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Speaker 2: Chat out. I'm sitting in for Pete Calender here our
three on Friday. I'll be with you next week as well,
hoping Pete's and join his time off Newstalk eleven, ten
ninety nine three WBT Bill, who was listening from I
Believe Wilmington. Thank you for calling back in Hope you're
doing well and welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm doing great. It is Phil, not Bill.
Speaker 2: Oh Phil, I'm sorry. Hello Phil, that's fine.
Speaker 3: You had comment on climate change and I wanted to
pass on one of the best guys I've seen at
analyzing climate. His name is Sean Hackett h A c
k E T T. He is basically an investment guy
who advises multinational corporations, large farm groups. That sort of
thing on what to expect with the coming climate is
number one, two, and three. Factors that impact climate are
number one sun spot activity, number two planetary gravitational influences,
and number three volcanoes. He's been and it's incredible how
accurate he is. He's predicted the like last year or
two about how coffee prices would be going up due
to dry conditions in Africa, also coffee prices impacted by weather.
And the fourth thing he did say that you might
could argue has a human influence with the cutting down
of rainforest because they produce rain and impact crops.
Speaker 4: That sort of thing.
Speaker 3: So he was asked how human activity had impacted climate,
and he said his studies would go back centuries, back
to like, you know, twelve hundred and eleven, and I
mean he goes back centuries. Is he wouldn't say that
human activity did not impact climate, but he said, based
on his studies, it is not measurable. So if someone
brings him evidence that it is, he would consider it.
But it kind of blows out.
Speaker 5: Of the water.
Speaker 3: A lot of the people who say that human activity
is our main problem with climate change, I think.
Speaker 2: You know, it's amazing the number of companies that do.
They have to look ahead you hit something on the head,
which is an economic argument that companies. The more companies
can look ahead down the road thirty sixty, ninety one
and eighty days and anticipate things, especially those that rely
on weather conditions for shipping or growing or anything like that,
they do rely on people like Sean. They do rely
on people like Joe Bastarti, who's the founder of Weatherbill Analytics.
These guys do. Joe is a historical guy. He looks
at historical data over the past since we've started accumulating data,
and looks at patterns, and the patterns are predictive of
what will happen next. And he can do that three
six months down, not always one hundred percent, pretty good,
and I think you're spot on. He would say the
same thing. It's it's it's hard to pinpoint that's it.
But it may doesn't it make it. I think it's
like any other conspiracy. It's easy to say this is
what's going on. It's easy to say, well, that's it,
that's it, we caused it all. That's whenever there's a problem.
It's not that it's complex. It's not that the volcano
in Indonesia could have affected the weather here. It's that
you know what we did it. We're driving too many
sus we burned too much old. Therefore, all of these
weather things are caused by you.
Speaker 6: So well, Phil ahead, one last comment is he said
that based on the sunspot activity, which is abnormally low
right now, and given the planetary alignments, this has.
Speaker 3: Not been seen since the nineteen thirties and will extend
through the end of the Desk decade, and it could
produce similar problems like the dust bowl of the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 2: Yep, and I've seen a lot. You're right. The sunspot
activity is quite low, and they call it the the
monitor minimum m A U N D ER. I think
it's it's a documented cyclical thing with sunspots, and it
is pretty low right now. So man, Phil, I appreciate
you listening. I appreciate you calling in, and thanks for
being a part of a previous radio audience. I thank
you for that. Okay, So thank you Phil, and I
those are the kind of points and what I liked
about what Phil said, He didn't he didn't call anybody names.
He wasn't angry about what he was sharing with you.
I'm not angry about it. I think that discussion and
debate is one of the strengths of human kind. You know,
when you've got an alpha male and a wolf pack
and it goes on the hunt, the other wolves don't
have the ability to say, hey, look, Fred, that elk
over here, it's the one we really should be going
on because the one you're chasing, two of our guys
are going to get killed when they try to take
him down.
Speaker 7: That is it.
Speaker 2: But that's the problem with a narrative like that. And
when when Fauci and I think the branch Coavidians, the
people that stood up and said, you know, the mass work,
when Fauci became the point man, the odd little alpha
dog on the COVID stuff, when he said I represent science,
that was the moment you should have known this guy
doesn't represent science, because nobody says that he doesn't represent science.
