July 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Do you have to have a paying job to receive Medicaid or are there other options?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's switch gears over to the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone line and talk to our buddy,
our pal.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's Bob Clegg, GOP analyst. Bob. How are you happy?
Fourth at July post weekend? How'd you? How'd you make
out this weekend?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Pretty good, Mike. I'll tell you you were right though.
It's beautiful weekend. You know, we had friends over barbecue,
We shot off a few fireworks. It was it was
a really good weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Absolutely. I'm glad you had what kind of what was
the food in the barbecue? Were you just standards like
dogs and burgers or did you do something more exotic?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
On the grill? Was dogs, burgers and chickens. And we
had a couple of different kinds of pasta and you
know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's the best part is we went to a couple
of parties too. Is you know, the the barbecue fair
is typical, but it's you know, everybody brings a side, right,
so it's all of the different pasta salads and the
side dishes and uh coal slaws and and you know
mac and cheese. It's just it's it. It kind of
(01:02):
rivals Thanksgiving, Bob, it does.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's just a different kind of yes exactly. But yeah,
you're right, it's about to say.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Well, we could probably see her and talk barbecue food
all day long, but I do want to get into
some some politics. The big beautiful bill is now the
now it's big beautiful law. The President signed it on
July fourth, you know. And it's always there's always things
you can be critical about. It's not perfect, no bill is.
But I think, overall, Bob and tell me your thoughts
(01:33):
on this, there's more good in this than there is
things to be critical about.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well, I'll tell you what, Mike. The biggest good about
this is we avoided the biggest tax increase in our
nation's history by passing this bill. I mean that in
itself was the best reason to pass it. But there's
so many other good things about this bill about and
what it's about. It's about getting our economy moving again.
(01:58):
I mean, let's I mean, let's face it, not only
did we have sleepy Joe as our president for four years,
we also had a sleeping economy. And this is what's
going to really really jumpstart our economy and get it
back to those days of like twenty seventeen twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, when our when our economy was just going
like crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
One of the big points of contention is how to
pay for this, And that's the probably the biggest item
that is people are being critical about, is just the
cost of this. You know, it's some you know, between
three and four trillion over the next ten years, the
changes to Medicaid, and it's the work requirement, and I
(02:39):
it's being this is being misconstrued.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's being demonized. Popill is being demonized, Mike.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It is because all it's all the all the changes
that are coming is if you are under sixty five,
able bodied, with no kids under eighteen, all they're asking
is that you work a part time job twenty hours
a week and that's it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And you're here legally. Well yeah, of course, yeah, of
course the only ones and those are the only ones
really affected by this. And the Democrats are trying to
sell this as some giganic, drastic cut in Medicaid and
how you know, these poor people are not going to
be able to get their healthcare. No, it's what you
just said. Able body, single people with no dependence, no
(03:23):
children are going to actually have to work. And we're
not going to extend a you know, us program to
people who have come here illegally because they don't deserve
those kinds of things if you're in our country illegally.
I mean, that's the only quote unquote cuts that we have.
(03:45):
But of course the Democrats politicize everything, so they're going
to try to politicize this, and that's what they're out
there doing. That's the only individuals that are affected.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's just it's to get people off their butts who
who can. If you're disabled or over sixty five, nothing
changes for you. But if you're fifty and you've been
on the grift for five or six years and you've
got free healthcare and you're getting the government check and
you're just you know, binge watching Netflix all day, but
(04:15):
you know, you can contribute in some way.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And by the way, you don't have to work.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You can go volunteer, you could go do community service
for your twenty hours a week and that counts too.
So just just it's just contribute to your community in
some way, shape or form, and you are eligible for medicaid.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's called individual responsibility, you know, and we somehow lost that,
I think in our society at large, and you know,
this is just getting it back to the way the
program was supposed to be. And what has happened is
Medicaid has exploded. The spending has exploded over the last
(04:54):
five years, and these programs are not going to be
self sustaining. We let him get out of control like this,
and that means the people that really need medicaid or
we can extend it over to medicare aren't to be
able to get it because we busted the system, because
we're spending too much.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Gop strateus is Bob Clegg on the Legacy Retirement Group
dot com phone line. You know, there's there's cuts to
the SNAP program food stamps, which is essentially you can't
just go get free. You know, two leaders of Mountain
Dew and Dorito's you got to buy, you know, healthy
food for your family.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Some of the costs has been shifted to the states.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There's green energy rollbacks of ev tax credits and some
of those things, and I.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Support all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
One of the other stories I wanted to get to
briefly is, you know, based on the passage of this bill,
Elon Musk, who is a he's a polarizing guy. I mean,
I like I like Elon. I mean, he's obviously very smart,
but he's he's an odd ball, he's an odd duck.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But he didn't like this bill. He said it too expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So he's going to attempt to form a third political
party called the America Party. And you know, third parties
in this country don't really get much attention or support.
