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Speaker 2: Busy Friday, not only across the world, but also the
nation of course, keeping an eye on that massive earthquake
that took place in parts of Thailand in the very
early morning hours here on the East Coast. Some of
the pictures and stories coming out there. I'm looking at
a headline right now thousands fear dead after that seven
point seven magnitude earthquake. We'll check on that coming up
here in a little bit. But I wanted to start
off this afternoon with something that you are hearing echoed
through the entire administration, and it ties in with a
big interview that took place last night on Fox News.
Brett Baher hosted a hosted elon Musk and the Doge Boys,
as it will call them, of course, the Department of
Government efficiency in the works that are going on there.
But really it's not even just DOGE. If you look
across all of the individuals that Trump has decided that
he would want to work with, all of the various secretaries,
the individual's his cabinet, the people that have been confirmed
by the Senate over the last couple of months. This
is something that you are seeing across the board. And
the news yesterday afternoon was over at HHS, Health and
Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior is estimating that
he's trying to cut more than ten thousand employees. Why
is he trying to do so? He claims that HHS
is currently not acting in a way that is efficient
for government.
Speaker 3: Now, I found these numbers to be pretty eepop.
Speaker 2: Prior to the Trump administration getting in there, HHS had
a total workforce of eighty two thousand individuals, eighty two
thousand people working at HHS. So now there's some big
agencies under HHS. You've got the CDC, the Food and
Drug Administration, the National Institute of Health, or Anthony Fauci's outlet.
So there's some major, major groups that are under HHS.
And the question that I think is being asked now,
and it's definitely being asked by these new secretary in
RFK Junior, is can this work be done with less people?
And that's really been the big trend of this administration.
You know, if you look at some of the framing
on this from the progressive left, you will be believed
that the attempt by the administration is to essentially just
shut down the government, right, would just strip everything from
the federal government. There's nothing left, nobody has a job,
nobody gets any government services. It all just go immediately
goes to hell and a ham basket. But that's not
what's being done at all. I've seen nothing from either Trump,
Vice President Vance, you could look at Lee Zelden, you
can look at Hegseth Orfk Junior. From none of these
secretary and none of these cabinet officials. I have seen
nothing from them that indicates that they are trying to
completely gut and get rid of their departments.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: The only example that you can come up with is
the Department of Education. But with the Department of Education,
the discussion is, well, we're not going to stop providing
these programs. We're just going to give the money directly
to the states and allow them to administer them. Right,
that's the discussion going on in the Department of Ed.
But everywhere else the key focus is efficiency and effectiveness,
and that is a message that I think is very
much hitting home with the American people. We don't interface
with the federal government all that. I mean, maybe if you're,
depending on what field you're in for work, maybe you're
working with a government contractor so.
Speaker 3: Some of you may made.
Speaker 2: But for the vast majority of the American people, you're
interfacing with the federal government is incredibly limited. Now, if
you are somebody that pays your taxes once a year,
as you're supposed to in April, there's an interface with
the government you deal with the irs.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 2: You just file it through Turbo tax or something and
you're said and done. Maybe you have to go through
and get a new passport at that renewed. There's an
interface with the federal government if you're getting Social Security
or or some other federal program. Okay, little interface here
and there, but for the most part, it's not something
that happens all the time. It's not something that as
you are going throughout your life each and every day,
you are constantly interfacing with the federal government, and there's
good reason for it. You'd lose your mind if you
had to interface with the federal government every single day
because things happen in such a slow manyner in Washington,
d C. Things happen so slowly and so inefficiently. It
really is remarkable. And you can look at any small
sole proprietor small business to your medium size to major
business institution. You can look at all through the spectrum,
from one guy to tens of thousands of people working
for a company. No way could this exist in the
private enterprise. There is no business that could operate with
the ineffective nature that the federal government does and not
be completely out of business, not have a mass group
of their employees jumping ship and going and trying to
work somewhere else because they can't stand working for that company.
That's what would happen in the real private sector if
we took government, cloned the government, and put it somewhere else.
I mean, it would just be a disaster because there's
no incentive. Right in private busines business, there's incentive, which
is what profit whether you're somebody that gets your paycheck
based on profit or not. The business's goal is profit,
to make as much money as possible and spend as
little as possible. And I know that that's a big
sticking point for those on the left. That's the evil
capitalist system that we live under here in America, right,
the woes of awful capitalism that has destroyed the world.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: But that's the goal of business, make as much money
as possible with spending as little as possible. Now, that
doesn't mean that you treat your employees poorly. That doesn't
mean that you treat your customers like garbage.