He represented a perspective that was debatable at best. It
was debatable, and a lot of what he said wasn't
supported by science, and that's the problem with that perspective.
And I think bringing debate and bringing more scientific inquiry
into these things is germane and useful. And I think
we get lulled into thinking when we moved to the
coast or the mountains or whatever, we think, oh, it's
always been this way. We go to the coast, it's
always been this way. A hurricane every now and then.
But when it happens to you, your immediate thing is,
that's never happened to me before. This must be the worst. Ever,
how did anyone ever experience this before me? Therefore, all
climate change caused it. Absolutely, That's why the beaches are
being eroded and why my house got destroyed because of
climate change. Never mind that the beaches have been moving
for millions of years and they're going to continue. I mean,
you would be astounded at how much you the taxpayers,
are spending to import sand from miles off shore and
replenish your beaches. Here. You're doing it, and you know,
and and the mountains we appreciate, and we have to
spend money to take care of them. But to the beaches.
Those beaches are on the move on the march, but
they generate a lot of tourist money for North Carolina,
so we have to save them, protect them and keep
them from moving even though we're building on sand. Yes, sand,
that's sand. So that being said again, thank you so
much for the phone call.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Blaine for listening, Thank you Blaine for sticking around,
and thank you for joining us today. What's on your brain.
Speaker 4: I was calling about.
Speaker 5: You were saying something about the tough logistics of deporting
people back to their countries of origin all the people.
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't see what the problem is with that.
Speaker 5: I mean, you can solve that by asking them all
one question, where did you come in at? Then you
deport them to where they came in at. It's not
our responsibility to get them back to their country of origin.
They made it to the border. They know how to
get back from the border to their home.
Speaker 7: That's up to them.
Speaker 2: Okay. Now let's take that from that perspective, which I
don't think is a bad one. Okay, I'm not disagreeing
with you that that's a splendid idea. Get them, just
dump them on the Mexican or Canadian border wherever their
point of entry was, take them back there. My perspective
was just imagine. I remember in the nineties when Will
wrote his column. And I don't always agree with George
Will have known him for a long time, but his
point was it would you would line up buses from
basically the border almost to the Canadian border through California,
just to get you know, four million people on buses alone.
We're talking about ten to eleven million people, the entire
population of North Carolina. I just said, logistically, even if
you were taking them to five different points on the
southern border, getting them there is the logistical problem. First
you have to find them, then you have to gather
them up, and then you have to arrange transportation for them.
I didn't say it was impossible, but don't let's not
pretend it's easy. I'm on your side. I think the
fact that we've let that many in is a travesty,
that's almost treason. So you let an invading army put
that many people on your soil, you don't win those wars.
You just don't. And so this is one of those things.
We have to do it. But let's not pretend that
on day one Trump can deport eleven million people. You know,
there's got it. It's going to be a difficult task.
It's going to take a lot of agencies, and not
only that, you're gonna have to fight some people and
some cities and some of the sanctuary ps that's out
there that's going to push back and not help. They're
going to hinder and just hope to run the clock out.
So I agree with you it needs to be done.
Yours shortens it. We don't have to fly them all
the way back to Venezuela or Ecuador, you know, or
or get trying to Agua down back to the El
Salvador or something. You just have to get them to
where they came in and make sure they don't come back.
So yeah, got to do. But I man, Blaine, I
appreciate you listening, and you're right. So that's that's one
cost saving right there.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, you have a good one.
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dot org and thank you. That deportation thing is it
is no doubt there is. I think people were made
excuse me, I know people are in have become increasingly
angered by the tone deafness of the political left. I
mean Obama actually deported illegals. Clinton did. Republicans and Democrats
alike have always had some degree of agreement that you
need to have a legal status. It was it was
during this woke transition to where Democrats, some who have
now become their mainstream, started saying, you can't call them illegal.
No human is illegal. And then you had a bunch
of Democrats trying to compare this to Christian faith. You know,
Jesus wouldn't have turned them away. Well, Jesus wasn't running
the Roman Empire, nor did he make comments about that.
It was you know, they were actually in an occupied land.
Jesus was the Roman army had invaded. They were the
occupiers of that land. This has nothing to do with that,
and it's not about being heartless. It is about the
fact that a country has a responsibility to its citizens
to look after them, to care for them, to protect them.
