December 22, 2025 • 34 mins
Rose Tennent fills in for the vacationing Sean Hannity and welcomes Dr. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and former HUD secretary now serving as the USDAs National Advisor for Nutrition, Health, and Housing. Carson outlines his priorities for American families, emphasizing how food processing can strip meals of nutritional value. He explains that improving nutrition from farm to plate is central to his agenda and signals potential changes to SNAP to better support parents and children. The conversation highlights how his role connects nutrition, health care access, and stable housing in national policy.
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Well, we have come out your city saying you a
comfort zone will be high.
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I'm the politicians, the governors and mayors who constantly attack
these men and women.
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It is clear that they are criminals. It is clear
that they have killed people. We lower the price of
everything from health carecter a cost to college to junk
fees and airline tickets and credit cards. It appears that
the people at the highest levels of responsibility in the
government of the state of Minnesota looked the other way.
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Freedom is back in style.
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Coming to your city, got away out against all and
saying you a concou song.
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Speaker 4 (01:22):
Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. My name is Rose.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Sean is out clearly, and I'm so very happy to
be with you all. Once again. I love this audience,
especially during the holiday season. It's just kind of a
little more light. I mean, we've got some heavy stuff
to talk about, but we can also have fun with
one another and I I do have to say before
I actually get into the show and what we've got
planned for you, because Linda has planned a great lineup
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of guests. But I do have a bone to pick
with Linda, So if y'aull would indulge me. Yeah, Linda,
when we were all waiting for the show to go live,
I heard you talking about being in DC and just listen,
I've moved to inside the Beltway. I mean, I'm in
both places still Pittsburgh and here, but I'm here a
lot now and my friend a friend, I say that.
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Now there's quotation marks I've got you.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
That sounds like an angry friend. That sounds like the
angry elf. It doesn't feel very ho ho ho to me.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But go ahead. Well you're you come to DC and
you don't even call me.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
You come and you don't call Listen, Hey, I'll tell
you what next time I'm gonna call you, because this
time I took a five am train, so well five,
well five.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
When I buy, I'm gonna ring you first. You're gonna
be my first phone call, lucky you.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Then when I arrive at eight twenty to set up
the studio, you'll be my second phone call. And then
when Seawn comes in barking orders, I'll put you on
speakerphone and you can be a part.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Of the joy that it is for me to visit
the swamp.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Never mind, oh, Linda, We've got lots to talk about.
My experience is here in this area unbelievable. I feel
like a foreigner in a foreign land. And we'll talk
about it later on. But I know you appreciate. Plus
you've had the taste of it yourself a swamp, so
I'm sure he won't be surprised by anything. All right, Fine,
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you're forgiven, always forgiven. Don't call me in the morning, please,
I hate morning. We do have a great show, though,
played today because of Linda, and that includes doctor Ben Carson.
We've got Jenny Krn listen. First of all, I love
doctor Ben Carson. I think I like him more than
anybody in the world. Family aside, Ben Carson tops the list.
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And then Jenny Corn, who I've never met. Linda tells
me she's just so very awesome. She's the faith director
for the White House. She'll be on and also Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton is joining us, so it is
packed full. But I also want to include you, and
there is room for you. So the phone number here
in case you don't already know, is one eight hundred
nine four to one Sean. That's eight hundred nine four
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one seven three two six. Now, before we talk about
anything else, there is something I do want to talk
about because it's really concerning me. It bothers me, It
actually keeps me up at night, it really does. And
it's something that's creeping into our national conversation, and that's socialism.
And if you think about it, I know you're noticing
this too. We keep hearing more and more about socialism.
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We hear it in politics, we hear it in everyday conversations,
and guess what being down here in the swamp. I've
even heard it in churches. So not the one I'm
going to now, I had to leave the other one.
But when you look at recent elections and you see
these new candidates rising up, and not only they rising up,
but they're actually winning their elections, it's frightening. And then
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you hear people like AOC and we'll get into what
she's been doing lately, but you think about it, this
is so typical of a socialist, and she is a
self proclaimed socialist. She has believes that socialism is for
the but not for me attitude, and a lot of
them do. They want to live high, they want to
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live good, but you need to come form, you need
to just be part of the herd.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And it really worries me.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'm really concerned because not so long ago, if you
think about it, socialism wasn't something that a serious candidate
wanted to be associated with. I mean, they didn't even
say the word out loud, especially if they were running
for office. But now it seems like candidates are wearing
the label proudly and they're winning. As I said, I
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can't believe that they're actually winning wearing that label. And
when people raise concerns, we're always like reassured. It's like,
oh no, it's not that kind of socialism. It's different,
it's democratic socialism. But if we're honest, it's still the
same thing. It's just dressed up with a better marketing,
a prettier red ribbon. But we are seeing the rise
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of radical ideas, and we're seeing them in the Democratic Party,
to be sure, but you see real life consequences of socialism.
And what I did today is I went through and
I kind of wanted to just give some examples because
when I mentioned the church a lot, I've actually heard
people say that it's scriptural. Socialism is scriptural. They will
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quote scripture to justify it, but that's not true. The
scripture actually tells a really different story. And so does history,
and I'll get into that in just a moment, and
so does common sense, by the way. But all throughout history,
governments keep promising fairness, and they promise equality and security,
and all of that comes through what they call centralized control.
And in almost every single time, the reality has been poverty, oppression.
