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And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 2: Busy Friday, not only across the world, but also the 11 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:35,840 nation of course, keeping an eye on that massive earthquake 12 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,799 that took place in parts of Thailand in the very 13 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:41,600 early morning hours here on the East Coast. Some of 14 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,719 the pictures and stories coming out there. I'm looking at 15 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:47,320 a headline right now thousands fear dead after that seven 16 00:00:47,359 --> 00:00:50,320 point seven magnitude earthquake. We'll check on that coming up 17 00:00:50,359 --> 00:00:52,159 here in a little bit. But I wanted to start 18 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,159 off this afternoon with something that you are hearing echoed 19 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,600 through the entire administration, and it ties in with a 20 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:02,479 big interview that took place last night on Fox News. 21 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:07,719 Brett Baher hosted a hosted elon Musk and the Doge Boys, 22 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,000 as it will call them, of course, the Department of 23 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,079 Government efficiency in the works that are going on there. 24 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,159 But really it's not even just DOGE. If you look 25 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,920 across all of the individuals that Trump has decided that 26 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,599 he would want to work with, all of the various secretaries, 27 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,760 the individual's his cabinet, the people that have been confirmed 28 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,920 by the Senate over the last couple of months. This 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,959 is something that you are seeing across the board. And 30 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,840 the news yesterday afternoon was over at HHS, Health and 31 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:45,319 Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior is estimating that 32 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:49,280 he's trying to cut more than ten thousand employees. Why 33 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:53,079 is he trying to do so? He claims that HHS 34 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:56,280 is currently not acting in a way that is efficient 35 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,120 for government. 36 00:01:57,799 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: Now, I found these numbers to be pretty eepop. 37 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,799 Speaker 2: Prior to the Trump administration getting in there, HHS had 38 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:10,719 a total workforce of eighty two thousand individuals, eighty two 39 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,360 thousand people working at HHS. So now there's some big 40 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,639 agencies under HHS. You've got the CDC, the Food and 41 00:02:19,719 --> 00:02:24,599 Drug Administration, the National Institute of Health, or Anthony Fauci's outlet. 42 00:02:24,759 --> 00:02:28,240 So there's some major, major groups that are under HHS. 43 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,680 And the question that I think is being asked now, 44 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:34,759 and it's definitely being asked by these new secretary in 45 00:02:34,879 --> 00:02:38,479 RFK Junior, is can this work be done with less people? 46 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:42,800 And that's really been the big trend of this administration. 47 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,960 You know, if you look at some of the framing 48 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,400 on this from the progressive left, you will be believed 49 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,319 that the attempt by the administration is to essentially just 50 00:02:52,599 --> 00:02:55,960 shut down the government, right, would just strip everything from 51 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,080 the federal government. There's nothing left, nobody has a job, 52 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:02,319 nobody gets any government services. It all just go immediately 53 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,840 goes to hell and a ham basket. But that's not 54 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:09,120 what's being done at all. I've seen nothing from either Trump, 55 00:03:09,479 --> 00:03:12,759 Vice President Vance, you could look at Lee Zelden, you 56 00:03:12,759 --> 00:03:15,599 can look at Hegseth Orfk Junior. From none of these 57 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,599 secretary and none of these cabinet officials. I have seen 58 00:03:19,719 --> 00:03:22,759 nothing from them that indicates that they are trying to 59 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,919 completely gut and get rid of their departments. 60 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:26,199 Speaker 4: Now. 61 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,879 Speaker 2: The only example that you can come up with is 62 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,400 the Department of Education. But with the Department of Education, 63 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,520 the discussion is, well, we're not going to stop providing 64 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,360 these programs. We're just going to give the money directly 65 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,719 to the states and allow them to administer them. Right, 66 00:03:41,759 --> 00:03:44,199 that's the discussion going on in the Department of Ed. 67 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:49,800 But everywhere else the key focus is efficiency and effectiveness, 68 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:53,479 and that is a message that I think is very 69 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:58,520 much hitting home with the American people. We don't interface 70 00:03:58,599 --> 00:04:01,000 with the federal government all that. I mean, maybe if you're, 71 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:03,879 depending on what field you're in for work, maybe you're 72 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,800 working with a government contractor so. 73 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 3: Some of you may made. 74 00:04:07,439 --> 00:04:10,719 Speaker 2: But for the vast majority of the American people, you're 75 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,319 interfacing with the federal government is incredibly limited. Now, if 76 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,399 you are somebody that pays your taxes once a year, 77 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:20,720 as you're supposed to in April, there's an interface with 78 00:04:20,759 --> 00:04:22,240 the government you deal with the irs. 79 00:04:22,319 --> 00:04:23,079 Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not. 80 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 2: You just file it through Turbo tax or something and 81 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,680 you're said and done. Maybe you have to go through 82 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:31,079 and get a new passport at that renewed. There's an 83 00:04:31,079 --> 00:04:34,560 interface with the federal government if you're getting Social Security 84 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:37,519 or or some other federal program. Okay, little interface here 85 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,839 and there, but for the most part, it's not something 86 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:42,519 that happens all the time. It's not something that as 87 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,920 