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Speaker 2: will get you through. You can catch up, Pierre. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to spend a lot of time resetting this,
Speaker 2: but I will quickly tell you that the Department of
Speaker 2: Government Efficiency has sent and they have now rescinded an
Speaker 2: email that they sent to doctors, surgeons, nurses, physicians, assistants, pharmacists,
Speaker 2: all of whom volunteer their time as members of trauma
Speaker 2: and critical care teams with the National Disaster Medical System.
Speaker 2: And these are clinical care physicians, surgeons, emergency medic and
Speaker 2: medicine physicians, physicians, assistants, nurse PRACTITIONERSNS, registered nurses, nurse in enthusiologists, paramedics,
Speaker 2: respiratory therapists, radiology technologists, surgical technologies technologists, and pharmacies. And
Speaker 2: these are people who volunteer to help out in a
Speaker 2: crisis when there is an overwhelming either weather event, natural disaster,
Speaker 2: stir or or or terrorist attack to think of others,
Speaker 2: and they are on call. They do this as volunteers.
Speaker 2: I believe that they do receive some small stipend when
Speaker 2: they when they are activated. When they are in service
Speaker 2: of the country, they do have to file expense reports.
Speaker 2: They are flown generally on military planes to these locations
Speaker 2: where they're needed, or on on government planes. If they
Speaker 2: do stay, oftentimes they end up sleeping outdoors, particularly if
Speaker 2: it's a disaster where all electricity is out, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Or they were dangers they eat that they're served what's
Speaker 2: called mrs Military ready to eat meals. Not the tastiest
Speaker 2: cuisine for certain but these are good people and they
Speaker 2: all received emails from DOGE asking them to tell those
Speaker 2: five things they did last week. Now, that is an
Speaker 2: email that should go to people who purport to be
Speaker 2: federal employees, full time or part time federal employees, but
Speaker 2: just crazy to send it to these volunteers. I learned
Speaker 2: about this a couple of days ago. The government now
Speaker 2: has rescinded or or paused the requirement for these folks
Speaker 2: to fill that out. But it's almost insulting. And the
Speaker 2: point is that I think that in their enthusiasm, the
Speaker 2: Department of Government Efficiency should be sufficiently efficient efficient themselves
Speaker 2: to know that it's a waste of their time and
Speaker 2: a waste of the time of the surgeons, the medical professionals,
Speaker 2: et cetera, to have to try to figure out even
Speaker 2: to respond to these emails. They have a list of
Speaker 2: the doctors that should be good enough. Again, focus on
Speaker 2: where the money is. Like Willie Sutton the bank robbers said,
Speaker 2: why do you rob banks? Because that's where the money is.
Speaker 2: Focus on the programs where there may be potential fraud,
Speaker 2: waste and abuse. Let's go to Dan and Hampton, New Hampshire. Dan,
Speaker 2: you were next on nightside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just quickly. I got to tell you during the holidays,
Speaker 3: Ias Zach saying a bug you had Weason and the chest.
Speaker 3: I would cough and nothing would come up, and uh, yeah, how.
Speaker 2: Are you doing now? I'm I I believe it over.
Speaker 3: I'm good now, I'm good now. But uh, you know it,
Speaker 3: it really kind of ruined the holidays for my family.
Speaker 2: They told they told me that it was bronchitis. What
Speaker 2: was your diagnosis?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they said they said it was something that
Speaker 3: was going around and it was bronchitis.
Speaker 2: And they thought I might have had pneumonia. I remember
Speaker 2: I had to go and get a chest X ray,
Speaker 2: which I'm glad I did, don't get me wrong. But
Speaker 2: it was tough.
Speaker 4: It was tough, It really was.
Speaker 2: I couldn't get rid of it for about three weeks.
Speaker 2: It was the cough was incredible, wake up in.
Speaker 3: The middle I know at night. Yeah, yeah, that Weason
Speaker 3: and the chests and the cough a lot that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Anyways, I'm not going to be able to fill
Speaker 3: in all the details of how this happened, what was
Speaker 3: cut and what was not cut. But I do, but
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the Federal Reconstruction Act of
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety four. Bill Clinton put this all on Al Gore.
Speaker 3: He said, go find the fat and tell us tell
Speaker 3: me where we need to cut. It took Gore a year,
Speaker 3: but he did just that. It went to Congress, it
Speaker 3: passed bipartisan overwhelmingly, as it did Senate, and at Clinton
Speaker 3: finded it in Chula, and it had a lot, It
Speaker 3: helped a lot. It taken a bite out of the
Speaker 3: federal budget. So I think that's kind of the way
Speaker 3: it should be done.
Speaker 2: One of the things they had, they had what was
Speaker 2: called the BRACK, which I forget what the acronyms DoD
Speaker 2: it for, but I think it was essentially closing some
Speaker 2: or or combining some military bases. Uh. And I think
Speaker 2: that the Defense Department slimmed down a little bit. This
Speaker 2: would have been in the ninety five ninety six era,
Speaker 2: and I forget Base Realignment Commission or something like that.
