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Again, 10 00:00:29,879 --> 00:00:36,000 I want to just point out the just the vision, 11 00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:39,920 the image of Elon Musk and Donald Trump at the 12 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,399 Oval Office, Trump sitting behind the resolute desk, Elon standing 13 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,960 you know, to Trump's right, but to the left of 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,799 the screen because we're looking at them. So Elon's standing 15 00:00:50,799 --> 00:00:53,159 there and he's got his little kid who's like, I 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,039 don't know, three years old or something, who's very well behaved. 17 00:00:56,079 --> 00:00:58,679 I mean, yeah, I know he kind of you know, 18 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:01,159 he was acting like a so he's kind of walking 19 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,759 around and then he wants to get held picked up. 20 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,480 Elon puts him on his shoulders, and the kids like, 21 00:01:06,519 --> 00:01:08,959 you know, messing with his dad's hat and his hair 22 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,200 and all this. But by and large a well behaved 23 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,040 kid like I at that age, I probably would have 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,680 been just like running around grabbing all of the sharpies 25 00:01:19,719 --> 00:01:24,079 off of Trump's desk or something. And Trump didn't seem 26 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,280 to mind. And they seem to get along. And by 27 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,519 the way, that's the other image that comes across in 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:35,120 this media availability at the Oval Office yesterday afternoon, is 29 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:37,719 that these two guys do not hate each other. They're 30 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,359 not vying for supremacy, alpha dog status and all of that. 31 00:01:41,719 --> 00:01:45,519 They seem to both understand the mission, right. The mission 32 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:52,040 is to root out all of this waste and fraud 33 00:01:52,079 --> 00:01:57,319 into abuse and the stories that Musk brought had they 34 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:00,439 been broken, and you can still, by the way legacy 35 00:02:00,439 --> 00:02:05,200 outlet people, reporters, you can still go and investigate this stuff. 36 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,480 So that's going to be one of the nice benefits 37 00:02:07,519 --> 00:02:10,039 is when the day when the information comes out, when 38 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:13,120 this data is produced, you're going to be able to 39 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:16,240 track this stuff too, and you're going to be able 40 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,840 to do this kind of investigative journalism and you're going 41 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,439 to be able then to affect change, which is what 42 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,759 gets you the awards. That's how you win awards. That's 43 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:33,759 the model. Right, reporter uncovers something they then rush to 44 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,680 the government and they're like, what are you going to 45 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:37,840 do about it? And some lawmakers like, oh my gosh, 46 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,800 this is terrible. I'm going to do something about it. 47 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,439 And then they file a bill doing something about this thing, 48 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:45,199 and then it passes, and then the media, you know, 49 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,960 pats itself on the back, and then they submit that 50 00:02:48,039 --> 00:02:51,080 for awards material and then they win awards for it 51 00:02:51,159 --> 00:02:56,199 because they did something that you know, affected change. You 52 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,120 can do this with all of these grants, all of 53 00:02:59,159 --> 00:03:01,800 these programs and stuff. You can go out and find 54 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:07,719 the corruption and save American taxpayers billions of dollars. You 55 00:03:07,759 --> 00:03:09,960 can help in this fight. You can do it. This 56 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:12,599 is a good thing to do. This is a necessary 57 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:17,599 thing to do. So listen to Musk here. He says 58 00:03:18,719 --> 00:03:22,919 that at a high level, and this is another brilliant move. Here, 59 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,599 they're taking back the word democracy because the left has 60 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,919 been using this as sort of a catch all for 61 00:03:32,039 --> 00:03:36,400 everything anti Trump. Right, Trump is a threat to the democracy. 62 00:03:36,479 --> 00:03:41,240 Democracy dies in darkness, like all of this catastrophizing about 63 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:47,879 the democracy and Trump or sorry. Musk distills this down 64 00:03:48,639 --> 00:03:51,719 and how it relates to the task at hand. The 65 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:58,039 purpose of their mission is to in fact, restore democracy. 