That is our obligation as a country. Now, what you
can do to help your fellow man, do that, Do
it with your heart, do it with all you can.
But let's not pretend that you can just absorb another
culture and not have an impact yours from an illegal standpoint,
and and the fact that Democrats started embracing they're not
illegal is absurd. What that essentially tells you is that
if they're not illegal, then we're not Americans, meaning that
if no human being is illegally in another country, why
wouldn't you just have all of them come over, just
dissolve the border between all nations? How do you how
do you take care of that? How do you manage that?
Speaker 7: How?
Speaker 2: Especially the irony here is that Democrats want to keep
tags and tabs and tags on everybody they want. They
want to go after everybody. You got to pay yours.
You gotta pay yours as the rich, you know, got
to go after them. So you want to soak one
group of people, but you don't even know who the
other group is. Would you open it up to the cartels.
Let them just come across the border now, of course not,
and who knows it may be we may be at
that clear and present danger. Tom Clancy way of looking
at things, where the military goes out and takes out
these cartels. They're as powerful as many countries. They have
the money, they have a standing army, they have arms,
they could invade, and in some places on the southern
border they kind of have operational control inside our borders.
It's hard to believe the border's that big. Imagine the
entire length of North Carolina, then double it, maybe triple it,
and then you get closer to how big that border is.
That's a massive border drive for hours and hours. That's
you know, it's not some tiny space. It's ginormous. And
so if you have a country, then those people that
are in that country have responsibility and the governance, the
governing of it requires you protect them, and that means
from enemies. And if I don't know who you are.
The assumption is if you come to my country, if
I were to say there's a battalion of seven million
coming across our border, we don't know anything about them.
We don't know if they mean US ill will and
they have they crossed all at once. If seven million
people just came right across at once in and invaded
every state and sent, you know, four hundred thousand or
five hundred thousand people into every state, you would think
that was an army. That looks like an army, it
acts like an army. And just because it's spread out
over a few years instead of all it wants, the
distinction is not a distinction with a difference. It's still
the impact of those people doing what they can to live, thrive,
and survive within our system that does confer upon them benefits,
whether it be public education, or welfare services or hotels
in cities like New York. There's a cost not to
mention the legal system because it's not that these are
all great players here. It doesn't have to be a
large percentage. I mean, people have Democrats say, well, there's
other people that got raped in gold. It's not the
migrants anymore than anyone else. Well, the fact that one happened,
If those are illegal, they weren't supposed to be here.
We have enough crime without that influx of additional crime.
But it is a new year coming up. It's just
surprising that Democrats gave up that even Roy Cooper and
Josh Stein do not want to talk about that. They
don't want to talk about Sineloa. They barely can talk
about fentanyl being a southern border problem because their party
owns this crisis and they have precious little to say
about it. They could be, you know, normal people and
say this is a problem. They could challenge their own party,
say we got to fix this. It's hurting our people.
But even they and Democrats in North Carolina, at some
point they're going to be connected nationally and it's going
to hurt them. It's going to just crush them. Because
we in North Carolina, I got a stand up to
the Democrats that are against this kind of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Sam, welcome to the program and thank you for holding
through the break.
Speaker 8: Yeah okay, first of all, talking about logistics are running
them up? Well, yeah, let's go to the simple ones first.
And as a problem with the criminals that have been caught, Okay,
you've already got him. He don't got to go look
for him, at least, I hope you don't got to
look for him. Where you put somebody in jail, but
usually stay there for at least well enough for the
paperwork to dry. So okay, you've already got him. That
cost has already been taken care of.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 8: As for the costs of getting rid of them, okay, now,
how much does it cost to incarcerate one of these guys,
people for say even six months, Let's say it's seventy
thousand dollars. You other tell us that's thirty five thousand.
You're telling me we can't get these big people back,
just one individual back to the country for thirty five
less than thirty five thousand dollars I'll take that job.
I'll take them one at a time, no problem, for
thirty five weeks pop. You get a whole lot of
people will and take them back.
