November 5, 2025 • 63 mins
Another valid attempt to memorialize Charlie Kirk but a SNAP shutdown happened and the Chef went on a rant and we'll address Charlie another day. Make sure your also checking Distil Union For a 20% discount on Mens accessories solved us promo Code: Partiotparts
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Ah, when did we all get this dumb? Almost only
counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear warfare. I don't
see anybodies, so it doesn't count. I'm angry. I'm the chef.
I want to hear one thing. Yes, chef, come on, man,
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here's your brain. The Why I'm Angry Podcast start now.
All right, guys, it's the ym Angry Podcast. This is
the chef here in the Freestyle Man Cave studio here
in northern Dayton, and just wanted to get on here
and as you said, it, get a podcast going. We're
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gonna talk later on about Charlie Kirk and some of
the conspiracies that have jumped up. I've got a talk
with Jay Boots, and for now I've got you guys.
We're gonna talk about this Snap debacle, and you know,
just kind of let's get to thinking for ourselves about
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what is the issue, who's actually doing this, and not
just look at all the headlines. But I want to
get to the headlines right off the bat, because it's
kind of funny to see, you know, what is going on?
Who you know? Who? They say is the problem. I
like how it says Senate Republicans strike down Democratic proposal
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to fully fund Snap. When Snap benefits will arrive is
still in flux. Here's what the communities are doing. Trump
threatens to withhold Snap benefits. That's from the New York
Times until the government is back up and running. Hakeem
Jefferies digs in on Snap. Blame on the Snap, blame
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game with forty two million Americans food in jeopardy, Blue
States blame Republicans for looming snapshot off. Trump administration must
pay Snap food benefits. That's from the BBC, and and
like that's you know, some of this stuff is. You know,
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we heard on Friday that a court got got together
and made a ruling that the Snap benefits would have
to be paid out of the contingency part of that.
And that sounds, oh, they saved us. You know, Trump
can't can't hold these Snap things or or the government
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can't hold the Snap benefits, you know, hostage. But you know, honestly,
the contingency is is not that much, and so they
they can't pay a large amount of of what's you know,
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what's going on. You know, they can't pay a ton
of what actually is needed to be paid. So I
went on and I, you know, just to see you know,
what's the deal? You know, is this is this a
big part of the of the community. Is this something
you know? Obviously you know these kind of programs help
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people and help people, I know, and help people that
really need it. And yes, I can, I can make
a joke or I can say something like, you know,
these people, you know, they they should you know, they
should work harder, or they should do this, or or
you can you can do whatever you want joking wise,
but they're you know, the roughly maybe ten percent or
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even if it's twenty percent of people who are abusing
these these benefits are are the minority, and we don't
care about them, you know, we would like to get
rid of them so that we're not spending the money
on them. You know, ten percent is is it is
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a pretty good amount, especially when you get into the
millions and billions of people. You know, if it you know,
it does say that about forty two million people each
month get these benefits, and it and it's and it's
kind of sad when you think that the this is
November and we should be thinking about Thanksgiving, we should
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be thinking about how how we can you know pay
it forward, how we how we've had a blessed year,
how how all of these things, you know, the abundance
of of our year is is winning waning down. We're
getting ready for Christmas, and Thanksgiving is just a good
time to to thank thank God for the harvest, thank
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God for for everything He's just given you throughout the year,
whether you're a farmer or you you know, work in
a big shiny glass office building and you couldn't get anywhere.
You know, you nowhere near a farm field or a cornfield.
You know that, you know, Thanksgiving is Thanksgiving no matter what,
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and so you know this should be a time of
getting ready for Thanksgiving. And there are people roughly forty
two million people if you want to take those those
ten or fifteen or twenty percent out, you know, somewhere
in the high thirties of thirty million people who really
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need this and who who either can't work. And I
got to I got the percentages of of what you know,
it's it's thirty nine percent is kids, and that that
would mean that roughly about fifteen to you know, somewhere
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in they're around twenty million of these people are kids. Uh,
twenty percent is over over sixty, so about nine million
people are over sixty. You got disabled people about nine percent,
so in about four and a half million are disabled
under sixty. You've got seven million or full time caregivers
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or seven percent, which is close to about six to
seven million, are you know, full time caregivers other exempt
from work requirements meaning they're either disabled or they just
they're they're not you know, maybe they weren't fully developed,
you know, maybe they have some kind of developmental issues.
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That's nine you know, another nine per percent. You've got
five percent of full time employed people. These are people
who are working a full time job and just can't
make ends meet, which honestly, with the poverty line around
the fifty fifty thousand mark, there's a lot of people
that you know, work a full time job and just
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can't make the ends meet and need that little bit
of help. And maybe this is a little bit of help.
Isn't even their full deal, which I can see. And
you got thirteen percent other adults, and I think that
those thirteen percent of the adults, you know, some of
them are like you, Like I said, you know, it
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doesn't say disabled, it doesn't say any you know, maybe
they came back and they have PTSD and so they work,
but they can't work full time, or there's something that's
that's just not you know, something in their life is
not driving. Maybe they're on on uh, maybe they've been
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let go of their job. They don't have a job
and they're so they're right now, they're in between jobs.
People come come into and out of the food stamps
or the SNAP program all the time because they they
you know, they need it for a short time and
they get better. And that's and honestly that's the that's
the program itself. That's what it's. That's it. It's its
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main function. Yes, it does, you know, it helps these
these children, it helps the you know disabled, are they
over over sixty. But this was supposed to be a
supplemental program to kind of to kind of help people
who need it any time of need in a short
short amount of time and stuff like that. But it's
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become something that is helping people beyond that a lot
a lot more. It says, households under the prop poverty line,
you got about twenty and fifty and those are are
are the ones that use SNAP. Some of the people
under the poverty line still don't use SNAP, So it's
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not everybody. There are way more people than forty two
million people under the poverty line. Households where somebody is disabled,
you got about ten in fifty that are on SNAP.
I have someone in the household disabled. Households with children
nine and fifty, you've got black households or twelve. Native
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American households are eleven and fifty. Hispanic households are nine
in fifty. Asian households are five and fifty. You know,
non Hispanic households. White households are four and fifty. I mean,
this isn't just, This isn't just. This is a lot
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of people who are of all kinds, of different descents.
It's not you know, yes, you can see Black households
are twelve and fifty. They are three times more than
white households. But this isn't a white and black thing.
This is a people thing. These are people who need assistance.
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And you can say Native Americans, which eleven and fifty
Native American households like that's that's substantial because Native Americans
are only one point two percent of the population, and
so for them to be eleven and fifty households that's
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that's that's a big amount of people, you know. So,
you know, and then you go to the four and
fifty because America, because you know, the white population is
sixty percent of the population right now or maybe as
fifty four, it's it's still more than fifty percent. That's
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still as many or or double the amount of black
population that's on food stamps. And so so, like I said,
it's really just not a you know, it's it's not
a racial thing. It's about people who need who need
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these food stamps or the SNAP program, and you know,
it's just it goes beyond that. And so we wanted
to I wanted to get on and kind of just
you know, I wanted to hit the numbers. I wanted
to to to you know, kind of start hitting the
the who's to blame? You know, and then and then
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what do we you know, what do we get out
of it? You know, what what's the deal here? You know?
And so so it's it's funny to see you know,
all of the all of the updates and stuff like
that about who's who's to blame and what's going on
and and and all of that. But then but then
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to actually read the numbers, and so they're excited about
this judge that has has said, no, Trump, you can't
withhold the Snap program. Well, at the same point, he's
not really holding back the Snap program as much as
as the budget is holding back the Snap program. The
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budget itself is about forty four point six billion dollars,
is what they have in a contingency Let me make sure,
I'm yeah, four point six five billion dollars in a
contingency program fund. And so two federal judges have ordered
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the administration to take that contingency fund and pay out
Snap snaps monthly. Can monthly pay out is a little
over nine billion dollars. So even though that the judge said,
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pay them, pay them their stuff out of this contingency plan.
Once this contingency plan's gone, what's you know, what's what's next?
