11-15-25 The Weekend Hour 1: Disparity is not Oppression. Disparity is Natural.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night. Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA
director talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're
doing a heck of a job. The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Hey broadcasting life from Denver, Colorado's The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Glad to have you joined in the program today. As
usual text message, we know we have rules of engagements
you have to follow. The number one rule is if
you want to tell me something, ask me something. So

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tell me anything to EMA or AMA, asked me anything.
The text line number is three three one zero three
three three one zero three. Keyword Mike, ro Michael, and
then do me a favor, goal war and follow me
on X at Michael Brown USA. There's a lot to
talk about today. Some inside baseball I want to talk about.
I've got some changes out of my base of operations

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in Denver. I'll get to that in a minute. I
didn't tell you about it last weekend because I wanted
to go through a full week and make sure they
weren't good. They weren't going to fire me after a
week of giving them what they said they wanted to have.
So I give them what they wanted and apparently the one,
you let me just stick around and keep doing it,
and then well, let's just do this, let's go straight
to the text line, because this kind of worries me

(01:04):
only because Goober number seven one sixty eight must have
known what I was going to talk about today, or
they had some sneaking suspicion about what I was going
to talk about today. Are we near the end of civilization?
Are we near the end of Western civilization? Is it recoverable?

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Here's what Goober number seventy one sixty eight wrote. By
the way, as just a footnote, I now maybe some
of you are still offended by the use of my
term goober, But as I explained to my audience and
my new people listening to me in Denver, it's a
term of affection. It's a lighthearted You know, you had Goomer.

(01:46):
You had Goober and Gomer Pyle. If you watch TV
back in the sixties, you had them. They were too lighthearted,
kind of fun individuals, kind of goofy at times. And
I think I'm goofy at times, and I think all
of you a goofy at time. And it's also a reminder,
it's a reminder that we need to quit taking ourselves

(02:07):
so damn seriously. And I say that as someone who
takes themself fairly seriously and who takes this profession very
very seriously. But I try to present topics that are
serious in depth, but I try to interweave as much
as I can, a little humor, some sarcasm, being sarcastic,

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you know, a few little fun stories here and now
and then, just to remind us of our humanity. It
amazes me how people have lost their ability to be self.
There's no self deprecation, there's no ability to see that,
oh yeah, you know. For example, I know, and I

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freely admit that I'm not very good at math. So
sometimes I miscalculate things. My mind is going to one
hundred miles an hour when i'm because I don't do
shows the most most of the way that other talk
show hosts do. I have. For example, today, I've got
like fifteen tabs open. I'll never get to all fifteen tabs.

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But the tabs are a combination of copied and pasted
paragraphs from stories, my notes, my comments, and I go
through and I do a monologue for three hours, three hours,
so I'm bound to stumble over some words and because
I'm going one hundred miles an hour, I'm bound to
mispronounce some words, and I just find it funny and

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I frankly don't give a raps ass and if but
some people get really all uptight about it, and I'll
get text messages, Oh you mispronounced this. Oh no, the
calculation is this or all? You need to do that.
And that's fine, because if there's something factual that I mistake,
you know that I mistake, then I do want to
know that so that I can correct that mistake, particularly

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if it's pertinent to the point that I'm trying to make.
If it's some superfluous thing like the distance of the sun,
I don't I really don't care, but I would. I
would encourage you to look at your life and determine
whether or not you're taking yourself too seriously think about it.

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One of the things that brought this up was for
those of you who listened to me during the weekday.
You know that I've gone from a five thousand and
what station, which I lovingly call kh W after my
former boss khow at six thirty am, and I've changed

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my day part so instead of doing from six to
ten am, Mountain Time. I'm now doing from nine to
noon Mountain Time, which is a schedule that I absolutely love.
But some people are really upset because they've had to
either if they wanted to listen, they've had to shift
their time of listen. We shift time all the time.

