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Speaker 1 (00:25):
You don't know just how appropriate that is from the
beginning of today's program. I don't know whether there is
some sort of telepathy going on between us or what.
But and it's not about the chickens. Well, we'll get
to the chickens later. But the whole heavy breathing and
the chickens in the background, the cocka doodle do and
(00:47):
just the weirdness of it just fits exactly kind of
how I feel about the world right now. It's back
crap crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I love the fact that it was left over the weekend.
Oh well, and you know I do listen to every
talkback sent to khow outside of this show. Yeah, so
if you happen to be listening to the podcast and
you have some chickens, yeah, and heavy breathing to do.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We talked about chickens on the leakend program too. Yes
it could have been that, but but regardless, it's just
it's just so appropriate. So, which, how do I start
this in a rational way because it's going to turn
(01:34):
very irrational very quickly. Joy Reid got fired.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh no, I know.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Imagine that the woman that accuses every white person of
being a racist and every black person is you know,
perfect and you know, dirt bag black thugs or well
they're just misunderstood. I mean, yeah, that woman, you know,
she finally got fired from her nightly program and she's
going to be replaced by a panel, and on the
(02:09):
panel is going to be the former chair of the
Republican National Committee, Michael Steele. Michael Steele kind of sets
the tone for what I want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
What would you have us too?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I would actually, you know what, I'd just like you
to show that you give a damn that you got
a little emotion about the fact that people are losing
their jobs indiscriminately, that this this.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Individual sitting down the sixteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Prins Ay Avenue has given absolute power to one man
who brings his son into the Oval office, whose son
says to him, you're not the president.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You shouldn't be in that chair. Now, where did he
get that from?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
He got it from his daddy, because that's what his
daddy thinks of the man who brought him into the
Oval office. So I'd just like to see somebody wake
the hell up and get excited about the fact that
your country is under assault.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They're not at the.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Gate anymore, they're in your bedrooms, they're in your living rooms,
they're in your businesses. They got your data, dumb ass,
they got all your stuff. Elon Musk has his tentacles
and everything you're doing not just off of X.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But now he's in the.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Treasury department, he's in the labor department, he's in the
apartment of Homeland Security, and nobody seems.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
To give a damn.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So that's all I want somebody to show that they
care enough to get off their fat ass and say
something about it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Happy Monday morning, everybody, Good morning. Now. I want to
walk through this because there are a few things that
Michael Steele, obviously going off the rails here, says that
I think we need to stop and actually think about
for a moment, actually think about it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
What would you have us too?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I would see you know what. I just like you
to show them that you give a damn.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, I think all of us do that.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I know he's talking to democrats, he's talking to uh.
I guess everyone large kind of everybody in the country.
Just show that you give it them because if you
look around you, the word, the country and the world
is falling apart. Uh, the country in the world's been
falling apart for quite some time. And there's a guy now,
(04:32):
and there's a team now that is trying to like first,
you know, before you can put it together, you've got
to stop the you got to stop the bleeding, so
much like we've talked about with the border. Before you
can really do anything effectively with the border, you got
to shut it down. Uh. I mean, then we can
(04:53):
deal with the dreamers and the document we can dream
with the people that are here. We can figure out
what to do. But you know, when your tub's overflow,
you don't, you know, start mopping. The first thing you
do is you turn the water off. And so we
got a guy who's turning the water off. And when
it comes to you know, I think the new mantra
is waste, fraud and abuse, which I've heard my entire
(05:15):
freaking life waste, fraud and abuse. And he's actually trying
to do something about that too.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I think you got a little emotion about the fact
that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
People people are losing their jobs indiscriminately. That's never happened
in the country before, except that it has, except that
it's always been in the private sector. Not in the
public sector. You know, on Friday, I was off on
(05:53):
this kick again because it really does bug me. It
truly does bug me. And apparently I'm not the only
one that bugs that. We have sixty minutes and we've
got the cabal, We've got, you know, Michael Steele, everybody
else talking about government workers losing their jobs indiscriminately, and
(06:17):
that's the end of civilization, really, I don't think. So
more on that later. Let's continue that.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
This, this individual sitting at down the sixteen hundred Pisvay Avenue,
has given absolute power to one man who brings his
son to the Oval office.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, let's just stop for a moment. Uh Elon Musk
has not been given absolute power. That might be one
of the favorite words that you know, the left likes
to use, dictator. Uh Elon Musk has not been given
dictatorial powers. He's been given a mission, and the mission
(07:00):
was go find the waste, fraud and abuse, Go find
places where we can cut use. Your little twenty something
engineers that understand more about how to use artificial intelligence
and how to look at a computer system. All these
legacy systems that are built on old ms DOS operating systems,
(07:21):
uh you know that are supposedly keeping planes flying in
the sky are all outdated, and that end of itself
leads to waste, fraud and abuse, and so let's go
look at that stuff. He has no authority to fire anybody.
He has no authority to, uh, you know, search through
your grandmother's Social Security account. He has no authority to
(07:43):
look through your IRS account. He has no authority to
look through anything. All he's looking for is how do
we track payments systems? Where is the where are the inefficiencies?
What can we do to fix? But if you if
all you do is listening to the cabal, you would
think that this guy that Elon Musk single handedly is
(08:06):
going through on his own, or he's got all these
little minions out there who are looking for you. They're
looking for you and you and you so they can
look into all of the accounts that, ironically the government
all has on you.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Your son says to him, you're not the president, you
shouldn't be in that chair.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Then when did he get them?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I had no clue what that is. Did Elon Musk's
four year old son say, Daddy, you know you should
be the president, and he shouldn't be. I mean, what
is he talking about?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Get that from He got.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
It from his daddy, because that's what his daddy thinks
of the man who brought him into the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So I'd just like to see.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I truly have. He's so off the rails there. Maybe
somebody can explain it to me, but I have no
idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
If somebody wake the hell up and get excited about
the fact that your countree is under assault.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
No, the country's not well. The country is under assault.
The country has been under assault for one hundred years
by the progressive left, and now we're pushing back and
so now someone like Michael Steele and MSNBC want you
to believe that somehow the country is under assault, as
if we're being attacked by foreign terrasts like we're having
(09:25):
nine to eleven's all over again. Ices has infiltrated the country,
which it probably has. We've got Hamasia, which it probably is.