Speaker 2: I think that's what BRAC stood for b R A
Speaker 2: c K. But there was a lot of controversy about
Speaker 2: it because when you you close bases.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't need that many ps ps.
Speaker 3: Air Force Base up here on Port was one of
Speaker 3: the ones that got closed.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It was called Base Realignment and Closure BRACK was
Speaker 2: a processed by the US federal government. Uh, and I'm
Speaker 2: looking at it here. Over three hundred and fifty installations
Speaker 2: have been closed in five BRACK rounds. One in eighty eight,
Speaker 2: one in ninety one, one in ninety three, and one
Speaker 2: in ninety five. I'm talking about the one in ninety five.
Speaker 2: There was one in two thousand and five. We haven't
Speaker 2: had a BRAC in twenty five years, so maybe it's
Speaker 2: time to have a BRACK.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In nineteen sixty one, President Kennedy announced the closure of
Speaker 2: seventy three military establishment. Secretary Nath Damra closed twenty sixty
Speaker 2: o D installations, and it goes, you know, it goes
Speaker 2: on and on. There was a commission under President Reagan
Speaker 2: which did the same thing. In nineteen eighty three, there
Speaker 2: was the Carlucci Commission closed Peace. Peace got closed in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight by the Carlucci Commission. So you know,
Speaker 2: all of these the closures was significant. In nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 2: it looks to me like about fifty bases were closed
Speaker 2: eighty one. It looks like another fifty. He looks like
Speaker 2: another fifty, another fifty. Uh so, yeah, they can. We
Speaker 2: can maintain a military preparedness and we can.
Speaker 6: We can.
Speaker 2: We can save some money.
Speaker 3: Well, of course we can. And once again, I mean,
Speaker 3: this is the way you do you do things in
Speaker 3: this country. He has to go through Congress. A matter
Speaker 3: of fact, terrorists have to go through Congress. The only
Speaker 3: time a president can call it terriff is that if
Speaker 3: it's because of the national security of the country is
Speaker 3: in danger. I don't know. They got to bring Sarah
Speaker 3: Pale and to teach Trump, you know, exactly a lot
Speaker 3: of things history and everything else.
Speaker 2: And well, he let me tell you, Look, the jury
Speaker 2: is out on you know, on his second on his
Speaker 2: second term. I'm going to be really interested to see
Speaker 2: what happens with Zelensky in the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: Zlinsky supposedly wrote a letter of apology.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh and if that gets back on track and we
Speaker 2: can somehow bring that hostility, uh, if not to a
Speaker 2: close at least to a cease fire, that's that's pretty
Speaker 2: good work. So I was not happy to see that
Speaker 2: tussle in the Oval office. It should have been done.
Speaker 3: Yo, it was terrible, and you know everyone liked a
Speaker 3: lot of your callers. Uh, we're talking about what a
Speaker 3: wonderful speech Trump made last night. Excuse me, Wednesday night,
Speaker 3: Tuesday night. Okay, I'll be all right. Really pretty much
Speaker 3: was the same speech she paid when he was inaugurated,
Speaker 3: and the same in some speech why he was running.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have to keep picking on Joe Biden. A
Speaker 3: matter of fact, I've never known an American president to
Speaker 3: blame a predecessor on this now.
Speaker 2: But again, you got to understand Trump, and you got
Speaker 2: to understand that when there's bad blood, he has no ability.
Speaker 2: I mean, when he was talking with Selensky in the
Speaker 2: Oval office, in the heat of that conversation, he defaulted
Speaker 2: to Joe Biden as the worst president. That hunter Biden
Speaker 2: and the Biden laptop. That is just the bile that
Speaker 2: is built up in him, that that he's he can't
Speaker 2: get rid of it. He can't get rid of it. Dan,
Speaker 2: I got to get rid of you here because I've
Speaker 2: gone six minutes and i got full lines and I'm
Speaker 2: up on a break. A great night coming right back
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Speaker 2: Back on night Side right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Back we go, get Jason also in New Hampts. She
Speaker 2: got a lot of calls from New Hampshire tonight. Go ahead, Jason, Hi.
Speaker 7: Dan, thank you. Listen. You're killing me with this. I
Speaker 7: can't believe we're even talking about this, this little gnat
Speaker 7: of an issue you brought up. I mean, I love you,
Speaker 7: I love your show. I listen when I can. I
Speaker 7: love your style and your usual subjects. But this is
Speaker 7: a monumental undertaking that they're that they're doing for us.
Speaker 2: Ahead, we're in agreement, so far, go ahead.