66 00:03:57,719 --> 00:03:59,759 Speaker 3: If there's not a good feedback loop from the people 67 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,960 to the government, and if you have rule of the bureaucrat, 68 00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:09,000 if the bureaucracy is in charge, and then what meaning 69 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,879 does democracy actually have. If the people cannot vote and 70 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:17,240 have there will be decided by their elected representatives in 71 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,959 the form of the President and the Senate in the House, 72 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:22,040 then we don't live in a democracy. 73 00:04:22,199 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: We live in a bureaucracy. 74 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,959 Speaker 3: So it's incredibly important that we close that feedback we 75 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,720 fix that feedback group, and that the public, the public's 76 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,920 elected representatives, the President of the House and the Senate, 77 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:39,160 decide what happens as opposed to a large unelected bureaucracy. 78 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:41,199 This is not to say that there aren't some good 79 00:04:41,399 --> 00:04:45,360 There are good people who are in the federal bureaucracy. 80 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,560 But you can't have an autonomous federal bureaucracy. You have 81 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,800 to have one that's responsive to the people. That's the 82 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,160 whole point of a democracy. 83 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 2: Yes, precisely, that's the point. If you can't ever change 84 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,480 this Leviathan, then you really don't have a voice in 85 00:05:05,519 --> 00:05:09,040 the governing of your country. And so when somebody runs 86 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,360 on a platform and promises that they are going to 87 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:15,680 root out the deep state, the bureaucratic managerial class. They 88 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,399 are going to find the waste, fraud, and abuse. They're 89 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:23,040 going to act as your retribution. They're going to find savings, 90 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,759 so you keep more of your money. That will increase 91 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:29,800 economic productivity. It will put more or let you keep 92 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,399 more money in your pocket. That generates more economic activity, 93 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,759 and you are more free. We are all more free. 94 00:05:38,959 --> 00:05:42,360 That's what people voted for. And I know the left 95 00:05:42,399 --> 00:05:46,839 doesn't understand this because they think that everybody that voted 96 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,639 for Trump is just a fascist. See, this is the 97 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,519 problem when you think in just this narrow way about 98 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,879 all these other people and why they voted. When you 99 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:00,600 make these assumptions and then you blind yourself to reality, failure, 100 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:07,959 right is when reality and your wishes meet. Okay, and 101 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,120 your wishes are not based in reality. Like you may 102 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,040 try to fool the markets for so long, but you 103 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:20,920 don't fool them forever because the market is us. He says. 104 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:25,519 We have a fourth branch, an unelected, unconstitutional branch of 105 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,360 government that has more power now than really any elected representative. 106 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,720 And this is not in line with the will of 107 00:06:35,759 --> 00:06:41,199 the people. The other part of it is the truth 108 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,519 the two trillion dollar deficit. 109 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,759 Speaker 3: If we don't do something about this deficit, country's going bankrupt. 110 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,439 I mean, it's it's really astounding that the uh, the 111 00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:55,360 interest payments alone on national debt exceed the defense de 112 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:58,959 public budget, which is shocking because we've got a lot 113 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,240 of we spend a lot of money on offense. But 114 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,079 and if that just keeps going, we're essentially going to 115 00:07:04,079 --> 00:07:06,720 bankrupt the country. So what earlier to say is like, 116 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:10,839 it's not optional for us to reduce the federal expenses. 117 00:07:10,879 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: It's essential. 118 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 3: It's essential for America to remain solvent as a country, 119 00:07:16,439 --> 00:07:19,439 and it's essential for America to have the resources necessarily 120 00:07:19,439 --> 00:07:22,240 to provide things to its citizens and not simply be 121 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:23,680 servicing vast amounts of debt. 122 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: Right. 