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: You should provide good support to your customers. You should
give your employees a good place to work, a nice
environment for them to do their job. Because guess what
happens when those employees are taken care of. They work,
They want to work, they want to continue to do
things for the company that is employing them. So there's
built in incentives for those things to take place. None
of that exists in the federal government. Tell me what
the incentive is for somebody within HHS to do their job.
Tell me what the incentive is for somebody in the
irs to stop giving you the run around when you
have an issue with your taxes and need to figure
out why you're not getting your return. And I don't
think it's because the people working there are bad people.
This is something else that is being parroted by the left. Oh,
you hate people that work for the government. I don't
think that's the case at all. I mean, the individuals
that are actually doing the work of these agencies are normal, decent,
good people, but they're bogged down with so much bureaucracy.
They're bogged down with so many procedures and standards and checklists,
and I've got to jump through nineteen hoops before i
can get to the answer to your question.
Speaker 3: That they're just they can't do their job.
Speaker 2: They've been completely bogged down by the system, and the
end result is they end providing poor service. This can't
exist in private business.
Speaker 3: It just can't.
Speaker 2: You literally can't sustain it. You will go out of business.
You will have no customers, no employees, and no money.
Yet that's how the federal government has operated, at least
now for the modern age, and go back fifty sixty
seventy years with the rise in the bloat and the
increase in what is now the federal government. This didn't
just happen overnight. Nobody flipped the light switch on and
all of a sudden the federal government ballooned out of control.
This was a slow gradual increase of more and more
temporary government programs and more temporary this and temporary that
that have become permanent. And so when you look at
Robert F. Kennedy Junior and his work over at Health
and Human Services, and I'll get into some of his
quotes come up here in a minute, when you look
at what he's doing, he is talking about cutting the
inefficiencies within HHS. I mean, have you read the horror
stories of trying to deal with the FDA. When individuals
are trying to get a new product to go through
the FDA seal so it can be sold. It's a disaster.
I mean it's a complete, no hutter disaster. Things take
a decade to get through FDA. And that's not because oh,
this is all rigorous testing. No, it's because there's bureaucracy,
bloat and red tape, and the end result in companies
end up wasting hundreds of millions of dollars waiting on
the process, the consumer doesn't get new products that they
could use to help their lives. It's a mess for
everybody except government doesn't care. Government doesn't have any incentive,
Government has no reason to do the job in a
more efficient manner.
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Speaker 2: Talking a little bit about government efficiency this afternoon. This
has been a major talking point, not just for Elon Musk,
not just for the President and the boys over at DOZE,
who will hear from a little bit later on in
the program, but just literally across the entire administration. I
mean from Linda McMahon over at Department of Ed to
Lee Zelden at EPA to now the big story this
afternoon Robert Kennedy over at HHS, where he has announced
a program to cut ten thousand full time employees from
HHS and save the federal government an estimated one point
three billion dollars a year one point three billion dollars.
And Kennedy said this yesterday quote, this will be a
painful period for HHS as we downsize. We're keenly focused
on pairing away excessive administrations while increasing the number of
scientists and frontline healthcare providers. That we can do a
better job, and he fully admits it and understands it,
and he's right. This is going to be a painful process.
It is not good when people lose their jobs. Nobody
is cheering for individuals to lose their jobs.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody that is. But unfortunately, we have
backed ourselves into this corner. We have decided that we
were going to allow government to run out of control
in its scope, scale and size, and the end result
of that is the current debt situation that the United
States is in. You're familiar with the US Debt clock website.
I think it's the usdet Clock dot org or something
like that. You look over there, we're like thirty six
trillion dollars in debt. I mean, it's an absurd amount
of money. And a lot of that comes from spending
within the government. A lot of that comes from all
of these federal agencies, all of these entities that are
just too big and and to harp to something that
Ela Musk proved to the American people was his purchase
of x He fired what seventy percent of the employees
that worked at what was Twitter when he bought it,
Yet the service still works, The services operational twenty four
hours a day, seven days a week. Yeah, it's got
its little hiccups here and there, but so to all
of the major social media platforms.
Speaker 3: YouTube goes down for a.
