March 11, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
darry Show is on the air. You love is the
greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
But that's not what he said.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
He distinctively said to blave, and as we all know,
to blave means to bluff.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So you're probably playing cards and he cheated, Lia liar.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
You can't and there ain't no way, Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We just basically follow the money. You know, we look
at the presence executive voters, and we also just follow
the money. So we started looking closely at usc I
D because they were completely violating the presence executive voters
to suspend h foreign foreign aid you know, which what's
called foreign aid, but in our view is a lot
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of corruption. We post the receipts, so it's like this,
this action has been taken, This action has been taken.
So when when we get criticism, we say, like of
what of what which which aligne do you disagree with?
Like which which cut? Which cut? Which cost saving do
you disagree with? And the people usually can't think of.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Any There are people who are charged with trying to
find savings. So yes, it's an attack on government, but
it's also an attack on this government. What I mean
by that is it's an attack on this government that
used to be headed by a black man. It's an
attack on this government that almost elected a black woman
for the highest office in the land. It's an attack
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on a government that has been more welcoming and more
supportive of people who have come to this country and
search for a better life.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Those.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Green started this hearing by saying that
life saving food programs should still be running. We have
paid for the food and we have shifted and it
is sitting trapped in the warehouse because DOGE is blocking
the payments needed to get the food out to the
people who need it. So here's what that means. It
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means that kids are dying and more will die tomorrow
of severe acute malnutrition. If you want nightmares, just google
severe acute malnutrition and look at the photos. The way
that healthcare workers determine if a kid is dying of
this is they measure their bicep, and if their bicep
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is less than four and a half inches around, then
that means you could die of starvation tomorrow. Think of
a kid's arm fitting through this hole. Think of your
kid's arm fitting through this hole. These kids could die
tomorrow without objection.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
And I'm entering for the record posts from the World
Food Program that states, we can confirm that the recent
pause concerning in kind food assistants to WFP purchase from
US farmers with Title two funds has been rescinded. This
allows for the resissumption of food purchases and deliveries under
existing USAID agreements. It also enables WFP to continue working
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with our NGO partners, who play a vital role in
distributing emergency food assistants to people affected by war, floods, droughts,
and other disasters around the world.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The Falk radio listens tend to be the most informed
of them all. You choose not to whistle a song
fast graveyard on your way home, not to just listen
to music, not to call up talk to your buddy,
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all of which would be reasonable ways to blow off
some steam on your way home from work, or to work,
or to pick up the kids to school. But you,
because you understand that a democratic republic requires you, the boss,
the board of directors to stay on top of the
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people you elected because they can't be trusted because of
human nature. Well, you knew better than most, but most
everybody understood things were not right in America. Now, some
people didn't understand why they weren't right, how they got there,
There's a lot that goes into that. But people had
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a genuine understanding that things were wrong, that what we
were seeing and feeling and experiencing in our schools, at workplaces,
our churches, the streets, things were wrong. And they understood
that the people who had been populating the government for
a long time were getting rich and the rest of
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us were not, and that that's not a good thing.
So then enter Michael Steele. I don't like Michael Steele.
I've never liked Michael Steele. Michael Steele's claim to fame
was that he was a black supposed Republican. He was
lieutenant governor of Maryland, and then he went on to
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be the head of the RNC. Because there are a
lot of Republicans who are very eager to put black
people into positions so they can say, CC, we're not racist,
because what they don't want to do is be called
a racist. That's the Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, John McCain,
Jeb Bush mentality. They're scared of being criticized. But Michael
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Steele's never been a guy that liked to you, He's
never been a guy that liked Trump. He's always been
a guy who's skated on the color of his skin.
And if he'd been a Democrat, he'd just blended in
with everybody else, but he got special attention because he
was a Republican. Well, he's upset with Elon Musk finding
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all this waste and fraud in our government because he's
called for an end to it. So now he says,
this is the ultimate Leave those of us who do
government to do government. Leave those of us who do
government to do government. Isn't that amazing? This nation was
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founded on the premise that the citizen was supreme, not
the monarch, that a citizen would consent to be governed
and in the process would choose who would do it.
It's fascinating, fascinating experiment in political science, and it worked.
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And it was intended that people would leave their shop,
whether they be a blacksmith or a shoe cobbler or
a baker, or their farm. They would lay down their sickle,
they would head to the capitol. They would make decisions
that needed to be made for the common wheel and
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they would come back home. The fact that Michael Steele
responded to Elon Musk's revelations of all this fraud by saying,
leave those of us who do government to do government.
That tells you everything about what was wrong in our
government and while we had fought in the first Dude
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the Michael Berry Show. The really funny thing about Michael Steele,
who's the token Republican at MSNBC telling Elon Musk, who's
just discovered all this fraud and waste in our government
that everyone knows was there. Everyone knows it, no one
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doubts it. Let those of us who do government do government.
Isn't that interesting? That's not Elon Musk's way. Elon Musk
didn't let those who make cars make cars. I'm not
an electric vehicle guy, but he created in less than
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two decades the most valuable car company in the world.
And if you've ever been in one of his vehicles,
I've got friends who have them. But if you've ever
been in one, you will see features that you say
to every other car maker, shame on you. Where were you?
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Mercedes Benz for well over one hundred years I'm a
GM guy myself, so in my family are forward folks.
