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And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,559 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: If you would like to get on today's conversation, I 11 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,079 will do this often so you'll have the opportunity to 12 00:00:33,079 --> 00:00:35,200 do so your news Talk eleven ten ninety nine three 13 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,560 WBT seven O four five sevenh eleven ten seven oh 14 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,640 four to five seven eleven ten, because I'm sure some 15 00:00:40,719 --> 00:00:42,920 backs will be scratched and fur rubbed the wrong way. 16 00:00:43,399 --> 00:00:45,600 As I say, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, and those are 17 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,159 the only two that are kind of welcome. Do you 18 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,159 find yourself outside the realm of lady or gentlemen? I 19 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,039 don't know what to really tell you to do. Talk 20 00:00:53,079 --> 00:00:55,640 to someone, talk it out. You can do that. Now. 21 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,320 I want to get to a couple of things. Nick 22 00:00:58,439 --> 00:01:01,200 spent a preponderance of his time this morning on the 23 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:07,200 on Vince Cokeley Show discussing Elon Musk's new endeavor. And 24 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,439 I would say we will talk about some of that 25 00:01:10,879 --> 00:01:12,760 also a little bit about the Texas flooding and the 26 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,040 opera political opportunities behind the Texas and North Carolina flooding. 27 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,200 By the way, North Carolina quite a bit of flooding 28 00:01:18,239 --> 00:01:21,159 as well over the past two days as Chantal came 29 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,280 ashore down because now where I live down a down 30 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,280 at Oak Island. Most of the time it was supposed 31 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,319 to be very bad there, but it ended up kind 32 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:33,079 of coming up through Charlotte and the Sandhills and all that, 33 00:01:33,159 --> 00:01:35,959 and through Durham and Moore County and Chatham County and 34 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,879 that area. It's been rather devastating. I think they finally 35 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,640 they had one death. But you know, seven eight inches 36 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,239 of rain falling in an hour or so two hours 37 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,719 at a very short period of time caused massive flooding up 38 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:52,560 in that area. Now let's get over to the Elon 39 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,560 Musk situation. Because I was listening to Nick, I thought 40 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,439 Nick had a lot of good intel. We obviously have 41 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,439 different perspectives, age, time, experience, all of that. All of 42 00:02:00,439 --> 00:02:03,680 that and and you may have some thoughts on this 43 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,040 as well. Now, I think Elon has done some amazing work. 44 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,479 He's a futurist and and and he's a bit odd. Now, 45 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:10,879 I don't know. I could look it up, but I'm 46 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:12,719 not going to. Or I could even ask Siri or 47 00:02:12,759 --> 00:02:15,159 ask Alex or ask Echo whatever device you have handy. 48 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,039 You know, how many kids, by how many different women 49 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,759 he has? I think he has like eleven kids, seven 50 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,599 different women, but I'm not sure. Don't quote me on that. 51 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,599 You can check yourself. And I'm not putting that down. 52 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,319 Not my cup of tea, not my role, but as 53 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,319 a you know, somewhat libertarians, that's his thing. But he 54 00:02:28,439 --> 00:02:32,360 has there's a reason he's not in long term relationships. 55 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,199 There's a reason why he's kind of isolated in in 56 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,240 his own world in many respects. It's he's kind of 57 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:44,719 the Michael Jackson of futuristic endeavors. You know, a lot 58 00:02:44,719 --> 00:02:47,319 of people don't want to tell him he might be wrong. 59 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,360 A lot of people don't He'll say, hey, I really 60 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,719 want to see this happen. They'll tell him from a hey, 61 00:02:51,759 --> 00:02:53,400 you can put a rocket on the mood. He said 62 00:02:53,479 --> 00:02:55,599 he wants to go to Mars. He would love to 63 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,879 die at you know, on Mars, but not on impact, 64 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,599 which I think is a great line, and he's wildly entertaining. 65 00:03:01,759 --> 00:03:03,759 I don't want folks to turn against him, but I 66 00:03:03,759 --> 00:03:08,319 think they will whenever something big like Remember the political 67 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,759 left loved Elon Musk, by the way, the political left 68 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,599 used political left used to love Donald Trump. They give awards, 69 00:03:13,599 --> 00:03:16,360 the NAA speak gave awards. They loved him until he 70 00:03:16,439 --> 00:03:18,360 came down the escalator and said he was a Republican. 71 00:03:18,439 --> 00:03:21,719 He even ran for president before on a third party ticket. 72 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,360 That's just ironic finding out where we are now. But 73 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,599 then they hated they hated him when he was working 74 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:32,759 with Doze and working with the president, supporting the president. 75 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:34,599 That want to key the cars that they told everyone 76 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,520 to go by. And now I'll guarantee you the political 77 00:03:37,599 --> 00:03:42,120 left will cheer Musk creating a third party because who 78 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,199 benefits the most. I mean, the Republicans already had a 79 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:46,240 couple challenges holding the House and the Senate. At the 80 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:49,479 national level, they will have even more of a challenge 81 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,280 if Elon Musk goes through with this. Now, part of 82 00:03:53,319 --> 00:03:58,199 the issue is he did originally threaten to go through primaries. 