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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
My definition of disappeared is you know they're gone, but
you have no idea where they went to. Yeah, that
is a good definition. A poperi of things. I want
to get caught up on yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm I I couldn't tell you where I read it,
but maybe it was an ex.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
David Hogg, Remember mister Hogg from the Parkland, Florida shooting,
the kid that was not even on the campus. I
don't think that day. In fact, I think he went
to the campus after the shooting. You know, he's now
the vice chair of the Democrat National Committee.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He is.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
He's announced that he wants to direct twenty million dollars
in the primary campaigns against the current Democrat incumbents. So
the uh, what's what's the term? The cannibalization of the
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Democrat Party is.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
In full bloom.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So he's going to leverage an organization called Leaders We
Deserve David Hogg, can't you. I mean, I just look,
I'm not disparaging and I want young people, which is
pretty much anybody under the age of me, uh any,
to get involved in politics. Now, I want you to
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be practical about it. For example, I bemoan the lack
and I know that many of you support I know
there are a couple of people running for governor in
Colorado and I'm not talking about Michael Bennett or Phil Wiser.
And isn't it interesting that Phil Wiser, the Attorney General,
has dismissed the the legal plan against Jenna Griswold. I
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guess as a favor to her to help her win
her race for attorney general. Oh my god, this state
is so fed up, it's freaking unbelievable. But I would,
I would humbly again this is I'll just say it,
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and then you can just attack me however you want to.
I really do believe that anyone who throws their hat
in the ring to run for public office deserves our accolades.
And depending on how well organized they are and if
they know what they're doing. They show the organizational skills,
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they show the fundraising skills, they show the ability to
put together a staff, they have the kinds of issues
they are articulate, they know how to they know how
to articulate those issues in order to draw in as
wide a pump, as wide as a group of voters
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as possible. Then they deserve your support, whether that's financial time,
whatever you can give to them, then you should do that.
But then we have to be realistic. And here's where
I think people will be pissed off at me. I
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posted something on x it's been several days ago that
I think that Colorado is lost in terms of the
twenty twenty six goober natorial election. First of all, the
Democrats have got two yahoos running that are complete dufices.
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I mean Michael Bennett really, so you f up the
Denver first of all, you know, he started out working
for Anshoots and then he.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Screws that up.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So then he goes to work as the superintendent of
the Denver Public Schools and he screws that up. And
so then Bill Ridder, trying to rescue him from the
financial fiasco that is created for the Denver Public Schools.
Bill Ritter, former governor, appoints him to be which is
why I called him the accidental Senator until he got
re elected on his own. And so he goes to
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d C and he does nothing, He accomplishes nothing. I
heard him. He was on CNN. Yes, I occasionally watched CNN.
He was being interviewed by Caitlyn Collins, and she asked
a question about why are you running? And he sounded
like Ted Kennedy. If you remember when Ted Kennedy is
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running for president back I think in nineteen eighty and
Ted Kennedy was asked by somebody in the cabal, you know,
why do you want to be president? And Kennedy had
no answer other than why I want to be president?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now, you know my family's you know, everybody in my
family's run for presidents, so I feel like I need to. Well,
that was pretty much Michael Bennett's answered to Caitlyn Collins,
other than he tried to explain, you know, I'm the
only member of the United States. You know, he always
sounds like he's drunk. This is Michael Bennant. Always sad
like he's drunk. He has a speech impediment or something.
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But he always said, huh, okay, that's very good. Okay
is that him or is that you?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
That is uh mister Mackie from south Park Conkay, Oh.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
My god, I thought for him. It's Michael Bennett. Okay, yes,
all right, your honor.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I rest my case.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So he goes off in his tangent about how he's
the only United States senator that refuses to accept corporate
pack money. And the minute I heard that, I thought,
what a weasel, because you won't take corporate pack money,
so you won't take, for example, Westinghouse.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I don't know why that name came to my head,
but you won't.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Take money from Westinghouse pack, or you won't take money
from the iHeart pack. But if the CEO Westinghouse wants
to give you money, you'll take that. Or if Bob Pittman,
the CEO of iHeart, wanted to give you money, you
would take that. So you're just you're making a distinction
without a difference. And he could barely articulate that. I thought,
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this is the guy running for governor of the state
of Colorado. God help us. But then I look at
the alternative Phil Wiser. What's Phil Wiser done? I mean,
good grief, it's pathetic. But in a deep blue state
like Colorado has become, I don't think a Republican stands
a chance in Hill and I know that pisses people off.
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I think anybody running in twenty twenty six has to
either recognize that you're a sacrificial lamb or you are
running hoping to run again in twenty thirty I know,
I know there's two I know of two names. They're
both running. And when I posted that, everybody kept posting
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on my ex account, Oh there's this guy, there's this guy. There,
there's this guy, and there's this guy. And I'm thinking, yes,
and how much money can they raise? And it's not
just a matter of money, it's also organization. What kind
of organization do you have, Because if you've already announced
your running, you should be putting together a damn fine organization.
And you should already have a couple of million dollars
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in the bank, because you should have been able to
go to some donors and already raise at a minimum
million bucks to run for governor of Color. And if
you don't have that already, then it tells me you
don't have you don't have the kind of organizational or
connections that you need to raise that kind of money.
