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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcoming back to the program. Nebraska first District Congressman Mike
Flood after I shall we say to be kind contentious
town hall meeting in Lincoln the other night, Mike, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Were you I like to say, I like to say
it was spirited?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Spirited? Yes? Were you expecting that the kind of the
kind of behavior you know what you were getting? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I expected that. This is the same stuff I saw
in Stewart and Columbus. In fact, a lot of the
folks that got to the microphone or people that have
asked me questions before, so I expected it to be
this way in Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I mentioned yesterday that in advance of that town hall
this tweet post on x from the Nebraska Democratic Party.
Today is a day Mike Flood's town hall is this
afternoon at five pm. Show up early, doors open four
thirty voters of Nebraska District one. You know what to do? Yeah,
(00:58):
well that's just incitement. How about be sure to asked,
be sure to bring your questions for Congressman Flood? No,
you know what to do? Are you? You know? Don
does Don Bacon does the teletown halls? Now, part of
the reason is that are you considering that, are you
going to continue to stand up there.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm going to continue to stand up there for two reasons.
One Congressman Fortenberry, he did it for seventeen years. When
I ran, I said I would do three a year.
And you know, this is the way it works best
for me. I think, you know, I feel passionate with
the things we're doing in Congress or the right things,
and I'm willing to stand in the town square and
defend my votes and explain my votes and explain to
(01:38):
the people some of the facts instead of all the misinformation.
I don't know how this gets better if we don't
confront all of the hysteria that has been pushed by
the left and by the way, the people that are
pushing this stuff. What I asked at the town hall,
I said, who here thinks a twenty eight year old
who can't chooses not to should get free healthcare? The
(01:58):
entire place you erupted that yes, they should get free healthcare.
I know, thanks for that.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The police.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The place was stuffed with agitators that are probably and
paid for. These people don't do this for free. They
don't travel around to Republican districts and interrupt town halls
for people like you for free. So we probably we
probably just need to get to the bottom of who's
doing it, but that's the nature of the American body politic.
We do it this way. Do you do you have
(02:26):
security at this thing?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah? Actually, you and l police did an outstanding job.
And I always tell all the police thank you very
much for being here. I don't want anybody drug out
of here. I don't want anybody to get, you know,
in trouble for voice in their opinion. And the police
did a great job. The whole thing worked out. Here's
the spooky thing. So I'm I'm at the corn Husker
(02:52):
Hotel where I have my district office. I come out
of the men's room and there's a lady videotaping and
then I turned the corner and these three handmaiden women
dressed in all this garb and white bonnets are like
following me back to my office and then just standing
there looking in the windows like, Lord, who does that?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
They're paid for They're not doing this for free, completely
off the rails.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, it's a shame, and because the issues aren't getting
addressed now, the only thing that gets out is this stuff,
and they all they're videotaping it with their phones and
then they put it on social media. This is not
a mystery anymore. But what does it say, Mike Flood
about the condition of the Democrat Party in District one
that there's a real good chance you're not going to
(03:39):
have an opponent in the twenty twenty six midterm election,
and if you do, it's going to be Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck or a close personal friend of theirs.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, you know, at one point during the town hall,
I said, you know, we're extending the child tax credit,
no tax on tips. Said the heart and soul of
working class America now runs through the Republican Party. And
it was a complete meltdown because their party is fractured
in a way that it hasn't been in a very
long time. The people there are siding with a guy
(04:14):
in New York that wants government run grocery stores. Hey,
they want free health care for all. They don't want
to pay for it. They don't want to pay the
taxes for it. Somebody else should pay the taxes. Mike tax,
the rich tax, the Ridge tax the rich. That's all
I hurt.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You are one of four hundred and thirty five in
the House of Representatives, one of two hundred and nineteen Republicans.