83 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:00,360 In other words, if you were an incumbent Publican that 84 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:02,319 voted for the big beautiful Bill, he said, I'll guarantee 85 00:04:02,319 --> 00:04:04,360 you you're going to have a primary. Well, if he's running 86 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,599 a third political party, you won't be running in primaries. 87 00:04:06,599 --> 00:04:08,719 He'll put candidates up to compete. So you have a 88 00:04:08,759 --> 00:04:12,919 Republican or Democrat, and then someone who thinks mostly like 89 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,919 a Republican or a Conservative that's running against a Republican, 90 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,319 which means almost assures in every one of those situations 91 00:04:19,639 --> 00:04:22,439 that you've got a Ross Perro, Bill Clinton, George Herbert 92 00:04:22,439 --> 00:04:27,680 Walker Bush. You know you've got a George Bush running. 93 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:31,480 And so it's a great way to destroy the thin 94 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:36,240 majorities in Congress by having a third party. It'd be 95 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,839 different if the Democrats were split. But there's a reason 96 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,439 why demost don't split, and it's because they have a 97 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:44,720 very while on the one hand, they have a very 98 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,079 monolithic way of looking at the world. They are a 99 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,120 loosely held coalition of special interest groups. Now, if you 100 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,800 wanted to, you could break them down into like twenty 101 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,600 different special interest parties. If they were in Europe, that's 102 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:58,199 what they would be. They would have the pro Abortion Party. 103 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,519 You know, you would have the pro high text let's 104 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:03,000 get those rich people party. You would have the ultra 105 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,120 green lefty Party. You would have the Anti Hunter Party, 106 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,639 you would have the Hunter I mean Hunters. You would 107 00:05:09,639 --> 00:05:14,360 have the pro Invade the US Immigrant Party. But the 108 00:05:14,439 --> 00:05:19,360 Democrats are very good at keeping all of their rather 109 00:05:19,759 --> 00:05:25,439 interesting leftists on the plantation. Now where they've lost ground 110 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:27,120 is they've lost a lot of grounds, so their special 111 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,160 interest parties have stayed on the plantation, but a lot 112 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:33,600 of the minority groups have gone. They've they've lost a 113 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,480 lot of Hispanics. They're they're losing people who are capable 114 00:05:37,519 --> 00:05:41,519 of thinking beyond one issue. They're losing those they're looking 115 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:47,199 at that. They're losing blacks, Hispanics, they're losing some women. 116 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,600 They're losing people who are thinking more broadly about the economy, 117 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:53,879 more broadly about the country, and looking at history more 118 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:56,199 and more, especially as they get older. You know, the 119 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,160 old Winston Churchill adage. You know, if you're not a conservative, 120 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:00,879 or excuse me, if you're not liberal when you're twenty, 121 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:03,279 you have no heart. If you're not that same person 122 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,800 isn't a conservative by forty, they have no brain. That's 123 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,319 a problem. That's where the Democrats find themselves. You know, 124 00:06:10,399 --> 00:06:11,920 in fact, a lot of the cool folks, a lot 125 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:13,839 of the young folks, are finding Republicans to be cool. 126 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:17,560 They're like that their rejection is of the the Obama coalition, 127 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,720 and they're kind of rejecting that and thinking they're cool 128 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,519 by being Republicans ironically. So we'll see how all that 129 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,680 plays out. But here's my guess on this is always 130 00:06:26,759 --> 00:06:29,319 is the case with the political left. You know, they're 131 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,399 going to cheer this. And what's gonna happen as many 132 00:06:32,399 --> 00:06:35,560 people on the right will start attacking Elon. People will start, 133 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,040 you know, the elone people will start attacking the Republicans. 134 00:06:38,399 --> 00:06:40,439 And what gets lost in this is what is the 135 00:06:40,439 --> 00:06:44,160 philosophy underlying this Todate I haven't seen I've heard this 136 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:46,720 American Party. Elon's putting it all out there, but he doesn't. 137 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:49,720 It's really about Dough. She's really upset about the two trillion. 138 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,959 And if you'll remember, Ross Perot's complaint was the giant 139 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:55,560 sucking sound. Y'all, we're gonna have a giant sucking sound 140 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:57,399 after that's gonna pull all the jobs out of the country. 141 00:06:57,519 --> 00:06:59,680 That was Ross Perot's way of looking at the world. 142 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,600 It's the same kind of very one dimensional, one issue 143 00:07:05,399 --> 00:07:07,399 way of looking at things. So Elon's like, I can't 144 00:07:07,399 --> 00:07:09,480 believe this bill. He said, you could have one. You 145 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,079 could have a big bill or a beautiful bill, but 146 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:15,480 you could have both. And that's where he kind of 147 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,360 hitched his wagon. And that's where he got upset. That's 148 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,079 where he got torqued and said, but what he was 149 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,439 ready to do, he was letting perfect stand in the 150 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:26,199 way of progress. And that's that's one of the most 151 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,639 serious problems we have. And I think Nick, you know, 152 00:07:28,639 --> 00:07:30,480 talked about agreeing with some one hundred percent of the time. 153 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,759 If you've ever been married, if you've ever been in 154 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:35,600 a significant relationship, if you have an eighty percent day, 155 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,279 it's the definition of a good day. You get along 156 00:07:38,279 --> 00:07:41,319 with somebody eighty percent of the time, it's pretty good. Now, 157 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,000 this bill is far from perfect, and there's gonna be another. 