So I think it's a sacrificial land, which brings me
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back to David Hogg. So David Hogg is cannibalizing the
Democrat Party, which is fine with me. I'm all for it,
go for it. He wants to take twenty million dollars
to run to primary Democrat incumbents with some organization called
Leaders We Deserve, which focuses on electing young progressives, which
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means far left progressives, which means really Marxist. Now his
strategy creates obviously potential tension within the Democrat parties leadership,
particularly as it continues to deviate from the traditional focus
of opposing Republican candidates. Now he acknowledged that pursuing these
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primary challenges is probably going to lead to significant personal
and professional pushback. He's quoted as saying, this is going
to hanger a lot of people, not me. I'm I'll
support you new efforts as much as I can. So
when you start challenging your own party's usual practices, which
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in Colorado we probably shouldn't do for Republicans, which generally
emphasizes security and victors over Republican opponents rather than engaging
in infighting, you it shows just how leaderless, just like
I think the Republican Party is leaderless, just how the
Democrat Party is leaderless, and not just in Colorado, but
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now nationally.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
During a recent private meeting, the DNC reiterated the.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Importance of neutrality among its official Does this sound familiar?
It sounds like the old Dave Williams regime, doesn't it
here in Colorado, emphasizing their need for impartiality. Hogg was
the only one not to sign this neutrality policy. So
the chair of the DNC, Kim Martin, addressed the situation,
underscoring the party's supposed principle that primary voters should choose
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nominees without any inner farns from national party influences. Steve Shale,
who's a longtime Democrat campaign strategist, is out there trying
to emphasize that the Democrats should focus on regaining lost
ground in the key battleground states, noting a troubling trend
in seven hundred and three out of seven hundred and
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sixty seven counties in the recent presidential cycle. Matt Bennett
from Third Way is also expressing concern about Hogg's ability
to transition from activism to his role as the DNC
vice chair, describing what's going on as really problematic now
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the move comes as obviously, I think the Democrats still
lack a clear leadership since the election of Trump. There
was a poll released late March that showed the Democrats
promitting to history clothes, falling twenty points since Trump's victory
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in November, and it's getting even worse. But we've got
our problems too. I didn't see it, but I went
back and watched part of it. Did you watch? This
was a week ago, the cabinet meeting. The President likes
to have cabinet meetings. They he needs to be careful
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about these because sometimes, well, first, if all you're going
to do is have the cabinet members talk about here's
what we're doing X, Y Z, which is good, but
then going on to kiss Trump's ask in such a
way that it becomes ooh, that's kind of disgusting. They
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need to state forcefully what they're doing, what they accomplished,
and what they're moving on to next, what their long
term strategy is. You don't need to kiss Trump's but
during a publicly televised cabinet meeting, it's going to turn
people off. Well, something happened to that cabinet meeting that
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I didn't talk about last week because I wanted to
see if anybody else would Nobody has. Apparently, I shouldn't say, apparently,
all you have is just watched the meeting.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Elon Musk has.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Changed, moderated, reduced his budget reduction goals. I remember he
promised substantial cuts to the federal budget. Initially it was
going to be two trillion dollars. Then he revised his
expectations downward to one trillion dollars. He did that the
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day that he was appointed to the Department of Government
Efficiency as a SGE, a special government employee.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
But at the meeting.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Last week he reduced his expectations even further. He cited,
are you ready one hundred and fifty billion in anticipated
savings from cutting waste, fraud and abuse for fiscal year
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twenty twenty six. That is ninety two percent from the
original promise cuts to the budget, spanning from October of
this year to September of next year.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
If you go back and you watch.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You'll hear him say quote, I'm excited to announce that
we anticipate savings in twenty twenty six from the reduction
of waste fraud from reduction of waste and fraud by
one hundred and fifty billion dollars, And nobody batter it.
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Trump didn't say anything. Nobody said anything. Now the newest
budget cut The newest budget cut target reflects data from
the Doze website, which currently amounts to the cited one
hundred and fifty billion dollars in savings.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Now, if you.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Go to the website, it's unclear whether that number is
a hard ceiling for Musk in his team. Now, the
Trump White House still maintains that the original one trillion
dollars remains the administration's goal, But Musk is backing off.
Now what was in The other thing that I found
interesting about the presentation was that it was unusually brief,
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because you know, Musk likes to stand up and of
course likes to be the center of attention, as any
good politician would be. But instead the Secretary of Defense
beat Pete Hegseth, instead started commencing the session, suggesting a
possible shift to national security concerns as the top priority.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
This really troubles me. Go back to the beginning of
the program.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Part of the idea of moving away from an income
tax and using tariffs is also eliminating. If you could eliminate,
as it was originally proposed, one trillion dollars from the
federal budget, that makes it even easier to reduce the
federal budget down from its extraordinary levels post COVID, back
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down to the pre COVID levels. But so far Musk
is backing off that what's Congress now, Oh I'm sorry,
I forgot Sunday is Easter. Congress has been off all week,
and then Congress will be off all next week because
you know, once they've had you know, turkey and whatever
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they have, you know, roast b or whatever they've got
for their Easter dinner their family, and they've all gone
to church I'm sure, and made sure they get photographs
of them going to church on Easter Sunday, and then
they have to have a week off to recuperate from
all of that. Look, come on, the federal government is
a target rich environment. As Musk said, they're inefficiencies that
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are being identified everywhere. But despite their efforts that the
online platform still faces claims that the data isn't accurate
and that it's either miscounting or incorrectly attributes to savings.
And now we get a lot of skepticism among supporters
like me and of course among the critics about the
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feasibility of these ambitious budget cups.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Ken we or can't we.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
If we're willing to go through the turmoil we're going
through right now to rearrange the international trade.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And for that matter, of the international the.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Whole world order, in order to keep US as a
superpower to isolate China. Why can't we cut the budget?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Are we all that addicted to federal spending and we
played the enteres yet Pea Quads, I'm from Chicago, used
to be a professional trader there. Pea Quads has a
place in Morton Grove too, besides down in Lincoln Park.