Speaker 7: To pick on this particular issue out of everything that
Speaker 7: they're exposing, all the money that they're already saving. I don't,
Speaker 7: I don't. I don't see why it's really that big
Speaker 7: of a problem. These volunteers, God bless them. I mean,
Speaker 7: if anything, let's give doage credit because now these people
Speaker 7: have recognition. I mean, what because they get an email
Speaker 7: and have to answer that. I don't think it's going
Speaker 7: to bother these people, and you know, if they don't
Speaker 7: want to answer it, I think dogs would be like, Okay,
Speaker 7: we didn't get an answer here. Uh, why don't we
Speaker 7: find out a little bit more about these people? Oh,
Speaker 7: they're volunteers. Next, I mean, what's the issue. I don't
Speaker 7: get it, Dan, I mean, I think you're missing the
Speaker 7: forest through the trees here on this.
Speaker 2: No, well, there's there's a there's a minor issue in
Speaker 2: a major issue. The minor issue is that the last
Speaker 2: group of people that you have to worry about are
Speaker 2: people who are this quality. By the way, we're talking
Speaker 2: surgeons and primary you know, emergency room doctors. They're high
Speaker 2: level people who are giving back voluntarily. They're volunteers. Okay,
Speaker 2: It's like your your volunteer fire department. You live in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. I don't know if you do you have
Speaker 2: a do you have an on call fire department or
Speaker 2: volunteer fire department or do you have like fire.
Speaker 7: STAF Yeah, volunteer mostly Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it be like if someone was raising questions about, now,
Speaker 2: what's going on here with this fire department, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be some sort of you know you it's it's insulting
Speaker 2: that I know, I don't believe.
Speaker 7: I mean, I mean to say, it's crazy to say
Speaker 7: it's crazy and they're over their skis. I mean, really,
Speaker 7: I mean we're talking about a quick email, five question email.
Speaker 7: I mean, if they don't want to answer it, they
Speaker 7: don't have to. But I'm sure those will find out.
Speaker 2: Let me, Jason, let me just jump in here for
Speaker 2: a second. What I'm trying to say is this is
Speaker 2: the Department of Government efficiency. By the way, they have
Speaker 2: paused and rescinded. They figured out that there's a problem,
Speaker 2: that there's a problem. They have paused and rescinded the email,
Speaker 2: which is a good thing to do. That happened late
Speaker 2: late this afternoon early tonight. They need to focus on
Speaker 2: the places where the money really is a lot of
Speaker 2: the US AID stuff that they're going to be in
Speaker 2: a fight in court over that. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: Let's let's let's fight over that. See what happens, uh.
Speaker 2: I don't what I don't want them to do is
Speaker 2: be battered from pillar to post for sound, for seeming
Speaker 2: peakyun And maybe you think I'm being picky you in here,
Speaker 2: but I'm trying to basically save them from getting out
Speaker 2: over their skis, is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 7: And I haven't I get it, but I just I
Speaker 7: just feel like everybody's missing the big picture. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 7: this is unbelieved, This is an awesome thing. I mean,
Speaker 7: this is a lifetime, once in a lifetime.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, let me, Can I ask you
Speaker 2: a quick question?
Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: You probably watched the president's speech the other night, and
Speaker 2: when he talked about this, you know, thirty thousand people
Speaker 2: who are you know, over the age of one hundred
Speaker 2: and ten or one hundred and twenty on Social Security
Speaker 2: pay lists? What did you think of that? You know?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 7: To be honestly, I jumped in maybe fifteen minutes. I
Speaker 7: think I missed that that might be he was.
Speaker 2: What happened was President Trump was reading off these numbers,
Speaker 2: saying that they've found one hundred and people over the
Speaker 2: age of one hundred and ten, over the age of
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty. And it was interesting, but it
Speaker 2: didn't tell me anything. In other words, is he saying
Speaker 2: that there are people's names who are still listed for
Speaker 2: Social Security who are now dead, or is he telling me,
Speaker 2: because he never said this, that there are people over
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty years of age based upon Social
Speaker 2: Security records and they are being sent so security checks
Speaker 2: every month. He never said that. He implied it, but
Speaker 2: he never said it.
Speaker 7: I heard you bring this up to another caller, though,
Speaker 7: I mean, I think the strong I think the strong
Speaker 7: implication is that they're getting money. Well, right, you're right,
Speaker 7: But if they're not getting money, if they're not getting money,
Speaker 7: then it's really you know, like it's just a cleaning up.
Speaker 7: The books say it's not an.
Speaker 2: Issue one exactly. And all I'm saying is, don't waste
Speaker 2: time talking about that. Finish the play. Don't tell me,
Speaker 2: you know, as you're skating through centerrice, how you're going
Speaker 2: to score a goal. Finish the goal, you know, Finish
Speaker 2: the play, put the puck in the net. Finish the play.
Speaker 2: Because if we find out that this was some sort
Speaker 2: of a coding error and all of that bluster doesn't
Speaker 2: save any money, it's gonna undercut. It's gonna undercut them.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 2: You've used used the phrase under promise and over deliver.