158 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,040 It's gonna be reconcilation bill looks like in the fall 159 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:47,720 one in the spring. That's getting in the weeds a 160 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:49,759 little bit. 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Your subscription 180 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,120 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 181 00:08:51,159 --> 00:08:54,440 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 182 00:08:55,039 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 2: I was having a conversation with someone earlier speaking of 183 00:08:57,799 --> 00:09:01,080 and I had said, you know, hey, the situation is 184 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,000 being rectified full stop something to that effect, And they said, 185 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,399 what does that mean? Full stop? And you know, I 186 00:09:06,399 --> 00:09:09,120 hadn't thought of that. It's one colloquialism, not even a colloquialism. 187 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,919 It's kind of a new phrase that's uttered by folks. 188 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,720 Full stop. It's kind of instead of Mike drop. I 189 00:09:15,759 --> 00:09:18,000 guess Mike drop used to be the old one. Remember 190 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,399 when Obama had said President Trump would never be President 191 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,000 Trump dropped the mic. So full stop means kind of 192 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,600 the end of conversation. And a lot of people said, well, 193 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,679 if you say that, and you say it on the radio, 194 00:09:28,759 --> 00:09:30,879 you probably need to tell people what the heck you're 195 00:09:30,919 --> 00:09:33,279 talking about. So that's what that means for those of 196 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,240 you who may not know what full stop means, if 197 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,559 you hear me say it today, which I am inclined 198 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,840 and might do so. The situation in Texas was horrible 199 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,960 is horrible. The death toll, I believe is up to 200 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:47,879 eighty nine. It's going to go much higher. That is 201 00:09:47,879 --> 00:09:51,240 an unfortunate reality of where we find ourselves seventy five 202 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,840 dead in Carr County alone, including you know, forty eight adults, 203 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:59,279 twenty seven kids. The can't mystic. Situation is terrible, and 204 00:09:59,519 --> 00:10:01,879 you know we we certainly hearts thoughts, prayers all with 205 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,440 the folks out there that are dealing with this. From 206 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,679 a mental standpoint, it's horrific. From a real I mean 207 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,679 the reality of that kind of flooding. This took place 208 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:14,720 about one hundred miles from where one of my childhood 209 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,799 homes in Del Rio, Texas. So it's just north of 210 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,799 the Del Rio area and kind of hilly country. Some 211 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:23,200 people are saying mountainous area always thought of its big hills, 212 00:10:23,399 --> 00:10:24,960 but again, when you ever you have a lot of 213 00:10:25,039 --> 00:10:27,240 rain that falls in a hilly area. We saw this 214 00:10:27,279 --> 00:10:30,639 in the North Klina Mountains. You had epic rainfall falling 215 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,799 and going right there those valleys in between mudslides and 216 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,799 this cask gets wall of water. I mean that Camp 217 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:38,799 Mystic was out there on that point, just this twenty 218 00:10:38,879 --> 00:10:41,559 seven foot wall of water coming washing through. They're destroying 219 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,399 everything in his path. Some of the stories of rescues 220 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,519 are amazing. They really are heart wrenching. Some of the 221 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,559 lives sacrifice to save others also heart wrenching. But I 222 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,679 want to there's a different side of this story because 223 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,639 I believe that tragedy in general, especially from an American 224 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,840 stand point, often unifies and brings us together. I mean, 225 00:11:03,879 --> 00:11:05,840 case in point would have been nine to eleven. We 226 00:11:05,919 --> 00:11:08,440 saw our country unified in a way that heretofore it 227 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,240 it just had not been through the Clinton years and 228 00:11:11,279 --> 00:11:14,279 heading into the Bush years. That was a unifying moment. 229 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,559 You see this when whenever there's a tragedy anywhere in 230 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,559 the world, we find we as a nation are the 231 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:26,679 number one donors to almost any tragedy, whether it's a 232 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:31,279 tsunami in Thailand, or whether it's an earthquake wherever volcanic, 233 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:38,120 whatever tragedy befalls people on the planet, Americans are to donate. 