So I know you don't you don't control you. You're
not the emperor in there. What can we do about
the social security mess?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Because with the clock is ticking, well, the clocks ticket
And the only way we're going to fix that is
if Democrats and Republicans sit down at a table, act
like adults and go through all of the issues, all
of the things that we have brewing there, and make
sure that we keep our promise to the people that
(05:04):
have been paying into social Security. You know, there's so
much hysteria out there. You know, one of my close
relatives they had called me during this reconciliation process, is
that I'm worried my social security is going to stop coming.
It's like, for God's takes, like we didn't even touch it.
We had nothing to do with it with reconciliation. But
you know Tom Call from Oklahoma, he's the chairman of Appropriations.
(05:26):
He said, for a long time until the Democrats are
willing to sit down at the table with us and
have a conversation about storing up social security. For the
long term, we're not going to be able to get there,
and they're in no mood to compromise or to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, their solution is to tax people higher, to go
after people that have earned more and tax them. But
I got to tell you, Mike, the social security issue
is a major problem, but it is nothing compared to
the Medicare crisis that's coming the baby boomers. The oldest
baby boomers are seventy nine. This year, at eighty is
(06:00):
when they go into assisted slash independent living, and we
don't have the infrastructure for this. When are you guys
going to get serious about this major freaking problem in
our country.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, they call it the silver tsunami, and I have
been talking about this. I just visited the Beamer Skilled
Care Facility the other day. You're right, we don't have
the dead capacity we need. We do need to figure
out a way to let people age in place at
home and stay there longer, because the nursing home costs
six to ten thousand dollars a month and that's unsustainable obviously,
(06:37):
so we have increased opportunities to keep people in their
home for longer. But bigger than the Silver tsunami are
the chronic health conditions that are often compounded by loneliness
in a lot of ways. And I'm one of the
only Republican members that is pushing for more resources to
(06:59):
come that loneliness. And I'm joined by Dentor Ricketts and others.
And you know it's complicated, and you're right, we don't
have the good vet capacity and we don't have the
money to pay for all the nursing offs. That's why
we needed to protect Medicaid because we can't be handled
them out to illegals and able bodied Americans who refuse.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Not to work a man, Mike. Thanks always good to
have you on. Nebraska first District Congressman Mike Flood
Welcoming back to the program. Nebraska first District Congressman Mike
Flood after I shall we say to be kind contentious
town hall meeting in Lincoln the other night, Mike, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Were you I like to say, I like to say
it was spirited?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Spirited? Yes? Were you expecting that the kind of the
kind of behavior you know what you were getting? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I expected that. This is the same stuff I saw
in Stewart and Columbus. In fact, a lot of the
folks that got to the microphone or people that have
asked me questions before, so I expected it to be
this way in Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I mentioned yesterday that in advance of that town hall
this tweet post on x from the Nebraska Democratic Party.
Today is a day Mike Flood's town hall is this
afternoon at five pm. Show up early, doors open four
thirty voters of Nebraska District one. You know what to do? Yeah,
(00:58):
well that's just incitement. How about be sure to asked,
be sure to bring your questions for Congressman Flood? No,
you know what to do? Are you? You know? Don
does Don Bacon does the teletown halls? Now, part of
the reason is that are you considering that, are you
going to continue to stand up there.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm going to continue to stand up there for two reasons.
One Congressman Fortenberry, he did it for seventeen years. When
I ran, I said I would do three a year.
And you know, this is the way it works best
for me. I think, you know, I feel passionate with
the things we're doing in Congress or the right things,
and I'm willing to stand in the town square and
defend my votes and explain my votes and explain to
(01:38):
the people some of the facts instead of all the misinformation.
I don't know how this gets better if we don't
confront all of the hysteria that has been pushed by
the left and by the way, the people that are
pushing this stuff. What I asked at the town hall,
I said, who here thinks a twenty eight year old
who can't chooses not to should get free healthcare? The
(01:58):
entire place you erupted that yes, they should get free healthcare.
I know, thanks for that.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The police.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The place was stuffed with agitators that are probably and
paid for. These people don't do this for free. They
don't travel around to Republican districts and interrupt town halls
for people like you for free. So we probably we
probably just need to get to the bottom of who's
doing it, but that's the nature of the American body politic.