123 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 2: The problem is that that's what gets you elected. See, 124 00:07:26,959 --> 00:07:30,879 so the people running for office, they make all of 125 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,360 the promises, I'm going to do this, I'm gonna do that, 126 00:07:33,439 --> 00:07:34,680 I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, 127 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,920 and then people vote so they can get something out 128 00:07:37,959 --> 00:07:43,199 of the treasury. The same sort of stuff happens at 129 00:07:43,199 --> 00:07:46,160 every level of government, all the way down to Hoa's, 130 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,720 and people don't want to pay for the things that 131 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:51,600 you have to pay for, and they want you know, 132 00:07:51,639 --> 00:07:53,120 I don't want to pay any money. I don't want 133 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,040 to pay assessments, high assessments. And then you don't do 134 00:07:55,079 --> 00:07:56,920 any of the maintenance, and then stuff starts falling down, 135 00:07:56,959 --> 00:07:58,319 and then oh lo and behold, we don't have any 136 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:00,759 money to fix everything, and now you're bankrupt and your 137 00:08:00,959 --> 00:08:07,439 home values crater. Like this is all predictable. People on 138 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,600 the right have been talking about this looming catastrophe of 139 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:19,399 the debt for my entire life, longer than my entire life, 140 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,040 aside from the one brief period under Bill Clinton with 141 00:08:23,079 --> 00:08:25,600 a Republican Congress where they balance the budget and I 142 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,920 would submit it wasn't even really balanced because it doesn't 143 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,920 address the unfunded liabilities in the out years of Social 144 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:36,159 Security and Medicare obligations. But at least it was like 145 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:44,320 revenue meeting expenses. And now we have borrowed so much money, 146 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:47,159 as he just said, the interest to service the debt 147 00:08:47,879 --> 00:08:50,639 is more than we spend on the military, which like 148 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:55,919 eight hundred billion dollars. That is insane. That will bankrupt us. 149 00:08:56,519 --> 00:09:01,080 And you know what happens overnight if we are no 150 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:04,679 longer the world's reserve currency. Because we're now no longer 151 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:10,519 a stable currency. Your standard of living will be cut 152 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,799 in half overnight because nobody's going to be using the 153 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,080 dollar for everything. It's not going to be the currency 154 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,960 of the globe. And then you end up with other 155 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,080 countries or maybe the UN trying to do its own currency, 156 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,600 and they will do the exact same thing. They will 157 00:09:27,639 --> 00:09:34,279 inflate it by making promises, printing debt and then running 158 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,759 more and more deficits, and then everything crashes like this 159 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:42,399 is not fiscally sound. It has to get fixed, And besides, 160 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,440 isn't this the best way to fix it? To root 161 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,279 this stuff out, find the savings, and then you don't 162 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,279 have to worry about Medicaid, Medicare, social security being touched. Right, 163 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,840 all right, I hope you had a happy holiday season. 164 00:09:55,879 --> 00:09:58,399 But tell me if something like this happened at your house. 165 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,159 Your family and friends are gab it around, Maybe y'all 166 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:04,759 are in the living room, you're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, 167 00:10:04,799 --> 00:10:08,720 and then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? 168 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,399 Did you ever get them transferred? And then the room 169 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,240 gets all quiet. 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Elon Musk standing alongside of 184 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,600 Donald Trump in the Oval Office talking about what DOGE 185 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:10,200 is doing, and Trump said, some of the things that 186 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:16,480 they have found so far in their investigation has been shocking, 187 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:17,120 to say the. 188 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 4: Least billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse. 189 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,200 And I think it's very important, and that's one of 190 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:26,879 the reasons I got elected I said. 191 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: We're going to do that. 192 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 4: Nobody had any idea it was that bad, that's sick, 193 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,600 and that corrupt. And it seems hard to believe that 194 00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:36,799 judges want to try and stop us from looking for corruption, 195 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,919 especially when we found hundreds of millions of dollars worth 196 00:11:41,039 --> 00:11:41,840 much more than that. 197 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: In just a short period of time. 198 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,919 Speaker 4: We want to weed out the corruption, and it seems 199 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:49,200 hard to believe that a judge could say, we don't 200 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,240 want you to do that. Well, so maybe we have 201 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:55,360 to look at the judges because it's very serious. I 202 00:11:55,399 --> 00:11:57,000 think it's a very serious violation. 