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eight thirty. A pleasure again,
my friends, to be here. Thank

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you for for joining us. You
know we haven't talked much. I don't

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even know that we've talked at all
now that I've really thought about this,

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But there is the possibility of a
government shutdown. I think one of the

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reasons I there's a couple of reasons. I don't get too much into this.

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Number one. Number one, this
whole thing is blown out of proportion.

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Now it can hurt people, certain
people, and I recognize that.

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My problem with it is that it
seems to me to be hurting certain people.

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In the event of a government shutdown, for example, military personnel wouldn't

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get paid. Ironically, Congress gets
paid. Now does that seem right to

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you? By the way, we'll
talk about some of this today, So

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I'm not. It definitely impacts certain
people, and it can create a lot

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of pain. I don't like that
it seems to be targeted. I don't

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think that it's necessary. There's a
lot of reasons that I don't like this.

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I think I think it's you.
I think I think it's used more

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to scare Americans or shame Americans into
just going along with what is being done

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in Washington, DC. Basically saying, if you're a Republican, if you're

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someone who's a conservative, if you
care about reigning in the cost of government,

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how dare you demand it? How
dare you act as though something has

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to be done, We'll just print
more money. That's that's really that's really

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the choices that we are we are
given. But my friends, is it

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not the people who are running this
government in the ground that are bankrupting it

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both morally and financially, that they
are the ones to blame for this.

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They don't want any accountability, they
don't want any fiscal responsibility. They want

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all of the credit, just as
Michael J. Excuse me, Michael G.

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Scott Michael Gary Scotts of the Office
told David Wallace, David I would

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like all of the credits without any
of the blame. That summarizes the position

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of our elected officials today. They
want the seats of honor, they want

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the praise they want, they want
real adoration and praise. I say it

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at the beginning, little tongue in
cheek, I really candidly. It's mocking.

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It's mocking the arrogance of people that
are in positions of media who want

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you to think that they're all very
humble and down to earth. But my

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friends, they think nothing of you. They think that you that me were

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morons and buffoons. That's what they
think. They think that they are the

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enlightened ones. They think that they
are the ones that should be making the

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decisions for everyone else. And even
though they don't say it, they would

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act as though they would never say, give me adoration and praise. That's

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really what they think they deserve.
I, on the other hand, and

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the opposite. I say it to
point out how silly they're arrogance and condescension

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is, and just to have a
little bit of fun. But the ones

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that really want your adoration and praise
are you're governing officials. Now there's always

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exceptions. I know this is a
broad broad brush, but you know what

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I'm talking about. And they,
of course want all of the credit and

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none of the blind. In fact, they want to somehow trick you and

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to trick me into saying that they
can control the sea levels in fifty or

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one hundred years. But they can't
balance the budget today, they can't close

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the border today, they can't effectively
do with financial problems, inflation or anything

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else. It's somebody else's fault.
They're kicking the can down the proverbial road.

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Yet they want your adoration, your
praise, your applause, the seats

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of honor. That's what they want, that's what they desire, and it's

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sick it's sickening. And what does
it get us. It gets us this

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mess that we have in Washington,
DC today. So I want to talk

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about this today, even though I
don't really want to talk about it.

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I think that its impact is blown
out of proportion. Again, I recognize,

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and I point out that it impacts
some people specifically. It's kind of

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like it's kind of like if you
work for a big corporation that was going

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bankrupt, have to file chapter what
is a Chapter seven or whatever it is,

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and maybe they're they're selling the business
even and there will be lots of

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job cuts and everything else. While
that may not cause massive problems across the

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whole economy, it certainly impacts the
lives of the people that are involved or

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who are employed by that particular company. It's the same sort it's the same

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sort of thing. So we're on
this road to a potential shutdown. I'm

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not sure that we'll get there,
obviously. I mean, there's two ways

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that I look at this. On
the one hand, I think, you

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know, we should be able to
operate our government. It shouldn't have to

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shut down. But I also think
that's in the perfect world. By the

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way, I also think that it's
not working. We are engaging in deficit

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spending, and it never ceases to
even come close to ending. In fact,

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last year, this past well,
the fiscal year that ends any day

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now, I think we are what
one trillion dollars We've spent one trillion dollars

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more than the government has brought in. Next year, estimates are that we're

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going to be two trillion, two
trillion dollars short trillion. The amount of

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money that that is is incomprehensible.
And that's how much we are short.

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That's not how much we've spent in
total. That's how much we've spent above

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and beyond what we've brought in.
And so I would say what is extreme.

