3-11-25 - 9am - Getting Money From DOGE or Balanced Budget

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, brownie, my wife says, I'm big a hole too,
just a big hole full awesome. I'm an awesome hole,
just a big ass hold awesome. There she doesn't think
I'm funny either.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, we've had a crazy woman leave a talk back
something about cornfields and then and then we have a
delusional person to talk back. Yeah, he thinks he's awesome. Yeah. Well, man, people,
it's maybe we need to have, Like on Fridays when
we do taxpayer relief shots, maybe we should start doing

(00:42):
a segment, you know, like a doctor. Oh what was
that on radio? Psychologists psychiatry? No, doctor ruth, not about sex.
There was another one, forget what her name was, but
she did. She did this call in show where it
was all you know, helped psychological problems. I think you
and I can probably help these goobers a lot with

(01:03):
their psychological problems. Tell me about your mother, that's right,
tell me about your childhood, because you and I have
so many and we have such experience with psychological problems
that we could certainly share our experience and how we've
overcome all of our psychological problems. Two members of Congress,
Jony Earns, the senator from Iowa, and Michael Cloud, the

(01:27):
congressman from Texas. They're trying to do their they're trying
to do their fair share. They're trying to get back
three billion dollars that was earmarked for establishing an electric
vehicle fleet for the USPS. It was included in the
aptly named Inflation Reduction Act, because you know, you spend

(01:51):
three billion dollars that we don't have to convert because
the USPS already has As far as I can tell,
the male is still getting delivered. So they must have
either their the contract mail delivery people or the full
time employees. They must have enough in the fleet to

(02:14):
deliver the mail because it's getting delivered. But no, the
Inflation Reduction Act said, nope, we need to spend three
billion dollars to get all EV's. By the way, do
you know there's a Congressional DOGE Caucus. Yes, the Congressional
Department of Government Efficiency Caucus. So anyway, they're they're members

(02:35):
of this caucus, and they're going to introduce legislation to
claw back the funding for the for the mail, not
the male versus female for the Post Office evs. It's
called the Return to Sender Act. Well, you get a
clever name like that. Well, then of course it's going
to pass, but actually comes a response to reported delay

(02:59):
in the delivery the like vehicles. Real quick, got to
jump in here, our good friend Jesse Thomas Textan and
says doctor Laura, Doctor lauraa. Yes, well, now we know
for certain that Jesse has psychological problems because Jesse's listening
to us and he knew the name Licketty split, Yeah,
doctor Laura. So poor old Jesse sitting down in Scottsdale,

(03:23):
and it's probably what let's see, it's is it what
we've changed times? Now? I think they're behind us, so
they're eight ten, So he's probably sitting in on the
patio having you know, some crouissants and orange juice or something. Jerk,
total jerk. Let's see. So this bill is response to

(03:48):
a delay in the delivery of the evs. As of November,
they had ordered sixty thousand of these EV vehicles. Some
defense contractor in Oshkosh was going to deliver them. The

(04:10):
contractor had an agreement with the Postal Service to produce
an initial order of fifty thousand evs over a three
year period. Any guests as to how many have been
delivered as of today out of sixty thousand, what do
you think six thousand, five thousand, four to three to

(04:32):
two one thousand, nine eight hundred, seve hundred, six hundred,
five hundred, four hundred and three hundred, two hundred, one
hundred ninety three. Yes. Now, the Inflation Reduction Act is
what at least two or three years old, and they've
been able to produce ninety three evs. I don't know

(04:52):
who this. Let me see if I can figure who
this defense contractor is, because I'm concerned about a defense
contractor that can't liver sixty thousand vehicles. What if we
needed sixty thousand missiles? What if we needed sixty thousand
you know, f thirty five? What if we needed sixty
thousand submarines? What if we needed sixty thousand MRIs They

(05:15):
can't even do that. You're looking for ways to good
grief Oscosh. One story says that Oscosh is believed to
be struggling with the production of the vehicles, and insiders
are kind of quietly claiming that the contractor is uncertain
it can build the trucks effectively under the terms of

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the Biden contract, and then rising costs because of supply
chain issues and inflation have compounded the project's delays. So
now Ernstein Cloud the two members of Congress are trying
to get a reappropriation of the funds, approximately thirty percent
of the total appropriation designed to tackle inflation under Biden's initiative.

