The Sucess Sequence

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• TPPF's Andrew Brown on the sucess sequence

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
The.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
About how American common sense.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
We'll see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston. From Houston. This
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dot Com. Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, Parley Frog say no, no,

(00:34):
we're not gonna We're not gonna speak French. Not to worry.
Although that's one of the few foreign languages I actually
gained exposure to. I'm not sure why I did French.
It would have been smarter to do Spanish, right, I
don't know why I picked French. Mojo comosav sava blv
jam la jemal lestam. That's all the French I remember. Oh,

(00:57):
in fair Buch, you always remember tessivu, you always you
always remember the insults, right, The insults are the first
ones you remember. I actually probably know more Spanish just
living in Houston by osmosis than I ever learned in French.
But that's not what this That's not what we're starting
with today. This is not about speaking French. This is

(01:19):
not about speaking Spanish. This is about President Trump's executive
order which now makes English the official language of the
United States. And of course the answer to that is
what would what else would it be? What took so long?
Why is it that nobody ever wanted to make it
the official language of the United States. Well, that's just

(01:41):
not all inclusive. That means that we just don't appreciate
people's other languages. Listen. I think the more language is
you can speak, the better off you are in a
whole variety of different ways. I am all about bilingual
if you want to, if you want to teach your
children profesion English and Spanish, that's I think that's very smart.
I think we live in a global world where having

(02:03):
that ability will come in handy at least at some
point in time or another. But that doesn't mean that
we are living in a country with English as the
official language. It is the language of our founding. Our
founding documents are in English. We are founding fathers all
spoke English. Yes, we are the melting pot of the world.

(02:26):
Yes we allow people in from all over the world.
But at the end of the day, the thing that
I feel like we've kind of lost at least a
little bit, and I would like to see us get
back to it. Maybe this is a step towards trying
to get back to that is the idea that you
come here, you are proficient at the language of this country,

(02:50):
You have an education, or at least during the process
of getting an education, you go out to find a job,
you provide for your family, You assimilate into the American
way of life. Now, not everything about the American way
of life is ideal. It's not. It doesn't mean, by
the way, you don't give up your heritage, doesn't mean
you have to give up your culture. Just means that
you are an American. And there's certain things about being

(03:11):
an American we all have in common. But I think
we're finding that it's getting more and more difficult to
do that. We have a lot of people who come here,
who move here now who don't know the language and
don't really have an an intention of learning the language.
Maybe their kids will, and I guess I guess that's

(03:32):
always been true, right. I know that my wife's Sicilian
grandparents they didn't speak English, or at least if they did,
they didn't they pretend to like they didn't understand it.
Maybe that's what it was so that's not unusual. You know,
older people who are are not learning anymore may have
a difficult time of simulating or learning the language. But

(03:55):
they did come here with the idea of we're coming
here to be Americans. We're not coming here to be
Italians living in America. We're coming here to be Americans.
And that part of it, I think is kind of
lost to a certain extent. So anyway, we open up
the phones this morning on KTRH, and I'm asking the
question of our listeners, how do you feel about, you know,
President Trump's decision here I'm making English the official language

(04:16):
as if it was going to be anything else. And
what are your thoughts on a simulation in some of
these other things? And we got some responses.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Number one language, And I also think that when you're
using a telephone, they should take out that part where
press one for English and two for Spanish. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
English should be the language of the United States. All
our street signs are in English, everything's in English. People
need to go ahead and assimilate to our country. Also,
another thing I'd like to see President Trump do is
an executive order against sharia law.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Okay, will you bring up sure real law. That's interesting.
My wife is from Dearborn, Michigan. I know I mentioned
this several times on the show, but something that would
probably shock you if you were ever to go to Dearborn,
Michigan for whatever reason. Not that you would, but if
you ever were to go there, is that you go
there and the businesses have signs up in Arabic, and

(05:18):
they may be in English as well, but there's some
places that just have it up in Arabic. There are
parts of Dearborn that are just in Arabic where there
are more moss than there are churches where the people
who are living there dresses if they are in the
middle of the Middle East, where the language spoken is Arabic,
it is not English, and where the signs are all

