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Speaker 2 (02:10):
Welcome to December.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, hung out with
your family, hung out with your friends, didn't fight about politics,
although if you have differences of opinion, that seems like
it's an impossibility, right.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So I think, what, there's a lot going.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
On in the world, and there's a million things that
we could talk about, right, But I feel like tonight
I want to talk about money. I want to spend
the majority of the time talking about money. Not all
the time, but one of my guests in the second
hour will talk prenominantly about money, and I want to
open up here to talk about money. As well. So
there is a balance sheet for the country. And I
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hate to tell you, but we're flat broke and we're
pretending to be otherwise. So grab you know, whatever you're drinking,
pull up close to the radio if you can, you know,
still afford that drink. And let's go through some of
the numbers, because they're really stark. And this is no
fault of the current administration. This is the fault of
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decades of abuse. So, as you probably all know, the
US national debt stands at thirty eight trillion, four hundred
and twelve some odd dollars when I looked earlier today,
that's what it's at.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But that's not a rounding error.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
That's almost speeding out the speed of light upwards, right,
it's upwards, and it climbs roughly one million dollars every
thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So every thirty seconds, one.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Million, one million, one million, one million, that ladies and
gentlemen is not investing in our future. That is the
largest pile of eyeOS in the history of human civilization.
Thirty eight trillion. Let me put that into perspective for you,
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just take a step back with a perspective. If you
spent one dollar every single second, twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week. It would take you thirty one
thousand years to spend a trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm gonna say that again.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
One dollar every second, twenty four hours a day, seven
days a week, constantly.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
George Washington, George Washington, George Washington.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Again, it would take you thirty one thousand years to
spend just one trillion. And we've got thirty eight trillion
of those, and we're climbing every second of every day. Now,
some economists will say, no, big deal, don't worry, we
owe it to ourselves. I mean, that's the line they've
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been feeding us since Dick Cheney says deficits didn't matter
back in two thousand and two.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It matters, It matters.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I mean, I know there's a question of who exactly
do we owe this money to?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Forty percent.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
By the way, the debt is owned by foreign governments
and investors. Communist China owns about eight hundred billion, Japan
owns one point one trillion, the Saudis, the Royals, Cayman
Islands hedge funds. There are people who you know, have
grabbed a little bit, a little chunk of America it's
not as much as you think. It's not like we
owe China multiple trillions of dollars. But forty percent other
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countries have a unarm on us. The other sixty percent
it's basically intra governmental. But the biggest domestic holders are megabanks,
bond funds, billionaire classes who buy Treasury security at zero
net rates and collect the interest that is paid through
your taxes. By the way, just in case you were curious,
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it's one to trillion dollars a year debt to service.
And I've said that over and over again, but that
is a monstrosity. It's the most amount that we pay
in anything in our budget goes to interest, a loan interest.
Think about if you paid the most money in your budget.
You got your paycheck, you know, every week or every month,
and you want to pay off your credit card, and
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the highest thing higher than your your's, let's sorrow, your mortgage,
was your interest payment for your your interest payment on
your credit card.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That's kind of where we're at right now. That's kind
of where we're at.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
It's more than anything, and that's during a time when
interest rates are historically low. I mean, the average interest
rate on debt is now creeping towards four percent.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So you do the math.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I mean, four percent of thirty eight trillion is one
point five trillion a year in interest a loan.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Once it hits four percent, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's a mortgage payment that the cut cannot afford. And
there is this theory that, like I said, it's okay,
we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It doesn't. It's not gonna happen to us.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
The modern monetary theory says, you know again, no problem,
just print more money. Now, that's what Germany thought, That's
what Zimbambwe thought, That's what Venezuela thought, and they all
wound up having to take a wheelbarrow filled with cash
to buio loaf bread.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's a fact.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So inflation is not some mysterious phenomenon. It's a policy choice.
And every time the Fed hits the print button on
on the money, it's a tax. It's a hidden tax
or regressive tax that slams the working class the hardest.
The price of goods and services goes up. Between twenty
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twenty and twenty twenty four, again, the money supplied grew
by forty percent four years, the fastest suspension of money
since the Civil War. And the result is you've got
at one point in time, during twenty twenty two, you
had nine point two percent inflation, and we had to
fight to get that back down to a real livable number.