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How many of you actually watch live television and instead
you DVR something and you save it to watch later.
I'm a I'm a big fan, even though i know
they lean liberal. I'm a big fan of CBS This
Sunday Morning back when Charles Carrol when I started watching it,
and I still watch it to this day. But I

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have it set to record every single Sunday morning because
I don't know whether I'm going to be back from
walking the dogs that Sunday morning, whether we have some
church thing that Sunday morning, I don't know. So I
dv are and so I time shift that we time
shift almost everything in our lives now. Well, some people
have just gotten really upset about the time change, and

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I'm like, we'll just calm down. You know, I can't one,
I can't control everything that my company decides to do.
And I'm under a contract, and the contracts, you know,
says basically, I'll do whatever part they want me to do.
And now they're on this grand experiment, and I'm now
on KOA eight fifty am ninety four to one FM,

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so you'll hear me when I talk about some when
I do some of the rules that if you wanted
to listen to me during the weekday, you would now
listen to me on eight fifty am or ninety four
to one FM. And that is a legacy station in Denver, KOA.
It's one of the few three letter stations left around
the country and it can be for in fact, in fact, Michael,

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I bet you could hear it. If you're awake at
midnight and you're just and the weather's right, you can
probably hear KOA because I've heard KOWA in Los Angeles before.
I've heard KOA in in Manitoba, I've heard it in Saskatchewan.
I've heard it not so much going east, but almost
anywhere west. You can hear this fifty thousand blowtorch almost

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any time. And the footprintice is humongous, so it's it's
kind of like going from for those of you in
Los Angeles, it's kind of like going from k EIB
to KFI or going to WABC in New York City,
and I'm really happy to do it. So if you
want to listen to what we do during the week,

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you now need to change your preset on your iHeart
app to eight fifty am or ninety four point one FM.
It's still the situation with Michael Brown, so you can
search it that way too, and just set that pre
set at eight fifty am or ninety four to one
FM on KOA in Denver and you can hear the
weekday program. But back to this, we take ourselves too seriously.

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I do worry. I worry every quite a bit about
whether we can recover from some of the things that
are going on, because we're starting to see these little pockets,
for example, the election of the socialist mayor, you know,
Zoefram in New York and now the election of another
socialist who's still in our parents payroll out in Seattle,

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and you start to see that. You know these poll
numbers that talk about and I think it differs from
generation to generation, and the pole numbers are not consistent
from generation to generation. But too many people want too
many things that they believe are air quote here free,
and there is no such thing as anything free. And

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if we continue down that path, we're going to end
up like basically Europe. We're going to end up like
old Europe, which is turning into crappy Europe, or we're
going to turn into some crap whole country. But I
think it may be solvagable, but we first have to
recognize what the problem is. So to the text line,

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Guba number seventy one sixty eight wrote, going to waste
time with you today, ha ha ha. Yeah, while you
try to convince us that things will or are getting better,
my friend, just understand we cannot give up. But make
no mistake, the feces is way too de way too deep. Well,
you must talk truth, not wish hope. Just way too

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much fing Sorry, well, hang tight. When we get back
the Battle for Western Civilization. Welcome back to the Weekly
with Michael Brown. Glad and have you with me. Don't
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(09:28):
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We kin have a baseline before we delve into some
of the racial aspects. Let's just think about younger generations,
younger Americans. I would positive that younger Americans are markedly

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more open to socialism than their older cohorts. Roughly half
of eighteen to twenty nine year olds expressed some favorable
view of socialism, and some recent polls of gen Z
and millennials their favorability edging above capitalism. There is a
March Gallup poll March of this year, a review that

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places young adults positive ratings of socialism near fifty percent.
But there's also a Cato Yugov survey again this year,
found sixty two percent favorable towards socialism among eighteen to
twenty nine year olds and even thirty four percent favorable

(10:55):
toward communism. Wow, sink in for a moment now, I
cannot without spending a whole bunch of time, which I
may at some point, but I think there's a direct
causal link between government run schools, the teacher unions who
have infested government run schools, and their proclivity to be

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basically left to center, if not downright, I mean, be
it waybeyond liberal and towards socialism and Marxism. And then
you couple that with a failure to teach the basic
history of this country, and instead you teach a bunch
of bull crap like the sixteen nineteen project, and suddenly
you'll realize that we're raising the very people that today

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are claiming, Oh yo, I want so fram I want
free stuff, I want all this. You old boomers just
haven't been the right people to do it the right way.
Generation after generation after generation, for the history of mankind,
always claim that we just had the wrong people to
implement a socialist Marxist society and that's why it hasn't worked.