We got the cartels running cart blanche everywhere, which they
probably are. But that's not what they're referring to. They're
referring to that there is a president who is actually
has campaigned on reducing the size of the deficit. Now
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we can quibble whether or not it's enough or not,
because I don't think it's enough, and that there's going
to be some short term pain that we have to
go through in order to do this. We have known
if if you've listened to me for fifteen seconds over
the past eighteen twenty years I've been on radio, and
if you've listened to me for fifteen seconds, you've heard
(10:09):
me say that when, if, and when we ever do
reach this point, that there will be the gnashing of teeth,
and it will be the ringing of the hands, and
they'll be the screaming and the ouching, and we'll be
squealing like stuck pigs. Because every there are five hundred
and thirty five members of Congress, and all five hundred
and thirty five members have a vested interest in something. Now,
(10:30):
there are some who are who are kind of a
little bit above the fray, and maybe they're a little
wack of doodle, you know, Brand Paul Thomas, Massey, Mike Lee,
a few of these guys that are probably a little
whack of doodle, but they're they're wack of doodle in
my sense of being a whack of doodle. So I
kind of like the whack of doodle in this wackel
doodle in this is a little fine. Okay, as long
(10:51):
as we're trying to fix stuff, you can't fix anything
without a little wackel doodleness.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
They're not at the gate anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
In your bedrooms there.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You know, I woke up this morning and the first
thing I saw was Elon Musk at the end of
the bed, rifling through my pockets. See how much of
cash am I carrying this week? Looking at you know?
He he Then he went down into my basement, into
my studio, and he started digging through my office, my desk,
looking at all the files, looking at my new iHeart contract.
(11:23):
Oh well, look at that here here. You're gonna be
around for a while longer.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Isn't Elon Musk the richest man on the planet.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yes, but you know he got rich by stealing other
people's money.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Does he really care about.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Okay, yeah, he cares about well, okay, maybe not Okay.
And your living rooms there, you.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Know who's in your living room, the cabal. The caball's
in your living room, propagandizing you every opportunity they have, including.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Them in your businesses.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Who's in your business? Who's in your business? Huh? Who's
in your business? Let's think about it. So osha, the
i R S the Department of Labor, Let's see, DHS is,
Department of Commerce is uh, depending on your business, The
(12:28):
Department of Agriculture is depending on your business, the Department
of Education is UH. You know in your business that
you have a bazillion squared regulations that you have to
deal with, so every aspect of federal, state, and local government.
You know, I walked in where was it I walked into?
(12:48):
I walked into a restaurant recently, and it's not a
new restaurant. I'm having a brain fart on it. But
I walked in and I noticed that they have, you know,
at the front door. You know, most people put all
these certificates that you have to have from the Health Department,
(13:09):
you know, you have to have from the Secretary of State,
your business license. You have to have all this stuff,
so you have all these little things like we have
all these over in our little kitchen area on every
single floor, not just not just here on the fourth floor,
but on every single floor. We walk into our kitchen
and nobody ring. I'm probably the only one that ever
looked at them, because I'm just curious what they are.
(13:30):
But we have walls of rules and regulations from the
Department of Labor, from Osha, from workers people from the state, everybody.
They have all these little posters that you have to
have up. But for some reason, this restaurant had all
of their licenses, not their worker be stuff, but their licenses.
(13:54):
They had all in this like, oh, twelve inch wide
window that was next to the door. When you walked
in and I noticed them, and I thought, holy crap.
Every single one of those, there must have been six
or seven of them, was money that that restaurant has
(14:14):
had to put out and has to put out and
will continue to put out. And it and it represents
every one of those government entities having their fingers like
fascists in the running of that business. Now, maybe you know,
I should have asked, I should have sought down the
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owner and asked, why do you have these in your window?
Because nobody cares, and you know, it's kind of one's
kind of unsightly. But two, it might be a little
more opening, have a little more open air field too,
if you put your licenses somewhere else. Then I thought
to myself, maybe they're there on purpose because he wants somebody.
(14:57):
And this is again why I should have found the
owner to writ eyes look at everything I have to
go through just to run my little hot dog stand
or whatever it was. Maybe that smite was there. So
when Michael Steele bitches and moans about there everywhere, yeah
they are, and sculled the gate anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
They're in your bedrooms, they're in your living rooms, they're.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
In your businesses.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
They got your data, dumb ass.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
They do. They've got your Now he's talking about excuse me,
he's talking about Elon Musk, But Elon Musk does not
have your data. Well, no, no, I take that back.
Elon mus I don't think he's even longer an owner
of PayPal, but one time he was one of the
founders of PayPal, so they had your data, and if
(15:48):
you have, I was gonna print this out. I didn't
do it, but I downloaded a new app and I
clicked on because I wanted to read the terms of
service because I'm because I'm a stupid lawyer. So I
was really just kind of curious just how lawyerly, how
much legal ease is in the terms of service, and
(16:09):
it was one of those things where you had to
to accept the terms of service. You had to scroll
through everything. So their program was set up that you
could not accept. You coundnot check accept to these or
agree to these terms of service until you'd scrolled through
the entire terms of service. So I scrolled through all
(16:29):
the tos's, got all the way to the bottom, and
then went back to the top and just kind of
skimmed through it and thought, holy cow, I'm giving up everything.
They control everything. And then I had accept, and then
I had to downloaded the app or I opened up
the app or whatever whatever it was I was doing.
So you give up your data every single time. When
(16:52):
I stopped this morning at the circle K, they no
longer have the thing where you punched in a member.
I used to pay punching a fake phone number and
I get a discount of my diet coke with They
no longer do that. But you know, I now tap
my credit card to pay, you know, my butt ninety
or whatever it is for the for the gigantic diet coke. Uh.
(17:15):
But I'm sure they're tracking that and and they see that,
oh yeah, this particular credit card. Uh, never does anything
but buy buy diet coke, I don't. I don't buy
any Krispy Kreme donuts, I don't buy any roller food.
I don't buy any you know, uh Circle k Uh
gas station, sushi, I don't. I don't do any of that.
But they got my data. And and of course, let's
(17:36):
see today, I'm stopping by because I got a coupon
from one of the places where we buy dog food.
