WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:04.799 Attention. You're listening to the Todd hf radio show, America's Home Poor Conservative 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:09.039 not Bitter Talk Radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.759 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:33.560 to the right. Here's your Conservative but Not Bitter host, Todd Hoff. 5 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.520 All right, my friends, you have tuned in to America's song for Conservative 6 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.039 not Bitter Talk. A very very good decision, by the way, that 7 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:51.200 you have made to start off the day to wrap up the day, depending 8 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:55.600 upon when you are listening and where you are listening. 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Anyway, It's good to be here. So I 19 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:49.400 want to start today by I guess first echoing a little bit of what we 20 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:57.239 talked about yesterday, and that is that the Santist is now officially filed to 21 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:01.719 run for president of the unit United States. He's running for the Republican nomination, 22 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:07.479 of course, and he's on a collision course with former President Donald J. 23 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:12.879 Trump. Trump, of course, is getting out in front of the 24 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:19.360 situation as he as he is known to do. He's out there saying that 25 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:22.879 does Santis. I'm looking here at an article from bright bart again. All 26 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:28.400 the stuff that we talk about almost all. Sometimes I miss some things. 27 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.520 Sometimes I don't put it in the stack of stuff. I read it and 28 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:36.599 then it comes up organically. But typically you'll find what we're talking about on 29 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.520 the website. If you want to read these articles or see what we're talking 30 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:44.680 about, just go to titifshow dot com and look at the stack of stuff. 31 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:49.319 Hat tip to the Great Rush Limball. But Trump's out there saying that 32 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:57.319 does Santis cannot win because of his record on entitlement programs. This is an 33 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:02.759 interesting, an interesting debate. I guess how this is going to play out, 34 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:07.840 but get ready for more of this stuff. Obviously this is we've nowhere, 35 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:14.280 We've come nowhere close to reaching the fevered pitch that this that this is 36 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:19.120 about to take as Trump goes head to head or as de Santis maybe he 37 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:22.719 goes head to head with Trump here, but he's officially filed, so we'll 38 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.800 see where it goes from there. As told me the other day, she 39 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:30.199 said, you know, hey, I knew De Santis was running because he's 40 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:37.120 I mean, DeSantis is lost some weight, which good for him. But 41 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:42.599 that, of course is a clue in presidential politics in two thousand and twenty 42 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.879 three when the average and I'm not this, do not misunderstand. This is 43 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:53.879 not a slight to de Santis. I actually would probably you know, most 44 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:57.639 people would do the same thing, try to look their best and so forth. 45 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.520 So I don't mean it like that, but I do mean it in 46 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:06.039 the sense that says too many people make their decision on who the commander in 47 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:12.759 chief should be based upon gee whiz. I remember when Obama one in two 48 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:18.199 thousand and eight, people were talking about things like his jump shot. People 49 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:27.399 were talking about the way that he spoke. People were talking about anything except 50 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.319 his ideas. They were talking about how historic it would be to have America's 51 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:35.000 first black president, although I thought that was Bill Clinton. Ruin they called 52 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:42.600 Clinton America's first true story. They did America's first black president. Anyway, 53 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:46.040 So we've been a long ways to go here, but that is now. 54 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:49.439 That is now official. As we talked about that much. If you want 55 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:53.000 to know my thoughts on that, you can listen to yesterday's show. But 56 00:04:54.480 --> 00:05:00.839 I want to start really today with this fight on the debt ceiling, raising 57 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.680 the debt ceiling. So there's a lot of things happening and going on here, 58 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:12.879 but I want to start with one particular part of this, of this 59 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:24.360 debate. So McCarthy is negotiating with basically Biden or Biden's handlers, because Biden 60 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:30.279 again has no idea what's it's it's bad, what's happening in the White House. 61 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:36.480 But Biden's team, Biden's handlers, or maybe even people that aren't even 62 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:44.120 on Biden's team, people who are well, they are influencing and making decisions 63 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:49.800 on behalf of this country. Through the executive branch. We don't even necessarily 64 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:55.040 know who they are. They might be on for all we know, they 65 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:59.000 might be one of the folks that have cut some paychecks to Hunter Biden. 