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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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We are talking with Congressman Josh bra
Keen. And Josh, you've been

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quite busy in Washington, DC,
but you're also busy back home. First

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things first, you got a town
hall meeting here in Bartlesville coming up really

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soon. Yeah, we're excited.
Within a couple of weeks. Well,

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I think we've got almost fifteen town
halls within a series of three days,

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so that when we get back and
are doing that step, it's going to

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be a number of lives halls before, do you know, meeting with people

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of the Bartlesville area, And you've
done about sixty of these so far,

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and these all worked out pretty darn
well. Well, it's a chance for

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us to, you know, face
the voter and have them tell us where

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they agree or disagree with us.
Thomas, It's important that I have the

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humility to recognize what I don't know, and have the wisdom to know to

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listen to others and balanced all that
you know, and being guided by my

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convictions constitutionally and biblically. We're we're
trying to trying to use wisdom and what

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position we've been allowed to have here. Well, one of the things that's

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happening in the news is something that
is something you ran on, which is

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fiscal responsibility, and we're to a
government funding fight right now. Tell us

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a little bit about it and how
this is all you know going down.

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Well, the Freedom Caucus I'm a
part of is right in the middle of

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this. You know, as of
yesterday, there's some discussion about Freedom Caucus

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leaning in with our concerns about making
sure that border security and fiscal restraint is

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a part of this. In fact, I just got off a call with

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someone with Win leadership who is asking
me my position, and you know,

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I'm trying to do what I committed
to the voters of the second Congressional District

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to use their voice, their level
to turn our country around. Where I

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can and where I can have the
influence with others, just the highlight that

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we're going bankrupt as a nation.
That's where we're headed, and and we

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have got to see the financial crisis
ahead, not just concerns about short term

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problems. We've we've had government shutdowns
in the past. We had the longest

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one on nation's history, winner of
twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen for thirty five

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days, five billion over the border, and this guy didn't follow. Most

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people, if you ask them,
they don't even remember that that occurred.

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And I'm not making light of furloughs, people you know, having a you

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know, federal workers having a delay. Just federal workers. We're not talking

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about you know, checks and the
mail will still happen if we get into

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a government shutdown for veterans, for
military, for soul security, for medicare,

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for medicaid. What people remember the
history of these governments shut down.

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You may have a national park that
may get temporarily closed, and people you

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know privately have to band together to
take the trash out of the national park

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and movement somewhere. But it's not
the sky is falling scenario that the media

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likes to hype it up to be. What it is is a chance for

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us to reset and really get serious
about what is our government not doing and

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what is our government spending at the
expense of our kids and our grandkids.

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Three point two trillions our new numbers
this year, because of rising interest rates

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and because of just a sensationable appetite
to spend outside of our means, our

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new deficit numbers. It just came
out a couple of weeks ago, gonna

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be two point two trillion. That
is one year we're gonna overspend that amount.

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And that's unbelievable. That we did
not get one trillion e gross national

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debt until nineteen eighty. Took us
two hundred years of government. Nineteen eighty

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our sum total aggregation of a total
debt by nineteen eighty we tripped a one

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trillion dollars threshold and we'll spend that
twice over this year when it took us

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two hundred years to accumulate. Wow, that's just shocking when you think about

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that, it's just absolutely shocking.
And the you know, the look of

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freedom concusses the little group of us
is driving in saying and what can we

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get the rest of these Maybe not, they don't fit the same way to

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do, but what the same way
that we do, but to inspire them

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to come on, when you've got
two trillion dollars of deficit, we have

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got to finally get serious about this. This is incredible. And Josh I

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want to ask you this too.
How does the whole situation with the with

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the border fit into this equation too? Because we're spending a lot of money

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with folks who are coming in here
on the cheap. Yeah, and and

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you know the report there's a lieutenant
colonel who's on Ducker Carls's show a few

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weeks ago, and and I was
talking about the twenty checks that they're sending

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out. And so we're diving into
that, you know, committee wise and

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others to figure out how much is
this administration hiding and what they're actually spending,

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not just the expensive hospitals and and
jail sales and education and state government

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in this valley tore picking up the
Tab four, but also the federal government

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camouflaging this administration camouflaging them, you
know, giving money to those that are

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coming in this country illegally, and
it's not being the full public disclosure about

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it. You know. I was, I was assounded at the at the

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border at these processing facilities. They
sued the federal government. The illegals had

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had advocates sued the federal government because
when this first started, they were giving

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them food at the border with these
assistant centers, and a lot of it

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was the cultural top food, inclusive
of burritos. Well, they got sued.

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The I don't as a clue or
what. The entity sued the federal

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government, and the settled federal government
capitulated and is now providing RB type sandwiches

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because of the contention there was not
enough fiber in the free meals it would

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be handed out in these attention centers. Well, that's predible because you're you're

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giving cultural food to the folks of
a certain culture and suddenly they one the

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American food and that that's that's kind
of on its head. But it's just

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the expense, I mean, the
expense of that. And what's crazy because

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I've introduced the bill to change you
know, eighty percent of any farm mill

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right now as food stamps, eighty
percent of total dollar of any farm doll's

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food stamps. Twenty percent of us
going to to jump. Twenty percent of

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the food stamp allocation is going to
jump food, dessert, and and and

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yet you know you got the border. We're gonna make sure you get Arby

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sandwiches. But on our food stamps, we're going to continue to allow ice

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cream to feed our young adults,
and and soda pop ten percent of our

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total you know, food expenditure is
just going to the water diabetes. Well,

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yeah, you're you see, it's
just the just the hypocrisy in the

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insanity it is. And then at
the other end of the spectrum, what

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you're giving way for that kind of
food gives way to higher bills for medicare

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and medicaid down the road. And
it's something that you know could really if

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they paid attention to, maybe what
you're advocating here could save a lot of

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money in the long run and save
a lot of lives too. As people

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know, I'll talk about disc responsibility
absolutely. Yeah. Every time that you're

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getting a young adult on foot stamps
fixated to jump food, then you're just

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show us that they will be less
productivity over their last time as they reach

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to the stage of obesity. And
it also is going to steal from them

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in the long run. The longevity
of life predisposition to cancer and heart disease

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and diabetes and all the things that
come associated with unhealthy habits goodness, and

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if that fairs have to pick up
the tab through medicare and medicaid. To

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your point many times, indeed,
now we've got the city halls that are

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town hall read that are coming up
here in the short run, and of

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course you're going to do a telephone
town hall here shortly too, and that's

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for folks who really can't get out
and can't make it to the other ones.