But could he, with his wealth, make a difference in
upcoming elections?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I mean maybe. I mean, I think Elon is brilliant
in the business world. I think in the political world
he's not quite as brilliant. And you know, it's what
you just said. I mean, historically, third party movements have
really not done much of anything. I think the last
time you saw any impact from a third party movement
(06:37):
was probably back in the nineteen nineties with Ross Perrot,
and even he had limited, very limited success. I think
this is a lot of Elon just being mad about
how things turned out with his short stint in the
in the Trump administration, and he's just you know, acting out.
But the bottom line on that, I don't think it's
(06:58):
going to have much effect at all in our political system.
He's already saying, you know, he's not going to run
a presidential candidate in twenty twenty eight. They're going to
look at only a few Senate or House races in
twenty twenty six. So I mean, well, it remains to
be seen that I doubt it's going to have too
much of an effect.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I feel like if you were to start something like that,
it would be a decade before you got really any traction.
It would be a long time to build it and
build it and start winning races and start showing some
sort of results.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I think Jerry's out on it, But if it does
take hold, it's going to be a while.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, what it would appeal to is people that are
disaffected with their current political party. And right now, if
you're looking at polling, Republicans are pretty together and being
very supportive of President Trump and his agenda. You know,
over ninety percent the party that got the most disaffected
out of the Democrats right now. And I'm not sure
(07:57):
how much of elon must parties gonna gonna appeal to
those kind of disaffected Democrats.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Robert always great perspective this morning. Hey how's the leg
By the way, you tweaked your ankle? You were on vacate,
you were in you were in Italy I think, and
you were You've been wearing a boot for like six weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
What's the Yeah, I gotta I gotta go get one
last set of X rays this week. But it's great.
I'm walking on it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm glad to hear that. Glad you're you're feeling good.
And thanks for the time this morning, Bob, Clegg gop Stratas.
Just have a great one man talking again soon
All right, let's switch gears over to the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone line and talk to our buddy,
our pal.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's Bob Clegg, GOP analyst. Bob. How are you happy?
Fourth at July post weekend? How'd you? How'd you make
out this weekend?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Pretty good, Mike. I'll tell you you were right though.
It's beautiful weekend. You know, we had friends over barbecue,
We shot off a few fireworks. It was it was
a really good weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Absolutely. I'm glad you had what kind of what was
the food in the barbecue? Were you just standards like
dogs and burgers or did you do something more exotic?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
On the grill? Was dogs, burgers and chickens. And we
had a couple of different kinds of pasta and you
know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's the best part is we went to a couple
of parties too. Is you know, the the barbecue fair
is typical, but it's you know, everybody brings a side, right,
so it's all of the different pasta salads and the
side dishes and uh coal slaws and and you know
mac and cheese. It's just it's it. It kind of
(01:02):
rivals Thanksgiving, Bob, it does.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's just a different kind of yes exactly. But yeah,
you're right, it's about to say.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Well, we could probably see her and talk barbecue food
all day long, but I do want to get into
some some politics. The big beautiful bill is now the
now it's big beautiful law. The President signed it on
July fourth, you know. And it's always there's always things
you can be critical about. It's not perfect, no bill is.
But I think, overall, Bob and tell me your thoughts
(01:33):
on this, there's more good in this than there is
things to be critical about.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well, I'll tell you what, Mike. The biggest good about
this is we avoided the biggest tax increase in our
nation's history by passing this bill. I mean that in
itself was the best reason to pass it. But there's
so many other good things about this bill about and
what it's about. It's about getting our economy moving again.