234 00:11:38,399 --> 00:11:40,600 They are often the most generous. They are the ones 235 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,519 that send the most relief and supplies anywhere on the planet, 236 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,600 including our own country. And so this horrible event, I 237 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,639 don't care what your political background is, your response to 238 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:55,360 it should be empathy at least empathy and a great 239 00:11:55,399 --> 00:11:58,000 deal of sympathy and hopefully wanting to do more. And 240 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,720 we know they will. But I want to bring to 241 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,559 your mention a story about this that is a little 242 00:12:04,159 --> 00:12:07,840 It is tragic from a perspective standpoint, and it has 243 00:12:07,919 --> 00:12:12,320 to do with a she's a pediatrician. And then if 244 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,159 you're on social media, you saw this story. The New 245 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:19,559 York Post ran the story, and it's just kind of 246 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:21,720 it's tragic. And this is from the New York Post. 247 00:12:22,159 --> 00:12:25,759 A pediatrician. A pediatrician in Texas has been fired over 248 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:30,279 a post suggesting that more than the eighty killed in 249 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,320 the horrific Texas floods, including dozens of kids, were President 250 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,399 Trump supporters who got what they voted for. Doctor Christina 251 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:42,600 probsed p ro Pst drew widespread scorn following her post, 252 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:47,200 which she deleted from Facebook. May all visitors, children, non 253 00:12:47,519 --> 00:12:50,679 MAGA voters, and pets be safe and dry, she wrote 254 00:12:51,519 --> 00:12:55,799 in an out put a deleted post. She's a pediatrician. 255 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,120 She looks after your kids. Carr County. MAGA voted to 256 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,399 gut FEMA, they deny climate change. May they get what 257 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:09,480 they voted for? Bless their hearts. Proached employers Bluefish Pediatrics 258 00:13:09,519 --> 00:13:12,360 initially said the employee had been suspended, before announcing that 259 00:13:12,399 --> 00:13:16,120 the individual is no longer employed there. As we previously 260 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,080 mentioned in our original statements, we strongly condemned the comments 261 00:13:19,159 --> 00:13:21,039 that were made in that post. That post does not 262 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,440 reflect our values, our standards, or our mission, the company said, 263 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,360 And she literally said that may all visitors, children, non 264 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,919 maga voters and pets be safe and drawing. Now, as 265 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,200 much as you think, how could someone write something like that. 266 00:13:34,919 --> 00:13:41,360 It is a mental state that I had a discussion 267 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:47,279 last week with another friend. They absolutely believe anybody that 268 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:51,679 disagrees with them is in a cult. They believe anybody 269 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:55,399 that disagrees with them is a You must be maga. 270 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,600 And I said, well, I want to make the country greater. 271 00:13:58,720 --> 00:13:58,799 Speaker 3: Man. 272 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love this country. I think this country is amazing. 273 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:05,200 It's diverse, it has diversity of opinion, thought ways to 274 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,840 solve problems. It looks that, it looks at things. It 275 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:10,639 doesn't run away from its past. It embraces it. And said, yeah, 276 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:13,360 we made mistakes here there when we fix them. Until 277 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:15,279 you lefties come out there and start wanting to tear 278 00:14:15,279 --> 00:14:17,559 down statues and everything else, we pretty much want people 279 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,399 to remember what the hell happened in this country. And 280 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,960 they got incensed and started talking about you know, oh 281 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,519 my gosh, you want to put people in cages. It 282 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:30,159 was basically over the alligator Alcatraz situation. And I said, 283 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,039 it's funny, you weren't upset about the kids in cages 284 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,559 when Obama did it. You weren't. Were you upset when 285 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,840 Obama deported two point seven million people? They just got 286 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:42,679 up to more upset and they just become very emotional. 287 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,200 Will other countries do this? Other countries embrace immigration? I said, 288 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,960 our country does too. In fact, in Southport, North Carolina, 289 00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:52,759 every fourth of July, usually the third, there's a massive 290 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,159 swearing in of people from all over the world that 291 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,080 have spent time, effort, energy, money, resources, everything to become 292 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,240 a US citizen. This time was fifty eight individuals from 293 00:15:02,279 --> 00:15:04,519 twenty eight different countries that got sworn in. They worked 294 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:09,360 very hard to become citizens. Hoorah, that's fantastic news. But 295 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:12,360 we know who they are. They are citizens of this 296 00:15:12,399 --> 00:15:15,000 country now they are proud to be citizens. They didn't 297 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,840 come here undocumented, unknown. We don't know who they are. 298 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,720 And by the way, the Alligator Alcatraz is for individuals 299 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,960 that have criminal records that we know about. That that's why 300 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,120 they're going to that place. They have air conditioning. By 301 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:28,799 the way, they have doctors on staff, they have legal counsel. 302 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:31,480 This is a pretty good setup. But it's like I 303 00:15:31,559 --> 00:15:33,919 can't believe people in casions we're treating him if it's 304 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:38,159 like animals are not animals. Never said they were animals. 