You know, you know, forty million recipients at at ninety
at nine billion dollars this per household? Is it? I
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worked it up. I went and looked it up. Is
they get about one hundred and eighty to one hundred
ninety dollars per person. I mean, that's that's not even
forty bucks a month or a week per person to
eat off of So this is really one hundred percent
a supplemental program. I mean unless you're buying, you know,
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unless you're a college student and you're in or you're
trying to be like a college student and you're just
buying a lot of ramen noodles, and then you probably
are okay through the month. But so this this month,
they're gonna get somewhere around I'm sure there's some administration
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administrative costs and things like that, and so they're gonna
get somewhere around seventy to one hundred dollars for the month.
What happens in Christmas like what happens at at at
Christmas time when they still haven't signed a budget, because
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from what I'm seeing, neither sidele budget and the one
side just continues to get more and more out there
with their with their their demands. I mean they're filibustering
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the budget. It's got to be signed someday or there
isn't There isn't a budget, like there isn't money, then
the money doesn't get distributed. It's like a business if
you don't set a budget and pay your bills like
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you're supposed to, and you just go paying it willy nilly,
then you don't actually you don't pay attention to where
you know, where things are at the end of the
month of the years, you know, three months from now
the quarter, you're gonna either run out of money or
you're gonna have money that's sitting there inefficiently. And in
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this country, the way we spend money for things like
millions of dollars for you know, LGBTQ dance lessons and
you know, how to educate men on having babies with
men in Ecuador or wherever that was, and with those things,
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you know, we're just we're just you know, in the
in the previous administration, we were just spending that money
and I don't. And what's sad about it is it
would be sad if it was just going to that
kind of a thing. But I have every belief that
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it wasn't going to those kind of things. It was
going to pay off people for their their expertise and
things uh different, uh favors that have been done too
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advance a pandemic, to advance an elderly gentleman who should
have never been elected because he wasn't fit to run
to begin with, and he wasn't fit not just to run,
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but to run the country like you didn't just he
he was never in the public Why why do why
do other countries think we're so weak or that Trump
is so crazy because he's actually doing his job as
a president. Now he is a way more accessible president.
(17:42):
He's been on he's on TV, he's on on doing
interviews and things like that, way more often than you
can say about ninety five to one hundred percent of
other presidents. Like he is. He is way more, way
more out there he's done, and way more public speaking.
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You know, he doesn't. What's amazing about the way he
can he public speaks is that he doesn't normally have
que cards or a list of things that he wants
to talk about or things like that sitting in front
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of him. It's normally, you know, he's answering questions from
the media at the Oval office. He's you know, doing
all kinds of things that most most of the presidents
have not been doing. And he's just as old as
any of them. You know, at the end of his term,
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he'll be in his eighties. And you know, as much
as people are like, yeah, run him again, run him again.
Now he's in his eighties. Let him go Rit's higher,
let him have ten years of just grandkid or whatever,
let him hang out with barn the whole deal. But
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at the same point, you know, we're spending our money
without a budget now on just the essentials. And I
know that this is not popular, but the essentials are
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you know, keep everybody's lights and heat on. Make sure
the infrastructure of the country because it's owned by the
government unfortunately, make sure it's on. Make sure that the
borders are secure and safe, and make sure that the
military is funded so that we're safe and secure from
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other countries in other parts of the world. And as
sad as it is, that's that's what what the government
is supposed to be doing. Making sure we have police
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so that people don't aren't looting and rioting, and making
sure that the government, that the military and that is
keeping us safe. That's that's that that's that's the that's
the job of the of the government. And if we
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could strip it down to that every day and we
can put this billions and billions of dollars into local hands,
you know, local food banks, local whatever. You don't think
of local food bank with a billion bucks or a
million dollars is going to more efficiently buy and stock
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and hand out the food than the government is with
a debit card handing out two hundred bucks a month.
You know, it's sad that a government that can bring
in billions and billions of dollars, you know that we're
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gonna we're gonna spend you know, one point three seven
trillion dollars on making sure that illegal immigrants get insurance.
People who came in here breaking the law. And there
are some great, super kind, super nice illegal immigrants, people
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who go to school, people who work in landscaping and
and banks and whatever else. I mean, it's just the
nicest people you could meet. Construction, you know, just anything
that they can get into and and make good money
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they'll do. And there are some great people. But at
the end of the day, they didn't or weren't able
to come into the country legally, and so they made
a choice to come in illegally. And in that case,
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if they're here illegally, there's there shouldn't be handouts, like
you shouldn't you're here illegally, do what you can. But
if the law is the law, there there isn't a
handout to give you and and or if that handout
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is there to give you, it should first go to
our people. One point three trillion dollars can do a
heck of a lot more than you know, four and
a half billion. You know, you're talking about you're talking
about funding the SNAP program for ten months at least
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without doing the math right off the top of my head,
you know, you're talking about you know, four billion for
ten months, that's only forty forty billion. So at forty billion, yeah,
I mean you're almost looking at it. You know, one
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hundred months is four hundred billion. I don't know if
you know this, but one hundred months get you past
five years. The money that we're going to spend on
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people who who lied and cheated and got to this
country illegally, we won't spend on our people who are
needing food. So if we could, if we could raise
one point three trillion dollars for for people in that
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needed it, if we could raise that money for those people,
and we could, we could then distribute it out, say
that that one point three trillion instead of instead of
trying to keep it at certain at the level that's
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at right now, and we've we extreme extrapolate that out
to sixty months. I did that run here, but we
extrapolate that out to sixty months, which is five years.
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And obviously if we have that money to to you know,
for one year or for the next four years to
help them with their with their healthcare, then we can
build that same amount of money up every year or
every five years. So I've got one point three trillion billion,
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one more set of zeros guys, yep, and we're going
to divide that by sixty months. We would have so
we would have one hundred we'd have about two hundred
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billion dollars per month. No, we'd have about twenty billion
dollars per month, joy million billion. Divide that by forty
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one million people. My calculator does not want to do that.
We're gonna pay. We're gonna pay people. So yeah, twenty
two hundred billion between forty forty million people. You're talking
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about thousands of dollars a month. Instead of hundred dollars
a month, You're talking about fifteen hundred dollars or two
you know, or two thousand dollars a month instead of
one hundred and eighty bucks a month. You're you're talking
about giving those people, you know, you would be able
to give those people. You know, they say the average
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family gets about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars or
three hundred and fifty dollars per month household wise, so
you're talking about you know, seventy five eighty dollars per
week for a household, which an average household is you know,
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three point five, you know, four point five people in it.
You know, I don't know if you've been out to
the grocery lately, but you know, we just spent one
hundred and forty dollars on groceries and that got us
to Thursday from Monday. And there was a couple added
things to it, but that's that's four days of the week.
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And and we do buy, you know, we because because
I'm the chef and I can cook certain kinds of
foods and and different kinds of things, and we try
to eat healthier and things of that nature. Yeah, we
we spend a little bit more money on our groceries.
We buy some organic items and and some things that
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we feel like are cleaner. I think it's more than organic, really,
it's it's more just trying to keep the chemicals and
the other things out and so we do buy some
of that stuff that's a little more expensive because it's
processed naturally, which makes zero sense. But that's for another podcast.
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And so we you know, we could give we we
give the average person about one thousand to two thousand dollars,
you know, let alone, you know, trying to give the
average family. I mean, right now, this says the average
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family gets about five hundred and seventy fourth four hundred dollars,
but the average household gets about three hundred and fifty dollars.
So you know, the average household is a lot smaller
than the average family, but at the same point, that's
still not that much. So just you know, just this
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part of it, you know, this is the juxtaposition you're in.
Is you know, who's to blame? Get in there and
figure it out. Go in and figure out who who
do we blame here? Who? You know? Is is it
the Republicans holding us back? Is it the Democrats who
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want to you know, are are asking for absorbitant amounts
to get us there. I you know, my my leanings
are is that the Republicans at one point had a
plan that gave they gave the government current running budget,
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the budget that we were already on. We were already
doing that. We were we were already holding and it's
it held it held us going. It kept us going
for another couple of months. And with that being said,
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they you know, they they they decide did the Democrats
at that point said they wanted one point three seven
trillion dollars to to run the to run the government,
to give the government the same same footing as it was,
but to bring back a lot of the big new
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the big beautiful bill things, and also so that they
could make sure that there was healthcare for people who
came into the country illegally. So that's that's where we
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you know, that's where we sit on this is that
you know, we we could we could have had this going.
