WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.600 It's seven oh six and a very happy Friday to everybody. 2 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.160 Brian Thomas always happy to talk to Dave Williams finding 3 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:27.440 my line projecting Taxpayers dot org from the Taxpayer Protection 4 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:29.679 a Liance. Welcome back, Dave, my friend. It is always 5 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:32.399 great speaking with you. Good morning, Brian. 6 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:34.320 You know it's funny the other day I was listening 7 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:36.520 to the radio, listen to music and that song you'r 8 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:39.320 intro song, and I'm like, wait a second, is it 9 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:40.920 time for Brians? 10 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:43.799 Like that was a bit triggered when I heard it 11 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:44.320 on the radio. 12 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.240 Well, you can always count on Tool regularly here on 13 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:49.439 the fifty five KERC Morning Show for Bumper Music. I 14 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:51.679 start my program like I have them. It's my eighteenth 15 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.960 year in radio and almost from the outset, I have 16 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:57.280 opened the program with anima by Tool. If you read 17 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:01.000 the lyrics, you'll know exactly why, Dave, you'll know exactly why. 18 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.039 And in fact, if you don't know the lyrics of 19 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:05.599 that song, when you get off ae n im a 20 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:08.319 is how you spell it. Read the lyrics you will 21 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.640 crack up and you will understand exactly what I'm talking about. 22 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:15.519 Listen to the tunes. It's awesome it's my favorite band tool. Anyway, 23 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:17.239 something that's not in your list. But I had to 24 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.280 interject this real quick. Hurricane Milton destroyed the Tampa Rays 25 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.400 Tropic can Of Field and if you saw the roof 26 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.480 got ripped off of that. In the reporting on that, 27 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:28.879 they said they're supposed to have a brand news stadium 28 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:32.000 built by twenty twenty eight to replace this one. I 29 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.439 guess total cost one point three billion. Now I laughed 30 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.079 at that because the total cost of the stadium upgrades 31 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:41.599 that the Bengals won came in only slightly less than 32 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:45.560 the cost to build an entire stadium in Tampa. So anyway, 33 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.239 I know you're a big fan of watching these stadium deals, 34 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.760 so I thought i'd interject that sort of comical objection. 35 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:54.079 This is, yeah, Brian, this is crazy. One point two 36 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:58.079 billion for upgrade upgrades. I mean, you're not even building 37 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:00.799 a new stadium. These are just upgrades. I mean, are 38 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.640 these going to be gold plated seats? I can't imagine 39 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.079 what you're going to spend. And when I say you, 40 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:07.719 it's going to be taxpayers. 41 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:10.520 I'm a Hamilton County resident. 42 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:11.719 Yeah. 43 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:18.360 Anyway, so wow, pivoting over uh Congress shocking, No, one 44 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:20.520 Congress is making improper payments. 45 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:26.439 Huh wow, this is a story that is so underreported. 46 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:29.080 You know, we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars 47 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.800 a year in improper payments. And what improper payments means 48 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.039 is that the money is going to the wrong people 49 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:38.280 or they're getting too much money. These are payments that 50 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.800 shouldn't be going out. And what that means, Brian, is 51 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.479 that no one's going to miss them. If they stop 52 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:46.199 these improper payments, no one is going to miss them. 53 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:50.039 It's not as if, you know, people have deserved this money, 54 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:52.360 because no, they're spending too much out and we're talking 55 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:55.680 about hundreds of billions and still in COVID relief. There's 56 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:58.840 still a lot of money in COVID relief, money coming 57 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.919 out of the treasure, and the treasury means our pockets. 58 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:04.159 Well, I just read an article about, you know, FEMA 59 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:06.280 running out of money right into the fiscal year that 60 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:08.919 I've already blown through half of their full annual allocation. 61 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.919 They're complaining about not having enough sufficient resources of course 62 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.479 to deal with the hurricane damage. And the follow up 63 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.840 article that I just saw this morning ten billion dollars 64 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:23.000 in leftover COVID funds may be available to offer the 65 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.000 residents struggling with damage some relief. And I just it 66 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.000 just cracked me up that, oh, look, we got an 67 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.000 extra ten billion dollars laying over here for something It 68 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:33.560 isn't even a problem anymore. Welcome to the federal government. 69 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:37.360 It's inability to keep track of and properly allocate money. 70 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:40.560 And I don't know if you saw this, but Speaker 71 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:45.199 Johnson late yesterday said that when Congress comes back, they're 72 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.479 looking at a supplemental bill for about one hundred billion 73 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:53.319 dollars to deal with Helene and Milton there hurricanes. So 74 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.879 I mean this is going to get more and more expensive, 75 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.639 and one hundred billion dollars as a supple mental I mean, 76 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:01.840 this is crazy. 77 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:07.919 Well and sadly, like COVID programs, another program that will 78 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.159 probably be subject to fraud, waste and abuse. 