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station and the stickers. Somebody in the text line mentioned ladders.
Well I haven't thought about ladders. Yeah, go look at
the go look at the stickers on a ladder. Every
aspect of our life plays to the lowest common denominator.
Maybe you ought to start trying to get people to
play to the highest common denominator. When you have people
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out there asking, you know, we have mom, Donnie in
New York or whoever it was saying that we shouldn't
have billionaires. Really, uh, they earned that. They earned it.
And I may not be a billionaire, but what I
have I earned it.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
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six days of my broadcasting. You may have heard, if
you've been listening to the program long enough, and particularly
for my local listeners, but for my listeners across the country,
(00:56):
you may not have heard me talk much about my
belief that we have abdicated our compassion to the federal government,
and we see that being played out in real time
now with the possible that I know a federal judge
has ordered that the Department of Agriculture use some of
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their contingency funding to fund the SNAP programs. But I
don't think that that is a lawful order. And that's
a topic for maybe maybe I'll talk about that on Monday,
So you need to.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Tune in Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But the local news, at least in Denver has been
focusing a lot on food banks and encouraging people this
weekend to go give you know, can goods and other
things that food banks can accept to you know, go
do that this weekend. Well, why should we do it
just this weekend? Why shouldn't we be doing it all
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the time? And what do I mean when I say
that we have abdicated our compassion to the government because
the government can't be compassionate. The government is not compassionate.
The government, particularly the federal government, is this giant behemoth
that doesn't have feelings. They have rules, regulations, policies. You
gotta fit within a box, you got to qualify, you
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gotta do this, you gotta do that. Now, it's cumbersome
and it's inefficient. It doesn't always adhere to its own policies,
rules and regulations. Is sometimes veers off into the ether
and never knowing what they're really doing. It just makes
step up as it goes along. But we have been
so conditioned to believe that it is the job of
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the government to take care of other people that we're
not willing to do it ourselves. Our local Fox affiliate
channel thirty one KADIVR is the name of the station.
They're doing a local news story yesterday that I literally
had whiplash. I thought I was gonna have to call
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a personal injury lawyer friend of mine and sue the
local Fox affiliate for causing me to swing around so
fast that'll hurt my neck. I just want you to
The package is only two minutes long, but I want
you to listen closely to it, and I want you
to see if you picked up or if you pick
up on what caused me to snap my head around.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Taking the problem of food insecurity into his own hands.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
While the government remains.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Shut down and Fox Early Won's Ashley Michaels took a
trip up to Fort Collins to see what he's doing
and the impact it's having on the community.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Friendly Nick's Butcher is not a food pantry. It's a
small business, but.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Right now they're giving away some of their products for free.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Or a whole animal butcher shop. We break down whole animals, pork, beef.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And chicken.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The sausages and steaks have become a staple for customers.
But it's hard that now has people lining up at
Friendly Nicks.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It's frustrating for.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Me to watch people go through food insecurity, especially with
my background where I've always cooked for people.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
His idea started small.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I thought I could take five hundreds and like, I
have access to me to wholesale prices, so I can
stretch out a lot farther than people would at the
grocery store. And I thought I could make I don't know,
fifty bags of meat.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
He posted on Facebook, chicken, beef, pork and eggs free
for federal workers who aren't getting paid and anyone on snap.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Do you have your snap card? At The response, he
says has been eye opening.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
The emotion on people's face when they get that and
they're how much like they really has to help them.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
It's a great feeling, but it's also like Why is
it my job to do this?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Like it shouldn't be? The government should be doing this friendly.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Nicks has already given out about four hundred bags of
food before running out Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm happy that I can help.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It's like disheartening to see if you hear that there
are forty two million people on Snap until they lined
up outside your door, you don't put a face to that.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Sorry, it's hard. Now the community is pitching into help.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
As of Friday, a gofund me had already raised about
thirty thousand dollars. Nick says that money is now funding
a big movement. His small business didn't plan to start
all this.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Some money that I that we have, we're gonna keep
putting out these little packages even after the government's reopened,
even after Snap gets funded again. That way people can
hopefully have a little.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Bit of relief.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That go fund me is still active if you'd like
to help, we have a link to it on that's enough.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Did you catch it? Did you catch what? Really threw
me for a loop? Caused me to go seriously.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Why is it my job to do this? Like it
shouldn't be? The government should be doing this?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Friendly?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Why should I be doing it. Now he gets emotional
and he's had I think he's happy to be doing
what he's doing. Why does he believe that it's the
role of the government to do that. When do we
get when do we get to the point And I
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know it's a hurt over time, but when do we
get to the point where an individual who's operating his
own small business is really pissed off? Even though he says, look,
I can get wholesale prices whereas other people can't. And
we're happy to do this, and we're going to, you know,
start to go fund me and raise money and do
all of this.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
But why is it my job to do this?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Because you're an American, That's why it's your job to
do it. Because you've abdicated, as you clearly admit, like.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
It shouldn't be the government should be doing this.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You freely admit it's the government should be doing it.
