April 13, 2025 • 50 mins
Recorded April 13, 2025 Join Jamie and Jennifer as they plunge into the thrilling world of politics, exploring the stark contrasts between Democrats and Republicans! From healthcare and taxes to immigration, climate, social issues, and foreign policy, we dissect the policies, their effects, and real-world examples. Discover how these political beliefs shape America and their impact on your life. Don’t miss out on this captivating discussion – hit play now and share your insights! Subscribe for more eye-opening episodes. #Politics #DemocratsVsRepublicans #Podcast #DemocratsVsRepublicans #PoliticalPodcast #USPolitics #HealthcareDebate #TaxPolicies #Immigration #ClimateChange #SocialIssues #ForeignPolicy #JenniferStudioPodcast #politicalanalysis
Takeaways The historical context of Democrats and Republicans is crucial to understanding their current platforms. Healthcare policies differ significantly, with Democrats favoring government-supported healthcare and Republicans advocating for private plans. Taxation strategies reflect differing priorities, with Democrats focusing on taxing the wealthy and Republicans promoting tax cuts. Climate change solutions are a contentious issue, with Democrats pushing for green energy and Republicans emphasizing fossil fuels. Immigration policies highlight the balance between security and the need for labor in various sectors. Social issues reveal a divide between progressive values and traditional beliefs. Foreign policy approaches differ, with Democrats favoring diplomacy and Republicans focusing on America first. The evolution of political ideologies impacts voter registration and party affiliation among different demographics. Understanding these differences is essential for informed voting and civic engagement. The podcast aims to clarify these complex topics for listeners.
Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Political Discussion 02:40 Understanding the Differences: Democrats vs. Republicans 04:44 Healthcare Policies: Obamacare vs. Private Insurance 11:37 Taxation: Billionaires, Tax Cuts, and Public Services 21:42 Climate and Energy Policies: Green Energy Initiatives 23:07 Fossil Fuels vs. Clean Energy Debate 28:49 Immigration Policies and Their Impact 36:20 Social Issues: Rights, Morals, and Controversies 43:46 Foreign Policy: Diplomacy vs. America First 49:43 Outro Video Updated 021325.mp4
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we are in our new podcast studio.
Hopefully this podcast will actually be the one that works since we've tried this.
I think this is our third time trying this, but hopefully this time will be the one thattakes.
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we've had at least three different locations inside the house that we've tried.
So.
That's true.
This is the one that you spent the most time on and it looks the best.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So for those of you who aren't watching, you might want to go to YouTube and check us outbecause it's kind of nice.
Yeah.
All right.
So today I wanted to talk about because I don't know what we we were watching on TV, oneof the news stations or something.
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And I asked you about, you know, what is the true difference between Democrats andRepublicans?
Because
when I registered to vote in 2016, wasn't voting for Trump because he was a Republican.
I voting for him because of, truly against Hillary.
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Truly.
And just because I felt he would tell me the truth whether I liked it or not.
And I registered as independent.
So, and I can honestly say,
at that point, like I don't think, I mean, I know I didn't know.
the true background of Democrat and Republican.
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This was a gift from my friend Linda for Christmas and I love this hat.
I sent you a Texas.
Oh.
and it went something like
I hate you.
I'm now not only watching about politics, I'm reading a book about politics.
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What happened?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I guess it's all interesting because I'm obviously supporting your passion in politics andI'm learning.
I think because of what we're trying to do here, let's go back to the basics.
So let's talk about the true difference between Democrats and Republicans
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how has that changed over years.
Yeah.
I mean, Republicans signed the Emancipation Proclamation and freed slaves.
Democrats formed the KKK.
And it wasn't until 1964 that you saw a huge transition of African-Americans to theDemocratic Party
with the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act and the explosion of social programs,which were supposed to people who were disadvantaged.
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you know, those disadvantaged communities in 19, the mid 1960s are still the worstdisadvantaged communities today.
you know, 60 years later, Democrats have nothing to show for those types of things.
I know that's not the topic, but, you know, but that's a short transition of how.
just one difference in how.
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Democrats and Republicans changed over time.
Okay.
So, so what we're going to break down is really what Democrats genuine generally support,same as Republicans, we're going to use a real world example.
And we're going to give an example of how it helps people and hurts people.
And then of course, we'll ask you questions along the way.
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So, all right, so let's start out with health care.
I'm sure, I'm sure.
Okay, so Democrats want government supported healthcare, which is like Canada.
And although I've heard Canada is great because you don't have to pay for healthcare, youhave to wait for months, right?
You have to, you you have a bad knee, you're limping around, you may not get in to see anorthopedic for six to eight months because that's just how it goes.
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that.
You could need open heart surgery and have to wait six or eight months.
Okay.
So hold that thought.
So the example that we're going to talk about is Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, whichmade it so more people could get health insurance even with pre-existing conditions, which
is great.
The positive of that was that more people could afford doctor visits and prescriptions.
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It helps a single mom working two part-time jobs get Medicaid for her kids.
the negative is again, that it's long wait, it's red tape and fewer choices in some areas.
And you forgot one major factor.
it's super expensive on taxpayers, super expensive.
It's probably some of the most expensive healthcare in the world.
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you know, I do, you know, Barack Obama was a very good politician.
And so the two things that he led with, he brought the Affordable Health Care Act in acouple of parts.
The first...
part has two things.
The one that you mentioned, pre-existing conditions, which most people are like, listen,it's kind of crap.
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I lose my job and I have a pre-existing condition.
My next job is health insurance.
doesn't cover me.
And the truth of the matter is health insurance is, insurance companies are able to coverthat.
payout if they know they have to have it.
Right.
So that's an adjustment of numbers.
And the other thing was, that was really popular was that
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children could stay on their parents' policies until they were 26 years old.
And so those were the first two part...
Well, they said...
26 years old.
Yeah.
Well, you know, the thought was if somebody was in college, they went and got theirmaster's, their PhD, they should be able to do that within eight years after being 18.
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So that's how they came up with the age of 26.
Although...
You know, we know adulthood starts at 18 legally.
I've argued many times that adulthood, all things adults should be 21, including thedraft.
You should be able to volunteer before you're 21, but you should not be able to be drafteduntil you're 21, but you should not be able to vote until you're 21.
Gun ownership, you know, a lot, those things, drinking, you know, all those things thatbecome adult things, smoking should all be 21 in my opinion.
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But we actually have a constitutional amendment that says it's 18.
the right to vote is 18.
you without a change in the Constitution, I don't think there's political will to do, evenif there's, you people...
You're going off track.
All things adults should be 21.
But as far as the Affordable Health Care Act, it's super expensive.
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And that was the argument for it against it at the time.
That's still the argument.
And while people
So the Republicans prefer private health plans with less government interference.
And the example of that is the Trump era push to repel Obamacare and allow
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more stripped down, cheaper insurance plans.
The positive for that is you have more choices and less government control, and it helpssmall business owners find a flexible, lower cost private insurance plan.
And the negative is no salary net.
So if you lose your job or have a pre-existing condition, which they give the example of a26-year-old with diabetes loses coverage and racks up medical debt.
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But insurance companies, have always had, not all of them, but a lot of them have hadpre-existing condition clauses in them for as long as I can remember.
And I started it in healthcare when I was 20 years old.
So I don't really think that that's anything new, but you have all these people out thereselling insurances now.
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And I know a lot of it's based on your income.
and is that Obamacare?
Well, the things you see on television are people trying to sign up for, you know, getpeople to sign up for Obamacare.
You know, the low cost healthcare.
And so much of it is people, there's not a whole lot of options for what I would like toensure, just like our house.
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You know, we don't ensure every cracked window or every shingle that's lost.
cover catastrophic losses.
So we get those prices down.
It's the same thing with healthcare.
I would prefer to pay full price for prescriptions, pay full price for doctor visits andcover myself with catastrophic care and get that health insurance costs down.
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So that, you know, unless, you know, cover me for the things that I cannot withstandfinancially.
But a lot of that could be prescription.
but we, yeah.
So we could, but you could still, cover some of those things.
If you built it into your, into your family's budget, right?
Insulin's an outlier, but, and a very hot political topic, but most, you know, mostprescriptions you can get through, you know, if your blood pressure, you don't have to
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take the newest drug.
can take the, generic.