Speaker 2: Couple hours at a time, Facebook has a big outage,
and WhatsApp that stuff's down for a couple of hours.
Nothing out of the ordinary for these major tech companies.
It's unfortunately something that they all deal with. It happens
a couple of times a year. And there's a whole
bunch of controversy in Mayhem. When you can't post what
you're having for lunch on your Facebook for a couple
of hours, people tend to lose their minds. But he
completely gutted Twitter. Yet the service still runs. Yet it's
still operational. And that was that you prove to me,
proved that, okay, this can be done right. There is
a track record. There is a way in which you
can scale back a major institution, a major company. Twitter
one of the largest social media outlets in the world
at the time when it was purchased by Ela Mosque,
wasn't worth anything, wasn't making any money, but it was
one of the largest in the world. Everybody was using
a hundreds of millions of active users, a day across
the world, and he was able to cut so many
of the employees and still provide the service. That's not easy.
There's a lot of people that are affected by that.
There's families that are affected by that. It's a really
tough situation. But unfortunately, this and this is something that
seems to be lost in politics a lot of the time.
And it's something that I can talk about a lot.
And mention is that actions have consequences, and when we
talk about our political system, actions have consequences.
Speaker 3: You can't just.
Speaker 2: Do things and not expect there to be a result.
And the action was that government was allowed to run
out of control. Government was never told no, you can't
do this. No you can't hire these people. No you
can't expand the size of your agency. No you can't
create a new department and hire hundreds, if not thousands,
of new individuals.
Speaker 3: Government was never told that. They were always told yes.
Speaker 2: That's why the federal workforce has ballooned to where it
is right now. That's why our government spending our two
trillion dollars a year federal budget deficit exists because nobody
was ever told, no, would you like to have all
of these departments. Yes, but then you get into the
need versus want debate, something that you and I deal
with every single day. Plenty of things that we with,
plenty of things that we want. We don't get all those,
but we make sure we have the needs. Government has
never been in that position. And so going back to
the actions versus consequences debate, there were actions that were
taken to allow government to expand to the size that
it was, and unfortunately the consequence to that was out
of control spending and thirty six plus trillion dollars in debt. Right,
there is an analog there. You can connect the dots
very easily and show the problem that it created. And
the reality is it's not sustainable. You can't operate a
country long term with a two trillion dollar a year
annual deficit. A country cannot sustain itself financially. At thirty
six and a half trillion dollars worth of national debt,
it's over one hundred thousand dollars per person person not
taxpayer person. The second a child is born, one hundred
and seven thousand dollars in debt that child has on
its head. Is that sustainable to you? Is that a
good system that we're operating in. It's it's completely unexplainable
to me. It's completely ridiculous. The second that if you're
if you're having a child, the second your child's born,
you're gonna go out and take a loan against their name,
set them up for financial ruin by the time they
turn eighteen years old, and borrow a bunch of money
against them.
Speaker 3: You would never do that.
Speaker 2: Not only is it illegal and would you be thrown
in jail, but why would you set up your child
for that kind of failure. That's exactly what's happening at
the federal level. We are robbing the current and future
generations in terms of, you know, robbing them financially to
pay for our out of control government that exists right now.
We are robbing them blindly right now. And all of
it is to continue the size and the scope of government,
to continue to allow things to run and operate just
in the status quo, the way that things have always
been done. When you need something, when you want something
within the federal government, you and you want this new agency,
when you want these new employees, you just get them.
And all of that is coming to a screeching halt.
It's being heard all over the map. So this move
over at HHS, we're reducing the workforce size by ten thousand,
which is on top of ten thousand workers that already
opted to leave the government on their own. Is going
to cut HHS's total workforce from eighty two thousand to
sixty two thousand. It's a remarkable reduction in employees. And
with all of that, the question is being asked, well,
can you continue to operate? Can you continue to provide
the core services that these entities should be providing with
these massive cuts, And I think the answer is yes.
Part of the plan is to consolidate the current twenty
eight eight divisions that exist under HHS, which you can
guarantee have redundancy. There are the same people doing the
same work probably across a vast majority of these twenty
eight divisions. Why would you have and why would you
be paying hundreds of people to do the exact same
thing across these different divisions. All of it's under the
umbrella of HHS. But you can guarantee that work as
being duplicated. Those efforts are taking place simultaneously, almost in parallel,
in all of these agencies, and we're paying hundreds of
full time employees to do that. RFK Junior's plan is
to take those twenty eight divisions and reduce them down
to fifteen and at the same time introducing a new group,
the Administration for a Healthy America, something that RFK Junior
made as a major point of his presidential campaign when
he was running and since then talked about that as
he was on the campaign trail with Trump, chatting from
time to time and talking about stuff making America healthy again.