This SNAP program wouldn't be done because we would have
collected the taxes, we would have collected the tariffs, we
would have collected the whatever to continue funding it at
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its level right then and maybe when this is all done,
Snap gets a gets a a gets a boost, It
gets uh, you know, it gets more funding. But you know,
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we've wasted three months of of not funding it. It
no longer has any extra So there isn't you know,
so so we don't. So we're in a pickle. We're
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we're we're in in a in an issue. M So
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you can also you also hear that Congress hasn't worked
any or hasn't worked very much during the shutdown. You know,
I saw a person that I follow on Facebook, one
of my good friends parents has had posted that, you know,
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Congress has worked maybe a month, you know, four weeks
or so since the shutdown, and you know it says,
you know, you know, you go on and just start
checking whether that's real. Both Houses and Senate have been
actively holding votes on various funding measures and continuing resolutions,
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which is what I was talking about, the continuing resolution
to continue funding the government at previous Biden era levels.
As of November fourth, twenty twenty five, the Senate has
held fourteen failed votes to advance a House backed measure.
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So there's you know, they've done fourteen there's at least
two weeks of work there if they've voted every day,
which you know they didn't, and maybe they voted a
couple of times a day on some of these, so
maybe it averages out. But but they're kind of you know,
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Congress is actively in session and working primarily focused on
ending the funding impass while continuing to receive their compensation.
They're being paid, but they're also working. They're in they're
in Congress right now and they're doing they're in session.
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We'll talk a little bit later in the in the
podcast about how AI and and this is also part
of you know, coming in from from the AI deal
that says, you know, they're they're being paid while in
you know, they're they're being compensated, but nobody in the
government that isn't you know, Well, I can't say nobody,
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but I you know, from what I see, they are
funding the military for now as much as they can.
And and hopefully nobody is working and not getting paid.
If you're fur load and you're not getting paid, super
tough tough time to be But at the same point,
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you know, hopefully you get some back pay or you
get some some money's back for not being paid to
not work. It just seems like that's the only fair
way to do it. But you know, so, could the
situation be better? Yes? Could could the SNAP program be funded?
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I don't know. I don't know what they did to
only have four point five million dollars in a contingency
for it. I don't know what that contingency was. Maybe
that contingency was for planned parenthood or was for whatever else,
and they've taken that money and said we need it
for this. Maybe that's what's left after whatever else. Because honestly,
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the SNAP program is is no longer got funding. It
doesn't have the money in the account to pay out.
So they're taking this money from somewhere else. And with that,
you know, that's that, you know, it doesn't have the funding.
They're they're taking it from somewhere. It's a contingency fund,
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so hopefully that gets you to where you want to go,
but it doesn't. It only it only pays about half.
So people who would who would normally use some of
this money to supplement getting ready for Thanksgiving, they're gonna
have to make some decisions. And I saw on there's
tough decisions on whether to skimp on medications, whether to
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you know, go or not go to the doctor because
of you know, because your child is sick, because you
don't have the extra money to pay the copays or whatever.
At the same time, if the government wasn't charging you
thousands and thousands of dollars to pay for insurance, then
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you may have the money to spend on going to
the doctor. You may have the money to spend on SNAP.
If we weren't paying somewhere in the range of twenty
five to forty percent taxes on the money we make
and then paying seven or eight percent tax or up
to twelve percent tax on the items that we buy
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with that money that we just got taxed on, you know,
then we might have a few extra dollars that the
SNAP program wouldn't have to be there, or the SNAP
program would actually be a supplement just to help some
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people out get a stake once in a while, grab
some cheeseburgers, have a barbecue. But we're being taxed on
it at a level that I mean, if you think
about it, in California, most people are getting taxed somewhere
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around thirty five to forty percent, and your state's going
out of business, and you, like, you got to have
the highest amount of income in the country to live there.
And if you if you looked at this, we were
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bawling and whining about these tariffs, but we're not paying
the tariffs. Yes, it comes into the items and stuff
like that, and that's fine, but you're still paying for
the taxes that they pay. You know, a company, they'll
pay you ninety thousand a year, Say they pay you
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fifty thousand a year, and they take twenty five percent
of that, just twelve thousand, twelve and a half thousand
right there. But because they had to pay taxes on you,
they have to take that, they have to put that
into the that you're making. They could pay you fifty
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thousand a year and not take taxes out, and then
you get that twelve thousand dollars extra. And the government
gets its money from tariffs, a usage tax, and that
usage tax could go to twenty percent, and you decide
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to pay it. Whether you're rich, whether you're poor, whether
you're drunk, whether you're sober, whether you're white, black, pink, purple, yellow, green, whatever,
you decide to pay that tax because you decide to
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consume something. And they could continue to, you know, take
groceries and water out of those taxes, and you want
to and everybody wants to complain, well, our our our
our stuff will go up, okay, so that twelve thousand dollars.
I could decide whether I want to buy a twenty
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five dollars T shirt as opposed to not having the
twelve thousand dollars twelve and a half thousand dollars and
buying a twenty dollars T shirt and still paying seven
to eight twelve percent tax on it. I mean, this
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isn't even part of what I was talking about, But
this is part of what I'm talking about. This is
government in efficiency. This this is the reason why you
don't want your governments to run your life. This is
why you don't want your your federal government to give
out your food stamps, your SNAP program, because at the
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end of the day, it's money in an account. You
are money in an account, and sad as that is,
that's where you're at. But you don't see the local
food bank saying, well, because of the government funding and
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shutdowns and stuff, they just give you what they can.
Some months they give you more. And you'll see, because
of Thanksgiving and Christmas, you'll see giving go up. You'll see,
you know, philanthropy go up, and you'll see they'll be
able to give you, They'll be able to give out
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more because they care about you, because that money isn't
for them, it's for you. The money that they get
for the food is for the food for you. Federal government.
The money they get is to continue to get you
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to vote for them, is to keep their job because
they don't care about you. They care about the votes.
They care about the money in their pocket. People at
the food banks, they don't care about the money in
their pocket. That's why they're at a food bank working.
They're not trying to jump the corporate ladder. And if
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they are, they're jumping the corporate ladder somewhere else, not
at the food bank. These government officials are jumping the
corporate ladder at the food bank, making the money off
of the food bank, off of you, and you're just
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sitting there going but I didn't get my snap benefits.
We'll hold them to the fire. This is voting day.
This is the first Tuesday in November in Ohio. That's
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voting day. And if you're not going out and voting,
especially next year in November for the midterm elections, and
you're not holding your representative's feet to the fire, that
means if it's a Republican and you got government shut
(44:24):
down on and that person wasn't voting, you know the
way you believe they should vote primary them out, vote
against them, bring in some democrat if you need to.
If you're in a democratic state, a democratic area, and
the government's being shut down and you believe the government
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that the democrats or the problem, vote them out, that's it.
It's hard, it's hateful to say, and it's sad to say.
But the government is the issue because they're doing more
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than they should be, because you've given them the power
to do more than they should be. It's not the
fact that the government's the issue. It's that the fact
that the government says I'd like a little more power,
and you say, okay. You don't sit back and think
about whether that government power need needs to be given
to them or who it should be given to. You
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just think I want the handout. I want what they're
given and I can't afford it myself, so just give
it to me. And when you do that, it's good
for now. But what happens in twenty twenty five, in November,
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and they they don't have any more money to give you,
and you've now become dependent on that program. What happens
in twenty forty when the money you have in your
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pocket is no longer money that's valuable no longer has
any value to it because we've moved to a digital currency.
And because we've moved to a digital currency, all currency
is now centralized and funded by the US government right now,
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and I know I've said it right now, the government
does not and does not have centralized control of the
digital currency. Right now. You take a debit card and
you go and pay for something, it's guaranteed by the
bank that you have your money in because the government
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has printed out all of this, this real cash, this
money that backs up all of those dollars that are
on your registry, and all of that is real and
is controlled by whoever you've given it to, whether it's
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Chase or WAMU or Wells Fargo or tdum ror Trade.