79 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:11.840 For sure. 80 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:16.439 And so back when Katrina hit the Golf coast, Senator 81 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.079 Tom Kober and the late Senator Tom Kober and had 82 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:21.879 this idea. He said, listen, we're going to spend billions 83 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:24.879 of dollars in the Golf coast, right, so why don't 84 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:29.240 we spend a few million on the Inspector General. Let's 85 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:33.639 bolster the Inspector General's office. Let's hire some auditors to monitor, 86 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:35.600 you know, the waste fraud and abuse that we know 87 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:39.000 is going to happen during Hurricane Katrina six million dollars 88 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.120 out of you know billions, and Congress said, no, that's 89 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.240 too much, we don't want to do that. I mean, 90 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:46.680 this was, you know, back in two thousand and five. 91 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.639 They should resurrect that idea today. And if they are 92 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:53.560 going to spend one hundred billion dollars, part of that 93 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:56.839 has to go to the Inspector General because there's going 94 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.319 to be massive, massive, waste fraud and abuse. You're going 95 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.279 to see people gaming the system. And I can't imagine 96 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.319 you talk about improper payments. Wow, you know we could 97 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:08.639 see twenty percent of that one hundred billion dollars in 98 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:09.600 improper payments. 99 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.560 That's amazing. If you search for it, you'll find it. 100 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.560 And why don't they allocate more resources? I mean, you 101 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.560 would think that fiscal responsibility and avoiding improper payments just 102 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:24.120 conceptually does not have a partisan stripe. If there are 103 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.439 hundreds of billions of dollars out there that are going 104 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:28.959 to the wrong place, if you're a lefty and you 105 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.199 think government should spend more on filling the blank some 106 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:33.480 every social cause you want, Well, there it is right there. 107 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:35.600 Wouldn't you want to account for the money properly so 108 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.959 it frees up the dollars to go to your favorite 109 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.879 pet program? Or if you're a fiscal hawk like I am, 110 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:42.959 wouldn't you just want to get rid of the fraud, waste, 111 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.199 and abuse for the purpose of improving our bottom line. 112 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:46.720 Yeah? 113 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:50.120 I don't understand it, because this is the low hanging 114 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.439 fruit of things, right. We're not asking people to sacrifice anything. 115 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.079 We're just saying get rid of these improper payments. And 116 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.399 even if you've got fifty or seventy five percent of this, 117 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.319 you'd still make a huge difference. And again, you know, 118 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:04.600 for some reason Congress doesn't want to do this, and 119 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:05.439 I don't know why. 120 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:08.000 Is it potentially and I hate to even ask this 121 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.759 for fear you're going to say yes, just simply an 122 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:14.079 insurmountable hurdle. You can hire all the biggest of the 123 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.399 big five accounting firms, whatever they happen to be these days. 124 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:18.480 I know that's changed over the years. I still think 125 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:22.120 about Arthur Anderson, for example. But you could hire all 126 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.000 those accountants at a very sizeable dollar per hour charge. 127 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.160 I might point out they do charge a lot like lawyers, 128 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.680 but that they just couldn't deal with the work. That 129 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.439 there's so much money flowing out of Washington, DC that 130 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.439 to monitor and make sure it's properly paid is just 131 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:38.120 beyond anybody's capability. 132 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:40.279 Well, you can't give up. 133 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.079 I mean, you can't just throw in the tout and say, 134 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:44.399 just because it's too big of. 135 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:45.680 A job, we're not going to do it. 136 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.560 I mean, imagine if the pioneers of this country said 137 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:50.920 that this is too big of a job, so we're 138 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:51.800 not going to do it. 139 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:52.759 It has to start some. 140 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.879 Well, the pioneers weren't activities, weren't paid for by robbing 141 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:57.240 someone else to do it. 142 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:01.120 True, true, And so I think that you know, when 143 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:03.319 you look at the inspector generally look at any sort 144 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.399 of watchdog you have to have teeth to it is 145 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.240 that if you are caught defrauding the government, whether you're 146 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:13.959 a company a person, you no longer get taxpayer money 147 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:16.759 full stop. You have to pay back the money, and 148 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:19.519 you are no longer eligible to get any sort of 149 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:21.800 grant from the federal government. There has to be some 150 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.160 sort of accountability and not just a slap on the wrist. 151 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.759 Well, in which case I can see them just rechanging 152 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:29.360 the name of their five oh one to three c 153 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.680 or NGO operation to some other name and file different 154 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:38.000 paperwork and just reappear as well, basically the same group 155 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.160 and in a different under a different name and reapply. 