you are going throughout your life each and every day, 88 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,959 you are constantly interfacing with the federal government, and there's 89 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,920 good reason for it. You'd lose your mind if you 90 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:55,959 had to interface with the federal government every single day 91 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,360 because things happen in such a slow manyner in Washington, 92 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:07,279 d C. Things happen so slowly and so inefficiently. It 93 00:05:07,319 --> 00:05:11,800 really is remarkable. And you can look at any small 94 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:16,720 sole proprietor small business to your medium size to major 95 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,519 business institution. You can look at all through the spectrum, 96 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,399 from one guy to tens of thousands of people working 97 00:05:23,439 --> 00:05:26,439 for a company. No way could this exist in the 98 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:31,160 private enterprise. There is no business that could operate with 99 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,519 the ineffective nature that the federal government does and not 100 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,120 be completely out of business, not have a mass group 101 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,519 of their employees jumping ship and going and trying to 102 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:45,920 work somewhere else because they can't stand working for that company. 103 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,439 That's what would happen in the real private sector if 104 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,959 we took government, cloned the government, and put it somewhere else. 105 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:57,279 I mean, it would just be a disaster because there's 106 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,319 no incentive. Right in private busines business, there's incentive, which 107 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,920 is what profit whether you're somebody that gets your paycheck 108 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,680 based on profit or not. The business's goal is profit, 109 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,800 to make as much money as possible and spend as 110 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,439 little as possible. And I know that that's a big 111 00:06:15,759 --> 00:06:18,600 sticking point for those on the left. That's the evil 112 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,560 capitalist system that we live under here in America, right, 113 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,680 the woes of awful capitalism that has destroyed the world. 114 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 4: Right. 115 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 2: But that's the goal of business, make as much money 116 00:06:31,399 --> 00:06:34,759 as possible with spending as little as possible. Now, that 117 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,319 doesn't mean that you treat your employees poorly. That doesn't 118 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,480 mean that you treat your customers like garbage. 119 00:06:40,519 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 3: No, not at all. 120 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 2: You should provide good support to your customers. You should 121 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:49,240 give your employees a good place to work, a nice 122 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,800 environment for them to do their job. Because guess what 123 00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:55,240 happens when those employees are taken care of. They work, 124 00:06:56,079 --> 00:06:58,879 They want to work, they want to continue to do 125 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,959 things for the company that is employing them. So there's 126 00:07:02,199 --> 00:07:06,480 built in incentives for those things to take place. None 127 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:10,879 of that exists in the federal government. Tell me what 128 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:16,720 the incentive is for somebody within HHS to do their job. 129 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,839 Tell me what the incentive is for somebody in the 130 00:07:20,879 --> 00:07:23,279 irs to stop giving you the run around when you 131 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:25,480 have an issue with your taxes and need to figure 132 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,480 out why you're not getting your return. And I don't 133 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,279 think it's because the people working there are bad people. 134 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,519 This is something else that is being parroted by the left. Oh, 135 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,759 you hate people that work for the government. I don't 136 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,399 think that's the case at all. I mean, the individuals 137 00:07:40,399 --> 00:07:44,399 that are actually doing the work of these agencies are normal, decent, 138 00:07:44,519 --> 00:07:49,319 good people, but they're bogged down with so much bureaucracy. 139 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:54,199 They're bogged down with so many procedures and standards and checklists, 140 00:07:54,279 --> 00:07:57,000 and I've got to jump through nineteen hoops before i 141 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,000 can get to the answer to your question. 142 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,439 Speaker 3: That they're just they can't do their job. 143 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: They've been completely bogged down by the system, and the 144 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,399 end result is they end providing poor service. This can't 145 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,279 exist in private business. 146 00:08:11,399 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 3: It just can't. 147 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 2: You literally can't sustain it. You will go out of business. 148 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,680 You will have no customers, no employees, and no money. 149 00:08:19,439 --> 00:08:22,360 Yet that's how the federal government has operated, at least 150 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,279 now for the modern age, and go back fifty sixty 151 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:29,959 seventy years with the rise in the bloat and the 152 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:35,399 increase in what is now the federal government. This didn't 153 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,080 just happen overnight. Nobody flipped the light switch on and 154 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,679 all of a sudden the federal government ballooned out of control. 155 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:45,240 This was a slow gradual increase of more and more 156 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:50,600 temporary government programs and more temporary this and temporary that 157 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,200 that have become permanent. And so when you look at 158 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,360 Robert F. Kennedy Junior and his work over at Health 159 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,440 and Human Services, and I'll get into some of his 160 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:02,000 quotes come up here in a minute, when you look 161 00:09:02,039 --> 00:09:05,120 at what he's doing, he is talking about cutting the 162 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,399 inefficiencies within HHS. I mean, have you read the horror 163 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,399 stories of trying to deal with the FDA. When individuals 164 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,960 are trying to get a new product to go through 165 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,480 the FDA seal so it can be sold. It's a disaster. 