Speaker 2: Don't you love it when you go to a restaurant
Speaker 2: and you don't expect a great meal and you have
Speaker 2: a meal that blows you away, and you say, that's
Speaker 2: the best meal I've had in fifteen years, and all
Speaker 2: I paid for it was I would have paid ten
Speaker 2: to five times as much for the meal. It was
Speaker 2: a fabulous meal. That's or go to the restaurant where
Speaker 2: they charge you one hundred dollars and you'll walk it
Speaker 2: out and you say, I could have gone to McDonald's
Speaker 2: have been just as happy.
Speaker 7: But haven't they delivered already, Dan, in such a short time.
Speaker 7: I mean, what we we're already in the billions. We
Speaker 7: know that, right, hasn't it been confirmed?
Speaker 2: I don't know that, honest to God, don't know that,
Speaker 2: to be really honest with you.
Speaker 7: I mean, I know, I know they had to adjust it,
Speaker 7: and I know there was a clerical era they were
Speaker 7: they were talking like five hundred billion. There was a
Speaker 7: clerical err but I know that they have at least no,
Speaker 7: I'm pretty I'm almost certain of this were at least
Speaker 7: over two billion and savings. I mean, right there, Dan,
Speaker 7: that I've never heard of it in my lifetime. That's amazing.
Speaker 7: Why aren't we talking about that? And what was behind
Speaker 7: all that money?
Speaker 9: Who was behind it?
Speaker 7: I mean, I just don't see the point in taking
Speaker 7: time on this, on this little issue when we have
Speaker 7: at least two billion and I'm almost one hundred percent
Speaker 7: on that to talk about about like serious corruption, waste, fraud,
Speaker 7: whatever might be behind it.
Speaker 2: Two billion sounds like a lot of money, Okay, but
Speaker 2: in terms of the federal budget, you know, the federal
Speaker 2: budget which is over getting close to seven trillion. Do
Speaker 2: the math. Okay. I want them to find every last penny. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I want them to find every last penny.
Speaker 7: But before Dan, Yeah, who's ever done it like this before? Nobody, nobody,
Speaker 7: like we should be talking about that.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's too early. I think it's
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to say, Jason, is I think it's
Speaker 2: too early to pull the duck boast out yet and
Speaker 2: have a parade. That's all I'm trying to say. Okay,
Speaker 2: and I I've heard about all this stuff about you know,
Speaker 2: the money that went to Romania or Slovenia, uh, you
Speaker 2: know for for some sort of a play for one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. I want to see it all on paper.
Speaker 2: I want them as a I want them to do
Speaker 2: their work, produce a final document that we all can see.
Speaker 2: Uh that that is it going to be in all
Speaker 2: the major newspapers, so we can talk about it again,
Speaker 2: to spend time in this, in this this speech to
Speaker 2: Congress telling me that there's thirty thousand people who are
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five years of age or over
Speaker 2: on Social Security. Uh, you know what does that mean,
Speaker 2: mister president? It's it sounds great. Are you implying or
Speaker 2: are you telling me? That's all I'm saying is I
Speaker 2: don't want smoke and mirrors. I want substance. If that's
Speaker 2: too much to take.
Speaker 7: The thing with Donald Trump, though, is listen, do you
Speaker 7: you know it's it's like if you know you want
Speaker 7: to make an omelet you gotta break a few eggs.
Speaker 7: It's gonna you you want something done, It's gonna be
Speaker 7: a little messy, you know. But I'd rather get something
Speaker 7: done for once. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know I'm with you, Jason, Jason, I'm
Speaker 2: with you. All I'm saying, let's do it. Let's not
Speaker 2: talk about it, Let's not make a speech about it.
Speaker 2: Let's not spend time asking volunteer surgeons to fill out
Speaker 2: an email and tell them five things they did last
Speaker 2: week for the government, because they don't work for the government.
Speaker 2: They're volunteers who show up when When when the World
Speaker 2: Trade Center buildings are knocked down? The focus on the
Speaker 2: right place you are, the Department of Governmental Efficiency. At
Speaker 2: least be efficient. That's all I'm saying. I'm in trouble
Speaker 2: with my with my listeners. I know that, but guess what.
Speaker 7: Damn this is your straining and NAT on this one, buddy,
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 2: All right, fair enough, all right, thank you very for
Speaker 2: your call. All right, I went a long time with Jason.
Speaker 2: He will be the longest call of the night. We'll
Speaker 2: be back. I got one line six one seven nine
Speaker 2: six one seven two five four ten thirty. Feel free
Speaker 2: bringing on coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're going back to the phone calls. I want
Speaker 2: to hear your opinions. I'm not looking to debate you
Speaker 2: on this one. I've made my point very clearly. I
Speaker 2: want to give you an opportunity to make your point.
Speaker 2: Margie and the catskills. Margie next on Nightside, how are you?
Speaker 10: Yes, I missed earlier part of your conversations night But
Speaker 10: can you tell me have you had a lot of
Speaker 10: reports from federal employees?