66 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.439 But that's another story for another day. I'm kidding to a point. I 67 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:09.279 mean, there's enough corruption to make you make you ask those questions. Anyway, 68 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.879 So you've got the fight on raising the debt limit and basically what this 69 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.199 is, and you know from following this, you know from listening to the 70 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:25.360 show, America, my friends, has a spending problem, a spending problem, 71 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:34.879 and the only way that America can continue financially is at what it's currently 72 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:40.199 doing, at the things that she is currently doing, which are at the 73 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:47.360 direction of the federal government, which currently is being led by the extreme fringe 74 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:54.759 of the radical left. These folks have gotten a bigger and bigger voice in 75 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:01.040 today's party, today's Democrat Party, and by extension, over this country as 76 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:05.759 well. So McCarthy, of course is the Speaker of the House. He's 77 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:13.319 attending these meetings. They're trying to come to some conclusion and McCarthy, and 78 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:19.319 to his credit, right to his credit, I am I was one If 79 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:24.959 you remember back when there was a fight about McCarthy and his being speaker. 80 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:33.000 I was actually very pleased with Matt Gates and others Lauren Boebert, those were 81 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:38.360 the two primary drivers, the folks that essentially said, we are not going 82 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:46.839 to support a Kevin McCarthy speakership unless we get some certain types of guarantees. 83 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.680 And by the way, I remember the left in the media at the time, 84 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:55.639 it's important to go back and look at what they told us was going 85 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:00.439 to happen, and then we actually see what does happen. Because they told 86 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:07.040 us that these negotiations and concessions really that McCarthy made with Bobert, with Matt 87 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.639 Gates, with the group of people that were not prepared to vote for him 88 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.040 a speaker without certain guarantees and so forth. They told us that this was 89 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:24.519 some great threat, that this was going to drive this nation into just utter 90 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:30.800 chaos. The Republican Party was further over as we knew it, you know, 91 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:35.279 the typical talking points and so forth. And in reality, what's happened. 92 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.240 What's happened is and I will give McCarthy credit because I was on the 93 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.679 side of Gates, I was on the side of Bobert. Because the truth 94 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:50.960 is the truth is if they wanted a slam dunk. They the establishment Republicans, 95 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:56.679 if they wanted a slam dunk for their choice of speaker, which is 96 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:00.679 McCarthy for whatever whatever series of reasons, that doesn't even matter. At the 97 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.879 moment he was, you know, he was the leader of the of the 98 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:09.600 party as the minority leader, and it's his turn or whatever he's positioned himself 99 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.440 internally to get that vote. That's not even the point to me. The 100 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:20.639 point is. The point is that if the Republicans, the establishment Republicans, 101 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:28.039 had performed anywhere even remotely close to the expectations that were established leading into the 102 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.840 twenty twenty met twenty twenty election, they would have had enough votes to not 103 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:41.840 need Lauren Bobert, to not need Matt Gates votes. And so they won 104 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.279 by just enough to where they effectively needed every single Republican. There's a little 105 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:54.480 room for error. And from the conservative group, a conservative group of representatives, 106 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.279 they got together and they put up enough of a resistance to say, 107 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.000 hey, we're not going to vote for you as speaker to lead this body 108 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:07.279 until we get some guarantees and assurances from you. Because mister McCarthy, now 109 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:16.960 Speaker McCarthy with all due respect, we have seen we have seen you and 110 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:22.799 others that are similar to you make concessions in cave all the time when standing 111 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:28.879 before conservative Republicans. You'll say the right thing, you'll make the right appeal 112 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.840 for money, or you will try to make the argument when it's time to 113 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:39.720 get votes. But it's what happens between those times that actually moves the needle 114 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:45.360 in this country. And so they were skeptical, and I was skeptical. 