It's all backed by those guys. Those guys guarantee by
the confidence that you have in them, by the FDIC,
by FENRA, whatever that money has, money that you can
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physically hold, that's control by them. But when it's not,
when there is no physical physical money anymore, then the
government controls it like there's you know, and you don't
think that the government makes all this money on digital currency,
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sets it up, puts it out there, and in three
or four years they see we can control things by
shutting off the currency. You know, no, there's no longer.
Guy robs a bank, gets away with it, goes out
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into the desert, buries it, and you know, forty years
later they let him go and he goes out and
gets his money because he's done his time. Whether that's
legal or whether it should be okay or not, that's
not the point. It's the same thing about what happens
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if you get in a car accident, you kill three people,
and the government says, I need all of that money
to pay for those lives that you that you that
you took, and so now your family has no leg
to stand on because your money didn't didn't pay for
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those lives, and so they took your family's money too
because they could. So now your whole family has been
has been taken out by your your one decision, or
by somebody's decision in the family. Not saying they have
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to do that or that they're going to do that soon.
But I can't, but you can see it. It can
happen easy. Imminent domain shows that you know, they take
feet and inches of people's property every day for roads,
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and if your house or your property lines up too
close to the highway and they need a junction to
get you know, to make it smoother, they can just
take your property right there and you know, or cut
your property in half with the road and say, you know,
imminent domain. We needed it for the better good, the
greater good of humanity of the people in your community.
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And that's it. And so as silly as this is,
I'm going to again go on here and say, you know,
this is enough for a podcast. So we're gonna we're
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gonna write this off as a podcast. But you know,
we'll get to the Charlie Kirk stuff in the next podcast,
and i'll open one up here this week, a second one,
and I'll give you an intro and you'll get to
hear the whole Charlie Kirk podcast. But as for now,
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I think that this is this is a lot to
think about. We unpacked a lot and I and honestly,
I didn't plan on getting into some of the other stuff,
but I feel like that some of the words are
led are are wisdom that are led by God, and
some of this stuff needs to be out because it's wisdom.
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You know, there are there is a better way, There
is better people to take care of these things. This
shows it right here. You know, this, this program has
been in existence for for years. I'm going to see
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just how long, because I know we've started giving out
food assistance back in the thirties, back as the as
the Great Depression was was going on, and we were
trying to figure out ways to to lead ourselves out
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of the Great Depression. And I know that you know,
Roosevelt and Hoover and all of those people, you know,
they ran on government assistance, helping you out with a
chicken in every pot and making sure that you guys
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know that people have been taken care of. So yeah,
this this food assistance program began in the early nineteen thirties,
initially temporary foods as a temporary food stamp program, which
was made permanent in nineteen sixty four and officially renamed
SNAP in two thousand and eight. I remember it as
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food stamps because growing up, we were on food stamps,
and they were actual actual stamps that had a money
mount on them, or they had a certain item that
you could buy, or a certain set of items you
could buy. And when you're you know, Honestly, when we
were when my brother and my sister were being born,
we were also on the WHIG program, which helped helped
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mothers have milk and cheese and things of that nature.
Things that were approved that got you to that level,
that got you the nutrition you needed. And that's why
this is a nutrition, a supplemental nutrition program. I just
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lost the yeah, supplemental nutrition assistance program and that's you
know it now in cases a lot of a lot
of that. And so you know, this is a program
that's been around almost ninety years, and you know, maybe
it took ninety years or maybe it took the wrong people,
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but now the government is using it as a weapon
as a tool to sway you to vote the right way,
to blame someone, to take a side, to split yourself
against against other people. And it's like I said, voting wise,
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you need to you need to stand up tell them
that you're not going to vote this way, that you're
you know you're going to you know, their decisions have consequences.
I tell my three year old all the time, your
decisions have consequences, and that those consequences, you know that
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they're either good or the bad. You know, if you
help dad out in the kitchen, you get good food.
If you help clean up your toys, you don't step
on stuff and break it, or Dad doesn't step on
your stuff and break it and have to throw it
away because it's broken. Governmentally, if you vote against your people,
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your people should not vote you back in. I mean,
Chuck Schumer has voted against his people and has taken
money from his people for years. And this isn't like
just me being a Republican or whatever and saying this.
There is documented proof that you know, he's pushed the
(56:17):
envelope of making things more and more difficult for his people.
And they still because they recognize his voice when they
go or recognizes his name on a ballot when they
go to vote for him, they still vote him right in.
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That's why I'm so surprised that in Ohio, in my district,
Shared Brown got voted out, but they didn't honestly get
He didn't get voted out because of a better candidate.
He got voted out because the person that was on
the ballot against him was hand in hand with Trump.
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Trump voted or you when you voted for Trump, you
voted Trump, then you voted this Moreno, Guy, Bernie Moreno,
and then you voted the rest of the Republican ticket, which,
just as a sidebar, I think is amazingly naive of
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people to put that they're Republican or their Democrat as
a judge, like you're if you're a Republican or a
Democrat as a judge, that means that you don't care,
(57:44):
you're going to lean a certain way. And as much
as I like to know what you're going to lean,
I'd rather go down through you, through your adjudications and say, Okay,
he's tough on crime, Okay, he you know he's going
(58:09):
to vote for the Constitution or she and not and
not say okay, he's a Republican, because at this point,
I don't know what a Republican votes for. I don't
(58:29):
know who the Republican is, you know, in the party anymore.
Because there are there are some of your constitutional Republicans,
and there are people who are like Trump, who are
more centralists, who are globalists, economists who are really trying
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to build the economy and help help us out in
that kind of thing. But honestly, you know, don't move
the needle when it comes to religious affiliations. And he's
done some with abortion and stuff, but he didn't do it.
He didn't do abortion in the way that he banned abortion,
(59:12):
and and Christians cheer because our country no longer has abortions.
He banned abortions in a way that was not banning abortion.
He sent abortion to decide by the state, which is good.
You can now decide what states you're going to live
(59:32):
on live in based on the abortion laws they have
if you want, you now have the choice to, you know,
support a state that has bills that hold abortion to
you know, certain certain timeframes that you believe or deem
(59:54):
that that's that's that's okay. And we can argue about
what's okay and and how much abortion is is good,
and how much abortion is is is life saving, and
how it's your body and your choice, and how it's
obviously not the baby's body and it's not his choice
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or her choice or its choice in this matter matter.
We've desensitized ourselves to it's them and there, and we
haven't held on too you know, life as as as
they are. And so I think that you know, judges
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who call themselves out as Republicans or who you know,
the ballot now says, you know, a affiliation, and people
in general are going to have an affiliation, and that's fine.
You know, I'm not oblivious. I'm not you know, and
I'm not here thinking that they're they're the you know,
(01:00:57):
the best people in the world, or they have the
most knowledge, or they have some kind of of super
belief system. But at the same time, they're not supposed
to have and you know, not supposed to be running
(01:01:20):
as a Republican or as a Democrat. So lots lots
to learn today, lots to be lots to be be
thinking about on the on the podcast, you know, who's
to blame? Who gets hurt by this? And what do
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we do to tell our congress people are are you know,
because this is a congress thing. Congress sets the budget.
The executive branch executes the budget, executes the plan. But
Congress puts the puts the plan together. And it's it's
(01:02:04):
honestly all on them. And you know, President Trump has
nothing to do has nothing to do with this. He
can't he can't add another four point six billion dollars
to the budget and fund it fully for a month
unless he finds it somewhere and says, okay, this part
of the budget doesn't. We don't need this while we're
(01:02:24):
shut down, so this part goes in here. But from
what I can see, that's what he's already done, is
that this part doesn't need to be used, so this
part we can, we can use. So another great podcast,
Love you guys again. Charlie Kirk will have to wait,
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which I think is okay for him because he's got
nothing but time now, nothing but time with Jesus, Love
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Ah, when did we all get this dumb? Almost only
counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear warfare. I don't
see anybodies, so it doesn't count. I'm angry. I'm the chef.
I want to hear one thing. Yes, chef, come on, man,
(00:22):
here's your brain. The Why I'm Angry Podcast start now.
All right, guys, it's the ym Angry Podcast. This is
the chef here in the Freestyle Man Cave studio here
in northern Dayton, and just wanted to get on here
and as you said, it, get a podcast going. We're
(00:43):
gonna talk later on about Charlie Kirk and some of
the conspiracies that have jumped up. I've got a talk
with Jay Boots, and for now I've got you guys.