At least that's what I heard on the radio. Clad
you enjoyed it. One of the greatest pizza places on
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the planet. Talk to you later. Thanks for the confirmation. Yeah,
Morton Grove was just too far. I mean, the one
in Lincoln Park was the easiest. Want to get to
a trader on the floor of the Chicago Exchange. You
must be some wild ass crazy guy to do that.
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Speaking of zero nine three eight, Mike, why would someone
mumble mouth I assume they're referring to Michael Bennett leave
a non term limited seat for one that just term limited.
Either they have something on or he got paid step aside. Actually,
I think it's worse than that. I think it is you.
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You reach a point where, even even among stupid people,
they start to realize that they are stupid and they're
not getting I mean, it's it's it's nice to be it.
Look being a member of the world's most exclusive club
other than being you know, a former president that club,
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which is what there's only four or five of them
a life right now. I have to go count. Uh,
that's the most. But the United States Senate is a
very exclusive club. They're never more than one hundred members
at a time right now. And you get all these perks.
I mean, you know, you're lucky if you get two
weeks of vacation. They get two weeks of vacation just
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for Easter, and they get all these different perks and
fly around the country and Codell's going to different countries
and stuff. You know, they go to El Salvador to
try to rescue a so called American citizen. That's El Salvador,
and I don't get it, but they do. But you
reach a point where sometimes family says we've had it,
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we're out of here, or you realize you're totally ineffectual,
you're not doing anything. You also realize that you're never
going to be in a leadership position and all you're
doing is going through the motions. I've always maintained that
in politics, I do believe the best the best position
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in American politics is to be the governor of a state,
because you can have more direct, real world impact on
your state than you ever can as a US Senator
or a congressman, or certainly as a president. And having worked,
you know, right next to a president for almost six years,
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I can tell you that while they are the most
powerful people on the planet, they're very limited in what
they can actually accomplish. They can accomplish grand big things,
and those grand big things do affect people's lives. But
in terms of look around Colorado, can you imagine what
a truly fiscal conservative that understands like how businesses operate,
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why businesses locate or not locate someplace, how small businesses
survive or don't survive, the kind of changes you can
make because you have so much influence over the legislative branch.
Presidents don't have that much influence over Congress. They've got
the power of the presidency. They got all the perks,
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you know, they can take them on Air Force one one,
they can invite them to the White House, they invite
him to the residents for dinner. They can, you know,
they can really give the members of Congress a platform
which helps them back in their home state. But it
comes down to personal relations and in a state, a
governor can true Now I know, I know we haven't
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witnessed this in a long time, but a governor can
be a real leader, and a governor has the ability
to bridge even the partisan divide that we have now
by fixing, you know, focusing on ninety ten issues like
Trump's doing right now. Police has utterly failed to do that.
He's he's decimated this state. Just things like I talk
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about the silly things that I observe and I'm driving around.
For example, before I left for Chicago, Tam and I
went to this little dive Mexican place that we go to.
I don't mean dive pejorative, at least just a little
tiny Mexican place. One night I was seeing there alone
and one of the wait saw my ex account opened.
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She had no idea who I was. I mean, she
knew from the excicount, but she goes, oh, that's you.
I follow you, and so it led to a conversation.
Turns out she's more than a waitress. She's actually a
fifty to fifty partner with the guy that I thought
owned the place. Well, it turns out she's a She's
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from California, she moved here. She's a nurse, retired nurse,
and she started talking to Tamer and I about how
difficult it is them running this small little restaurant because
of all the stupid taxes, trying to hire people, the
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regulations they have to comply with everything. She says, it
really is a struggle to keep the place open, and
they're fairly busy, although she says that they're no members
of customers have dropped because people simply can't afford to
eat out that much. Well, I would take someone like that,
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and I would I would get a group of them
together and say I wouldn't ask the legislature screw them.
I would ask these business owners, what regulations would you
cut and why? And then I'd have my staff analyze
it and find out, okay, if we are the consequences
of cutting these regulations, and then I'd go about hacking
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them out. I'd take a weed whacker and just get
rid of all of them that I could. I'd clean
up the highways, I'd reallocate the priorities. The money that
we that we get for transportation, we don't spend on
the road bridges and highways. We don't fix the interchanges,
we don't fix the potholes. We don't fix you know,
the expansion joints. We don't do any of that. We
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spend on those stupid things like bike lanes. Why would
public talk about that? You tell me, tell me, tell
me right now. What's the last thing you heard Jared
Polis publicly talk about. That's right, Senate Bill three and
how it's going to improve the safety of all Colorado's
that's utter and complete bull.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Has he talked about regulations? Has he talked about small businesses?
Oh no, no, he doesn't talk about that at all.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
What does he do?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He reintroduces wolves and we can't even pay for the
damn wolves that he reintroduces because they're killing all the
cattle ins and the pig. Well they're not killing pigs,
they're killing all the sheep and the cattle and the dogs.
And next thing you know, they're going to kill a
kid somewhere up in Genesee, mark my words, there'll be
a tourist or somebody gets killed by a gray Wolf.
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That's all he cares about, whatever's stupid husband tells him
to care about. A governor can have so much impact
on the state. That's the best job in the country
if you're going to be a politician. But in Colorado,
it's going to take someone with incredible fundraising skills, incredible
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organizational skills, and the ability to connect with people and
explain to them from a conservative point of view, why deregulating.
Why if you really want to grow this economy, then
you've got to have the environment. And I don't mean
the environment like the outdoors. I mean the business and
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the regulatory and the statutory framework that encourages businesses to
want to open and come here and expand and hire people.