(05:38):
in Arabic, and you might look at something like that
and say, well, that's that's not my understanding of what
it means to assimilate to be an American, which is
not to say that these people will never assimilate, but
we have made it very easy to not assimulate because
they're living their Middle Eastern life in the middle of Dearborn, Michigan.
So you know that that is, you know, having all

(06:03):
those signs in Arabic. I think is counter productive if
the goal here is to have people feel like they
live in the United States of America and not somewhere
in the Middle East.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
Morning Jimmy writ from the East Side.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
I think a prime example of anti America is the
congresswoman from Minnesota, Eon elon Omar.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
I don't know how to say it, and her stance,
and she's acting as a leader.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Well, and she was elected to Congress, and this is
a very similar situation. She's Somalian, she's Muslim, she's Somalian,
and she lives in Minneapolis in an area that is
again it's like going to Somalia. It's not like being
in the United States of America. She dresses as if
she's still in Somalia. Her constituents dress the same way.

(06:53):
They have the same belief system. That is not really
in the simulation of the United States. You know again
that it seems to be a part that we are
sort of losing out on when it comes to all
this stuff. All right, let's grab one or two more So.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
This is Robert in the center of Houston, and I
don't understand about this language thing. Why we have not
required that the citizenship be in English, and that should
be just a given for you to get your citizenship,
that it'd be English spoken and written.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Agreed. I don't believe you should be able to become
a citizen. I mean, a resident is another thing, but
to become a citizen of the United States, you should
be proficient in English, and you should be able to
take your test in English and pass your test in English.
All right, quick little break. We are back with more

(07:49):
in a moment. Jimmy Bertschew here an am nine fifty KPRC.
I think it was probably the Oval Office meeting of

(08:12):
all Oval Office meetings. I'm guessing that what happened on
Friday with Zelenski vance in Trump. I'm guessing that something
similar has happened in past presidencies. I'm sure it has.
This is the first time that something like this has
been televised live in front of the media, in front

(08:32):
of everybody to see. And it was jaw dropping. Not
that I don't think these kinds of conversations take place,
but the fact that they it took place in the
way they did in front of in front of the media,
it was really crazy. In case you didn't get in
a second, I'm gonna play the Great Gutfeld versionaire because
there's a little more play by play in more of

(08:54):
the meeting that than what you see on most of
the meeting outlets, So you including what Trump said at
the very end about I'm sure this is great for television,
but it's not great for negotiations. It is mind numbing
to think that this would happen. And since it happened,
I've been trying to figure out, Okay, what happened? Did

(09:14):
somebody get did Zelenski go into this with the idea
that he was going to kind of try to trap
Trump into, you know, some sort of a situation where
Trump he thought he might be forcing Trump to to
to to back down on his position on something. Is
that part of what happened here? Did somebody fills Zelenski's

(09:35):
head full of crapola before this sit down meeting took place?
Because supposedly, this guy was coming to Washington, d C.
To sign this rare earth mental rights deal with us
in return for our you know, to pay us back
for the support that we've given them financially, and and

(09:56):
that's what I thought this thing was all about until
it wasn't about that anim more at all. Now, I
did note that earlier in that day that Zelensky had
sat down with top Democrats, he had a meeting with Democrats.
So was this a sabotage attempt by the Democrats? In
other words, are they giving Zelensky bad advice on purpose?

(10:19):
Because Zelensky's still trying to play both ends of this here.
He of course, he got help during the Biden administration,
so I don't think he probably is very well versed
in American politics, the difference between Democrats and Republicans, and
all the finer things that go along with all that
kind of stuff. So that might be part of the

(10:39):
deal here. Maybe the Democrats sat down and they tried
to sabotage the guy. If so, they did a pretty
good job. Now supposedly as of today, he's ready to
sign again. Although if I'm Trump, I'm not signing anything
with this guy today, no matter what I'm saying. No,
I think maybe we all need to sit down and
think about this a little bit more, because because I

(11:01):
don't think we're on the same page here. But anyway,
here's the longer version of the the baccal. On Friday
in the Oval office was Zelenski, Vance and Trump, with
some play by play in between. With Greg Guttfield from
his show on Friday night. I always love the argument.
You know you should come and see for yourself. We're good.