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You see it, and I'm going to give you some
examples of it. But that pattern never changes. Good intentions
on the front end, and then you've got these devastating
consequences on the back end. And every single time that
socialism has been tried, history is shown the same pattern,
seemingly good intentions, right, but devastating results. And then when
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I said you could feel it creeping in to the
politics at home, and we hear it in debates, and
now we're hearing it in everyday language, it does get
really scary, doesn't it. Because our children have not been
taught universities don't. We don't teach American history, we don't
teach true history. We don't talk about Russia and Cuba
and even more recently Venezuela. We don't talk about all
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the fails that socialism has, and I'm actually going to
give you some examples of that. But it doesn't just
fail us economically, though, And that's something that I think
is really important because it erodes the principles that make
us a free nation. And I want to go from
God's word to the vision of our founding fathers and
also the history in between, because that message has always
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been consistent. Liberty, stewardship, personal responsibility. Those are all the
things that lift people up. And if it's lifting people up,
it's lifting your nation up. So I remember a sermon
that was preached maybe twenty some years ago. I was
a big fan of doctor D. James Kennedy. I don't
know if some of you remember him, but he had
a sermon called the Bankruptcy of Socialism. Now this was
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a sermon because this is how important he thought the
topic was. And I'm talking over twenty years ago, and
he warned the church about what we're seeing unfold right now. Actually,
and He said that he talked about the fall of
the Berlin Wall and how that should have marked the
end of socialism. But yet here we are, we're still
watching leaders in other countries, even some in our own country,
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expanding or wanting to expand federal government. And here we've
seen them take over healthcare, they push that all controlling
system where Washington decides who gets what and when. And
it doesn't stop at Washington anymore, because we just saw that,
didn't we in November and in other elections. It's spreading
into the cities, into communities, and it's actually nearly at
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every level of government right now. That's the part that
scares me so much, because it's just it's not even
slowly creeping anymore in and even in the church. It's
like not slowly creeping into the church. It's actually found
a few and planted itself there. And if we look
at a biblical perspective, it will show you that socialism
isn't just flawed, it's actually dangerous, and it encourages envy,
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it punishes success, and it destroys incentive. And I got
to tell you something, when you lose incentive, when that disappears,
forget about innovation, forget about growth, that all disappears with it.
That's what made our country so great. How our founding
fathers came here with liberty and mind. They believe that
we could accomplish anything that we put our minds to
as long as we had the freedom to do so.
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So anyway, real quick, I just want to talk about
doctor Kennedy. He talked about Acts four and it's versus
thirty four and thirty five. The believers brought offerings and
they laid them at the apostle's feet. And this is
important because you noticed they didn't lay it at the
feet of the government. They brought it to the church,
not to Caesar. And you know what, that's what you
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call a voluntary act of generosity. It's not a coerced
redistribution of wealth. It's generosity. And I gotta point one
more thing out to you because I think this is
important because I am hearing this in the church and
with believers. The early Church did not practice socialism. Let's
be very clear on that. It practiced free will, it
practiced sacrificial giving obedience to God. It did not practice
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government control. And if you think about it, the Bible
actually affirms private property, that shall not steal that commandment,
you know that one, Well, that only makes sense if
if ownership matters, and thou shalt not covet goes even
a little bit further if you think about it, because
you shouldn't even desire whip belongs to someone else. So
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it's clear we're called to work, to provide to steward
and not to sit idly by and expect others to
do work for us. And this is where it matters now,
and this is what concerns me the most, because we're
going into celebrating two hundred and fifty years of this
country's presence here and it's we inherited a nation that
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was built on liberty, and it was a very radical
experiment if you think about it. It was an experiment
in self government. And our founders rejected tyranny, and so
do we have to reject tyranny Because it doesn't matter
if it comes in the form of kings or bureaucrats.
Tyranny is still tyranny, and you can see it in
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the bureaucratic process. And so here's what I see as
our call to action right now. We have to understand
the stakes. We have to protect our liberty because you
know what, they don't care about your liberty, and we
have to work hard. I love Wesley, he was the
founder of the Methodist Church. He said, work hard, save wisely,
give generously. I think that is something that we should
all live by. We have to be alert to the
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lives of modern socialism and what they're teaching our children,
and we have to take over.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
We've got to teach our children.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Go back, Explain to them what happened to China, what
happened to Cuba, what happened to Venezuela, and after the
Russian Revolution, and then make a comparison, show them the
differences between what happened in West Germany when they adopted
a market based economy, they rebuilt rapidly, but East Germany,
under socialism, they stagnated. In South Korea and North Korea too.
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South Korea embraced capitalism, they became one of the world's
leading economies.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
North Korea did not. In fact, I think they're like,
what number fourteen or something. But here's what we need
to do.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We can't be fooled by the slogans, empty promises. We
can't be fooled by history because if we really study history,
not the history they're teaching in the schools. We will
see that socialism doesn't work, that liberty is what advances
the human experiment, not socialism. So right now is the
time for us to be aware and it's time for action,
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because we have got to guard we have got to
actively guard our liberty.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Do it.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Do it in celebration of two hundred and fifty years
of freedom. And we have to honor God with our
resources and live with courage and integrity, and that we're
generosity because that's important. I like what Wesley preached generosity too.
Government can't replace the strength and character and resilience that
comes from personal accountability. And when you give into socialism,
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you give up that accountability. You don't produce anything. You
are idle, and that is not how we were intended
to be. And the radical left they may keep pushing,
but history, truth and experience remind us that freedom always
beats control. And you know what, hard work always beats handouts.
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It really does, because in the end, you saw what
happened to some of those countries. Millions went through famine,
millions left and as a way less I mean, the
list goes on and faith by the way, and perseverance
always beat fear. So maybe socialism is selling itself as
something new, something fair. But you know what, history tells
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us a very different story. No matter what politicians, no
matter what those search engines tell us, it's a different story.
And you know, when you think about what the founding
fathers gave us, they gave us a free enterprise system,
and it was grounded in biblical and individual liberty. And
I don't know about you, but it's heartbreaking to watch
so many willing to trade that freedom away for government control.
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They don't understand. Oh, price control. Yeah, it sounds really
good if you're the one buying, not the one selling.
