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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the Saturday Podcast or
whenever it is you're reading. It's a bonus listening. It's
a bonus podcast, and that means it did not air
as a live broadcast during the week. It's just for you.
We've been doing interviews or playing stuff that we thought
was really good, whether it was from Heritage or prager you.
(00:25):
This week there was some audio I didn't get to
that I thought was interesting that I don't want to
go to waste those There are things that there was
a reason that were put in there in the first place,
and so without further ado, let me get to those.
I do want to thank you for supporting our show sponsors,
and if you ever need a good or service, email
(00:46):
me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. If I
have a show sponsor who does that, I will connect
you directly with them. And I loved I love to
do that with the shutdown earlier this week, we had
some audio I wanted to get to that I think
is noteworthy. New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer broke ranks with
(01:10):
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on Fox News calling for
an end to the shutdown. This is what it takes
Democrats have to fix their own party. This is clip
number four two, mister Jimbo of.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The Empowerment Control Act of nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The contingency funding that we set aside for SNAP is
not optional spending.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It is required by the law. President of the Federation
of Government Employees, Everett Keller Kelly, sorry Kelly, was on
CNN with Jake Tapper calling for an end to the shutdown.
This is a very very Democrat group.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Should the Democratic senators from New Mexico, your home state,
vote to open the government so that these SNAP funds
are not at risk?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Let me be clear. The administration is choosing to starve
American children with money that they already have appropriate the
White House. This is a choice by the White House.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
This is also this is also a choice by Senate
Democrats to not volks open the government.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I understand why they're doing it. They're doing it because
they want Medicaid funds restored. They're doing it because they
want Obamacare premiums to be extended past the end of
the year. I understand the reason.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I let me just be clear. The money for contingency
plans is sitting there. That is why the states are
suing the White Houses withholding funds from two to three
weeks worth of SNAP funds. Yeah yeah, well you may
not be a big deal to you, but let's is
a big deal to me. The grandparents for.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
GRI is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
They literally are feeding their children. My point is that
it's a short term solutions accounts. It's a short term.
At the end of the day, people need to be
able to feed their families, and Saturday is when those
funds are also strong.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Fighting Congresswoman, why not asking the Senate Democrats from New
Mexico to vote to open the government so that the
SNAP funds.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I am here in the House of Representatives. It is
shut down. I am fighting to get the government reopen.
I am fighting to get funding put back into SNAP
that is already existent, and I am fighting for the
American people. I am here, But show me a single
Republican that is here. Not a single one is here
to make sure that Americans are fed on Saturday. That
is why I am here.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The hood rat Congressman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett, weigh in
on these SNAP benefits running out soon thanks to the
Shumer shutdown. She was very upset about the shutdown and
the benefits running out because she cares about the po people.
She wants you to know that she thinks recipients should
receive more money for not working because these folks are
(03:56):
too hungry. Well, I've seen a lot of pictures people
that are claiming that they're hungry and they don't like
they've missed a meal.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Now, mind you, even those that are getting SNAP benefits,
they are already too hungry. We are talking about six
dollars a day to eat, and this is something that
they don't feel like is a big deal. We also
know that this is just a preview of things that
are to come, because when they passed the Big Ugly bill,
they ended up cutting out over three hundred billion dollars
(04:24):
from SNAP benefits.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
My mind, we played this earlier in the week, so
forgive me if you heard it, but it's just so
good gravy and put together a montage to show how
the opinions of Democrats have changed over the years. This
is in the nineties when Bill Clinton was president and
he's talking about and this won him a lot of
support from Middle Americas. He's talking about the importance of
(04:50):
getting off of welfare and getting back to work. They
called it welfare to work fair, and it was. The
idea was that there's no pride, no no dignity in
being on government benefits. So get off of them and
get to work, you lazy bastards. And that's what would happen.
(05:12):
That's what would happen if you stop feeding the zoo animals,
they'll have to figure out how to eat on their own.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Nearly thirty years ago, Robert Kennedy said, work is the
meaning of what this country is all about. We need
it as individuals, we need to sense it in our
fellow citizens, and we need it as a society and
as a people. He was right then, and it's right now.
(05:39):
From now on, our nation's answer to this great social
challenge will no longer be an ever ending cycle of welfare.