Speaker 4: I have had.
Speaker 2: I have been shown the materials, the information that was
Speaker 2: sent to These are not federal employees. These are volunteers.
Speaker 2: These are surgeons, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. Who basically are volunteers,
Speaker 2: like a volunteer fire department.
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm going to change your conversation a little bit
Speaker 10: because I've worked for thirty eight years with the federal
Speaker 10: government besides volunteering. But like you, I am very fortunate
Speaker 10: in that our ambulance are fire departments are all volunteers.
Speaker 10: So you are a thousand percent right about volunteers. And
Speaker 10: my topic would really be my thirty eight years with
Speaker 10: the federal government and what is happened under this administration.
Speaker 2: Where do you want to say, Marjorie, go ahead, all right.
Speaker 10: What I want to say is that, unfortunately, what's happening
Speaker 10: is that people who have been with the federal government,
Speaker 10: first of all, aren't out to do it for the money.
Speaker 10: I work for thirty eight years with public contact working
Speaker 10: for the federal government.
Speaker 2: No one's suggesting that, Margio, So that's.
Speaker 10: A right, but people people are thinking that it's kind
Speaker 10: of freeloading if you work for the federal government.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone thinks that, I mean the military.
Speaker 2: People in the military aren't freeloading. I think what people
Speaker 2: are concerned about, and when I think this administration is
Speaker 2: concerned about, are there people who are no longer going
Speaker 2: into the office buildings. Are there people who are working remotely?
Speaker 2: Are there people who are in the federal federal payroll
Speaker 2: who don't exist? I mean, the size of the federal
Speaker 2: government now is so humongous that the Trump administration says
Speaker 2: we want to find out what percentage of the government
Speaker 2: and and then they're into other issues of you know,
Speaker 2: there were there were government buildings that are now unused.
Speaker 2: They're they're unoccupied. Maybe it's time to sell some of
Speaker 2: those buildings. He wants to put. President Trump wants to
Speaker 2: send the Education Department back to the States. The Department
Speaker 2: of Education was signed by an executive order by Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2: And maybe it would be better. I mean, there's there's
Speaker 2: a lot of things no one is calling into question.
Speaker 2: I have friends of mine who work in the c
Speaker 2: I A. I know people who work in the CIA.
Speaker 2: I know people work in the FBI. They they they're
Speaker 2: great people. They're they're just like Americans like you and me.
Speaker 2: But if there's anybody who's now working and is not working.
Speaker 2: It's time. It's time to get rid of them. We
Speaker 2: have a deficit of thirty seven trillion dollars. Who's going
Speaker 2: to pay for that.
Speaker 10: I just want to suggest to you that the current
Speaker 10: administration is going to do everything it can to hurt
Speaker 10: the American public. And I'll just give you one tiny
Speaker 10: fraction of the federal government. You may find every national
Speaker 10: park in the country closed. All it takes is an
Speaker 10: act of Congress. And the current president does not give
Speaker 10: one care about the public enjoying their national parks. He's
Speaker 10: going to open them up to drilling, fracting, fractioning, everything
Speaker 10: he could think of, and even in the end result,
Speaker 10: I believe he wants to privatize the national parks.
Speaker 2: Yeah that'll be good. Yeah, that'd be great. We'll see
Speaker 2: what happens to me favor when that happens, Margie, I
Speaker 2: want you to call me that, and I want you
Speaker 2: to take a victory lap, because.
Speaker 10: I do not think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much of a great night. Let's go
Speaker 2: next to Gary is in Ruber and Gary, you are
Speaker 2: next one. Nice.
Speaker 7: I go right ahead, because on the first I heard
Speaker 7: of the batman of governmental efficiency. All I knew of
Speaker 7: it was Doge, can you hear me?
Speaker 2: I can hear you? You on a weird phone at
Speaker 2: this point or what?
Speaker 7: I don't know, how's the volume coming in?
Speaker 2: You know, I really, are you on your regular phone?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm really I can hear you. But whenever
Speaker 2: somebody asked me can you hear me? I got a
Speaker 2: pro I got I got a little concern. I mean,
Speaker 2: if if you're on a regular phone, I can hear you.
Speaker 7: Go right ahead, Okay, Uh, obviously what's going on with
Speaker 7: Elon Muskin so forth. I'm all for it. But after
Speaker 7: what you're talking about and so forth, it makes a
Speaker 7: lot of sense. As usual. One thing fools the thought
Speaker 7: I am not going to argue with you. As you know,
Speaker 7: I hate everybody who argues with Dan Ray. I'll fight
Speaker 7: to the death for you on one thing is this.