We've always been a GM or Ford family. That's just
it was old fashioned.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
We make a lot of jokes about it, but that's
just who we are. I created something, He created something special,
and I think when it's all over, he'll be the
only electric car company standing, when the subsidies are over,
When when the hype is over, he'll be the last
electric car company standing. And then and only then will
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they begin to call back some of this value that
they've lost in their share price. President Trump announcing that
he's buying a Tesla because well, because they're cool cars,
but also because you've got these these crazies out there
blowing up Tesla's, damaging Tesla, stealing Tesla's. You know, I
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guess you could say to Elon Musk with SpaceX, let
those who do space travel do space travel. It's not
for you to do it. Well, those who do space
travel and have for now sixty five years, they couldn't
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land a reusable rocket. No, Elon can't do it every time,
but he's done it. Nobody else could do it. The
idea that you could use this equipment again, the idea
that SpaceX has to go up and save are NASA
astronauts because NASA couldn't with a multi billion dollar budget
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for all these years and a massive staff. But here,
with his lean operation and a third of his time,
Elon could do that. He could have left the payment
processing system to the experts, but you wouldn't have had PayPal,
which led to a system by which, especially those who
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don't own a business, can say, hey, you spotted me
at the bar the other night, can I pay you
back all the venmos and all that came out of PayPal.
He could have said that about a number of things.
They could have said, you know, leave the leave the
social media sites to the social media people. But he
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wouldn't have saved Tesla. I mean, he wouldn't have saved Twitter.
Barriers to intrigue are what people who are not good
at what they do erect around them. In the state
of Texas, like many other states, we have been in
the process of repealing stupid regulations that were barriers to infants.
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The state of Texas, you had to have a license
from the state in order to braid hair well. It's
known to varying degrees depending on your background. And life
experiences that braiding hair is for black women and some
black men a really big deal and it's kind of
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an underground economy. There's no harm done people that, whether
they be students that are out of class. A lot
of young women will learn to braive hair and they'll
make money for their family doing this, and they may
braive the hair of the women in the apartment complex,
or the women on that street, or the women in
that neighborhood. They can't afford a shop, they can't afford
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all that well. Guests who wanted to have regulations to
keep them out of business, see a lot of these
barriers to intrigue are what people do to pull the
ladder up after they get inside. Now that they've achieved
what they want, they don't want anybody else to have
that same opportunity. The idea that government would be left
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to those who do government. Kaylee Mcananey on Fox News
had a great response. You remember she was President Trump's
press secretary at one point. Now she's on Fox. I
think she does a very good job. She's very coquitted,
and she understands policy better than some of the just
pretty faces. But this was how she.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Reacted Michael Steele, leave government to those of us who
do government. Hmm, mister Steele, we tried that, and you
know what, you gave us thirty six trillion dollars in debt,
nine point one trillion in inflation, eight million people crossing
the border, the fall of a country, and the death
of thirteen heroes, and wars in two others. So we've
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let the government people try and they failed. Now let
Elon Musk and Donald Trump and rooting against SpaceX for
those who did that in that SoundBite. They're trying to
get two astronauts who have been stranded since the Biden
administration out of space. So don't you dare root against
SpaceX root for those two astronauts.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, that is what you're dealing with, the dark soul
of defeated Democrats, And that's what Michael Steele is. Michael
Steele would be a Democrat, but then the whole basis
of his job would be over as long as he's
a Republican. MSNBC says, well, as a Republican, you don't approve.
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You know, it's a really interesting thing. Let's leave Elon
out of this for a moment. Let's even leave Donald
Trump out because they said, you can't run for president
unless you've held office before. You had to have been
a governor or a senator, right, you had to have
played the game. Look at how many people come from
outside a system. Look at what Billy Bean did in
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Oakland that led to Moneyball. He wasn't a traditional scout.
He was a guy that had a life experience and
a unique perspective. Look at how many people come from
outside of business. Look at what Steve Jobs who had
no real training in the computer industry. Look how he
upended electronics as we know it in a number of
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other things. One thing that bothers the Michael Steeles of
the world is there are people with exceptional talent who
can get into your industry and your industry and your
industry and succeed and sometimes drive. They're just better than you.
Michael Steele's not the best and brightest. He's a guy
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who got into politics and doesn't want other people getting
into government because if other people get into government, they're
better than him.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Show jello bran pudding pops made with the goodness of
real jello pudding.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Airlines in the news of Lake and they beloved Texas
Airline Southwest Airlines founded by a great American by the
name of Herb Kellahair. Herb was a lawyer wanted to
create an airline, and it turned out that there were
other people in the airline industry similar to what we've
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been talking about, who didn't want that airline to be
created because it might be better than them. They feared competition.
So Herb kellaher tells the story that he would go
to court all day and then come home from court
where he had to represent his airline himself, a fledgling
little airline called Southwest Airlines. He would come home or
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he'd come back to the office after it being at
court all day, and then he'd have to make the
business decisions of running the airline. The airline at the
time consisted of Houston, Dallas, sent and Tone and it
ran that triangle and they'd use the same plane. A
plane would start the day in Houston, go to Dallas, unload,
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put up, pick up more people, go to San Antone, unload,
pick up more people. Come back to Houston, unload, pick
up more people. It was a commuter plane at a
low price point, but a real kind of catchy optimism
and joy to the way the planes were maintained, painted,
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the way the staff treated you. I remember a guy plane,
a pilot getting on one time years ago. It was
the only airline I would fly, was so loyal to them,
and the fellow we were on the runway for a
little while. He said, so, if y'all don't mind, I'd
like to pricee my harmonica, and he went into a
John Denver. It was, thank god, I'm a country boy.