If we don't do any of that, we're just like California,
which if you see the outflows of businesses from California
and the outflows of people leaving California, we'll reach that
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point if we haven't already. We're not quite that bad yet,
boot we are as bad as California. It's just the
people haven't started. I mean, I know people are packing
up leaving, but not in the droves that they are
in California. We will reach that point sometime, and then
Denver will turn into such a crap hole city even
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more so than it is now, that it'll be like
Los Angeles and so, and I forget the guy's name
that ran for mayor last time that barely lost. He'll
come back and he'll actually win, or a Republican will win,
or we'll actually see Coloradoll turn so bad, so crappy
that a Republican will win. That's articulate, that can express
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and can do the things that need to be done
to turn this state around. But until then, we suffer,
and idiots like Michael Bennett and Phil Wiser will run
and one of them will get elected, because this is
right now a Democrat state, and they'll go out and
they'll talk about all the bull craft that they talk
about about. You know, we got to take care of
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this constituency and that constituency, and we got to care
for you know, the poorest among us and all the
blah blah blah of the Marxists that they are. And
they'll get elected, and we'll continue down the crab hole
for example, real quick example. Then I'll take a break.
You know, we're still strugging with our budget deficit.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Do you know that there is an Inspector General's report
from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Centers. It's called
CMMs that IgE. This is not DOGE, This is not
the Department of Government Efficiency. This is the Inspector General
for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services found that
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we have been paying dead people in Colorado to the
tune of seven point three million dollars that they found
between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty. I can't wait to
hear about the subsequent years. But here's the best and
the worst part of this story. The Inspector General says
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that they also identified almost thirty nine thousand unallowable payments
that Colorado made on behalf of deceased in rollees. That's
that's the best of the worst part. The worst of
the worst part is this. Those deceased in rollees were
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identified because their dates of death were accurately reflected in
Colorado's eligibility system. So our here's one spot where our
it system works the way it's supposed to. They're able
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to match death certificates within rollees so that they can
be taken off and the checks can stop because we
have a validated death certificate for someone enrolled in Medicare
and Medicaid, so we can stop. Yet we overpaid thirty
We paid thirty nine thousand dead people for the two
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years that the IG studied. Now you and know what's
really bad about this. Jared Polus comes out and says
it's because of an outdated IT system. He just lied
to us. The IG says, nor your IT system works fine.
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It properly identified, get matched up on the databases between
death certificates and enrollees so that you could stop paying them,
and we continue to do so, and Polus blames the computers.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That's some kind of line, Michael.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Wouldn't it be interesting to get a chance to ask
Milton Freedman what he thinks about the income thiral income tax,
how he helped create it, but it was really only
meant for more time and it was never discontinued. It'd
be interesting to be able to talk to him and
see what he truly thinks about that.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It'd be wonderful showing the brackets and all the deductions
and the exemptions and the just the paperwork and showing
the letter. Donald Rumsfeld once wrote a letter. I'll see
if I can find it. Not I won't be able
to find it today, but you might be able to
find it by using the Google machine. Donald Rumsfeld submitted
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his income tax returns to the IRS with a cover letter,
and it said something to the effect, you know, maybe
it was directly to the commissioner and closed are our
fact returns for you know, tax year two thousand and
three or whatever it was. I'm submitting these and I
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want you to know that I have no earthly idea,
nor can anyone that I have consulted tell me whether
these returns are accurate or not, because the system is
so complex and is so difficult to navigate that nobody
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can tell me whether these turn these returns or are
accurate or inaccurate. Despite all the due diligence I've done
to make them as accurate as possible, there is no
way that I can, in all the life sign my returns.
There's no way that I can say that I have
not perjured myself because I don't know. There's no way
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to know. You should find that letter, and well, I'll
see if I can find that letter and will get
it up, because it's it really is I'd love to
have Milton Freeman read that letter and then to give
him some perspective of how convoluted the systems become.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Do you know the acronym fafo dragon? You heard that one?
I have? I love that one. We can't say the
first one, but we can say everything else. Yeah, f
round find out there you go.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, Well, apparently Letitia James has done that. Axios Yesterday
has this story. Let me just read you the first paragraph.
New York Attorney General Letsia James is accusing the Trump
administration of weaponizing the government after a federal agency referred
her for potential criminal prosecution for alleged mortgage fraud, and
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she is alleged to have claimed as a as her
principal residence while she was the Attorney General of New York,
a house that she was buying in Virginia. She had
also claimed that her father was her husband in order
to get a reduced rate for married couples or something, which,
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if proven true, is indeed mortgage fraud, which is taken
very seriously by the federal government. By the way, So
why would Axios or why would she say that they're
weaponizing the government if indeed she actually committed those crimes,
which remains to be proven in the court of law,
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but she's pretty Adams.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
My mission is clear. I'm focused, I'm prepared, I'm ready.
I've been trained by the best. I went to Howard
University that overturned legal segregation in this country. I've been
taught in those classrooms with third Good Marshal once taught
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I'm not afraid of no President Donald Trump. We're ready
for you. We're coming for you, we're standing up for you,
we're fighting on we're not going down sailing.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, i'd say afo
Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
My definition of disappeared is you know they're gone, but
you have no idea where they went to. Yeah, that
is a good definition. A poperi of things. I want
to get caught up on yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm I I couldn't tell you where I read it,
but maybe it was an ex.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
David Hogg, Remember mister Hogg from the Parkland, Florida shooting,
the kid that was not even on the campus. I
don't think that day. In fact, I think he went
to the campus after the shooting. You know, he's now
the vice chair of the Democrat National Committee.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He is.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
He's announced that he wants to direct twenty million dollars
in the primary campaigns against the current Democrat incumbents. So
the uh, what's what's the term? The cannibalization of the
(01:08):
Democrat Party is.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
In full bloom.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So he's going to leverage an organization called Leaders We
Deserve David Hogg, can't you. I mean, I just look,
I'm not disparaging and I want young people, which is
pretty much anybody under the age of me, uh any,
to get involved in politics. Now, I want you to
(01:39):
be practical about it. For example, I bemoan the lack
and I know that many of you support I know
there are a couple of people running for governor in
Colorado and I'm not talking about Michael Bennett or Phil Wiser.