(11:23):
I wonder does everybody have problems? Everybody has problems, even you.

Speaker 7 (11:28):
But you have nisos and don't feel now, but you
will feel it.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Got it?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Bless you, bless you. I'm blessed. You're not. Don't tell
us what we're gonna feel. We're trying to solve a problem.
Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
I'm not telling you because you're in no position to
dictate that.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
You're in no.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
Position to dictate what we're gonna feel.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
We're gonna feel very good. Feel We're gonna feel very good,
very strong. It'll feel the influenced.

Speaker 7 (11:57):
You're right now, not in a very good position. You've
allowed your Sarry to be in a pretty bad position
that he's amised to be right about the wary beginning
of the war. Not in a good position. You don't
have the cards right now with us. You saw it
having codings cards right now. You don't bread You're gambling.
Millions of people seen you gambling with world War three.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
You're gambling with World War.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
Three, and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country.
This country's thank you far more than a lot of
people said they should have.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
God, I don't know if this is politics or the
principal's office.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
Holy hell, Have you even said thank you once this
entire meeting?

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Have you said thank you once? At least entire meeting?

Speaker 7 (12:46):
You said you went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the
opposition in October.

Speaker 8 (12:52):
Offer some words of.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Appreciation for the United States of America and the president
who's trying to save your country.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Please, you're seeing that if you will speak very loudly
about the war.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
He's not speaking love. You're not speaking of your countess.
Big trouble can no, no, can you a lot of talking.
Your country is.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
In big trouble.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I know you're not winning. No, you're not winning this.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
You have a damn good chance of winning out, Okay,
because of some president we are seeing in our country
is staying strong.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
From the very beginning of the war. We've been alone
and we are sankle I said, thanks, you haven't been
giving it.

Speaker 7 (13:29):
You will. He gave you through the stupid president three
hundred and fifty billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
You will.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
We gave your military equipment you and you better break.
But they use our military One of you asked, if
you didn't have our military equipment, If you didn't have
our military equipment, this war would have been over in
two weeks. In three days, I heard it from Putting
in three days.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
This is how tige us in two weeks. Of course.

Speaker 7 (13:54):
Yeah, it's gonna be a very hard thing to do
business like this.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's like a really good episode of Judge.

Speaker 9 (14:06):
Judy Zelenski's the guy who didn't pay his car insurance
or something.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
I don't know. But what if Russia breaks the ceasefire?

Speaker 10 (14:16):
Russia breaks said?

Speaker 6 (14:24):
What are you saying?

Speaker 3 (14:26):
She's asking? What if Russia breaks the ceasefire?

Speaker 7 (14:29):
If?

Speaker 3 (14:30):
What if anything?

Speaker 10 (14:31):
What if the bomb drops on your head right now?

Speaker 9 (14:34):
Okay, what if they broke it?

Speaker 10 (14:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
They broke it.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
With Biden because Biden didn't respect him.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
They didn't respect Obama. They respect me.

Speaker 9 (14:43):
I don't think Trump has ever answered a hypothetical.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Finally, I wonder what the problem is.

Speaker 10 (14:52):
The problem is, I've empowered you to be a tough guy,
and I don't think he'd be a tough guy without
the United States, and your people are very brave. But
you're either gonna make a deal or we're out. And
if we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't think
it's gonna be pretty, but you'll fight it out. But
you don't have the cards. But once we signed that deal,

(15:15):
you're in a much better position. But you're not acting
at all thankful. And that's not a nice thing. I'll
be honest, that's not a nice thing. All right, I
think we've seen enough.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
What do you think it's going to be great television?
I will say that I think we've seen it up. Yeah,
I guess great television. If yeah, I just I just
I'm I think I am, and I'm guessing you and
just about anybody else is on the customer seeing something

(15:45):
like this, right, this is just crazy that this happened.
I really don't know what to make of it. I
do know this, I don't believe that that the president
of Ukraine is somebody who can be trusted any more
than than Putin is somebody you can trust. I don't
think that making a deal, making a deal with any

(16:07):
of these peoples like making a deal with the devil.
And I don't know if President Trump, I know he
thinks he can make a deal with this about anybody.
I don't know that he can make a deal with
these people. I really don't. I don't. I don't see
where this thing works out in the end. Very well,
all right, let's grab one more General Jack Keene from
a more of a military point of view, I guess

(16:28):
talking about you know this, this uh, this fight on
Freddy was Zelensky, and in giving his analysis of what
he thinks all this stuff means.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
I think we have a lot more knowledge about it
now than we had initially. What what what we saw
during a press conference was calculated by President Zelenski and
his chief of staff or mac There was a twenty
minute bilot before that whether these grievances that he laid
out in some detail were not discussed at that meeting.