I mean, we'll get into more of that later too.
I want to talk about that. But the truth is
socialism doesn't lift people up. It drags everybody down to
the same level of misery. It's fueled by envy, it's
sustained by control. And you know what, it thrives where
truth and freedoms are silenced. So we need to have
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strong families, strong people, strong communities and all of that
built on personal responsibility. That's what build a nation and
that's worth defending. So we'll have more on this subject
later on. Don't forget. We've got great guests coming up,
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I would appreciate it. We can take Chris real quick
right now, because he was the first one in or
she Hey.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Chris, Hey, Rose, Hey, I absolutely loved your commentary on
the book of Accent the early Church Socialism, which it's not.
But I just wanted to kind of affirm you do.
You remember Anonius and Saphira right around that time when
they sold their piece of property, they brought it to
the church and they lied about how much it was worth,
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and they ended up they were both I don't know
if you want to say killed or struck dead, but
I think it was Peter or something he said, listen,
that was your money to do with what you wanted.
The fact that you brought it to lie about it, yeah, exactly,
which affirms exactly private property. Another point also in the Bible,
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it does say to abaya, government pay taxes in the
New Testament, but if you remember, I think it was
an ax. The disciples are going around preaching the gospel,
they get brought in before like the sanhedron and like flogged,
and they basically say, look, we can't go against what
we know to be right by obeying you, So we're
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just going to keep on doing what we're doing. You
guys can feel free to do whatever you need to
do to us.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
So good example, Chris, I gotta go, bet. That is
a great example. And I thank you for calling in.
Thanks so much. That was a perfect example.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
All right.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Doctor Carson sits at a unique intersection of faith, family values, medicine,
and public policy. And now he's helping shape government policy
on issues that hit home for every one of us.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
And that's worth paying attention to.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
And you will have that opportunity coming up next when
we return with doctor Carson.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
He's going to join me. I'm very excited to have him.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
He never stops working for the good of the country.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Sean Hannity with behind the scenes information on today's breaking news.
Hannity is on right now.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. My name is
Rose and I'm so happy to be here. Check me
out on social media. It's Rose Unplugged on all platforms.
Joining me today is someone I have so much respect
for and really enjoy everything he has to say.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I love to hear it. Doctor Ben Carson.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
He isn't just a respected retired neurosurgeon and former HUD secretary.
He's back in public service in a very big way.
In late September, he was sworn in as National Advisor
for Nutrition, Health and Housing at the US Department of
Agricol SURE and that's a role that puts them at
the very heart of national policy on family nutrition, health
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care access, and housing. Stable housing for American families. Welcome
to the show, Doctor Carson. It's so good to have you.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Thank you, Rose, I'm delighted to be listening.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh you're doing a great job, and I appreciate what
you've given to this country and you just keep on giving.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
In this new role at the USA, you cover nutrition,
health and housing. What specific policy goals are you prioritizing
right now for American families and how's that going to
translate into real changes for parents and for children.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well, we're very concerned about the way our food is prepared.
You know, from the time something is growing in the
ground to the time it gets in your plate, so
many things happen to it that in many cases you've
lost a lot of the nutritional value, and that's very problematic.
So one of the changes is with the snack program,
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eliminating from the ability to purchase some of the very
unhealthy foods, and we've replaced them with twice as many
healthy foods, so it's not like we're taking food away
from people that were placing it with healthy food. I
think that's incredibly important because there's so many chronic diseases
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going on in our society, not just the weight problem,
not just diabetes, but all kinds of chronic diseases that
affect growth and development of children. And that's a particular
concern because you know that's our future. We have a
large number of children with ADHD, autism, and various developmental
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ad themalities that don't seem to be present in societies
where they eat differently than we do.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I think it's really important that you did qualify that
while you took some of the food out of the
Snap program, it was replaced with even more healthier food,
not just healthier, but more of those foods.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yes, twice as many as we removed. So I know
that's the first place where the level like to attack.
They're taking food away from people. They want people to
spare exactly. I think people get tired of the hyperbole
all the time.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
There's always the hyperbole.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Now, you did so one of the things you brought
up Snap and there was a lot of Snap fraud
that's been uncovered. Can you quickly share that the details
of that and why the discovery matters.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, Well, first of all, you know, we spent one
hundred billion dollars a year on the Snap program. That's
a whole lot of money. And you know, looking at
a number of states and one territory, we found a
large number of people who double dip. They apply for
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a benefits in one state, then they apply for it
in another state, sometimes multiple applications within the same state
false social Security numbers, so they can relyserve spots for themselves.
It's really quite disgusting some of the things that go on.
But when people are caught at this, they just said,
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don't do that again. I mean, there's no health penalty,
so you know, why wouldn't they keep doing it?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Right?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You know, one of the things when you said that
you have a lot of hyperbole that surrounds some of
the things that you do, or well, a lot of
people in the administration right now. And one of the
things I heard you talk about once was division and
civil discourse. And I want to ask you specifically how
you deal with it because you are attacked frequently, and
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yet those of us who know you or have known
you for a long time know that you are a league,
very good man, and you care very much about the
people of this country, and you care about their health.
So you once said that Americans agree on about eighty
percent of issues, but we focus on just that twenty
percent that divides us. Why do you think that the
vision has become so amplified today? And also how do
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you personally deal with that division when it turns into
an attack on something that you may be doing well.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I think unfortunately the media in Hollywood and the leftus
derived some type of pleasure or power from having people divided.
They don't want us to be working together. And that's
something that Marxists always do, always do when they want
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to come in and change a society and take control.
They have people fighting on the basis of race, that's
a big one, age, income, gender, political affiliation, religion. Those
are the biggies and it works. So I personally deal
with it by just using perspective. They say, how long
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can they bother me? How long can they attack me
against the backdrop of eternity? Wow, that's about that long.