(06:01):
The quote, the order needs to be canceled, with the
unspent money returned to sender the taxpayers. I'm defunding this
billion dollar boondoggles, a stamp out waste in Washington. Could
you use any more references to the Postal Service? Could you?
They actually have people that write this crap for them,

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and we're supposed to be impressed. That was Johnny Ernst.
Here's what Congressman Cloud says. Three years later, taxpayers are
still waiting while the Postal Service refuses to provide basic
transparency on where the money went. The return to cinder
Right takes back the three billion dollars in taxpayer money
that has been wasted in this project. Now what do

(06:44):
you think? Really? Seriously, so what do you think of this?
How many billions of dollars was it of the three
billion dollars ear marked for evs? If they can get
it reappropriated, serious question, what do you want to see
done with that three billion dollars? Really, that's what you

(07:08):
want done? I want it return to the treasury and
then use to pay down the debt, or, as a
second option, return to the treasury and reduce this year's
budget deficit. How about that? Would you? Would you accept that?
Here's what I don't want. Have you heard of James Fishback.

(07:36):
James Fishback is behind this idea that we need to
send stimulus checks to households using the savings created by DOGE.
And just like the last time we got a stimulus
check from Donald Trump, he wants to make certain that

(07:57):
Trump's name should be on the check and that Trump
should get recognition for endorsing the plan. Hey, just like
Jared Polus when he sent us our tea exactly exactly,
Fishback's proposal wants to distribute those dividends to seventy nine
million households, each potentially receiving X number of dollars. Now,

(08:24):
for all of you who think this is a stupid idea,
raise your hand. Okay, we've counted you. Now now that
I'm going to tell you how much each check should
be five thousand dollars. Now, how many are in support
of this plan. Oh look, the number of hands just doubled.
Jimminy Christmas, you bunch of prostitutes. You don't want to

(08:48):
save the country, you want to save yourself. I get it.
Don't get me wrong. If they sent me a check
for five thousand dollars, would I cash it? Damn right,
I cash it. I'm not sure what I do with it. Well, actually,
right now I do know what I do with it,
because I just got my car insurance bill. I know
exactly what I would do with it. The savings identified

(09:11):
by Doge estimated right now to be fifty five billion dollars,
is what would fund this initiative. They want to boaster.
They want to boaster public trust in government and strengthen
household finances. Now, I'm really curious. How does sending me
a check that you've identified as waste, fraud, or abuse,

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and you send me that so called dividend, how does
that bolster my trust in government? You know what that does?
That boasters my belief that government will do anything to
get your vote, that government will do anything to get
you on their side, including buying you off for five

(09:56):
thousand dollars. And don't get me wrong. I understand Jesse
sitting there in Scottsdale, and he could use the five
thousand dollars. And I know that. You know, Dragon's got
to pay for the damn seat belt that he had
to put in in the car. And I've got a
damn car insurance bill that I think is outrageous. I
need to need to I need to shop that around
and see if I can do better than that. So
so we'll all take the money. I just happen to

(10:18):
think that it's wrong. He ought. Mister Fishback also wants
physical checks delivered to each of these households. He doesn't
want to rebate. He doesn't want credits tax credits, because this,
he says, will enhance transparency in government spending. Wow, it

(10:42):
enhances transparency in you being a political prostitute trying out
there to buy our votes, is what it does, he says.
And I quote that money goes back to taxpayers in
the form of a check, a physical check. We don't
want any of this tax rebate, tax credit nonsense. It's
got to be a real check. And you know whose

(11:02):
name should be on the President, Donald J. Trump, because
without him, without the dose dividends, without any of this,
we wouldn't be having this conversation now. Steamless checks have
been used before the CARES Act during the pandemic that
also featured Trump's name and Polus's name and anybody else
that wanted to do it. Now. Fishback somehow tries to

(11:27):
highlight the potential impact on the current administration's economic strategies,
emphasizing that this is an efficient use of tax revenue.
Now I'm just thinking out loud now, but if you
take money that has already been appropriated, so Congress has

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already added this to the deficit to whatever year that
Inflation Reduction Act was passed, this money, this particular three
billion or five billion dollars, has already been accounted for
in the deficit. So how does that affect that money
now just being redirected from a contractor that can't deliver

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to a household that's going to spend it five thousand
extra dollars? Does that create I N F L E
A T I O N the dirty I word. Seems
me that it probably does, because you're just it's money
already spent, it's already added to the deficit, and now

(12:39):
it's going to go to a household where a household
can spend it on a you know, another McDonald's die.
How many McDonald's diet coach can I get? I can't
get five thousand anymore because they're not a dollar apiece.
He wants to transform. According to Fishback, the plan to
send you the money is part of the effort to