166 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:24,320 I mean it's a complete, no hutter disaster. Things take 167 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,440 a decade to get through FDA. And that's not because oh, 168 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,559 this is all rigorous testing. No, it's because there's bureaucracy, 169 00:09:31,879 --> 00:09:35,120 bloat and red tape, and the end result in companies 170 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,879 end up wasting hundreds of millions of dollars waiting on 171 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:40,879 the process, the consumer doesn't get new products that they 172 00:09:40,879 --> 00:09:43,000 could use to help their lives. It's a mess for 173 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,320 everybody except government doesn't care. Government doesn't have any incentive, 174 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,440 Government has no reason to do the job in a 175 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:51,399 more efficient manner. 176 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:53,519 Speaker 1: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 177 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,600 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 178 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,679 and I know you do too. And you've probably heard 179 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,759 me say, get your news from multiple source verus. 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This 198 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:03,360 has been a major talking point, not just for Elon Musk, 199 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:06,399 not just for the President and the boys over at DOZE, 200 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:07,960 who will hear from a little bit later on in 201 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,159 the program, but just literally across the entire administration. I 202 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,039 mean from Linda McMahon over at Department of Ed to 203 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,559 Lee Zelden at EPA to now the big story this 204 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,960 afternoon Robert Kennedy over at HHS, where he has announced 205 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,000 a program to cut ten thousand full time employees from 206 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,440 HHS and save the federal government an estimated one point 207 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:38,480 three billion dollars a year one point three billion dollars. 208 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,039 And Kennedy said this yesterday quote, this will be a 209 00:11:44,159 --> 00:11:49,240 painful period for HHS as we downsize. We're keenly focused 210 00:11:49,279 --> 00:11:54,080 on pairing away excessive administrations while increasing the number of 211 00:11:54,159 --> 00:11:58,279 scientists and frontline healthcare providers. That we can do a 212 00:11:58,279 --> 00:12:01,679 better job, and he fully admits it and understands it, 213 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,799 and he's right. This is going to be a painful process. 214 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,279 It is not good when people lose their jobs. Nobody 215 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,039 is cheering for individuals to lose their jobs. 216 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 3: I'm not. 217 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 2: I don't know anybody that is. But unfortunately, we have 218 00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:21,960 backed ourselves into this corner. We have decided that we 219 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,799 were going to allow government to run out of control 220 00:12:25,879 --> 00:12:29,519 in its scope, scale and size, and the end result 221 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,879 of that is the current debt situation that the United 222 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:36,720 States is in. You're familiar with the US Debt clock website. 223 00:12:37,399 --> 00:12:40,679 I think it's the usdet Clock dot org or something 224 00:12:40,759 --> 00:12:44,559 like that. You look over there, we're like thirty six 225 00:12:44,759 --> 00:12:48,399 trillion dollars in debt. I mean, it's an absurd amount 226 00:12:48,399 --> 00:12:52,240 of money. And a lot of that comes from spending 227 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:55,320 within the government. A lot of that comes from all 228 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:58,799 of these federal agencies, all of these entities that are 229 00:12:58,919 --> 00:13:02,879 just too big and and to harp to something that 230 00:13:02,879 --> 00:13:06,600 Ela Musk proved to the American people was his purchase 231 00:13:06,639 --> 00:13:10,840 of x He fired what seventy percent of the employees 232 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,159 that worked at what was Twitter when he bought it, 233 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:19,360 Yet the service still works, The services operational twenty four 234 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,480 hours a day, seven days a week. Yeah, it's got 235 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,200 its little hiccups here and there, but so to all 236 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:24,960 of the major social media platforms. 237 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 3: YouTube goes down for a. 238 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,919 Speaker 2: Couple hours at a time, Facebook has a big outage, 239 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,279 and WhatsApp that stuff's down for a couple of hours. 240 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,600 Nothing out of the ordinary for these major tech companies. 241 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:38,080 It's unfortunately something that they all deal with. It happens 242 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,200 a couple of times a year. And there's a whole 243 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,200 bunch of controversy in Mayhem. When you can't post what 244 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,200 you're having for lunch on your Facebook for a couple 245 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,159 of hours, people tend to lose their minds. But he 246 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:53,600 completely gutted Twitter. Yet the service still runs. Yet it's 247 00:13:53,639 --> 00:13:57,720 still operational. And that was that you prove to me, 248 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,639 proved that, okay, this can be done right. There is 249 00:14:01,919 --> 00:14:05,200 a track record. There is a way in which you 250 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,159 can scale back a major institution, a major company. Twitter 251 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,799 one of the largest social media outlets in the world 252 00:14:11,919 --> 00:14:14,759 at the time when it was purchased by Ela Mosque, 253 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,039 wasn't worth anything, wasn't making any money, but it was 254 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,159 one of the largest in the world. Everybody was using 255 00:14:21,159 --> 00:14:24,360 a hundreds of millions of active users, a day across 256 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:26,919 the world, and he was able to cut so many 257 00:14:26,919 --> 00:14:30,919 of the employees and still provide the service. That's not easy. 258 00:14:31,879 --> 00:14:33,840 There's a lot of people that are affected by that. 259 00:14:34,279 --> 00:14:37,639 There's families that are affected by that. It's a really 260 00:14:37,759 --> 00:14:42,440 tough situation. But unfortunately, this and this is something that 261 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,720 seems to be lost in politics a lot of the time. 262 00:14:44,759 --> 00:14:47,480 And it's something that I can talk about a lot. 263 00:14:47,639 --> 00:14:52,320 And mention is that actions have consequences, and when we 264 00:14:52,399 --> 00:14:56,559 talk about our political system, actions have consequences. 