You know, those cholesterol, there's enough cholesterol medicine, all the things that mostpeople are taking most of the time are available in generic at lower cost anyway.
And you have, I mean, Publix offers a list or local grocery store here in Florida.
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That doesn't mean they still do it, but they're, they use some prescription drugs as aloss leader to get people in their store the same way some
7-Eleven might use gasoline to get people inside the store to buy their milk at a higherprice.
so there's a list of a lot of drugs that our local, if I say local, statewide southeasternUnited States public's grocery store provides to people regardless of insurance for
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prescription
know, antibiotics, you know, go down the list of things that it's cheaper sometimes to notapply your insurance at Publix.
And so.
you know, so there's there are all those all those things that come into play.
So some of its choice, you know, I think Obamacare actually limits people's people'schoices.
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You know, it's great for those who have long term permanent health problems.
which we should have covered a different way.
We could have, you know, I always advocated, why do we need a fourth federal healthcaresystem?
We have Medicare.
Medicaid, the VA, and now Obamacare.
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So- Well, you always had that because you had commercial, it was commercial insurance.
commercial insurance on top of that, right?
So, so you, you know, didn't, but as from a federal government standpoint, you know, weshould, we as citizens should provide a safety net to those who are less fortunate.
That's-
Americans believe in.
Obamacare was kind of painted too broad a swath.
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to try to take over and control people through healthcare.
it'll eventually march that way.
I it's still only been the law of the land for about 12 years.
All right.
So the next one we're going to talk about is money and taxes.
Who gets taxed and how much.
So Democrats want to tax billionaires more to fund public services.
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Example is Biden's proposed billionaire
tax to make sure the ultra rich pay at least 20%.
So the positive of this is more public services and support to working families.
The tax credit could help something like the earned income tax credit or the Americanopportunity credit for educational expenses.
These credits reduce the amount of tax you bill and increase your refund.
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Now the negative is higher taxes may make small
businesses tighten hiring or cut hours.
Just take for example, a bakery owner that lays off a worker just because to cover risingpayroll taxes.
So on the Republican side, Republicans want to push tax cuts to encourage job creation.
Example is Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which lowered corporate taxes to 21%.
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The positive is let people keep more of what they earn.
This helps middle income couples see a bump in take home pay.
The negative is fewer government resources when things go south.
So there's a lot to unpack there.
First is billionaires, second is tax cuts versus credits, and then finally the allocationof resources, government resources.
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number one, there's not enough billionaires to get the United States out of its financialhole.
If you took the eight or 900 billionaires, I think in the world, but let's say they're inthe United States, eight to 900 billionaires.
And you took one, you took 100 % of their money.
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took 100 % of their money.
It'd be about $6 trillion, which is not even enough money to run the federal governmentfor one year.
So to say, we're going to tax billionaires.
It's very popular.
I'm not against billionaires paying.
quote or error paying taxes.
756 billionaires in the United States in 2023.
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Okay, so 800 to 900 billionaires in the United States.
tax everything that they have, 100 % of their assets
it's $6 trillion, which is greater, which is less than our operating budget for one year,and we're $36, $37 trillion in debt.
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So, you know,
So to tax them at 20 % of their income every year is not going to solve whatever problemthat Democrats are saying it's going to solve.
Should billionaires pay taxes?
Yes, everybody should pay taxes and everybody does, whether you pay sales taxes, butthey're talking specifically about income taxes.
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I have advocated as tax day looms for the rest of the country, for Florida it is...
been kicked to May since the hurricanes, but as a tax day looms for everybody, you know, Ihave said that the IRS should have to send us a bill, send every citizen a bill.
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And you only have to file a tax return if you disagree with that bill or refund.
So if the, federal government in January says, Hey, Jamie and Jennifer, here's what wethink you owe the federal government on top of what you already paid.
and it's $10,000.
And we go to our accountant and say, the government wants $10,000.
And the accountant says, no, the government owes you $3,000.
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OK, now it's worth paying an accountant two grand to have a $13,000 swing.
Right?
And so that would also cut a lot of red tape from government.
It would cut the IRS.
And certainly the IRS using AI.
certainly knows within a couple hundred dollars what every single W-2 employee in theUnited States owes.
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And I would suggest that even for 90 % of small business owners like us, who aren't makingmillions and millions of dollars, the IRS could probably peg our taxes within 500 bucks
using AI and using our history and knowing, you know,
they know your bank accounts, they know when you have transactions of more than $5,000.
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So all of those things they know.
you know, if you have, last year you had 10 transactions of 5,000 or more deposits, andthis year you have 50.
Yeah.
Okay, now you might need to do your taxes.
You know, you might need to file taxes, but no, the important part here is no citizenshould lose their freedom.
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their personal or financial freedom because of federal taxes.
Nobody should have to go to jail or be financially ruined because they said to thegovernment what they owe and then years later the government says no we disagree with you
now we're going to audit you and we're going to punish you.
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That onus should be on the government not on the taxpayer.
and in I mean, there has to there has to be like a statute of limitations and things likethat, too, Seven years now, it's three or whatever.
the point is, the government, no citizen should lose any freedom.
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Yeah, because they messed up their taxes, either on purpose or not.
It is the government's responsibility in my, it's not the way it is.
I believe it's the way it should be.
Right.
It's the government's responsibility to tell me what I owe and then me file a tax returnif I disagree.
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And then there we can have a discussion about, you know, if I'm cheating on my taxes.
Yeah.
But if I just agree with the government, there's no way I would lose financial or personalfreedom.
we have taxes there.
What was the second issue in your list?
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The third one's come to mind with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
So no, the second thing was tax cuts versus credits.
So this is just a big load of BS that Democrats try to pay.
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So 50 % of Americans pay no taxes.
Think about that.
50 % of Americans pay no taxes, zero taxes.
And so they come up with statistics like, well, know, 60 % of taxpayers...
because they don't make enough money.
They're people who receive welfare.
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They just don't, they pay no taxes.
They don't reach the threshold to pay taxes.
And so you end up with these things called tax credits.
So the big one is the earned income tax credit is used for mostly poor, lower income,single parents who have children.
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they get what's called an earned income tax credit.
So they pay no taxes.
And then on top of that, the government sends them a refund on top of any welfare they mayreceive any other assistance they may receive.
so Democrats try to completely blur the line of tax cuts versus tax credits.
So of course, only the top 50 % of people or 60 % of people are going to receive a taxcut.
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If there's only the 40 %
are paying taxes.
That would make a difference.
Right.
They like to like to skew those numbers.
they're like, Oh, no, all these folks who are filing tax returns to get tax credits arethen somehow in the mix and should get more tax cuts.
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Well, if you're not paying taxes, you should not get a tax cut.
Yeah.
So what they're talking about is increasing.
When they say credits, they're talking about increasing.
welfare programs for the most part.
And they're talking about increasing, not welfare maybe, that's maybe too rude a word,people get upset about that.
But assistance programs.
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And then the final, the third and final thing was on your list was what?
That was it, I think the hurricane, right?
Yeah, the third one is they claim
know, that, we can't have tax cuts because FEMA will go away or.
or pick any type of the tax credits will go away.
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And this is what we're finding out through DOGE is a lack of commitment to allocation ofresources to proper federal government functions.
Yeah.
And so Democrats have spread these functions of federal government across way a muchbroader spectrum.
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of things than it than is the responsibility of the federal government.
FEMA's not in the constitution.
We've kind of set that up as something that we as Americans have decided to do.
And some states handle it better than others.
We saw that difference between the hurricanes here in Florida and the fires out inCalifornia.
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Yeah, everyone's like, oh, hurricanes here Florida all the time.
Well, so do fires in California all the time.
So how do you have 140 fire trucks that aren't in service during the drive period?
it's...
You know, so it's just a lack of government resources, a lack of government planning thatI don't want to say caused the fires, but certainly led to it being a greater disaster
than it could have been.
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And so they want to argue that tax cuts hurt that.
Well, what really hurts that is electing Democrats who are incapable or unwilling toallocate resources to the proper place.
Okay.
The next one we're talking about is climate and energy.
So Democrats push energy, push green energy.
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The example is Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, included billions for solar, wind, andelectric vehicles.
The positive is long term cleaner air, safer water and green jobs.
It helps a laid off coal miner retrains and gets a job in solar panel installation.
The negative is short term energy costs rise with new regulations and that hurts afamily's utility bills skyrocket during winter.