Speaker 7: I'm sure you're going to agree with me, but this
Speaker 7: is not gonna happen. Wouldn't it be just great if
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, every Republican got behind the president
Speaker 7: and they put it before Congress to put a bill
Speaker 7: that every person that is a politician in Washington, we're
Speaker 7: gonna cut your salary down ten percent and they all
Speaker 7: agree to it, and it would have fifty to fifty
Speaker 7: across the Democrats, where totally gets it would not be
Speaker 7: unbelievable to save money.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't save a lot of money, but it certainly symbolically
Speaker 2: it would be. It might be something that the American
Speaker 2: public would support. Yeah, I think that's possible. I think
Speaker 2: term limits actually is probably something that is more realistic there.
Speaker 2: I think also we should have the Nancy Pelosi bill
Speaker 2: that as long as you're in Congress you can't get
Speaker 2: involved in stock trading because there's there's the potential of
Speaker 2: inside information. So there's a lot of reforms that but
Speaker 2: but Congress, unfortunately, Gary is you know, I think as
Speaker 2: well as I do that they are never going to
Speaker 2: vote those reforms because they'll never vote against their own
Speaker 2: self interest.
Speaker 7: Right, And one last thing before I go with the
Speaker 7: Democrats looking like goats all the time? What fair factor
Speaker 7: I have? And I don't want bad things to happen
Speaker 7: to people, and I'm not going to say good people,
Speaker 7: but he almost share though violence that's not happening. It's
Speaker 7: a democratic men and women who are politicians in their
Speaker 7: own personal lives, and I don't mean murder. I'm talking
Speaker 7: about violence because.
Speaker 2: I don't want to even go there with that conversation.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of wackos out there who you plant
Speaker 2: a thought in someone's mind. No, violence is the last
Speaker 2: thing we need against any public officials in America. There's
Speaker 2: been way too much violence in this country, both in
Speaker 2: terms of school shootings and in terms of just random
Speaker 2: acts of violence that occur in the streets of every
Speaker 2: American city. We are a society where there's a lot
Speaker 2: of violence because we have freedoms, but we have to
Speaker 2: police ourselves. And one of the ways we police ourselves
Speaker 2: is not even implying that because all you need to
Speaker 2: do is plant that thought in the mind of one
Speaker 2: whack a doodle. And they're all wack of doodles.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sorry about that. They act on No they
Speaker 7: cand I point out one thing before I.
Speaker 2: Go sure, yep.
Speaker 7: Yeah, by the way, you're right. I'm sorry, but I
Speaker 7: got carried away. But you put me in my place correctly. Hey,
Speaker 7: I just watched it off all your listeners out there.
Speaker 7: I'm coming up on sixty two years of age in May,
Speaker 7: and I call up my Social Security and they told
Speaker 7: me I'm going to get whatever amount of money. I
Speaker 7: don't know if you know this, but they have bumped
Speaker 7: it up to social Security. I'm making nineteen thousand dollars
Speaker 7: up to twenty five thousand dollars. While you clutch social
Speaker 7: Security at sixty two, well.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you at sixty two that's pretty interesting. Talk
Speaker 2: to your financial advisor, and if you wait a little longer,
Speaker 2: the amount that you get will be more. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you've worked your entire life, You've paid into the system
Speaker 2: you deserve to get the money you get that you
Speaker 2: deserve now to get a little bit of money out
Speaker 2: of the system.
Speaker 7: But I'm taking a sixty so I'm not gonna look forever.
Speaker 7: I got bad health. Five hundred more dollars at sixty seven.
Speaker 7: That's what everybody gets. Another five hundred and sixty seven. Okay,
Speaker 7: all right, goes hundred.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Carl, Thank you, talk talk soon. Okay, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Good night, Let's keep rolling. You're going to go to Pelvis. Pelvis,
Speaker 2: that's his first name. Go right ahead, Pelvis.
Speaker 4: Hey, how's it.
Speaker 9: Going, so, Majie. In the thirty eight years of the
Speaker 9: federal government and all that fracting fractions, and Trump's not
Speaker 9: doing anything for the American people. He's getting rid of
Speaker 9: a lot of problems right now back over the border
Speaker 9: that behind the scenes are very nefarious, and when they
Speaker 9: open that can, it's going to be even worse. The
Speaker 9: churches are helping a lot of these illegals that have
Speaker 9: been in this country for a long time right now,
Speaker 9: and some of them are sleeper sell church going people
Speaker 9: who work their jobs at McDonald's and everywhere you everyone
Speaker 9: you know, goes and gets things people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pelvis, let me just disagree with you on that
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: I think you're right in the sense that there are
Speaker 2: a lot of churches who had in the last four
Speaker 2: years benefited by being supportive of the Biden administration's open
Speaker 2: border policy. Okay, But I would think that most of
Speaker 2: the people who who have been brought into the country,
Speaker 2: you know, either with the help or through the church groups,
Speaker 2: I don't think that that they're they're the sleeper cells
Speaker 2: we got to worry about. I'm more concerned about the
Speaker 2: gout of ways the people who came over the border
Speaker 2: and had the ability and the and the agility to.