Speaker 2: Well, you've got you know, just in the federal system alone,
you've got about thirty three if you add them up,
thirty one hundred maybe a little over one hundred and
some thousand in the federal system. The ones that are
in jail, whether they're in the county jail, the state jail,
or the federal prison, all of those are easy. Although
you don't want to necessarily turn over Joaquin Guzman back
to the Sinaloa cartel, I mean you don't. There are
certain people that are eminent threats to the US, no
matter how illegal they are, the fact that we got
him here through extradition or whatever. But you're right, the
ones that.
Speaker 8: Are not the extraditions, ones we caught came across our
bor illegally and committed a crime in our country on
our curve.
Speaker 2: Yes, those are easy to get. Now, those yes we
can get them. And that's but that is a small
percentage right there. Well, I don't know Homan Homan right.
Tom Holman has asserted that he can get those out
pretty quickly, he said, those he can expedite, and those,
like you said, they're already waiting. They're essentially in a
holding cell somewhere. They can be deported pretty The ones
that you know that we don't know about. You know
that the Biden administration assigned to court date too and
just turn them loose, catch and release kind of program
that they had, And that's where and then once they
realize they're being you know, they're going people are going
after them. They're going to be even more difficult to catch.
And it's a matter of how do you prior I
mean they will, they'll they'll prioritize it.
Speaker 8: But if they're being a productive member of our society
and obeying the laws, leave them alone, Give them my
freaking green card, give the sayisens and give whatever. Let
them pay taxes, increase our tax base.
Speaker 2: So do you wanna do you want to encourage that?
Would would would you want to encourage several hundred thousand
more to come across if the only law they break
is coming here illegally?
Speaker 8: Well that I'm saying, the ones are already here.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just didn't want to create I thought you
were trying to create an incentive for more to come.
You're trying to say the ones there there will be. Look, legally,
you've got you've got the Dreamers, you know, the the
DACA folks. There's going to be. There has to be
some reform on our immigration laws. There's just no other
way around that. We have an illegal problem, we have
we have criminal problem, and we have a DACA dreamer problem.
So you're right, there are there are various stages of
where people are along that spectrum. I don't know where
they draw the line, and that's where the law has
to be clarified. And I think you would agree with
that regardless of huh.
Speaker 8: This country needs people willing to work. Trust me, the company.
Speaker 2: I work it does.
Speaker 8: If we could, we'd take hundreds of them in the
same day as they're willing to work.
Speaker 2: I think that you're going to see the discussion has
to be had. It can't be ignored, though, and I
think one of the things we did was we just
ignored it for the past four years. And I don't
think either party can choose to ignore it any form.
But Sam, I appreciate that, and you're right. I mean,
we have a worker issue and we don't we aren't
replacing Americans, and so there has to be an immigration thing.
If we're not having kids, we want to exist in
you know, one hundred and twenty years. So I appreciate
the call, Sam.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Now from Sam over to Stan and Stan, you're wanting
to talk about the hippo laws, I believe.
Speaker 9: Yes, correct. So I've worked for some parts of my
life indirectly with the healthcare system, and after watching it
for some time, I've come to a conclusion. I only
see if you agree with my conclusion. People think that
hippo laws are to protect my information from people like you.
You know what I mean. But what I've come to
realize is is that if I can't know yours and
you can't know mine, then we don't have any idea
how well the system is functioning. So I've come to
conclusion that is to protect take them from us, because
we can't know how Obamacare is doing, in Medicare and Medicaid,
how insurance is eactually working. If we can't know the
records of people who are getting treated.
Speaker 2: Through the system, now that's fascinating. I had I hadn't
heard that perspective before. I would say that, you know,
you're talking about the health insurance portability and accountability. It's
a hippo. It's a nice acronym.
Speaker 8: We have it.
Speaker 2: It's been around since the nineties. So that's the you
don't share information. Now I would be concerned or not
me personally, Well, yeah, I would be. It is that
you have this information and it's shared with companies so
they can forbid, they cannot ensure you. It's a way
for insurance. That's what part of it is. Is so
that the insurance companies don't say, ah, you you've got
a genetic pre disposition for this, so you're going to
be covered for everything but that and also when you
see you know right, and so ancestry.
Speaker 9: Created for something good. But it is that understanding is
that the free market pays for most of health care.