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And then where it has air quotes again worked, it's
come at the cost of millions of lives. There's some
Yahoo that's a so called influencer in this country who
for his birthday this past week, got a copy of
Mao's Little Red Book, and he's on TikTok talking about
how static he is to have gotten a copy of

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that book. And I'm thinking, do you realize the millions
of people that died in Mao's Cultural Revolution trying to
impose the communist utopia on the Chinese people? No, he
does not. He does not know that because we don't
teach that. There's a Pew survey this is back from

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January of this year that among eighteen to twenty nine
year olds, forty four percent views socialism favorably, versus only
forty percent slightly less they view capitalism positively. I think
that reflects a generational reversal from say, fifteen or twenty
years earlier. Now the partisan, that's the general. Let's think

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about partisan for a moment. Gallup this year says that
socialism is far more favored among Democrats than Republicans. Well,
I think we know that, right, dub Master of the obvious.
Sixty six percent of Democrats view socialism positively versus only
fourteen percent of Republicans. That's helping keep overall socialism's favorability flat,

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while capitalism's image slipped to fifty four percent nationally. Now
there are some related youth trend lines. Positive views of
socialism among younger Democrats have grown, whereas Republican youth remain
overwhelmingly pro capitalism. That mirrors the broader part of some polarizations.

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I just gave you earlier from that Gallup poll. So
while we are I sincerely believe in a battle for
Western civilization, there is good news, and it is those
that are at least on a partisan basis Republican versus Democrat.
Those younger generations are overwhelmingly if they're a Republican, are

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overwhelmingly pro capitalism, while those that are on the Democrat
aisle are overwhelmingly favoring socialism. I would frame a few
cautions before I get into some of the meat of this.
Socialism is often undefined in these surveys, and so the

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favorability can reflect attitudes toward welfare state policies rather than
state ownership slash. Interpretations that should note the you know,
we should know that the label of the label effect,
and the definitional ambiguity. I'd like to ask those that

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are of that younger generation who favor socialism tell me
what that means. What do you mean by that, I
wonder if they can even define socialism or Marxism, or
fascism or communism. I really doubt that they can. And
again that gets back to education, because we have failed
utterly to educate them about the definitional meanings and then

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how those definitional meanings play out in the real world. So,
despite what I would call youth openness, national attitudes remain
net negative, net negative towards socialism overall, with strong partisan
polarization shaping perceptions across these younger age groups. So what

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does that mean for Western civilization? It means we have
to do a better job, a much better job when
it comes to minorities. I mentioned casually the sixteen nineteen project.
You think about Black lives Matter, How does Black lives

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matter shape the view of race in this country today?
It's based on oppression. They're looking for freedom, but they're
being oppressed, and I think that's done deliberately because it's
not oppression. Are their disparities, Yes, when we talk about

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disparities in race, the problem is not oppression. The problem
is freedom. The problem used to be exclusion and discrimination,
but the problem today is freedom. We're well into the
twenty first century and African Americans have equal citizenship before
the law in the United States as a matter of

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law and as a matter of fact. And I don't
want to hear about anecdotes about some particular person's being
discriminated against this or this particular person is not making
as much money as a peer in the same demographic
or whatever. I don't care about that, because I want
you to think about disparities, because disparities are natural. Disparities

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occur in every society. They occur in every walk of life,
and they occur in every profession. They occur in every
livelihood that you undertake. They occur everywhere, even among your friends.
I want you to think about your social circle right now,
your social sphere of influence. I bet there are disparities

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in that. Does that mean that your friends who are
better than you mean that you're being oppressed or those
friends who are less off well off than you? Is
that because of oppression or is it just a natural disparity?
You see anecdotes don't cut it here. Let's go to
Thomas Soul Next. It's Weekend with Michael Brown. Go follow

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back tonight, Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie,
You're doing a heck of a job The Weekend with
Michael Brown. Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown.