And isn't it interesting that Phil Wiser, the Attorney General,
has dismissed the the legal plan against Jenna Griswold. I
(02:03):
guess as a favor to her to help her win
her race for attorney general. Oh my god, this state
is so fed up, it's freaking unbelievable. But I would,
I would humbly again this is I'll just say it,
(02:25):
and then you can just attack me however you want to.
I really do believe that anyone who throws their hat
in the ring to run for public office deserves our accolades.
And depending on how well organized they are and if
they know what they're doing. They show the organizational skills,
(02:48):
they show the fundraising skills, they show the ability to
put together a staff, they have the kinds of issues
they are articulate, they know how to they know how
to articulate those issues in order to draw in as
wide a pump, as wide as a group of voters
(03:10):
as possible. Then they deserve your support, whether that's financial time,
whatever you can give to them, then you should do that.
But then we have to be realistic. And here's where
I think people will be pissed off at me. I
(03:31):
posted something on x it's been several days ago that
I think that Colorado is lost in terms of the
twenty twenty six goober natorial election. First of all, the
Democrats have got two yahoos running that are complete dufices.
(03:51):
I mean Michael Bennett really, so you f up the
Denver first of all, you know, he started out working
for Anshoots and then he.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Screws that up.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So then he goes to work as the superintendent of
the Denver Public Schools and he screws that up. And
so then Bill Ridder, trying to rescue him from the
financial fiasco that is created for the Denver Public Schools.
Bill Ritter, former governor, appoints him to be which is
why I called him the accidental Senator until he got
re elected on his own. And so he goes to
(04:25):
d C and he does nothing, He accomplishes nothing. I
heard him. He was on CNN. Yes, I occasionally watched CNN.
He was being interviewed by Caitlyn Collins, and she asked
a question about why are you running? And he sounded
like Ted Kennedy. If you remember when Ted Kennedy is
(04:46):
running for president back I think in nineteen eighty and
Ted Kennedy was asked by somebody in the cabal, you know,
why do you want to be president? And Kennedy had
no answer other than why I want to be president?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now, you know my family's you know, everybody in my
family's run for presidents, so I feel like I need to. Well,
that was pretty much Michael Bennett's answered to Caitlyn Collins,
other than he tried to explain, you know, I'm the
only member of the United States. You know, he always
sounds like he's drunk. This is Michael Bennant. Always sad
like he's drunk. He has a speech impediment or something.
(05:25):
But he always said, huh, okay, that's very good. Okay
is that him or is that you?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
That is uh mister Mackie from south Park Conkay, Oh.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
My god, I thought for him. It's Michael Bennett. Okay, yes,
all right, your honor.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I rest my case.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So he goes off in his tangent about how he's
the only United States senator that refuses to accept corporate
pack money. And the minute I heard that, I thought,
what a weasel, because you won't take corporate pack money,
so you won't take, for example, Westinghouse.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I don't know why that name came to my head,
but you won't.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Take money from Westinghouse pack, or you won't take money
from the iHeart pack. But if the CEO Westinghouse wants
to give you money, you'll take that. Or if Bob Pittman,
the CEO of iHeart, wanted to give you money, you
would take that. So you're just you're making a distinction
without a difference. And he could barely articulate that. I thought,
(06:30):
this is the guy running for governor of the state
of Colorado. God help us. But then I look at
the alternative Phil Wiser. What's Phil Wiser done? I mean,
good grief, it's pathetic. But in a deep blue state
like Colorado has become, I don't think a Republican stands
a chance in Hill and I know that pisses people off.
(06:53):
I think anybody running in twenty twenty six has to
either recognize that you're a sacrificial lamb or you are
running hoping to run again in twenty thirty I know,
I know there's two I know of two names. They're
both running. And when I posted that, everybody kept posting
(07:15):
on my ex account, Oh there's this guy, there's this guy. There,
there's this guy, and there's this guy. And I'm thinking, yes,
and how much money can they raise? And it's not
just a matter of money, it's also organization. What kind
of organization do you have, Because if you've already announced
your running, you should be putting together a damn fine organization.
And you should already have a couple of million dollars
(07:37):
in the bank, because you should have been able to
go to some donors and already raise at a minimum
million bucks to run for governor of Color. And if
you don't have that already, then it tells me you
don't have you don't have the kind of organizational or
connections that you need to raise that kind of money.
So I think it's a sacrificial land, which brings me
(07:59):
back to David Hogg. So David Hogg is cannibalizing the
Democrat Party, which is fine with me. I'm all for it,
go for it. He wants to take twenty million dollars
to run to primary Democrat incumbents with some organization called
Leaders We Deserve, which focuses on electing young progressives, which
(08:19):
means far left progressives, which means really Marxist. Now his
strategy creates obviously potential tension within the Democrat parties leadership,
particularly as it continues to deviate from the traditional focus
of opposing Republican candidates. Now he acknowledged that pursuing these
(08:42):
primary challenges is probably going to lead to significant personal
and professional pushback. He's quoted as saying, this is going
to hanger a lot of people, not me. I'm I'll
support you new efforts as much as I can. So
when you start challenging your own party's usual practices, which
(09:06):
in Colorado we probably shouldn't do for Republicans, which generally
emphasizes security and victors over Republican opponents rather than engaging
in infighting, you it shows just how leaderless, just like
I think the Republican Party is leaderless, just how the
Democrat Party is leaderless, and not just in Colorado, but
(09:28):
now nationally.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
During a recent private meeting, the DNC reiterated the.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Importance of neutrality among its official Does this sound familiar?