We're gonna talk about this Snap debacle, and you know,
just kind of let's get to thinking for ourselves about
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what is the issue, who's actually doing this, and not
just look at all the headlines. But I want to
get to the headlines right off the bat, because it's
kind of funny to see, you know, what is going on?
Who you know? Who? They say is the problem. I
like how it says Senate Republicans strike down Democratic proposal
(01:28):
to fully fund Snap. When Snap benefits will arrive is
still in flux. Here's what the communities are doing. Trump
threatens to withhold Snap benefits. That's from the New York
Times until the government is back up and running. Hakeem
Jefferies digs in on Snap. Blame on the Snap, blame
(01:49):
game with forty two million Americans food in jeopardy, Blue
States blame Republicans for looming snapshot off. Trump administration must
pay Snap food benefits. That's from the BBC, and and
like that's you know, some of this stuff is. You know,
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we heard on Friday that a court got got together
and made a ruling that the Snap benefits would have
to be paid out of the contingency part of that.
And that sounds, oh, they saved us. You know, Trump
can't can't hold these Snap things or or the government
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can't hold the Snap benefits, you know, hostage. But you know, honestly,
the contingency is is not that much, and so they
they can't pay a large amount of of what's you know,
(02:57):
what's going on. You know, they can't pay a ton
of what actually is needed to be paid. So I
went on and I, you know, just to see you know,
what's the deal? You know, is this is this a
big part of the of the community. Is this something
you know? Obviously you know these kind of programs help
(03:20):
people and help people, I know, and help people that
really need it. And yes, I can, I can make
a joke or I can say something like, you know,
these people, you know, they they should you know, they
should work harder, or they should do this, or or
you can you can do whatever you want joking wise,
but they're you know, the roughly maybe ten percent or
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even if it's twenty percent of people who are abusing
these these benefits are are the minority, and we don't
care about them, you know, we would like to get
rid of them so that we're not spending the money
on them. You know, ten percent is is it is
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a pretty good amount, especially when you get into the
millions and billions of people. You know, if it you know,
it does say that about forty two million people each
month get these benefits, and it and it's and it's
kind of sad when you think that the this is
November and we should be thinking about Thanksgiving, we should
(04:33):
be thinking about how how we can you know pay
it forward, how we how we've had a blessed year,
how how all of these things, you know, the abundance
of of our year is is winning waning down. We're
getting ready for Christmas, and Thanksgiving is just a good
time to to thank thank God for the harvest, thank
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God for for everything He's just given you throughout the year,
whether you're a farmer or you you know, work in
a big shiny glass office building and you couldn't get anywhere.
You know, you nowhere near a farm field or a cornfield.
You know that, you know, Thanksgiving is Thanksgiving no matter what,
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and so you know this should be a time of
getting ready for Thanksgiving. And there are people roughly forty
two million people if you want to take those those
ten or fifteen or twenty percent out, you know, somewhere
in the high thirties of thirty million people who really
(05:39):
need this and who who either can't work. And I
got to I got the percentages of of what you know,
it's it's thirty nine percent is kids, and that that
would mean that roughly about fifteen to you know, somewhere
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in they're around twenty million of these people are kids. Uh,
twenty percent is over over sixty, so about nine million
people are over sixty. You got disabled people about nine percent,
so in about four and a half million are disabled
under sixty. You've got seven million or full time caregivers
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or seven percent, which is close to about six to
seven million, are you know, full time caregivers other exempt
from work requirements meaning they're either disabled or they just
they're they're not you know, maybe they weren't fully developed,
you know, maybe they have some kind of developmental issues.
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That's nine you know, another nine per percent. You've got
five percent of full time employed people. These are people
who are working a full time job and just can't
make ends meet, which honestly, with the poverty line around
the fifty fifty thousand mark, there's a lot of people
that you know, work a full time job and just
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can't make the ends meet and need that little bit
of help. And maybe this is a little bit of help.
Isn't even their full deal, which I can see. And
you got thirteen percent other adults, and I think that
those thirteen percent of the adults, you know, some of
them are like you, Like I said, you know, it
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doesn't say disabled, it doesn't say any you know, maybe
they came back and they have PTSD and so they work,
but they can't work full time, or there's something that's
that's just not you know, something in their life is
not driving. Maybe they're on on uh, maybe they've been
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let go of their job. They don't have a job
and they're so they're right now, they're in between jobs.
People come come into and out of the food stamps
or the SNAP program all the time because they they
you know, they need it for a short time and
they get better. And that's and honestly that's the that's
the program itself. That's what it's. That's it. It's its
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main function. Yes, it does, you know, it helps these
these children, it helps the you know disabled, are they
over over sixty. But this was supposed to be a
supplemental program to kind of to kind of help people
who need it any time of need in a short
short amount of time and stuff like that. But it's
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become something that is helping people beyond that a lot
a lot more. It says, households under the prop poverty line,
you got about twenty and fifty and those are are
are the ones that use SNAP. Some of the people
under the poverty line still don't use SNAP, So it's
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not everybody. There are way more people than forty two
million people under the poverty line. Households where somebody is disabled,
you got about ten in fifty that are on SNAP.
I have someone in the household disabled. Households with children
nine and fifty, you've got black households or twelve. Native
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American households are eleven and fifty. Hispanic households are nine
in fifty. Asian households are five and fifty. You know,
non Hispanic households. White households are four and fifty. I mean,
this isn't just, This isn't just. This is a lot
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of people who are of all kinds, of different descents.
It's not you know, yes, you can see Black households
are twelve and fifty. They are three times more than
white households. But this isn't a white and black thing.
This is a people thing. These are people who need assistance.
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And you can say Native Americans, which eleven and fifty
Native American households like that's that's substantial because Native Americans
are only one point two percent of the population, and
so for them to be eleven and fifty households that's
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that's that's a big amount of people, you know. So,
you know, and then you go to the four and
fifty because America, because you know, the white population is
sixty percent of the population right now or maybe as
fifty four, it's it's still more than fifty percent. That's
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still as many or or double the amount of black
population that's on food stamps. And so so, like I said,
it's really just not a you know, it's it's not
a racial thing. It's about people who need who need
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these food stamps or the SNAP program, and you know,
it's just it goes beyond that. And so we wanted
to I wanted to get on and kind of just
you know, I wanted to hit the numbers. I wanted
to to to you know, kind of start hitting the
the who's to blame? You know, and then and then
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what do we you know, what do we get out
of it? You know, what what's the deal here? You know?
And so so it's it's funny to see you know,
all of the all of the updates and stuff like
that about who's who's to blame and what's going on
and and and all of that. But then but then
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to actually read the numbers, and so they're excited about
this judge that has has said, no, Trump, you can't
withhold the Snap program. Well, at the same point, he's
not really holding back the Snap program as much as
as the budget is holding back the Snap program. The
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budget itself is about forty four point six billion dollars,
is what they have in a contingency Let me make sure,
I'm yeah, four point six five billion dollars in a
contingency program fund. And so two federal judges have ordered
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the administration to take that contingency fund and pay out
Snap snaps monthly. Can monthly pay out is a little
over nine billion dollars. So even though that the judge said,
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pay them, pay them their stuff out of this contingency plan.
Once this contingency plan's gone, what's you know, what's what's next?
You know, you know, forty million recipients at at ninety
at nine billion dollars this per household? Is it? I
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worked it up. I went and looked it up. Is
they get about one hundred and eighty to one hundred
ninety dollars per person. I mean, that's that's not even
forty bucks a month or a week per person to
eat off of So this is really one hundred percent
a supplemental program. I mean unless you're buying, you know,
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unless you're a college student and you're in or you're
trying to be like a college student and you're just
buying a lot of ramen noodles, and then you probably
are okay through the month. But so this this month,
they're gonna get somewhere around I'm sure there's some administration
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administrative costs and things like that, and so they're gonna
get somewhere around seventy to one hundred dollars for the month.