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The wine House, by the way, is saying that the shutdown,

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if there is a shutdown, it's
an extreme GOP Republicans shutdown, and it

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will hurt farmers, it will hurt
women, it will hurt children. I'm

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sure they'll tell us it'll hurt minorities. This is the way that they want

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to do it. They want to
make it about targeting certain groups of people,

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so that if you're not in that
group, if you're a white person,

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and you say what I just said, if you're a white guy,

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it's like, oh, well,
you're not a mother, to which I

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say, how do you know how
I identify? Maybe I do identify as

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a mother. Maybe I identify as
a child. Actually that's probably closer to

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truth than anything. But the point
is the point is that someone somewhere along

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the way, the adults are going
to have to regain control of what happens

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in Washington, DC. And it's
not going to be pretty. That's the

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thing, no matter where this happens, no matter what the point is.

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And maybe I mean, maybe we
never reached the point where the adults collectively

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don't have enough willpower to stop the
buzz saw that is the tax and spend

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government, that is the government that
provides or wants to provide for your every

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need, for everyone's, every single
need from cradle to grave. Maybe no

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one, at some point, maybe
not enough people are going to step in

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front of that buzz saw because it
does, of course inflict damage. It

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damages them personally politically in many cases. Of course it strengthens the support what

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they have from conservative or limited government
people. But it creates so much negative

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press, It creates so much,
so many I should say, consequences that

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are sometimes difficult to deal with.
I mean, I don't know, are

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you're going to get audited or you're
gonna get targeted by the bureaucratic state.

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These are real questions that one has
to ask in twenty twenty three, And

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so when they do try to stand
up to what is happening every day in

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our government for decades, we have
to we need to support that while at

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the same time understanding understanding that in
a perfect world, the government wouldn't need

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to shut down. But then again, there wouldn't be so many things the

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government was doing that would require this
massive process of shutting down. My friends,

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when the government shuts down, they
begin to use language that says essential

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and non essential services. Well,
I have a question. If we have

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a limited government, if that is
what we have enacted in this country via

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the Constitution, which is clearly what
it's supposed to be enacted in this country,

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a limited government, then my friends, why should we have anything that's

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not essential? I get, I
mean to a point. I understand that

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we can quibble on the periphery about
that. But if we have a whole

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entire classification of massive amounts of non
essential services or departments or people or whatever

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in government? Are they not by
definition largely and I'm not saying this is

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a carte blanche statement, but are
they not largely identifying to the next well,

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hopefully Republican administration, Republican conservative congressional
leaders, Senate leaders who say,

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oh, they've self identified the groups
of people that we really don't need in

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our day to day government. But
why should a limited government have anything that's

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quote unquote non essential. Why is
it essential to pay Congress and not pay

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the military. It's true that Social
Security checks are going to continue going out,

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but why our government workers not going
to get paid? Well, Todd,

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that's because they have to approve the
money is to be spent. By

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the way, government workers, you
don't get checks during this time, are

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going to receive are going to receive
back pay. I will tell you incidentally,

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that that is unlike what happened when
the governments shut down every aspect of

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the economy during COVID. If you
were self employed, if you were running

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a business and they told you you
could not have any business, you weren't

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given back pay. Yes, they
gave some COVID money which they created out

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of thin air, which we're all
paying for now. In the form of

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inflation. But this is just not
how it works in the private sector.

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We have a mess in Washington,
DC. We have a fight. It's

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going to have to be it's going
to have to be painful to fix this

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problem. All problems, all problems, my friends. Pain. You know

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a lot of times as individuals we
steer clear of pain, right, We

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don't want I don't want to do
that because that hurts. Well. Pain

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is usually necessary to do a couple
of things. Number One, pain is

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necessary to get our attentions so that
we change our behavior. That's an important

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quality of pain. Number Two,
sometimes pain is along the journey of success.

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I mean, there's a saying that
people say that used to be more

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popular back in the eighties. I
think, no pain, no gain.

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Right, you put those signs up
in the weight room. You're going to

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be tired, You're going to be
sore. You're going to be going through

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a bit of a difficult time physically
because you are transforming, You're changing habits

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or using muscles you haven't used before. Pain is not necessarily some bad things.

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Some people will avoid it at all
costs, thereby thereby avoiding any real

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personal growth. Pain is a part
of the process and the idea that we

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can fix this problem of massive government
spending of out of control bloated governments and

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budgets, and the size of the
bureaucratic state, the amount of the minutia

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that small business owners and American citizens
and taxpayers have to deal with, the

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size of the IRS tax code pertending, you know, not just the tax

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put itself, but the case law
that interprets that tax code and so forth

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we're talking about. I think it's
truly millions. I think it's a million.