115 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:52.799 But I think that where we are right now, which again is subject to 116 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.440 change at a moment's notice, but I think where we are right now, 117 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:03.919 having these negotiations, having the talks about actual spending cuts, these aren't these 118 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.399 are good things. Now the proof is in the pudding. We'll see how 119 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.600 far McCarthy is willing to take this. But effectively, that's the impass, 120 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.840 the temporary impast that they've reached right now, is that the Republicans want to 121 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:26.480 cut future spending and the Democrats do not. And that's effectively where we are. 122 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:30.720 So Democrats say we don't want to cut this. In fact, I've 123 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.039 got an article here from bright Bart that says extreme left warns of huge backlash 124 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:41.600 in the streets. This is the peaceable, loving crowd, huge backlash in 125 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:46.080 the streets of Joe Biden negotiates any budget cuts. So these are the radical 126 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.159 leftists, These are the aocs, these are the gee who else is in 127 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:58.080 this group? The Corey Bush other extreme radicals. And I mean, there's 128 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:03.399 there's a lot to choose from today because they've grown, they've prone in number 129 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.240 in Washington, DC within the Democrat Party. And so this is what this 130 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:13.679 fight is about. So in order for the government to continue blowing through money 131 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.480 that it doesn't have, that it doesn't have, they're going to have to 132 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:24.000 come to some agreement over the debt limit. And so basically they're trying to 133 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:28.960 increase their I guess their line of credit. Maybe that's one way of looking 134 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:35.559 at it, increase their ability to borrow more money as they continue to lead 135 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:43.360 us into financial oblivion with this ridiculous spending problem that they've created. As I 136 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:48.960 set off the top, we have, unequivocally, undeniably, mathematically scientifically, 137 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.919 we have a spending problem, pure and simple. That is what this is. 138 00:12:54.399 --> 00:13:00.679 So we have the spending problem. The left refuses or at least strongly 139 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:09.279 resists, any demands by McCarthy, who is really being pressured by people like 140 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:15.519 Gates and Bobert and others who want to see true, true spending cuts. 141 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:22.759 They're pushing him to stand firm on this. All the while he knows that 142 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:28.279 if he ventures too far off of the principles that he's agreed to with these 143 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:35.519 folks, and if he just arbitrarily or through a moment of weakness, agrees 144 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:39.519 that the debt limit will be raised without any in career, any cuts in 145 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:45.840 spending, I should say, then he knows that he is moving himself ever 146 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:52.960 so closely to the possibility of having someone It just takes one. Now, 147 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:58.159 remember these were things that the House Republicans negotiated with with Speaker McCarthy before they 148 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:03.519 gave him their vote. It just takes one member of that House to introduce 149 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:09.240 a motion to vacate the chair, which basically means he has pressure on him. 150 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:15.279 It doesn't take five or some number of congress people to come up with 151 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:20.440 this desire. It just takes one. And so if he's not going to 152 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:26.679 do the tough work necessary, if he is going to capitulate and roll over 153 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:31.039 too quickly to the left, that is a possibility. Although I will say 154 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:35.480 one of the articles in the stack of stuff shows that Matt Gates is saying 155 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:43.720 that that's not where they are unless McCarthy does something really unpredictable or just really 156 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:50.320 totally abandons everything that he's been standing for and pushing standing on and pushing forward 157 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:56.720 this far into this process. So it's a political, politically an interesting situation. 158 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:03.080 Practically, it's a terrifying situation because this is real money that's being spent, 159 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:11.120 that's being raided, I should say, from your children's, our children's, 160 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:18.960 your children's, our grandchildren's, our great grandchildren's, probably several years of 161 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:24.879 great great great great grandchildren are going to be paying for this. And at 162 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:30.919 some point the adults in the room have to get controlled by whatever means I 163 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.879 mean. Look, I don't if I say any means necessary. I don't 164 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:39.080 mean something that the left would mean, where it's a more immoral or unethical 165 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.639 or some such thing. I just mean there comes a moment in time when 166 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:48.840 you have to hold people accountable. And that's what that's why Gates and Bobert 167 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:54.559 and others did what they did back in January when they were talking about or 168 00:15:54.600 --> 00:16:00.879 going through the negotiation of electing Speaker McCarthy and now McCarthy's out there. McCarthy, 169 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.720 of course, in my opinion, I think it demonstrably so. But 170 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:14.240 he has a tendency to want to grandstand on these issues from a talking point 171 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:22.759 perspective, but then seems all too interested to completely abandon his principle in order 172 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.960 to prevent some government shutdown or some such things. So what, we're a 173 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:33.120 week away from this impending financial disaster as they're painting it in the media. 