(16:58):
And that tells you something, because that's where it is
appropriate to have grievances and disagreements. He made his case
during the press conference, so what's going on there? They
calculated that they were going to take their case to
the American people, and as a result of that put
pressure on Putin to move him towards his positions so

(17:22):
what you can see it, and I watched it three
times now to verify it was that true or not,
and it is true. You can see it. He started
with the tortured soldiers, and he made the case that
Putin is evil. He also kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian children,
and obviously Putin is evil. And then he looked for

(17:43):
opportunities to talk. He wasn't being asked questions like the
President was, so he spoke after the President's questions, and
he took the floor himself, just aggressively, and he luxured
the presidents about how Putin can't be trusted. Look at
the evidence twenty five cease fires that he's violated, and
he violated one when you were president. President said, no,

(18:07):
that didn't happen, as Lensci said, yes, it did during
twenty sixteen. And President stopped looking at Lenski at that
point and looked at the floor. And then he debated
the vice president when the Vice president was trying to say,
you know, you haven't thanked this at all during this meeting,
and here we got a president who's trying to achieve

(18:27):
a diplomatic solution here, and then he challenges him by saying,
j D, what kind of a diplomatic solution, And he
goes on the offense again to make his point not
so much to JDA, to the President, but to the
American people. So the purpose of the meeting vy Zelensky
was completely different than the purpose of that press conference

(18:48):
by the President. They came in and Zelenski was told this,
this isn't going to take all that long. This is
about celebrating the deal. We're about the sign and telling
the American peace people why this is good for Ukraine
and why this is good also for the United States
and the American people. That's what the administration had in mind.

(19:09):
Zelensky had something completely different in mind, and that's why
he pursued it. The administration knows this, and that's why
they're frustrated, not so much what he said, but where
he said it and when he said it, and he
was what he was trying to do to manipulate the
American people.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
YEP, I would say that's a pretty good analysis right there.
All right. Coming up in justent, we're going to talk
to a guy in the name of Andrew Brown. He's
VP for policy at the Texas Center for Public Policy.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation launching a Texas Family Success Agenda,
kind of modeled on what they're doing in Mississippi, where
they have a bill that require at schools to teach

(19:49):
something called the success sequence. So what is the success sequence?
It seems like common sense to me, But what is
the success sequence? And why do we need to more
in that story? Coming up next, John A nine fifty
kPr seeing the Jimmy Barrett Show. All Right, you're the thing.

(20:21):
This is crazy because this is so simple. But you
know what, I've been thinking about this since I talked
to Andrew Brown, VP of Policy at the Texas Public
Policy Foundation this morning. And then what I have to
realize is that what's normal to you and what's normal
to me is not necessarily normal for somebody growing up
in poverty. Because you see what's going on around you,

(20:44):
you see how everybody else's life is, and you assume
that's the life you're supposed to live, right, and you don't,
And you don't know what is normal for people who
don't live that way. So I guess this is about
pointing out to people that, hey, just because you were
born into poverty, just because you grew up in a
household where you didn't have a father at home, or

(21:06):
or your mama gave birth to you before before you know,
before bothering to get married, or maybe mama never bothered
to get married. It doesn't have to be like that.
Andrew Brown joins us now here on AM nine to
fifty KPRC. There's a couple of bills. I guess they're
going to be coming up in the Texas legislature. I
love the term here, the success sequence. For those who
don't know, Andrew, what the success sequence is, can you

(21:30):
explain that to our listeners?