It will be the dignity, the power, and the ethic
of work. Today we are taking an historic chance to
make welfare what it was meant to be, a second chance,
not a way of life. This bill will help people
(05:59):
to go to work, can stop drawing a welfare check
and start drawing a paycheck. It is now clearly better
to go to work than to stay on welfare. Clearly
better because of actions taken by the Congress in this session.
It is clearly better to end the terrible, almost physical
isolation of huge numbers of poor people in their children
(06:21):
from the rest of mainstream America. We have to do
that today. We are ending welfare as we know it.
But I hope this day will be remembered not for
what it ended, but for what it began, a new
day that offers hope, honors responsibility, rewards work, and changes
the terms of the debate.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
For too many. Welfare has been a way of life
for too long. It has condemned too many on welfare
to a lifetime at the margins of our society. Today
we start to change all that.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual
response it's ability contract, so that they're forced to agree
up front to the conditions placed on receiving the benefit,
and so that they will have a plan from day
one on how to get themselves off of welfare. Put
them to work and make them want to go to work,
(07:18):
and make it reasonable for them to go to work.
Be mandatory work requirement for anyone receiving welfare.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
They actually have charged and run ads saying that President
Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare
reform bill. I signed that move millions of people from
welfare to work. Wait, the requirement was for more work,
not less. I am telling you the claim that President
(07:47):
Obama weaken welfare reforms work requirement is.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Just not true.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
Best anti poverty program as a job which confers not
just income, but structure.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And dignity and a sense of connection to community.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and Podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(08:24):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and Podcast
is produced by Ramon Roeblis, the King of Ding. Executive
producer is Chad Knakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(08:48):
Voices jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance McLain.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often incorporated
into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,
(09:11):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and
(09:36):
a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.
The Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the Saturday Podcast or
whenever it is you're reading. It's a bonus listening. It's
a bonus podcast, and that means it did not air
as a live broadcast during the week. It's just for you.
We've been doing interviews or playing stuff that we thought
was really good, whether it was from Heritage or prager you.
(00:25):
This week there was some audio I didn't get to
that I thought was interesting that I don't want to
go to waste those There are things that there was
a reason that were put in there in the first place,
and so without further ado, let me get to those.
I do want to thank you for supporting our show sponsors,
and if you ever need a good or service, email
(00:46):
me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. If I
have a show sponsor who does that, I will connect
you directly with them. And I loved I love to
do that with the shutdown earlier this week, we had
some audio I wanted to get to that I think
is noteworthy. New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer broke ranks with
(01:10):
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on Fox News calling for
an end to the shutdown. This is what it takes
Democrats have to fix their own party. This is clip
number four two, mister Jimbo of.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The Empowerment Control Act of nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The contingency funding that we set aside for SNAP is
not optional spending.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It is required by the law. President of the Federation
of Government Employees, Everett Keller Kelly, sorry Kelly, was on
CNN with Jake Tapper calling for an end to the shutdown.
This is a very very Democrat group.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Should the Democratic senators from New Mexico, your home state,
vote to open the government so that these SNAP funds
are not at risk?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Let me be clear. The administration is choosing to starve
American children with money that they already have appropriate the
White House. This is a choice by the White House.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
This is also this is also a choice by Senate
Democrats to not volks open the government.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I understand why they're doing it. They're doing it because
they want Medicaid funds restored. They're doing it because they
want Obamacare premiums to be extended past the end of
the year. I understand the reason.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I let me just be clear. The money for contingency
plans is sitting there. That is why the states are
suing the White Houses withholding funds from two to three
weeks worth of SNAP funds. Yeah yeah, well you may
not be a big deal to you, but let's is
a big deal to me. The grandparents for.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
GRI is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
They literally are feeding their children. My point is that
it's a short term solutions accounts. It's a short term.
At the end of the day, people need to be
able to feed their families, and Saturday is when those
funds are also strong.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Fighting Congresswoman, why not asking the Senate Democrats from New
Mexico to vote to open the government so that the
SNAP funds.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I am here in the House of Representatives. It is
shut down. I am fighting to get the government reopen.