If I paid for my own, well, I had to
own private insurance compan I could negotiate a private agreement
with them. But once you let the government take over
providing a majority of health care, all of a sudden,
your insurance company knows your health care records. The government does.
People who do medicate, Medicare does, but the best of
us can't. So we can't make a judgment on how
well public healthcare is actually working.
Speaker 2: And Stan, you're making the case, making the case for
more of a privatization and government getting out of the way.
You're right, we don't know how well things are working.
We had It's very difficult to get statistics on this stuff.
That's why it's so cluegy, because people confuse health insurance
with health care. They're not the same. Health insurance mask
the actual cost of health care. Americans have no idea
what they're paying for. Hospitals can't even tell you. That
was one of Dale Folwell's arguments. The hospital couldn't even
tell them how much a knee replacement costs and wouldn't
aggregate things out. So it's hard to fix something when
you don't know what the facts are.
Speaker 9: And hippos presign to prevent us a knowing it is.
Speaker 2: I can't say that you got a wrong point there. Stan.
I appreciate you calling okay, take care now, and that's
again there's a lot of a student observations out there.
I even think Sam's point about the illegal situation, what
he's saying may many of you may be screaming at
your radios or your your devices right now. Saying, you know,
Sam's out of his mind. But Sam's making a point
that many companies will making. If you dumped all eleven million,
there would be companies that would be crippled by that.
And they're supposed to have, you know, they're supposed to
have certifications that these people are working for them legally.
I can't remember what one. This is a big issue,
has been for years. I wish I remember the paperwork
right this second. But that's one of the significant problems
with this is that they can come here and work,
They can come here and get into the trades they can,
and the country rewards many of these that are once
they cross here and they are illegally here, but at
the same time they're abiding by many others. Now I've
had I happen to know many of the trades, and
what they'll do is they'll create a roofing company or
a construction company and create an LLC because somehow they
figured out a way to do that, and they have
to have a legit person here legally, and then they'll
fold up shop and create the same company with the
new LLCs to protect any of the work that was done.
So there is a lot that this is a complicated issue.
It's not easy. But you have to have immigration laws
or you don't have a country. Phone lines still up.
I've got plenty to talk about, but you guys come first.
You know why, because that's what I said when I
started the show. It's always learned everyone, So Stan appreciate it, Tommy,
Welcome to the show. How are you today?
Speaker 7: Well at Butler, Pennsylvania, when Trump got shot in the ear,
it's reported that he said that he heard a bullet
whizz by first. So the bullet is whizzing by, it
is sub sonic. What mister Crooks was shooting at him
with was AR fifteen. It goes about three times the
speed of sound, and it doesn't whizz. You can't hear
it coming. When it goes by, pops like a firecracker
went by, and I know that from Vietnam pet So
it breaks the sound barrier and you hear a little
sonic boom all down the trail of that bullet. So
you could hear it. When the cameras were running watching Trump,
you hear a pop pop. Trump grabs his ear and
he ducks that pop pop was the sonic boom of
those bullets going by. From mister Crook's rifle. But mister
Trump said he heard a bullet whiz by. So this
supersonic bullets whizz they popped.
Speaker 2: What do you know?
Speaker 7: It was subsnic and that means there was another shooter.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to get into a deep debate here,
but we do know there were multiple shots because another
individual was killed right in line with Trump's head, so
to speak, behind Trump from that angle that the shooter
was shooting from. I'm not debating whether it was the
second shooter with him, just saying, and do you know
what the grain on the bullets he was using, was
using the four gram five gram? Do you know seventy
seven grain or fifty five grain? Because some of them
traveling about thirty two hundred feet somewhmer twenty seven hundred feet,
you know, as I recall, but that's.
Speaker 7: All, we would all be supersonic. And I've heard an
interview of the two fellows that survived being shot. One,
the younger one, had his ribs broken, which was probably
very likely supersonic. The other, older gentleman was walking with
a cane and he still was still had the bullet
in him. He said it was close to his colon,
and it was very uncomfortable. I'd sure like to see
that bullet when it comes out. I bet you it's
subsnic Well.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting. Again. I'm there are a number of
people that think like you. I am not one of those,
but I'm not going to debate you on it because
you have a reason thought about the different types of
ammunition used, and I wasn't aware that there was the
other individual with a bullet in them. But it'll be,
you know what, more truthful. God guarantee you. Hey, if
Trump is interested in exposing what's going on in Area
fifty one and whether or not we have alien spacecraft,
I'll guarantee you he wants to know more about what
happened when he almost got killed.