Speaker 6 (21:33):
Yeah, thanks for having me, Jimmy. The success sequence really
is something that's common sense, but it's backed by research.
You've had sociologists for decades studying this and even economists,
and what they found is that the data backs up
what we all know deep down that if you finish school,

(21:55):
get a job, and then get married before you have
kids kids, you have a virtually zero percent chance of
experiencing poverty during your lifetime. It really is this roadmap
to the American dream. It's a simple thing, but it's
something I think we've taken for granted and that our
society is losing well.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
And I think you're right about that. It's losing it
more and more every day. And we were talking about
people in poverty. This is happening even households that are
not in poverty, or certainly not at the stressful level
of poverty that we see in the inner city, for example.
This is happening across all races, all socioeconomic groups. That
the whole getting married and then having children thing, we've

(22:40):
kind of reversed that sequence now where it's become normal,
virtually normal, to have children, then maybe you get married later.
Do you think that's because of the high divorce rate?
Is this just sort of the aftershock of that.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
Somewhat? But I think it's more a product of what
we have prioritized as a culture. As we've become a
more prosperous culture, we viewed marriage as a capstone rather
than a foundation. In previous generations, you got married, you

(23:15):
worked your way up, you earned a good living and
a good life for your family. Now it's revers and
I see it even with my generation. I just turned forty,
so I'm kind of in that weird bridge generation. But
so many of my peers have approached life where they're saying,
I'm going to go to school, you know, might take

(23:37):
a gap year in Europe. I'm gonna build my career
once I'm stable, then I'll get married and start thinking
about having kids. And folks are getting married later in life,
they're having kids layer in life. They're having fewer kids
than previous generations, and they're having fewer kids than they
even tell researchers that they want to have. And it's

(24:00):
this product of, well, I want to have this prosperous life.
I want to be able to travel and be self actualized,
and we view marriage and children as a barrier to that,
something that we can put off until later, once we've
had the fun that we want to have life.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, I'm just going to say, you sound like what
you're trying to tell me is getting married to having kids.
It's going to harsh, my buzz man. I'm having a
good time. I just want to travel. I just wanted
to travel and have fun. That used to be a
part of growing up. So maybe that's part of the
problem too, is we're just in no hurry to grow
up anymore, are we?

Speaker 6 (24:37):
No, not at all. I mean, like I said, there's
all of these experiences, there's so many options today that
we have, which in some ways is good. You know,
it's a product of being a prosperous free market economy.
You generate wealth, you generate opportunity, but then you have
this abundance of opportunities to where you feel like, well,

(24:59):
what am I missing out on if I make this decision,
If I decide I'm going to get married and I'm
going to raise kids in my early to mid twenties,
what am I giving up? And it does like, it
feels like it's harshing your buzz. It's a burden, and
it takes away your opportunity to do these exciting things

(25:21):
that you see your friends doing.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
All right, let me dance around this one very carefully,
because it's hard. It's hard not to make it sound racial,
and I don't mean to make it sound racial at all,
but I think I think we all know instances of
people who are growing up in the inner city, of
kids who are being raised in fatherless households, of teen
girls who, despite the fact that we seemingly have made

(25:44):
birth control available to anybody and everybody who wants it,
And then some why are they making Why are some
of these young people making the conscious decision to have
children when they're teenagers without the benefit of having father
in the child's life.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
I think it's a lack of good models. And what
we're really talking about when we're saying we want to
teach the success sequence is we want to strengthen marriage
and families. If you don't have strong, healthy families, you
don't have a strong, healthy society. The family really is
the foundation of a prosperous society, and the more we

(26:27):
lose that and the weaker our families become, the weaker
our society is going to become. And I think you
see that in certain communities where you have a higher
rate of family breakdown, that spills over into the broader society,
the broader community, the neighborhood, and you see that deterioration,

(26:48):
and that becomes a cycle because that's all that you're
seeing around you. If that's what's modeled, that's what's normal,
and we need to reverse that trend. I think teaching
the success sequence in schools is a way to start
that process. It's not going to solve the problem, but
it at least gets the information out there and it

(27:11):
helps young people while they're still making decisions about their future.
AM I going to go to college, what job am
I going to get? It gives them information to make
that decision to say, all right, I want to make
sure I have a good job so that I can
get married and raise a family and have this stable,
prosperous life, grab this American dream that I really want

(27:35):
to grab. But I don't know how.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, I just have always kind of wondered, is there
is part of the mentality. The idea behind having a
childhood very young age is that I've got no education,
I've got no job, I've got no future husband, but
at least I'll have something that's going to love me.