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transform the economy into a more efficient free market system.
I truly am at a loss for words to understand.
I can't wrap my head around how taking money already
appropriated that's not being spent and then sending that back
to taxpayers, just again redirecting the money to your household,

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how that creates a more efficient free market system, and
how it doesn't add to inflation. Now some claim that
there's as much as one hundred billion. This is the
latest figure I've seen, is there's about one hundred billion
dollars in wasteful government spending. But that number actually could
be higher, and if they keep digging, it's probably going

(13:45):
to get higher than that. Let's just say they get
to a trillion dollars, which I really do hope they do,
because I think that eliminating at least one year's budget deficit,
having a balanced budget applying whatever is left over to
the national debt would cause the economy to rocket because

(14:08):
it would show that we, oh, we've identified a way
to actually start balancing things out. Heritage has it. I
haven't read. It's either Heritage or TATO had one of
the thing tanks already has a plan to get to
a balanced budget within ten years by simply cutting out
like I don't know, like a couple of pennies per
dollar spent, not even ten percent, like one or two percent,

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And you could get to a balance budget in ten
years if you would just stop increasing the spending. And
what are we doing here. We're taking the spending and
just giving it to you instead of So I'm really curious.
I am genuinely curious what you would do with it,
because I think this is one of the dumbest ideas
that I've heard, the idea that somehow is I don't know,

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I don't get it. We talked a little bit about
the environment earlier about CO two well, and as I
pointed out, it does really require an indoctrination. Well, let's
prioritize the best interest of humanity, or even laugh off
the global warming hopes. But they won't let us do that.

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Who won't let us do that? Well? The adherence to
the Church of the climate activists, but also the Environmental
Literacy Council. I wonder how much money they get. For
more than a decade now, according to this story where
my notes, oh it came from the website itself. For
more than a decade, the Environmental Literacy Council has been

(15:41):
dedicated to helping teachers, students, policymakers, and the public find
cross disciplinary resources on the environment be going to say
on the website. The Council believes our classrooms must become
places where students achieve a deep understanding of complex environmental issues,

(16:04):
and teachers are the key. Through our websites, reports and
professional development guides, the Environmental Listry Council provides practical resources
to teachers and learners, available both imprint and online. So
when you dig through the website you find this for

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teachers and learners. Are furries male or female? Understanding the
gender and the fury the furry fury the furry fandom.
The furry fandom is a diverse community encompassing people of
all genders, sexual orientations, and backgrounds. While some individuals within

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the fandom identify as male or female. Many others identify
as transgender, non binary, cender, gear gender, queer, gender fluid,
or a gender. But we now have that's for some
ever that a gender really and that's one of help
teach kids. What about the environment. I'm I'm really either

(17:13):
really tired or really confused today or maybe both.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Hey, Mike, if you're following Dave Ramsey, he says you
need to get gazelle intense, which is kind of what
Trump's doing. Get gazelle intents, start cutting and cutting and cutting.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, I'm optimistic only in the sense that we started
the process. I'm pessimistic the thing keep it going well.
I think Trump will keep it going, but it is.
It is beyond fascinating to me how just pointing out waste, fraud,

(17:58):
and abuse becomes such a hotbed of opposition. I'll give
you an example. I didn't plan to do this, but
you know, I'm and you could. You could be too,
if you want to. But I'm on the email list
for the White House Comms Office, and they sent this

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out first thing this morning. This was like a six
o'clock hour time, and I just kind of ignored it.
But I think it's applicable here, and it's a fact
check President Trump will always protect Social Security and Medicare.
The numbers are staggering. It reads the Trump administration will

(18:44):
not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits benefits. President
Trump himself has said it over and over and over again.
And those are one, two, three, four, four hyperlinks that
obviously will take you to a probably to the White
House website. Let me see, let me have orphans. See

(19:04):
where it takes you. They will take you to I
can't really take you somewhere where you can listen to
Trump saying this. And then they they quote Elon Musk
directly quote the waste and fraud in entitlement spending, which
is most of the federal spending in it is in entitlements.

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So that's like the big one to eliminate. That's the
sort of half trillion, maybe six to seven hundred billion
dollars a year. And they say he's exactly right, and
then they state one tooth, they state four facts. Listen
to these facts. Camera even asked me the other day, Hey,

(19:46):
I keep hearing that Trump's going to cut Medicare and
Medicaid and Social Security benefits, and I keep telling her, no,
he's not going to do that. That's what the media
wants you to believe. That's what people who are opposed
to cleaning up care, Medicaid, and Social Security want you
to believe because they want to stop anybody from touching it.