I got a free bag of dog food because I
spend so much damage money on dog food, so they
send me a cupon. So they're they're tracking how much
dog food. And if you go to King Supers and
you go to the Safeway and you plug in your
little phone number, they're tracking exactly, you know, how much
stuff you buy. Yeah, but no, let's let's let's don't
(17:58):
worry about that because well, you know, they've got.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
All your stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Elon Musk has his tentacles and everything you're doing.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Let's pretend for a moment that Elon must really does
have his tentacles in everything that you're doing. How do
you think he How do you think that would be possible?
That would be possible? Because Donald Trump. President Trump has
said to Elon Musk, go forth, young man, and find inefficiencies,
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in effectiveness, find waste, fraud, and abuse. So he starts
going into all the executive departments and agencies, and guess what,
they have their tentacles in every aspect of your life.
So if he's now looking into all of those departments
and agencies, therefore he has tentacles in all aspects of
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your life because the government has Mike.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Last week, Jeff Bezos laid off fourteen hundred Blue Origin employeoyees,
and the media didn't seem to care about that quote
indiscriminate firing. During Biden's term in office, he gave nine
hundred and ninety one non IRS employees access to IRS
data files. And now those nine hundred and ninety one
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two hundred and twenty six were independent contractors.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, we're going to we're going to get to some
examples in a minute of just how uh.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's bad when Orange Man does.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It, but Jeff Bezos does it, and it's like, well,
let's just let's put our green eye shades on and
let's look down and pretend we don't see it. Oh,
one of my favorite writers has written an entire column
about that. And we're going to get to that in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
But you don't understand Orange Man's in charge, so it
must be bad.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, this is kind of the whole this mainly being
the whole program today is that Orangeman is bad because
Orange Man is doing what Orange Man said he was
going to do, and which the majority of the people
voted for him to go do this stuff. And now
everybody's just flipping out over it, and I just find
it absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I think I'm going to correct you just slightly, okay,
because I saw a Facebook post on this truth made
it made me think a little bit.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, that would be unusual for you to think.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
But the majority of people who voted voted for this.
The majority of people did not vote for Trump. True,
he had a plurality, right, yes, but because you know,
there were so many people that chose not to vote, Well, then.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Those who chose not to vote, you know, fed up?
Will you screw them?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And those who voted for the other girl that lost.
And then there's the percentage to the other girl who
lost that I'm just referring to her as the other
girl who lost. But it just made me think a
little bit because the poster had stated that the majority
of the country did not vote for Trump, which is
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which is accurate.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And it's been accurate for what like the past fifteen
presidents or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
These like, oh, that's that's kind of interesting way to
put it. Yeah, the majority of people did not, but
of those.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Of those who care enough about the country to go.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Vote, yes for the majority of.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Those voted for Donald Trump, yes, and didn't vote for
the girl that lost, correct, yea, the girl that lost
that claims that, oh, I don't never mind, I don't
I'm not no, I'm not going to chase that. I'm
not going to chase it. I'm gonna chase it. Back
to Michael Steele, so he continues on his getting some
blood pressure medicine.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Not just off of X but now he's in the
Treasury Department.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
You know, I have to admit that there's a part
of me that was wouldn't mind if if Elon musk
my Treasury Department account because he might look upon me
and go, that's really sad, that's pathetic. Why I think
that guy's a damn good radio host. That producer of
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his is kind of half ass, Okay, and you know,
I think maybe I should just I should just write
him a check for I don't know, how what do
you think dragon a couple of mill.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I was gonna say half a billion, but you know.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, you know, you're a greedy baschar I was gonna go,
I'd be happy for I'd be happy for a couple
of mill Hill's mills. Today, I'd be happy for one
hundred grand is no, actually, today, i'd be happy for
lunch money. I'd be happy for lunch money.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
He's in the labor department.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
In the labor department. He's in the labor department. And
if somebody pointed out on the text line, which I
think is actually a very good point. By the way,
uh google number fifty three ninety one, tentacles is a
proper pronunciation. Many people just say tentacles because they're they're lazy,
but tentacles is absolutely go look it up in the dictionary.
By the way, how many cups of food does a
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Liamburger eat per day? Well, it depends on whether I'm
feeding them or tammers feeding them. If I'm feeding them
two and a half cups per dog per two and
a half cups twice a day times two dogs, So
that's five.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So that's ten.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Cups of the dogs. That's not enough.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And of course the dogs, it's never enough, My god,
it's never enough. And then on Saturdays, of course they
get they get a piece of sausage from McDonald's, sometimes
eggs too. But fifty three ninety one points out Michael
Elon Musk is really no different than an outside consultant
or auditor. Private companies and public agencies do this all day,
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every day. That's exactly right. And those contractors. I was
thinking about those contractors because one of the contractors for
the Homeland something I forget what it is. It's the
the h SoC. I think is that, hey, you pronounce
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the acronym. But I got an email from them and
lo and behold, guess what they want me to do?
They want me to and we haven't got a date
set yet, but they want me to fly out to
d C to spend a couple of days with them
to give them some advice on just exactly what's wrong
with FEMA. Yeah, so I'm kind of looking forward to that.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna go ready for bear, Like you
want to know what's wrong, Sit down and listen because
I'm going to tell you so, I'm going to get
into the knickers of FEMA. Yeah, I'm going to get
right in there knickers. And who knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
He's in an apartment of Homeland Security, and nobody seems
to give a damn.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, apparently you do, Michael. Uestion is why are you?
This is the question we should be asking, what are
they afraid of? Because I haven't I have yet, and
I've asked. Nobody has sent me anything. But and I've
looked myself. I've tried to find a Democrat. I've tried
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to find a member of the cabal that will say,
you know what, we may not like the way he's
doing it, but we really do want to eliminate waste, fraud,
and abuse. We really would like to reduce the federal deficit,
the budget deficit, and we would also, at the same time,
like to reduce the federal the national debt, two entirely
(25:41):
separate things. We want to see those reduced. I don't
hear anybody saying that. Instead, I just hear I'm bitching
about Elon Musk. Elon Musk, Oh, my guys, he's looking
at all of our pants. Well, for some people that
might be impressive from us. Some other people it might
be like, really, that's all you got. Well, that's kind
of saying.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But that's all.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I want somebody to show that they care enough to
get off their fat ass and say something about it.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I know he means something different, but I agree with
that statement. I agree with those words. I'd like to
see a bunch of people get off their fat asses
and say, you know, we actually do care about this,
We actually do care about it. I don't get why
people are so apoplectic about this, because what we see
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going on is precisely what we ask for. Now. The
whole Doge dividend is driving me nuts. This shows that.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I have.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
To be careful here. But I have There's somebody in
my family who asked me a lot about are we
ever going to get more checks? And I may be
missing a check, and I'm like, you know that you're
not missing any checks and you're not going to get
any more checks, and quit asking about it. And in fact,
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don't you want to see us reduce the deficit? Yes,
but I want to check. Well, you really can't have both.