Speaker 6 (27:56):
That could partially be it. And I think you have
a lot of different factors that are fueling unwedded parenthood
and teen pregnancy. You know, a lot of it really
just is irresponsibility and immaturity. And that's not to say
they're bad people. It's just you get caught up in

(28:19):
the culture and you make a decision and that culture
and that decision takes your life down a dramatically different
path than you had intended.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
You were talking this morning a little bit about mentoring.
I'm I'm a big fan of mentoring. As you know,
business people, mentoring young people who have an entrepreneurial interest,
successful parents, mentoring young parents who want to be successful parents.
How far can you take mentoring, especially at the high
school level, and kind of translated into helping change some
of the some of this seemingly unending, you know, history

(28:54):
repeating itself over and over and over again.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
Yeah, I think mentoring is a huge piece of the puzzle.
And we talk about this as conservatives. And there's certain
things that government can do to incentivize the right decisions,
to incentivize people to get married and raise children, but
there's a lot more government does to put barriers in place,

(29:19):
and so from a public policy standpoint, we want to
reduce those barriers. But it's ultimately up to the community.
We've got to change the culture so that more and
more families in these neighborhoods are getting married, they're raising kids,
they're staying married for the long term. And so when
you see that around you, that's what you believe is normal,

(29:45):
that's what you believe is good, and that's what you
believe will set you on a path toward prosperity. I'd
like to tell a story of a group that I
worked with years ago in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the
poor zip codes in the entire country, and there's a
nonprofit organization there that does job training, mentorship, and community

(30:08):
building and one of their instructors was a success story.
He came in, he went through their program, got a
great job, and started earning a great living. One day,
he earned enough to buy a brand new truck, drove
back home, parked it in the driveway in front of

(30:28):
the house that he was living in, and his buddies
were sitting on the stoop around and they all came
up and they looked at this truck and he was
popping the hood and showing it off, you know, really
proud of what he's achieved. And they're all like, well,
how'd you do this? How'd you do this? And he
tells them about this organization that he worked with, and
a week later, all of his friends were enrolled in

(30:49):
those courses because they saw that it worked for their
friend and they wanted that for themselves.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
So the community, the culture is really what drives the change. Here.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Here's here's I know in Mississippi, for example, they're talking
about having a bill that would require to be taught
in the public school system. Are we considering something like
that in Texas?

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Yeah, we've actually got bills filed already. Representative Shaheen of
Plano has filed a bill in the House and Senator
Hughes out in East Texas has filed the Senate companion
to that, and both those bills are moving. So we're
really excited that Texas can potentially be a leader.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
In this awesome Andrew, thanks for joining us and keep
us posted on how these bills are doing.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
I think this is a great idea.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Yeah, well, thanks a lot, Jimmy, you bet.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Andrew Brown vat the policy at the Texas Public Policy
Foundation back with Born in a moment, Jimmy Barchow here
at the M nine fifty KPRC. All right, a couple

(32:06):
of things coming up tomorrow you might be kind of
interested in. One will be I'm going to call the
State of the Union address. It's not really a State
of the Union address because well, you know, the president
is relatively new to office, although it could be said,
you know, normally it wouldn't be a State of the
Union address because the president hasn't been there long enough

(32:27):
to do much. But Trump has done so much stuff
that he could very easily make a State of the
Union address. Here by the way, Speaker Mike Johnson, with
a little preview of what he's hoping to hear or
what he expects to hear with the President's speech tomorrow
night fireworks.