265 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 3: You can't just. 266 00:14:57,399 --> 00:15:00,279 Speaker 2: Do things and not expect there to be a result. 267 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:04,759 And the action was that government was allowed to run 268 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:08,399 out of control. Government was never told no, you can't 269 00:15:08,399 --> 00:15:12,399 do this. No you can't hire these people. No you 270 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,639 can't expand the size of your agency. No you can't 271 00:15:15,679 --> 00:15:18,799 create a new department and hire hundreds, if not thousands, 272 00:15:18,879 --> 00:15:19,840 of new individuals. 273 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 3: Government was never told that. They were always told yes. 274 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,679 Speaker 2: That's why the federal workforce has ballooned to where it 275 00:15:27,759 --> 00:15:32,120 is right now. That's why our government spending our two 276 00:15:32,279 --> 00:15:36,919 trillion dollars a year federal budget deficit exists because nobody 277 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:41,200 was ever told, no, would you like to have all 278 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,480 of these departments. Yes, but then you get into the 279 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,200 need versus want debate, something that you and I deal 280 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,480 with every single day. Plenty of things that we with, 281 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:53,399 plenty of things that we want. We don't get all those, 282 00:15:54,039 --> 00:15:57,440 but we make sure we have the needs. Government has 283 00:15:57,559 --> 00:16:00,960 never been in that position. And so going back to 284 00:16:01,039 --> 00:16:05,960 the actions versus consequences debate, there were actions that were 285 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,360 taken to allow government to expand to the size that 286 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,080 it was, and unfortunately the consequence to that was out 287 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:16,120 of control spending and thirty six plus trillion dollars in debt. Right, 288 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,639 there is an analog there. You can connect the dots 289 00:16:19,799 --> 00:16:24,279 very easily and show the problem that it created. And 290 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,399 the reality is it's not sustainable. You can't operate a 291 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:33,159 country long term with a two trillion dollar a year 292 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:39,240 annual deficit. A country cannot sustain itself financially. At thirty 293 00:16:39,279 --> 00:16:42,320 six and a half trillion dollars worth of national debt, 294 00:16:43,279 --> 00:16:47,159 it's over one hundred thousand dollars per person person not 295 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:52,000 taxpayer person. The second a child is born, one hundred 296 00:16:52,039 --> 00:16:55,159 and seven thousand dollars in debt that child has on 297 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,120 its head. Is that sustainable to you? Is that a 298 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,480 good system that we're operating in. It's it's completely unexplainable 299 00:17:03,519 --> 00:17:09,240 to me. It's completely ridiculous. The second that if you're 300 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,559 if you're having a child, the second your child's born, 301 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:13,480 you're gonna go out and take a loan against their name, 302 00:17:14,279 --> 00:17:16,680 set them up for financial ruin by the time they 303 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,279 turn eighteen years old, and borrow a bunch of money 304 00:17:19,279 --> 00:17:19,839 against them. 305 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 3: You would never do that. 306 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 2: Not only is it illegal and would you be thrown 307 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,319 in jail, but why would you set up your child 308 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:32,119 for that kind of failure. That's exactly what's happening at 309 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,400 the federal level. We are robbing the current and future 310 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,279 generations in terms of, you know, robbing them financially to 311 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,119 pay for our out of control government that exists right now. 312 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,359 We are robbing them blindly right now. And all of 313 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,799 it is to continue the size and the scope of government, 314 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,880 to continue to allow things to run and operate just 315 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,680 in the status quo, the way that things have always 316 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:04,880 been done. When you need something, when you want something 317 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,519 within the federal government, you and you want this new agency, 318 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:11,240 when you want these new employees, you just get them. 319 00:18:11,279 --> 00:18:14,079 And all of that is coming to a screeching halt. 320 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,599 It's being heard all over the map. So this move 321 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:24,880 over at HHS, we're reducing the workforce size by ten thousand, 322 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,200 which is on top of ten thousand workers that already 323 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,720 opted to leave the government on their own. Is going 324 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,519 to cut HHS's total workforce from eighty two thousand to 325 00:18:34,799 --> 00:18:41,000 sixty two thousand. It's a remarkable reduction in employees. And 326 00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:44,640 with all of that, the question is being asked, well, 327 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,240 can you continue to operate? Can you continue to provide 328 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:52,119 the core services that these entities should be providing with 329 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,720 these massive cuts, And I think the answer is yes. 330 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,799 Part of the plan is to consolidate the current twenty 331 00:18:59,839 --> 00:19:03,079 eight eight divisions that exist under HHS, which you can 332 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,960 guarantee have redundancy. There are the same people doing the 333 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,720 same work probably across a vast majority of these twenty 334 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:13,759 eight divisions. Why would you have and why would you 335 00:19:13,839 --> 00:19:16,880 be paying hundreds of people to do the exact same 336 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,200 thing across these different divisions. All of it's under the 337 00:19:20,279 --> 00:19:23,799 umbrella of HHS. But you can guarantee that work as 338 00:19:23,839 --> 00:19:29,000 being duplicated. Those efforts are taking place simultaneously, almost in parallel, 339 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,000 in all of these agencies, and we're paying hundreds of 340 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,839 full time employees to do that. RFK Junior's plan is 341 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,839 to take those twenty eight divisions and reduce them down 342 00:19:38,839 --> 00:19:42,720 to fifteen and at the same time introducing a new group, 343 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,559 the Administration for a Healthy America, something that RFK Junior 344 00:19:47,759 --> 00:19:51,200 made as a major point of his presidential campaign when 345 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,079 he was running and since then talked about that as 346 00:19:54,079 --> 00:19:56,680 he was on the campaign trail with Trump, chatting from 347 00:19:56,759 --> 00:20:01,240 time to time and talking about stuff making America healthy again. 