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But when you think about it, things that you do
every day are things that you buy every day.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I mean, it didn't it didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Cost that much more to produce that than let's say
it cost you and back in nineteen eighty. Now it's
because the money that's in circulation now is worthless.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's really that simple. If you look at history, the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Has happened over and over and over again, countries that were,
let's say, at the top of the food chain and
them spending themselves into oblivion and wound up basically falling
by the wayside. In the annals of history. These once
powerhouse countries have gone by bye. And I know where
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a mat or are we in the United States, the
greatest country that's ever been And we think it's not
going to happen to us, But it's happened.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Every single other time prior to us.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I mean, country after country after country, whether it's Britain,
whether it's Spain, whether it's the Dutch, whether it's you
go but go down the list of countries that at
one point in time, we're at.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The pinnacle of civilization.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And you cannot borrow thirty eight trillion dollars and add
another trillion dollars every single year, pay interest on that
with borrowing more.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And call it sustainable. It's not sustainable.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
At some point the bond market will say no, and
at some point the dollar losses against the reserve status
will just it'll break us. It'll turn us into caracas
where there's nothing on the shelves. And when that day comes,
and I'll be there telling you I told you so,
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because I've been yelling about this for two decades, two
decades that I've been on the air, It's been one
of the things that I've been screaming about the most.
And the same people that told you deficits don't matter
will be blaming either greedy corporations or foreign speculators, or
systemic racism or something else, But they won't be blaming
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what is truly at fault, the fact that this, for
whatever reason, this country has become a country that is
self serving in the sense where it just needs to
purchase more stuff for itself, whether it's more entitlement stuff
or just stuff in general. And we have gotten to
a point where we don't balance the budget. Ever, we
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haven't had a balanced budget in decades. There should have
been a balanced budget amendment which almost passed. I think
it was back in I want to say nineteen ninety
nine or somewhere in that vicinity.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I can't remember exactly what it was, but.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Think how much better we'd be if we had two
decades of a balanced budget as opposed to where we
are right now. So the debt clock, ladies and gentlemen
is ticking. The longer that we pretend that it's not well,
the worst the crash will eventually be, and we need
to do it. I think we need to do a
better job as American citizens and force the hand of
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the politicians. But again, the problem is you can't get
elected anymore without promising everything to everybody.
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And then before too long, I hate to be this guy.
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I hate to tell you that the sky is falling,
but this is one area where the sky is definitely falling.
And I'll be chicken little and I'll be telling you
that because if in fact we continue down this.
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Road, there'll be nothing left of this republic. Nothing.
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I'm having trouble connecting my brain to my mouth. So far,
what is going well? You know what it's Cyber Monday, right,
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so people are probably sort of listening and watching but
buying stuff. And I read or heard today Now I
just talked about it, and I'm going to talk about
this again.
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Money. I'm gonna talk in the next break. I'm going
to spend some time talking about.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
The difference between nineteen eighty and twenty twenty five, the
vast difference in finances between the two years or the.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Two decades, if you want.
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But I read and heard yesterday that on Black Friday,
we spent I think ten or twelve percent more on
goods than the previous year.
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I mean, we're in all seriousness. Where are y'all getting
all this money?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
We have the highest credit card debt in history, Like
more people owe more money than ever before. And again,
cyber Monday is today the online retail event, the largest
online shopping day in US history. Last year thirteen point
two billion dollars in online retail sales, and they're projecting
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it to be higher this year. Now it's twenty years
old today, believe it or not, it dates back to
two thousand and five. They will start, they will trick
you into making money anyway they possibly can, right, I
mean all of these manufactured holidays where you got to
run out and buy a card or chocolate or can't whatever,
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or a trinket or something, spending your money.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, how long have we been all doing that?
Into that gaff?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
But anyway, Black Friday, Cyber Monday is the latest. Like
I said, twenty years they've been having cyber Monday, and
companies I guess today typically typically launched their sales for
several weeks, advertising the cyber Monday as the.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Last chance to save. Last year, the most shopping.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Activity took place between eight pm and ten pm, so
in about ninety minutes, you guys will be danging away
at the keyboards. And as I said, last year was
thirteen point two billion. This year they're expecting it to
be upwards of fourteen point two billion. And once again,
I don't know, man, I think I've come to the conclusion,
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in many years of doing the broadcast and now many
years of being on this planet, that I'm more of
I'm a minimalist. Like I don't like stuff, I don't
hate clutter, and I don't like stuff I don't need.
Like if I don't need it, I don't want it.
That's kind of me, and I know people out there
don't really feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And I get it. I mean, you want your things,
you want your toys. But I've never been like that. Man,
never been like that. Hey, there's one quick story while
the music is playing.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You know, to take too long on this, but you
realize that in New York. I know we broadcast loud
and cloud, loud and proud in New York. But New
York's some school secretaries. Maybe this is why people are
buying stuff. Some school secretaries in New York City make
a hundred between one hundred and thirty one hundred and
ninety thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
How is I mean, listen, God bless the secretaries. I mean,
with some of the bosses out, maybe.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It is a year, maybe it's worth it, but man,
one hundred and ninety thousand bucks a year? Why the
I mean, there's a million jokes here, but I'll just
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I will try to straighten myself out. Man. I couldn't
talk this morning. I can't talk to tonight. I don't know.