203 00:11:57,799 --> 00:12:02,399 Speaker 2: And Trump kept coming back to this line of attack. 204 00:12:03,519 --> 00:12:07,720 He kept referencing the court rulings that have been trying 205 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:12,279 to stop Doge and his administration from doing what I 206 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,320 think it's pretty clear they are empowered to do. He 207 00:12:15,399 --> 00:12:18,679 is the leader of the executive branch, and these courts 208 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,039 seem to be saying, you can't look at this stuff 209 00:12:21,399 --> 00:12:24,440 even though it's inside the executive branch. And if the 210 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:29,399 chief executive can't do that, then what are you saying 211 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:33,639 about the power of that bureaucratic branch, this fourth branch 212 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:38,320 of government, that they're unaccountable, they can do whatever they want. 213 00:12:39,519 --> 00:12:45,039 That's nuts. Musk highlighted then deficiencies, specifically in the Treasury 214 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,480 Department accounting process. 215 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 3: Basic controls that should be in place that are in 216 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,639 place in any company, such as making sure that any 217 00:12:53,639 --> 00:12:56,799 given payment has a payment categorization code, that there is 218 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,159 a comment field that describes the payment. If a payment 219 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,360 is on the do not pay list, that you don't 220 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:04,200 actually pay it. 221 00:13:04,399 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: What None of those things are true currently. 222 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 3: So the reason that departments can't pass ordits is because 223 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,440 the payments don't have a categorization code. It's like just 224 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,240 a massive number of blank checks just flying out the building. 225 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,360 So you can't reconcile blank checks. You've got comment fields 226 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:22,080 that are also blanks. You don't know why the payment 227 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,360 is made. And then we've got this a trillly episode. 228 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:27,799 A do not pay list, which can take up to 229 00:13:27,879 --> 00:13:30,399 a year before an organization to get on a do 230 00:13:30,399 --> 00:13:34,919 not pay list, and this we're talking about terrorist organizations. 231 00:13:34,919 --> 00:13:37,039 Speaker 1: We're talking about known. 232 00:13:36,879 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 3: Fraudsters, known aspects of waste, known things that do not 233 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,120 match any congressional appropriation. Can take up to a year 234 00:13:43,159 --> 00:13:45,039 to get on the list, and even once it's on 235 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,080 the list, the list is not used it's mind blowing. 236 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,399 So what we're talking about here, we're really just talking 237 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,440 about adding common sense controls that should be present. 238 00:13:58,600 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: That haven't been present. 239 00:14:01,639 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense unless it's intentional, Right, Like, 240 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,120 how do you not adhere to basic accounting principles? You're 241 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,519 the Treasury Department. You deal with the money. The irs 242 00:14:16,639 --> 00:14:20,000 is under you. Guys, they go after people for not 243 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:25,679 doing proper accounting. Businesses and individuals face criminal penalties if 244 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,960 they don't do this stuff correctly. And you guys aren't 245 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,039 even coding things so you know how to track spending. 246 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,000 And he says, this is why departments can't pass audits. 