So I like that whatever you pay attention to it,
that's good advice.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
And I think that's a good advice for young people.
I mean, is there anything else that we should be
saying or teaching our young people on how to disagree
without the human humanizing one another?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Because we really have.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Been doing that, well, you know, it goes back to
some of the very values and principles that started our country,
faith being one of them, and one of the killers
about Judeo Christian faith is love your neighbor, not canceling neighbor,
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not hate your neighbor if they disagree with you. And
we need to get back to that again. And it
teaches people that it's okay to disagree. Two people agree
about everything, one of them isn't necessary, so everybody's necessary,
and just learn how to talk to people about the difference.
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That was the key thing about Charlie Kirk. He wanted
to hear what they had to say, and he always
put them first in the program. Let's hear what you
have to say, and why do you believe that? Well,
a lot of times they would have a great deal
of difficulty explaining why they believe it, just like you know,
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I've had several arguments with scientists who say, you know, no,
there's no God, there's no evidence for that. And we
just came about there was a big bang and everything
was organized, and I said, do you believe in the
second law? Thermo dynamics entreped that things moved toward a
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state of disorganization. So you're saying, there was a big
bang and everything became perfectly organize. How do you explain that.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well, billions and billions and billions and billions of years,
it'll be enough explosions that one of them would be
the perfect explosion. So you're saying, if I blow a
hurricane through a junkyard enough times, over long enough period
of time, fully formed seven forty seven, ready to fly,
we'll show up at the end of one of them.
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Then the loss. How silly it is.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
That's a great argument. I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You know, you mentioned Marxism, and that's a ploy. You know,
Marxim Marxism loves to cause the chaos and so forth.
And my monologue today was about socialism. And I remember
a post that you've had done. I think it's a
recent one about capitalism. You said, capitalism isn't failing young Americans.
Leftist policies are. And yet the young Americans have no
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idea that that's what's failing them, and they would point
to the government or capitalism and say you're the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, they don't even know what socialism is. I mean,
we think it's being familiar with social media, they really
don't know what it is. And if they would just
take a little bit of time to see what has
happened in countries that move in that direction, you don't
have to go very far. Look at Venezuela, you know,
I've been to Venezuelan a number of times before they switched,
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and it was a beautiful country, had lots of beautiful
resorts and hotels and use them and all kinds of things.
People were happy. And in a matter of a decade,
you know, it's gone from the wealthiest country in South
America to the worst.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yeah, and so many have left that country. And they
loved that country. They loved Venezuela, and the same thing
would happen here.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It happens everywhere. But people don't read, and socialists and
Marxists and communists, the last thing they want you to
do is be educated, yes, because if you know history,
then you'll know they're trying to sell you a bunch
of crabs. And they don't like that, so they try
to keep people ignorant. And you know, I'm always amazed
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when I see these men on the street interviews and
they go up to the young people on the beach
or wherever. Ask them simple questions.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
They don't know, yeah anything, and oh you're right.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Then let me ask you a question, because I'm alarmed
at the number of politicians now who are embracing the
label socialists. Where in the past they would kind of
shy away from it. They might have believed in socialist policies,
but they wouldn't want to embrace it, certainly if they
were running for office. Now we see people boldly embracing it,
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and these people are winning elections.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Are you concerned?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I mean sometimes I worry without two hundred and fifty years,
it is that it where freedom goes two hundred and
fifty years and then we're done.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, I am concerned. You know, it's hard for people
to buy the idea of the American dream when they
can't buy a home. Yes, bought my first home when
I was thirty three years old, and it costs one
hundred and twenty six thousand dollars. That very same home
today is six hundred and six thousand dollars, and salaries
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haven't risen commensurate with the prices of the homes. So
we need to be very serious when we look at
them to say how do we get those costs down.
And you know, the regulatory burden on housing, building, selling,
maintaining is enormous, and we keep adding more. And what
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we should be doing is what Trump did the first administration.
He said, for every regulation you have to get rid
of too. Yes, and we got rid of a lot
more until we got more than two thousands at HUD.
It makes a big difference. And there's a lot of
low hanging through duplication. Just get rid of all the duplication.
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That'll be a big chunk, right there. Can we do it?
We could, and we're working on it now. Okay, we're
moving in the right direction. It takes more than four
years to get these things, and you have to untangle
a lot of stuff, and it's difficult. But I'm praying
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that we have not only these four years, but another
at least eight after that.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
You and me both, we really are praying for that.
You want to ask you something real quick. We only
have a few minutes, but if you can do it
in two that'd be great. After everything you've experienced, You've
been through poverty to prominence. What do you want young
Americans to understand to live a fuller life even with
the challenges that we.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Have right now.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I would say the key thing to understand is that
the person who has the most to do with what
happens to you is you, and don't depend on somebody else,
don't depend on the government. Be grateful that God has
given us the country where you have the freedom to
pursue the things that you want to pursue. Not like
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that all around the world, that's for sure, absolutely, But
you have to get your hands done. You have to
get in there and you have to work. And if
you do that, America is a land of great promise.
It will reward you. That's what I would toll them.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
And thank you for that. Those are good words. I
appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
And let's just keep praying for a good new year
and that people's eyes would be opened in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, thanks for being a patriot. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, we appreciate you too very much. Keep up the
good work, doctor Ben Carson. Thank you so much for
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All right, Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I
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Can't wait to talk to you, David. You two.