305 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:39,919 But if you want to come to this country, come 306 00:15:39,919 --> 00:15:41,679 here legally. Even on the app there's been more than 307 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,559 a million people that have self deported because they want 308 00:15:44,559 --> 00:15:47,639 the opportunity to come back to this amazing country. And 309 00:15:47,679 --> 00:15:51,279 that's a beautiful thing. You should that's great. But don't 310 00:15:51,279 --> 00:15:53,240 think that in Europe they're not having this problem. Don't 311 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,879 think in other countries that they just let you run 312 00:15:55,919 --> 00:15:59,600 into the country without accountability. I mean, it's a big 313 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,519 thing in the European Union right now. They're being overrun 314 00:16:01,559 --> 00:16:04,759 as well. But it's an Islam situation there and it's 315 00:16:04,799 --> 00:16:09,200 causing havoc from a cultural standpoint in Europe. So don't 316 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,480 think for a minute that somehow other countries are not 317 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:16,000 experiencing this being overrun and having to deal with I 318 00:16:16,039 --> 00:16:18,039 don't care how lefty they are. Eventually they want to 319 00:16:18,039 --> 00:16:20,399 preserve some of their culture. They're trying to deal with this. 320 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,399 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 321 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,919 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 322 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:29,240 Just a quick drive up the Mountain and Cabins of 323 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,600 Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, 324 00:16:33,639 --> 00:16:35,879 maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get 325 00:16:35,919 --> 00:16:38,799 family and friends together for a big old reunion. 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There's always a lot happening, 343 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,440 and sometimes it's hard to just focus on this one thing, 344 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,960 and so many shiny objects that are riveting and interesting 345 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,279 and fascinating that getting to them sometimes can be a challenge. 346 00:17:47,319 --> 00:17:49,839 Well is right now though, someone who has called before 347 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,960 on this broadcast, Winston, Welcome to the show. I think 348 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,279 we picked your interest with the Elon Musk creation of 349 00:17:55,319 --> 00:17:57,200 the new political party. 350 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 3: Chad, thank you for taking by. I really appreciate you 351 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,640 takeing my call. Hey, listen, they're weigh in on the 352 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,400 Texas floods and also on Elon Musk. Let's go ahead 353 00:18:06,599 --> 00:18:09,720 and address the Texas floods. You know, in an age 354 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:14,920 of AI and protective ability and all this technology, yet 355 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,680 these we have no sirens. We don't have any sensors 356 00:18:19,759 --> 00:18:23,400 set up for this river that is prone and has 357 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,359 been proned in the past two flood at accelerated rates. 358 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,599 If I was a parent who lost a child, and 359 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:35,160 I've had two daughters that I raised, I would want 360 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,279 to know why, and I would be mighty pissed off. 361 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,079 And when I see what the Trump administration did, but 362 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,039 the cutbacks, Hey listen, I'm not bringing Trump, but listen, 363 00:18:46,079 --> 00:18:49,759 he dialed back the investment and the tools needed to 364 00:18:49,839 --> 00:18:55,640 protect those children full stop. What do you think, Well. 365 00:18:55,039 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 2: Well, let me address some of this because a lot 366 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,519 of people have tried to say this stuff and the 367 00:18:58,559 --> 00:19:01,079 truth of matter, the National Weather Service had extra staff 368 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,400 members on hand throughout this event that were flood watches 369 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,200 posted throughout the event, and but prior to the event 370 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:09,640 it was a flash flood. It was a forty five 371 00:19:09,759 --> 00:19:11,599 minute to get out of the way kind of warning, 372 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:14,440 which is about eight times more than you would get 373 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,240 with a tornadic activity just north of they're in Kansas 374 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,720 or North Akota where they're more frequent. So you're right. 375 00:19:20,799 --> 00:19:22,480 I think we are a country that looks for someone 376 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,240 to castigate and blame, and I'm sure that will happen 377 00:19:25,519 --> 00:19:27,160 as we get out of this and when we find 378 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,759 the bodies, when we find out everything. It is not 379 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:31,920 a you know, when they say once in five hundred, 380 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,759 once in thousand years, that doesn't mean it happens once 381 00:19:34,799 --> 00:19:37,839 every five hundred or thousand years. It means statistically speaking, 382 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,559 go ahead, go ahead, Winston. 383 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 3: You know, Marjorie Taylor Green has made a point that 384 00:19:44,759 --> 00:19:48,920 our government is engaged in weather modification, stratispheric air injection. 385 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,279 And you know there's laws have been passed in Florida 386 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:58,880 that prohibits the use of the government putting the substances 387 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:00,680 in the air. If you go ahead and google these 388 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,480 laws are passed. And Marjorie Taylor Green said, hey, what 389 00:20:04,519 --> 00:20:07,960 are we doing to our to our skies? You know, 390 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,480 and you know this has got to be contributory to 391 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:16,000 what happened. And listen, I want I don't want this 392 00:20:16,039 --> 00:20:19,559 thing to happen again. You know, that's where that's where. 393 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:22,480 That's where I'm at. So and then me, can I 394 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:24,839 go ahead and head Elon Musk real quick. 