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I think I saw a million page. When you factor in all of

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those the tax code and then you
factor in the court cases that interpret the

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tax code, it's a lot.
The idea that we're just going to snap

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our fingers and fix that it's crazy. It's going to require pain, it's

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going to require complicated and difficult,
intense situations. And I'm not saying that

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we're gonna win this one, but
I am saying at some point along the

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way it requires this sort of showdown. It's going to Now I still think

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that McCarthy will ultimately more than likely
fold. I think it makes me wonder

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the ramifications of his position. How
many is it going to be enough for

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someone like Matt Gates. I don't
know that remains to be seen to challenges

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his speakership. Remember, there was
some rules that were put in because of

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the holdouts like Lauren Boeboard and Matt
Gates that said just a single I think

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it's a single Republican House member can
make a motion to vacate the chair,

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which means remove him as speaker.
Now, I'm not saying we're there yet,

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but we've along that path. He's
McCarthy has not acted as the Conservatives

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had wished that he did along the
way, So I mean we're moving toward

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that. That's a possibility as well. There's all sorts of potential consequences and

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so forth from this, but we're
on the verge of this. We're on

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the verge of this just a couple
of days away. Reports are that no

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one's near, they're not near a
decision to be able to keep the government

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open, and of course the paranoia
and the pandemonium begins, the fear mongering

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and so forth. But anyway,
time out, I want to talk a

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little bit more about this. I
want to talk about who Americans are blaming.

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I just want to talk about this
a little bit more as it is

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impending. So time outs in order
of my friends. You're listening here to

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conservative not better talk. I am
your host, Todd huff Back in just

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a minute. Back of my friends. This whole government shut down situation is

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look and again, I know it
causes pain for select For I say select

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people, people that the government has
said they need to feel pain. And

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that's ridiculous. They're the ones that
have set this up. They make the

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rules, not me. But I
think this whole thing is absolutely living in

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the world of absurdity. And let
me explain what I mean. So,

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we have a constitution, a constitution
that sets forth what the government is supposed

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to be involved with, what the
government's role is. We have the consent

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of the government, which means the
American people, through the found Fathers,

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when they wrote and eventually adopted the
Constitution of the United States of America,

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we said, hey, government,
this is going to be things are going

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to be done differently here, right. So instead of you telling us what

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we can do, we're going to
tell you what you can do. We're

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going to say, we understand that
our liberties come from God, from our

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creator, and we're not going to
just let you tell us which of those

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freedoms and liberties we are allowed to
have. Instead, we're going to tell

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you what lane you can operate in. And so they crafted the Constitution,

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and they did this very clearly.
I mean, there's really I mean,

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there's always things you can argue about
again around the edges, but it's the

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core of what the Constitution is is
very straightforward. It's got very clear,

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very clear roles for the government.
It's very clear responsibilities. And then there's

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even a thing called the Bill of
Rights, the first ten amendments of the

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Constitution, which enumerate which lists some, but not all, of the rights,

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some of the liberties retained by the
people. And in that list of

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amendments you will find an amendment that
says, if it's I mean, i'm

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paraphrasing here, but if it's not
listed, if something's not listed here in

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the Constitution, it doesn't mean that
the people have failed to retain it.

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No no, no, no,
no no. It means we have failed

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to give you government the authority to
take to have that, to lord it

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over us. We haven't given it
to you. It's not the other way

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around. So anything that isn't listed
in here is reserved to the states and

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to the people. Don't think that
by the omission of something that that means

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that you government can take it over. So we've gone from that to a

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scenario that if the government shuts down, some people believe the society you can't

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function. Now, I think that
that's grossly exaggerated. Again, it will

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hurt and impact certain people, but
the vast majority of people aren't going to

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feel this if we do get to
a shutdown, whether that be now or

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the next time this stupid stuff happens
or whatever. But how did that happen?

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Is this not also evidence as to
why the founders were smart and established

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something? I mean, if we
had the Founders government, we wouldn't be

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having this discussion, and candidly,
candidly, if we had a government that

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wasn't extended into all these other areas
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less if it's shut down again.
It shouldn't it has a role. I'm

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not I'm not. I don't want
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That's not true. There are there
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just that ninety five percent of what
it does today is not in that role.