I don't have it pulled up right now. But I
was going to use this on the Saturday program. I
was curious about federal revenues because I keep hearing that
if we allow that, if we extend the Trump tax cuts,
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which I would remind you are already in place. They've
been in place since twenty seventeen. I'm not maybe they
took effect in twenty eighteen, but I think they took
effect in twenty seventeen. So that tax rate structure is
in place, so the money flowing into the US Treasury
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is based on the existing tax rates, both corporate and individual,
and every all these Democrats are screaming that we can't
extend these tax cuts because it's going to cost us
so much money. How explain to me that if all
we do is if you're paying X rate today and
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you're going to extend that rate into the future, how
are they going to cost you money? Because you don't
think like you do, because you don't think like you're
supposed to think in DC. Now, the thing that I
checked and I made, I'll look at my history in
a minute, say if I can pull it back up, was
the amount of revenue flowing into the US Treasury. And
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I went back prior to twenty seventeen. I think I
went back to like two thousand and eight. The dollars
flowing into the US Treasury have on Now it's not
always a straight line, it's not a forty five degree angle,
But if you draw a line along the graph, you
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will see that revenues to the US Treasury have increased
fairly consistently. Year after year after year, year over year,
revenues to the Treasury have increased. So it seems to
me that the Laugher curve has been proven. You cut
tax rates, you get more tax revenue because people have
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more money to spend. That grows the economy. That means
there's more investment. This means there's more consumption, there's more
economic activity going on, there's more there are more tax payers,
and every tax payer is actually paying more tax because
they're engaging in more economic activity. They've got more capital gains,
they might have more income, they may have more of everything.
(29:57):
Holy cow, there is an absolut ignorance in this country
of economies. I'll if I have time during the break,
I'll pull up those not the figures. I care about
more about the graph, But why scream about tax cuts
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when those tax cuts are already in existence. Because in
DC they want to eliminate the tax cuts, so the
brackets will change, so they think that they will get
more money into the treasury, and actually the will probably
end up getting less. You know, we could grow ourselves
out of this debt a combination of reduction in annual
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budget deficits and an increase in GDP. Can you imagine
if we took the increase in GDP and whatever the
amount is that we can attribute to the growth in
GDP and apply that to the national debt. We could
take off like a rocket. We could take off. Dare
I say, eat one of Elon Musk's rocket ships? Yeah,
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we could actually do that. But nobody understands economics. It's strange.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Saturday, I was trying to listen to some intelligent talk radio,
so I tuned into ninety three.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Point seven or seven sixty and what do I get?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I did Michael Brown instead?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
What the hell happened to their standards?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
This is iHeartMedia. We don't have standards. Why do you
think I just signed an extension in my contract? They
have no standards. Total receives of the US government fiscal
years two thousand and twenty twenty nine in trillions of
US dollars. If you look at the graph, it starts
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in two thousand at about two point oh three and
then dips just slightly. But every dip in this graph
for the past twenty some years, every dip is followed
by a significant increase that is almost at least fifty
(32:11):
percent more than what the dip was. So you do
if you draw the line it is it's almost at
a forty five degree angle. So revenues to the treasury
continue to increase. Now, part of that is that regardless
of what tax brackets are and tax rates, as long
as the economy continues to grow, and obviously there are
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recessions in there, because let's see in yes, in two
thousand and eight, during the Great Recession, the Great Recession,
revenues went from two point five to seven and dropped
down to two point one. But it immediately started going
right back up, and then between twenty twenty and twenty
twenty two they zoomed way up. Let's come back to
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twenty seventeen during the tax cuts. Oh yeah, they went
from in twenty seventeen three point three to two to
three point three three to three point four six, down
to oh to A three point four two, from three
point four to six, and then zoomed up to four
point oh five and from there to four point nine
and then drops slightly to four point four to four,
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and then back up to U five point eight and
then five point four eight, and then back to five
point four five, five point four eight, five point eight seven,
six point one nine, just zoom, just keep going up.
The point is, we do not have a revenue problem.
We have a spending problem. And yes, it is my
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firm belief that claiming this doze dividend as they call it,
and putting that money right back into first I want
you to consider this. The doze dividend is based on
eliminating waste, eliminating fraud or abuse. Those are moneies that
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have already been collected. That's money that's already been taken
out of your pocket. In other words, those are taxes
you've already paid. And so I don't want that money back.
I'd like to have the money back, but I'm willing
to leave that money there if they will, What if
they'll either repurpose it to something like truly sealing the border,
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rebuilding the US military, or if they will use it
to pay down the debt. I don't want that money back.
Let's say that they that they find they really do
and look, I think so far, I'm not bitching about
the amounts. I'm just saying we need to recognize if
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the amounts that they have that they have designated so
far are minimal compared to trying to get to a
trillion dollars, because discovering twenty billion here or one hundred
billion there is making progress, but there's still a long
ways to go to get to a trillion dollars. Imagine
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what it would do to the markets if we took
that same trillion dollar. Let's see, we could really take
a trillion dollars and reduce a thirty five, thirty six,
thirty seven trillion dollar debt by one trillion dollars. Let's
just say from thirty six trillion to thirty five trillion.
That would show that we have decided to get serious
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about our national debt and about our budget deficits. And
the markets would soar, the economy would grow because we
would know we're on the right path on the wrong
path right now. And besides putting that money back into
the economy after having taken it out. Can you spell
inflation
You don't know just how appropriate that is from the
beginning of today's program. I don't know whether there is
some sort of telepathy going on between us or what.