348 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:06,799 So under this new division, there would be a group 349 00:20:06,839 --> 00:20:09,839 that was going to be dealing with mental health, workplace safety, 350 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,000 substance abuse, and more, all of that being combined under 351 00:20:13,039 --> 00:20:17,119 this new Administration for a Healthy America. And with that, 352 00:20:17,559 --> 00:20:22,000 there's also plans to consolidate offices for things like human resources. 353 00:20:22,079 --> 00:20:26,559 There you go, there's your redundancy, procurement policy, external affairs, 354 00:20:26,599 --> 00:20:30,680 and information technology, all of that duplicated over and over 355 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,799 and over again throughout the entire entity. And also, by 356 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:37,240 the way, they're cutting from five, they're cutting five of 357 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,759 its current ten regional offices, so cutting that number in half. 358 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 359 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,480 a really special and secluded getaway in Western North Carolina. 360 00:20:47,599 --> 00:20:49,759 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 361 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:54,160 Asheville is your connection. 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And this is a direct quote from 387 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,799 RFK Junior quote, we are streamlining HHS to make our 388 00:22:26,839 --> 00:22:31,200 agency more efficient and more effective. We will eliminate an 389 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:36,200 entire alphabet soup of departments while preserving their core functions 390 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,519 by merging them into new organizations called the Administration for 391 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:44,759 a Healthy America. And what is the objection to that? 392 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:48,000 I mean, there is so much hand ringing and pearl 393 00:22:48,039 --> 00:22:51,400 clutching on the left over what's going on in Washington, 394 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,279 DC right now with all of these changes, with all 395 00:22:54,319 --> 00:22:56,759 of these cuts. There's a direct quote from the guy 396 00:22:58,279 --> 00:23:01,319 RFK Juniors in charge of HI. He was confirmed by 397 00:23:01,319 --> 00:23:05,079 the United States Senate, and what what do you object to? 398 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,599 In his statement right there, We're going to eliminate the 399 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:13,119 alphabet soup while preserving their core functions by merging them 400 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:17,400 into various different entities and groups under the umbrella, which 401 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,279 is the Department of Health and Human Services. 402 00:23:20,319 --> 00:23:21,279 Speaker 3: What is the objection? 403 00:23:21,799 --> 00:23:25,319 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm seeing so much outrage over what's going 404 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,799 on in the administration, all of these terrible, awful things 405 00:23:28,799 --> 00:23:31,200 that are happening under Trump and Ela Musk and all 406 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,319 of these cabinet secretaries, and I'm just failing to wrap 407 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:38,319 my head around why there is so much pushback. What 408 00:23:39,319 --> 00:23:44,160 did that statement do you objectly disagree with? You don't 409 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,279 want HHS to be more efficient and more effective. You 410 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:51,920 don't want the federal government to cut its waste, fraud, 411 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:52,599 and abuse. 412 00:23:53,519 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 3: Now, I guess maybe. 413 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,839 Speaker 2: If you're an individual that's getting rich skimming off the 414 00:23:57,839 --> 00:24:00,440 top of the federal government, you probably I think this 415 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,799 is terrified because it looks like the bigot's about to 416 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:05,519 be turned off and you're no longer going to be 417 00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:09,240 able to grift off the federal government. So if you're 418 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,480 in that boat, I can understand your objection. But for 419 00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:15,880 everybody else, that's on the left. That's not grifting off 420 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,079 the federal government patting their own pockets. What do you 421 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,920 not like about this? Do you want your government to 422 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,359 be bloated and inefficient? 423 00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:24,799 Speaker 3: I don't. 424 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 2: That's not what I pay for. When I have to 425 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,279 go through and deal with my tax returns in April, 426 00:24:29,319 --> 00:24:32,680 I don't want to deal with that. I don't understand 427 00:24:32,799 --> 00:24:36,759 the objection seven four or five seven oh eleven ten. 428 00:24:36,839 --> 00:24:38,880 That's seven oh four or five seven oh eleven ten. 429 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,240 Let's head on over to line one. David's hanging on 430 00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:43,240 the line of this afternoon, David, welcome to the Pete 431 00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:43,839 Calendar Show. 432 00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:46,319 Speaker 3: Go ahead. 433 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,559 Speaker 4: You just hit on my question for you. It was 434 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:57,039 who and why does this pushback happen? There's not that 435 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:02,200 many and it's all over the news that these people 436 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,759 are pushing back on not saving money. They don't realize 437 00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:10,599 that they are footing that we are footing the bill 438 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:18,000 for these ridiculous programs. That why would you, why would 439 00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:23,160 you continue to fight for spending more money out of 440 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,119 your own pocket? 