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By the way, I do have a podcast, all right,
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Sean is out clearly, and I'm so very happy to
be with you all. Once again. I love this audience,
especially during the holiday season. It's just kind of a
little more light. I mean, we've got some heavy stuff
to talk about, but we can also have fun with
one another and I I do have to say before
I actually get into the show and what we've got
planned for you, because Linda has planned a great lineup
(01:47):
of guests. But I do have a bone to pick
with Linda, So if y'aull would indulge me. Yeah, Linda,
when we were all waiting for the show to go live,
I heard you talking about being in DC and just listen,
I've moved to inside the Beltway. I mean, I'm in
both places still Pittsburgh and here, but I'm here a
lot now and my friend a friend, I say that.
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Now there's quotation marks I've got you.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
That sounds like an angry friend. That sounds like the
angry elf. It doesn't feel very ho ho ho to me.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But go ahead. Well you're you come to DC and
you don't even call me.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
You come and you don't call Listen, Hey, I'll tell
you what next time I'm gonna call you, because this
time I took a five am train, so well five,
well five.
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When I buy, I'm gonna ring you first. You're gonna
be my first phone call, lucky you.
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Then when I arrive at eight twenty to set up
the studio, you'll be my second phone call. And then
when Seawn comes in barking orders, I'll put you on
speakerphone and you can be a part.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Of the joy that it is for me to visit
the swamp.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Never mind, oh, Linda, We've got lots to talk about.
My experience is here in this area unbelievable. I feel
like a foreigner in a foreign land. And we'll talk
about it later on. But I know you appreciate. Plus
you've had the taste of it yourself a swamp, so
I'm sure he won't be surprised by anything. All right, Fine,
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you're forgiven, always forgiven. Don't call me in the morning, please,
I hate morning. We do have a great show, though,
played today because of Linda, and that includes doctor Ben Carson.
We've got Jenny Krn listen. First of all, I love
doctor Ben Carson. I think I like him more than
anybody in the world. Family aside, Ben Carson tops the list.
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And then Jenny Corn, who I've never met. Linda tells
me she's just so very awesome. She's the faith director
for the White House. She'll be on and also Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton is joining us, so it is
packed full. But I also want to include you, and
there is room for you. So the phone number here
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one seven three two six. Now, before we talk about
anything else, there is something I do want to talk
about because it's really concerning me. It bothers me, It
actually keeps me up at night, it really does. And
it's something that's creeping into our national conversation, and that's socialism.
And if you think about it, I know you're noticing
this too. We keep hearing more and more about socialism.
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We hear it in politics, we hear it in everyday conversations,
and guess what being down here in the swamp. I've
even heard it in churches. So not the one I'm
going to now, I had to leave the other one.
But when you look at recent elections and you see
these new candidates rising up, and not only they rising up,
but they're actually winning their elections, it's frightening. And then
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you hear people like AOC and we'll get into what
she's been doing lately, but you think about it, this
is so typical of a socialist, and she is a
self proclaimed socialist. She has believes that socialism is for
the but not for me attitude, and a lot of
them do. They want to live high, they want to
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live good, but you need to come form, you need
to just be part of the herd.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And it really worries me.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'm really concerned because not so long ago, if you
think about it, socialism wasn't something that a serious candidate
wanted to be associated with. I mean, they didn't even
say the word out loud, especially if they were running
for office. But now it seems like candidates are wearing
the label proudly and they're winning. As I said, I
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can't believe that they're actually winning wearing that label. And
when people raise concerns, we're always like reassured. It's like,
oh no, it's not that kind of socialism. It's different,
it's democratic socialism. But if we're honest, it's still the
same thing. It's just dressed up with a better marketing,
a prettier red ribbon. But we are seeing the rise
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of radical ideas, and we're seeing them in the Democratic Party,
to be sure, but you see real life consequences of socialism.
And what I did today is I went through and
I kind of wanted to just give some examples because
when I mentioned the church a lot, I've actually heard
people say that it's scriptural. Socialism is scriptural. They will
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quote scripture to justify it, but that's not true. The
scripture actually tells a really different story. And so does history,
and I'll get into that in just a moment, and
so does common sense, by the way. But all throughout history,
governments keep promising fairness, and they promise equality and security,
and all of that comes through what they call centralized control.
And in almost every single time, the reality has been poverty, oppression.
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You see it, and I'm going to give you some
examples of it. But that pattern never changes. Good intentions
on the front end, and then you've got these devastating
consequences on the back end. And every single time that
socialism has been tried, history is shown the same pattern,
seemingly good intentions, right, but devastating results. And then when
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I said you could feel it creeping in to the
politics at home, and we hear it in debates, and
now we're hearing it in everyday language, it does get
really scary, doesn't it. Because our children have not been
taught universities don't. We don't teach American history, we don't
teach true history. We don't talk about Russia and Cuba
and even more recently Venezuela. We don't talk about all
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the fails that socialism has, and I'm actually going to
give you some examples of that. But it doesn't just
fail us economically, though, And that's something that I think
is really important because it erodes the principles that make
us a free nation. And I want to go from
God's word to the vision of our founding fathers and
also the history in between, because that message has always
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been consistent. Liberty, stewardship, personal responsibility. Those are all the
things that lift people up. And if it's lifting people up,
it's lifting your nation up. So I remember a sermon
that was preached maybe twenty some years ago. I was
a big fan of doctor D. James Kennedy. I don't
know if some of you remember him, but he had
a sermon called the Bankruptcy of Socialism. Now this was
(07:57):
a sermon because this is how important he thought the
topic was. And I'm talking over twenty years ago, and
he warned the church about what we're seeing unfold right now. Actually,
and He said that he talked about the fall of
the Berlin Wall and how that should have marked the
end of socialism. But yet here we are, we're still
watching leaders in other countries, even some in our own country,
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expanding or wanting to expand federal government. And here we've
seen them take over healthcare, they push that all controlling
system where Washington decides who gets what and when. And
it doesn't stop at Washington anymore, because we just saw that,
didn't we in November and in other elections. It's spreading
into the cities, into communities, and it's actually nearly at
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every level of government right now. That's the part that
scares me so much, because it's just it's not even
slowly creeping anymore in and even in the church. It's
like not slowly creeping into the church. It's actually found
a few and planted itself there. And if we look
at a biblical perspective, it will show you that socialism
isn't just flawed, it's actually dangerous, and it encourages envy,
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it punishes success, and it destroys incentive. And I got
to tell you something, when you lose incentive, when that disappears,
forget about innovation, forget about growth, that all disappears with it.