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That had everybody on the plane singing and laughing for
fifteen minutes. We cut up and weren't even angry that
we were idling on a hot plane. That was the
kind of charismatic leadership be offer. But the airline is
kind of it can't compete any longer, being a little
better than the spirit and the cheap, you know, bucket
shop airlines, and it's getting beaten by the higher end
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carriers for better quality service and these sorts of things.
So they've they've eliminated their free bags policy. Used to
you could check two bags free with the price of
your ticket, and now they've eliminated that except for frequent
flyers and business flyers. It was a big deal. They've
been in the news. That's why I bring that up.
But airlines have been in the news because just after
present and Trump is elected, before even has his team
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around him, we had that horrible crash over Reagan in
d C. And questions have arisen with regard to the
FAA and who is at fault and the Democrats, who
are very good at blaming other people for their failures.
The bureaucracy has failed, and a big part of that
is DEI, which has caused it to die. So the
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CEO of United Airlines, Scott Kirby, was asked about the
Trump administration and they were teeing him up to criticize Trump,
and let's just say he didn't do that. Here's what
he had to say.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
The FAA is by far our biggest challenge.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
The FAA.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Yeah, yeah, the FA today is well. On blue sky days.
Last year, so days with no weather in the system,
we sixty eight percent of our delays were because of air.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Traffic control restrictions.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Still, we're operating on technology that's written in Poetran in
Cobal is decades old. I joked once when we did
a cyber review at our board and somebody asked about
what about the FA, and I said, sort of tongue
in cheek like, I don't think that they'll worry about
that because there's no hackers. The languages that those programs
are written in, it's quite not true. But but you know,
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the technology is decades old. And even worse, there's three
thousand controllers. Short's supposed to be thirteen thousand controllers and
there's three thousand short. New York is fifty four percent understaff.
We have a delay in New York every single day,
no matter what the weather is, because they're simply understaff.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Denver, you know, one of.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
The busiest airports in the country. We're supposed to operate
one hundred and four operations per hour. Last year, you
know how many hours it operated at that zero. It
never got to its operations because it's just understaffed. And
last year the FA hired the maximum number that they
only have one facility to training controllers can only do
eighteen hundred year. They hired the maximum number, but between
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washouts and retirements, they ended the year with a net
new thirty six controllers. So it's going to take this
a century.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Thirty six thirty six and three short.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
I do think that that's about And facilities is another thing,
you know, radars that are forty fifty years old. The
FA spends ninety two percent of their investment budget fill
facilities and equipment budget on maintenance. How many people in
this shot has been ninety two percent of your budget
on maintaining old facilities as opposed to investing in nobody.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It should be the inverse.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
But on those three areas, facilities, technology, and people, you know,
Secretary Duffy I think is committed to fixing it. There's
support within the administration. There's support on both sides of
the aisle. Support at the dot I think to actually,
I think, I think, for the first time in twenty years,
I feel like we have the right.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I think there's also support among the customers.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Well, and that's that's where you know what happens with
the FAA. You know, there's sometimes there's questions about safety.
The FA doesn't when they're short staff. It doesn't make
it less safe. What they do is slow down. They
fortunately cancel flights, they delay flights to keep it safe.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
But it impacts all of you.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
I mean, that's sixty eight percent of delays when there
was no weather involved. Is indicative of the amount of
impact it has on customers burnsmore fuel. That's more carbon
than that. Like everything about it is.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Dad, So what's interesting there is Michael Steele would say,
let those who do government do government. You stay out
of it. Does it sound like those who are doing
government or doing a good job when Scott Kirby tells
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you sixty eight percent of our delays on what they
call blue sky days, days where the weather is not
causing a delay, because that's understandable, sixty eight percent of
our delays are not. Our plane wasn't ready, our staff
wasn't in place, We couldn't get the people in their seats,
couldn't get the door closed.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
It was.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And how many of you had this happen? Because I've
had a lot of friends having this happen. You're sitting
on the tarmac and the pilot because he works for
United or whatever other I learned, I only fly United,
so I hear this a lot. You're sitting on the
runway and he says, guys, I'm sorry, we haven't been cleared.
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I don't know why we haven't been cleared. We're just
going to wait here for a moment. As soon as
we can get ourselves, you know, wedged in there, we'll
get up in the air. We'll do our best to
fly faster, which means burns more fuel. We'll do our
best to get you there on time. But what they're
doing is letting you know this isn't a United Airlines problem,
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This isn't air traffic control. This is an FAA problem. Now,
why doesn't FAA have the staffing in place to handle
what we know are their needs. Oh, there are people
out there with the capability of doing the job. There
are people who are willing to do the job at
the price that is offered, the pay scale that is offered.
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There are people whose dream is to be an FAA controller,
air traffic controller. They're dreamed, they've dream to the certain
tired lives. They're aviation nuts. Aviation people are like old
car people, are like gun people. They're just certain like foodies.
They're just certain people who live for this sort of stuff.
But unfortunately they're white males, and the FAA didn't want
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to hire white males. There's a guy with the lawsuit
right now, he's gonna win it. What I understand, he's
got a great case, came out number one in his
class to be an air traffic control they didn't hire
him because he's a white Mary. These are the results.
There are consequences. You know, everybody wants to be nice
to the white Criberral and they're craziness. There are real
consequences to this. The Michael Barry Show, President Trumps nobody
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planned to make America great again has been so far
a smooth sailing. When you come in and drive the
evil out of the temple as Christ did, it's a
win win when you come in and do away with DEI.