441 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,599 Speaker 2: You know, if you're you're you're spot on, and I 442 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,480 can understand if like I hear, if I heard Stacy Abrams, 443 00:25:31,519 --> 00:25:34,839 for example, say this, is a disaster. We can't have 444 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,920 this happening. I would understand it because she has enriched 445 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,759 herself by the tunes of tens of millions of dollars 446 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:44,640 at the hands of the federal government. She's gotten rich 447 00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:47,160 off of sucking off the government. I mean, she's done 448 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,559 a phenomenal job at leeching onto that and and sucking 449 00:25:50,599 --> 00:25:53,839 down tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to 450 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,039 all of these various groups and organizations in the state 451 00:25:58,079 --> 00:26:01,319 of Georgia. So for her, David, I understand why she 452 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,400 would be petrified by this. But for your average everyday 453 00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:08,799 progressive liberal that is just you know, living their life 454 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:11,680 working in the private sector, working in the private business, 455 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,480 and then decides that they're going to start parroting this, 456 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,480 I truly don't understand. 457 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:17,799 Speaker 3: I don't know. 458 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 2: I don't I don't get it at all. Why would 459 00:26:19,759 --> 00:26:23,880 you be okay with your government having huge amounts of bloat, waste, 460 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,920 and inefficiencies. Maybe I'm just not smart enough to wrap 461 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:27,519 my head around it. 462 00:26:27,559 --> 00:26:29,759 Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not I'm not too far left for it. 463 00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:33,039 Speaker 4: I guess I can't. I can't get my head wrapped 464 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:36,279 around it that these most of these people that are complaining, 465 00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:39,000 at least the ones that I see online and on 466 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:44,279 YouTube and TikTok and whatever, are are seemed to be 467 00:26:44,839 --> 00:26:47,960 regular everyday people that go to work. Maybe they do, 468 00:26:48,079 --> 00:26:51,240 maybe they don't. But you, as you spoke about the 469 00:26:51,279 --> 00:26:57,119 person in Georgia that benefits one person there two hundred 470 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:58,799 and seventy million Americans. 471 00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and I think this comes down to 472 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,200 the old Orange Man Bad theory, and this really breaks 473 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,880 down into it is just an attempt by the left. 474 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,880 The individuals that are in fact getting rich, the individuals 475 00:27:15,039 --> 00:27:17,799 that are sucking the system dry, the individuals that are 476 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,440 leeching off the federal government. 477 00:27:19,559 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 4: Right. 478 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,039 Speaker 3: They are able to propagate this. 479 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:25,519 Speaker 2: Message through outlets like you know, MSNBC for example. They're 480 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:28,680 able to go on there and try and talk about 481 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,759 how awful this is. And I guess people on the 482 00:27:31,799 --> 00:27:35,000 left who watch this kind of content and enjoy consuming 483 00:27:35,039 --> 00:27:38,599 this content decide they're just gonna parot it and just say, 484 00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:41,359 you know, just like a bunch of sheep, everybody buying 485 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,519 along to the exact same thing. When the reality is 486 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,920 these people are the ones that are getting screwed by 487 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,079 the government being inefficient. These are the people that are 488 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,680 pay as you noted, you're paying for this when you 489 00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:55,359 deal with your when you look at your pay stub 490 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,680 every two weeks, you can see all of the money 491 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,160 that you're spending on the federal government. What if you 492 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,480 getting for those services? It's unbeknownst to me, David, Thanks 493 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,680 for the call this afternoon at seven oh four or 494 00:28:05,759 --> 00:28:08,680 five seven oh eleven ten. That's seven oh four or 495 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,720 five seven oh eleven ten. If somebody's got the answer 496 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,440 out there this afternoon. 497 00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 3: I'd love to hear it. 498 00:28:16,279 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 2: I really would love to know why you are in 499 00:28:18,759 --> 00:28:22,680 favor of inefficient government. I would really love to know 500 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,880 why you think it's a bad thing. When RFK Junior says, quote, 501 00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:31,640 we are streamlining HHS to make our agency more efficient 502 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,000 and more effective. We will eliminate the entire alphabet soup 503 00:28:36,039 --> 00:28:40,279 of departments while preserving their core functions by merging them 504 00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:45,880 into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America. 505 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,039 Tell me why, Let me know why that. 506 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: Is all right? 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Located in mint Hill, just off four eighty five. 523 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,720 Mail orders are accepted to get all the details that 524 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,920 createavideo dot com. 525 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 2: We're discussing the news out of HHS yesterday, Robert F. 526 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,599 Kennedy Junior announcing that he plans on cutting about a 527 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,599 ten thousand positions overall, that agency will shrink from where 528 00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:06,000 it is right now eighty two thousand full time employees. 529 00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:08,880 That's not contractors, not any of the other groups they 530 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,880 work with. Eighty two thousand FTEs full time employees within 531 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,599 HHS to sixty two thousand coming up. And there's so 532 00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:20,839 much outrage over this. There is so much pearl clutching 533 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,160 over what's going on within the federal government right now. 534 00:30:24,279 --> 00:30:27,440 And I've yet to hear a salient argument from anybody 535 00:30:27,759 --> 00:30:31,759 as to why you are opposed to government being more 536 00:30:31,759 --> 00:30:35,039 efficient and more effective. It's not a catch twenty two. 537 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,839 It's not a gotcha question. Why would you be opposed 538 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:42,279 to government being better at what they do? Why would 539 00:30:42,359 --> 00:30:46,319 you be opposed to government providing better services to the 540 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,759 people that pay for them? 541 00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 3: You and I? 542 00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 2: What is your opposition to that? Seven oh four, five, 543 00:30:52,799 --> 00:30:55,839 seven oh eleven ten. AND's hanging online too, she knows 544 00:30:55,839 --> 00:30:58,079 why there's so much pushback. And Welcome to the Pete 545 00:30:58,119 --> 00:30:59,720 Calendar Show with Nick Craig this afternoon. 