395 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: Go ahead your own roll. 396 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,079 Speaker 3: You know, Elon Musk uh. And I'm very disappointed in 397 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,000 the Freedom Caucus, you know, uh, you know, they they 398 00:20:36,039 --> 00:20:40,839 folded quicker than a cheap Walmart lawn chair. And I'm 399 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,279 just very disappointed in our congress person down here at 400 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,400 a forty six in South Carolina. He was a member 401 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,680 Free the Caucus. But you know, Elon Musk makes a 402 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,359 good point. You know, in the last four years we 403 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:58,000 have minted more millionaires, and the separation from the pores 404 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,359 to the riches has widened to the why that has 405 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:02,160 ever been. 406 00:21:02,279 --> 00:21:04,039 Speaker 2: Well, let's let let me ask you. Wait wait wait 407 00:21:04,079 --> 00:21:06,160 wait wait, wait, hear me out. I have a question 408 00:21:06,279 --> 00:21:10,200 for you, because I think it's relative. So the number 409 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,039 zero or being poverty stricken really doesn't change. I mean, 410 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:17,400 when you're below a certain threshold, you're in poverty, correct, right, 411 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,400 I mean that's the definition of poverty, is an inability 412 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,400 to have the mean to But you would also say 413 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,720 that when you have inflation, that the purchasing power of 414 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,720 a given dollar is less than it was before. You 415 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,240 would also agree with that, right, So the number of 416 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,200 millionaires is really a false way of looking at wealth 417 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,200 because you know, you have one side. You can't get 418 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,519 more than power, Okay, okay, you know, and then and 419 00:21:40,559 --> 00:21:42,519 then you have a number of millionaires and you're talking 420 00:21:42,559 --> 00:21:45,079 about this this chasm between rich and poor. But we 421 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,279 also have you know, a lot more people on you 422 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,319 know that are getting assistance as well. We have a 423 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,480 problem with this in our country, there's no doubt you 424 00:21:54,599 --> 00:21:57,039 but acting like it's just you know, we got more millionaires, well, 425 00:21:57,039 --> 00:21:58,960 that the purchasing power of millionaire is not what it 426 00:21:59,039 --> 00:21:59,880 was twenty years ago. 427 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 3: Missing the payment protection loans benefited people that didn't need it. 428 00:22:06,519 --> 00:22:11,559 Donald Trump actually got for his resort millions of dollars 429 00:22:11,559 --> 00:22:15,200 from the public treasury. He raided the treasury a lot 430 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,319 of people in business. In short, people went to the 431 00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:23,200 feeding trough and they helped themselves. And then when it 432 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:27,599 comes around to the big beautiful bill, they couldn't go 433 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:32,440 ahead and raise the taxable rate on the highest way 434 00:22:32,559 --> 00:22:36,079 journers from thirty seven is thirty nine percent, but they 435 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,960 would rather get it from the middle class and the 436 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,720 working class. And this fucks me the wrong way. And 437 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,839 that's what Elon Musky's Elon Musky is it. He's very intelligent. 438 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,480 Even though I'm short in the stock right now. I 439 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:51,519 shortened it on Friday and it gapped down seven points, 440 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:56,160 I mean seven percent. So but I think Elon Musk 441 00:22:56,319 --> 00:22:58,279 is going to be a force to be reckoned with. 442 00:22:58,519 --> 00:23:01,960 And I you know, I'm on and I'm done with Trump. 443 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,359 I am done with Trump. And that's that makes me 444 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,119 a bad guy. I'll wear that. 445 00:23:08,799 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, what percentage of the nation's 446 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,960 taxes should be paid by I'll assume your wars on 447 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,480 the top five percent of earners. Now I'm gonna talk 448 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:20,920 about wealth, like Elon could have a dollary here, but 449 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,480 his net worth is in the billion, so I'm not 450 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:24,440 going to pick on him or anyone else. A lot 451 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,880 of high earners don't necessarilycessarily you know, a lot of 452 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,839 people who have a lot of wealth don't necessarily make 453 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,359 a lot of money, if that makes sense. They have 454 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,279 stock options, they have a thousand other things you kind 455 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:35,920 of loosely referred to. And what how much of the 456 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,119 nation's tax burden should the top five percent be responsible for? 457 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,400 I know, in your in your opinion. 458 00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:48,839 Speaker 3: But listen, that's stock with the carried interest per big. 459 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,559 Speaker 2: Wait wait wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, Winston, don't 460 00:23:50,599 --> 00:23:52,240 go off on a tangent. I ask you a very 461 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:55,920 open ended question that I just ask you because income 462 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,400 taxes based on earnings, it's not based on net worth 463 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,480 unless but I ask, can you the top five percent 464 00:24:01,799 --> 00:24:04,440 what percentage of all taxes do you think they should be? 465 00:24:04,519 --> 00:24:06,119 You don't think they're paying enough, so I'm asking you 466 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,640 what percentage that you think they should pay? 467 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,599 Speaker 3: Well, okay, I'm going to say corporations in nineteen fifties 468 00:24:11,599 --> 00:24:14,319 and the fifties they accounted for thirty three thirty five 469 00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:17,400 percent of the tax revenue coming into the treasury. Now 470 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,160 the account for ten percent. So clearly the tax. 471 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 2: Well, Winston, the top five percent of earners wait the top, 472 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,920 but Winston corporations are made up of people. All of 473 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,440 corporate taxes. A corporate tax is just a tax on people. 