I never I never thought i'd hear someone say exactly
my point, prove my point about how we have abdicated
our compassion to the federal government. But this butcher up
in Fort Collins, Colorado did it for me, and I
was astonished. Now I don't detegrate or complain or bitch
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or moan or about anything that he's doing. And I'm
glad and very proud of what he's doing nixt Butchershop.
In case you're wondering, good for him, Good for him.
But I got news for Nick. This is our responsibility
as Americans. It is not the responsibility of the government.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I've always said and I still maintain, that we have
an obligation to maintain a very specific and low level
safety net for people who truly are incapable of caring
for themselves. But I think this should also be done
at the state and local level. It should not be
done at the federal level. But here he is basically
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saying what I've been saying for years, and that is
that we have abdicated our compassion to the federal government.
For twenty years now, Notre Dame University is sponsored every
year a dialogue on They'll pick a theme and then
during that year they'll have speakers come in, they'll have
panel discussions, they'll have public events, and that theme for
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the year is discussed, debated, and then at the end
of the year, you know, they put together a compendium
of everything that they've done. This year's theme at Notre Dame.
Notre Dame is called Cultivating Hope. Cardinal Robert McElroy, who's
the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, d C, participated
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in a Q and A session on campus with the
Notre Dame President, Reverend Robert Dowd, during which McElroy offered
his thoughts on ways to address political polarization in this country.
So where do you think this conversation went and what
do you think we should conclude from it? Why would
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I lead in with this butcher in Fort Collins, Colorado
who wants to know why is he doing this? Why
should he have to do this when it's the government's
responsibilit Well I'll explain coming up next. Don't go away.
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weekend program, so you get all my broadcasts back to
this idea that we've addicated our compassion to the government,
because I think there is a there's an effect of
this abdication that we don't recognize that we're suffering through
it because we're right in the middle of the storm.
I don't think we recognize that one of the biggest
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drivers of the polarization in this country is the expansion
of government. Now, go back to the butcher I just
played for you. I've never met this man in my life.
I have no idea what his politics are whatsoever. But
I do think that we probably are miles apart on
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issues like food stamps or SNAP or welfare programs or
any of the other entitlements, because he's asking, why do
I have to do this when this is the role
of the federal government. It's not the role of the
federal government. But as the government has grown larger and
larger and gotten more expansive, more invasive into our private lives,
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when they want control over so many aspects of our lives,
it really does matter who controls the government. Now, who
controls the government if it were people like you and me,
we could start to unwind this, but the people that
control the government right now, I want to actually keep
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expanding it because they know the more they can expand it,
the more they can capture us, the more they can
control us, and the more they can depend upon us
for our votes so they can remain in power.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It's a horrible cycle that we're in.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
If you want our society to be less polarized, if
you want our society to be less political, if you
want our side, you know, have you ever thought of,
let me just stopping that point for one moment, have
you ever thought about how much time you may spend
not reading, you know, a biography of Thomas Edison, but
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instead you're reading Benjamin Franklin or Franklin Roosevelt or Theodore Roosevelt,
Or that you spend when you're on X or Facebook
looking at political information, or that your discussions are all
around politics. Politics has permeated every aspect of our lives
when it should be a very very tiny part of
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our lives. So if you want a less polarized society,
you would reduce the size of government. You would give
individuals more control over their own lives. You would allow
them to fail and recognize that, Yeah, failure happens, whether
(12:27):
you know, if you're a baseball player, professional or otherwise,
or a basketball player, you lose more than you win.