So under this new division, there would be a group
that was going to be dealing with mental health, workplace safety,
substance abuse, and more, all of that being combined under
this new Administration for a Healthy America. And with that,
there's also plans to consolidate offices for things like human resources.
There you go, there's your redundancy, procurement policy, external affairs,
and information technology, all of that duplicated over and over
and over again throughout the entire entity. And also, by
the way, they're cutting from five, they're cutting five of
its current ten regional offices, so cutting that number in half.
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stories out yes esterday afternoon was the was RFK Junior's
plan to eliminate upwards of ten thousand employees at HHS
and do an overall restructuring of that of the agency
as a whole, combining what is now twenty eight different
departments under HHS into just fifteen and trying to make
it more efficient. And this is a direct quote from
RFK Junior quote, we are streamlining HHS to make our
agency more efficient and more effective. We will eliminate an
entire alphabet soup of departments while preserving their core functions
by merging them into new organizations called the Administration for
a Healthy America. And what is the objection to that?
I mean, there is so much hand ringing and pearl
clutching on the left over what's going on in Washington,
DC right now with all of these changes, with all
of these cuts. There's a direct quote from the guy
RFK Juniors in charge of HI. He was confirmed by
the United States Senate, and what what do you object to?
In his statement right there, We're going to eliminate the
alphabet soup while preserving their core functions by merging them
into various different entities and groups under the umbrella, which
is the Department of Health and Human Services.
Speaker 3: What is the objection?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm seeing so much outrage over what's going
on in the administration, all of these terrible, awful things
that are happening under Trump and Ela Musk and all
of these cabinet secretaries, and I'm just failing to wrap
my head around why there is so much pushback. What
did that statement do you objectly disagree with? You don't
want HHS to be more efficient and more effective. You
don't want the federal government to cut its waste, fraud,
and abuse.
Speaker 3: Now, I guess maybe.
Speaker 2: If you're an individual that's getting rich skimming off the
top of the federal government, you probably I think this
is terrified because it looks like the bigot's about to
be turned off and you're no longer going to be
able to grift off the federal government. So if you're
in that boat, I can understand your objection. But for
everybody else, that's on the left. That's not grifting off
the federal government patting their own pockets. What do you
not like about this? Do you want your government to
be bloated and inefficient?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: That's not what I pay for. When I have to
go through and deal with my tax returns in April,
I don't want to deal with that. I don't understand
the objection seven four or five seven oh eleven ten.
That's seven oh four or five seven oh eleven ten.
Let's head on over to line one. David's hanging on
the line of this afternoon, David, welcome to the Pete
Calendar Show.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: You just hit on my question for you. It was
who and why does this pushback happen? There's not that
many and it's all over the news that these people
are pushing back on not saving money. They don't realize
that they are footing that we are footing the bill
for these ridiculous programs. That why would you, why would
you continue to fight for spending more money out of
your own pocket?
Speaker 2: You know, if you're you're you're spot on, and I
can understand if like I hear, if I heard Stacy Abrams,
for example, say this, is a disaster. We can't have
this happening. I would understand it because she has enriched
herself by the tunes of tens of millions of dollars
at the hands of the federal government. She's gotten rich
off of sucking off the government. I mean, she's done
a phenomenal job at leeching onto that and and sucking
down tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to
all of these various groups and organizations in the state
of Georgia. So for her, David, I understand why she
would be petrified by this. But for your average everyday
progressive liberal that is just you know, living their life
working in the private sector, working in the private business,
and then decides that they're going to start parroting this,
I truly don't understand.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't get it at all. Why would
you be okay with your government having huge amounts of bloat, waste,
and inefficiencies. Maybe I'm just not smart enough to wrap
my head around it.
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not I'm not too far left for it.