247 00:14:38,399 --> 00:14:41,000 They can't even pass an audit. I don't even have 248 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,679 a high opinion of audits. Most audits don't even catch 249 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:47,039 a lot of fraud. They don't. I mean, when I 250 00:14:47,039 --> 00:14:49,720 was up in Asheville, the Bunkham County government was passing 251 00:14:49,799 --> 00:14:52,440 all of its audits every single year. Meanwhile the county 252 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,200 manager was siphoning off millions of dollars in corruption. So 253 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,840 like that's I don't like, that's a minimum. You can't 254 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,240 even pass an audit, but you don't even do the 255 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,080 data collection and the entry on the front end in 256 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:14,039 order to attempt to pass an audit. It's craziness, Musk said. 257 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,399 The stuff that they are finding is so basic that 258 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:23,559 you can't believe it doesn't even exist already. This is 259 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,840 a guy that comes out of the business world and 260 00:15:27,879 --> 00:15:30,639 he looks at this stuff and it's like, what are 261 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:36,200 you doing? How has this been able to go on 262 00:15:36,399 --> 00:15:41,120 for so long? You cannot audit If you can't trace 263 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,120 the payments, you don't know what you're spending the money on. 264 00:15:44,759 --> 00:15:50,200 So how did it happen? Well, he has an explanation 265 00:15:50,279 --> 00:15:52,879 for that too. 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Your subscription 284 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,399 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 285 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,720 Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 286 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,559 At the press availability yesterday, Elon Musk talked about the 287 00:17:00,559 --> 00:17:04,880 Treasury Department's failure to do basic accounting mechanisms so they 288 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:09,400 can follow where the money is going. So basic, he says, 289 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,359 you can't believe that these systems don't already exist, and 290 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:19,680 then he explains how this happens and why it happens. 291 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 3: Really, everything is scared towards complaint minimization, so that then 292 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:26,680 you understand the motivations. 293 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: So if people receive. 294 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 3: Money, they don't complain, obviously, but if people don't receive money, 295 00:17:32,839 --> 00:17:36,319 they do complain. And the fraust has complained the loudest 296 00:17:36,519 --> 00:17:41,319 and of the fastest, so then when you understand that, 297 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,200 then it makes sense. Oh, that's why everything just they 298 00:17:45,319 --> 00:17:48,160 prove all the payments at Treasury, because if you approve 299 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,240 all the payments, you don't you don't get complaints. But 300 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:54,680 now we're saying that, no, actually we are going to 301 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,079 complain if money is spent badly, If your taxpayer dollars 302 00:17:58,319 --> 00:18:02,759 are not spent in a sensible approval, then that's not okay. 303 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,559 Speaker 1: Your tax dollars need to be spent wisely. 304 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:11,279 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he said. This is not draconian, this 305 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,440 is not radical. It's common sense, and it is he 306 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:19,759 is exactly right, Like, why wouldn't you want to root 307 00:18:19,799 --> 00:18:23,759 out this kind of fraud? Why wouldn't you want to know? 308 00:18:25,039 --> 00:18:27,400 He pointed out that there are also people listed in 309 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:31,559 the social Security system as being one hundred and fifty 310 00:18:31,839 --> 00:18:33,240 years old, not. 311 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 3: You know, anyone's one hundred and fifty I don't, Okay, 312 00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:39,240 they should be on the Guinness Booker World records. 313 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: They're messing out, so you know that's the case, where 314 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:47,160 like I think they're probably dead, that's my guess, or 315 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:48,680 they should be very famous. One of the two. 316 00:18:50,799 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 3: And then that a whole bunch of social ccurity payments 317 00:18:52,759 --> 00:18:56,039 with is no identifying identifying information? Well, why is there 318 00:18:56,039 --> 00:18:59,559 no identifying information? Obviously we want to make we want 319 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:02,720 to make sure the people who deserve to receive Social 320 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,839 Security do receive it, and that receive it quickly and accurately. 321 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 2: Social Security payments without any identifying information. I still don't 322 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:21,039 even understand how that happens. What does that mean? Is 323 00:19:21,079 --> 00:19:24,759 there a name on the check? It's getting mailed to 324 00:19:24,799 --> 00:19:28,000 an address, but there's no record of the person. I like, 325 00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:34,200 I don't even understand that. And then this is I 326 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:41,960 think the craziest thing. We are storing retirement paperwork for 327 00:19:42,079 --> 00:19:49,440 federal employees in a mine, an actual limestone mine in 328 00:19:49,519 --> 00:19:50,200 a mountain. 