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In fact, if you listen I
alluded to this earlier, if you

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listen to what people in government promise
that they want to do, you set,

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as far as their agenda, objectives, they're campaign platform or whatever else,

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the reasons you should vote for them
nine times out of ten the things

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well, definitely ten times out of
ten for the radical left. The things

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that they tell us they want to
do have nothing to do with the role

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of government, or it is in
much excess of what the role of government

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should be. But they always fail. They fail the five percent of the

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things they should be doing. They
are absolutely abysmal at doing. But yet

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we're supposed to give them more responsibility, more money, allow them to have

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more deficit spending impacting our economy and
dramatic ways impacting the value of your dollar.

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We've got you know, you have
this UAW strike, and I try

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to be very fair minded about this
stuff. I try to be very fair

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minded about this, and I know
that a lot of these problems. I've

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talked to my dad about this,
who agains retired but from the UAW.

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He's not been in the union for
fifteen almost twenty years. I think he

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retired from it, But you know, there's I have no problem with anyone

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making as much money as they can. I just find it so it is

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aggravating to me that the only people
that some on the left or in the

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Democrat Party, or just people that
don't maybe understand economics, the only people

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they want to blame are capitalists.
And I'm not saying that there aren't individually

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bad capitalists, because there are,
but they don't blame the government for anything.

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Look at the case with the UAWW. There has now been information that

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we've I've read. I just read
it imposed today before the show, or

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yesterday or whatever. But as I
was reading, basically the federal government or

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state governments. In the case of
governments, how about just governments in general

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requiring electric vehicles, whether they be
in their states or in the United States.

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The push towards electric vehicles, which
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going to reduce I saw. I
think a CEO of one of the Big

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Three, I think that's who it
was, said it will reduce the workforce.

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The number of people required to make
an electric vehicle is forty percent less

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than the number of people required to
make a gas powered or diesel powered vehicle

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forty percent less. And so the
very politicians who are out there, by

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the way, patronizing, patronizing the
union workers, like Biden. By the

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way, Trump spoke during the debate, Right, that's another thing. Who

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even cares about the debate. I
don't know, You've got the debate going

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on with seven candidates. It's Trump's
to win or Trump's to lose, I

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should say, But you've got all
this stuff happening, people patronizing union workers,

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government officials, people in the administration, and they're responsible, at least

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in part for the problem. They're
responsible for making people's money worthless. They

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are responsible for taxing people more.
They are responsible for pushing policies that basically

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eliminate their jobs in the future,
as in the case of electric vehicles.

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And this is I mean, it's
something like two hundred to four hundred thousand

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jobs are going to be lost.
Yet these unions applaud President Bribery when he

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comes and says you deserve a raise. I don't know why that's Biden's decision

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as to who deserves a raise.
I mean, how patronizing is that you

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deserve a raise. I think maybe
if Biden thinks they should get a raise.

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I'm thinking about this earlier. I
think maybe Biden should look into the

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money that he allegedly and Hunter allegedly
got from these foreign governments or foreign business

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associates, and what is shaping up
to look like allegedly a pay to play

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scandal. Maybe he should start cutting
checks. If he thinks they deserve a

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raised, then pay for it,
hot shot, pay for it, President

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Bribery. I just this whole thing
is just annoying. Is all get out

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to me? Because it is a
self created problem. You make a government

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too big to fail, right,
you make it. You make a government

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that says we do it, does
everything for everybody, or so much that

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we can't even stand for it to
be shut down at all, not even

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to take a two week hiatus,
forty five minute break from the insanity.

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No, no, no, can't
have it. And by the way,

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not only can we not have it, we're going to intentionally inflict harm upon

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people so that they feel it when
it's shut down. Who does this stuff?

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And people defend the government and attacked, attack the capitalists. And again

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I'm not saying no capitalists needs to
be attacked or questioned or anything. But

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again, the capitalists can't make you
do anything. The government can, and

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the government does, they're all too
happy to use that force, to use

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that power. Now. Ultimately they
really shouldn't be able to because the Constitution

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says that there are limits on the
power in the size and the scope of

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government. But unfortunately people don't know
it, people don't care about it.

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People ignore it because they think that
what the government provides them is worth giving

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up their liberty and independence for.
And it's death by a thousand cuts as

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we've added to the size and scope
of our government over time, death by

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a thousand cuts. And then we
blame the capitalists. And then when it

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when the economy runs into problems,
government says, hey, we've tried it

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their way, But the truth is
we haven't. We haven't because, my

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friends, if we have a government
this big, a government that can't even

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stand to be shut down for a
minute, because it's going to impact the

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lives of so many Americans, if
you follow the narrative here, If that's

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the case, If that's the case, it's really hard to then also simultaneously

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say that the government is just letting
society run and not be involved in the

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free market. Those two things,
to me are very hard to reconcile.