What happens in Christmas like what happens at at at
Christmas time when they still haven't signed a budget, because
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from what I'm seeing, neither sidele budget and the one
side just continues to get more and more out there
with their with their their demands. I mean they're filibustering
(14:59):
the budget. It's got to be signed someday or there
isn't There isn't a budget, like there isn't money, then
the money doesn't get distributed. It's like a business if
you don't set a budget and pay your bills like
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you're supposed to, and you just go paying it willy nilly,
then you don't actually you don't pay attention to where
you know, where things are at the end of the
month of the years, you know, three months from now
the quarter, you're gonna either run out of money or
you're gonna have money that's sitting there inefficiently. And in
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this country, the way we spend money for things like
millions of dollars for you know, LGBTQ dance lessons and
you know, how to educate men on having babies with
men in Ecuador or wherever that was, and with those things,
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you know, we're just we're just you know, in the
in the previous administration, we were just spending that money
and I don't. And what's sad about it is it
would be sad if it was just going to that
kind of a thing. But I have every belief that
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it wasn't going to those kind of things. It was
going to pay off people for their their expertise and
things uh different, uh favors that have been done too
(17:00):
advance a pandemic, to advance an elderly gentleman who should
have never been elected because he wasn't fit to run
to begin with, and he wasn't fit not just to run,
(17:21):
but to run the country like you didn't just he
he was never in the public Why why do why
do other countries think we're so weak or that Trump
is so crazy because he's actually doing his job as
a president. Now he is a way more accessible president.
(17:42):
He's been on he's on TV, he's on on doing
interviews and things like that, way more often than you
can say about ninety five to one hundred percent of
other presidents. Like he is. He is way more, way
more out there he's done, and way more public speaking.
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You know, he doesn't. What's amazing about the way he
can he public speaks is that he doesn't normally have
que cards or a list of things that he wants
to talk about or things like that sitting in front
(18:23):
of him. It's normally, you know, he's answering questions from
the media at the Oval office. He's you know, doing
all kinds of things that most most of the presidents
have not been doing. And he's just as old as
any of them. You know, at the end of his term,
(18:44):
he'll be in his eighties. And you know, as much
as people are like, yeah, run him again, run him again.
Now he's in his eighties. Let him go Rit's higher,
let him have ten years of just grandkid or whatever,
let him hang out with barn the whole deal. But
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at the same point, you know, we're spending our money
without a budget now on just the essentials. And I
know that this is not popular, but the essentials are
(19:33):
you know, keep everybody's lights and heat on. Make sure
the infrastructure of the country because it's owned by the
government unfortunately, make sure it's on. Make sure that the
borders are secure and safe, and make sure that the
military is funded so that we're safe and secure from
(19:57):
other countries in other parts of the world. And as
sad as it is, that's that's what what the government
is supposed to be doing. Making sure we have police
(20:17):
so that people don't aren't looting and rioting, and making
sure that the government, that the military and that is
keeping us safe. That's that's that that's that's the that's
the job of the of the government. And if we
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could strip it down to that every day and we
can put this billions and billions of dollars into local hands,
you know, local food banks, local whatever. You don't think
of local food bank with a billion bucks or a
million dollars is going to more efficiently buy and stock
(21:04):
and hand out the food than the government is with
a debit card handing out two hundred bucks a month.
You know, it's sad that a government that can bring
in billions and billions of dollars, you know that we're
(21:24):
gonna we're gonna spend you know, one point three seven
trillion dollars on making sure that illegal immigrants get insurance.
People who came in here breaking the law. And there
are some great, super kind, super nice illegal immigrants, people
(21:54):
who go to school, people who work in landscaping and
and banks and whatever else. I mean, it's just the
nicest people you could meet. Construction, you know, just anything
that they can get into and and make good money
(22:17):
they'll do. And there are some great people. But at
the end of the day, they didn't or weren't able
to come into the country legally, and so they made
a choice to come in illegally. And in that case,
(22:38):
if they're here illegally, there's there shouldn't be handouts, like
you shouldn't you're here illegally, do what you can. But
if the law is the law, there there isn't a
handout to give you and and or if that handout
(23:02):
is there to give you, it should first go to
our people. One point three trillion dollars can do a
heck of a lot more than you know, four and
a half billion. You know, you're talking about you're talking
about funding the SNAP program for ten months at least
(23:29):
without doing the math right off the top of my head,
you know, you're talking about you know, four billion for
ten months, that's only forty forty billion. So at forty billion, yeah,
I mean you're almost looking at it. You know, one
(23:51):
hundred months is four hundred billion. I don't know if
you know this, but one hundred months get you past
five years. The money that we're going to spend on
(24:11):
people who who lied and cheated and got to this
country illegally, we won't spend on our people who are
needing food. So if we could, if we could raise
one point three trillion dollars for for people in that
(24:35):
needed it, if we could raise that money for those people,
and we could, we could then distribute it out, say
that that one point three trillion instead of instead of
trying to keep it at certain at the level that's
(24:56):
at right now, and we've we extreme extrapolate that out
to sixty months. I did that run here, but we
extrapolate that out to sixty months, which is five years.
(25:16):
And obviously if we have that money to to you know,
for one year or for the next four years to
help them with their with their healthcare, then we can
build that same amount of money up every year or
every five years. So I've got one point three trillion billion,
(25:43):
one more set of zeros guys, yep, and we're going
to divide that by sixty months. We would have so
we would have one hundred we'd have about two hundred
(26:08):
billion dollars per month. No, we'd have about twenty billion
dollars per month, joy million billion. Divide that by forty
(26:31):
one million people. My calculator does not want to do that.
We're gonna pay. We're gonna pay people. So yeah, twenty
two hundred billion between forty forty million people. You're talking
(26:57):
about thousands of dollars a month. Instead of hundred dollars
a month, You're talking about fifteen hundred dollars or two
you know, or two thousand dollars a month instead of
one hundred and eighty bucks a month. You're you're talking
about giving those people, you know, you would be able
to give those people. You know, they say the average
(27:19):
family gets about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars or
three hundred and fifty dollars per month household wise, so
you're talking about you know, seventy five eighty dollars per
week for a household, which an average household is you know,
(27:41):
three point five, you know, four point five people in it.
You know, I don't know if you've been out to
the grocery lately, but you know, we just spent one
hundred and forty dollars on groceries and that got us
to Thursday from Monday. And there was a couple added
things to it, but that's that's four days of the week.
(28:04):
And and we do buy, you know, we because because
I'm the chef and I can cook certain kinds of
foods and and different kinds of things, and we try
to eat healthier and things of that nature. Yeah, we
we spend a little bit more money on our groceries.
We buy some organic items and and some things that
(28:25):
we feel like are cleaner. I think it's more than organic, really,
it's it's more just trying to keep the chemicals and
the other things out and so we do buy some
of that stuff that's a little more expensive because it's
processed naturally, which makes zero sense. But that's for another podcast.
(28:45):
And so we you know, we could give we we
give the average person about one thousand to two thousand dollars,
you know, let alone, you know, trying to give the
average family. I mean, right now, this says the average
(29:05):
family gets about five hundred and seventy fourth four hundred dollars,
but the average household gets about three hundred and fifty dollars.
So you know, the average household is a lot smaller
than the average family, but at the same point, that's
still not that much. So just you know, just this
(29:35):
part of it, you know, this is the juxtaposition you're in.
Is you know, who's to blame? Get in there and
figure it out. Go in and figure out who who
do we blame here? Who? You know? Is is it
the Republicans holding us back? Is it the Democrats who
(29:57):
want to you know, are are asking for absorbitant amounts
to get us there. I you know, my my leanings
are is that the Republicans at one point had a
plan that gave they gave the government current running budget,
(30:26):
the budget that we were already on. We were already
doing that. We were we were already holding and it's
it held it held us going. It kept us going
for another couple of months. And with that being said,
(30:56):
they you know, they they they decide did the Democrats
at that point said they wanted one point three seven
trillion dollars to to run the to run the government,
to give the government the same same footing as it was,
but to bring back a lot of the big new
(31:17):
the big beautiful bill things, and also so that they
could make sure that there was healthcare for people who
came into the country illegally. So that's that's where we
(31:38):
you know, that's where we sit on this is that
you know, we we could we could have had this going.