I am fighting to get funding put back into SNAP
that is already existent, and I am fighting for the
American people. I am here, But show me a single
Republican that is here. Not a single one is here
to make sure that Americans are fed on Saturday. That
is why I am here.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The hood rat Congressman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett, weigh in
on these SNAP benefits running out soon thanks to the
Shumer shutdown. She was very upset about the shutdown and
the benefits running out because she cares about the po people.
She wants you to know that she thinks recipients should
receive more money for not working because these folks are
(03:56):
too hungry. Well, I've seen a lot of pictures people
that are claiming that they're hungry and they don't like
they've missed a meal.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Now, mind you, even those that are getting SNAP benefits,
they are already too hungry. We are talking about six
dollars a day to eat, and this is something that
they don't feel like is a big deal. We also
know that this is just a preview of things that
are to come, because when they passed the Big Ugly bill,
they ended up cutting out over three hundred billion dollars
(04:24):
from SNAP benefits.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
My mind, we played this earlier in the week, so
forgive me if you heard it, but it's just so
good gravy and put together a montage to show how
the opinions of Democrats have changed over the years. This
is in the nineties when Bill Clinton was president and
he's talking about and this won him a lot of
support from Middle Americas. He's talking about the importance of
(04:50):
getting off of welfare and getting back to work. They
called it welfare to work fair, and it was. The
idea was that there's no pride, no no dignity in
being on government benefits. So get off of them and
get to work, you lazy bastards. And that's what would happen.
(05:12):
That's what would happen if you stop feeding the zoo animals,
they'll have to figure out how to eat on their own.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Nearly thirty years ago, Robert Kennedy said, work is the
meaning of what this country is all about. We need
it as individuals, we need to sense it in our
fellow citizens, and we need it as a society and
as a people. He was right then, and it's right now.
(05:39):
From now on, our nation's answer to this great social
challenge will no longer be an ever ending cycle of welfare.
It will be the dignity, the power, and the ethic
of work. Today we are taking an historic chance to
make welfare what it was meant to be, a second chance,
not a way of life. This bill will help people
(05:59):
to go to work, can stop drawing a welfare check
and start drawing a paycheck. It is now clearly better
to go to work than to stay on welfare. Clearly
better because of actions taken by the Congress in this session.
It is clearly better to end the terrible, almost physical
isolation of huge numbers of poor people in their children
(06:21):
from the rest of mainstream America. We have to do
that today. We are ending welfare as we know it.
But I hope this day will be remembered not for
what it ended, but for what it began, a new
day that offers hope, honors responsibility, rewards work, and changes
the terms of the debate.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
For too many. Welfare has been a way of life
for too long. It has condemned too many on welfare
to a lifetime at the margins of our society. Today
we start to change all that.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual
response it's ability contract, so that they're forced to agree
up front to the conditions placed on receiving the benefit,
and so that they will have a plan from day
one on how to get themselves off of welfare. Put
them to work and make them want to go to work,
(07:18):
and make it reasonable for them to go to work.
Be mandatory work requirement for anyone receiving welfare.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
They actually have charged and run ads saying that President
Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare
reform bill. I signed that move millions of people from
welfare to work. Wait, the requirement was for more work,
not less. I am telling you the claim that President
(07:47):
Obama weaken welfare reforms work requirement is.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Just not true.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
Best anti poverty program as a job which confers not
just income, but structure.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And dignity and a sense of connection to community.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
If you like the Michael Berry Show and Podcast, please
tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a
nice review of our podcast. Comments, suggestions, questions, and interest
in being a corporate sponsor and partner can be communicated
directly to the show at our email address, Michael at
(08:24):
Michael Berryshow dot com, or simply by clicking on our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com. The Michael Berry Show and Podcast
is produced by Ramon Roeblis, the King of Ding. Executive
producer is Chad Knakanishi. Jim Mudd is the creative director.
(08:48):
Voices jingles, Tomfoolery and Shenanigans are provided by Chance McLain.
Director of Research is Sandy Peterson. Emily Bull is our
assistant listener and superfan. Contributions are appreciated and often incorporated
into our production. Where possible, we give credit, where not,
(09:11):
we take all the credit for ourselves. God bless the
memory of Rush Limbaugh. Long live Elvis, be a simple
man like Leonard Skinnard told you, and God bless America. Finally,
if you know a veteran suffering from PTSD, call Camp
Hope at eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD and
(09:36):
a combat veteran will answer the phone to provide free counseling.
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