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If government is responsible for all these
things and is you know, people can't

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function without it, and they're intentionally
inflicting harm on people who who are supposed

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to get checks. Not their checks, by the way, No no,

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no, you're congressman. Your senators
will get their paychecks, so rest assured

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there, and of course the bribery
checks allegedly those will keep rolling in as

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well. I'm sure, but the
average person doesn't see that the people who

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are claiming to want to help them
are actually the ones that have caused and

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inflicted the most harm in their lives. So it annoys me. It annoys

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me to hear about this stuff because
the obvious thing that needs to happen is

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the government needs to be cut down
in size and scope. I know that

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that's not going to happen with the
current folks we have running the show.

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I get that. I'm a realist, but I also understand that the people

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demanding that it go back to what
the constitutions say, that the people who

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point out that the burden that has
been placed upon the American people by the

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size and scope of our government is
the main culprit those folks. Those folks

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need to continue speaking louder, because, my friends, the problem is right

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there for anybody who wants to see
it. The problem with the gas pump

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can be blamed largely, not exclusively, but largely on the government. The

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problem on the border can blame be
blamed almost exclusively on the government. The

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problem of inflation can be blamed exclusively
on the government. The problem when the

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UAW strike situation can be blamed in
large parts or in a fair amount of

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part, on the government, going
back to the bailout, going back to

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the requirements for electric vehicles. Their
fingerprints are everywhere at the crime scene,

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but yet they're the ones, of
course, responsible for investigating the crimes.

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And who are they going to blame. They're gonna blame the free market.

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They're gonna blame the American people.
They're gonna blame the people that want to

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cut down the size and scope of
government. That's what's happening here, and

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it's maddening for those of us who
are freethinkers, who know who the royal

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culprits are here. But I'm gonna
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one of the things I've gotten an update

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I want to share with you a
little bit later in the program. But

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I do as a case endpoint kind
of to echo what we were saying last

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segments. Last segment, here's a
headline from the Epic Times food stamp program

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is losing a billion dollars every month, a billion dollars every month to alleged

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fraud and errors, according to Senator
Joanie Ernst. And that's just one federal

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program, one whole I guess of
just funds gushing out through alleged fraud and

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errors. So I mean you factor
that times everything going on in the federal

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government. So you've got mismanagement,
you've got corruption, you've got fraud,

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you've got errors, You've got I
mean, friends, are so much wrong.

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There is so much wrong with the
government. And I don't mean that

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to be a downer. I actually
think that more people are aware of this

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today than I don't know, if
it's awareness, if it's just that they're

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no longer apathetic, they felt it
enough in their pocketbooks to where they know,

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hey, something's got a change here. But the food stamp program is

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losing a billion dollars every month to
alleged fraud and errors. What the world

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if this happened in a corporation,
which I mean there are examples, of

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course of corporations having massive fraud and
things like this as well. But these

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things get fixed in the government.
We just throw more money at it,

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more of your tax dollars, more
of my tax dollars, more of you

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know, money made out made up
out of than air, which of course

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contributes to inflation. This is one
tiny microcosm of the problem. And again

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it doesn't mean that the government can't
do anything. We can debate what the

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government should do regarding food stamps,
the role of charities and churches and nonprofits

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and all this sort of stuff.
That's another debate for another day. But

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I think surely to heaven we can
all agree that a billion dollars being lost

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every month to alleged fraud in errors
that needs to be addressed at least needs

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to be considered and needs to be
a priority for getting fixed. But I

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just how long has it been going
on. It's as though no one cares.

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It's not their money. I mean, there's just again, there's so

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many fundamental problems as to why you
don't want a big government. If this

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was your business, you'd think,
wow, we lost a billion dollars last

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month. I'm gonna get to the
bottom of this immediately, and I'm gonna

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fire the people who have been responsible
for this. And by the way,

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if there's fraud, I'm gonna file
charges on people. None of this stuff

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seems to ever happen when it comes
to our government. It's like, well,

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chucky dern, I guess we'll just
see what happens next month. Throw

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a little bit more money at it. Bill, Let's just see what happens

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here. Cross our fingers, and
then you go off and take your six

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weeks vacation and just it doesn't personally
impact it's just it's craziness to me.