329 00:19:51,079 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 3: The most number of people that could retire, possibly in 330 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:54,640 a month, is ten thousand. 331 00:19:54,799 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: We're like, well why is that? Well, because. 332 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 3: Time at paperwork is manual on paper, It's manually calculated, 333 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:06,519 that written down on a piece of paper. Then it 334 00:20:06,559 --> 00:20:08,559 goes down to mine and like, what do you mean 335 00:20:08,599 --> 00:20:12,039 a mine? Like, yeah, there's a limestone mine where we 336 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:16,039 store all the retirement paperwork that and you look a 337 00:20:16,079 --> 00:20:17,680 picture of a picture of this mine. We'll post the 338 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,759 pictures afterwards, and this is this mine looks like something 339 00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:23,200 out of the fifties because it was started in nineteen 340 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,319 fifty five, so it looks like. 341 00:20:25,319 --> 00:20:27,039 Speaker 1: It's like a time warp. 342 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,279 Speaker 3: And then the speed, then the limiting factor is the 343 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:33,000 speed at which the mine, the shaft elevator can move, 344 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,519 determines how many people can retire from the federal from 345 00:20:36,519 --> 00:20:40,759 the federal government, and the elevator breaks down and sometimes 346 00:20:40,799 --> 00:20:42,279 and then you can't nobody can retire. 347 00:20:42,279 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 1: It doesn't that sound crazy? Yeah, there's a thousand people 348 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:47,400 that work on this. 349 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 2: There are a thousand people. There's a thousand people that 350 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:58,599 work on just federal employees retiring, and they have to 351 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:03,680 calculate it all of their retirement benefits by hand. And 352 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,519 I heard this morning from a former federal employee. They 353 00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:10,759 say it takes like four to six months. They calculate 354 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:12,319 it by hand. And you know that's not going to 355 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,480 go well because eventually nobody's going to be alive that 356 00:21:14,519 --> 00:21:16,359 knows how to do any math anymore, and so like, 357 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:17,559 I don't even know what we're going to do at 358 00:21:17,559 --> 00:21:21,440 that point. They then put the documents in a Manila 359 00:21:21,519 --> 00:21:27,680 envelope and then they have to transport them down a 360 00:21:27,799 --> 00:21:32,920 mining elevator for storage and they put pictures out. I've 361 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:37,039 seen the pictures. It's I mean, it's pretty cool. It 362 00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:40,920 looks like a villain's layer from a Bond movie, except 363 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,440 like with paperwork, you just like rows and rows and 364 00:21:43,599 --> 00:21:46,559 racks of boxes filled with all of these envelopes of 365 00:21:46,599 --> 00:21:49,480 all the federal retirees. I don't know if any of 366 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,039 them are one hundred and fifty years old. But the 367 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,319 limiting factor, he says, is the speed of the elevator. 368 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,880 It just takes so long to ride the elevator down 369 00:22:02,559 --> 00:22:06,240 for you to drop off the paperwork in the storage 370 00:22:06,279 --> 00:22:09,799 facility or something. And so that's that's why you can't 371 00:22:09,839 --> 00:22:13,359 have Because they he said, they encountered this problem and 372 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:18,400 they learned about the mine when they were offering early retirement. Hey, 373 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:19,839 why don't we just get a whole bunch of people 374 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:23,200 to early retire and that'll help cut the workforce down. 375 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,880 And they were told, oh, you can't do that because 376 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,920 we're limited to only ten thousand people a month. Because 377 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:39,880 that's the speed of the elevator. That's what Who designed this? 378 00:22:40,839 --> 00:22:44,000 Why did we build this? I mean, I guess it's 379 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,440 in the mine or it's in a mountain, in a mine. Shift. 380 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:49,799 So I guess like at the time, it was a 381 00:22:49,799 --> 00:22:52,039 good idea, like this is going to be really secure. 