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The only people screaming are the people having to admit
that they're addicted to a bad philosophy. What we've seen
so far has been easy to stomach, delightful actually. But
America's problems are so deep, and the people who benefit
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from those problematic things are so powerful that in order
to slay this dragon, you're going to get cut. It's
going to be some pain, and it's going to be
interesting to see if Americans are willing to stay the course.
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You've probably noticed the stock market has been down, and
I'll quote to you. I closed our show this morning
with this because I thought it was very important. President
Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. He said the market and
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the economy have become hooked, become addicted to excessive government spending,
and there's going to be a detox period. If you've
known anyone who suffered addiction, and most of us have,
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most of us know someone who has suffered addiction, you
know that between the moment where you say, step A,
there's a problem, step B, we're going to fix it.
Step C. It is that B step that's painful. That's withdrawals,
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that's disassociation from the wrong kind of people. That's maybe
losing your job, maybe moving, that's changing your in many
cases your circle of friends because all y'all had in
common was drinking or drugs or gambling or whatever else.
That's a painful process and you've got to go through
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that fire to get to see. We're entering into B
right now, and that's going to mean a lot of things.
That's going to mean stock market volatility because there are
companies the market has long rewarded government pumping money into
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our economy. It's inflationary, it creates a number of problems,
but in the short term it needs more money, and
so people like that. But there's no free lunch. Then again,
if you're the guy that eats the free lunch every day.
You don't find it. There's a free lunch. You don't
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mind the consequences. And so many investors, companies, funds, you
name it, have grown, as he said, addicted to all
of this big spending. And so we had a run
up in stock prices, and everyone loves a run up.
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But then when you start pulling that cash back out
of the economy, those projections go down, revenues go down.
You have to suffer a short term pain for the
long term good. One of the things we know is
that the tariffs, which are intended to restore a degree
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of balance and fairness on behalf of the American worker
in the American business, they're going to make imports more expensive.
There's no doubt about that. But this is the only
way he gets Mexico and Canada to the table. It's
the only way he gets China to negotiate, because it'll
want to. But China is suffering a severe deflation right now,
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the opposite of what we have. China has some real
problems on their hands. And China is banking on something
right now that's being called the Birthday Summit. In June,
she and Trump have a birthday a day apart, so
it makes for a great pr campaign to put the
two of them together at the same time. And China
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is scared of what Trump is threatening because tariffs on
China close off the American market at the price at
which they are accustomed to, which is where they were thriving.
He has to use that tool to get the result
he wants. All right, we're going to talk more about this.
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Let me say this. They've been counting on industry to
tell Trump that his plans won't work. Here is Roland
Bush with he's the CEO of Siemens Corporation on Fox
Business talking about the tariffs and that he understands the
reasoning behind it. Listen to this six oh nine.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
Are you going to be doing in that shining new
plant behind you?
Speaker 11 (30:24):
So this plant behind me is producing switchboards. So if
you want to electify a data center, you need switchboards,
and this is a huge demand. Each customer has a
little bit of a different one, and this one assembles
really perfectly to the quality needs switchboards for data center customers,
but they go also in other other places.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Can I just ask you for some clarity? Here are
these boltons or additions add ons to existing plants.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I just want it to be clear for our viewers.
Speaker 11 (30:55):
This is a very new plant. So we have another
plant nearby and Gret Prawrie, this one in Fort Work
is a brand new one. We along with Ponoma, we
invested almost three hundred million dollars. This will create nine
hundred new jobs. These are new capacities which we are
building up to serve the demand of our customers, which
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is increasing, as you can imagine, because data centers are
mushrooming because of AI. Technology needs all that compute and
we are taking care that they can go up and running.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
I just wanted to tell you, as you know, the
big word of the day here is tariffs, and President
Trump has threatened very seriously to slap twenty five percent
tariffs on all European goods coming into the United States.
He calls them reciprocal tariffs. Does your build out here
in the United States help you dodge some of that
or mitigate some of the pain from that.
Speaker 11 (31:49):
Yeah, it does definitively. And I can understand the logic,
which is all fair, having a level playing field. That's
good bringing manufacturing back to the United States, creating jobs
that's good, but also having technological leadership, which is the
motivation behind, so I can tick the box in all aspects.
Sometimes this speed is a little bit of a challenge
because you need to relocate manufacturing. That takes a little
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bit of time. But we did that in the past
and we will continue to do it in the future.
So we are local for local Our local for local
value add IS sits on eighty five eighty five plus percent,
and we continue to do that. Yet, you come to
the point if you want to localize and there's not
only for Semens, but any other company wants to localize
manufacture United States in a market way of less and
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less labor. Let alone skill the labor. We can help
and make it as automated as digital as possible. Bring
the capabilities the it capabilities the United States has on
the shop floor, so you can leverage these capabilities and
make it work with newest technology.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
Well, I know Americans appreciate the jobs that you are
creating in both Fort Worth and Pomona, California.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
You know what's amazing. Look up the issue of reciprocal tariffs.
Countries are screaming and all Trump is saying is whatever
tariffs you're putting on our products comming in your country,
are going to put the same one yours, And they're
screaming we weren't in a fair trade situation.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
darry Show is on the air. You love is the
greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
But that's not what he said.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
He distinctively said to blave, and as we all know,
to blave means to bluff.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
So you're probably playing cards and he cheated, Lia liar.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
You can't and there ain't no way, Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We just basically follow the money. You know, we look
at the presence executive voters, and we also just follow
the money. So we started looking closely at usc I
D because they were completely violating the presence executive voters
to suspend h foreign foreign aid you know, which what's
called foreign aid, but in our view is a lot
(01:22):
of corruption. We post the receipts, so it's like this,
this action has been taken, This action has been taken.