Speaker 4: I guess I can't. I can't get my head wrapped
around it that these most of these people that are complaining,
at least the ones that I see online and on
YouTube and TikTok and whatever, are are seemed to be
regular everyday people that go to work. Maybe they do,
maybe they don't. But you, as you spoke about the
person in Georgia that benefits one person there two hundred
and seventy million Americans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and I think this comes down to
the old Orange Man Bad theory, and this really breaks
down into it is just an attempt by the left.
The individuals that are in fact getting rich, the individuals
that are sucking the system dry, the individuals that are
leeching off the federal government.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: They are able to propagate this.
Speaker 2: Message through outlets like you know, MSNBC for example. They're
able to go on there and try and talk about
how awful this is. And I guess people on the
left who watch this kind of content and enjoy consuming
this content decide they're just gonna parot it and just say,
you know, just like a bunch of sheep, everybody buying
along to the exact same thing. When the reality is
these people are the ones that are getting screwed by
the government being inefficient. These are the people that are
pay as you noted, you're paying for this when you
deal with your when you look at your pay stub
every two weeks, you can see all of the money
that you're spending on the federal government. What if you
getting for those services? It's unbeknownst to me, David, Thanks
for the call this afternoon at seven oh four or
five seven oh eleven ten. That's seven oh four or
five seven oh eleven ten. If somebody's got the answer
out there this afternoon.
Speaker 3: I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 2: I really would love to know why you are in
favor of inefficient government. I would really love to know
why you think it's a bad thing. When RFK Junior says, quote,
we are streamlining HHS to make our agency more efficient
and more effective. We will eliminate the entire alphabet soup
of departments while preserving their core functions by merging them
into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America.
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Speaker 2: We're discussing the news out of HHS yesterday, Robert F.
Kennedy Junior announcing that he plans on cutting about a
ten thousand positions overall, that agency will shrink from where
it is right now eighty two thousand full time employees.
That's not contractors, not any of the other groups they
work with. Eighty two thousand FTEs full time employees within
HHS to sixty two thousand coming up. And there's so
much outrage over this. There is so much pearl clutching
over what's going on within the federal government right now.
And I've yet to hear a salient argument from anybody
as to why you are opposed to government being more
efficient and more effective. It's not a catch twenty two.
It's not a gotcha question. Why would you be opposed
to government being better at what they do? Why would
you be opposed to government providing better services to the
people that pay for them?
Speaker 3: You and I?
Speaker 2: What is your opposition to that? Seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven ten. AND's hanging online too, she knows
why there's so much pushback. And Welcome to the Pete
Calendar Show with Nick Craig this afternoon.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Well, last night I had this conversation or a couple
of days ago. I forget when it was someone that
comes from another country and goes to a free clinic,
receives everything for free, right and then they grow up
with that sot and then they come to hear and
they go, why is everything not free? And I said, well,
who pays for this in that free clinic? Who pays
for it? Couldn't answer me. Sure, Well, I'm sorry. The
answer was the government. I said, who pays for it?
The government? I said, who is the government? The government?
So I was like, oh my gosh, at least twenty
five percent of our population thinks like this maybe, And.
Speaker 2: I think it's a very I mean, and this is
a I guess more of a civics issue than it
is anything else. And where you've got a whole group
of individuals that don't truly understand that government doesn't really
provide anything. Now, yes, they physically provide services, right, they
do operate entities, but they're not adding to anything in
regards to the economy. Yes, they're paying a bunch of
people to work for them, but they're not creating any value.
They're not like the like the free market, like private business.
They're not adding to the country as a whole in
any meaningful way. Yes, some of the services are very important.
I don't think all of those need to go away.
That's not what I'm advocating for saying should happen. But
there's this idea that just, oh, well, the government does it.
Speaker 3: The government?
Speaker 2: This the government that I guess, and we got to
go back to school and get back to teaching civics
to our youngest individuals, get back.
Speaker 5: For five year olds. Don't know this. I hardly know it,
and I'm almost seventy.
Speaker 2: This is a problem with our education system. There's no idea.
Speaker 5: Fifty years if I don't know, and I think my
Civics teacher really didn't know or care. I don't know,
but I got straight a's the whole way through to college. Everything,
graduate a top the class in college. And still all
of this is very you know not It's not something
I could grab a hold of and understand. I have
to study it now after fifty I have to actually
study this. How do you get on the school board?
Why do we have a school board? And who are
they responsible for?
Speaker 6: Or two?