174 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:38.120 Of course, it's dramatized dramatically, but but it can be a situation. 175 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:48.279 It can be a negotiation that actually begins to alleviate some of the I shouldn't 176 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:55.120 say alleviate. It just slows down the amount of financial craziness that's happening in 177 00:16:55.200 --> 00:17:02.039 DC. So we'll see where it goes. I'm not super hopeful that McCarthy's 178 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:07.160 going to stand firm. If he doesn't stand firm, he is setting himself 179 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.680 up to possibly be at some point, I don't think just yet, but 180 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:17.880 at some point possibly challenged and possibly removed as Speaker of the House. So 181 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:21.680 there's politically a lot of interesting things going on. But practically we've got a 182 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:27.799 real problem that affects your real dollars, your children's real dollars, your descendants 183 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:34.039 for generations, they are real dollars as well. And this is unfolding in 184 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:41.680 real time before our very eyes, in this dramocrat sort of performance, this 185 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:48.119 performance of politicians. And that's what we've got going on. So timeout is 186 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:49.640 in order, my friends, more to say on this issue of the debt 187 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:55.440 limit, more to say on the position that the extreme left is taking, 188 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:59.519 which is no budget cuts whatsoever. There's going to be rioting in the street, 189 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:02.799 I guess, but anyway, we'll talk about that on the other side 190 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:04.599 of this break. My friends, you're listening here to conservative not Better Talk. 191 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:07.000 I'm your host, the one, the only Todd Huff back in just 192 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:22.519 a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So I want to spend a 193 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:36.599 little time talking about this basically, this fundamentally well, this fundamental difference between 194 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:45.039 conservatism and the lovers of big government, the radical left even I would say, 195 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:56.920 to some extent, just a liberal or a even an establishment moderate republican. 196 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:03.079 And again it's it's it is a continuum in this sense, so it 197 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:07.160 is a spectrum. So there are people who believe this more than others. 198 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:15.119 But there is this belief in Washington, DC, amongst some some of the 199 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:18.680 folks that again, they love big government, they don't like freedom and liberty, 200 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:25.119 they don't like free markets, they really don't. Sometimes they posture like 201 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.839 they do because they know they need to, they need to win votes and 202 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.480 so forth. But if you look at how they behave, if you look 203 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.720 at how much they've rolled over, maybe they're not always the ones that are 204 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:41.559 pushing these radical agenda items through. But too many times they are not standing 205 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:45.599 strongly enough in opposition, and then they'll come back and tell us, well, 206 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.960 I just didn't have just didn't have enough votes, or whatever the case 207 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:55.200 may be. And I'm wondering why I didn't see this particular person on every 208 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:00.039 single news outlet making the case for constitutional conservatives or whatever you want to call 209 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:06.960 it. This limited government right, just this notion that we are a nation 210 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:12.519 that is filled with people who have individual liberties recognized by the government, granted 211 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:22.519 however by our creator God. And but there are people who, of course 212 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:30.240 have an opinion that's completely antithetical to what I just laid out. And those 213 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.519 folks typically find themselves in the extreme radical left. And that's where we get 214 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:40.680 headlines like this, again from bright barred extreme left warns of huge backlash in 215 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:47.759 the streets of Joe Biden negotiates any if he negotiates any budget cuts. So 216 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:55.119 they're promising basically riots in the streets. Backlash, of course, is to 217 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:59.880 the left. I mean, what is a backlash from the left. It's 218 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:04.319 riding in the streets. Incidentally, I saw I saw a comment from Jordan 219 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.759 Peterson that I really enjoyed the other day. I saw a clip of it 220 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:14.519 and he said, I