You miss more shots than you make, you don't make
as many first downs, you don't throw as many completions
as what you actually lose. Your percentages are upside down.
But we look at that and go, oh, he's batting
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three hundred. Wow, that's fantastic. So why do we not
carry that over and recognize that failing is actually part
of life? Because government is so involved in our lives
that they they don't allow us to learn to fail.
They don't not learn to fail. They don't let us
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learn how to recover, how to be resilient, how to
overcome obstacles, because they want those obstacles in our place
so that we turn to them. Help us, help us,
help us. You think about every aspect I have in
the past asked. I've challenged people to do this. I've
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challenged people to keep a receipt for every single thing.
They pay everything. I don't care if you pay cash
for us. You know, a candy bar since a Talloween.
If you pay cash for that candy bar, get a
receipt for it, and every day tally up or if
you pay a bill, you pay your phone bill. You
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ever paid your cell bill? Have you ever looked at
your cell phone bill lately? Have you ever looked at
your your internet bill? Exfinity Comcast?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Sometime?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Go through that as you're paying it. Go through and
make a list of every tax and fee that you pay.
You go renew your license plate, you go get your
driver's license renewed. You've had your property taxes, whatever it is,
with every every single thing you pay every day, keep
track of how many taxes you paid. And then at
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the end of the year, look at look at your
W two and look at every your income tax, all
the fact of taxes you paid. And then whether you
owe or you get something back, you still keep track
of every amount of tax you pay and at the end,
at the end of the year added up and then
you tell me what you could have done better with
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that money than you did by handing it over to
the federal, state and local governments. I would suggest that
you do this as an exercise sometime every time you
make a decision to do something, to go somewhere, to
purchase something, to engage in some activity. I want you
to stop and think. You know, I like to do
this sometimes. I always laugh. Next time you stop to
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put gas.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
In your car, stop and look.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Around at all of the posters, or go to your
let's stick with the gas station from them. Look at
all the posters that tell you how to put gas
in your car. Now, I never think about it. The
only thing I have to think about is am I
driving in the jeep? Okay, it's on the left side.
Am I driving the beamer? Okay, it's on the right side.
That's all I got to think about. I frankly, I
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don't have to think about that because I can look
at the I can look at the panel and it'll
tell me with the little gas indicator which.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Side it's on.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
But stop, next time you go to a filling station
and just look look at all the rules and regulations.
You'd be amazed. Start looking at that. Wherever you go
go to your workplace, go find where they had to
put all the posters up, about all the safety requirements,
who you call, who you don't call if you get hurt.
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You have to do all of this, do all of
that everything. Look at the number of rules on the highway,
just look at everything that.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You ever do.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Go for a walk in the park, look at the
rules in the park. Everything you do there is some
government intervention in it. So if you want a less
polarized society, then the first thing you ought to do
is starting reducing the size of government. And then you
think that's the first thing. The second thing I would
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encourage you to do is think about this heated political
topics where well meaning individuals won't distinguish between virtues, a virtuous,
an individual behavior, or a policy which is a government
or institutional action. The next time you're having a heated topic,
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I want you to think about that. Are we talking
about virtues and individual behavior and individual choices, or are
we talking about something that is regulated or controlled by
some federal, state, or local government rule, regulation, or policy,
or even a statue. Now I'm not advocating that we
get rid of all rules, regulations, policies, and statutes, because
we need some to maintain this social compact between us.