(18:24):
Glad to have you with me. Text lines open three three,
one zero three keyword Michael and Michael, my producer. Michael
and I were laughing about I have a text message
that about my use of the word Zoefram for the
first name for mom Donnie the newly elected socialist mayor
of New York City, and Michael had a great suggestion,
rather than Zoefram last ye, call him Zoloft. So maybe

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I'll maybe I'll switch to that later this week, I'll
start calling Zoloft and see how long it takes you
to get that joke. Let's go to Thomas Soul for
a moment. Thomas sol went the Greatest Economies where the
greatest economies in our lifetime. An incredibly wise man now
in his nineties. I forget how old he is now.

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He has taught us that disparities are one thing, but
discrimination is another. Well, this is my point. The first
point is for black Americans in particular, but I would
say for any minorities, and beyond that, I would say
for every individual, regardless of your race, but in particular

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for minorities. The problem is the problem of freedom, not unfreedom.
Disparities are one thing, discrimination is another. Disparities are not
ipso facto evidence of unfreedom. Disparities are a part of
life and are to be expected. And there's a real

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deep irony when the identitarians become group egalitarians. The identitarians
the people that put everybody in a vertical. Oh, you
fit this identity, you fit that that that identity everything
based upon not the human being as a whole, but

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every little disparate part of an individual. This is my identity,
This is who I am. This is my group, this
is my culture. These are my people. Don't treddle me,
don't culturally appropriate us. We are integral, distinct, identifiable types. Okay,
Well that means that you want to divide people up
into blacks and browns, you know, Asians, gays, straits, buys,

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you know, trans non trans, I mean every little vertical
that the left has tried to impose upon us. But
wait a minute, if you do that, how then since
you are so insular, so distinct, you're so identity based,
and you're so different. How then, should we expect that

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you would represent yourselves in equal numbers in every dimension
of human activity, that there would be the same number
of doctors, the same number of engineers, the same number
of financiers, the same number of school teachers, same number
of criminals, the same number of talk show hosts, the
same number of lawyers. Oh, we can all go for that, right,
the same number of lawyers, the same number of retail

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operators per capita, across all different categories of identity. If
indeed identity is a real thing, that position is obviously
incoherent when you think about that. We're all individuals, and
we all have disparities, and we all have freedom, and

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we have freedom of choice. And because we have freedom
of choice, there will naturally be disparities. You take away
the freedom of choice and you impose whether it's the
beginnings of communism, which is social and you move your
way through Marxism up to communism every step of the way,

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what happens You start to lose choice. And the more
choice you lose, yeah, there might be fewer disparities. There's
also less what freedom. Freedom, as I say, is chaote.
Freedom is disparate. Freedom is going to mean different things

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for different people, and every single one of us, created equal,
will take different paths. And we will either exploit the
God given gifts that we have been given or we won't.
And if we don't, that will lead to some disparities.
And even if we do, it will lead to disparities.

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Let's take the profession that well, any number of the professions,
the lawyers out because that'll lead to too many lawyer jokes.
And I'm not in the mood for lawyer jokes because
I think I've heard every lawyer joke this potentially ever
been said, and they're basically funny and sometimes true, and

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that makes them even funnier. Doctors some doctors have a
God complex. Some doctors have really good bedside manners. Some
doctors could all practice the same specialty. And you're gonna
choose one because you've been told, or you've heard, or
you've read, or they've got a better grade something. You're

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going to choose that oncologist that specializes in pancreatic cancer
because he's at the top of the heap. But the
other pancreatic oncologists down here at the bottom of the
heap are probably pretty good too, because they have a
medical degree and they have a specialty in oncology, and
they've done a residency in that, and they've been hired

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and they've been practicing and sold. Disparity, But what if
we just train them all the same, What if we
just in them all the exact, just one medical school,
the Communist School of Oncology, They'll still be disparate. They'll
still be disparity. So disparities are not the problem. And

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I would say too that equity is not equality. There
are a lot of writers in this country are so
prominent now Ibra mexkindy comes to mind in promoting a
certain ideology, you know, assertion. I see a disparity. I
want equity, and by equity they mean an equal representational
That is not equality. And frankly, equity has become sameness.