It sounds like the old Dave Williams regime, doesn't it
here in Colorado, emphasizing their need for impartiality. Hogg was
the only one not to sign this neutrality policy. So
the chair of the DNC, Kim Martin, addressed the situation,
underscoring the party's supposed principle that primary voters should choose
(09:58):
nominees without any inner farns from national party influences. Steve Shale,
who's a longtime Democrat campaign strategist, is out there trying
to emphasize that the Democrats should focus on regaining lost
ground in the key battleground states, noting a troubling trend
in seven hundred and three out of seven hundred and
(10:21):
sixty seven counties in the recent presidential cycle. Matt Bennett
from Third Way is also expressing concern about Hogg's ability
to transition from activism to his role as the DNC
vice chair, describing what's going on as really problematic now
(10:41):
the move comes as obviously, I think the Democrats still
lack a clear leadership since the election of Trump. There
was a poll released late March that showed the Democrats
promitting to history clothes, falling twenty points since Trump's victory
(11:01):
in November, and it's getting even worse. But we've got
our problems too. I didn't see it, but I went
back and watched part of it. Did you watch? This
was a week ago, the cabinet meeting. The President likes
to have cabinet meetings. They he needs to be careful
(11:25):
about these because sometimes, well, first, if all you're going
to do is have the cabinet members talk about here's
what we're doing X, Y Z, which is good, but
then going on to kiss Trump's ask in such a
way that it becomes ooh, that's kind of disgusting. They
(11:48):
need to state forcefully what they're doing, what they accomplished,
and what they're moving on to next, what their long
term strategy is. You don't need to kiss Trump's but
during a publicly televised cabinet meeting, it's going to turn
people off. Well, something happened to that cabinet meeting that
(12:10):
I didn't talk about last week because I wanted to
see if anybody else would Nobody has. Apparently, I shouldn't say, apparently,
all you have is just watched the meeting.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Elon Musk has.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Changed, moderated, reduced his budget reduction goals. I remember he
promised substantial cuts to the federal budget. Initially it was
going to be two trillion dollars. Then he revised his
expectations downward to one trillion dollars. He did that the
(12:52):
day that he was appointed to the Department of Government
Efficiency as a SGE, a special government employee.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
But at the meeting.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Last week he reduced his expectations even further. He cited,
are you ready one hundred and fifty billion in anticipated
savings from cutting waste, fraud and abuse for fiscal year
(13:22):
twenty twenty six. That is ninety two percent from the
original promise cuts to the budget, spanning from October of
this year to September of next year.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
If you go back and you watch.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You'll hear him say quote, I'm excited to announce that
we anticipate savings in twenty twenty six from the reduction
of waste fraud from reduction of waste and fraud by
one hundred and fifty billion dollars, And nobody batter it.
(14:01):
Trump didn't say anything. Nobody said anything. Now the newest
budget cut The newest budget cut target reflects data from
the Doze website, which currently amounts to the cited one
hundred and fifty billion dollars in savings.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Now, if you.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Go to the website, it's unclear whether that number is
a hard ceiling for Musk in his team. Now, the
Trump White House still maintains that the original one trillion
dollars remains the administration's goal, But Musk is backing off.
Now what was in The other thing that I found
interesting about the presentation was that it was unusually brief,
(14:44):
because you know, Musk likes to stand up and of
course likes to be the center of attention, as any
good politician would be. But instead the Secretary of Defense
beat Pete Hegseth, instead started commencing the session, suggesting a
possible shift to national security concerns as the top priority.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
This really troubles me. Go back to the beginning of
the program.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Part of the idea of moving away from an income
tax and using tariffs is also eliminating. If you could eliminate,
as it was originally proposed, one trillion dollars from the
federal budget, that makes it even easier to reduce the
federal budget down from its extraordinary levels post COVID, back
(15:35):
down to the pre COVID levels. But so far Musk
is backing off that what's Congress now, Oh I'm sorry,
I forgot Sunday is Easter. Congress has been off all week,
and then Congress will be off all next week because
you know, once they've had you know, turkey and whatever
(15:56):
they have, you know, roast b or whatever they've got
for their Easter dinner their family, and they've all gone
to church I'm sure, and made sure they get photographs
of them going to church on Easter Sunday, and then
they have to have a week off to recuperate from
all of that. Look, come on, the federal government is
a target rich environment. As Musk said, they're inefficiencies that
(16:18):
are being identified everywhere. But despite their efforts that the
online platform still faces claims that the data isn't accurate
and that it's either miscounting or incorrectly attributes to savings.
And now we get a lot of skepticism among supporters
like me and of course among the critics about the
(16:38):
feasibility of these ambitious budget cups.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Ken we or can't we.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
If we're willing to go through the turmoil we're going
through right now to rearrange the international trade.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And for that matter, of the international the.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Whole world order, in order to keep US as a
superpower to isolate China. Why can't we cut the budget?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Are we all that addicted to federal spending and we
played the enteres yet Pea Quads, I'm from Chicago, used
to be a professional trader there. Pea Quads has a
place in Morton Grove too, besides down in Lincoln Park.