474 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,519 I mean, it's just taking money away from people who 475 00:24:33,559 --> 00:24:36,000 might earn it and could could be. You know, I'm 476 00:24:36,039 --> 00:24:38,839 fine with getting rid of corporate taxes and corporate tax breaks. 477 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,119 Just make it straight up, you know, let's get rid 478 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,279 of both, and let's quit the car of outs, you know, 479 00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:45,160 and let's move forward with that. And if you want 480 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,319 to have income taxes, at least make it fair across 481 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,240 the board. But right now, the top five percent of 482 00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:52,200 earners pay sixty one percent of all federal income taxes. 483 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,359 You think they should pay more than the sixty one percent, right? 484 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 3: Well, is that income tax with flight attaxes? That is 485 00:24:58,279 --> 00:25:00,759 that flight attax you and you include fight of taxes? 486 00:25:01,039 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 2: No, no, no, excluding so security. That's different. Fight is so security. 487 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,440 I'm talking about all federal income tax that's paying to 488 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,799 support they to run the federal government, not fight up 489 00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:14,640 sixty one percent. You think they're not text enough. Correct, 490 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:15,960 I'm asking. 491 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 3: Tax probably too much. My thing is why why didn't 492 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,599 it think beautiful bill cut the spending and it didn't. 493 00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:23,799 Trump said he's going to cut Trump said he was 494 00:25:23,839 --> 00:25:26,359 going to Trump was going to part the red Sea. 495 00:25:26,759 --> 00:25:28,759 He didn't do it, and. 496 00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 2: He going Winston, Winston, you don't think there were any 497 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,200 so you would have been fine with the taxes going up, 498 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,119 which would have been one of the largest tax increases 499 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,559 in history. And you don't think this cut spending in 500 00:25:39,599 --> 00:25:42,200 any way. Wait, wait, wait, you don't believe this cut spending. 501 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,839 Speaker 3: Just maintained from the twenty eighteen tax cut. They were 502 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,799 just going to stay the same, and they just did 503 00:25:46,839 --> 00:25:51,079 a little word word juggling that They went ahead and said, 504 00:25:51,079 --> 00:25:53,359 if you don't if we don't cut it, it's a raise. 505 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,799 Now if you just let it the same, just keep 506 00:25:55,839 --> 00:25:57,960 it the same, I'm off fine for keeping it the same. 507 00:25:58,319 --> 00:26:01,839 Speaker 2: That was cool, Winston. I appreciate your call, and I 508 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,400 appreciate that you listen to station. I got a run. 509 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,759 Thank you for the call. Man. 510 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,559 Speaker 1: You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 511 00:26:08,599 --> 00:26:12,039 of things. To understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 512 00:26:12,039 --> 00:26:15,160 people of our past while transcending generations. 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Visit creative video dot com. 529 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 2: Uh, before we went to the right, I just to 530 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,039 me it's always worth people knowing a little bit about 531 00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:18,039 you know, when we start talking about tax rates and 532 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,000 who pays what and that we're going to have a 533 00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:23,039 huge we were going to have a huge tax increase. 534 00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:26,759 It was because the Trump tax cuts were never made permanent. 535 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,200 They now are, and you know, but then again, you know, 536 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,880 the next Congress can undo whatever this Congress does. So 537 00:27:33,039 --> 00:27:35,640 nothing is etched in stone except when you create a 538 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,119 new government program. It seems like almost impossible to get 539 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,279 rid of it. They're not designed to be permanent. But 540 00:27:41,319 --> 00:27:42,599 when you go to get rid of it, the left 541 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:47,079 will sue because again their power, the power of many 542 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,440 the political left, stems from being in office, not just 543 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,039 but there are people in the right that like it 544 00:27:52,039 --> 00:27:58,599 to the incumbent sy incumbentcy has an addictive quality like crack. 545 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,079 I mean it does. There's something about being an office 546 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:02,920 that these people want to die that way. It's like 547 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,000 the people you know on any other addictive drug or 548 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,440 substance that you can think of, and they'll do it forever. 549 00:28:08,799 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 3: You know. 550 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,079 Speaker 2: There's nothing almost more permanent than someone that makes it 551 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,480 through three or four terms. Then they're like lifers and 552 00:28:13,519 --> 00:28:17,640 they're eighty ninety years old, like Mitch McConnell or Nancy 553 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,920 Pelosi or Diane Findesiegin. They just stay there forever and 554 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,880 then say they're doing the public right, but they're not 555 00:28:24,079 --> 00:28:26,400 living in the world that we live in. But they 556 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:26,640 go on. 557 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 3: Now. 558 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two, the top five percent of earners 559 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,279 in the United States paid sixty one percent of all 560 00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:37,599 federal income taxes, the group with incomes of two hundred 561 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,720 and sixty one. So if you're if you made more 562 00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:45,240 than sixty one or above, you paid one point three trillion. 