found out how to be able to speak at a 221 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:21.920 campus like Berkeley without being greeted by radical protesters that are trying to shut down 222 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:26.480 my speech. And the individual who was speaking with him said, well, 223 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.000 what did how do you do that? He said, I now schedule all 224 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:37.160 of my all of my speeches at eight am because these radicals, these radicals, 225 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.680 they say that they're radical, they say that they're principled, they can't 226 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:48.200 get up and get themselves together in time to protest something that's apparently on principle 227 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:52.440 that's at eight am versus eight pm. Just as an example, anyway, 228 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.920 that came to mind as I was thinking about the radical left and the way 229 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:02.240 that they create havoc. Maybe in the streets, or, as this article 230 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:07.880 says, backlash in the streets. But why would any rational person, Why 231 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:12.960 would any fair minded, rational person take the position that we should not have 232 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:18.759 any budget cuts. Now, maybe we disagree on what should be cut or 233 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:25.279 how much of it should be cut. I understand that, But what rational, 234 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:33.519 reasonable, fair minded individual is actually going to take the stand as these 235 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:41.440 leftists have take the position that Biden should not negotiate any budget cuts. What 236 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:48.359 type of crazy, extreme radical nonsense is this? If you applied these numbers 237 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:56.680 to the average Americans personal household finances and you explained it in terms, and 238 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:00.519 I'm not done the math to do that, but it would be a kin 239 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:07.119 It would be it's as though you're making fifty thousand dollars a year. Say, 240 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:15.000 for example, you're making fifty seventy five thousand dollars a year and you 241 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:19.960 need to increase your credit card limit by I don't know the numbers, but 242 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.599 some massive amount twenty thousand dollars or some such thing to where it doesn't even 243 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:33.000 make So that's how we've been living. Again. I'm not please don't hold 244 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.240 me to the numbers. I'm just trying to paint a general picture to where 245 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:42.119 you're making seventy five thousand dollars and whatever you're spending the money on in your 246 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:47.319 life. You look at the situation and you don't. You say to yourself 247 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:49.680 and you say to your wife, you know, we're not going to cut 248 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:56.400 anything. We're going to continue doing this exactly as we are. And in 249 00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:00.440 fact, we're just going to continue on this path, on this trajectory. 250 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:06.160 And I'm not talking about investing, you know, investing in launching a business 251 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:08.480 in the hard years or anything like that. I'm talking about just regular life, 252 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:12.640 right, We're just living life. Is this is the path that we 253 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:18.359 have plotted out, This is where we plan on staying, and just the 254 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:23.000 path we plan on taking. No one in his or her right mind would 255 00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:27.519 would say if I'm making seventy five thousand dollars a year, I'm already in 256 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:33.440 debt. I don't know what the percentage of that is. It's probably well, 257 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:38.680 the annual budgets revenues in the four trillion dollar range, and we have 258 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:45.119 thirty one trillion in debt, so it's getting close to ten times. We're 259 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:49.640 already in debt to ten times the amount of our income, so it would 260 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:55.400 be close to saying, you know, seven hundred thousand dollars in debt and 261 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:59.240 making seventy five thousand dollars a year, I'm just again painting a picture. 262 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:03.680 Don't hold me to the specifics, and then saying, instead of cutting expenses 263 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:10.799 or finding another way to mathematically make this makes sense, you say, to 264 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:15.720 heck with that, we're going to increase our credit limit by another some figure, 265 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:19.319 twenty thousand dollars or forty thousand dollars or some such thing, and then 266 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:23.640 tell the American people that that's solving the problem for now. How in the 267 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:29.559 world is that, excuse me, solving the problem. That is, my 268 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:33.480 friends, adding to the problem. That is making the problem much bigger, 269 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:37.720 making problem much worse. This is why I use the phrase on this program. 270 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:42.440 I want to semi regular basis kicking the can down the road. There's 271 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:48.599 a legitimate problem today. They don't want to deal with politically solving it. 272 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:52.279 They want to say, hey, you can have all of your entitlements, 273 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.799 you can have everything. That we're doing is perfectly fine. The real problem, 274 00:25:56.839 --> 00:26:00.920 as the left would argue, and of course, is complete utter nonsense. 