That's what made our country so great. How our founding
fathers came here with liberty and mind. They believe that
we could accomplish anything that we put our minds to
as long as we had the freedom to do so.
(09:26):
So anyway, real quick, I just want to talk about
doctor Kennedy. He talked about Acts four and it's versus
thirty four and thirty five. The believers brought offerings and
they laid them at the apostle's feet. And this is
important because you noticed they didn't lay it at the
feet of the government. They brought it to the church,
not to Caesar. And you know what, that's what you
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call a voluntary act of generosity. It's not a coerced
redistribution of wealth. It's generosity. And I gotta point one
more thing out to you because I think this is
important because I am hearing this in the church and
with believers. The early Church did not practice socialism. Let's
be very clear on that. It practiced free will, it
practiced sacrificial giving obedience to God. It did not practice
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government control. And if you think about it, the Bible
actually affirms private property, that shall not steal that commandment,
you know that one, Well, that only makes sense if
if ownership matters, and thou shalt not covet goes even
a little bit further if you think about it, because
you shouldn't even desire whip belongs to someone else. So
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it's clear we're called to work, to provide to steward
and not to sit idly by and expect others to
do work for us. And this is where it matters now,
and this is what concerns me the most, because we're
going into celebrating two hundred and fifty years of this
country's presence here and it's we inherited a nation that
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was built on liberty, and it was a very radical
experiment if you think about it. It was an experiment
in self government. And our founders rejected tyranny, and so
do we have to reject tyranny Because it doesn't matter
if it comes in the form of kings or bureaucrats.
Tyranny is still tyranny, and you can see it in
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the bureaucratic process. And so here's what I see as
our call to action right now. We have to understand
the stakes. We have to protect our liberty because you
know what, they don't care about your liberty, and we
have to work hard. I love Wesley, he was the
founder of the Methodist Church. He said, work hard, save wisely,
give generously. I think that is something that we should
all live by. We have to be alert to the
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lives of modern socialism and what they're teaching our children,
and we have to take over.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
We've got to teach our children.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Go back, Explain to them what happened to China, what
happened to Cuba, what happened to Venezuela, and after the
Russian Revolution, and then make a comparison, show them the
differences between what happened in West Germany when they adopted
a market based economy, they rebuilt rapidly, but East Germany,
under socialism, they stagnated. In South Korea and North Korea too.
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South Korea embraced capitalism, they became one of the world's
leading economies.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
North Korea did not. In fact, I think they're like,
what number fourteen or something. But here's what we need
to do.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We can't be fooled by the slogans, empty promises. We
can't be fooled by history because if we really study history,
not the history they're teaching in the schools. We will
see that socialism doesn't work, that liberty is what advances
the human experiment, not socialism. So right now is the
time for us to be aware and it's time for action,
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because we have got to guard we have got to
actively guard our liberty.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Do it.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Do it in celebration of two hundred and fifty years
of freedom. And we have to honor God with our
resources and live with courage and integrity, and that we're
generosity because that's important. I like what Wesley preached generosity too.
Government can't replace the strength and character and resilience that
comes from personal accountability. And when you give into socialism,
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you give up that accountability. You don't produce anything. You
are idle, and that is not how we were intended
to be. And the radical left they may keep pushing,
but history, truth and experience remind us that freedom always
beats control. And you know what, hard work always beats handouts.
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It really does, because in the end, you saw what
happened to some of those countries. Millions went through famine,
millions left and as a way less I mean, the
list goes on and faith by the way, and perseverance
always beat fear. So maybe socialism is selling itself as
something new, something fair. But you know what, history tells
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us a very different story. No matter what politicians, no
matter what those search engines tell us, it's a different story.
And you know, when you think about what the founding
fathers gave us, they gave us a free enterprise system,
and it was grounded in biblical and individual liberty. And
I don't know about you, but it's heartbreaking to watch
so many willing to trade that freedom away for government control.
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They don't understand. Oh, price control. Yeah, it sounds really
good if you're the one buying, not the one selling.
I mean, we'll get into more of that later too.
I want to talk about that. But the truth is
socialism doesn't lift people up. It drags everybody down to
the same level of misery. It's fueled by envy, it's
sustained by control. And you know what, it thrives where
truth and freedoms are silenced. So we need to have
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strong families, strong people, strong communities and all of that
built on personal responsibility. That's what build a nation and
that's worth defending. So we'll have more on this subject
later on. Don't forget. We've got great guests coming up,
and also call us eight hundred and nine for one
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take all of them. If some of you could stay,
I would appreciate it. We can take Chris real quick
right now, because he was the first one in or
she Hey.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Chris, Hey, Rose, Hey, I absolutely loved your commentary on
the book of Accent the early Church Socialism, which it's not.
But I just wanted to kind of affirm you do.
You remember Anonius and Saphira right around that time when
they sold their piece of property, they brought it to
the church and they lied about how much it was worth,
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and they ended up they were both I don't know
if you want to say killed or struck dead, but
I think it was Peter or something he said, listen,
that was your money to do with what you wanted.
The fact that you brought it to lie about it, yeah, exactly,
which affirms exactly private property. Another point also in the Bible,
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it does say to abaya, government pay taxes in the
New Testament, but if you remember, I think it was
an ax. The disciples are going around preaching the gospel,
they get brought in before like the sanhedron and like flogged,
and they basically say, look, we can't go against what
we know to be right by obeying you, So we're
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just going to keep on doing what we're doing. You
guys can feel free to do whatever you need to
do to us.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
So good example, Chris, I gotta go, bet. That is
a great example. And I thank you for calling in.