(20:09):
We'll listen to these facts from the White House. The
US Government Accountability Office estimates the taxpayers lose as much
as five hundred and twenty one billion dollars annually to fraud,
and most of that is within entitlement programs such as

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Medicare and Medicaid. Now let's take that at face value.
If you're losing five hundred and twenty one half a
trillion dollars yearly annually, and it's in the entitlement programs,
which are pretty much on the verge of bankruptcy insolvency,

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don't you want to clean that up? Apparently Democrats don't
want to. Apparently the media doesn't want you to. They
don't want you anywhere near it. I under why fact
number two. Over the past two decades, the federal government
has made an estimated two point seven trillion dollars in

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improper payments, the majority of which come in the form
of payments to deceased individuals or those who are no
longer are eligible for government programs. Talk about waste fraud
abuse two point seven trillion dollars. There's your budget for
a year. You could just say, hey, you know what,

(21:36):
this year, no income taxes. We're going to reduce spending.
We're not going to attach you on income at all
this year, and we're just gonna pay for it through
the savings we made by limiting waste fraud abuse in Medicare, Medicaid,
and Social Security. Fact number three, The Social Security Administration
made an estimated seventy two billion dollars in improper payment

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between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty two. Seventy two billion dollars.
Fact number four The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
estimated it made one hundred and forty plus billion dollars
in improper payments in twenty twenty four alone. So Musk

(22:23):
is right, the worst waste and fraud is in those
three entitlement programs. Why would people oppose it? In fact,
the White House announcement this morning says, what kind of
person doesn't support eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in government
spending that ultimately cost taxpayers more. This is the battle

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that we're up against. For whatever irrational reason, they want
to use Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as a cudgel
to get you to fear what Elon Musk and Doge
and Trump are doing in trying to eliminate waste, fraud

(23:10):
and abuse. That's all the Democrats have, That's all the
media has is, oh my gosh, look at what you're doing.
You're gonna cut this. No, we're cutting out the waste,
fraud and abuse. No. But nobody has talked about cutting
anybody's benefits. Now, I for one, think we ought to
cut the Medicaid benefits off to illegal aliens. You know,

(23:31):
don't don't come here illegally and then expect us to
pay for your health care. Go somewhere else. You know,
they apparently want you on the continent in Europe. So
so go there, Go to the UK, Go to Sweden,
go to Norway, go to Denmark, go to all the
social welfare countries. Stay out of ours. We got enough
problems of our own. Go somewhere else. So it's it's

(23:56):
mind numbingly stupid to me that well, and to go
to alexis earlier point about the purpose of the dominant
media the cabal is to convince you know that most
of you are you're wrong, you're absolutely wrong, when actually
you're the ones that are right. What I wanted to

(24:16):
talk about in this segment, which I'll try to cram
down as much as I can, is that we're about
to start talks in Saudi Arabia between US, Russia, and
Ukraine to bring an end to the war. Last night,
I'm listening to one of my foreign policy podcasts and

(24:40):
they have on the podcast a conversation. There's a social
media app called tell Telegram. I think it's not Telegram,
it's called Telegram, and it's an end encrypted messaging app,
and they have found these reporters have found discussion among

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Ukrainian soldiers that are in the Curse region of Russia
negotiating their surrender in exchange for their lives. That's how
bad the front has gotten. Well. Ukraine, just before we
start these conversations, launched its largest drone attack on Moscow,

(25:30):
targeting Moscow, the capitol and other regions. Just hours before
these US, Ukrainian and Russian officials are supposed to sit
down and start discussing an end of the war, The
General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said that the drones
had struck a number of Russian strategic objects enabling armed aggression,
including a Moscow oil refinery. The Russian Ministry had defense

(25:53):
counters and says it had downed more than three hundred
Ukrainian drones, ninety one of which are targeting Moscow. Another
one and twenty six were shot down over the Curse region.
The ministry said, where the Ukrainian armies, you know, they've
carved out this toe hold in inside Russian territory. Who's

(26:15):
do they want? Peace? Is this really some sort of effort.
The more I think about what I heard on that
podcast last night, the more I'm convinced that Trump is
actually doing the right thing, sitting down and talking to
the Russians. Biden didn't talk to them, No one's talked
to them. The Europeans haven't talked to them, and the
Europeans are sitting there in a position where, oh, yeah,

(26:36):
you know what, we'll do whatever we can. What can
you do? Poland is announced it wants to build a nuke. Really,
what are you going to do with the nuke?

Speaker 3 (26:47):
What?