546 00:31:00,039 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 3: What's going on? 547 00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:05,319 Speaker 5: Well, last night I had this conversation or a couple 548 00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:09,240 of days ago. I forget when it was someone that 549 00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:11,920 comes from another country and goes to a free clinic, 550 00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:17,359 receives everything for free, right and then they grow up 551 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,759 with that sot and then they come to hear and 552 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,480 they go, why is everything not free? And I said, well, 553 00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:30,000 who pays for this in that free clinic? Who pays 554 00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:36,440 for it? Couldn't answer me. Sure, Well, I'm sorry. The 555 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:41,599 answer was the government. I said, who pays for it? 556 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,160 The government? I said, who is the government? The government? 557 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,799 So I was like, oh my gosh, at least twenty 558 00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:57,960 five percent of our population thinks like this maybe, And. 559 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 2: I think it's a very I mean, and this is 560 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,880 a I guess more of a civics issue than it 561 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,000 is anything else. And where you've got a whole group 562 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:11,839 of individuals that don't truly understand that government doesn't really 563 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,480 provide anything. Now, yes, they physically provide services, right, they 564 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:21,079 do operate entities, but they're not adding to anything in 565 00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:24,200 regards to the economy. Yes, they're paying a bunch of 566 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,720 people to work for them, but they're not creating any value. 567 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,519 They're not like the like the free market, like private business. 568 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,480 They're not adding to the country as a whole in 569 00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:37,880 any meaningful way. Yes, some of the services are very important. 570 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,480 I don't think all of those need to go away. 571 00:32:39,519 --> 00:32:43,359 That's not what I'm advocating for saying should happen. But 572 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,160 there's this idea that just, oh, well, the government does it. 573 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:46,759 Speaker 3: The government? 574 00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 2: This the government that I guess, and we got to 575 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,759 go back to school and get back to teaching civics 576 00:32:51,799 --> 00:32:55,680 to our youngest individuals, get back. 577 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,839 Speaker 5: For five year olds. Don't know this. I hardly know it, 578 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,680 and I'm almost seventy. 579 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 2: This is a problem with our education system. There's no idea. 580 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 5: Fifty years if I don't know, and I think my 581 00:33:13,039 --> 00:33:15,680 Civics teacher really didn't know or care. I don't know, 582 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,880 but I got straight a's the whole way through to college. Everything, 583 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,880 graduate a top the class in college. And still all 584 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:27,920 of this is very you know not It's not something 585 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,079 I could grab a hold of and understand. I have 586 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,240 to study it now after fifty I have to actually 587 00:33:33,279 --> 00:33:35,799 study this. How do you get on the school board? 588 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000 Why do we have a school board? And who are 589 00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:39,200 they responsible for? 590 00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:40,119 Speaker 6: Or two? 591 00:33:41,039 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 5: No, they are sucked in as soon as they're taking 592 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,799 off the ballot and whisk off to any a training 593 00:33:49,079 --> 00:33:51,640 so that they can say yes to everybody, because you 594 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,279 don't want to be the only one on the board 595 00:33:53,359 --> 00:33:57,519 saying no, yeah, and it's out training like. 596 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:02,079 Speaker 2: That, and it's unfortunate because it exists in every level 597 00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:04,799 of government. And appreciate your call this afternoon at seven 598 00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:07,279 oh four or five seven oh eleven ten. That's seven 599 00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:10,400 oh four or five seven oh eleven ten. It's it's 600 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:13,800 all over the place, and whether you're talking about something 601 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,199 like a local school board in all one hundred counties 602 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,840 across the state, or looking at agencies within the federal 603 00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:23,320 or within state government, whatever it might be, DMV is 604 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,280 probably the greatest example of it. Have you had to 605 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,320 go through the process of getting a license recently? I 606 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,039 know the real ID deadlines coming up? What two months 607 00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:36,159 from now may I think, or maybe it's next month April. 608 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,800 Sometime in the next couple of months. You can't get 609 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,679 a DMV appointment in any near any major metro area 610 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,679 in the state for like six months. You gotta drive 611 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,920 three hours to the middle of nowhere to get a 612 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,000 new driver's license. 613 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:50,639 Speaker 3: But yet the. 614 00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:56,079 Speaker 2: Same people that are freaking out and having conniptions over r. 615 00:34:56,199 --> 00:35:00,559 FK Junior announcing that he's decreasing the HHS work by 616 00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:05,039 ten thousand have nothing to say about the inefficiencies and 617 00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:09,679 have no comments about how slow and ineffective government is 618 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,280 in places like North Carolina, things that actually impact their life. 619 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,039 Mum is the word for these individuals. And again I'll ask, 620 00:35:18,079 --> 00:35:21,440 I'll throw that out there. What is the objection to 621 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,360 the inefficiency? What is the objection to the cost cutting. 