Thanks so much. That was a perfect example.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
All right.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Doctor Carson sits at a unique intersection of faith, family values, medicine,
and public policy. And now he's helping shape government policy
on issues that hit home for every one of us.
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And that's worth paying attention to.
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And you will have that opportunity coming up next when
we return with doctor Carson.
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He's going to join me. I'm very excited to have him.
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He never stops working for the good of the country.
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Sean Hannity with behind the scenes information on today's breaking news.
Hannity is on right now.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. My name is
Rose and I'm so happy to be here. Check me
out on social media. It's Rose Unplugged on all platforms.
Joining me today is someone I have so much respect
for and really enjoy everything he has to say.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I love to hear it. Doctor Ben Carson.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
He isn't just a respected retired neurosurgeon and former HUD secretary.
He's back in public service in a very big way.
In late September, he was sworn in as National Advisor
for Nutrition, Health and Housing at the US Department of
Agricol SURE and that's a role that puts them at
the very heart of national policy on family nutrition, health
(19:06):
care access, and housing. Stable housing for American families. Welcome
to the show, Doctor Carson. It's so good to have you.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Thank you, Rose, I'm delighted to be listening.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh you're doing a great job, and I appreciate what
you've given to this country and you just keep on giving.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
In this new role at the USA, you cover nutrition,
health and housing. What specific policy goals are you prioritizing
right now for American families and how's that going to
translate into real changes for parents and for children.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well, we're very concerned about the way our food is prepared.
You know, from the time something is growing in the
ground to the time it gets in your plate, so
many things happen to it that in many cases you've
lost a lot of the nutritional value, and that's very problematic.
So one of the changes is with the snack program,
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eliminating from the ability to purchase some of the very
unhealthy foods, and we've replaced them with twice as many
healthy foods, so it's not like we're taking food away
from people that were placing it with healthy food. I
think that's incredibly important because there's so many chronic diseases
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going on in our society, not just the weight problem,
not just diabetes, but all kinds of chronic diseases that
affect growth and development of children. And that's a particular
concern because you know that's our future. We have a
large number of children with ADHD, autism, and various developmental
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ad themalities that don't seem to be present in societies
where they eat differently than we do.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I think it's really important that you did qualify that
while you took some of the food out of the
Snap program, it was replaced with even more healthier food,
not just healthier, but more of those foods.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yes, twice as many as we removed. So I know
that's the first place where the level like to attack.
They're taking food away from people. They want people to
spare exactly. I think people get tired of the hyperbole
all the time.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
There's always the hyperbole.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Now, you did so one of the things you brought
up Snap and there was a lot of Snap fraud
that's been uncovered. Can you quickly share that the details
of that and why the discovery matters.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, Well, first of all, you know, we spent one
hundred billion dollars a year on the Snap program. That's
a whole lot of money. And you know, looking at
a number of states and one territory, we found a
large number of people who double dip. They apply for
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a benefits in one state, then they apply for it
in another state, sometimes multiple applications within the same state
false social Security numbers, so they can relyserve spots for themselves.
It's really quite disgusting some of the things that go on.
But when people are caught at this, they just said,
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don't do that again. I mean, there's no health penalty,
so you know, why wouldn't they keep doing it?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Right?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You know, one of the things when you said that
you have a lot of hyperbole that surrounds some of
the things that you do, or well, a lot of
people in the administration right now. And one of the
things I heard you talk about once was division and
civil discourse. And I want to ask you specifically how
you deal with it because you are attacked frequently, and
(22:56):
yet those of us who know you or have known
you for a long time know that you are a league,
very good man, and you care very much about the
people of this country, and you care about their health.
So you once said that Americans agree on about eighty
percent of issues, but we focus on just that twenty
percent that divides us. Why do you think that the
vision has become so amplified today? And also how do
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you personally deal with that division when it turns into
an attack on something that you may be doing well.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I think unfortunately the media in Hollywood and the leftus
derived some type of pleasure or power from having people divided.
They don't want us to be working together. And that's
something that Marxists always do, always do when they want
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to come in and change a society and take control.
They have people fighting on the basis of race, that's
a big one, age, income, gender, political affiliation, religion. Those
are the biggies and it works. So I personally deal
with it by just using perspective. They say, how long
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can they bother me? How long can they attack me
against the backdrop of eternity? Wow, that's about that long.
So I like that whatever you pay attention to it,
that's good advice.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
And I think that's a good advice for young people.
I mean, is there anything else that we should be
saying or teaching our young people on how to disagree
without the human humanizing one another?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Because we really have.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Been doing that, well, you know, it goes back to
some of the very values and principles that started our country,
faith being one of them, and one of the killers
about Judeo Christian faith is love your neighbor, not canceling neighbor,
(25:01):
not hate your neighbor if they disagree with you. And
we need to get back to that again. And it
teaches people that it's okay to disagree. Two people agree
about everything, one of them isn't necessary, so everybody's necessary,
and just learn how to talk to people about the difference.
(25:22):
That was the key thing about Charlie Kirk. He wanted
to hear what they had to say, and he always
put them first in the program. Let's hear what you
have to say, and why do you believe that? Well,
a lot of times they would have a great deal
of difficulty explaining why they believe it, just like you know,
(25:42):
I've had several arguments with scientists who say, you know, no,
there's no God, there's no evidence for that. And we
just came about there was a big bang and everything
was organized, and I said, do you believe in the
second law? Thermo dynamics entreped that things moved toward a
(26:03):
state of disorganization. So you're saying, there was a big
bang and everything became perfectly organize. How do you explain that.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well, billions and billions and billions and billions of years,
it'll be enough explosions that one of them would be
the perfect explosion. So you're saying, if I blow a
hurricane through a junkyard enough times, over long enough period
of time, fully formed seven forty seven, ready to fly,
we'll show up at the end of one of them.