(01:58):
I mean, let's I mean, let's face it, not only
did we have sleepy Joe as our president for four years,
we also had a sleeping economy. And this is what's
going to really really jumpstart our economy and get it
back to those days of like twenty seventeen twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, when our when our economy was just going
like crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
One of the big points of contention is how to
pay for this, And that's the probably the biggest item
that is people are being critical about, is just the
cost of this. You know, it's some you know, between
three and four trillion over the next ten years, the
changes to Medicaid, and it's the work requirement, and I
(02:39):
it's being this is being misconstrued.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's being demonized. Popill is being demonized, Mike.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It is because all it's all the all the changes
that are coming is if you are under sixty five,
able bodied, with no kids under eighteen, all they're asking
is that you work a part time job twenty hours
a week and that's it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And you're here legally. Well yeah, of course, yeah, of
course the only ones and those are the only ones
really affected by this. And the Democrats are trying to
sell this as some giganic, drastic cut in Medicaid and
how you know, these poor people are not going to
be able to get their healthcare. No, it's what you
just said. Able body, single people with no dependence, no
(03:23):
children are going to actually have to work. And we're
not going to extend a you know, us program to
people who have come here illegally because they don't deserve
those kinds of things if you're in our country illegally.
I mean, that's the only quote unquote cuts that we have.
(03:45):
But of course the Democrats politicize everything, so they're going
to try to politicize this, and that's what they're out
there doing. That's the only individuals that are affected.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's just it's to get people off their butts who
who can. If you're disabled or over sixty five, nothing
changes for you. But if you're fifty and you've been
on the grift for five or six years and you've
got free healthcare and you're getting the government check and
you're just you know, binge watching Netflix all day, but
(04:15):
you know, you can contribute in some way.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And by the way, you don't have to work.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You can go volunteer, you could go do community service
for your twenty hours a week and that counts too.
So just just it's just contribute to your community in
some way, shape or form, and you are eligible for medicaid.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's called individual responsibility, you know, and we somehow lost that,
I think in our society at large, and you know,
this is just getting it back to the way the
program was supposed to be. And what has happened is
Medicaid has exploded. The spending has exploded over the last
(04:54):
five years, and these programs are not going to be
self sustaining. We let him get out of control like this,
and that means the people that really need medicaid or
we can extend it over to medicare aren't to be
able to get it because we busted the system, because
we're spending too much.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Gop strateus is Bob Clegg on the Legacy Retirement Group
dot com phone line. You know, there's there's cuts to
the SNAP program food stamps, which is essentially you can't
just go get free. You know, two leaders of Mountain
Dew and Dorito's you got to buy, you know, healthy
food for your family.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Some of the costs has been shifted to the states.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There's green energy rollbacks of ev tax credits and some
of those things, and I.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Support all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
One of the other stories I wanted to get to
briefly is, you know, based on the passage of this bill,
Elon Musk, who is a he's a polarizing guy. I mean,
I like I like Elon. I mean, he's obviously very smart,
but he's he's an odd ball, he's an odd duck.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But he didn't like this bill. He said it too expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So he's going to attempt to form a third political
party called the America Party. And you know, third parties
in this country don't really get much attention or support.
But could he, with his wealth, make a difference in
upcoming elections?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I mean maybe. I mean, I think Elon is brilliant
in the business world. I think in the political world
he's not quite as brilliant. And you know, it's what
you just said. I mean, historically, third party movements have
really not done much of anything. I think the last
time you saw any impact from a third party movement
(06:37):
was probably back in the nineteen nineties with Ross Perrot,
and even he had limited, very limited success. I think
this is a lot of Elon just being mad about
how things turned out with his short stint in the
in the Trump administration, and he's just you know, acting out.
But the bottom line on that, I don't think it's
(06:58):
going to have much effect at all in our political system.
He's already saying, you know, he's not going to run
a presidential candidate in twenty twenty eight. They're going to
look at only a few Senate or House races in
twenty twenty six. So I mean, well, it remains to
be seen that I doubt it's going to have too
much of an effect.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I feel like if you were to start something like that,
it would be a decade before you got really any traction.
It would be a long time to build it and
build it and start winning races and start showing some
sort of results.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I think Jerry's out on it, But if it does
take hold, it's going to be a while.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, what it would appeal to is people that are
disaffected with their current political party. And right now, if
you're looking at polling, Republicans are pretty together and being
very supportive of President Trump and his agenda. You know,
over ninety percent the party that got the most disaffected
out of the Democrats right now. And I'm not sure
(07:57):
how much of elon must parties gonna gonna appeal to
those kind of disaffected Democrats.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Robert always great perspective this morning. Hey how's the leg
By the way, you tweaked your ankle? You were on vacate,
you were in you were in Italy I think, and
you were You've been wearing a boot for like six weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
What's the Yeah, I gotta I gotta go get one
last set of X rays this week. But it's great.
I'm walking on it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'm glad to hear that. Glad you're you're feeling good.
And thanks for the time this morning, Bob, Clegg gop Stratas.
Just have a great one man talking again soon
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