This SNAP program wouldn't be done because we would have
collected the taxes, we would have collected the tariffs, we
would have collected the whatever to continue funding it at
(32:01):
its level right then and maybe when this is all done,
Snap gets a gets a a gets a boost, It
gets uh, you know, it gets more funding. But you know,
(32:22):
we've wasted three months of of not funding it. It
no longer has any extra So there isn't you know,
so so we don't. So we're in a pickle. We're
(32:43):
we're we're in in a in an issue. M So
(33:04):
you can also you also hear that Congress hasn't worked
any or hasn't worked very much during the shutdown. You know,
I saw a person that I follow on Facebook, one
of my good friends parents has had posted that, you know,
(33:26):
Congress has worked maybe a month, you know, four weeks
or so since the shutdown, and you know it says,
you know, you know, you go on and just start
checking whether that's real. Both Houses and Senate have been
actively holding votes on various funding measures and continuing resolutions,
(33:50):
which is what I was talking about, the continuing resolution
to continue funding the government at previous Biden era levels.
As of November fourth, twenty twenty five, the Senate has
held fourteen failed votes to advance a House backed measure.
(34:11):
So there's you know, they've done fourteen there's at least
two weeks of work there if they've voted every day,
which you know they didn't, and maybe they voted a
couple of times a day on some of these, so
maybe it averages out. But but they're kind of you know,
(34:38):
Congress is actively in session and working primarily focused on
ending the funding impass while continuing to receive their compensation.
They're being paid, but they're also working. They're in they're
in Congress right now and they're doing they're in session.
(35:02):
We'll talk a little bit later in the in the
podcast about how AI and and this is also part
of you know, coming in from from the AI deal
that says, you know, they're they're being paid while in
you know, they're they're being compensated, but nobody in the
government that isn't you know, Well, I can't say nobody,
(35:24):
but I you know, from what I see, they are
funding the military for now as much as they can.
And and hopefully nobody is working and not getting paid.
If you're fur load and you're not getting paid, super
tough tough time to be But at the same point,
(35:44):
you know, hopefully you get some back pay or you
get some some money's back for not being paid to
not work. It just seems like that's the only fair
way to do it. But you know, so, could the
situation be better? Yes? Could could the SNAP program be funded?
(36:09):
I don't know. I don't know what they did to
only have four point five million dollars in a contingency
for it. I don't know what that contingency was. Maybe
that contingency was for planned parenthood or was for whatever else,
and they've taken that money and said we need it
for this. Maybe that's what's left after whatever else. Because honestly,
(36:36):
the SNAP program is is no longer got funding. It
doesn't have the money in the account to pay out.
So they're taking this money from somewhere else. And with that,
you know, that's that, you know, it doesn't have the funding.
They're they're taking it from somewhere. It's a contingency fund,
(36:59):
so hopefully that gets you to where you want to go,
but it doesn't. It only it only pays about half.
So people who would who would normally use some of
this money to supplement getting ready for Thanksgiving, they're gonna
have to make some decisions. And I saw on there's
tough decisions on whether to skimp on medications, whether to
(37:21):
you know, go or not go to the doctor because
of you know, because your child is sick, because you
don't have the extra money to pay the copays or whatever.
At the same time, if the government wasn't charging you
thousands and thousands of dollars to pay for insurance, then
(37:49):
you may have the money to spend on going to
the doctor. You may have the money to spend on SNAP.
If we weren't paying somewhere in the range of twenty
five to forty percent taxes on the money we make
and then paying seven or eight percent tax or up
to twelve percent tax on the items that we buy
(38:13):
with that money that we just got taxed on, you know,
then we might have a few extra dollars that the
SNAP program wouldn't have to be there, or the SNAP
program would actually be a supplement just to help some
(38:34):
people out get a stake once in a while, grab
some cheeseburgers, have a barbecue. But we're being taxed on
it at a level that I mean, if you think
about it, in California, most people are getting taxed somewhere
(38:54):
around thirty five to forty percent, and your state's going
out of business, and you, like, you got to have
the highest amount of income in the country to live there.
And if you if you looked at this, we were
(39:15):
bawling and whining about these tariffs, but we're not paying
the tariffs. Yes, it comes into the items and stuff
like that, and that's fine, but you're still paying for
the taxes that they pay. You know, a company, they'll
pay you ninety thousand a year, Say they pay you
(39:41):
fifty thousand a year, and they take twenty five percent
of that, just twelve thousand, twelve and a half thousand
right there. But because they had to pay taxes on you,
they have to take that, they have to put that
into the that you're making. They could pay you fifty
(40:04):
thousand a year and not take taxes out, and then
you get that twelve thousand dollars extra. And the government
gets its money from tariffs, a usage tax, and that
usage tax could go to twenty percent, and you decide
(40:25):
to pay it. Whether you're rich, whether you're poor, whether
you're drunk, whether you're sober, whether you're white, black, pink, purple, yellow, green, whatever,
you decide to pay that tax because you decide to
(40:45):
consume something. And they could continue to, you know, take
groceries and water out of those taxes, and you want
to and everybody wants to complain, well, our our our
our stuff will go up, okay, so that twelve thousand dollars.
I could decide whether I want to buy a twenty
(41:08):
five dollars T shirt as opposed to not having the
twelve thousand dollars twelve and a half thousand dollars and
buying a twenty dollars T shirt and still paying seven
to eight twelve percent tax on it. I mean, this
(41:33):
isn't even part of what I was talking about, But
this is part of what I'm talking about. This is
government in efficiency. This this is the reason why you
don't want your governments to run your life. This is
why you don't want your your federal government to give
out your food stamps, your SNAP program, because at the
(41:55):
end of the day, it's money in an account. You
are money in an account, and sad as that is,
that's where you're at. But you don't see the local
food bank saying, well, because of the government funding and
(42:16):
shutdowns and stuff, they just give you what they can.
Some months they give you more. And you'll see, because
of Thanksgiving and Christmas, you'll see giving go up. You'll see,
you know, philanthropy go up, and you'll see they'll be
able to give you, They'll be able to give out
(42:37):
more because they care about you, because that money isn't
for them, it's for you. The money that they get
for the food is for the food for you. Federal government.
The money they get is to continue to get you
(42:59):
to vote for them, is to keep their job because
they don't care about you. They care about the votes.
They care about the money in their pocket. People at
the food banks, they don't care about the money in
their pocket. That's why they're at a food bank working.
They're not trying to jump the corporate ladder. And if
(43:19):
they are, they're jumping the corporate ladder somewhere else, not
at the food bank. These government officials are jumping the
corporate ladder at the food bank, making the money off
of the food bank, off of you, and you're just
(43:41):
sitting there going but I didn't get my snap benefits.
We'll hold them to the fire. This is voting day.
This is the first Tuesday in November in Ohio. That's
(44:03):
voting day. And if you're not going out and voting,
especially next year in November for the midterm elections, and
you're not holding your representative's feet to the fire, that
means if it's a Republican and you got government shut
(44:24):
down on and that person wasn't voting, you know the
way you believe they should vote primary them out, vote
against them, bring in some democrat if you need to.
If you're in a democratic state, a democratic area, and
the government's being shut down and you believe the government
(44:47):
that the democrats or the problem, vote them out, that's it.
It's hard, it's hateful to say, and it's sad to say.
But the government is the issue because they're doing more
(45:09):
than they should be, because you've given them the power
to do more than they should be. It's not the
fact that the government's the issue. It's that the fact
that the government says I'd like a little more power,
and you say, okay. You don't sit back and think
about whether that government power need needs to be given
to them or who it should be given to. You
(45:31):
just think I want the handout. I want what they're
given and I can't afford it myself, so just give
it to me. And when you do that, it's good
for now. But what happens in twenty twenty five, in November,
(45:58):
and they they don't have any more money to give you,
and you've now become dependent on that program. What happens
in twenty forty when the money you have in your
(46:19):
pocket is no longer money that's valuable no longer has
any value to it because we've moved to a digital currency.
And because we've moved to a digital currency, all currency
is now centralized and funded by the US government right now,
(46:44):
and I know I've said it right now, the government
does not and does not have centralized control of the
digital currency. Right now. You take a debit card and
you go and pay for something, it's guaranteed by the
bank that you have your money in because the government
(47:09):
has printed out all of this, this real cash, this
money that backs up all of those dollars that are
on your registry, and all of that is real and
is controlled by whoever you've given it to, whether it's
(47:32):
Chase or WAMU or Wells Fargo or tdum ror Trade.