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The amount of problems that's caused,
just on a fundamental level by having a

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large government that minimizes the power and
liberty and prosperity of American people. Is

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this should This should infuriate people how
this is set up? And it's not

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set up this way by our founders. It's set up this way by the

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people who are currently occupying the levers
of power political power here in this country.

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Congress, Senate, the White House, in some cases the Supreme Court.

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But I'm gonna take a break of
my friends. Sit tight. When

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I get back, I've got an
update for you that you are going to

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want to hear, because it's something
that we have chuckled out along the way.

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There are timeouts in order you're listening
here to conservative not better talk.

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I'm your host back in just a
minute. Back my friends, do you

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remember, I'm sure you do.
A couple of weeks ago, I shared

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with you a story, share with
you a story from a well regarding an

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individual running for Congress. I think
for the state. It wasn't they wouldn't

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be going this individual would not be
going to DC. It would be for

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the Virginia House. I believe her
name was or is Susannah Gibson. She's

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running for the fifty seventh district of
the Virginia House of Delegates. She's married,

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she's got a couple of kids.
Her husband I think was or is

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an attorney. She's I can't remember
what she did, Weimer, I remember

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what she did, but there's Oh, she was a nurse, right,

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a nurse. So she's a nurse. Her husband's an attorney. She's running

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for house in the state of Virginia
and our commonwealth, Virginia commonwealth. Anyway,

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so she it's been reported it had
been discovered that she was on a

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website doing explicit a sexual I mean
her and her husband. I was her

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and her husband on a website and
allegedly was taking tips. Oz was uncertain

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that these were tips on how to
do things better. I don't know how

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to say it nicely, but financial
she was getting tips from from having,

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you know, being on that website. And I postulated that this might be

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the Democrats. Given the control the
radical left has over the party today and

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they're complete disregard for anything moral or
ethical today, I thought this would be

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a great fundraiser for the Democrats.
I think they should still look into this

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and see and see if it might
be worth you know, applying. I

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mean, they've got mayoral candidates or
people who are currently mayor Burbank mayor getting

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whipped by drag queens. I think
they should just up the annie a little

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bit and just look at this.
I just worth investigating. But fortunately sanity

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has made itself known here. Now
you know that I write a column.

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In fact, you can get it
for free by signing up on our website,

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totepshow dot com. Called it's called
Conservative Not Bitter, the Conservative not

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Bitter column. But the series that
we're working on today is called common Ground.

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Common Ground because I think that there's
a lot of common ground between Republicans

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and rank and file Democrats today.
I'm not talking about radical leftists or extremist

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I'm talking about everyday average people.
There's agreement, right, There's a lot

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of reasons why there's so much turmoil
between people, But when you get down

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to what we really want, I
think there's a ton of agreement. And

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fortunately apparently we agree that people who
are doing sex online with their husband and

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who have open relationships, where she's
basically saying she's said in the previous article

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that that's what she wanted, but
her husband gets jealous. Who would have

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thought anyway? So, but I
think a lot of she's fallen, her

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support has fallen dramatically, like off
the face of the planet, and so

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I have hope for this country yet. Just wanted to share that quick update

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to a quick time out my friends
back here in just a minute. Welcome

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back, my friends. I almost
forgot to do this. I told you

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I was going to do this.
I wanted to give you some data,

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some data points here regarding who Americans
are blaming. I'm gonna go back to

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the shutdown situation, which is what
we've talked about the majority of the program

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today. Other than that fundraising,
I had idea I head for the left

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last segment. But the Morning consult
they did a survey. They found that

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over thirty four percent say that Republicans
in Congress would be to blame for a

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government shutdown if that, of course
is what happens. Twenty three percent blame

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President Joe Biden, President Bribery,
twenty one percent would blame Democrats in Congress.

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So it's split fairly equally. But
of course Republicans are according to polling

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here, according to polling, here
are the ones who are going to be

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going to be blamed for this.
So that of course that and of course,

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knowing Kevin McCarthy's leadership style, if
that's what you want to say,

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that's why I said that I don't
see this ending in any other way besides

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Republican surrender, capitulation, what have
you. But again, Republicans got to

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get the message out, have to
explain, and I know, look,

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I know at some point people just
don't want to hear if it's going to

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be painful today to cut but you
know, to cut spending. They don't

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want to deal with it. They
want it to be tomorrow's problem. But

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it's going to be too massive if
we don't deal with it soon. Folks,

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I gotta go, have a great
day. We'll talk with you tomorrow. STG