But and it's not about the chickens. Well, we'll get
to the chickens later. But the whole heavy breathing and
the chickens in the background, the cocka doodle do and
(00:47):
just the weirdness of it just fits exactly kind of
how I feel about the world right now. It's back
crap crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I love the fact that it was left over the weekend.
Oh well, and you know I do listen to every
talkback sent to khow outside of this show. Yeah, so
if you happen to be listening to the podcast and
you have some chickens, yeah, and heavy breathing to do.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We talked about chickens on the leakend program too. Yes
it could have been that, but but regardless, it's just
it's just so appropriate. So, which, how do I start
this in a rational way because it's going to turn
(01:34):
very irrational very quickly. Joy Reid got fired.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh no, I know.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Imagine that the woman that accuses every white person of
being a racist and every black person is you know,
perfect and you know, dirt bag black thugs or well
they're just misunderstood. I mean, yeah, that woman, you know,
she finally got fired from her nightly program and she's
going to be replaced by a panel, and on the
(02:09):
panel is going to be the former chair of the
Republican National Committee, Michael Steele. Michael Steele kind of sets
the tone for what I want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
What would you have us too?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I would actually, you know what, I'd just like you
to show that you give a damn that you got
a little emotion about the fact that people are losing
their jobs indiscriminately, that this this.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Individual sitting down the sixteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Prins Ay Avenue has given absolute power to one man
who brings his son into the Oval office, whose son
says to him, you're not the president.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You shouldn't be in that chair. Now, where did he
get that from?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
He got it from his daddy, because that's what his
daddy thinks of the man who brought him into the
Oval office. So I'd just like to see somebody wake
the hell up and get excited about the fact that
your country is under assault.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They're not at the.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Gate anymore, they're in your bedrooms, they're in your living rooms,
they're in your businesses. They got your data, dumb ass,
they got all your stuff. Elon Musk has his tentacles
and everything you're doing not just off of X.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But now he's in the.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Treasury department, he's in the labor department, he's in the
apartment of Homeland Security, and nobody seems.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
To give a damn.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So that's all I want somebody to show that they
care enough to get off their fat ass and say
something about it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Happy Monday morning, everybody, Good morning. Now. I want to
walk through this because there are a few things that
Michael Steele, obviously going off the rails here, says that
I think we need to stop and actually think about
for a moment, actually think about it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
What would you have us too?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I would see you know what. I just like you
to show them that you give a damn.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, I think all of us do that.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I know he's talking to democrats, he's talking to uh.
I guess everyone large kind of everybody in the country.
Just show that you give it them because if you
look around you, the word, the country and the world
is falling apart. Uh, the country in the world's been
falling apart for quite some time. And there's a guy now,
(04:32):
and there's a team now that is trying to like first,
you know, before you can put it together, you've got
to stop the you got to stop the bleeding, so
much like we've talked about with the border. Before you
can really do anything effectively with the border, you got
to shut it down. Uh. I mean, then we can
(04:53):
deal with the dreamers and the document we can dream
with the people that are here. We can figure out
what to do. But you know, when your tub's overflow,
you don't, you know, start mopping. The first thing you
do is you turn the water off. And so we
got a guy who's turning the water off. And when
it comes to you know, I think the new mantra
is waste, fraud and abuse, which I've heard my entire
(05:15):
freaking life waste, fraud and abuse. And he's actually trying
to do something about that too.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I think you got a little emotion about the fact
that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
People people are losing their jobs indiscriminately. That's never happened
in the country before, except that it has, except that
it's always been in the private sector. Not in the
public sector. You know, on Friday, I was off on
(05:53):
this kick again because it really does bug me. It
truly does bug me. And apparently I'm not the only
one that bugs that. We have sixty minutes and we've
got the cabal, We've got, you know, Michael Steele, everybody
else talking about government workers losing their jobs indiscriminately, and
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that's the end of civilization, really, I don't think. So
more on that later. Let's continue that.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
This, this individual sitting at down the sixteen hundred Pisvay Avenue,
has given absolute power to one man who brings his
son to the Oval office.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, let's just stop for a moment. Uh Elon Musk
has not been given absolute power. That might be one
of the favorite words that you know, the left likes
to use, dictator. Uh Elon Musk has not been given
dictatorial powers. He's been given a mission, and the mission
(07:00):
was go find the waste, fraud and abuse, Go find
places where we can cut use. Your little twenty something
engineers that understand more about how to use artificial intelligence
and how to look at a computer system. All these
legacy systems that are built on old ms DOS operating systems,
(07:21):
uh you know that are supposedly keeping planes flying in
the sky are all outdated, and that end of itself
leads to waste, fraud and abuse, and so let's go
look at that stuff. He has no authority to fire anybody.
He has no authority to, uh, you know, search through
your grandmother's Social Security account. He has no authority to
(07:43):
look through your IRS account. He has no authority to
look through anything. All he's looking for is how do
we track payments systems? Where is the where are the inefficiencies?
What can we do to fix? But if you if
all you do is listening to the cabal, you would
think that this guy that Elon Musk single handedly is
(08:06):
going through on his own, or he's got all these
little minions out there who are looking for you. They're
looking for you and you and you so they can
look into all of the accounts that, ironically the government
all has on you.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Your son says to him, you're not the president, you
shouldn't be in that chair.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Then when did he get them?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I had no clue what that is. Did Elon Musk's
four year old son say, Daddy, you know you should
be the president, and he shouldn't be. I mean, what
is he talking about?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Get that from He got.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
It from his daddy, because that's what his daddy thinks
of the man who brought him into the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So I'd just like to see.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I truly have. He's so off the rails there. Maybe
somebody can explain it to me, but I have no
idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
If somebody wake the hell up and get excited about
the fact that your countree is under assault.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
No, the country's not well. The country is under assault.
The country has been under assault for one hundred years
by the progressive left, and now we're pushing back and
so now someone like Michael Steele and MSNBC want you
to believe that somehow the country is under assault, as
if we're being attacked by foreign terrasts like we're having
(09:25):
nine to eleven's all over again. Ices has infiltrated the country,
which it probably has. We've got Hamasia, which it probably is.