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This is kind of neat. I've
participated in a couple of ones that

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are similar, but this one's gonna
be a little bit different. It's not

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going to be one where only the
media gets to talk to you. This

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is the one where everybody gets to
talk to you. Correct. Yeah,

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yeah, And look, we're gonna
have agreement and disagreement, and we welcome

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that. To be able to be, you know, able to give a

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position statement and listen to those who
disagree, and and be able to lay

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out rationally why they disagree, and
you know, or be challenged to the

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point where if they can show me
costitionly that I'm wrong, be able to

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be humble enough to change a position, if they can show me constitutions that

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I'm wrong. And we'll have the
telephone lines and everything else with this story

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here at Bartlesville Radio dot com with
the news story we're going to be doing

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on this. I want to get
back to Washington, DC. Uh.

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There's talk of impeachment inquiry with this
president, mister Biden. Where are we

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and what's the stage of this.
Well, people may or may not remember.

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You know, I was not paying
attention was before my time, when

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Nixon's in the left office, And
that all is a derivative of an impeachment

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inquiry, where it was things that
were that came after an inpeachment inquiry was

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begun that showed that he booked the
law. And and so this is just

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another tool in toolbox to make sure
we can get further access into bank records.

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And Tom, I'm already there.
I believe that this president has cross

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cost suits boundaries. I believe he
is violated the Constitution, which is the

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grounds for impeachment. I've talked about
the border, specifically Article four, Sections

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four, which guarantees every state of
public called him of government and secto states

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against an invasion. And when you
have a direction of this administration, the

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Congress, the will of Congress that
was putting border barriers physical barriers up and

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he by executive order takes that away
when Congress had appropriated that under the rule

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of law, Congress is the one
who's to determine the power of the first

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Yet twenty days, thirty days into
office, he shuts that down. Two

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hundred and fifty mile border wall.
And then he has directed and been a

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consult with this Secretary of Homeland Security
and has allowed a perversion of what parole

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process was supposed to be. It
was supposed to be a case by case

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and they turned it into thirty thousand
a month. It's it is a violation

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of constitutional authority to enforce the law. That's what the construct of Article two.

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That's the job of this president is
to enforce the law. And when

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Congress votes on something and signing the
law, it's that president's job to enforcement.

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So I'm already there believing that that
eachman is already curved with with the

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actions that our impeachment grounds has already
occurred on the border. But I also

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contend that this bribery scheme the Foreign
the Corrupt Forign Practices Act, which is

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a federal statute passed in the seventies, was modified in the nineties. It

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decries that you, as an elected
officeholder, don't have to be the one

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that is received personal benefit. It's
if your family members received personal benefit.

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And so you can take that in
KNDOM with the three elements of the Constitution

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that lay out what is grounds for
impeachment. High crimes in thisdemeanors treason and

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bribery. Three specific elements that are
laid out. Treason is actually defined in

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the Constitution, Bribery is not.
But we have a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

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actually lays out bribery and it says, if your family members are recipient,

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and so we know that you know
Hunter Biden, and we know that he

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was not only given what they'll contend
is he's given the illusion of access.

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It was an illusion of access Hunter
Bidens get the phone getting direct access to

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his father, business partner two hundred
Biden. Devin Archer, who's already said

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that wasn't the illusion of access,
there was access. Wow, this is

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a incredible times we're living in and
not for the best, and it seems

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that it just keeps getting deeper and
deeper each and every day. And I'm

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sure there's going to be a lot
of people at the town hall here in

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Bartleville coming up that'll be asking a
lot of the same questions we're going over

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right now, and probably then I
know the big word around here is i

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as an inflation. And like you
said, we've got to get a We've

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got to get a control on what
we're spending and how we're spending it as

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a nation in order to give folks
at the power of the dollar back to

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them. No, the average person
today, average family of four, will

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spend eleven hundred dollars more per month
about the exact same goods and services as

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compared to January or twenty twenty one
when it Stration took office. It's a

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it's a both the Republican and a
Democrat created problem over the last forty years.

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But we have seen hyper inflation because
of success of spending in the last

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two years to a gred leven will
ever have and and and so everyone has

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to look in the mirror and say, what am I doing to give my

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kids in my grandkids the future?
And the impatist for what's costing the average

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family. What's costing you more right
now? What's costing you more right now?

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The amount of government you're getting,
an amount of government's spending past its

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means of revenue. Inflation is because
of devaluation of our currency caused by relate

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federal spending. It's costing every family
member, every person right now. Josh

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rakein, how can people get ahold
of few of they can't see at a

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town hall, and by golly,
folks who have been over sixty of them.

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Yeah, they can get a hold
of us at Burkin dot house dot

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gov. They can cause More Office
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Rakine b R E H E and
Burkine dot house dot gov. And

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we've got office staff at Claremore Office. It will help them on casework and

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of course policy related issues. They
can call our DC office