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They want sameness for everything. I don't want sameness for everything.
I do what I do based on what the way
I like to do it, the way that I think
is going to make my program the entertaining, informative, and
that will get me good ratings so that I can

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get a lot of sponsors, so I can make a
lot of money and make the company happy and make
myself happy and make my pocket book happy. And so
that's why I do things the way that I do them.
Other hosts do the things the way they do because
they believe something differently. And that's fine if we use
different standards of assessment in order to achieve equity. Now

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you're patronizing everybody who makes their own choice. You've just
communicated tacitly that you don't think that I, for example,
amble capable of performing according to some objective criteria of
assessment as well as somebody else. And then I would
I would counter, who are you to establish that particular
objective criteria criteria? You see, when we start doing it

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that way, we become wards of the state I go
or I come by your agency, not my own agency,
by your choice, not by my choice. So when we
start arguing that people must be made equal and we

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have to open the door and not just let everybody
in that we have to open the door and make
sure that that everybody that's in this one room that
we've opened the door for, that they're all equal in
that room. That's never going to work, because we're all individuals,
you're not going to be equal. To the end of
that argument, even if you get what you ask for,

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there is no substitute for earning the respect of your peers.
If they grant it to you out of guilt or pity,
they've just reduced you. They haven't elevated you. The preservation
of Western civilization means that at some point we have
to be really honest with ourselves and quit buying into

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some of the bull crap that we hear about, Oh
it's our For example, you know that one of my
big bugaboos is this idea that we should turn our
compassion over to the government. Because we've done that for decades.
We've done that for a century now. We haven't eliminated poverty,

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we haven't eliminated disparities, we haven't eliminated hunger, we haven't
eliminated poverty because government can't do that because people will
make their own choices, even in a communist country. Oh,
they'll sweep the homeless office streets so that you won't

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see them, or they'll go institutionalize them, which probably something
we should consider doing, because rather it wouldn't it be
better for them to be in an institution. Would rather
you see your tax dollars going for people who are
mentally ill to be institutionalized, as opposed to starting a
fire to keep warm and an abandoned warehouse somewhere and

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then burning themselves to death or killing a firefighter who's
trying to put out a fire. But no, we can't
do that, and we can't do that because we don't
realize that the homelessness industry doesn't want us to do that,
because if we do, then that destroys their business. I'd
like to destroy their business. I'd like to utterly destroy

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their business. Because if we then have the right people
in office, which depends on us electing the right people,
maybe they can lower my tax rate. Maybe I could
keep more of my own money, and then I could
give more to my church or to whatever private charity
that I want to give to that I choose to
give to, as opposed to having it forcibly be taken

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from me by the point of a gun through taxes
and then use for a self perpetuating industry that just
keeps poverty and homelessness and everything else in just keeps
it going, literally keeps it going. And we see what
happens when we allow that to go to the extreme,
and that's Europe. Just take a look at Europe. I'll

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be right back. Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown.
Glad have you with me. I appreciate you tuning in.
So I want to I want to make sure that
my national audience knows that I'm doing a cruise next year.
We're doing a trip with a group called Cruise and Tour.

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The text line, really, you guys are really good today?
Nine two two four rights. What do you think about
eliminating student loans to drain the education swamp? I would
say that's one of three or four things that we

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really do need to do. That's why I just I
keep referring to public education as government schools because that's
what they are. And as long as the teacher, I
want you to think about the incestuous relationship between the teacher, unions,
state legislatures in your state. I don't care. I don't

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care what state pick any of the fifty seven states.
I don't care which one you pick. Oh, you didn't know,
that's what Obama said, fifty seven of them. You look
at what the unions do. The unions put up candidates
to run for state House and state rep. State House,
and state Senate in whatever state Ohio, Michigan, pick of