So when when we get criticism, we say, like of
what of what which which aligne do you disagree with?
Like which which cut? Which cut? Which cost saving do
you disagree with? And the people usually can't think of.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Any There are people who are charged with trying to
find savings. So yes, it's an attack on government, but
it's also an attack on this government. What I mean
by that is it's an attack on this government that
used to be headed by a black man. It's an
attack on this government that almost elected a black woman
for the highest office in the land. It's an attack
(02:04):
on a government that has been more welcoming and more
supportive of people who have come to this country and
search for a better life.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Those.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Green started this hearing by saying that
life saving food programs should still be running. We have
paid for the food and we have shifted and it
is sitting trapped in the warehouse because DOGE is blocking
the payments needed to get the food out to the
people who need it. So here's what that means. It
(03:00):
means that kids are dying and more will die tomorrow
of severe acute malnutrition. If you want nightmares, just google
severe acute malnutrition and look at the photos. The way
that healthcare workers determine if a kid is dying of
this is they measure their bicep, and if their bicep
(03:22):
is less than four and a half inches around, then
that means you could die of starvation tomorrow. Think of
a kid's arm fitting through this hole. Think of your
kid's arm fitting through this hole. These kids could die
tomorrow without objection.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
And I'm entering for the record posts from the World
Food Program that states, we can confirm that the recent
pause concerning in kind food assistants to WFP purchase from
US farmers with Title two funds has been rescinded. This
allows for the resissumption of food purchases and deliveries under
existing USAID agreements. It also enables WFP to continue working
(04:07):
with our NGO partners, who play a vital role in
distributing emergency food assistants to people affected by war, floods, droughts,
and other disasters around the world.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The Falk radio listens tend to be the most informed
of them all. You choose not to whistle a song
fast graveyard on your way home, not to just listen
to music, not to call up talk to your buddy,
(04:44):
all of which would be reasonable ways to blow off
some steam on your way home from work, or to work,
or to pick up the kids to school. But you,
because you understand that a democratic republic requires you, the boss,
the board of directors to stay on top of the
(05:05):
people you elected because they can't be trusted because of
human nature. Well, you knew better than most, but most
everybody understood things were not right in America. Now, some
people didn't understand why they weren't right, how they got there,
There's a lot that goes into that. But people had
(05:27):
a genuine understanding that things were wrong, that what we
were seeing and feeling and experiencing in our schools, at workplaces,
our churches, the streets, things were wrong. And they understood
that the people who had been populating the government for
a long time were getting rich and the rest of
(05:51):
us were not, and that that's not a good thing.
So then enter Michael Steele. I don't like Michael Steele.
I've never liked Michael Steele. Michael Steele's claim to fame
was that he was a black supposed Republican. He was
lieutenant governor of Maryland, and then he went on to
(06:12):
be the head of the RNC. Because there are a
lot of Republicans who are very eager to put black
people into positions so they can say, CC, we're not racist,
because what they don't want to do is be called
a racist. That's the Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, John McCain,
Jeb Bush mentality. They're scared of being criticized. But Michael
(06:34):
Steele's never been a guy that liked to you, He's
never been a guy that liked Trump. He's always been
a guy who's skated on the color of his skin.
And if he'd been a Democrat, he'd just blended in
with everybody else, but he got special attention because he
was a Republican. Well, he's upset with Elon Musk finding
(06:57):
all this waste and fraud in our government because he's
called for an end to it. So now he says,
this is the ultimate Leave those of us who do
government to do government. Leave those of us who do
government to do government. Isn't that amazing? This nation was
(07:19):
founded on the premise that the citizen was supreme, not
the monarch, that a citizen would consent to be governed
and in the process would choose who would do it.
It's fascinating, fascinating experiment in political science, and it worked.
(07:43):
And it was intended that people would leave their shop,
whether they be a blacksmith or a shoe cobbler or
a baker, or their farm. They would lay down their sickle,
they would head to the capitol. They would make decisions
that needed to be made for the common wheel and
(08:06):
they would come back home. The fact that Michael Steele
responded to Elon Musk's revelations of all this fraud by saying,
leave those of us who do government to do government.
That tells you everything about what was wrong in our
government and while we had fought in the first Dude
(08:27):
the Michael Berry Show. The really funny thing about Michael Steele,
who's the token Republican at MSNBC telling Elon Musk, who's
just discovered all this fraud and waste in our government
that everyone knows was there. Everyone knows it, no one
(08:50):
doubts it. Let those of us who do government do government.
Isn't that interesting? That's not Elon Musk's way. Elon Musk
didn't let those who make cars make cars. I'm not
an electric vehicle guy, but he created in less than
(09:17):
two decades the most valuable car company in the world.
And if you've ever been in one of his vehicles,
I've got friends who have them. But if you've ever
been in one, you will see features that you say
to every other car maker, shame on you. Where were you?
(09:40):
Mercedes Benz for well over one hundred years I'm a
GM guy myself, so in my family are forward folks.