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The Republicans prefer fossil fuels to keep costs down.
And the example is Trump expanding oil drilling and pulling out of the Paris climateagreement.
The positive is keeps fuel affordable and supports current energy jobs, helps a truckersave money at the pump and keeps more of his paycheck.
Negative is slower climate action can lead to more disasters, floods, fires, et cetera.
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And this can hurt a coastal town that deals with repeated hurricane damage and insurancespikes.
Yes, so here's, this is all red herrings in my opinion.
know, number one, Democrats have never proven outside of very liberal think groups thathave come up with somehow humans create climate change.
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So do we add to it?
Probably.
I'm willing to accept that.
Sure, we can, but we can't burn enough fossil fuels to
match a volcano like so and there's multiple volcanoes erupting annually around the globeand so there's just there's really not a logical to me this is a logical thing and I'll
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follow the money in a lot of cases should we use solar sure if it if it can be
be done efficiently, right now it's not done efficiently, can sell 300 400 acres to powerabout 30 homes or whatever it is.
And so there's not enough land to put enough solar panels to make a difference.
If you really want to talk about clean energy, you have to talk about nuclear.
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And the only problem you have with nuclear is storing the waste after it's created energy.
But that's the cleanest energy available.
That's the most non intrusive energy we can
create.
And you know,
environmental activists.
So no, we can't do that either.
So it's more about lining the pockets, you know, and solar in particular, we've gonethrough about 10 or 20 years of solar panels going on people's roofs.
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All of these components are made in China.
And I know we're going to get to tariffs a little later, but the solar panels are aperfect example of the Chinese government undercutting every American country to flood the
United States and the world with solar panels.
that are nobody can compete with it because the Chinese, communist Chinese governmentcomplements that effort.
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So you end up with all these Chinese components and they've cornered the market on it, runeverybody.
You know, it's kind of like Walmart in a small town.
know, Walmart comes in and they then run all the small businesses out because they lowertheir prices are lower when they first show up.
And then after everybody's out of business, they can move their prices up five, 10, 15%.
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to match for other stores.
So it's not a...
It certainly is not like this is correct and this is wrong.
As far as fossil fuels go, is...
There's not a police force and an ambulance, fire truck.
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They're not running these off of electric vehicles.
Because guess what?
When there's no power after a hurricane or during a crisis, you need gas.
so, you know, and the one thing that nobody spoke about during this whole electric vehicleexplosion of the, you know, Biden administration was that, you know, at some point, you
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know, like nuclear waste, these electric vehicle batteries are going to become the nuclearwaste of the of the 2030s.
going have to do something with them.
And they keep saying, we're going to recycle them.
And yet there's not, we can't do that now.
so no technology is going to catch up with them.
Okay.
Well, let's see, you know, technology won't catch up to it until there's profit.
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And so nobody's going to do that until there's profit in it.
And you know, my guess is you end up with people taking these batteries in a lot likeChina took, our recycling in.
Oh, we'll think they're plastic, you know, and then he dumped it in the South China Sea.
don't recycle it.
dump it.
so probably using it to make something.
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No, they're not.
They're just dumping it.
We pay them to take it and then they just dump it.
It's like, it's like telling somebody who works for the mob to come and take your oldrefrigerator and they take it out to the railroad tracks.
They don't take it to the dump.
They take it to the railroad tracks and dump it, you know?
So, um,
So this is all kind of a, you know, Democrats like solar and wind is completelyirrational.
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You're killing migratory birds and these are people who support the environment.
You're killing federal protected, federally protected migratory birds.
You're, you take more oil to use those than it, than the electricity, than if you burn theoil and create an electricity with them.
So it's.
That is completely a farce.
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then to, continue to the upkeep of windmills, it's just there's no reason to havewindmills at all.
Solar, can kind of make the argument, you know, but then you're taking up hundreds ofacres of land for what?
Yeah.
And it's farmland.
And once you have it there, you're, know, you're not going to pull those things up andstart farming again.
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And so we're,
we're compromising our ability to grow crops for solk.
In that regard, I don't agree with that.
The next thing we're going to talk about is immigration, which we have talked about.
We have an immigration series that I think we have one more
and we have a fifth person who is asked to come and speak.
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We're becoming very popular, Jennifer.
Yeah, we are our own sheriff.
Kurt Hoffman has asked to come on the podcast because he would like to talk about howthese immigration policies are being implemented at the local level and Talk about what he
has learned from the sheriff's associate Florida Sheriff's Association so from his fellowsheriffs and What they're doing to implement the president's policy and what we're doing
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right here in Sarasota County to implement that policy So I think that's gonna be a greatexclamation point on You know for our final fifth
Yeah.
We're doing the fourth one next week and we'll probably do the fifth one the week after.
Okay, great.
Alright, so immigration.
Democrats have more lenient policies.
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The example is the DACA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals lets people brought here askids stay and work.
The positive is it's open doors for skilled workers, students and families in need.
It helps a nurse from abroad fill a hospital staffing gap in rural America.
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The negative is poorly managed systems can overwhelm local
resources.
hurts a small town schools and clinics are stretched thin with sudden population growth.
Republicans focus on border security example is Trump's border wall and remain in Mexicopolicy for asylum seekers.
Positive is focus on border security and preventing illegal entry.
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This helps a border town see sees a drop in cartel related crimes.
And the negative is strict policies can split families or turn away needed workers.
A farm can't find legal
seasonal workers and loses a harvest.
You know, I really, I get the idea for, you know, needing the workers and stuff like thatbecause we have such a hard time with anybody wanting to work.
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in this country, especially after COVID, just kind of, everybody just kind of, you know,found something else to do that they don't have to get out and work.
so I understand that.
then after talking to the people that we have had on our show, these, three interviewsthat we had about, you know, how destructive
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population gets just more and more and more and more.
And then you have the immigrants that are hurting people and the sanctuary cities that arecausing problems and all of these things.
one of the interesting things that came out of our first three conversations was that, youknow, we're at a point of bringing in enough legal immigrants, forget about illegal and
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legal immigrants are about 1.1 million per year versus the illegal that we know weresomewhere around 8 to 10 million over the last four years.
So we probably have 14 million immigrants over the last four years.
And so the last time we had that kind of percentage in
was the Ellis Island years.
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And what we realized was that we were changing the fabric of America because peopleweren't assimilating.
And they really didn't have the American experience.
And like-minded people connect with like-minded people.
They connect with their churches.
They connect with their communities.
And so they create kind of their own pockets of America.
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And so there's not a true patriot.
patriotic American experience.
so, uh, and that is, is one of the, um, real downfalls of, of what we're trying to do.
Cause if we're going to remain America and the beacon for the rest of the world to look atfor freedom, we have people who come here, I have to assimilate into that freedom loving,
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uh, patriotic country.
You know, they can't come and say, no, this is how we did it here.
And that's what we're doing now.
We also know that the difference between legal and illegal immigration through this serieshas been, that the differences are fast, you know?
And so, we want to try to continue to keep those two differences separated.
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know that illegal immigration has dropped a great bit, but, prior to Biden's horrible openborder policy, you know, most
illegal immigration were people who flew here.
They had a visa and they were staying their visa.
Yeah.
And so they were they entered the country legally, then stayed illegally and for anynumber of reasons.
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you know, so so the difference between Democrats and Republicans, Democrats, presumably,don't care about the fabric of America.
They don't care about having, you know,
traditions in patriotism if they're supporting this huge number of illegal immigrants thatcome across the border forget about the number of gangs and the number of Americans who
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have been killed and Just the the horrors, know Boston time and time again, know trying tosay well We're just going to let people out with you know on you know on parole for free
After they've committed, you know a sexual act against a child
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And what?
So I think those are some long-term policies Democrats are going to have to explain andlive with.
And of course, Republicans tend to be more law and order, more.
let's have some immigration, but let's know who's coming, number one, let's know wherethey are and know what they're gonna do.
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Are they gonna stay or are they coming here for like an education and to leave?
And so those are the major differences.
Democrats are just like, come and vote.
That's what appears.
Yeah.
I don't know if that's, I think ultimately, immigrants who are here, just like we wereseeing prior to Barack Obama.
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African, young African-Americans were registering Republican at historic.
That's why Democrats had to go with Barack Obama in 2008.