156 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:42.240 Yeah. Then it becomes a whack a mole. 157 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:44.199 Yeah, and they just keep on popping up and you 158 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.079 try to beat them down for sure, No. 159 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.480 I know, but I mean every logical solution comes with 160 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:50.879 some sort of parallel associated with it. And again that 161 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.040 goes to the maybe they just have decided behind the 162 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:54.600 scenes like screw it. 163 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.120 It's just not worthy. We're never going to be able 164 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:56.839 to go a head around this. 165 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.279 And remember Brian criminals are always marter ha been the government. 166 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.480 They always have a new scam going. 167 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:05.439 Yes they are. 168 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.560 And of course that's one of the reasons we talk 169 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.800 with Dave Hatter, who preceded you on the program with 170 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.519 tech Friday, and all the ways that these hackers are 171 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:14.720 so much more brilliant than apparently the people that designed 172 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:17.560 the software. Anyhow, we got more to talk about with Dave. 173 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.959 One is Protecting Taxpayers. 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All Right, moving away 231 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:58.240 from improper payments to government owned internet network What what's 232 00:10:58.279 --> 00:10:59.000 going on with this? 233 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.840 Well, so these things are popping up all over the country, 234 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.799 is that state and local governments are using taxpayer money 235 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:12.559 to build internet systems, broadband networks, and they're believed or 236 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:17.440 not sailing failing as absolutely alarm Yeah, shocking, right that 237 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:18.879 the governments all. 238 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:20.559 Right, well we'll do the whole win a why let 239 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:22.799 us start with the why would they get involved in 240 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:25.639 this effort when the free market seems to be adequately 241 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:27.519 serving our ability to get online? 242 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.080 Because they don't think that the free market is adequately 243 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:35.440 doing this. And listen, we have wireless, we have starlink, 244 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.519 we have fiber, We have so many options for people 245 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.960 to connect to the internet. But government doesn't understand that. 246 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:45.000 And they've spent you know, billions, tens of billions of 247 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.320 dollars to connect people when the private sector has actually 248 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:52.440 spent trillions of dollars to connect people. And that's why 249 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.559 these projects are failing at an alarming rate across the country. 250 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.039 And so if you're a city and you build one 251 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:03.360 of these networks mentioned Minnesota, this is Wilmer, Minnesota, they 252 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.240 had to borrow twenty five million dollars, so that means 253 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:09.639 they have to pay the twenty five million dollars back 254 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:14.200 with interest. And after five or ten years, people aren't 255 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:16.720 subscribing to these networks, so they fail. 256 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:19.320 So now they had this huge bill they have to 257 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:19.919 pay and. 258 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:23.440 They don't even have a broadband network in Well, we've 259 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:25.320 been talking about this for years. 260 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:26.960 Brian, is that they need to stop doing this. 261 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:32.399 Okay, people aren't signing up, I presume, going back to 262 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:35.919 my original point, because we already have free enterprise providing 263 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.960 these services to the public, which are obviously keeping Verizon 264 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.559 and other carries like that making it in the in 265 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.799 business not only but also making fat profit. People are 266 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.600 not signing up for the government internet services because well, 267 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.559 maybe there's a better alternative out there. In other words, 268 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:53.639 the government cannot compete in a free market with its product. 269 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.320 Who is this system set up for? Is this for 270 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:59.440 like people on life's margins who can't afford a monthly 271 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.159 internet build from a regular normal so to say, Verizon 272 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:02.840 type carrier. 273 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.200 Absolutely not, because there are federal programs to help people 274 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:09.559 pay for internet. 275 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:10.240 Service, right, That's what I thought. 276 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:14.000 This is, Yeah, this is to compete directly with the 277 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:15.320 private sector. 278 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:15.399 And with. 279 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:21.159 Socialism. The state owns the means of production in this 280 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.200 particular case, and controls the means of production, I might add, 281 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.720 So owning the internet service provider government own and providing 282 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.840 that is absolute. 283 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.519 Socialism, and the economics of it makes no sense. If 284 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:40.240 you're a Comcast, you're a Verizon, you have economies of scale, 285 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:43.360 right because you're buying equipment economies of scale. If you're 286 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.440 a city, you are not. I mean, when you're building 287 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:48.799 this network, you don't get the same economies of scale, 288 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.279 and everything is more expensive and the service isn't as good. 289 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.759 And get this, they are charging the same amount for 290 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:58.399 the service. If you want one gigabyte, if you want cable, 291 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.600 whatever it is, we can paired it. And they're charging 292 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:04.519 the same as a Comcast, as a charter, as a horizon. 293 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.440 So there's no price differential. 294 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:12.480 Poor service. Nope, it's not a better price. It's government 295 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:16.360 run and own. Therefore services worse literally across the board. 