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But when you start thinking about the heated topics you have,
are you arguing about someone's behavior or are you arguing
about an institutional action? And when you break it down
into that level, you may suddenly realize, wait, wait, wait,
are we even talking about the same thing here. So
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those are the first two things that I want you
to think about the amount of growth in our society
of government, and then what are you actually arguing about
someone's individual behavior or institutional government actions? Hang tight, I'll
be right back.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Tonight. Michael Brown joins me here.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to
have you with me. Tuning in.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We're talking about this all started with a sound bite
from local news station where a butcher was making little
bags of a meat products to give to people who
could either show a snap card or show that they
were a federal employee. And while he seemed to be
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happy to do it, he was also pissed off that
he was doing it because he said, and I quote,
why should I have to be doing this? This is
the federal government's responsibility. And I thought, wow, you really
are one of those individuals who has abdicated your compassion
to the federal government. And I'm certain that based on
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that one single remark did He and I are probably
on the political spectrum miles apart. He probably looks at
me as a right wing nut job, and I would
probably if I knew his politics, I might see him.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't know. I don't know him.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I might see him as a left wing nut job,
primarily because he thinks it's the role of the government
to feed people. I've always thought it was the role
of individuals to feed themselves, and that if you couldn't,
you hit a you know, you lost your job, and
so you are in a really bad spot. There was
a time when what you would do is you would
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go to the local food bank until you got back
on your feet. And in fact, that was an encouragement
to get back on your feet so that you could eat.
But now you know, I played I don't have him
in front of me. I'd play it for you. But
this week I played a story where a woman talked
about how she had been on food stamps SNAP for
fifteen years. Fifteen years. Now she is she has no
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incentive to get off, none whatsoever. And so we've created
this culture of dependency and now we're seeing it, we're
seeing it come alive. We're actually seeing it with our
own eyes now, and I think that's because we've abdicated
I'll keep saying it. I'm blue in the face. We
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have abdicated our compassion to the government. And I want
you to think about compassion for a moment, because compassion
is a human virtue. If you're a compassionate individual, I
think that is an admirable attribute. And quite frankly, compassion
is a way for people to deal with each other
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one on one in small groups. But then it loses
its meaning when it gets elevated to being a justification
for a public policy, which is as necessary, becomes a
collective policy. In other words, it becomes a Socialist or
(21:02):
a Marxist policy. And policy, by very definition, deals with
the rules, the regulations, the policies, the statue compassion. Yeah,
I'm trying to sounding like George Carlin. This No compassion
is a vehicle for dealing with the exceptions, and we've
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almost eliminated all.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Of the exceptions so that we don't have to.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Be compassionate or like this gentleman that I play Now, Yes,
I'm judging him based on a two minute news story,
but he has decided that his vehicle for dealing with
the exceptions is irritating to him. Oh, he says, he's
happy to do it, but he's irritated because this is
the government's responsibility. When you governed by compassion, it doesn't
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result in a more benevolent society. What happens. Instead, you
get chaos, you get anarchy, you get a disordered society,
and you get a polarized society. See that altogether. Policies
promoted because they are said to be compassionate to the
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unfortunate few end up doing What if you have a
government policy that a politician tells you is we're being
compassionate for these people, Well, one, they should be an
unfortunate few, particularly in a country like ours, the wealthiest,
most powerful country on earth, not because of our government,
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but because of our people. But when you have a
policy that's compassionate to the unfortunate few, it ends up
creating a system of misery for the majority because it
institutionalizes unfairness, It institutionalizes oppression. It makes things see absurd,
like the one that's on food staine for fifteen years.
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What have you been doing for fifteen years? It results
in violence, and ultimately it results in societal collapse.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And that's the road we're on.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
We are on that highway to societal collapse, and we're
witnessing what that would the start of what that would
look like if the federal government just today cut everything off,
which I wish it could, but it can't because it's
just like it's just like trying to reform social Security.
I don't want to take my elderly mother and push
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her off the cliff like that Democrat commercial from about
ten years ago or so.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But I think she I think that she ought to
be grand I think people are currently on ought to
be grandfathered in until they pass away and any new
people come on. We have to have a new system.
You know what the new system is, in my opinion,
showing you how radical I am.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You want to retire figure it out on your own now.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
If you think that's too harsh, then say, okay, then
what we'll do is we will take away you know,
we'll create like a government four oh one k where
every you know, every every quarter, whatever, every paycheck, whatever
you want to structure it. I'm just spitballing here. We're
going to withhold a certain amount put it into a fund.
(24:26):
Now you control that fund. You can't withdraw this, you know,
like a exactly like a four oh one K or
a I R.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You can't draw it to a certain period of time.