We got the cartels running cart blanche everywhere, which they
probably are. But that's not what they're referring to. They're
referring to that there is a president who is actually
has campaigned on reducing the size of the deficit. Now
(09:49):
we can quibble whether or not it's enough or not,
because I don't think it's enough, and that there's going
to be some short term pain that we have to
go through in order to do this. We have known
if if you've listened to me for fifteen seconds over
the past eighteen twenty years I've been on radio, and
if you've listened to me for fifteen seconds, you've heard
(10:09):
me say that when, if, and when we ever do
reach this point, that there will be the gnashing of teeth,
and it will be the ringing of the hands, and
they'll be the screaming and the ouching, and we'll be
squealing like stuck pigs. Because every there are five hundred
and thirty five members of Congress, and all five hundred
and thirty five members have a vested interest in something. Now,
(10:30):
there are some who are who are kind of a
little bit above the fray, and maybe they're a little
wack of doodle, you know, Brand Paul Thomas, Massey, Mike Lee,
a few of these guys that are probably a little
whack of doodle, but they're they're wack of doodle in
my sense of being a whack of doodle. So I
kind of like the whack of doodle in this wackel
doodle in this is a little fine. Okay, as long
(10:51):
as we're trying to fix stuff, you can't fix anything
without a little wackel doodleness.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
They're not at the gate anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
In your bedrooms there.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You know, I woke up this morning and the first
thing I saw was Elon Musk at the end of
the bed, rifling through my pockets. See how much of
cash am I carrying this week? Looking at you know?
He he Then he went down into my basement, into
my studio, and he started digging through my office, my desk,
looking at all the files, looking at my new iHeart contract.
(11:23):
Oh well, look at that here here. You're gonna be
around for a while longer.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Isn't Elon Musk the richest man on the planet.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yes, but you know he got rich by stealing other
people's money.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Does he really care about.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Okay, yeah, he cares about well, okay, maybe not Okay.
And your living rooms there, you.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Know who's in your living room, the cabal. The caball's
in your living room, propagandizing you every opportunity they have, including.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Them in your businesses.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Who's in your business? Who's in your business? Huh? Who's
in your business? Let's think about it. So osha, the
i R S the Department of Labor, Let's see, DHS is,
Department of Commerce is uh, depending on your business, The
(12:28):
Department of Agriculture is depending on your business, the Department
of Education is UH. You know in your business that
you have a bazillion squared regulations that you have to
deal with, so every aspect of federal, state, and local government.
You know, I walked in where was it I walked into?
(12:48):
I walked into a restaurant recently, and it's not a
new restaurant. I'm having a brain fart on it. But
I walked in and I noticed that they have, you know,
at the front door. You know, most people put all
these certificates that you have to have from the Health Department,
(13:09):
you know, you have to have from the Secretary of State,
your business license. You have to have all this stuff,
so you have all these little things like we have
all these over in our little kitchen area on every
single floor, not just not just here on the fourth floor,
but on every single floor. We walk into our kitchen
and nobody ring. I'm probably the only one that ever
looked at them, because I'm just curious what they are.
(13:30):
But we have walls of rules and regulations from the
Department of Labor, from Osha, from workers people from the state, everybody.
They have all these little posters that you have to
have up. But for some reason, this restaurant had all
of their licenses, not their worker be stuff, but their licenses.
(13:54):
They had all in this like, oh, twelve inch wide
window that was next to the door. When you walked
in and I noticed them, and I thought, holy crap.
Every single one of those, there must have been six
or seven of them, was money that that restaurant has
(14:14):
had to put out and has to put out and
will continue to put out. And it and it represents
every one of those government entities having their fingers like
fascists in the running of that business. Now, maybe you know,
I should have asked, I should have sought down the
(14:36):
owner and asked, why do you have these in your window?
Because nobody cares, and you know, it's kind of one's
kind of unsightly. But two, it might be a little
more opening, have a little more open air field too,
if you put your licenses somewhere else. Then I thought
to myself, maybe they're there on purpose because he wants somebody.
(14:57):
And this is again why I should have found the
owner to writ eyes look at everything I have to
go through just to run my little hot dog stand
or whatever it was. Maybe that smite was there. So
when Michael Steele bitches and moans about there everywhere, yeah
they are, and sculled the gate anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
They're in your bedrooms, they're in your living rooms, they're.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
In your businesses.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
They got your data, dumb ass.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
They do. They've got your Now he's talking about excuse me,
he's talking about Elon Musk, But Elon Musk does not
have your data. Well, no, no, I take that back.
Elon mus I don't think he's even longer an owner
of PayPal, but one time he was one of the
founders of PayPal, so they had your data, and if
(15:48):
you have, I was gonna print this out. I didn't
do it, but I downloaded a new app and I
clicked on because I wanted to read the terms of
service because I'm because I'm a stupid lawyer. So I
was really just kind of curious just how lawyerly, how
much legal ease is in the terms of service, and
(16:09):
it was one of those things where you had to
to accept the terms of service. You had to scroll
through everything. So their program was set up that you
could not accept. You coundnot check accept to these or
agree to these terms of service until you'd scrolled through
the entire terms of service. So I scrolled through all
(16:29):
the tos's, got all the way to the bottom, and
then went back to the top and just kind of
skimmed through it and thought, holy cow, I'm giving up everything.
They control everything. And then I had accept, and then
I had to downloaded the app or I opened up
the app or whatever whatever it was I was doing.
So you give up your data every single time. When
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I stopped this morning at the circle K, they no
longer have the thing where you punched in a member.
I used to pay punching a fake phone number and
I get a discount of my diet coke with They
no longer do that. But you know, I now tap
my credit card to pay, you know, my butt ninety
or whatever it is for the for the gigantic diet coke. Uh.
(17:15):
But I'm sure they're tracking that and and they see that,
oh yeah, this particular credit card. Uh, never does anything
but buy buy diet coke, I don't. I don't buy
any Krispy Kreme donuts, I don't buy any roller food.
I don't buy any you know, uh Circle k Uh
gas station, sushi, I don't. I don't do any of that.
But they got my data. And and of course, let's
(17:36):
see today, I'm stopping by because I got a coupon
from one of the places where we buy dog food.