Speaker 11 (32:43):
You know, in a great way. President Trump is coming
in a triumphant return to Congress to address us as
the president once again, and in the first month of office,
he has accomplished so much that it could fill three hours.
I suspect to speak in a shorter time frame than that,
but Maria, there's so much to relay. Normally, at this
point in a president's term, a new president's term, they

(33:03):
would not deliver a State of the Union. It would
be just simply a joint address, as it's entitled. But
in this case, it actually will be more like a
State of the Union address because President Trump has such
a long series of victories, things that he has done,
promises he has kept, and it is putting America back
on a strong footing, and we can't wait to welcome
him back to the chamber.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Miss Speaker.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Let me get your take on what the Wall Street
Journal wrote about this week. Powers of Trump and Congress
collide as governments shut down nears. Democrats say Congress has
too much, has given too much power to the president
on spending and tariffs. Your reaction, it's nonsense.

Speaker 11 (33:44):
The President is doing what he said on the campaign
trail he would do, and that is restoring America's strength
and dominance on the globe. He's doing exactly what he
is able to do with his constitutional authority. Under our
system of government. There's no conflict between the two branches there.
The conflict is that the Democrats are uncomfortable with all
this change. Why because they love big, bloated government spending.

(34:05):
They really like the status quo in the world stage.
They weren't really all that interested in ending these conflicts
around the globe. The President Trump brings a new strength
and we're entering a new golden era of America. And
that's exactly what he was elected to do, and that's
exactly what he's going to lead us into.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
All Right, Dan good Raw Ross this Boombaugh of course,
Wednesday morning News Radio seven forty KTRH will have the
highlights if you will, from the speech. See I'm trying
to think now, who's oh Hakeem Jeffreys right will be
the one seated. No, hang on, no, it won't be

(34:41):
I take that back. It's just the Speaker of the
House and so jd. Vance is the Speaker pro tem.
Will be on one side and Mike Johnson will be
on the other side. There won't be anybody there ripping
up papers. You remember from Trump's State of the Union
to address his first year Nancy Pelosi's back there right
in the speech is ending. She's standing up, ripping up papers,

(35:04):
ripping up his speech. What a yeah, what a you
know what? None of that'll be going on this time around, thinking,
I'm glad to say. Here's the other thing going on tomorrow.
A twenty five percent tariff against Canada is supposed to
go into effect. Supposedly. It was also gonna be a
twenty five percent tariff on Mexico that may change, and

(35:28):
an additional ten percent on China. All these things are
supposed to be going into effect tomorrow. Of course, you know,
something may happen between now and then. You just you
just never know. It's funny how it works out that way.
Here's mattson Money founder and CEO, talking about the tariffs.
He says he's not the least bit concerned.

Speaker 9 (35:49):
No, I'm not really concerned about the tuffs because I
think that Donald Trump is holding all the cards. When
you look at the trade between these countries. For example,
over sixty percent of the GDP from Canada comes from America.
For Mexico it's seventy percent, and from China's thirty percent.
So I think it's a I think he's really leveraging this.

(36:11):
He's trying to help shut down the borders, he's helping
to reduce fentanyl, he's reducing terrorism and in the form
of cartels coming into our country with fentanyl. I think
he's holding all the cards on this, and I suspect
that these countries will capitulate. And the other thing is
investors should really be looking at investing internationally. US has

(36:32):
been so good for so long, investors have forgotten about
the benefits of diversifying. The SMP This year, on the
other hand, is relatively flat, while large value international stocks
are about nine percent year to date. So a lot
of people have missed that and they're not diversifying their
portfolios properly.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
I think it's a big mistake.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Where specifically internationally, I think you've got to look everywhere.

Speaker 9 (36:56):
For example, we're in over twenty thousand stocks in all
of Europe. Urging markets countries like Egypt, Singapore, Malaysia, all
these countries that have great opportunities for growth in the future,
and they're great diversifiers with the US because they have
very low correlations with our stock market. I think, I

(37:17):
think we want to stay away from China, countries that
really don't have free markets, like Russia, but really Asia
in general. The better diversified you are as an investor,
the better you're likelihood of fulfilling on your American dream
and having decent returns without getting destroyed in down markets.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
There you go. Diversa I that's the word, all right,
rough leave it at that for today. Hey, thank you,
Happy Monday, Thank you for listening. Appreciate it. See you
tomorrow morning, bright and early, starting at five am over
on news radio seven forty k t RH. We are
back here at four on a nine fifty KPRC

Speaker 4 (38:00):
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