296 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.159 There is no advantage whatsoever. So no kidding. These things 297 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:23.399 aren't working. So is this is this sort of a 298 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.559 concept that that's ongoing. Are they doing this elsewhere or 299 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:31.840 is this Minnesota sort of an outlier in lunacy all. 300 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:32.399 Over the country. 301 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.759 Next door Kentucky Wired was one of the pioneers in 302 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.799 wasteful spending on a government owned network, and this was 303 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:41.279 the middle mile project that they've been doing. You know, 304 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.519 billions of dollars that Kentucky had to finance, and you 305 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:49.240 know we again we have Starlink and Amazon even has 306 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:54.240 a satellite based internet service. So there's massive competition out there, 307 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.039 and for some reason, the government doesn't see it. 308 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.480 I'm well, I shouldn't be perplexed because this is government 309 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:05.200 we're talking about. But I guess I wonder do the 310 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.679 individual states like Kentucky, for example, you mentioned one of 311 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:09.240 the being done there, do they have a say over 312 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:10.559 whether or not they're going to move forward with this? 313 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.759 And what is the incentive for a state to want 314 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:16.360 to take on its own financial obligations, or even a 315 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:19.480 city like you point out in this in Minneapolis, or 316 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:21.320 a city to go twenty five million dollars in the 317 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.039 hole to fund something that isn't going to benefit them 318 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:25.080 in any way, shape or form. 319 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:26.759 Do they have a choice? 320 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:29.480 What is the dangling carrot that would push any idiot 321 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.320 politician or decision maker into this situation? 322 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.879 They absolutely have a choice. And what we're seeing is 323 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.159 a lot of consultants pop up. Is a consultant, we'll 324 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.320 go into a city and do a study and say, oh, 325 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:48.840 yes you need this streetcar taxpayer, Yeah, this new broadband system. 326 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.159 Well guess what this consultant also builds it. And I'm 327 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.039 reminded of the Simpsons the mono rail, where everyone was 328 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.399 excited for the mono rail to come in, and you 329 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.240 had the consultant come in and say, yes, a monorail 330 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:03.759 will help the city, you know, economically. I mean, that's 331 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.600 what these things are. These are the Springfield monorails of 332 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:08.639 twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. 333 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:13.320 Well, I mean, we've talked to a lot of topics 334 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:16.759 over the years, Dave, and I don't know, I'm troubled 335 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.360 or I'm struggling to find one that's any that it's 336 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:23.840 dumber than this. This is a perfect illustration of government 337 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:26.879 stupidity and government endeavoring. I presume it will over the 338 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:29.039 long term if they do enough of these stupid projects, 339 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:32.320 failing as they are, that maybe they're interested in just 340 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:36.000 putting out private internet providers. Are putting private internet providers 341 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.120 out of business, and whatting the government take over it? 342 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:40.879 Going over to my concerns over the First Amendment and 343 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:43.240 government's trying to control the narrative over our speech. Is 344 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.159 this not a vehicle that could potentially do that? 345 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.080 It absolutely is, And this really has showed the contempt 346 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.960 that the government has for business and free enterprise. You 347 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.559 look at all the anti trust actions right now by 348 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:57.759 the Federal Trade Commission, by the Department of Justice. It 349 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:01.080 really is a distrust and really trying to break down 350 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:04.799 and destroy business and corporations in this country. And listen, 351 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.480 I am not here to defend corporations. I think they 352 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:09.559 do a lot of head things, but they also do 353 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.519 good things. They employ people, they add to the economy 354 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.200 and for the government. And this is a lot of 355 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:17.640 this is political. It has nothing to do with policy. 356 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:20.799 Is that the you know, Elizabeth Warrens of the world 357 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:24.079 hate certain businesses, so they want the Federal Trade Commission 358 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.480 to break them up, to destroy them. And this is 359 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:28.799 not what the government is for. And we've gotten so 360 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:31.720 far away from the original intent of what this country 361 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:33.240 was supposed to be about. 362 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:34.160 It's not even funny. 363 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:35.559 It isn't funny. 364 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:37.720 We'll pause, bring day back for one more of the 365 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.599 irs and political Vendata seven twenty five. Right now, if 366 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.039 you've got kc DE talk station and speaking of money matters, 367 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.039 Suseette Lovescamp. Of course, mortgage is probably one of the 368 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.920 biggest financial transactions you'll ever get involved with. Borrowing money 369 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.880 for the purposes of acquiring a home. We all know 370 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:54.720 how that works, and Susette makes that process so so 371 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:58.960 easy for mortgages. 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