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Maybe I just had too much turkey later around, watching
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in this room, it's different, right, I can talk to myself.
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I'm kind of screwy that way, like a little psychotic.
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But in like a setting, like in a Thanksgiving setting
or just a setting.
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Setting, I don't want to talk about politics.
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I mean, I will I do, but I don't necessarily
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All right, So I've been talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Money, money, money, money.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It talked about debt in the opening, and I want
to spend a little time talking about the Americans just
disappearing middle class.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
If I can speak, might punch myself in the face.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Have you ever done that, just, you know, sort of
slap yourself around, just to sort of straighten yourself out?
The disappearing American middle class. Someone come into the studio
and punch me in the face. The disappearing American middle class.
So how the lifestyle in the eighties became unaffordable in
twenty twenty five. And once again, I'm not blaming any
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one administration. This is a This is basically something that
has happened over decades, year after year after year after year.
But I think back to nineteen eighty I was in
high school or getting into high school. I know it
seems like a million years ago, but household income was
between fourteen thousand, forty two thousand dollars a year median.
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Though household income was twenty one thousand bucks, one income
could comfortably support a family of four like my mom
stayed home I mean she worked later on in life
when things began to get a little tougher, but when
we were kids, she was home.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Man we got home from school, mom was there.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
And I think that actually is one of the reasons
why we're sort of losing ourselves when it comes to
this generation, or these last couple of generations, because no
one's home but household income needed. Basically, current median household
income in twenty twenty five is get this, eighty thousand,
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six hundred and ten, so it's almost four times as
much now. Yet the result is most middle class families
now need two full time earners just to break even
with the nineteen eighty standards. So, in other words, household
media income right now is eighty thousand bucks.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But it can range obviously from forties to what have you.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
But for the most part, to be able to have
the same middle class.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Lifestyle, a couple people have to work, right a couple people.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
A typical middle class teacher in the nineteen eighties made
about thirteen thousand dollars a year, but one paycheck covered everything.
Right now, an average full time workers sixty eight thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
In nineteen eighty. The medium home.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Price was sixty four thousand, six hundred bucks. Right now,
it's over four hundred and thirty thousand dollars right now.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
If you want to.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Buy a house, the average age to buy a house
in the United States of America right now is over
forty years of age. That is outrageous. That is squashing
the American dream. How do you have an American dream
when you have to wait till you're forty to even
have enough money to buy a home or have saved
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uf enough for a down payment. Think about that for
a secondage the average or median home income, to be
more accurate in the United States right now, home median
home price to sell your homes four hundred and thirty
thousand dollars more than that, actually a little bit more
than that, four hundred and thirty thousand bucks. What kid
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coming out of college who's got three hundred thousand dollars
with a credit college loan debt can even contemplate that,
not to mention, of course, the credit card debt. And
there's been certainly a devaluing of saving and scrimping and
doing without.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
We don't do that anymore, right.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's a big part of this, and that goes back
to what I was talking about in the break, which
is I'm sort of a minimalist.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I'm sort of old school.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
If I don't need it, I don't buy it, Like
I don't have things that glitter and shine.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Okay, fine, I'm not saying you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But at the same time, right, you don't have to
have everything, like we become this gigantic consumption machine in
this country, and I'm not really sure when that happened.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Like my parents, credit cards were just coming in, to
be right, and my parents, if they ever used credit card,
which was as rare as possible, as soon as that
bill came they paid it. Now you just let it
sit there and I want this, I want something else.
I'm not going to pay that. I want something else.
I want something else. I want something else. So that
does feed into this idea that there's a disappearing middle
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class because nobody has any equity, nobody has any any money.
I mean, they have money, but it's almy seemingly fake money.
But let's look at some of the differences, Like think
about the paycheck that you have now, paycheck that I
was talking about back in nineteen eighty A loaf of
bread nineteen eighty fifty cents. A loaf of bread now
is a dollar eighty seven, and that's a cheap loaf
of bread. That's a two hundred and seventy four percent increase.