They had to stop young African-Americans.
from registering Republicans.
had the Barack Obama years.
And then now we're starting to see that again.
We started to see that in the Hispanic community as well.
The interesting thing is in the Cuban Hispanic community, that specific demographic, theyounger people started, the older generation is very Republican and the younger generation
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started, if you want to say rebel, became more Democrat until Trump.
So.
And now the younger Cubans are kind of re-registering Republicans.
that's a super fascinating dive into demographics we can do probably an entire podcast on.
It might be the most boring podcast for people ever.
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I see your eyes glazing over, but I love you anyway.
Thank you for listening.
Okay, so the next one is social issues rights morals and hot topics so Democrats supportprogressive values
The example is support same-sex marriage, abortion rights, and transgender protections.
The positive is it's a push for equal rights and personal freedoms.
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It helps a trans teen feel safe and protected by state laws.
Negative is policies can spark back...
backlash or feel forced in conservative areas, hurts a religious small business owner getssued over not providing certain services.
Republicans favor traditional values, example, state level abortion bans, post Roe vs.
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Wade and laws restricting gender affirming cares for minor.
Positive is it protects traditional values and religious liberty, helps a family feel morealigned with their values being represented in school policies, and the negative can be
exclusionary or limit
Democrats is they have to decide if they're
adoption rights.
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going to quote be quote progressive or extreme radical liberals and they've chosen so farextreme radical liberals Bernie Sanders AOC wing of the party let children self decide to
self mutilate you won't allow a child to get a tattoo it's permanent but yet they advocatethat a child should be able to determine whether or not they should have permanent
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Right.
reorientation and that just makes no common sense.
And so they've got some real struggles within their party on some of those things.
As far as I was concerned when it came to gay marriage, I always thought that the gaycommunity should have worked it from end of life.
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issues because both my parents retired from hospice and they saw instead of talking aboutmarriage talk about end-of-life issues.
because marriage is such a loaded word it's and it stirs up the religious right because ithas to do with the church and only a church can marriage really the only the only reason
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why government should be involved with marriage.
is for the reallocation of resources and the protection of children during divorce.
You know, so that's the only government responsibility for marriage.
And so what the government, you know, what the church does is marry people, you know, thegovernment kind of oversees a divorce.
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so I always just said, you know, the gay community, you know, back in the 60s, 70s, youknow,
Women couldn't get a mortgage by themselves, know, it's like crazy when you think aboutit, right?
Like nobody would support that now.
But gay couples couldn't get mortgages together.
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You and I were able to get a mortgage before we were married, you know, and so together.
so, which is, you know, at the 1970 or whatever year it was, it was a pretty radical idea.
And so...
what ended up happening, the practical application is you would have gay couples who weremarried for
30, 40, 50 years and they would have one person would be on the mortgage.
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So one person owned the house.
And so let's say that's the person.
They weren't married because gay people couldn't get married.
And so if that person, let's say came down with cancer and died, there were many instancesof the family.
That ostracized that gay person hadn't spoken to that gay person in decades.
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And yet the family came in and went before a court and said, I'm the heir, not, not theperson who helped pay for the house, not the person who lived and supported that person
through the, through their life and death, you know, and it's.
Was crazy, you know, like the government shouldn't be involved in that, you know?
And so, so I always just said, if the gay gay community could have had quote marriage.
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10 years earlier and talked about end of life and how gay people were
denied equal protection under the law really during end of life issues.
know, so when somebody dies like so you're right.
So so but there were you know, let's say you have a business you're in the businesstogether, but the loan and the business is under one name, but you have
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have
know, and so it was, so, so I, I'm very libertarian when it comes to that, you know, theproblem is now the LGBTQ plus community has taken that and put it on steroids and they're
trying to deny parents the right to parent their child.
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You know, when a child says, I'm seven years old and I'm a different gender, which iscrazy.
You know, like that's.
you know, that's crazy that that some teacher could step in and somehow suggest that thatteacher has more rights over a child than a parent.
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Right.
And I don't think anything in our founding documents would suggest that.
And so
you know, so that's kind of where we are on that particular social issue.
Abortion rights, you know, this is...
Roe versus Wade is very interesting because people are like, you know, it was establishedlaw.
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Roe was not established law.
It was a court decision.
we had 50 years, know, liberals had 50 years to encode Roe in law and they never did itbecause there was never the political will or ability to put it in law.
And so when Dodd came around and any, we know that any entity can undo their own thing.
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If Congress passes something, Congress can reverse it.
If a president's executive order, a future president can change it.
A Supreme Court decision, a future US Supreme Court decision can reverse it.
so there's this, Democrats also say, well, this is established law.
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we've argued all along, I've argued that I'm pro-choice for personal and emotionalreasons, and I try not to.
get into those with anybody at any time.
And, but I also know that there are people who are pro-choice for personal and emotionalreasons.
And I'm not right because of my personal and emotional reasons.
And they're not wrong, but they're not right because of their personal and emotionalreasons and make me wrong.
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You know, I, if it's on the ballot, I'm going to go vote my way.
They're going to go vote their way and the most votes wins.
and so that's just kind of the way I've handled that throughout, throughout my career.
But I have always advocated that it is a state rights issue and that Roe underminedstates' rights.
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And that's exactly what happened.
And that's what the Dodd decision was all about.
It wasn't necessarily about abortion.
It was about states' rights.
rights.
Okay.
The last one that we have is foreign policy.
So Democrats prefer diplomacy and alliances.
An example is Biden rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement Act and...
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Everybody's for diplomacy.
go ahead.
and supporting NATO.
Positive is strong global alliances can mean more stability and trade.
A farmer exports more crops due to strong international deals.
Negative is over involvement can lead to costly wars or aid packages.
Billions sent overseas while bridges collapse at home.
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So yeah, so, you know, everybody would rather solve all the world's problems throughdiplomacy.
is isolation can lead to economic retaliation or instability.
A tech company loses revenue as foreign markets pull back.
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So yeah, so, you know, everybody would rather solve all the world's problems throughdiplomacy.
Nobody's out there saying, we'd rather send our children to war than find diplomaticsolutions.
So to suggest that Democrats have some level of corner on the market over diplomacy is, Ithink, wrong.
But if we want to talk about the Iran nuclear deal, Donald Trump pulled America out of theIran nuclear deal simply because Iran
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there's this controversial that Iran wasn't listening.
They weren't abiding by the nuclear deal and they were still developing ballisticmissiles.
So while they were maybe technically meeting the the red letter of the nuclear deal here,they were still developing the capability to deliver nuclear weapons through ballistic
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missiles over here.
which weren't part of the deal.
And so Trump says, well, what's the point?
Because if you break the deal, the nuclear deal, you could probably be able to deliversome level of a nuclear device within a few months because you have the missiles to do it.
So if you don't include the missiles in the deal, then what's the point of the deal?
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so, you know, and then you have the issue that we're dealing with now with China.
And China has dug in their heels.
Certainly Trump has dug in his.
The truth of the matter is, know, China needs to sell our goods, sell us goods.
We're going to have goods made other places that are going to deal with us and send us thethings we want without tariffs.
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And so, you know, you have to think about one of the greatest threats
the future of America is China.
And yet we have a whole political party and Democrats saying
my gosh, we have to continue to trade and finance communism in China.
I'll think about your grandparents, you know, who went over to World War II or created,you I had a grandfather who built hand grenades for World War II, right?
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On the assembly line.
and so he didn't, he wasn't over there, but he was helping the war effort.
Like, can you imagine that like, we're going to fight so that our dollars can buy things.
to finance communism?
Like that makes no sense.
And so we're financing the future ruin of the United States unless we either end communismin China, which is not likely to happen, or we end up with some level of a more fair
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trade.
And a lot of these things just need to be built somewhere else.
And we need to trade with other people in the world.
We talk about USAID.
Well, we're trading so much with China.
Think of some of that aid that we're doing with some central African country.
If we could have them develop some products, some manufacturing and ship to us, wouldn'tthat help them?
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And that goes back to the immigration issue we've touched on a little bit.
And we touched certainly with Roy Beck on our last podcast was use the nurse example, anurse in a rural hospital from a foreign country.
And we took a nurse from a developing country.
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And so where is that nurse, know, truly most valuable?
Right.
Would it be in our country or in hers?
Assuming the nurse is female.