We've always been a GM or Ford family. That's just
it was old fashioned.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
We make a lot of jokes about it, but that's
just who we are. I created something, He created something special,
and I think when it's all over, he'll be the
only electric car company standing, when the subsidies are over,
When when the hype is over, he'll be the last
electric car company standing. And then and only then will
(10:18):
they begin to call back some of this value that
they've lost in their share price. President Trump announcing that
he's buying a Tesla because well, because they're cool cars,
but also because you've got these these crazies out there
blowing up Tesla's, damaging Tesla, stealing Tesla's. You know, I
(10:44):
guess you could say to Elon Musk with SpaceX, let
those who do space travel do space travel. It's not
for you to do it. Well, those who do space
travel and have for now sixty five years, they couldn't
(11:07):
land a reusable rocket. No, Elon can't do it every time,
but he's done it. Nobody else could do it. The
idea that you could use this equipment again, the idea
that SpaceX has to go up and save are NASA
astronauts because NASA couldn't with a multi billion dollar budget
(11:29):
for all these years and a massive staff. But here,
with his lean operation and a third of his time,
Elon could do that. He could have left the payment
processing system to the experts, but you wouldn't have had PayPal,
which led to a system by which, especially those who
(11:51):
don't own a business, can say, hey, you spotted me
at the bar the other night, can I pay you
back all the venmos and all that came out of PayPal.
He could have said that about a number of things.
They could have said, you know, leave the leave the
social media sites to the social media people. But he
(12:14):
wouldn't have saved Tesla. I mean, he wouldn't have saved Twitter.
Barriers to intrigue are what people who are not good
at what they do erect around them. In the state
of Texas, like many other states, we have been in
the process of repealing stupid regulations that were barriers to infants.
(12:38):
The state of Texas, you had to have a license
from the state in order to braid hair well. It's
known to varying degrees depending on your background. And life
experiences that braiding hair is for black women and some
black men a really big deal and it's kind of
(13:01):
an underground economy. There's no harm done people that, whether
they be students that are out of class. A lot
of young women will learn to braive hair and they'll
make money for their family doing this, and they may
braive the hair of the women in the apartment complex,
or the women on that street, or the women in
that neighborhood. They can't afford a shop, they can't afford
(13:25):
all that well. Guests who wanted to have regulations to
keep them out of business, see a lot of these
barriers to intrigue are what people do to pull the
ladder up after they get inside. Now that they've achieved
what they want, they don't want anybody else to have
that same opportunity. The idea that government would be left
(13:49):
to those who do government. Kaylee Mcananey on Fox News
had a great response. You remember she was President Trump's
press secretary at one point. Now she's on Fox. I
think she does a very good job. She's very coquitted,
and she understands policy better than some of the just
pretty faces. But this was how she.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Reacted Michael Steele, leave government to those of us who
do government. Hmm, mister Steele, we tried that, and you
know what, you gave us thirty six trillion dollars in debt,
nine point one trillion in inflation, eight million people crossing
the border, the fall of a country, and the death
of thirteen heroes, and wars in two others. So we've
(14:27):
let the government people try and they failed. Now let
Elon Musk and Donald Trump and rooting against SpaceX for
those who did that in that SoundBite. They're trying to
get two astronauts who have been stranded since the Biden
administration out of space. So don't you dare root against
SpaceX root for those two astronauts.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, that is what you're dealing with, the dark soul
of defeated Democrats, And that's what Michael Steele is. Michael
Steele would be a Democrat, but then the whole basis
of his job would be over as long as he's
a Republican. MSNBC says, well, as a Republican, you don't approve.
(15:09):
You know, it's a really interesting thing. Let's leave Elon
out of this for a moment. Let's even leave Donald
Trump out because they said, you can't run for president
unless you've held office before. You had to have been
a governor or a senator, right, you had to have
played the game. Look at how many people come from
outside a system. Look at what Billy Bean did in
(15:32):
Oakland that led to Moneyball. He wasn't a traditional scout.
He was a guy that had a life experience and
a unique perspective. Look at how many people come from
outside of business. Look at what Steve Jobs who had
no real training in the computer industry. Look how he
upended electronics as we know it in a number of
(15:55):
other things. One thing that bothers the Michael Steeles of
the world is there are people with exceptional talent who
can get into your industry and your industry and your
industry and succeed and sometimes drive. They're just better than you.
Michael Steele's not the best and brightest. He's a guy
(16:15):
who got into politics and doesn't want other people getting
into government because if other people get into government, they're
better than him.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Show jello bran pudding pops made with the goodness of
real jello pudding.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Airlines in the news of Lake and they beloved Texas
Airline Southwest Airlines founded by a great American by the
name of Herb Kellahair. Herb was a lawyer wanted to
create an airline, and it turned out that there were
other people in the airline industry similar to what we've
(16:51):
been talking about, who didn't want that airline to be
created because it might be better than them. They feared competition.
So Herb kellaher tells the story that he would go
to court all day and then come home from court
where he had to represent his airline himself, a fledgling
little airline called Southwest Airlines. He would come home or
(17:13):
he'd come back to the office after it being at
court all day, and then he'd have to make the
business decisions of running the airline. The airline at the
time consisted of Houston, Dallas, sent and Tone and it
ran that triangle and they'd use the same plane. A
plane would start the day in Houston, go to Dallas, unload,
(17:34):
put up, pick up more people, go to San Antone, unload,
pick up more people. Come back to Houston, unload, pick
up more people. It was a commuter plane at a
low price point, but a real kind of catchy optimism
and joy to the way the planes were maintained, painted,
(17:57):
the way the staff treated you. I remember a guy plane,
a pilot getting on one time years ago. It was
the only airline I would fly, was so loyal to them,
and the fellow we were on the runway for a
little while. He said, so, if y'all don't mind, I'd
like to pricee my harmonica, and he went into a
John Denver. It was, thank god, I'm a country boy.