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Gallon of gas dollar nineteen today I book gas for
about three ten it's about two hundred percent increase. Now,
you know, you think about the amount your money. You're
not making three hundred percent, five hundred percent more than
you did back in nineteen eighty, But the prices of
these items are going up, and it goes back to
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us spending recklessly and of course incurring in a tremendous
amount of debt and printing money. Right in nineteen eighty
a luxury TV one, paycheck, right color TV, microwave, yearly,
family vacation, eating out occasionally.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Those were luxuries.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
In twenty twenty five, necessities demand constant payments. Smartphone data
it's twelve hundred for the smartphone. It's two thousand dollars
a year for the plan. They're streaming services, Internet subscriptions,
two cars, more insurance, more insurance. Convenience now has replaced stability.
Subscription economy drains what little is left. I mean, think
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about how many subscriptions that you have, maybe some of
you don't even know about.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You see these commercials all the time on television. You know,
you download another app and it tells you what.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You're spending your money on that you don't need. So
you're buying another app to tell you what other apps
you don't need. That's sort of what we're at right now.
I mean, think about the brutal bottom line. In the
nineteen eighty one middle class income one, you could have
home ownership, a car, vacation, have some money in a
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savings account, and you had to stay at home parent.
That was nineteen eighty In twenty twenty five two middle
class incomes either still renting, orse, poor house poor, endless
car loans, endless car payments, no savings, childcare through the roof,
mortgage payments through the roof. That is why the middle
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class is disappearing. What used to be a standard American
life now has become a luxury almost right. But then again,
where have we, like, where have we gone off the
rails mentally in this whole escapade, Why have we gotten
to that point where we're so accepting.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of having like we have to have everything.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
But then again, we can't afford everything, so you have
to I don't know, you have to somehow figure out
a way to have what the neighbor has, and you
either throw it on a card or I don't know,
but anyway, I think this is one of the major
issues that politicians need to address, which is how to
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reignite the middle class, how to have people figure out
how to own a home, have a car, save some money,
live that lifestyle. Because unless we're just happy, maybe this
generation is happy with that thing of operating and they
don't care about the same things that their parents and
grandparents cared about.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Maybe that's it. Maybe we stumbled upon an answer and
it's not one that we all like. All Right, my
name is Lee Elsa. The Voice of Freedom will come
right back. You are watching and listening the war Zone, all.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
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Which makes the drilling and production much easier.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Mark, you're allegend in the oil industry, in the gas industry.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Tell us about your track record.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Well, I'm a second generation oil and gas guy. My
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I think, Well, I think ten thousand dollars investor in
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Yeah, at the high that's true.
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Ten thousand dollars turned into thirteen million. That means one
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Speaker 3 (35:07):
Mark?
Speaker 8 (35:07):
What's special about this is all the other basins of
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This is surrounded by large oil and gas fields with
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Very exciting. It's the new basin in the United States,
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Speaker 1 (35:52):
All right.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
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Thanks Mark for being with us today.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Thank you Wayne.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Good to see you again.
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All right, welcome back to these the war Zone. I'm
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at Patriot dot TV do a fantastic job, but they
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where Wayne does his show. And I miss Vegas. I
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The guys in the booth said that they couldn't hear me,
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Trump administration unveils Medicare negotiated prices cuts for like fifteen drugs,
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love the osepic can get it for a much reduced cost.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I know so many people who are taking this drug now. Listen.
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I don't know what the ramifications are. I'm certainly not
a doctor, and I don't pretend to be one, but
just about everybody who jumps on this thing while they're
either on that or GOVI, they lose a lot of weight.
But the negotiated range of savings I guess is up
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Even the thirty even the low end of this is
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And I don't feel like he's gotten enough credit for that.
That's a big, big deal. Trump also says he's canceling
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it's almost a common sense, but it's a spectacular decision. Right,
So on Friday, he says he's canceling every executive order.
President Biden did not actually sign the auto pen, So
any document that he did, which I guess was ninety
two percent of the documents that he signed, he used
the auto pen, which is, you know, shame on Well,
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he didn't know. I mean, he didn't know, He had
no idea what he was doing. Shame on all the
people around him. It's anti American. It is, you know,
all the things that are wrong with the deviousness of
these administrations, the people that are lurking in the shadows.
You know, all the folks who are trying to push
candidates were trying to get things done from behind the
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scenes in a very unscrupulous way. These are the people
that we should be chastising and going after, and Trump
should somehow go after those folks.
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It's got to be a legal way for us to
try to.
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Get to the people who are behind the scenes, who
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he was going or coming into signing some of these
legispieces of legislation. I mean, never knew he was signing
them because the auto pen signed it. So kudos for Trump.
A couple of wins for Trump, you know, since late
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last week again, one the auto pen and of course
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Drugs that everybody out there is using.
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I'm a little leery, man. I'd be a little leary
if I was taking that. But that's your call, man,
that's your call, all right, Well.
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