So are we taking the, I use the example of a meeting I was at recently where a doctorstood up and he was from Guyana and it's like, our country's been so.
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grew up in a village of 200 people and I was a farmer and I was a successful farmer buteverybody thought I was so bright I need to go to college and when I became a doctor and
now I'm here in Sarasota this country has been so generous to me it's like well are wereally doing the most compassionate thing for Guyana by having this doctor in Sarasota
instead of Guyana and you know therein lies the debate
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debate.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that's all I have for today.
So again, we have another immigration interview this week.
And then of course, Kurt Hoffman wants to get get in on it, which I think is fantastic.
And several several
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who are wanting to join the podcast, babe.
So you're doing a great job.
we have the continuation of the Constitution.
So we got to get get back into that.
And Ed Rollins in the queue.
Ed Rollins in the queue.
Yes, we have a lot coming up.
So but that's all I have for today.
You're good?
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All right, we see.
will We'll see you next time.
we are in our new podcast studio.
Hopefully this podcast will actually be the one that works since we've tried this.
I think this is our third time trying this, but hopefully this time will be the one thattakes.
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we've had at least three different locations inside the house that we've tried.
So.
That's true.
This is the one that you spent the most time on and it looks the best.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So for those of you who aren't watching, you might want to go to YouTube and check us outbecause it's kind of nice.
Yeah.
All right.
So today I wanted to talk about because I don't know what we we were watching on TV, oneof the news stations or something.
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And I asked you about, you know, what is the true difference between Democrats andRepublicans?
Because
when I registered to vote in 2016, wasn't voting for Trump because he was a Republican.
I voting for him because of, truly against Hillary.
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Truly.
And just because I felt he would tell me the truth whether I liked it or not.
And I registered as independent.
So, and I can honestly say,
at that point, like I don't think, I mean, I know I didn't know.
the true background of Democrat and Republican.
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This was a gift from my friend Linda for Christmas and I love this hat.
I sent you a Texas.
Oh.
and it went something like
I hate you.
I'm now not only watching about politics, I'm reading a book about politics.
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What happened?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I guess it's all interesting because I'm obviously supporting your passion in politics andI'm learning.
I think because of what we're trying to do here, let's go back to the basics.
So let's talk about the true difference between Democrats and Republicans
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how has that changed over years.
Yeah.
I mean, Republicans signed the Emancipation Proclamation and freed slaves.
Democrats formed the KKK.
And it wasn't until 1964 that you saw a huge transition of African-Americans to theDemocratic Party
with the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act and the explosion of social programs,which were supposed to people who were disadvantaged.
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you know, those disadvantaged communities in 19, the mid 1960s are still the worstdisadvantaged communities today.
you know, 60 years later, Democrats have nothing to show for those types of things.
I know that's not the topic, but, you know, but that's a short transition of how.
just one difference in how.
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Democrats and Republicans changed over time.
Okay.
So, so what we're going to break down is really what Democrats genuine generally support,same as Republicans, we're going to use a real world example.
And we're going to give an example of how it helps people and hurts people.
And then of course, we'll ask you questions along the way.
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So, all right, so let's start out with health care.
I'm sure, I'm sure.
Okay, so Democrats want government supported healthcare, which is like Canada.
And although I've heard Canada is great because you don't have to pay for healthcare, youhave to wait for months, right?
You have to, you you have a bad knee, you're limping around, you may not get in to see anorthopedic for six to eight months because that's just how it goes.
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that.
You could need open heart surgery and have to wait six or eight months.
Okay.
So hold that thought.
So the example that we're going to talk about is Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, whichmade it so more people could get health insurance even with pre-existing conditions, which
is great.
The positive of that was that more people could afford doctor visits and prescriptions.
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It helps a single mom working two part-time jobs get Medicaid for her kids.
the negative is again, that it's long wait, it's red tape and fewer choices in some areas.
And you forgot one major factor.
it's super expensive on taxpayers, super expensive.
It's probably some of the most expensive healthcare in the world.
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you know, I do, you know, Barack Obama was a very good politician.
And so the two things that he led with, he brought the Affordable Health Care Act in acouple of parts.
The first...
part has two things.
The one that you mentioned, pre-existing conditions, which most people are like, listen,it's kind of crap.
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I lose my job and I have a pre-existing condition.
My next job is health insurance.
doesn't cover me.
And the truth of the matter is health insurance is, insurance companies are able to coverthat.
payout if they know they have to have it.
Right.
So that's an adjustment of numbers.
And the other thing was, that was really popular was that
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children could stay on their parents' policies until they were 26 years old.
And so those were the first two part...
Well, they said...
26 years old.
Yeah.
Well, you know, the thought was if somebody was in college, they went and got theirmaster's, their PhD, they should be able to do that within eight years after being 18.
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So that's how they came up with the age of 26.
Although...
You know, we know adulthood starts at 18 legally.
I've argued many times that adulthood, all things adults should be 21, including thedraft.
You should be able to volunteer before you're 21, but you should not be able to be drafteduntil you're 21, but you should not be able to vote until you're 21.
Gun ownership, you know, a lot, those things, drinking, you know, all those things thatbecome adult things, smoking should all be 21 in my opinion.
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But we actually have a constitutional amendment that says it's 18.
the right to vote is 18.
you without a change in the Constitution, I don't think there's political will to do, evenif there's, you people...
You're going off track.
All things adults should be 21.
But as far as the Affordable Health Care Act, it's super expensive.
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And that was the argument for it against it at the time.
That's still the argument.
And while people
So the Republicans prefer private health plans with less government interference.
And the example of that is the Trump era push to repel Obamacare and allow
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more stripped down, cheaper insurance plans.
The positive for that is you have more choices and less government control, and it helpssmall business owners find a flexible, lower cost private insurance plan.
And the negative is no salary net.
So if you lose your job or have a pre-existing condition, which they give the example of a26-year-old with diabetes loses coverage and racks up medical debt.
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But insurance companies, have always had, not all of them, but a lot of them have hadpre-existing condition clauses in them for as long as I can remember.
And I started it in healthcare when I was 20 years old.
So I don't really think that that's anything new, but you have all these people out thereselling insurances now.
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And I know a lot of it's based on your income.
and is that Obamacare?
Well, the things you see on television are people trying to sign up for, you know, getpeople to sign up for Obamacare.
You know, the low cost healthcare.
And so much of it is people, there's not a whole lot of options for what I would like toensure, just like our house.
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You know, we don't ensure every cracked window or every shingle that's lost.
cover catastrophic losses.
So we get those prices down.
It's the same thing with healthcare.
I would prefer to pay full price for prescriptions, pay full price for doctor visits andcover myself with catastrophic care and get that health insurance costs down.
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So that, you know, unless, you know, cover me for the things that I cannot withstandfinancially.
But a lot of that could be prescription.
but we, yeah.
So we could, but you could still, cover some of those things.
If you built it into your, into your family's budget, right?
Insulin's an outlier, but, and a very hot political topic, but most, you know, mostprescriptions you can get through, you know, if your blood pressure, you don't have to
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take the newest drug.
can take the, generic.
You know, those cholesterol, there's enough cholesterol medicine, all the things that mostpeople are taking most of the time are available in generic at lower cost anyway.
And you have, I mean, Publix offers a list or local grocery store here in Florida.
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That doesn't mean they still do it, but they're, they use some prescription drugs as aloss leader to get people in their store the same way some
7-Eleven might use gasoline to get people inside the store to buy their milk at a higherprice.
so there's a list of a lot of drugs that our local, if I say local, statewide southeasternUnited States public's grocery store provides to people regardless of insurance for
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prescription
know, antibiotics, you know, go down the list of things that it's cheaper sometimes to notapply your insurance at Publix.
And so.
you know, so there's there are all those all those things that come into play.
So some of its choice, you know, I think Obamacare actually limits people's people'schoices.
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You know, it's great for those who have long term permanent health problems.
which we should have covered a different way.
We could have, you know, I always advocated, why do we need a fourth federal healthcaresystem?
We have Medicare.
Medicaid, the VA, and now Obamacare.
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So- Well, you always had that because you had commercial, it was commercial insurance.
commercial insurance on top of that, right?
So, so you, you know, didn't, but as from a federal government standpoint, you know, weshould, we as citizens should provide a safety net to those who are less fortunate.
That's-
Americans believe in.
