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The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski god Willing.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hopefully we got more cuts coming. Yep, Doze.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Doze is now working at Medicare and Medicaid services. They've
gotten access to the payment and contracting systems. Massive and
this has been going on for years, never corrected massive
amounts of fraud and waste with Medicare and Medicaid. And
you know what's interesting is is you're already seen, You're
(00:45):
already seeing Democrats, left wing politicians come out saying that
Elon Musk is going to cut your Medicare and Medicaid.
You lying, liar, liars again, Serenity now some Honestly, I
I guess why I couldn't be in Washington, d C.
I'd end up knocking some of these politicians out because
(01:07):
they know they're not looking to cut anybody's Medicare and Medicaid.
They're looking to save it by cutting out waste and fraud.
How is that not a wonderful thing? Not a good thing.
And then let's move on. You got a leftists.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Teachers, you should have a stage or national walkout because
they're cutting the Department of Education.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
All right, schmuck ou what does a department of education do?
Can you tell me? Can you tell me what the
Department of Education does? Well, what do you think the
founding fathers wrote that into the constitution? Now, no, no
department of education was started by Jimmy Carter. Why don't
you take a look, Why don't you take a look
(01:52):
at the education here in the United States over the
past several decades. The amount of spending through the roof,
the amount of administrators through the roof, test scores in
the toilet, Why would you keep that? Why would you
(02:14):
keep that? Again, people were joking around the other day
and I found it funny. Oh crap, crap, what.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Are we gonna do? What are we gonna do without
a Department of education? Nobody's gonna be able to check
my kid's privilege and give them gay porn.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Anyway, And then we got the whole climate scam, and
again you got the new Secretary of Energy coming in
and pointing out that we've spent over two trillion dollars
on various different green and if this is just a
tip of the iceberg. Since we've started doing that, do
(02:54):
you know how much our fossil fuels have come down
by two percent? Oh, where's a worthwhile investment? Over two
trillion dollars trillion? And again, you don't even try to
get your arms around a trillion down by two percent
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