Speaker 7: So well, they already they had a picture of the bullet.
They had a picture of it. Did you happen to
see that?
Speaker 2: I have not. I have not the one that killed
the gentleman.
Speaker 7: After another, the one who had a picture of the
bullet on the camera, and it would have been subsigonic.
I bet you.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I appreciate you sharing that. Now the audience
has heard your version of that one. So I appreciate it. Okay,
and thank you Tommy, and thank you for calling, thank
you for listening. And Billy, welcome to the show. How
are you good?
Speaker 4: How are you doing today?
Speaker 2: I am wonderful.
Speaker 4: How are you good?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 4: I just want to make a comment. You know, when
it comes to health insurance, health not health insurance, but
insurance in general, it used to be, you know, you're
spreading your risks. People at higher with are charged a
greater amount. You know, if you live on the coast,
of course, your insurance can be a little more than
somebody who you know lives in Charlotte. However, when it
comes to health insurance, insurance companies are not allowed to
do that because if they do that, they're discriminatory, are
racist or whatever. So I mean, I just you know,
I'm not a big component of insurance companies that they
need to make a profit. I understand that. However, you know,
if you have a certain condition. To me, if you're
a smoker, you should be charged considerably more. But you know,
eventually smoking is going to be in an illness, or
drug addiction is going to be in the illness. Something
you can't prevent. It's genetic. So there you go. Now,
you can't do that. If you're a woman. They're charged
more if they're childbearing. However, we'll get to a point
where we can't do that either. So it's almost like
the educational system when it comes to the racial divide.
Instead of elevating the children who are not performing well
to a higher level, we have to bring the ones
at a higher level down to make everybody the same.
Which society we're just going We're going nuts. We're going nuts.
I mean, you know, things have to be looked at
in a basic way and done properly. But it's not
done that way across the board, whether it's insurance, education,
it's insane to me.
Speaker 2: Well, billy, you may they too. You live in a wood, well,
don't do that. It's dangerous out there. Nature's out to
get you, by the way, it's out to kill. The
universe is out to get you. Make no mistake. It
is you learn that every day when you make a
mistake and run into a wall or a door, trip
or fall or something. But let's go to the two
points you made, which I think are very valid. One
that you know, when we see teachers, I would make
the equation to unions a lot of unions reward a
base level of work, and so you don't reward people
that are exceptional at work. You have to reward everybody
gets the same pay raise regardless of how good they
are at the work, and the teachers' unions work the
same way. So that's a disincentive to success, and we
see that in education. The second one, you talk about healthcare.
You know, we're really funny about health care. The emotional
side of health care forbids us from having good economic discussions.
And you're right because if I were to say, if
you're really overweight, should your health insurance be more? And
you would probably say yes. I think a lot of
people would say yes. If you're a smoker, it should
be more. What if you have a genetic predisposition, That's
that's where it starts getting tricky. Or if you do
a genetic profile and you find out you're going to
have something, then you'd say, well, I don't want to
find I don't want to You can't insure that. So
it is a you know, insurance should be about risk.
In health insurance, it's not, and in many ways government
tries to not allow risk to be part of health insurance.
But even in your car, if you wreck your car,
have a bunch of speeding tickets, your insurance goes through
the roof for your car. Right, well, it is.
Speaker 4: And see that's another issue. People are talking about the
cost of homeowners insurance.
Speaker 5: It's gone up.
Speaker 4: It's crazy how much it's gone up. Now everything else
has gone up in price. I was a general contractor,
so of course then the cost to rebuild your house
after an event's going to be greater, so your premiums
could be greater. But what drives me crazy is how
many of these insurance companies where it's healthcare are you know,
property casualty. A time like this will show escalating profits.
I mean, are you stupid? I mean, are you really
that stupid? I mean, your premium should go up with
the actual cost. But if you start showing excess profit,
you know this is what you are.
Speaker 2: You're right, But I mean our hospital cartels are tens
of billions in profits and putting it off shore, as
Dale fall Will pointed out, and no one seems to
get that upset.
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