Obamacare was kind of painted too broad a swath.
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to try to take over and control people through healthcare.
it'll eventually march that way.
I it's still only been the law of the land for about 12 years.
All right.
So the next one we're going to talk about is money and taxes.
Who gets taxed and how much.
So Democrats want to tax billionaires more to fund public services.
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Example is Biden's proposed billionaire
tax to make sure the ultra rich pay at least 20%.
So the positive of this is more public services and support to working families.
The tax credit could help something like the earned income tax credit or the Americanopportunity credit for educational expenses.
These credits reduce the amount of tax you bill and increase your refund.
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Now the negative is higher taxes may make small
businesses tighten hiring or cut hours.
Just take for example, a bakery owner that lays off a worker just because to cover risingpayroll taxes.
So on the Republican side, Republicans want to push tax cuts to encourage job creation.
Example is Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which lowered corporate taxes to 21%.
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The positive is let people keep more of what they earn.
This helps middle income couples see a bump in take home pay.
The negative is fewer government resources when things go south.
So there's a lot to unpack there.
First is billionaires, second is tax cuts versus credits, and then finally the allocationof resources, government resources.
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number one, there's not enough billionaires to get the United States out of its financialhole.
If you took the eight or 900 billionaires, I think in the world, but let's say they're inthe United States, eight to 900 billionaires.
And you took one, you took 100 % of their money.
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took 100 % of their money.
It'd be about $6 trillion, which is not even enough money to run the federal governmentfor one year.
So to say, we're going to tax billionaires.
It's very popular.
I'm not against billionaires paying.
quote or error paying taxes.
756 billionaires in the United States in 2023.
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Okay, so 800 to 900 billionaires in the United States.
tax everything that they have, 100 % of their assets
it's $6 trillion, which is greater, which is less than our operating budget for one year,and we're $36, $37 trillion in debt.
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So, you know,
So to tax them at 20 % of their income every year is not going to solve whatever problemthat Democrats are saying it's going to solve.
Should billionaires pay taxes?
Yes, everybody should pay taxes and everybody does, whether you pay sales taxes, butthey're talking specifically about income taxes.
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I have advocated as tax day looms for the rest of the country, for Florida it is...
been kicked to May since the hurricanes, but as a tax day looms for everybody, you know, Ihave said that the IRS should have to send us a bill, send every citizen a bill.
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And you only have to file a tax return if you disagree with that bill or refund.
So if the, federal government in January says, Hey, Jamie and Jennifer, here's what wethink you owe the federal government on top of what you already paid.
and it's $10,000.
And we go to our accountant and say, the government wants $10,000.
And the accountant says, no, the government owes you $3,000.
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OK, now it's worth paying an accountant two grand to have a $13,000 swing.
Right?
And so that would also cut a lot of red tape from government.
It would cut the IRS.
And certainly the IRS using AI.
certainly knows within a couple hundred dollars what every single W-2 employee in theUnited States owes.
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And I would suggest that even for 90 % of small business owners like us, who aren't makingmillions and millions of dollars, the IRS could probably peg our taxes within 500 bucks
using AI and using our history and knowing, you know,
they know your bank accounts, they know when you have transactions of more than $5,000.
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So all of those things they know.
you know, if you have, last year you had 10 transactions of 5,000 or more deposits, andthis year you have 50.
Yeah.
Okay, now you might need to do your taxes.
You know, you might need to file taxes, but no, the important part here is no citizenshould lose their freedom.
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their personal or financial freedom because of federal taxes.
Nobody should have to go to jail or be financially ruined because they said to thegovernment what they owe and then years later the government says no we disagree with you
now we're going to audit you and we're going to punish you.
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That onus should be on the government not on the taxpayer.
and in I mean, there has to there has to be like a statute of limitations and things likethat, too, Seven years now, it's three or whatever.
the point is, the government, no citizen should lose any freedom.
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Yeah, because they messed up their taxes, either on purpose or not.
It is the government's responsibility in my, it's not the way it is.
I believe it's the way it should be.
Right.
It's the government's responsibility to tell me what I owe and then me file a tax returnif I disagree.
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And then there we can have a discussion about, you know, if I'm cheating on my taxes.
Yeah.
But if I just agree with the government, there's no way I would lose financial or personalfreedom.
we have taxes there.
What was the second issue in your list?
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The third one's come to mind with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
So no, the second thing was tax cuts versus credits.
So this is just a big load of BS that Democrats try to pay.
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So 50 % of Americans pay no taxes.
Think about that.
50 % of Americans pay no taxes, zero taxes.
And so they come up with statistics like, well, know, 60 % of taxpayers...
because they don't make enough money.
They're people who receive welfare.
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They just don't, they pay no taxes.
They don't reach the threshold to pay taxes.
And so you end up with these things called tax credits.
So the big one is the earned income tax credit is used for mostly poor, lower income,single parents who have children.
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they get what's called an earned income tax credit.
So they pay no taxes.
And then on top of that, the government sends them a refund on top of any welfare they mayreceive any other assistance they may receive.
so Democrats try to completely blur the line of tax cuts versus tax credits.
So of course, only the top 50 % of people or 60 % of people are going to receive a taxcut.
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If there's only the 40 %
are paying taxes.
That would make a difference.
Right.
They like to like to skew those numbers.
they're like, Oh, no, all these folks who are filing tax returns to get tax credits arethen somehow in the mix and should get more tax cuts.
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Well, if you're not paying taxes, you should not get a tax cut.
Yeah.
So what they're talking about is increasing.
When they say credits, they're talking about increasing.
welfare programs for the most part.
And they're talking about increasing, not welfare maybe, that's maybe too rude a word,people get upset about that.
But assistance programs.
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And then the final, the third and final thing was on your list was what?
That was it, I think the hurricane, right?
Yeah, the third one is they claim
know, that, we can't have tax cuts because FEMA will go away or.
or pick any type of the tax credits will go away.
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And this is what we're finding out through DOGE is a lack of commitment to allocation ofresources to proper federal government functions.
Yeah.
And so Democrats have spread these functions of federal government across way a muchbroader spectrum.
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of things than it than is the responsibility of the federal government.
FEMA's not in the constitution.
We've kind of set that up as something that we as Americans have decided to do.
And some states handle it better than others.
We saw that difference between the hurricanes here in Florida and the fires out inCalifornia.
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Yeah, everyone's like, oh, hurricanes here Florida all the time.
Well, so do fires in California all the time.
So how do you have 140 fire trucks that aren't in service during the drive period?
it's...
You know, so it's just a lack of government resources, a lack of government planning thatI don't want to say caused the fires, but certainly led to it being a greater disaster
than it could have been.
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And so they want to argue that tax cuts hurt that.
Well, what really hurts that is electing Democrats who are incapable or unwilling toallocate resources to the proper place.
Okay.
The next one we're talking about is climate and energy.
So Democrats push energy, push green energy.
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The example is Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, included billions for solar, wind, andelectric vehicles.
The positive is long term cleaner air, safer water and green jobs.
It helps a laid off coal miner retrains and gets a job in solar panel installation.
The negative is short term energy costs rise with new regulations and that hurts afamily's utility bills skyrocket during winter.
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The Republicans prefer fossil fuels to keep costs down.
And the example is Trump expanding oil drilling and pulling out of the Paris climateagreement.
The positive is keeps fuel affordable and supports current energy jobs, helps a truckersave money at the pump and keeps more of his paycheck.
Negative is slower climate action can lead to more disasters, floods, fires, et cetera.
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And this can hurt a coastal town that deals with repeated hurricane damage and insurancespikes.
Yes, so here's, this is all red herrings in my opinion.
know, number one, Democrats have never proven outside of very liberal think groups thathave come up with somehow humans create climate change.
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So do we add to it?
Probably.
I'm willing to accept that.
Sure, we can, but we can't burn enough fossil fuels to
match a volcano like so and there's multiple volcanoes erupting annually around the globeand so there's just there's really not a logical to me this is a logical thing and I'll
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follow the money in a lot of cases should we use solar sure if it if it can be
be done efficiently, right now it's not done efficiently, can sell 300 400 acres to powerabout 30 homes or whatever it is.
And so there's not enough land to put enough solar panels to make a difference.
If you really want to talk about clean energy, you have to talk about nuclear.
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And the only problem you have with nuclear is storing the waste after it's created energy.