275 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:06.440 The real problem, they'll tell you, is that the wealthiest Americans are 276 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:10.279 not paying their quote fair share, and of course you do the math on 277 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:14.000 this, you take every penny that the wealthiest Americans have, which I'm not 278 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:18.799 endorsing, it's not it's so beyond the scope of government and what it should 279 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:25.960 be doing, especially when it's targeting, specifically targeting people almost by name, 280 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:30.000 to say, you're now on the you're not going to foot the bill, 281 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:36.880 You're now on the hook for paying for this obligation that you candidly in many 282 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:41.200 cases, had absolutely nothing to do with in the first place. But that 283 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:47.119 is considered fair and just and right. Of course, it's not in any 284 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:56.559 reasonable universe with freethinking people who have logic and reason and just a little bit 285 00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:00.920 of curiosity. This makes literally no sense. But this is the position they've 286 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:07.640 taken. Do not negotiate any budget cuts, and so it begs the question, 287 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:08.319 and I'm gonna take a time out here, but I want you to 288 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:15.119 think about this during the break. What what are they doing this for? 289 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:22.559 They really think this through, because any person with a basic calculator and a 290 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:30.440 third grade math education can figure out that this is unsustainable. There is nothing 291 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:37.480 that's going to fix this short of actually cutting spending. So what's going on 292 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:40.680 here? What is the problem. We'll talk about that on the other side 293 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:41.720 of the break. My friends, sit tight, you're listening to conservative not 294 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:56.519 better talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff back in just a minute. 295 00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:00.640 Welcome back, my friends. So, if it is so abundantly obvious, 296 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.400 and I think that it, well, I take the I think out. 297 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:08.720 It absolutely is abundantly obvious that the problem that we have in this country is 298 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:18.839 a spending problem. You don't consistently have the need to raise your ability to 299 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:23.640 borrow money. If you don't have a spending problem. Now you could say, 300 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:30.240 look, I would understand if our revenues were not at or near all 301 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:34.960 time highs. I would understand that maybe it potentially is a revenue problem. 302 00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:40.400 But my friends, we have ventured so far from what the founders have envisioned 303 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:47.839 in this country that this bears no semblance whatsoever to what they had actually envisioned. 304 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:52.039 They envisioned a government with very clearly defined roles, responsibilities, very clearly 305 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.759 to find lanes. They've laid these out in the Constitution. The average person 306 00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:04.519 doesn't care whatsoever her and so now many there are more and more who do. 307 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.240 But in the course of a day, our day to day existence in 308 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.079 day to day life, A lot of folks could not care less about these 309 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.279 things, and so then it becomes a matter of well, I think it's 310 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.160 great to give this group of people this, let's vote for that, or 311 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:26.039 it sounds good, we should help people her doing that. But the problem 312 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.359 is the problem is there's not an infinite money supply. The problem is some 313 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:34.160 of these actually the vast majority, if not potentially all of these programs, 314 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:44.400 are mismanaged, unnecessarily expensive, inefficient. There's lots of ways to do them 315 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:51.359 better. It always starts with a one size fits all approach versus a series 316 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:55.799 of ideas say that the free market comes up with, and then the market 317 00:29:55.799 --> 00:30:00.480 gets to decide which idea or which solution they prefer. That's what happens when 318 00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:07.519 you have a marketplace battle over a new product. You know, you've got 319 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:15.000 Samsung an iPhone, and there's you've got PC and Mac and you need obviously 320 00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:19.400 it's better to have more choices, but there's different alternatives, and people can 321 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:26.960 be persuaded to try one product over another based upon some feature or some little 322 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.599 whatever it is. Right, I mean, some of these things are a 323 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:34.440 big deal and some of them are small deals like the colors available or whatever 324 00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:38.960 anyway, So but the government doesn't approach things like this. The government says, 325 