I got a free bag of dog food because I
spend so much damage money on dog food, so they
send me a cupon. So they're they're tracking how much
dog food. And if you go to King Supers and
you go to the Safeway and you plug in your
little phone number, they're tracking exactly, you know, how much
stuff you buy. Yeah, but no, let's let's let's don't
(17:58):
worry about that because well, you know, they've got.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
All your stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Elon Musk has his tentacles and everything you're doing.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Let's pretend for a moment that Elon must really does
have his tentacles in everything that you're doing. How do
you think he How do you think that would be possible?
That would be possible? Because Donald Trump. President Trump has
said to Elon Musk, go forth, young man, and find inefficiencies,
(18:30):
in effectiveness, find waste, fraud, and abuse. So he starts
going into all the executive departments and agencies, and guess what,
they have their tentacles in every aspect of your life.
So if he's now looking into all of those departments
and agencies, therefore he has tentacles in all aspects of
(18:51):
your life because the government has Mike.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Last week, Jeff Bezos laid off fourteen hundred Blue Origin employeoyees,
and the media didn't seem to care about that quote
indiscriminate firing. During Biden's term in office, he gave nine
hundred and ninety one non IRS employees access to IRS
data files. And now those nine hundred and ninety one
(19:15):
two hundred and twenty six were independent contractors.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, we're going to we're going to get to some
examples in a minute of just how uh.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's bad when Orange Man does.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It, but Jeff Bezos does it, and it's like, well,
let's just let's put our green eye shades on and
let's look down and pretend we don't see it. Oh,
one of my favorite writers has written an entire column
about that. And we're going to get to that in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
But you don't understand Orange Man's in charge, so it
must be bad.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, this is kind of the whole this mainly being
the whole program today is that Orangeman is bad because
Orange Man is doing what Orange Man said he was
going to do, and which the majority of the people
voted for him to go do this stuff. And now
everybody's just flipping out over it, and I just find
it absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I think I'm going to correct you just slightly, okay,
because I saw a Facebook post on this truth made
it made me think a little bit.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, that would be unusual for you to think.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
But the majority of people who voted voted for this.
The majority of people did not vote for Trump. True,
he had a plurality, right, yes, but because you know,
there were so many people that chose not to vote, Well, then.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Those who chose not to vote, you know, fed up?
Will you screw them?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And those who voted for the other girl that lost.
And then there's the percentage to the other girl who
lost that I'm just referring to her as the other
girl who lost. But it just made me think a
little bit because the poster had stated that the majority
of the country did not vote for Trump, which is
(21:05):
which is accurate.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And it's been accurate for what like the past fifteen
presidents or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
These like, oh, that's that's kind of interesting way to
put it. Yeah, the majority of people did not, but
of those.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Of those who care enough about the country to go.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Vote, yes for the majority of.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Those voted for Donald Trump, yes, and didn't vote for
the girl that lost, correct, yea, the girl that lost
that claims that, oh, I don't never mind, I don't
I'm not no, I'm not going to chase that. I'm
not going to chase it. I'm gonna chase it. Back
to Michael Steele, so he continues on his getting some
blood pressure medicine.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Not just off of X but now he's in the
Treasury Department.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
You know, I have to admit that there's a part
of me that was wouldn't mind if if Elon musk
my Treasury Department account because he might look upon me
and go, that's really sad, that's pathetic. Why I think
that guy's a damn good radio host. That producer of
(22:15):
his is kind of half ass, Okay, and you know,
I think maybe I should just I should just write
him a check for I don't know, how what do
you think dragon a couple of mill.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I was gonna say half a billion, but you know.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, you know, you're a greedy baschar I was gonna go,
I'd be happy for I'd be happy for a couple
of mill Hill's mills. Today, I'd be happy for one
hundred grand is no, actually, today, i'd be happy for
lunch money. I'd be happy for lunch money.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
He's in the labor department.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
In the labor department. He's in the labor department. And
if somebody pointed out on the text line, which I
think is actually a very good point. By the way,
uh google number fifty three ninety one, tentacles is a
proper pronunciation. Many people just say tentacles because they're they're lazy,
but tentacles is absolutely go look it up in the dictionary.
By the way, how many cups of food does a
(23:08):
Liamburger eat per day? Well, it depends on whether I'm
feeding them or tammers feeding them. If I'm feeding them
two and a half cups per dog per two and
a half cups twice a day times two dogs, So
that's five.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So that's ten.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Cups of the dogs. That's not enough.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And of course the dogs, it's never enough, My god,
it's never enough. And then on Saturdays, of course they
get they get a piece of sausage from McDonald's, sometimes
eggs too. But fifty three ninety one points out Michael
Elon Musk is really no different than an outside consultant
or auditor. Private companies and public agencies do this all day,
(23:46):
every day. That's exactly right. And those contractors. I was
thinking about those contractors because one of the contractors for
the Homeland something I forget what it is. It's the
the h SoC. I think is that, hey, you pronounce
(24:08):
the acronym. But I got an email from them and
lo and behold, guess what they want me to do?
They want me to and we haven't got a date
set yet, but they want me to fly out to
d C to spend a couple of days with them
to give them some advice on just exactly what's wrong
with FEMA. Yeah, so I'm kind of looking forward to that.
(24:32):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go ready for bear, Like you
want to know what's wrong, Sit down and listen because
I'm going to tell you so, I'm going to get
into the knickers of FEMA. Yeah, I'm going to get
right in there knickers. And who knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
He's in an apartment of Homeland Security, and nobody seems
to give a damn.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, apparently you do, Michael. Uestion is why are you?
This is the question we should be asking, what are
they afraid of? Because I haven't I have yet, and
I've asked. Nobody has sent me anything. But and I've
looked myself. I've tried to find a Democrat. I've tried
(25:20):
to find a member of the cabal that will say,
you know what, we may not like the way he's
doing it, but we really do want to eliminate waste, fraud,
and abuse. We really would like to reduce the federal deficit,
the budget deficit, and we would also, at the same time,
like to reduce the federal the national debt, two entirely
(25:41):
separate things. We want to see those reduced. I don't
hear anybody saying that. Instead, I just hear I'm bitching
about Elon Musk. Elon Musk, Oh, my guys, he's looking
at all of our pants. Well, for some people that
might be impressive from us. Some other people it might
be like, really, that's all you got. Well, that's kind
of saying.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But that's all.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I want somebody to show that they care enough to
get off their fat ass and say something about it.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I know he means something different, but I agree with
that statement. I agree with those words. I'd like to
see a bunch of people get off their fat asses
and say, you know, we actually do care about this,
We actually do care about it. I don't get why
people are so apoplectic about this, because what we see
(26:35):
going on is precisely what we ask for. Now. The
whole Doge dividend is driving me nuts. This shows that.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I have.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
To be careful here. But I have There's somebody in
my family who asked me a lot about are we
ever going to get more checks? And I may be
missing a check, and I'm like, you know that you're
not missing any checks and you're not going to get
any more checks, and quit asking about it. And in fact,
(27:14):
don't you want to see us reduce the deficit? Yes,
but I want to check. Well, you really can't have both.