Speaker 9: Tell let me just I'm just gonna quickly rebut because
Speaker 9: I have a friend that works in US customs, he's
Speaker 9: a tight friend of mine, and I'm not I'm not
Speaker 9: going to say, like what Maggie said, with their experience,
Speaker 9: but listen, they they send these people over here.
Speaker 7: The cartel not only has a strong arm on their
Speaker 7: family back from their home country, they also have a
Speaker 7: strong arm on the government of that country. So the
Speaker 7: people that are here are absolutely helping the drug trade
Speaker 7: flourish in this country from their jobs that they get.
Speaker 7: They are legitimate jobs that they get. They then introduce
Speaker 7: in the churches. The churches have a lot of pull
Speaker 7: on housing around these every single city they have, they
Speaker 7: have a ton of housing, a ton of apartment buildings.
Speaker 7: They're putting them in there.
Speaker 9: It's an umbrella.
Speaker 7: It's just an umbrella.
Speaker 2: That's all Pelvis. Pelvis. Again, I've allowed you to say
Speaker 2: what you want to say. I just haven't seen any
Speaker 2: support for that. I have seen that the churches have welcomed,
Speaker 2: particularly down on the southern border.
Speaker 9: I employ a lot of them. That's why I'm saying
Speaker 9: that a lot of the egal Ones. But these people
Speaker 9: all know because they live in I understand.
Speaker 2: I wish you'd let me finish my comment, and that
Speaker 2: is that I think you're right to the point that
Speaker 2: the churches have benefited because the more people that they
Speaker 2: have either helped and lodged and fed and clothed down
Speaker 2: on the border or helped move up to more northern destinations,
Speaker 2: they get some money for that. Okay, But I don't
Speaker 2: think that the churches. I hope the churches are not
Speaker 2: either knowingly or unwittingly allowing people to come into the
Speaker 2: country who could be actually physically dangerous.
Speaker 9: A large portion of the churches were also touching kids,
Speaker 9: So all right, connect Well, that's a whole different story.
Speaker 2: Actually, thanks Pelvis. Uh, that's you know again. I try.
Speaker 2: I try to deal in this program on facts, uh,
Speaker 2: and in truth, because I think that's important. Opinions are
Speaker 2: important too, and people can have any opinion they want.
Speaker 2: People can think that the moon is made of green cheese.
Speaker 2: I probably can't convince anyone that the moon is not
Speaker 2: made of green cheese. I can cite them to scientific examples,
Speaker 2: I can cite them to interviews that were done with
Speaker 2: astronauts who landed on the Moon and actually walked on
Speaker 2: the surface of the Moon. But if they think the
Speaker 2: moon's made of green cheese, they're not open too much convincing. Okay,
Speaker 2: six one, seven two four thirty one line there, six seven,
Speaker 2: nine thirty coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Way live from the Window World
Speaker 1: to night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We have full lines at eleven fifty one. So I
Speaker 2: could give one person eight minutes, or I could give
Speaker 2: everybody maybe a minute and a half. I think I'm
Speaker 2: going to try to be kind to everyone, So I'm
Speaker 2: going whoever I talked to first, Let's try to be
Speaker 2: as succinct as weekend. Okay, again, if you call in
Speaker 2: at eleven five, I can give you a lot of time.
Speaker 2: Dawn and Indiana down next on Nisaga, right.
Speaker 9: Ahead, Hello, Dan.
Speaker 6: I guess I would say that your example with the
Speaker 6: volunteers demonstrates the fundamental problem that DOSE has. They simply
Speaker 6: don't know what they're doing. They may have their eye
Speaker 6: on the costs, but they're not in a position to
Speaker 6: evaluate whatever the value is for those costs. The examples
Speaker 6: that you gave earlier with the base closures were done
Speaker 6: with consideration of people in Congress over a period of time,
Speaker 6: and the best choices were made based upon a lot
Speaker 6: of information, and I think dose is rushing through in
Speaker 6: a way that really guarantees that they'll be bad choices made.
Speaker 2: Well today, that's crazy enough. There was one point that
Speaker 2: the President made which I thought was helpful. He told
Speaker 2: his cabinet members that they were to decide, not Elon Musk,
Speaker 2: as to who stayed and who went. So I think
Speaker 2: we saw beginning today the first daylight between Musk and
Speaker 2: President Trump, and I think that is probably going to
Speaker 2: be healthy in the long run in my In my opinion,
Speaker 2: there is waste. We have a thirty seven trillion dollar
Speaker 2: debt that we have to deal with. So, you know,
Speaker 2: let's find the waste, but let's find the legitimate waste,
Speaker 2: and let's let us not bother volunteer surgeons and nurses
Speaker 2: who are only trying to help fellow Americans in times
Speaker 2: of crises.
Speaker 6: Well, at any rate, we'll have to see what the
Speaker 6: results are take.
Speaker 2: And you know, that's the beauty of this. It's like
Speaker 2: watching the ball game. They'll leave, the succeed or they fail,
Speaker 2: and let's see what happens. I want to give them
Speaker 2: a chance, but I also want to call them out.