00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:44.039 here's your option, and it's going to be more expensive than if we 326 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:48.160 would have had the private sector do it, it'll be less efficient, and 327 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:51.480 it ultimately is not going to solve your problem. The founders did not envision 328 00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:55.119 any of that to be the case, and so we have this literally running 329 00:30:55.200 --> 00:31:00.160 rampant in every conceivable corner of our government. I'm going to go on record 330 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:07.599 to say that every single every single part of our government can find a way 331 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:12.319 to cut something. I'm not saying that we have to cut certain areas of 332 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:18.960 legitimate spending by massive amounts, but I'm saying every every single group to tell 333 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:25.920 me there's no waste, There's no waste in every part of the of the 334 00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:30.920 budget or the categorizations of how we spend money is preposterous to me. Of 335 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:36.559 course there is, of course there is waste and inefficiencies and so forth, 336 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:40.079 and that needs to we should be cutting. That's what we should seek to 337 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:45.680 do. This is what happens in the in the private sector. Right they 338 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.160 realize, hey, we don't have enough money for this, or hey, 339 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.000 we need to cut spending because of their you know, there's going to be 340 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:59.759 a recession, even though we've defined redefined what that is today, the media 341 00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:02.960 and the folks that are extreme leftists, they've they've redefined those terms. But 342 00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:10.640 if there are recessionary pressures and the potential or even the likelihood of a recession, 343 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.480 then that's when you see companies make these other steps. They cut their 344 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:20.799 workforce by some percentage. They just say this is what we have to cut, 345 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:24.160 and then they delegate it to the management to figure out which which people 346 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:29.400 actually get acts and which don't. And it's terrible for the people going through 347 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:32.319 it, but it's necessary for the business to survive. We don't have any 348 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:36.720 of those pressures, and a lot of it's because we have people like this 349 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:43.559 who are saying there's going to be basically riots if you do any if you 350 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.720 make any cuts to spending whatsoever. So then the question is why do they 351 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:50.640 do this? And there's two reasons. I think it's one or two reasons. 352 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:55.000 Number one, Number one, they are so caught up some of them 353 00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:59.720 in the way that you buy votes. This is what you do. You 354 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:04.400 basically try to find a majority of people that want a certain benefit or a 355 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:07.279 series of benefits, and then you promise, if you elect me, I 356 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:13.480 will implement these sorts of entitlements. And then if you have enough people who 357 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:17.039 are on the receiving end of the entitlement in your district, they are inclined, 358 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:23.039 they are rewarded financially to vote for you. That's one of the reasons. 359 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:29.240 But then there's another group, another group that's even more nefarious than that 360 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:35.200 group. That's just a disgusting political or politician's attitude approach to things. I 361 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:39.119 want to do something for personal gain, even if it means I'm doing something 362 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.119 that's not principled. I don't like it. It's been bad for this country. 363 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:49.880 It's been It's a huge problem, I don't want to understated. But 364 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.559 even more so of a problem is when we have people who openly hate this 365 00:33:54.680 --> 00:34:00.400 country. They hate the system that it's built upon, free market capitalism. 366 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:06.599 They hate the concept of a constitution that talks about the rights of the ultimate 367 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.159 minority, which is the single human being. They like government power, they 368 00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:15.320 like authority. They like making the shots make or calling the shots, making 369 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:20.760 the decisions. They like that, and so they know that if they break 370 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:25.920 the system. Eventually they're going to be calls to replace the system, and 371 00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:30.719 they want to be sitting there at the ready. They want to be sitting 372 00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:35.599 there at the ready when the opportunity arises to fix something that is quote unquote 373 00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:39.400 broken. Of course, why is it broken because because of the pressures they 374 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:43.920 have put on it, not because it's a bad idea, not because it's 375 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:49.400 philosophically unsound or anything like that. It's actually a very sound The problem is 376 00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:53.880 is if you have kama kazies at the helm, political kama kazies. That 377 00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:57.039 term just