382 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,920 You're gonna have to run down a mine elevator to 383 00:22:54,920 --> 00:23:01,079 get down there. But my gosh, Like, you guys know 384 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,599 there are computers. I know they're fairly recent inventions, but 385 00:23:04,759 --> 00:23:07,240 holy Toledo, how about we use some of these super 386 00:23:07,279 --> 00:23:13,480 smart computers to do this stuff? Right? Like I'm I'm 387 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:16,240 upset when I can't get a W two send to 388 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:18,519 my email and I can download it, you know, Like, 389 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,279 and you guys got to wait six months for your 390 00:23:21,279 --> 00:23:25,279 retirement to kick in because it takes an elevator shaft 391 00:23:25,319 --> 00:23:29,160 that long to run. It's just insane. This is insane. 392 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:35,119 Why are we doing this Because that's the way it's 393 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:41,400 always been done, he said. Having people do anything else, 394 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:47,640 like really, like almost literally anything else in the society 395 00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:52,319 rather than running Manila envelopes down a mind shaft would 396 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,440 be more productive and that would add to the prosperity 397 00:23:55,599 --> 00:23:57,240 of the entire country. 398 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,559 Speaker 3: Like at a high level, if you could say, like 399 00:23:58,559 --> 00:24:01,400 how do we increase prosperity is get people to do 400 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:04,960 to shift from roles that are low to negative productivity 401 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,799 to high productivity. Roles and so increase the total output 402 00:24:08,839 --> 00:24:11,240 of goods and services, which means that there's. 403 00:24:11,039 --> 00:24:14,599 Speaker 1: A higher standard of living available for everyone. That's the 404 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:15,160 actual goal. 405 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,599 Speaker 2: That's the goal. Why are you fighting me on this? 406 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,160 Do you disagree that that is a worthy goal? Well, 407 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,640 let's talk about why you don't want Americans to be 408 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,960 more prosperous, Like why don't we all just start with 409 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,480 something like, hey, guys, how about we make a faster elevator, 410 00:24:31,839 --> 00:24:35,240 Like could we unify around that? Like start small baby 411 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,240 steps here, Democrats, let's have a faster elevator down the 412 00:24:39,319 --> 00:24:45,200 mine shaft for the filing of the retirement documents. H 413 00:24:46,039 --> 00:24:47,880 I'm all about solutions here. I'm just trying to bring 414 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,240 people together. You know, here's a great idea. 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Similar to 443 00:26:29,519 --> 00:26:33,279 Satan in the movie The Devil's Advocate who plans to 444 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,359 overload the system until it all comes crashing down. Well, 445 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,240 that's Cloward and Piven, pure evil and criminal. Usaid spending 446 00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:43,480 at a time of unprecedented budget deficits is corruption at 447 00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:52,759 the highest levels. John, Yeah, John is not impressed with 448 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,359 the what was there name? Melanie Stansbury a Democrat from 449 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:01,319 New Mexico, shrill and constantly using the words literally and actually, 450 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:07,440 couldn't abolished speaker be used. Now she's the ranking member. 451 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:09,319 She was the best they had to offer, which is 452 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,319 kind of said. Dennis says, it appears that the Democrats, 453 00:27:14,319 --> 00:27:16,920 in their drive through media's code phrase for the week 454 00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:25,200 is constitutional crisis. Indeed, go back and listen to the 455 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,920 podcast of either Monday or Tuesday show. Yes, this is 456 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,599 the narrative they're going with. It's no longer the democracy, 457 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,960 it's constitutional crisis. He says. I would suggest that the 458 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,079 best example to define constitutional crisis is to turn back 459 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:45,160 the pages of the last four years. John says, let 460 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,400 me do the math here. There's a thousand people working 461 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,000 at the Federal Retirement Center. In that mine, only ten 462 00:27:52,039 --> 00:27:55,559 thousand people can retire per month, and that means each person, 463 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:02,279 each employee doing the processing, is processing ten retirement packages 464 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:06,680 per month, which is two point two five packages a 465 00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:13,039 week per person. Well, you know there, they're probably all 466 00:28:13,079 --> 00:28:16,359 working from home, and they're doing it by hand. They're 467 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:23,319 manually calculating the retirement benefits. So I guess that could 468 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:28,920 be a two week or a three day process per package. 