622 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,320 I'm not in favor of people losing their jobs. I 623 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,239 don't want people to lose their jobs. I don't know 624 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,800 anybody that wants individuals to lose their jobs. But what 625 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,639 I do want is to have a sustainable country going forward. 626 00:35:38,519 --> 00:35:41,199 What I do want is to have a country that 627 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,760 is fiscally responsible, a country that can support itself and 628 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,880 try and work itself and dig itself out of thirty 629 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,199 six and a half trillion. 630 00:35:51,079 --> 00:35:52,679 Speaker 3: Dollars in debt. 631 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 2: I want a country that is not running a two 632 00:35:55,519 --> 00:35:58,119 plus trillion dollars a year budget deficit. 633 00:35:59,519 --> 00:36:00,360 Speaker 3: These are the. 634 00:36:00,159 --> 00:36:03,119 Speaker 2: Things that we want and need if our society is 635 00:36:03,159 --> 00:36:08,000 going to continue. You can't borrow forever. At some point 636 00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:12,000 the lender is gonna start calling. At some point the 637 00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:14,760 people that we have borrowed this money from are going 638 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,559 to come and ask for it. Eventually, programs are going 639 00:36:17,599 --> 00:36:18,519 to be insolvent. 640 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:20,000 Speaker 3: You've heard the. 641 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,079 Speaker 2: Discussions about things like Social Security. These programs are frankly 642 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:30,039 running out of money. It's not sustainable. So if you're 643 00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:33,760 outraged over the AHHS or any other agency that's making 644 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,760 these cuts, if you're outraged over the Department of Government 645 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,079 efficiencies and the things that they have tried to do, 646 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,039 and you're you're completely in abject to that, you want 647 00:36:46,079 --> 00:36:48,639 nothing to do with it. I don't know why. I 648 00:36:48,679 --> 00:36:51,960 can't wrap my head around it at all. Let's head 649 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,760 back to the phone lines at seven oh four, five, 650 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,760 seven oh eleven, ten, Paul, you're hanging online one, Paul, 651 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,960 Good afternoon, walcome to the Peak Counter show with Nick Craig. 652 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,159 Speaker 6: Go ahead, I should take it, Michael. Nick, when we're 653 00:37:03,199 --> 00:37:08,440 talking about all these people's jobs being canceled. In twenty 654 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,239 twenty three, Biden touted they added eight fifty thousand jobs 655 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,079 to the economy, and the same thing at twenty twenty four, 656 00:37:16,639 --> 00:37:19,119 And these are all those jobs they just put people 657 00:37:19,119 --> 00:37:22,440 on the payroll so they can tell big numbers. Sure, 658 00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:25,039 so they getting rid of all of that now, yeah, Oh. 659 00:37:25,039 --> 00:37:26,119 Speaker 3: That's exactly the case. 660 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,679 Speaker 2: And again it comes back to this discussion that the 661 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,239 federal government should not be in the employment field. I 662 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,880 mean when we look at a jobs report, we should 663 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,000 not be patting ourselves on the back and saying, good job, 664 00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:39,760 we added one hundred and fifty thousand new people to 665 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,800 the federal government. That is not a metric that should 666 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,519 be good for everyday normal American people. That's not something 667 00:37:46,559 --> 00:37:49,719 that you want to strive for. You want private business 668 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,079 that invests in their communities. It's not only is it 669 00:37:53,119 --> 00:37:56,079 not economical, it's just not practical. You want private The 670 00:37:56,119 --> 00:37:59,079 federal government doesn't add to the GDP. The federal government 671 00:37:59,119 --> 00:38:02,159 doesn't gain any wealth for the country as a whole, 672 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,320 doesn't provide anything to the overall status of the economy 673 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,599 except for literally giving people a paycheck and benefits. 674 00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:11,559 Speaker 3: That's it. And that's not good exactly. 675 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,519 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not. 676 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:14,880 Speaker 3: Good at all. 677 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,639 Speaker 2: And you're right, Paul, thanks for reminding me of the 678 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,280 Biden job numbers, which you know, by the way, every 679 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,599 time those numbers came out, what ended up happening, like 680 00:38:23,639 --> 00:38:26,639 three months later was they'd go back and go, um, 681 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:32,199 there was a like a rounding error, some math error, 682 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,239 and we're revising those numbers. We said we created one 683 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,280 hundred thousand jobs, but it was actually like thirty thousand jobs. 684 00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:39,639 Speaker 4: Right. 685 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,840 Speaker 2: That was a constant trick of the Biden administration coming 686 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,280 out with a great jobs report and then having to 687 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,000 go back and revise the numbers three months later, when 688 00:38:49,079 --> 00:38:52,400 at that point who cares, Right, the numbers are already out, 689 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,320 the data is already out there. Nobody cares about the 690 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,480 July jobs report when Christmas is rolling around, Right, you 691 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:03,280 can revive those numbers in im perpetuity going forward and 692 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,920 nobody cares. It's not a story, very disingenuous, very deceitful 693 00:39:08,119 --> 00:39:12,000 from the administration, but they did it literally the entire time. 694 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,559 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 695 00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:17,599 so much for listening. I could not do the show 696 00:39:17,639 --> 00:39:20,159 without your support and the support of the businesses that 697 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,320 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 698 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,000 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 699 00:39:25,039 --> 00:39:27,599 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 700 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,360 go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 701 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,000 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.