came to me on the spot. I think it's a good one. 378 00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.440 Political kama kazes. We're gonna take this We're gonna take this thing down. 379 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:07.119 We are gonna metaphorically burn it down, and then the intent is to 380 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:13.440 gather the pieces and rebuild something that is more in line with what these lovers 381 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:17.840 a big government want, which is not a constitutional republic that focuses on the 382 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:23.360 rights of the individual, that focuses on things like private property, that focuses 383 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:30.400 on things like traditional values. Even they want something, they want something that's 384 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:36.440 much more nineteen eighty four ish, right, brave New World ish, that's 385 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.760 what they want. That's what they desire, and some of them this is 386 00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:45.760 one their tactic. It's sad, it's sick. It's even tough to swallow, 387 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.119 a tough pill to swallow realizing that there are people in the halls of 388 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:55.960 the United States government that are casting votes that hate it. I know I 389 00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:01.079 remember going through that process years ago, twenty three years ago, whatever it 390 00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:07.599 was. But the sooner we realize that, the sooner we can fix and 391 00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.519 address the real problem here, which are again these political kami kaze. So 392 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:14.079 that said, timeouts in order, my friends, sit tight. You're listening 393 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:16.039 to conservative not better talk. I'm your host to Hugh back in just a 394 00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:24.760 minute of stuff in the stack of stuff, a couple of things I want 395 00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:29.320 to hit on really quickly. You can again always read more about him at 396 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:34.239 Toadhof show dot com. Just look at the stack of stuff. But Senator 397 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:38.079 Fetterman, you may have seen that he shows up to the Senate wearing hoodies, 398 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:44.559 tennis shoes, Jim Shortz looks like he's just gotten a workout at the 399 00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:50.559 local club or whatever, and everyone else is in suit jackets and ties. 400 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.119 And you may have wondered, what is going on here? Isn't there a 401 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:57.480 dress code. There is a dress code for the US Senate. But one 402 00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.760 of the articles I got posted on the stack of stuff pointed out something that 403 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:06.199 candidly I did not know. You have to wear a suit and tie or 404 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:10.119 a jacket and tie if you are a male member of the Senate, which, 405 00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:13.920 oh, good luck with enforcing that in twenty twenty three. But that's 406 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:19.440 another discussion. But what he does to avoid the dress code is that he 407 00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:24.599 stands in the doorway of the Senate. Think about this. He stands in 408 00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:30.880 the doorway so that when it's time for him to vote, he can kind 409 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:34.599 of yell and over here sort of thing. You know, they're probably used 410 00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:38.039 to it by now, and he votes from the doorway without going out to 411 00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:42.360 the Senate floor. That's what this article said. So I wanted to pass 412 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.559 that to pass that along as well. And since we talked a little bit 413 00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:51.800 about Target and all that's going on with the trans clothings and tucking this and 414 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:57.760 that into swimsuits and so forth, the calls to boycott Target are growing. 415 00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:01.400 I know many of you out there listening to my voice, well, some 416 00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:06.440 of you are already on the boycott Target bandwagon. Others of you I know 417 00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:09.559 there are women I know that if the idea of never going to Target again 418 00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:14.679 would send them into a deep depression. So I know we've got people all 419 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:19.960 over the place on that butt, but they are definitely there are definitely caused 420 00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:24.239 to increase the increased cause I should say to boycott Target. Over what is 421 00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:28.239 going on Timehouse in order to along the segment my friends back in just a 422 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:39.000 minute, Welcome back my friends, waiting moments of the program. This is 423 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:45.000 coming up. This is a Memorial Day weekend and we'll talk a little bit 424 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:50.280 about that on tomorrow's program. So just a heads up on that. I 425 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:53.599 know that we'll be off Monday. Just for the record, I know some 426 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:59.599 of you need to heads up on that to process your emotions of not being 427 00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:02.679 able to end for the day, and I understand that tremendously. 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So we'll talk about that 437 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:50.320 tomorrow, along with whatever comes up between now and then. But the music 438 00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:52.519 is telling me it's time to wrap it up. Have a great day. STG.