But you need and if you can't do it yourself,
if you can't manage that fund yourself, then go get
a financial advisor. We'll get a retirement expert. But all
we're doing is just making certain that we're going to
segregate a fund over here, and we're going to segregate it.
That money is going to be held in Remember Al
(24:56):
Gore's locked box. You'll be held in a lock box.
And you can do that. That's just one idea. I'm
just again spitballing ideas here. You can't just cut it off,
but you need some alternative to ease people into a
transition to a different way of doing business. But back
to my societal collapse, back to my idea that if
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we're going to be compassionate to the unfortunate people in
this society, we're going to create a system that's a
miserable system for the majority. And that's going to institutionalize,
that's going to that's going to statutorily incorporate unfairness and oppression,
absurd results, and ultimately violence and collapse.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Innocent people.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Innocent people get victimized by crime because of so called
compassionate policies that put repeat criminals on the streets. Did
you hear Judge Janine formerly a Fox, She's now the
US Attorney for the District of Columbia. She was on
television this week. They have found either Noumber three or
(26:00):
number four. I forget, it doesn't make any difference. Found
either number three or number four of the suspects in
the carjacking of that doze kid that was working for
the Trump administration. He had a rap sheet that extended
from here to wherever you're listening on the East or
West coast. He was that long. I'm talking literally like
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twenty four arrests or something. He needs to be incarcerated.
If you're a repeat offender, you shouldn't be out. And
if we have judges who are letting them out with
no bond or minimal bond or personal recognizance bond where
you don't put any money up, then that judge needs
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to be removed. Just pure and simple. So the same people,
the citizens, the upstanding citizens, the citizens that make this
country hum and work, are being terrorized by the insane
people because of compassionate policies that eliminated involved and terry
commitment to mental hospitals.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
For example, I was listening to I don't listen often,
but Joe Rogan was interviewing Elon Musk in the last
couple of days. So on my walk this morning, I'm
listening to it, and Musk made a really good point.
I've often referred to the homelessness industry, which he did also,
but the point that he was making was that's a misnomer.
(27:27):
I'm gonna go back and listen to it again. But
I think he's spot on because when I look, there's
an X account in Colorado called Do Better Denver. You
got to look it up and follow it. Do Better Denver.
They just find videos of what we've before always referred
to as homeless people. There was one this week of
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obviously a deranged, insane or drug adult individual crawling on
his knees on a street trying to pick what he
thought were diamonds off the street. What was he seeing?
He was seeing the sparkles in the concrete and he
was sitting there, nails starting to bleed from trying to
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dig out diamonds. That's not a homeless person. That's a
crazy person. That's a mentally ill person. If homeless ought
to be. The individual who's lost his job, is behind
on the rent or the mortgage, so loses his house
or her temporarily until they can get re employed. That's
(28:35):
a homeless person. The person who's trying to scratch at
the concrete thinking they found a gold mine of some sort.
That's a crazy individual. That's a drug adult individual. So
I'm gonna start being, at least in my parlan, it's
going to be my vocabulary, going to start being very
very careful about when I refer to homeless individuals. But
(28:58):
again he gets back to what do we do We
create the homeless industry, which survives only by making certain
that we keep people in homelessness. The person I told
you about, the very being of the program that wanted
to have dinner at four o'clock last night, she works
for a homeless outfit. She's a medical provider for a
(29:18):
nonprofit homeless organization in Colorado, and she will tell you
that before they go to some of the site locations
they call the Denver Police Department because most of the
people that are housed in these so called homeless shelters
are actually criminals. They're drug addled criminals, and so they
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won't go in without escorts from the Denver Police Department.
We got to start recognizing the difference between someone who's
suffering from temporary lack of shelter, true homelessness, and those
who are drug addle There's a huge difference. But we
don't dare say that, do we, Except I do because
(30:05):
I live in the real world. I'll be right back.
Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. I just
want to say thanks to everybody that listens on the weekends.
I really do appreciate it. You've made the program very
successful for both myself and the affiliates, and we appreciate that.