(26:32):
Then the loss. How silly it is.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
That's a great argument. I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You know, you mentioned Marxism, and that's a ploy. You know,
Marxim Marxism loves to cause the chaos and so forth.
And my monologue today was about socialism. And I remember
a post that you've had done. I think it's a
recent one about capitalism. You said, capitalism isn't failing young Americans.
Leftist policies are. And yet the young Americans have no
(27:01):
idea that that's what's failing them, and they would point
to the government or capitalism and say you're the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, they don't even know what socialism is. I mean,
we think it's being familiar with social media, they really
don't know what it is. And if they would just
take a little bit of time to see what has
happened in countries that move in that direction, you don't
have to go very far. Look at Venezuela, you know,
I've been to Venezuelan a number of times before they switched,
(27:31):
and it was a beautiful country, had lots of beautiful
resorts and hotels and use them and all kinds of things.
People were happy. And in a matter of a decade,
you know, it's gone from the wealthiest country in South
America to the worst.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Yeah, and so many have left that country. And they
loved that country. They loved Venezuela, and the same thing
would happen here.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It happens everywhere. But people don't read, and socialists and
Marxists and communists, the last thing they want you to
do is be educated, yes, because if you know history,
then you'll know they're trying to sell you a bunch
of crabs. And they don't like that, so they try
to keep people ignorant. And you know, I'm always amazed
(28:24):
when I see these men on the street interviews and
they go up to the young people on the beach
or wherever. Ask them simple questions.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
They don't know, yeah anything, and oh you're right.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Then let me ask you a question, because I'm alarmed
at the number of politicians now who are embracing the
label socialists. Where in the past they would kind of
shy away from it. They might have believed in socialist policies,
but they wouldn't want to embrace it, certainly if they
were running for office. Now we see people boldly embracing it,
(29:00):
and these people are winning elections.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Are you concerned?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I mean sometimes I worry without two hundred and fifty years,
it is that it where freedom goes two hundred and
fifty years and then we're done.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, I am concerned. You know, it's hard for people
to buy the idea of the American dream when they
can't buy a home. Yes, bought my first home when
I was thirty three years old, and it costs one
hundred and twenty six thousand dollars. That very same home
today is six hundred and six thousand dollars, and salaries
(29:35):
haven't risen commensurate with the prices of the homes. So
we need to be very serious when we look at
them to say how do we get those costs down.
And you know, the regulatory burden on housing, building, selling,
maintaining is enormous, and we keep adding more. And what
(29:58):
we should be doing is what Trump did the first administration.
He said, for every regulation you have to get rid
of too. Yes, and we got rid of a lot
more until we got more than two thousands at HUD.
It makes a big difference. And there's a lot of
low hanging through duplication. Just get rid of all the duplication.
(30:20):
That'll be a big chunk, right there. Can we do it?
We could, and we're working on it now. Okay, we're
moving in the right direction. It takes more than four
years to get these things, and you have to untangle
a lot of stuff, and it's difficult. But I'm praying
(30:42):
that we have not only these four years, but another
at least eight after that.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
You and me both, we really are praying for that.
You want to ask you something real quick. We only
have a few minutes, but if you can do it
in two that'd be great. After everything you've experienced, You've
been through poverty to prominence. What do you want young
Americans to understand to live a fuller life even with
the challenges that we.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Have right now.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I would say the key thing to understand is that
the person who has the most to do with what
happens to you is you, and don't depend on somebody else,
don't depend on the government. Be grateful that God has
given us the country where you have the freedom to
pursue the things that you want to pursue. Not like
(31:31):
that all around the world, that's for sure, absolutely, But
you have to get your hands done. You have to
get in there and you have to work. And if
you do that, America is a land of great promise.
It will reward you. That's what I would toll them.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
And thank you for that. Those are good words. I
appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
And let's just keep praying for a good new year
and that people's eyes would be opened in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, thanks for being a patriot. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, we appreciate you too very much. Keep up the
good work, doctor Ben Carson. Thank you so much for
joining us today. I appreciate you. You are listening to
the Sean Hannity Show and we are taking your phone
calls because.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Love talking to you, and I want to talk to
Linda too about inside the beout Way. Oh my goodness,
so much to talk about. So make sure you call us.
The phone number is eight hundred ninety four to one
Sewan eight hundred nine four one. Sean will be back
with hopefully your phone calls after this.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
It's time to take back America. This is a Sean
Hannity Show.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
All right, Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I
see Russ has called from Pennsylvania. I want to get
to you, but I just want to mention that he
said that doctor Carlson saved his son's life he operated
on him as a child. I've heard such great stories
about doctor Carson and his time and pediatrics as a neurosurgeon.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Can't wait to talk to you, David. You two.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Unfortunately we can't do it right this moment, but we
will stay with us one eight hundred ninety four to
one sewn one eight hundred nine for one Sean.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
So listen. Coming up.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Something remarkable happened quietly behind the scenes in American leadership.
Presidents from both parties and moments of crisis, decisions, grief
and reflection make room for prayer. For the first time, ever,
America has a White House Faith Office, and the director
of that Faith Office is going to be with us
today coming up next. She is Jenny Corn, and she
will join us when we return. Don't go away, because
(34:00):
she's doing amazing things at that White House. I mean,
I'm so grateful that she's there. Linda absolutely adores her,
So I'm excited to make the acquaintance of Jenny Corn,
who's joining us again. You can get your phone calls in.
It's one eight hundred nine four one sean, and check
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