(18:17):
That had everybody on the plane singing and laughing for
fifteen minutes. We cut up and weren't even angry that
we were idling on a hot plane. That was the
kind of charismatic leadership be offer. But the airline is
kind of it can't compete any longer, being a little
better than the spirit and the cheap, you know, bucket
shop airlines, and it's getting beaten by the higher end
(18:40):
carriers for better quality service and these sorts of things.
So they've they've eliminated their free bags policy. Used to
you could check two bags free with the price of
your ticket, and now they've eliminated that except for frequent
flyers and business flyers. It was a big deal. They've
been in the news. That's why I bring that up.
But airlines have been in the news because just after
present and Trump is elected, before even has his team
(19:02):
around him, we had that horrible crash over Reagan in
d C. And questions have arisen with regard to the
FAA and who is at fault and the Democrats, who
are very good at blaming other people for their failures.
The bureaucracy has failed, and a big part of that
is DEI, which has caused it to die. So the
(19:25):
CEO of United Airlines, Scott Kirby, was asked about the
Trump administration and they were teeing him up to criticize Trump,
and let's just say he didn't do that. Here's what
he had to say.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
The FAA is by far our biggest challenge.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
The FAA.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Yeah, yeah, the FA today is well. On blue sky days.
Last year, so days with no weather in the system,
we sixty eight percent of our delays were because of air.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Traffic control restrictions.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Still, we're operating on technology that's written in Poetran in
Cobal is decades old. I joked once when we did
a cyber review at our board and somebody asked about
what about the FA, and I said, sort of tongue
in cheek like, I don't think that they'll worry about
that because there's no hackers. The languages that those programs
are written in, it's quite not true. But but you know,
(20:16):
the technology is decades old. And even worse, there's three
thousand controllers. Short's supposed to be thirteen thousand controllers and
there's three thousand short. New York is fifty four percent understaff.
We have a delay in New York every single day,
no matter what the weather is, because they're simply understaff.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Denver, you know, one of.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
The busiest airports in the country. We're supposed to operate
one hundred and four operations per hour. Last year, you
know how many hours it operated at that zero. It
never got to its operations because it's just understaffed. And
last year the FA hired the maximum number that they
only have one facility to training controllers can only do
eighteen hundred year. They hired the maximum number, but between
(20:52):
washouts and retirements, they ended the year with a net
new thirty six controllers. So it's going to take this
a century.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Thirty six thirty six and three short.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
I do think that that's about And facilities is another thing,
you know, radars that are forty fifty years old. The
FA spends ninety two percent of their investment budget fill
facilities and equipment budget on maintenance. How many people in
this shot has been ninety two percent of your budget
on maintaining old facilities as opposed to investing in nobody.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It should be the inverse.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
But on those three areas, facilities, technology, and people, you know,
Secretary Duffy I think is committed to fixing it. There's
support within the administration. There's support on both sides of
the aisle. Support at the dot I think to actually,
I think, I think, for the first time in twenty years,
I feel like we have the right.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I think there's also support among the customers.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Well, and that's that's where you know what happens with
the FAA. You know, there's sometimes there's questions about safety.
The FA doesn't when they're short staff. It doesn't make
it less safe. What they do is slow down. They
fortunately cancel flights, they delay flights to keep it safe.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
But it impacts all of you.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
I mean, that's sixty eight percent of delays when there
was no weather involved. Is indicative of the amount of
impact it has on customers burnsmore fuel. That's more carbon
than that. Like everything about it is.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Dad, So what's interesting there is Michael Steele would say,
let those who do government do government. You stay out
of it. Does it sound like those who are doing
government or doing a good job when Scott Kirby tells
(22:25):
you sixty eight percent of our delays on what they
call blue sky days, days where the weather is not
causing a delay, because that's understandable, sixty eight percent of
our delays are not. Our plane wasn't ready, our staff
wasn't in place, We couldn't get the people in their seats,
couldn't get the door closed.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
It was.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And how many of you had this happen? Because I've
had a lot of friends having this happen. You're sitting
on the tarmac and the pilot because he works for
United or whatever other I learned, I only fly United,
so I hear this a lot. You're sitting on the
runway and he says, guys, I'm sorry, we haven't been cleared.
(23:07):
I don't know why we haven't been cleared. We're just
going to wait here for a moment. As soon as
we can get ourselves, you know, wedged in there, we'll
get up in the air. We'll do our best to
fly faster, which means burns more fuel. We'll do our
best to get you there on time. But what they're
doing is letting you know this isn't a United Airlines problem,
(23:29):
This isn't air traffic control. This is an FAA problem. Now,
why doesn't FAA have the staffing in place to handle
what we know are their needs. Oh, there are people
out there with the capability of doing the job. There
are people who are willing to do the job at
the price that is offered, the pay scale that is offered.
(23:52):
There are people whose dream is to be an FAA controller,
air traffic controller. They're dreamed, they've dream to the certain
tired lives. They're aviation nuts. Aviation people are like old
car people, are like gun people. They're just certain like foodies.
They're just certain people who live for this sort of stuff.
But unfortunately they're white males, and the FAA didn't want
(24:17):
to hire white males. There's a guy with the lawsuit
right now, he's gonna win it. What I understand, he's
got a great case, came out number one in his
class to be an air traffic control they didn't hire
him because he's a white Mary. These are the results.
There are consequences. You know, everybody wants to be nice
to the white Criberral and they're craziness. There are real
consequences to this. The Michael Barry Show, President Trumps nobody
(24:47):
planned to make America great again has been so far
a smooth sailing. When you come in and drive the
evil out of the temple as Christ did, it's a
win win when you come in and do away with DEI.