So help spread the word. Follow me on except Michael
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Brown USA, Facebook, Instagram, all of those be sure and
subscribe to the podcast. I just always want to take
a moment to tell you how much I appreciate you
listening to the program. I find it interesting that, you know,
we become victims of these egregious policies. We see our
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home values, our business values plummet because of compassionate politicians
that suggests there needs to be more dignity for homeless
people so they can live, eat, sleep your night, and
defecat on public sidewalks. Then really smart students lose opportunities
for more intellectually challenging curricula because of compassionate educational policies
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that say that every child has to take the same
classes and if you're here illegally and you can't even
speak English, we'll throw you in with all the other kids.
Is now the teacher has to make certain that they
pay attention to the non English speaking student to the
detriment of the English speaking students. And then we say
that girls have to be exposed to men they want
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to be naked in front of them in a women's
bathroom or their locker room because of a compassionate policy
that does what well. It prioritizes adult sexual gratification or
adult sexual perversion or dysphoria over the protection of children.
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Then we lose our jobs to compassionate open border immigration
policies that allow millions of unfitted people to cross the border,
And then on top of that, not only violate our laws,
but then get billions of dollars in benefits paid for
by you, while you shall love to work. They bring
in drugs, They traffic women and children for sex, They
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commit crimes. They drive this. They drive the eighteen wheelers
on our highways that we pay for, even though they
can't speak English, they can't read the road signs. They
drive drug induced and plow into other cars. We have
been victimized by egregious policies that we're told or compassion,
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and so I think we have a right to be
furious with the people, the political parties, the organizations that
are responsible for those policies. The proper response to these
abuses of our individual liberty and freedom is not compassion.
It is outrage, and we should use every lawful means
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to throw those people out of power, and then to
remedy the wrongs they have done and repair the damage
that they have inflicted. You'll continue to hear calls for,
you know, more compassion for this than that. It's everywhere.
It's in the pulpit, it's in the clergy, it's in
(33:25):
our politics, it's in our culture. You'll see it in
our movies. I get fed DEI and other kind of
bull crap all the time, watching movies or something. I'm
just trying to be entertained, or listening to you know,
a singer, a you know, a rock star that I like,
and they deliver some you know, compassionate message shut up
and singing shut up an act. Now, not everybody who
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enacts or promotes these policies are necessarily bad people. Sometimes
I think they're just ignorant. I think they're actually sometimes
trying to be good, but they don't understand what they're
really doing. Now, let me be clear, there are those
who know precisely what they're doing. They're trying to create
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a they're trying to implement the Cloward pivot strategy. They're
trying to overwhelm the system, and they play to your empathy.
They play to your sympathy, and they play to your compassion,
and they try to get you to, oh, well, I
can't say anything. Yes you can, yes you can. That's
(34:32):
why when you challenge these people on the consequences, the facts,
the inconsistencies, what do they do? They resort to personal attacks.
If you say, for example, that biological women cannot become
men or vice versa, then obviously you know you're transphobic.
Well call me that all you want to. I'm just
leading basic biological facts. If you point out the hypocrisy
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of allowing marches and violent riots in twenty twenty while businesses, churches,
and schools are shut down, somehow that makes me a racist. No,
that makes me a realist. If you argue that legal
immigrants should be required legal immigrants, let alone illegal immigrants.
If you argue that legal immigrants should be required to
assimilate into our culture, well then you're some sort of
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white nationalists who apparently hates brown people. I'm tired of that.
It's simply not true. But until we start having the
cajones to speak the truth, this compassion will be the
death of this country. Compassion playing on your heartstrings will
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lead to the demise of the country. You can be compassionate,
and you can have empathy, but when you start translating
that into public policy, you got to be very very
careful because what you're really doing is your instant tuitionalizing
even more government control. You know, I mentioned the gas
(36:04):
station and the stickers. Somebody in the text line mentioned ladders.
Well I haven't thought about ladders. Yeah, go look at
the go look at the stickers on a ladder. Every
aspect of our life plays to the lowest common denominator.
Maybe you ought to start trying to get people to
play to the highest common denominator. When you have people
(36:24):
out there asking, you know, we have mom, Donnie in
New York or whoever it was saying that we shouldn't
have billionaires. Really, uh, they earned that. They earned it.
And I may not be a billionaire, but what I
have I earned it.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Thanks for joining the Weekend with Michael Brown. As always, everybody,
have a great weekend and I'll see you next weekend.
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