I don't have it pulled up right now. But I
was going to use this on the Saturday program. I
was curious about federal revenues because I keep hearing that
if we allow that, if we extend the Trump tax cuts,
(27:40):
which I would remind you are already in place. They've
been in place since twenty seventeen. I'm not maybe they
took effect in twenty eighteen, but I think they took
effect in twenty seventeen. So that tax rate structure is
in place, so the money flowing into the US Treasury
(28:03):
is based on the existing tax rates, both corporate and individual,
and every all these Democrats are screaming that we can't
extend these tax cuts because it's going to cost us
so much money. How explain to me that if all
we do is if you're paying X rate today and
(28:25):
you're going to extend that rate into the future, how
are they going to cost you money? Because you don't
think like you do, because you don't think like you're
supposed to think in DC. Now, the thing that I
checked and I made, I'll look at my history in
a minute, say if I can pull it back up, was
the amount of revenue flowing into the US Treasury. And
(28:47):
I went back prior to twenty seventeen. I think I
went back to like two thousand and eight. The dollars
flowing into the US Treasury have on Now it's not
always a straight line, it's not a forty five degree angle,
But if you draw a line along the graph, you
(29:08):
will see that revenues to the US Treasury have increased
fairly consistently. Year after year after year, year over year,
revenues to the Treasury have increased. So it seems to
me that the Laugher curve has been proven. You cut
tax rates, you get more tax revenue because people have
(29:33):
more money to spend. That grows the economy. That means
there's more investment. This means there's more consumption, there's more
economic activity going on, there's more there are more tax payers,
and every tax payer is actually paying more tax because
they're engaging in more economic activity. They've got more capital gains,
they might have more income, they may have more of everything.
(29:57):
Holy cow, there is an absolut ignorance in this country
of economies. I'll if I have time during the break,
I'll pull up those not the figures. I care about
more about the graph, But why scream about tax cuts
(30:18):
when those tax cuts are already in existence. Because in
DC they want to eliminate the tax cuts, so the
brackets will change, so they think that they will get
more money into the treasury, and actually the will probably
end up getting less. You know, we could grow ourselves
out of this debt a combination of reduction in annual
(30:43):
budget deficits and an increase in GDP. Can you imagine
if we took the increase in GDP and whatever the
amount is that we can attribute to the growth in
GDP and apply that to the national debt. We could
take off like a rocket. We could take off. Dare
I say, eat one of Elon Musk's rocket ships? Yeah,
(31:04):
we could actually do that. But nobody understands economics. It's strange.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Saturday, I was trying to listen to some intelligent talk radio,
so I tuned into ninety three.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Point seven or seven sixty and what do I get?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I did Michael Brown instead?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
What the hell happened to their standards?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
This is iHeartMedia. We don't have standards. Why do you
think I just signed an extension in my contract? They
have no standards. Total receives of the US government fiscal
years two thousand and twenty twenty nine in trillions of
US dollars. If you look at the graph, it starts
(31:51):
in two thousand at about two point oh three and
then dips just slightly. But every dip in this graph
for the past twenty some years, every dip is followed
by a significant increase that is almost at least fifty
(32:11):
percent more than what the dip was. So you do
if you draw the line it is it's almost at
a forty five degree angle. So revenues to the treasury
continue to increase. Now, part of that is that regardless
of what tax brackets are and tax rates, as long
as the economy continues to grow, and obviously there are
(32:33):
recessions in there, because let's see in yes, in two
thousand and eight, during the Great Recession, the Great Recession,
revenues went from two point five to seven and dropped
down to two point one. But it immediately started going
right back up, and then between twenty twenty and twenty
twenty two they zoomed way up. Let's come back to
(32:54):
twenty seventeen during the tax cuts. Oh yeah, they went
from in twenty seventeen three point three to two to
three point three three to three point four six, down
to oh to A three point four two, from three
point four to six, and then zoomed up to four
point oh five and from there to four point nine
and then drops slightly to four point four to four,
(33:15):
and then back up to U five point eight and
then five point four eight, and then back to five
point four five, five point four eight, five point eight seven,
six point one nine, just zoom, just keep going up.
The point is, we do not have a revenue problem.
We have a spending problem. And yes, it is my
(33:37):
firm belief that claiming this doze dividend as they call it,
and putting that money right back into first I want
you to consider this. The doze dividend is based on
eliminating waste, eliminating fraud or abuse. Those are moneies that
(34:00):
have already been collected. That's money that's already been taken
out of your pocket. In other words, those are taxes
you've already paid. And so I don't want that money back.
I'd like to have the money back, but I'm willing
to leave that money there if they will, What if
they'll either repurpose it to something like truly sealing the border,
(34:22):
rebuilding the US military, or if they will use it
to pay down the debt. I don't want that money back.
Let's say that they that they find they really do
and look, I think so far, I'm not bitching about
the amounts. I'm just saying we need to recognize if
(34:42):
the amounts that they have that they have designated so
far are minimal compared to trying to get to a
trillion dollars, because discovering twenty billion here or one hundred
billion there is making progress, but there's still a long
ways to go to get to a trillion dollars. Imagine
(35:03):
what it would do to the markets if we took
that same trillion dollar. Let's see, we could really take
a trillion dollars and reduce a thirty five, thirty six,
thirty seven trillion dollar debt by one trillion dollars. Let's
just say from thirty six trillion to thirty five trillion.
That would show that we have decided to get serious
(35:25):
about our national debt and about our budget deficits. And
the markets would soar, the economy would grow because we
would know we're on the right path on the wrong
path right now. And besides putting that money back into
the economy after having taken it out. Can you spell
inflation
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