Speaker 5: No, they are sucked in as soon as they're taking
off the ballot and whisk off to any a training
so that they can say yes to everybody, because you
don't want to be the only one on the board
saying no, yeah, and it's out training like.
Speaker 2: That, and it's unfortunate because it exists in every level
of government. And appreciate your call this afternoon at seven
oh four or five seven oh eleven ten. That's seven
oh four or five seven oh eleven ten. It's it's
all over the place, and whether you're talking about something
like a local school board in all one hundred counties
across the state, or looking at agencies within the federal
or within state government, whatever it might be, DMV is
probably the greatest example of it. Have you had to
go through the process of getting a license recently? I
know the real ID deadlines coming up? What two months
from now may I think, or maybe it's next month April.
Sometime in the next couple of months. You can't get
a DMV appointment in any near any major metro area
in the state for like six months. You gotta drive
three hours to the middle of nowhere to get a
new driver's license.
Speaker 3: But yet the.
Speaker 2: Same people that are freaking out and having conniptions over r.
FK Junior announcing that he's decreasing the HHS work by
ten thousand have nothing to say about the inefficiencies and
have no comments about how slow and ineffective government is
in places like North Carolina, things that actually impact their life.
Mum is the word for these individuals. And again I'll ask,
I'll throw that out there. What is the objection to
the inefficiency? What is the objection to the cost cutting.
I'm not in favor of people losing their jobs. I
don't want people to lose their jobs. I don't know
anybody that wants individuals to lose their jobs. But what
I do want is to have a sustainable country going forward.
What I do want is to have a country that
is fiscally responsible, a country that can support itself and
try and work itself and dig itself out of thirty
six and a half trillion.
Speaker 3: Dollars in debt.
Speaker 2: I want a country that is not running a two
plus trillion dollars a year budget deficit.
Speaker 3: These are the.
Speaker 2: Things that we want and need if our society is
going to continue. You can't borrow forever. At some point
the lender is gonna start calling. At some point the
people that we have borrowed this money from are going
to come and ask for it. Eventually, programs are going
to be insolvent.
Speaker 3: You've heard the.
Speaker 2: Discussions about things like Social Security. These programs are frankly
running out of money. It's not sustainable. So if you're
outraged over the AHHS or any other agency that's making
these cuts, if you're outraged over the Department of Government
efficiencies and the things that they have tried to do,
and you're you're completely in abject to that, you want
nothing to do with it. I don't know why. I
can't wrap my head around it at all. Let's head
back to the phone lines at seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven, ten, Paul, you're hanging online one, Paul,
Good afternoon, walcome to the Peak Counter show with Nick Craig.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, I should take it, Michael. Nick, when we're
talking about all these people's jobs being canceled. In twenty
twenty three, Biden touted they added eight fifty thousand jobs
to the economy, and the same thing at twenty twenty four,
And these are all those jobs they just put people
on the payroll so they can tell big numbers. Sure,
so they getting rid of all of that now, yeah, Oh.
Speaker 3: That's exactly the case.
Speaker 2: And again it comes back to this discussion that the
federal government should not be in the employment field. I
mean when we look at a jobs report, we should
not be patting ourselves on the back and saying, good job,
we added one hundred and fifty thousand new people to
the federal government. That is not a metric that should
be good for everyday normal American people. That's not something
that you want to strive for. You want private business
that invests in their communities. It's not only is it
not economical, it's just not practical. You want private The
federal government doesn't add to the GDP. The federal government
doesn't gain any wealth for the country as a whole,
doesn't provide anything to the overall status of the economy
except for literally giving people a paycheck and benefits.
Speaker 3: That's it. And that's not good exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 3: Good at all.
Speaker 2: And you're right, Paul, thanks for reminding me of the
Biden job numbers, which you know, by the way, every
time those numbers came out, what ended up happening, like
three months later was they'd go back and go, um,
there was a like a rounding error, some math error,
and we're revising those numbers. We said we created one
hundred thousand jobs, but it was actually like thirty thousand jobs.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: That was a constant trick of the Biden administration coming
out with a great jobs report and then having to
go back and revise the numbers three months later, when
at that point who cares, Right, the numbers are already out,
the data is already out there. Nobody cares about the
July jobs report when Christmas is rolling around, Right, you
can revive those numbers in im perpetuity going forward and
nobody cares. It's not a story, very disingenuous, very deceitful
from the administration, but they did it literally the entire time.
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