469 00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:34,119 I mean that's each package then takes you like twenty 470 00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:42,240 hours or eighteen hours, let's say, per week per person. 471 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,559 Are we hiring the best math people for this gig? 472 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,559 I don't know. Or maybe we should hire people with 473 00:28:50,599 --> 00:28:54,559 stronger backs so they can haul more of the envelopes 474 00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:57,559 down the elevator. No, he says, it's the speed of 475 00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:02,839 the elevator. And there was a reporter who asked Musk 476 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,759 whether or not this is a hostile takeover. 477 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: Your detractors, mister Musk, after what including a lot of Democrats, 478 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:14,400 I have detractors. 479 00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:18,839 Speaker 4: I don't believe it, say that you're orchestrating a hostile 480 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,240 takeover of government and doing it in a non transparent way. 481 00:29:22,759 --> 00:29:24,759 Speaker 1: What's your response to that criticism. 482 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, you couldn't ask for a struggle 483 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,519 mandate from the public. 484 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,359 Speaker 1: The public voted. 485 00:29:32,839 --> 00:29:35,759 Speaker 3: Uh, you know, we do have a majority of the 486 00:29:35,759 --> 00:29:37,759 public vote voting for President Trump. 487 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: We've won the House, who won the Senate. 488 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:48,279 Speaker 3: The people voted for major govement reform. There should be 489 00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:51,279 no doubt about that. That was on the campaign. The 490 00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:54,359 President spoke about that at every rally. The people voted 491 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,200 for major government reform. And that's what people are going 492 00:29:57,279 --> 00:29:58,839 to get. They're going to get what they voted for. 493 00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:01,480 And and a lot of times that you know people 494 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,599 that don't get what they voted for, but in this presidency, 495 00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:06,359 they are going to get what they're voted for. 496 00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:08,519 Speaker 1: And that's what democracy is all about. 497 00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:12,839 Speaker 2: Show me what demokrase looks like, right, isn't this what 498 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,480 all of the protesters in the streets have been demanding. 499 00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:20,119 This is actual responsiveness. This is why it's such a 500 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:24,720 foreign thing to see. We don't understand. We wait, we 501 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:31,079 voted for you based on these promises. Now you're doing it. 502 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:38,440 I'm so confused. Email from greg. He says a friend 503 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,200 of mine helped the State of Florida DOT with their 504 00:30:42,279 --> 00:30:48,440 accounts payable. He spent six months creating a system. After testing, training, 505 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,160 and implementing the system, the head of the DOT told him, 506 00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:55,680 we are not going to use the system because it 507 00:30:55,839 --> 00:31:03,880 ties our hands in writing checks. Yeah, that is not 508 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:09,119 That's not surprising, right. They want a free hand to 509 00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:13,400 do what they want to do, and if that doesn't 510 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,119 align with the priorities of the voters, will pound sand 511 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:24,680 voters take a hike scram Michael Schellenberger a journalist, independent journalist, 512 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,680 author of the book San Francisco, San Francico. He says 513 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,119 The New York Times says that Elon Musk asserts without 514 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:38,400 proof that bureaucracy is rife with fraud. Without proof, okay. 515 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,880 Schollenberger points out that the GAO under Joe Biden General 516 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,599 Accounting author or Government Accounting Office under Biden estimated last 517 00:31:47,759 --> 00:31:52,799 year that we are losing somewhere between two hundred and 518 00:31:52,799 --> 00:31:56,119 thirty three billion all the way to five hundred and 519 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,640 twenty one billion every year to fraud, up to half 520 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,720 a trillion dollars in fraud every year. In the GAO report, 521 00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:09,039 under Joe Biden. This is not Elon Musk asserting quote 522 00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:13,039 without proof. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 523 00:32:13,079 --> 00:32:15,160 Thank you so much for listening. 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