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state Colorado. They do it really well in Colorado, unfortunately.
And so then they become members of what I refer
to as the politbureau, the state legislature, state Assembly, House
of Delegates, whatever it might be in your state, and
then they're actually negotiating with themselves. It would be like
me negotiating with myself for my contract with I Heart

(31:35):
I heeart Media. Michael, what do you want long one
of bazillion dollars? We only give you half of that. Okay,
we'll take seventy five percent of basillion dollar. Okay, deal,
deal done. That's exactly what they do, and they do
it everywhere. So as long as we allow that to
occur by letting, oh, well it's a teacher. Let's get

(31:57):
I'm elected to the state house, state Senate. Now you'll
rude the day that really starts happening. Now, we can't
keep them from running, but we have to recognize that
that's what we're doing. We're setting them up to negotiate
with themselves to further indoctrinate kids in those government run
schools and for more money for educating. We spend more
money per pupil than I think any country in the world,

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and we have some of the worst test scores in
the world that you could possibly imagine, and we have
totally uneducated groups of people because we don't teach the basics.
We don't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, we don't teach
American history, don't teach American government, and to the extent
they do, is just a drive by presentation. And that's

(32:41):
about it. The same is true with whatever, whether it's poverty, homelessness,
the war on drugs, I don't care. You can pick
any of them. It's when we start subsidizing anything through
tax dollars, what happens. You get more of it and
more money. So the more that we subsidize homelessness, the

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more homelessness you're going to get. And the more money
that you spend on widgets, if the government buys a
bunch of widgets, the price of widgets goes up. Why
do you think tuition is so high because we subsidize
student loans. We've got to start getting back to the basics. Now.

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I understand that all these issues that are coming up
in the midterm elections are important issues. I wish my
dream would be that somehow we could get beyond some
of these kind of minute in the weed issues, rates
of taxation, all you know or you know regulations and

(33:48):
rules and stuff, and really focus on some basic fundamentals.
Are are you for private property rights? Are you for
freedom of speech? Are you for choice in everything? Are
you for more limited government? Or do you want more government?
And then have a candidate explained to you. How does

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that then translate? Once we establish a baseline of these
strategic objectives smaller, more limited government, more choice, individual choice,
a reduction in government spending and therefore reduction in government taxation,
how would you go about doing that? Instead we we

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quibble over stupid stuff and stupid stuff that quite frankly,
I'll mention one in particular, no tax on tips. Oh Michael,
but that's that's really good for the service industry. Have
you looked at what the law really does. One it's temporary,
and two it's limited in its in its amount, So

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no tax on tips becomes shorthand and people think, now,
if you're now, if you're in that industry, you may
now realize that perhaps that was over sold to you. Well,
if tips shouldn't be taxed, well why why why should
my wages be taxed? Why? How you can tax my

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consumption if you want to to a national sales tax
or some some sort of tax like that, or a
flat tax. But why are you taxing my labor? Because
a tip is you're helping pay the labor of that
server at a restaurant, and so now you're going to
exempt some of that. Where's my exemption? Yeah? Am I

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being selfish? Dam Am not I being selfish? Am I
opposed to no taxing tips? No? I just think you know,
if we're going to do this, you're creating a disparity,
You're creating an eat and uneveness, and you're and you're
not being fair to those of us who don't who
don't earn our wages by delivering food to a table

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or bussing a table or looking for a table. Why
why should my labor be different than that labor? Why
should we tax labor at all? Because labor is something
that is between me and my employer, or me and myself.
If I'm an entrepreneur or a sole proprietor if I

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own my own business, then that's me. But if you
want to tax me on what I buy, because now
you're allowing me to choose whether or not I'm going
to be taxed. We get so mired down in these issues,
and I do it myself. Don't get me wrong, I
get myered down on these issues too. But it really

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does come down to freedom versus all the isms and
are we willing to Are we truly willing to fight
for freedom? Even though it's chaotic, sometimes it's unfair, it
creates disparities, but it gives everybody the equal opportunity to

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pursue their own individual dreams. That's what I want is
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