Speaker 2 (26:47):
What are you going to do if you build a nuke,
and when Trump says you've got to increase your defense spending,
how are they going to do it? Because they're already
trying to cut back on their stupid green new energy
stuff that they're spending money on. They're already You look
at the National Health Service inside the UK, it's broke,

(27:09):
and it's broke primarily because well, the system itself is
is fatally that business model socialized medicine is fatally flawed.
Plus they're now providing, just like we are, all of
this healthcare to all of these in there in that
country called migrants entering the country from Africa the Middle East?
How how are they going to do it? How? And

(27:32):
then if they're going to present prevent or present some
sort of unified front against Moscow in this fight with Ukraine,
who's going to back a month? Well, uh, we have to.
We have a treaty agreement that requires us to do that.

(27:53):
So are they going are they? Are they seriously considering
putting NATO forces boots on the ground in Ukraine, Because
the second one of those boots is killed, second one
of those soldiers is killed, they invoke Article five that
draws US in these talks can't happen soon enough, and

(28:17):
Trump is right to be doing it. The chattering class
keeps dismissing Trump's brand of diplomacy is somehow reckless, disordered,
even close to aligning with Russian interests. Yet the events
in Europe over the past several years have highlighted the
distinctive foresight woven into what he's actually doing. Critics who

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once jeered Trump's warnings about NATO underfunding and Europe's precarious
dependence on Russian energy, we now know who's been violating
our sanctions against Russia, the Europeans. So as Trump urges
a negotiated end to this horrific blood shed, the other

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thing that they couldn't come up with last night on
this podcast were somewhat credible numbers. But several of the
commentators from the Foundation of the Defensive Democracy and the FDD,
which is a great organization, estimates the numbers may e
seed one million people, civilian and military. So now as

(29:23):
Trump's trying to get an urging and negotiated into the bloodshed,
he gets met with uproar. Oh, he's a Trump, He's
a Putin puppet. He's why he's just trying to he's
just trying to coddle up to Vladimir Putin. No he's not.
He's simply trying to find out, Hey, are you willing

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to have conversations all act as a mediator. I'll come
and see if I can work something out. Those who
scorn that kind of approach, I think who scorn his
approach are pretty simplistic.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
I'd like to remind ice that there is another group
of illegal immigrants that we need to work on deporting,
and those are Canadian geese. They are infiltratating our parks
in all kinds of places.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
I saw the biggest goose turd yesterday walking the dogs
that I think I've ever seen in my entire life.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
The dogs were fascinated by it.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
I honestly did a double take, like, did somebody not
pick up their dog poop like a Limberger sized dog poop? Really?
And I leaned, sure enough, it was kind of like
greenish and white tinge like goose poop. I liked to
I don't like goose, but that make a big ass

(30:47):
goose dinner somewhere. So you're finally belatedly acknowledges that maybe
they were wrong about Ukraine and Russia, because now they're
all screaming about how they're going to increase their defense spending.
I don't know how they're going to do that. And
they also now recognize that, oh, we shouldn't have been

(31:09):
as reliant upon Russian natural gas as we should have.
Do you realize that the Europeans have actually funded Russia's
war on Ukraine. They have spent more money on Russian

(31:30):
oil and natural gas than they have on their total
combined defense spending on behalf of Ukraine. So as they're
pumping their defense armaments and money and whatever else into Ukraine,
they're putting money into Putin's pocket to help Putin fight

(31:51):
what they've put into Ukraine. I mean, it's total insanity,
absolute insanity. And Trump's the only one that says this
is insane. We got to stop it. So so again,
last night, I'm at podcasts as I'm listening to a
really top level experts discuss how Trump and these are

(32:16):
people that are not They are not Trump supporters by
any means. Most of the people that I know at
the Foundation for the Defensive Democracy are not Trump supporters,
but they admit that you can't keep doing what we're
doing and that Trump has been so far the only
person who has said this is not sustainable and you
can't keep doing it. And if we're not careful, it

(32:38):
really will think about Poland. If Poland does start building
a nuke, then who else in Europe's gonna start building nukes?
And for those who already have nukes, France, England, we're
looking at you, Uh, what are you gonna do with them?
We can we can't account for the whether it's one

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hundred and sixty billion or three hundred and fifty billion.
The point is we don't know how many billions. And
even the FDD is pointing out that many of the
weapons that we have sent to Ukraine cannot be accounted for.
And guess where they believe they've gone? To the cartels,

(33:21):
to al Qaeda, to the Taliban, and to whoever that
Yahoo is in Syria right now. Former al Qaeda member