But that's the cleanest energy available.
That's the most non intrusive energy we can
create.
And you know,
environmental activists.
So no, we can't do that either.
So it's more about lining the pockets, you know, and solar in particular, we've gonethrough about 10 or 20 years of solar panels going on people's roofs.
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All of these components are made in China.
And I know we're going to get to tariffs a little later, but the solar panels are aperfect example of the Chinese government undercutting every American country to flood the
United States and the world with solar panels.
that are nobody can compete with it because the Chinese, communist Chinese governmentcomplements that effort.
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So you end up with all these Chinese components and they've cornered the market on it, runeverybody.
You know, it's kind of like Walmart in a small town.
know, Walmart comes in and they then run all the small businesses out because they lowertheir prices are lower when they first show up.
And then after everybody's out of business, they can move their prices up five, 10, 15%.
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to match for other stores.
So it's not a...
It certainly is not like this is correct and this is wrong.
As far as fossil fuels go, is...
There's not a police force and an ambulance, fire truck.
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They're not running these off of electric vehicles.
Because guess what?
When there's no power after a hurricane or during a crisis, you need gas.
so, you know, and the one thing that nobody spoke about during this whole electric vehicleexplosion of the, you know, Biden administration was that, you know, at some point, you
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know, like nuclear waste, these electric vehicle batteries are going to become the nuclearwaste of the of the 2030s.
going have to do something with them.
And they keep saying, we're going to recycle them.
And yet there's not, we can't do that now.
so no technology is going to catch up with them.
Okay.
Well, let's see, you know, technology won't catch up to it until there's profit.
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And so nobody's going to do that until there's profit in it.
And you know, my guess is you end up with people taking these batteries in a lot likeChina took, our recycling in.
Oh, we'll think they're plastic, you know, and then he dumped it in the South China Sea.
don't recycle it.
dump it.
so probably using it to make something.
(27:32):
No, they're not.
They're just dumping it.
We pay them to take it and then they just dump it.
It's like, it's like telling somebody who works for the mob to come and take your oldrefrigerator and they take it out to the railroad tracks.
They don't take it to the dump.
They take it to the railroad tracks and dump it, you know?
So, um,
So this is all kind of a, you know, Democrats like solar and wind is completelyirrational.
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You're killing migratory birds and these are people who support the environment.
You're killing federal protected, federally protected migratory birds.
You're, you take more oil to use those than it, than the electricity, than if you burn theoil and create an electricity with them.
So it's.
That is completely a farce.
(28:24):
then to, continue to the upkeep of windmills, it's just there's no reason to havewindmills at all.
Solar, can kind of make the argument, you know, but then you're taking up hundreds ofacres of land for what?
Yeah.
And it's farmland.
And once you have it there, you're, know, you're not going to pull those things up andstart farming again.
(28:47):
And so we're,
we're compromising our ability to grow crops for solk.
In that regard, I don't agree with that.
The next thing we're going to talk about is immigration, which we have talked about.
We have an immigration series that I think we have one more
and we have a fifth person who is asked to come and speak.
(29:10):
We're becoming very popular, Jennifer.
Yeah, we are our own sheriff.
Kurt Hoffman has asked to come on the podcast because he would like to talk about howthese immigration policies are being implemented at the local level and Talk about what he
has learned from the sheriff's associate Florida Sheriff's Association so from his fellowsheriffs and What they're doing to implement the president's policy and what we're doing
(29:37):
right here in Sarasota County to implement that policy So I think that's gonna be a greatexclamation point on You know for our final fifth
Yeah.
We're doing the fourth one next week and we'll probably do the fifth one the week after.
Okay, great.
Alright, so immigration.
Democrats have more lenient policies.
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The example is the DACA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals lets people brought here askids stay and work.
The positive is it's open doors for skilled workers, students and families in need.
It helps a nurse from abroad fill a hospital staffing gap in rural America.
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The negative is poorly managed systems can overwhelm local
resources.
hurts a small town schools and clinics are stretched thin with sudden population growth.
Republicans focus on border security example is Trump's border wall and remain in Mexicopolicy for asylum seekers.
Positive is focus on border security and preventing illegal entry.
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This helps a border town see sees a drop in cartel related crimes.
And the negative is strict policies can split families or turn away needed workers.
A farm can't find legal
seasonal workers and loses a harvest.
You know, I really, I get the idea for, you know, needing the workers and stuff like thatbecause we have such a hard time with anybody wanting to work.
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in this country, especially after COVID, just kind of, everybody just kind of, you know,found something else to do that they don't have to get out and work.
so I understand that.
then after talking to the people that we have had on our show, these, three interviewsthat we had about, you know, how destructive
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population gets just more and more and more and more.
And then you have the immigrants that are hurting people and the sanctuary cities that arecausing problems and all of these things.
one of the interesting things that came out of our first three conversations was that, youknow, we're at a point of bringing in enough legal immigrants, forget about illegal and
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legal immigrants are about 1.1 million per year versus the illegal that we know weresomewhere around 8 to 10 million over the last four years.
So we probably have 14 million immigrants over the last four years.
And so the last time we had that kind of percentage in
was the Ellis Island years.
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And what we realized was that we were changing the fabric of America because peopleweren't assimilating.
And they really didn't have the American experience.
And like-minded people connect with like-minded people.
They connect with their churches.
They connect with their communities.
And so they create kind of their own pockets of America.
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And so there's not a true patriot.
patriotic American experience.
so, uh, and that is, is one of the, um, real downfalls of, of what we're trying to do.
Cause if we're going to remain America and the beacon for the rest of the world to look atfor freedom, we have people who come here, I have to assimilate into that freedom loving,
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uh, patriotic country.
You know, they can't come and say, no, this is how we did it here.
And that's what we're doing now.
We also know that the difference between legal and illegal immigration through this serieshas been, that the differences are fast, you know?
And so, we want to try to continue to keep those two differences separated.
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know that illegal immigration has dropped a great bit, but, prior to Biden's horrible openborder policy, you know, most
illegal immigration were people who flew here.
They had a visa and they were staying their visa.
Yeah.
And so they were they entered the country legally, then stayed illegally and for anynumber of reasons.
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you know, so so the difference between Democrats and Republicans, Democrats, presumably,don't care about the fabric of America.
They don't care about having, you know,
traditions in patriotism if they're supporting this huge number of illegal immigrants thatcome across the border forget about the number of gangs and the number of Americans who
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have been killed and Just the the horrors, know Boston time and time again, know trying tosay well We're just going to let people out with you know on you know on parole for free
After they've committed, you know a sexual act against a child
(34:32):
And what?
So I think those are some long-term policies Democrats are going to have to explain andlive with.
And of course, Republicans tend to be more law and order, more.
let's have some immigration, but let's know who's coming, number one, let's know wherethey are and know what they're gonna do.
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Are they gonna stay or are they coming here for like an education and to leave?
And so those are the major differences.
Democrats are just like, come and vote.
That's what appears.
Yeah.
I don't know if that's, I think ultimately, immigrants who are here, just like we wereseeing prior to Barack Obama.
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African, young African-Americans were registering Republican at historic.
That's why Democrats had to go with Barack Obama in 2008.
They had to stop young African-Americans.
from registering Republicans.
had the Barack Obama years.
And then now we're starting to see that again.
We started to see that in the Hispanic community as well.
The interesting thing is in the Cuban Hispanic community, that specific demographic, theyounger people started, the older generation is very Republican and the younger generation
(35:51):
started, if you want to say rebel, became more Democrat until Trump.
So.
And now the younger Cubans are kind of re-registering Republicans.
that's a super fascinating dive into demographics we can do probably an entire podcast on.
It might be the most boring podcast for people ever.
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I see your eyes glazing over, but I love you anyway.
Thank you for listening.
Okay, so the next one is social issues rights morals and hot topics so Democrats supportprogressive values
The example is support same-sex marriage, abortion rights, and transgender protections.
The positive is it's a push for equal rights and personal freedoms.
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It helps a trans teen feel safe and protected by state laws.
Negative is policies can spark back...
backlash or feel forced in conservative areas, hurts a religious small business owner getssued over not providing certain services.
Republicans favor traditional values, example, state level abortion bans, post Roe vs.
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Wade and laws restricting gender affirming cares for minor.