It's all backed by those guys. Those guys guarantee by
the confidence that you have in them, by the FDIC,
by FENRA, whatever that money has, money that you can
(48:01):
physically hold, that's control by them. But when it's not,
when there is no physical physical money anymore, then the
government controls it like there's you know, and you don't
think that the government makes all this money on digital currency,
(48:25):
sets it up, puts it out there, and in three
or four years they see we can control things by
shutting off the currency. You know, no, there's no longer.
Guy robs a bank, gets away with it, goes out
(48:47):
into the desert, buries it, and you know, forty years
later they let him go and he goes out and
gets his money because he's done his time. Whether that's
legal or whether it should be okay or not, that's
not the point. It's the same thing about what happens
(49:09):
if you get in a car accident, you kill three people,
and the government says, I need all of that money
to pay for those lives that you that you that
you took, and so now your family has no leg
to stand on because your money didn't didn't pay for
(49:32):
those lives, and so they took your family's money too
because they could. So now your whole family has been
has been taken out by your your one decision, or
by somebody's decision in the family. Not saying they have
(49:59):
to do that or that they're going to do that soon.
But I can't, but you can see it. It can
happen easy. Imminent domain shows that you know, they take
feet and inches of people's property every day for roads,
(50:25):
and if your house or your property lines up too
close to the highway and they need a junction to
get you know, to make it smoother, they can just
take your property right there and you know, or cut
your property in half with the road and say, you know,
imminent domain. We needed it for the better good, the
greater good of humanity of the people in your community.
(50:57):
And that's it. And so as silly as this is,
I'm going to again go on here and say, you know,
this is enough for a podcast. So we're gonna we're
(51:19):
gonna write this off as a podcast. But you know,
we'll get to the Charlie Kirk stuff in the next podcast,
and i'll open one up here this week, a second one,
and I'll give you an intro and you'll get to
hear the whole Charlie Kirk podcast. But as for now,
(51:43):
I think that this is this is a lot to
think about. We unpacked a lot and I and honestly,
I didn't plan on getting into some of the other stuff,
but I feel like that some of the words are
led are are wisdom that are led by God, and
some of this stuff needs to be out because it's wisdom.
(52:07):
You know, there are there is a better way, There
is better people to take care of these things. This
shows it right here. You know, this, this program has
been in existence for for years. I'm going to see
(52:30):
just how long, because I know we've started giving out
food assistance back in the thirties, back as the as
the Great Depression was was going on, and we were
trying to figure out ways to to lead ourselves out
(52:54):
of the Great Depression. And I know that you know,
Roosevelt and Hoover and all of those people, you know,
they ran on government assistance, helping you out with a
chicken in every pot and making sure that you guys
(53:19):
know that people have been taken care of. So yeah,
this this food assistance program began in the early nineteen thirties,
initially temporary foods as a temporary food stamp program, which
was made permanent in nineteen sixty four and officially renamed
SNAP in two thousand and eight. I remember it as
(53:40):
food stamps because growing up, we were on food stamps,
and they were actual actual stamps that had a money
mount on them, or they had a certain item that
you could buy, or a certain set of items you
could buy. And when you're you know, Honestly, when we
were when my brother and my sister were being born,
we were also on the WHIG program, which helped helped
(54:03):
mothers have milk and cheese and things of that nature.
Things that were approved that got you to that level,
that got you the nutrition you needed. And that's why
this is a nutrition, a supplemental nutrition program. I just
(54:25):
lost the yeah, supplemental nutrition assistance program and that's you
know it now in cases a lot of a lot
of that. And so you know, this is a program
that's been around almost ninety years, and you know, maybe
it took ninety years or maybe it took the wrong people,
(54:48):
but now the government is using it as a weapon
as a tool to sway you to vote the right way,
to blame someone, to take a side, to split yourself
against against other people. And it's like I said, voting wise,
(55:10):
you need to you need to stand up tell them
that you're not going to vote this way, that you're
you know you're going to you know, their decisions have consequences.
I tell my three year old all the time, your
decisions have consequences, and that those consequences, you know that
(55:32):
they're either good or the bad. You know, if you
help dad out in the kitchen, you get good food.
If you help clean up your toys, you don't step
on stuff and break it, or Dad doesn't step on
your stuff and break it and have to throw it
away because it's broken. Governmentally, if you vote against your people,
(55:56):
your people should not vote you back in. I mean,
Chuck Schumer has voted against his people and has taken
money from his people for years. And this isn't like
just me being a Republican or whatever and saying this.
There is documented proof that you know, he's pushed the
(56:17):
envelope of making things more and more difficult for his people.
And they still because they recognize his voice when they
go or recognizes his name on a ballot when they
go to vote for him, they still vote him right in.
(56:38):
That's why I'm so surprised that in Ohio, in my district,
Shared Brown got voted out, but they didn't honestly get
He didn't get voted out because of a better candidate.
He got voted out because the person that was on
the ballot against him was hand in hand with Trump.
(57:02):
Trump voted or you when you voted for Trump, you
voted Trump, then you voted this Moreno, Guy, Bernie Moreno,
and then you voted the rest of the Republican ticket, which,
just as a sidebar, I think is amazingly naive of
(57:23):
people to put that they're Republican or their Democrat as
a judge, like you're if you're a Republican or a
Democrat as a judge, that means that you don't care,
(57:44):
you're going to lean a certain way. And as much
as I like to know what you're going to lean,
I'd rather go down through you, through your adjudications and say, Okay,
he's tough on crime, Okay, he you know he's going
(58:09):
to vote for the Constitution or she and not and
not say okay, he's a Republican, because at this point,
I don't know what a Republican votes for. I don't
(58:29):
know who the Republican is, you know, in the party anymore.
Because there are there are some of your constitutional Republicans,
and there are people who are like Trump, who are
more centralists, who are globalists, economists who are really trying
(58:49):
to build the economy and help help us out in
that kind of thing. But honestly, you know, don't move
the needle when it comes to religious affiliations. And he's
done some with abortion and stuff, but he didn't do it.
He didn't do abortion in the way that he banned abortion,
(59:12):
and and Christians cheer because our country no longer has abortions.
He banned abortions in a way that was not banning abortion.
He sent abortion to decide by the state, which is good.
You can now decide what states you're going to live
(59:32):
on live in based on the abortion laws they have
if you want, you now have the choice to, you know,
support a state that has bills that hold abortion to
you know, certain certain timeframes that you believe or deem
(59:54):
that that's that's that's okay. And we can argue about
what's okay and and how much abortion is is good,
and how much abortion is is is life saving, and
how it's your body and your choice, and how it's
obviously not the baby's body and it's not his choice
(01:00:15):
or her choice or its choice in this matter matter.
We've desensitized ourselves to it's them and there, and we
haven't held on too you know, life as as as
they are. And so I think that you know, judges
(01:00:37):
who call themselves out as Republicans or who you know,
the ballot now says, you know, a affiliation, and people
in general are going to have an affiliation, and that's fine.
You know, I'm not oblivious. I'm not you know, and
I'm not here thinking that they're they're the you know,
(01:00:57):
the best people in the world, or they have the
most knowledge, or they have some kind of of super
belief system. But at the same time, they're not supposed
to have and you know, not supposed to be running
(01:01:20):
as a Republican or as a Democrat. So lots lots
to learn today, lots to be lots to be be
thinking about on the on the podcast, you know, who's
to blame? Who gets hurt by this? And what do
(01:01:41):
we do to tell our congress people are are you know,
because this is a congress thing. Congress sets the budget.
The executive branch executes the budget, executes the plan. But
Congress puts the puts the plan together. And it's it's
(01:02:04):
honestly all on them. And you know, President Trump has
nothing to do has nothing to do with this. He
can't he can't add another four point six billion dollars
to the budget and fund it fully for a month
unless he finds it somewhere and says, okay, this part
of the budget doesn't. We don't need this while we're
(01:02:24):
shut down, so this part goes in here. But from
what I can see, that's what he's already done, is
that this part doesn't need to be used, so this
part we can, we can use. So another great podcast,
Love you guys again. Charlie Kirk will have to wait,
(01:02:47):
which I think is okay for him because he's got
nothing but time now, nothing but time with Jesus, Love
you guys. Remember remember to follow, like, and share the
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