At least that's what I heard on the radio. Clad
you enjoyed it. One of the greatest pizza places on
(17:25):
the planet. Talk to you later. Thanks for the confirmation. Yeah,
Morton Grove was just too far. I mean, the one
in Lincoln Park was the easiest. Want to get to
a trader on the floor of the Chicago Exchange. You
must be some wild ass crazy guy to do that.
(17:47):
Speaking of zero nine three eight, Mike, why would someone
mumble mouth I assume they're referring to Michael Bennett leave
a non term limited seat for one that just term limited.
Either they have something on or he got paid step aside. Actually,
I think it's worse than that. I think it is you.
(18:07):
You reach a point where, even even among stupid people,
they start to realize that they are stupid and they're
not getting I mean, it's it's it's nice to be it.
Look being a member of the world's most exclusive club
other than being you know, a former president that club,
(18:29):
which is what there's only four or five of them
a life right now. I have to go count. Uh,
that's the most. But the United States Senate is a
very exclusive club. They're never more than one hundred members
at a time right now. And you get all these perks.
I mean, you know, you're lucky if you get two
weeks of vacation. They get two weeks of vacation just
(18:51):
for Easter, and they get all these different perks and
fly around the country and Codell's going to different countries
and stuff. You know, they go to El Salvador to
try to rescue a so called American citizen. That's El Salvador,
and I don't get it, but they do. But you
reach a point where sometimes family says we've had it,
(19:15):
we're out of here, or you realize you're totally ineffectual,
you're not doing anything. You also realize that you're never
going to be in a leadership position and all you're
doing is going through the motions. I've always maintained that
in politics, I do believe the best the best position
(19:42):
in American politics is to be the governor of a state,
because you can have more direct, real world impact on
your state than you ever can as a US Senator
or a congressman, or certainly as a president. And having worked,
you know, right next to a president for almost six years,
(20:03):
I can tell you that while they are the most
powerful people on the planet, they're very limited in what
they can actually accomplish. They can accomplish grand big things,
and those grand big things do affect people's lives. But
in terms of look around Colorado, can you imagine what
a truly fiscal conservative that understands like how businesses operate,
(20:35):
why businesses locate or not locate someplace, how small businesses
survive or don't survive, the kind of changes you can
make because you have so much influence over the legislative branch.
Presidents don't have that much influence over Congress. They've got
the power of the presidency. They got all the perks,
(20:56):
you know, they can take them on Air Force one one,
they can invite them to the White House, they invite
him to the residents for dinner. They can, you know,
they can really give the members of Congress a platform
which helps them back in their home state. But it
comes down to personal relations and in a state, a
governor can true Now I know, I know we haven't
(21:16):
witnessed this in a long time, but a governor can
be a real leader, and a governor has the ability
to bridge even the partisan divide that we have now
by fixing, you know, focusing on ninety ten issues like
Trump's doing right now. Police has utterly failed to do that.
He's he's decimated this state. Just things like I talk
(21:41):
about the silly things that I observe and I'm driving around.
For example, before I left for Chicago, Tam and I
went to this little dive Mexican place that we go to.
I don't mean dive pejorative, at least just a little
tiny Mexican place. One night I was seeing there alone
and one of the wait saw my ex account opened.
(22:05):
She had no idea who I was. I mean, she
knew from the excicount, but she goes, oh, that's you.
I follow you, and so it led to a conversation.
Turns out she's more than a waitress. She's actually a
fifty to fifty partner with the guy that I thought
owned the place. Well, it turns out she's a She's
(22:25):
from California, she moved here. She's a nurse, retired nurse,
and she started talking to Tamer and I about how
difficult it is them running this small little restaurant because
of all the stupid taxes, trying to hire people, the
(22:48):
regulations they have to comply with everything. She says, it
really is a struggle to keep the place open, and
they're fairly busy, although she says that they're no members
of customers have dropped because people simply can't afford to
eat out that much. Well, I would take someone like that,
(23:09):
and I would I would get a group of them
together and say I wouldn't ask the legislature screw them.
I would ask these business owners, what regulations would you
cut and why? And then I'd have my staff analyze
it and find out, okay, if we are the consequences
of cutting these regulations, and then I'd go about hacking
(23:31):
them out. I'd take a weed whacker and just get
rid of all of them that I could. I'd clean
up the highways, I'd reallocate the priorities. The money that
we that we get for transportation, we don't spend on
the road bridges and highways. We don't fix the interchanges,
we don't fix the potholes. We don't fix you know,
the expansion joints. We don't do any of that. We
(23:52):
spend on those stupid things like bike lanes. Why would
public talk about that? You tell me, tell me, tell
me right now. What's the last thing you heard Jared
Polis publicly talk about. That's right, Senate Bill three and
how it's going to improve the safety of all Colorado's
that's utter and complete bull.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Has he talked about regulations? Has he talked about small businesses?
Oh no, no, he doesn't talk about that at all.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
What does he do?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He reintroduces wolves and we can't even pay for the
damn wolves that he reintroduces because they're killing all the
cattle ins and the pig. Well they're not killing pigs,
they're killing all the sheep and the cattle and the dogs.
And next thing you know, they're going to kill a
kid somewhere up in Genesee, mark my words, there'll be
a tourist or somebody gets killed by a gray Wolf.
(24:43):
That's all he cares about, whatever's stupid husband tells him
to care about. A governor can have so much impact
on the state. That's the best job in the country
if you're going to be a politician. But in Colorado,
it's going to take someone with incredible fundraising skills, incredible
(25:05):
organizational skills, and the ability to connect with people and
explain to them from a conservative point of view, why deregulating.