(25:09):
The only people screaming are the people having to admit
that they're addicted to a bad philosophy. What we've seen
so far has been easy to stomach, delightful actually. But
America's problems are so deep, and the people who benefit
(25:35):
from those problematic things are so powerful that in order
to slay this dragon, you're going to get cut. It's
going to be some pain, and it's going to be
interesting to see if Americans are willing to stay the course.
(25:57):
You've probably noticed the stock market has been down, and
I'll quote to you. I closed our show this morning
with this because I thought it was very important. President
Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. He said the market and
(26:20):
the economy have become hooked, become addicted to excessive government spending,
and there's going to be a detox period. If you've
known anyone who suffered addiction, and most of us have,
(26:41):
most of us know someone who has suffered addiction, you
know that between the moment where you say, step A,
there's a problem, step B, we're going to fix it.
Step C. It is that B step that's painful. That's withdrawals,
(27:07):
that's disassociation from the wrong kind of people. That's maybe
losing your job, maybe moving, that's changing your in many
cases your circle of friends because all y'all had in
common was drinking or drugs or gambling or whatever else.
That's a painful process and you've got to go through
(27:28):
that fire to get to see. We're entering into B
right now, and that's going to mean a lot of things.
That's going to mean stock market volatility because there are
companies the market has long rewarded government pumping money into
(27:49):
our economy. It's inflationary, it creates a number of problems,
but in the short term it needs more money, and
so people like that. But there's no free lunch. Then again,
if you're the guy that eats the free lunch every day.
You don't find it. There's a free lunch. You don't
(28:10):
mind the consequences. And so many investors, companies, funds, you
name it, have grown, as he said, addicted to all
of this big spending. And so we had a run
up in stock prices, and everyone loves a run up.
(28:34):
But then when you start pulling that cash back out
of the economy, those projections go down, revenues go down.
You have to suffer a short term pain for the
long term good. One of the things we know is
that the tariffs, which are intended to restore a degree
(28:57):
of balance and fairness on behalf of the American worker
in the American business, they're going to make imports more expensive.
There's no doubt about that. But this is the only
way he gets Mexico and Canada to the table. It's
the only way he gets China to negotiate, because it'll
want to. But China is suffering a severe deflation right now,
(29:17):
the opposite of what we have. China has some real
problems on their hands. And China is banking on something
right now that's being called the Birthday Summit. In June,
she and Trump have a birthday a day apart, so
it makes for a great pr campaign to put the
two of them together at the same time. And China
(29:38):
is scared of what Trump is threatening because tariffs on
China close off the American market at the price at
which they are accustomed to, which is where they were thriving.
He has to use that tool to get the result
he wants. All right, we're going to talk more about this.
(30:00):
Let me say this. They've been counting on industry to
tell Trump that his plans won't work. Here is Roland
Bush with he's the CEO of Siemens Corporation on Fox
Business talking about the tariffs and that he understands the
reasoning behind it. Listen to this six oh nine.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
Are you going to be doing in that shining new
plant behind you?
Speaker 11 (30:24):
So this plant behind me is producing switchboards. So if
you want to electify a data center, you need switchboards,
and this is a huge demand. Each customer has a
little bit of a different one, and this one assembles
really perfectly to the quality needs switchboards for data center customers,
but they go also in other other places.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Can I just ask you for some clarity? Here are
these boltons or additions add ons to existing plants.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I just want it to be clear for our viewers.
Speaker 11 (30:55):
This is a very new plant. So we have another
plant nearby and Gret Prawrie, this one in Fort Work
is a brand new one. We along with Ponoma, we
invested almost three hundred million dollars. This will create nine
hundred new jobs. These are new capacities which we are
building up to serve the demand of our customers, which
(31:16):
is increasing, as you can imagine, because data centers are
mushrooming because of AI. Technology needs all that compute and
we are taking care that they can go up and running.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
I just wanted to tell you, as you know, the
big word of the day here is tariffs, and President
Trump has threatened very seriously to slap twenty five percent
tariffs on all European goods coming into the United States.
He calls them reciprocal tariffs. Does your build out here
in the United States help you dodge some of that
or mitigate some of the pain from that.
Speaker 11 (31:49):
Yeah, it does definitively. And I can understand the logic,
which is all fair, having a level playing field. That's
good bringing manufacturing back to the United States, creating jobs
that's good, but also having technological leadership, which is the
motivation behind, so I can tick the box in all aspects.
Sometimes this speed is a little bit of a challenge
because you need to relocate manufacturing. That takes a little
(32:12):
bit of time. But we did that in the past
and we will continue to do it in the future.
So we are local for local Our local for local
value add IS sits on eighty five eighty five plus percent,
and we continue to do that. Yet, you come to
the point if you want to localize and there's not
only for Semens, but any other company wants to localize
manufacture United States in a market way of less and
(32:34):
less labor. Let alone skill the labor. We can help
and make it as automated as digital as possible. Bring
the capabilities the it capabilities the United States has on
the shop floor, so you can leverage these capabilities and
make it work with newest technology.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
Well, I know Americans appreciate the jobs that you are
creating in both Fort Worth and Pomona, California.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
You know what's amazing. Look up the issue of reciprocal tariffs.
Countries are screaming and all Trump is saying is whatever
tariffs you're putting on our products comming in your country,
are going to put the same one yours, And they're
screaming we weren't in a fair trade situation.
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