We do it this way. Do you do you have
(02:26):
security at this thing?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah? Actually, you and l police did an outstanding job.
And I always tell all the police thank you very
much for being here. I don't want anybody drug out
of here. I don't want anybody to get, you know,
in trouble for voice in their opinion. And the police
did a great job. The whole thing worked out. Here's
the spooky thing. So I'm I'm at the corn Husker
(02:52):
Hotel where I have my district office. I come out
of the men's room and there's a lady videotaping and
then I turned the corner and these three handmaiden women
dressed in all this garb and white bonnets are like
following me back to my office and then just standing
there looking in the windows like, Lord, who does that?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
They're paid for They're not doing this for free, completely
off the rails.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, it's a shame, and because the issues aren't getting
addressed now, the only thing that gets out is this stuff,
and they all they're videotaping it with their phones and
then they put it on social media. This is not
a mystery anymore. But what does it say, Mike Flood
about the condition of the Democrat Party in District one
that there's a real good chance you're not going to
(03:39):
have an opponent in the twenty twenty six midterm election,
and if you do, it's going to be Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck or a close personal friend of theirs.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, you know, at one point during the town hall,
I said, you know, we're extending the child tax credit,
no tax on tips. Said the heart and soul of
working class America now runs through the Republican Party. And
it was a complete meltdown because their party is fractured
in a way that it hasn't been in a very
long time. The people there are siding with a guy
(04:14):
in New York that wants government run grocery stores. Hey,
they want free health care for all. They don't want
to pay for it. They don't want to pay the
taxes for it. Somebody else should pay the taxes. Mike tax,
the rich tax, the Ridge tax the rich. That's all
I hurt.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You are one of four hundred and thirty five in
the House of Representatives, one of two hundred and nineteen Republicans.
So I know you don't you don't control you. You're
not the emperor in there. What can we do about
the social security mess?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Because with the clock is ticking, well, the clocks ticket
And the only way we're going to fix that is
if Democrats and Republicans sit down at a table, act
like adults and go through all of the issues, all
of the things that we have brewing there, and make
sure that we keep our promise to the people that
(05:04):
have been paying into social Security. You know, there's so
much hysteria out there. You know, one of my close
relatives they had called me during this reconciliation process, is
that I'm worried my social security is going to stop coming.
It's like, for God's takes, like we didn't even touch it.
We had nothing to do with it with reconciliation. But
you know Tom Call from Oklahoma, he's the chairman of Appropriations.
(05:26):
He said, for a long time until the Democrats are
willing to sit down at the table with us and
have a conversation about storing up social security. For the
long term, we're not going to be able to get there,
and they're in no mood to compromise or to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, their solution is to tax people higher, to go
after people that have earned more and tax them. But
I got to tell you, Mike, the social security issue
is a major problem, but it is nothing compared to
the Medicare crisis that's coming the baby boomers. The oldest
baby boomers are seventy nine. This year, at eighty is
(06:00):
when they go into assisted slash independent living, and we
don't have the infrastructure for this. When are you guys
going to get serious about this major freaking problem in
our country.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, they call it the silver tsunami, and I have
been talking about this. I just visited the Beamer Skilled
Care Facility the other day. You're right, we don't have
the dead capacity we need. We do need to figure
out a way to let people age in place at
home and stay there longer, because the nursing home costs
six to ten thousand dollars a month and that's unsustainable obviously,
(06:37):
so we have increased opportunities to keep people in their
home for longer. But bigger than the Silver tsunami are
the chronic health conditions that are often compounded by loneliness
in a lot of ways. And I'm one of the
only Republican members that is pushing for more resources to
(06:59):
come that loneliness. And I'm joined by Dentor Ricketts and others.
And you know it's complicated, and you're right, we don't
have the good vet capacity and we don't have the
money to pay for all the nursing offs. That's why
we needed to protect Medicaid because we can't be handled
them out to illegals and able bodied Americans who refuse.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Not to work a man, Mike. Thanks always good to
have you on. Nebraska first District Congressman Mike Flood
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