Positive is it protects traditional values and religious liberty, helps a family feel morealigned with their values being represented in school policies, and the negative can be
exclusionary or limit
Democrats is they have to decide if they're
adoption rights.
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going to quote be quote progressive or extreme radical liberals and they've chosen so farextreme radical liberals Bernie Sanders AOC wing of the party let children self decide to
self mutilate you won't allow a child to get a tattoo it's permanent but yet they advocatethat a child should be able to determine whether or not they should have permanent
(37:49):
Right.
reorientation and that just makes no common sense.
And so they've got some real struggles within their party on some of those things.
As far as I was concerned when it came to gay marriage, I always thought that the gaycommunity should have worked it from end of life.
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issues because both my parents retired from hospice and they saw instead of talking aboutmarriage talk about end-of-life issues.
because marriage is such a loaded word it's and it stirs up the religious right because ithas to do with the church and only a church can marriage really the only the only reason
(38:34):
why government should be involved with marriage.
is for the reallocation of resources and the protection of children during divorce.
You know, so that's the only government responsibility for marriage.
And so what the government, you know, what the church does is marry people, you know, thegovernment kind of oversees a divorce.
(38:56):
so I always just said, you know, the gay community, you know, back in the 60s, 70s, youknow,
Women couldn't get a mortgage by themselves, know, it's like crazy when you think aboutit, right?
Like nobody would support that now.
But gay couples couldn't get mortgages together.
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You and I were able to get a mortgage before we were married, you know, and so together.
so, which is, you know, at the 1970 or whatever year it was, it was a pretty radical idea.
And so...
what ended up happening, the practical application is you would have gay couples who weremarried for
30, 40, 50 years and they would have one person would be on the mortgage.
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So one person owned the house.
And so let's say that's the person.
They weren't married because gay people couldn't get married.
And so if that person, let's say came down with cancer and died, there were many instancesof the family.
That ostracized that gay person hadn't spoken to that gay person in decades.
(40:06):
And yet the family came in and went before a court and said, I'm the heir, not, not theperson who helped pay for the house, not the person who lived and supported that person
through the, through their life and death, you know, and it's.
Was crazy, you know, like the government shouldn't be involved in that, you know?
And so, so I always just said, if the gay gay community could have had quote marriage.
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10 years earlier and talked about end of life and how gay people were
denied equal protection under the law really during end of life issues.
know, so when somebody dies like so you're right.
So so but there were you know, let's say you have a business you're in the businesstogether, but the loan and the business is under one name, but you have
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have
know, and so it was, so, so I, I'm very libertarian when it comes to that, you know, theproblem is now the LGBTQ plus community has taken that and put it on steroids and they're
trying to deny parents the right to parent their child.
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You know, when a child says, I'm seven years old and I'm a different gender, which iscrazy.
You know, like that's.
you know, that's crazy that that some teacher could step in and somehow suggest that thatteacher has more rights over a child than a parent.
(41:43):
Right.
And I don't think anything in our founding documents would suggest that.
And so
you know, so that's kind of where we are on that particular social issue.
Abortion rights, you know, this is...
Roe versus Wade is very interesting because people are like, you know, it was establishedlaw.
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Roe was not established law.
It was a court decision.
we had 50 years, know, liberals had 50 years to encode Roe in law and they never did itbecause there was never the political will or ability to put it in law.
And so when Dodd came around and any, we know that any entity can undo their own thing.
(42:27):
If Congress passes something, Congress can reverse it.
If a president's executive order, a future president can change it.
A Supreme Court decision, a future US Supreme Court decision can reverse it.
so there's this, Democrats also say, well, this is established law.
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we've argued all along, I've argued that I'm pro-choice for personal and emotionalreasons, and I try not to.
get into those with anybody at any time.
And, but I also know that there are people who are pro-choice for personal and emotionalreasons.
And I'm not right because of my personal and emotional reasons.
And they're not wrong, but they're not right because of their personal and emotionalreasons and make me wrong.
(43:13):
You know, I, if it's on the ballot, I'm going to go vote my way.
They're going to go vote their way and the most votes wins.
and so that's just kind of the way I've handled that throughout, throughout my career.
But I have always advocated that it is a state rights issue and that Roe underminedstates' rights.
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And that's exactly what happened.
And that's what the Dodd decision was all about.
It wasn't necessarily about abortion.
It was about states' rights.
rights.
Okay.
The last one that we have is foreign policy.
So Democrats prefer diplomacy and alliances.
An example is Biden rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement Act and...
(43:56):
Everybody's for diplomacy.
go ahead.
and supporting NATO.
Positive is strong global alliances can mean more stability and trade.
A farmer exports more crops due to strong international deals.
Negative is over involvement can lead to costly wars or aid packages.
Billions sent overseas while bridges collapse at home.
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So yeah, so, you know, everybody would rather solve all the world's problems throughdiplomacy.
is isolation can lead to economic retaliation or instability.
A tech company loses revenue as foreign markets pull back.
(44:38):
So yeah, so, you know, everybody would rather solve all the world's problems throughdiplomacy.
Nobody's out there saying, we'd rather send our children to war than find diplomaticsolutions.
So to suggest that Democrats have some level of corner on the market over diplomacy is, Ithink, wrong.
But if we want to talk about the Iran nuclear deal, Donald Trump pulled America out of theIran nuclear deal simply because Iran
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there's this controversial that Iran wasn't listening.
They weren't abiding by the nuclear deal and they were still developing ballisticmissiles.
So while they were maybe technically meeting the the red letter of the nuclear deal here,they were still developing the capability to deliver nuclear weapons through ballistic
(45:36):
missiles over here.
which weren't part of the deal.
And so Trump says, well, what's the point?
Because if you break the deal, the nuclear deal, you could probably be able to deliversome level of a nuclear device within a few months because you have the missiles to do it.
So if you don't include the missiles in the deal, then what's the point of the deal?
(45:56):
so, you know, and then you have the issue that we're dealing with now with China.
And China has dug in their heels.
Certainly Trump has dug in his.
The truth of the matter is, know, China needs to sell our goods, sell us goods.
We're going to have goods made other places that are going to deal with us and send us thethings we want without tariffs.
(46:23):
And so, you know, you have to think about one of the greatest threats
the future of America is China.
And yet we have a whole political party and Democrats saying
my gosh, we have to continue to trade and finance communism in China.
I'll think about your grandparents, you know, who went over to World War II or created,you I had a grandfather who built hand grenades for World War II, right?
(46:51):
On the assembly line.
and so he didn't, he wasn't over there, but he was helping the war effort.
Like, can you imagine that like, we're going to fight so that our dollars can buy things.
to finance communism?
Like that makes no sense.
And so we're financing the future ruin of the United States unless we either end communismin China, which is not likely to happen, or we end up with some level of a more fair
(47:22):
trade.
And a lot of these things just need to be built somewhere else.
And we need to trade with other people in the world.
We talk about USAID.
Well, we're trading so much with China.
Think of some of that aid that we're doing with some central African country.
If we could have them develop some products, some manufacturing and ship to us, wouldn'tthat help them?
(47:46):
And that goes back to the immigration issue we've touched on a little bit.
And we touched certainly with Roy Beck on our last podcast was use the nurse example, anurse in a rural hospital from a foreign country.
And we took a nurse from a developing country.
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And so where is that nurse, know, truly most valuable?
Right.
Would it be in our country or in hers?
Assuming the nurse is female.
So are we taking the, I use the example of a meeting I was at recently where a doctorstood up and he was from Guyana and it's like, our country's been so.
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grew up in a village of 200 people and I was a farmer and I was a successful farmer buteverybody thought I was so bright I need to go to college and when I became a doctor and
now I'm here in Sarasota this country has been so generous to me it's like well are wereally doing the most compassionate thing for Guyana by having this doctor in Sarasota
instead of Guyana and you know therein lies the debate
(48:54):
debate.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that's all I have for today.
So again, we have another immigration interview this week.
And then of course, Kurt Hoffman wants to get get in on it, which I think is fantastic.
And several several
(49:14):
who are wanting to join the podcast, babe.
So you're doing a great job.
we have the continuation of the Constitution.
So we got to get get back into that.
And Ed Rollins in the queue.
Ed Rollins in the queue.
Yes, we have a lot coming up.
So but that's all I have for today.
You're good?
(49:36):
All right, we see.
will We'll see you next time.
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