Why if you really want to grow this economy, then
you've got to have the environment. And I don't mean
the environment like the outdoors. I mean the business and
(25:27):
the regulatory and the statutory framework that encourages businesses to
want to open and come here and expand and hire people.
If we don't do any of that, we're just like California,
which if you see the outflows of businesses from California
and the outflows of people leaving California, we'll reach that
(25:48):
point if we haven't already. We're not quite that bad yet,
boot we are as bad as California. It's just the
people haven't started. I mean, I know people are packing
up leaving, but not in the droves that they are
in California. We will reach that point sometime, and then
Denver will turn into such a crap hole city even
(26:12):
more so than it is now, that it'll be like
Los Angeles and so, and I forget the guy's name
that ran for mayor last time that barely lost. He'll
come back and he'll actually win, or a Republican will win,
or we'll actually see Coloradoll turn so bad, so crappy
that a Republican will win. That's articulate, that can express
(26:34):
and can do the things that need to be done
to turn this state around. But until then, we suffer,
and idiots like Michael Bennett and Phil Wiser will run
and one of them will get elected, because this is
right now a Democrat state, and they'll go out and
they'll talk about all the bull craft that they talk
about about. You know, we got to take care of
(26:55):
this constituency and that constituency, and we got to care
for you know, the poorest among us and all the
blah blah blah of the Marxists that they are. And
they'll get elected, and we'll continue down the crab hole
for example, real quick example. Then I'll take a break.
You know, we're still strugging with our budget deficit.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Do you know that there is an Inspector General's report
from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Centers. It's called
CMMs that IgE. This is not DOGE, This is not
the Department of Government Efficiency. This is the Inspector General
for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services found that
(27:39):
we have been paying dead people in Colorado to the
tune of seven point three million dollars that they found
between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty. I can't wait to
hear about the subsequent years. But here's the best and
the worst part of this story. The Inspector General says
(28:02):
that they also identified almost thirty nine thousand unallowable payments
that Colorado made on behalf of deceased in rollees. That's
that's the best of the worst part. The worst of
the worst part is this. Those deceased in rollees were
(28:25):
identified because their dates of death were accurately reflected in
Colorado's eligibility system. So our here's one spot where our
it system works the way it's supposed to. They're able
(28:45):
to match death certificates within rollees so that they can
be taken off and the checks can stop because we
have a validated death certificate for someone enrolled in Medicare
and Medicaid, so we can stop. Yet we overpaid thirty
We paid thirty nine thousand dead people for the two
(29:07):
years that the IG studied. Now you and know what's
really bad about this. Jared Polus comes out and says
it's because of an outdated IT system. He just lied
to us. The IG says, nor your IT system works fine.
(29:29):
It properly identified, get matched up on the databases between
death certificates and enrollees so that you could stop paying them,
and we continue to do so, and Polus blames the computers.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That's some kind of line, Michael.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Wouldn't it be interesting to get a chance to ask
Milton Freedman what he thinks about the income thiral income tax,
how he helped create it, but it was really only
meant for more time and it was never discontinued. It'd
be interesting to be able to talk to him and
see what he truly thinks about that.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It'd be wonderful showing the brackets and all the deductions
and the exemptions and the just the paperwork and showing
the letter. Donald Rumsfeld once wrote a letter. I'll see
if I can find it. Not I won't be able
to find it today, but you might be able to
find it by using the Google machine. Donald Rumsfeld submitted
(30:32):
his income tax returns to the IRS with a cover letter,
and it said something to the effect, you know, maybe
it was directly to the commissioner and closed are our
fact returns for you know, tax year two thousand and
three or whatever it was. I'm submitting these and I
(30:54):
want you to know that I have no earthly idea,
nor can anyone that I have consulted tell me whether
these returns are accurate or not, because the system is
so complex and is so difficult to navigate that nobody
(31:14):
can tell me whether these turn these returns or are
accurate or inaccurate. Despite all the due diligence I've done
to make them as accurate as possible, there is no
way that I can, in all the life sign my returns.
There's no way that I can say that I have
not perjured myself because I don't know. There's no way
(31:36):
to know. You should find that letter, and well, I'll
see if I can find that letter and will get
it up, because it's it really is I'd love to
have Milton Freeman read that letter and then to give
him some perspective of how convoluted the systems become.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Do you know the acronym fafo dragon? You heard that one?
I have? I love that one. We can't say the
first one, but we can say everything else. Yeah, f
round find out there you go.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, Well, apparently Letitia James has done that. Axios Yesterday
has this story. Let me just read you the first paragraph.
New York Attorney General Letsia James is accusing the Trump
administration of weaponizing the government after a federal agency referred
her for potential criminal prosecution for alleged mortgage fraud, and
(32:28):
she is alleged to have claimed as a as her
principal residence while she was the Attorney General of New York,
a house that she was buying in Virginia. She had
also claimed that her father was her husband in order
to get a reduced rate for married couples or something, which,
(32:49):
if proven true, is indeed mortgage fraud, which is taken
very seriously by the federal government. By the way, So
why would Axios or why would she say that they're
weaponizing the government if indeed she actually committed those crimes,
which remains to be proven in the court of law,
(33:09):
but she's pretty Adams.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
My mission is clear. I'm focused, I'm prepared, I'm ready.
I've been trained by the best. I went to Howard
University that overturned legal segregation in this country. I've been
taught in those classrooms with third Good Marshal once taught
(33:33):
I'm not afraid of no President Donald Trump. We're ready
for you. We're coming for you, we're standing up for you,
we're fighting on we're not going down sailing.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, i'd say afo
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