563 00:28:45,319 --> 00:28:49,799 The top fifty percent of earners in the nation collectively 564 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:54,960 contributed ninety seven percent of all federal tax income revenue. Now, 565 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,640 if you think about it, when people talk about income 566 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,319 to sparenty, so the people below certain thresholds pay none, 567 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,720 pay none, and many are recipients of So. I don't 568 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,920 like class warfare. I think it's it's kind of like 569 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,599 when you call somebody a name during a discussion, you've 570 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,039 lost the intellectual high ground. It's when people used to 571 00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:16,599 call Trump hitler, I knew they had lost the argument 572 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,880 because that's all they have. The name calling is like 573 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,440 the lowest form of debate. There's really nothing left. At 574 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,039 that point. You've lost, you've surrendered. And the same thing 575 00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:29,119 here when you get into class warfare. I noticed Josh Shapiro, 576 00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:31,960 governor of Pennsylvania, had sent out a tweet earlier today 577 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,319 or last night, So it's time to raise the minimum wage? 578 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,400 Is it time to raise the minimum wage? Because the 579 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,160 people that you want to make more money are contributing 580 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,880 more to the state or contributing more to Did you 581 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,359 actually know how many people earn minimum wage these days? 582 00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:53,480 Because wage is a reflection of added worth. Wage is 583 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:58,160 a reflection of you know, the product or service, the 584 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,160 cost of that product or service. Wages are part of that. 585 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,000 The higher the relative worth of that product or service, 586 00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:07,440 the higher the wage that reflects the value of that work. 587 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,359 It's an economic thing. It's not difficult. But when people 588 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,240 say I just want to raise them a wage twenty 589 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,160 five dollars an hour, you're not saying that the people 590 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,599 earning that earned that. You're just saying you want to 591 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,759 give them that because it's not your money, is it? 592 00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:20,319 If it was your company and your money, would you 593 00:30:20,359 --> 00:30:22,039 give them that? Of course you wouldn't. But when you 594 00:30:22,039 --> 00:30:24,519 say I want to raise it, it doesn't cost you 595 00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:28,039 anything to say that or do that. So that's why 596 00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:31,079 I don't like this class warfare. The top ten percent, 597 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,440 the top ten it's just amazing that the average tax 598 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,279 rates versus all taxpayers and what they pay. It just 599 00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:42,759 astounds me when we get into that kind of and again, 600 00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:46,960 it's not sexy, it's not a happy topic. Now to 601 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,119 Winston's point about the debt deficits, yes, that is both 602 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,480 parties own that. If you ever wonder the allure of 603 00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:57,240 creating another political party. And by the way Mark Cuban 604 00:30:57,359 --> 00:31:00,480 jumped into trying to hey, helon, I've got you, I'll 605 00:31:00,519 --> 00:31:03,440 help you out, and you know Mark Cuban's about watching 606 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,960 him hop around politically, you never know where he's going 607 00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:10,160 to come down. But it is that both parties own 608 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,440 the nightmare of debt and depsit spending. If you go 609 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,920 to usdebtclock dot org, you can see what you oh, you, 610 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,119 what your kids owe with the average taxpayers. You see 611 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,000 that thirty two thirty seven whatever trillion I'm not looking 612 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,240 at in front of me right now, but you see 613 00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:31,799 this horrific swill that those parties in DC have created 614 00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:34,319 and thrust upon US, Republican and Democrat alike. It's not 615 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,880 the Republicans do it slower, but the Democrats do it 616 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,039 and the Republicans do it though so they they're as 617 00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:42,960 contributed toory, as contributory as any group of individuals out 618 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,559 there with respect to this swamp and what it's done 619 00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:46,880 to us. 620 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: All Right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 621 00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:53,000 so much for listening. I could not do the show 622 00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:55,559 without your support and the support of the businesses that 623 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,720 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 624 00:31:58,759 --> 00:32:00,559 them too and tell them you heard it. 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