Speaker 2: One I think they have their little out over their skis.
Speaker 2: I got to keep rolling on, Thank you so much,
Speaker 2: good night, very quickly. Here I got Jennifer in Boston. Next,
Speaker 2: Jennifer next on nights. I gotta be.
Speaker 4: Quick for me, Jennifer by Dan.
Speaker 8: I just I'm so we're talking about saving money and
Speaker 8: efficiency and where's their weights and fraud and you know,
Speaker 8: all this is for the taxpayers. But I think we
Speaker 8: need to start with Trump and Musk because you know,
Speaker 8: we haven't seen Trump's taxes so and he has so
Speaker 8: much business and charitable foundations and like two seventeen.
Speaker 2: The problem is elections have consequences. The time to have
Speaker 2: seen his taxes would have been before the election. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's nothing that I know of which is going to
Speaker 2: be able to compel the disclosure of his taxes at
Speaker 2: this point. Yeah, but well.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Consequences, jen I hate to do this year. But they
Speaker 2: got three more. I'm going to try to get in
Speaker 2: here real quickly.
Speaker 8: Got like ten seconds. I didn't even get to finish
Speaker 8: Elion too.
Speaker 2: The three Jennifer, there's three people behind you. Why don't
Speaker 2: I give you there three minutes? Go ahead?
Speaker 8: No, No, it's fine but you know, I believe got
Speaker 8: a word.
Speaker 2: You've been on a minute twenty believe it or not. Jen,
Speaker 2: I gotta go. Thank you much. We're gonna go here, George.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you one minute. I got two more
Speaker 2: behind you. Go ahead, George.
Speaker 4: So looking at the dictionary doge the doge was original
Speaker 4: doges was the chief chief elected magistrates of the former
Speaker 4: republics of Venice, Genoa, and Florence. The diplomat who wrote
Speaker 4: about these dogees was Machiavelli. The good, the bad, and
Speaker 4: the ugly.
Speaker 6: Uh and so uh.
Speaker 4: Venice was the home of Marco Polo, and Genoa did
Speaker 4: manufacturing and textiles and things like that, and Florence was
Speaker 4: where Machiavelli was strangely was into art, paintings, statues and
Speaker 4: other things. And they built built.
Speaker 2: But we've done a minute, and I got two more.
Speaker 2: I want to get in.
Speaker 4: But they are wonderful. Thank you very much for buy
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jamie and Jamie go right ahead.
Speaker 5: There's so much I want to say about I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna go to this point.
Speaker 7: I already called in because every time I was hearing
Speaker 7: all this stuff today, all I could think of was
Speaker 7: Dragnet where he goes to detective goes just the facts, man,
Speaker 7: because like everybody, everybody, it's coming up with the stuff.
Speaker 2: And just like my call and the I listen to
Speaker 2: the sports showed, but don't he always says, you got
Speaker 2: don't call in if you don't have the stat to
Speaker 2: prove it. All right, people again, Jamie, if you call
Speaker 2: a little earlier, we'll get you much more time. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you much.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I wasn't gonna call it tonight, but I
Speaker 6: had it just all I got.
Speaker 2: I got you, Thank you, Thank you very much. Don
Speaker 2: and Belmont, you're gonna wrap the hour for us, Go ahead, Don, Yes,
Speaker 2: hi Dan.
Speaker 5: I was enjoying the show, and I just was enthusiastic
Speaker 5: about what's going on in the country as being a
Speaker 5: seventy three year old man. Just I'm just gonna get
Speaker 5: right to the point. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 5: narrowed down to one subject about the Doge.
Speaker 7: How come.
Speaker 5: There we have decided to let Jon Musk continue his
Speaker 5: Space pro programs with his billion dollar contracts. Why don't
Speaker 5: we just say we don't need to go to the
Speaker 5: moon now, we don't you need to go to Mars
Speaker 5: now we're going to cut that out and save that money.
Speaker 2: Well, because Donald Trump likes some elections have consequences. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as that. Don If you call earlier, we
Speaker 2: can have a much longer conversation. But we can. We've
Speaker 2: run out of time. Thank you much. We are done
Speaker 2: for the night, and how much I have left here?
Speaker 4: Rob?
Speaker 2: All right, we've run out of time. I want to
Speaker 2: thank all the callers. You know what we do here
Speaker 2: on Nightside is we give people a chance to talk.
Speaker 2: That's the idea. And if you want to really talk,
Speaker 2: which you really want to do, is you want to
Speaker 2: call early. And when you start calling a quarter or twelve,
Speaker 2: we run out of time, in which we have run
Speaker 2: out of time. So I want to save a few
Speaker 2: moments to thank Rob. Rob has tomorrow night off, so
Speaker 2: Rob have a good long weekend. I want to thank Marita,
Speaker 2: I want to thank all the callers, and I want
Speaker 2: to thank most importantly the listeners. I will be on
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