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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of The Chips on the Right Show,

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where we talked to our BFF and sponsor of the show,

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Zach Abraham from Bulwart Capital Management.

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Speaker 2: Zach, we have not talked since the election.

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Speaker 3: I know, big things, huh, big things, big changes. That

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was I feel like that was like an adult version

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at Christmas, right, Oh.

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Speaker 2: My gosh, what an amazing week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the holiday was the win and the presence

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were they're still being opened. They're getting to watch the

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absolute freak out of these people on the left. And

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I'm just like, you know, I don't like to cry

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at other people's misery, but oh, this is just the

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best comedy ever.

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Speaker 2: No, it really, it's too good.

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Speaker 3: It's just too good.

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Speaker 1: And now there's all these the new cabinet appointments are

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being announced. They're trickling out slowly but surely. But I

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think what a lot of people are super super stoked

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about is DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is

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now apparently going to be co led by Elon Musk

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and Vivek Ramaswami. And like the left is trying to

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make fun of that by saying, oh, it needs two leaders,

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how efficient is it? But they're not even getting paid

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like these this is these are unpaid jobs. They've been

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given a very specific deadline of July of twenty twenty

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six or slightly before that, I think, so that everything

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is done before America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

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Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts, like, how do you see

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this working?

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Speaker 1: And do you think it's realistic that they can actually

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do some cost savings stuff?

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Speaker 3: Oh well, yeah, I mean that's look. You know, the

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people that are ridiculing it are the same people that

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think men should be in women's sports. So I mean,

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you know, I mean, take your opinion and go fly

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a kite as far as I'm concerned, I mean, you

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know what I mean, Like, these these people are now

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serious people. You know, we have had I have had

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interactions and scrapes with government and government regulations. And until

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you really fully realize how inefficient these places are and

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how much money they waste, it's shocking. And I'll just

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say for it, and there's so much of it. I've

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got a family member who's created a really cool innovative

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product that can be used on any vehicle that has

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ballistic glass. Okay, and they've now begun to sell this

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to the Department of Defense, and a great product it's

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taken off. It's going to save the American taxpayers ridiculous

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amounts of money because it's going to eliminate the need

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to replace ballistic glass all the time. And blistic glass

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is incredibly expensive. So, like in one hundred and fifty

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two hundred thousand dollars military vehicle, if it's got ballistic

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glass in there, you're probably looking at a total of

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sixty thousand dollars worth of blistic glass. And if this

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ballistic glass sits out in the sunlight, the sunlight over

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time degrades its usage and then turns it yellow so

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you can't even see through it. Okay. So so anyway,

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long story short, going through this process, I'm helping them

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out with this business. And going through this process, you

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realize in the gateways to sell it to the DoD

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have been designed by bureaucrats, and those bureaucrats have formed

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companies to stand in between the government and the company

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and take a massive amount off the top. So right

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out of the gate, yeah, we were willing to sell

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this product for let's say, twenty five hundred dollars to

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the DoD, by the time we go through this process

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and they get their cut. And this is just a gatekeeper, right,

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they're adding no additional value. They tack on an additional

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fifteen hundred per item, okay, And that's the way the

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system is set up. You have no other choice. So

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when these people lack at these guys' ability to cut,

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you could cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the

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government budget and nobody accept The people that got paid

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to do nothing would be any the wiser. None of

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us would know this. And it's hundreds of billions of

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dollars of waste, if not more so.

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Speaker 2: And they little aspect, yes, but but what it.

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Speaker 3: Shows you you know, you hear about you know, uh,

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twenty five thousand dollars toilets getting purchased by the government,

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and those aren't exaggerations and be this is just an

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exaggerated version of what I was just telling you about. Right.

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It's the middleman and they want it to be as

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opaque and complicated as possible because then the only way

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to navigate those challenges is by hiring one of those

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middleman firms. Right, So you look, you look at the

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way it's set up, and they're gonna give you good

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excuses for why. It's that you go through the process

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and you realize this is a money grap pure and simple,

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and it is adding. I bet you that Aspect alone

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is adding thirty to fifty percent onto the cost of

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any good the Department of Defense purchases, right, And you

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have these middlemen who are just making bank and it's

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it literally is coming right out of our pockets. So

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can they do it? I mean, you and I could

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step in and cut hundreds of billions off the budget

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without anybody noticing. And then you look at these two

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guys and the accomplishments. I mean, these guys in one

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of their fingers has accomplished more than all of Congress

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put together. Right, So can these guys do it? Yes?

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And it's low hanging fruit. It's gonna be simple. My

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hope is that the Trump administration listens and actually institute

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these changes. And looking at what Trump has gone through

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over the last four years and looking at his cabinet picks,

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it's clear to see he's coming in with a completely

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different mo than he had in twenty sixteen. And I

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think he's determined to slash and burn and I couldn't

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I'm cheering him on, And quite honestly, my only fear

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when I look at this is that they don't go

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far enough, right, Like.

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Speaker 2: That's yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know, because they seem very very determined and they

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are very committed to this task. I know Elon's saying, Oh,

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it's going to happen way faster than the deadline they

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gave us. Everything's going to be super transparent. They're even saying,

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if you have, if you like, we're going to create

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a site that shows everything that we're doing. If you

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think that there's things that should be cut that we're

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not cutting, or if you think we're cutting things that

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shouldn't be cutting, you have a platform to be able

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to tell us. So I think transparency is going to

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be the name of the game with them. But like,

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how do they even start? Like they it's not just

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DoD right, it's every single government agency.

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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine, And like where you begin?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I've thought a lot about this because of

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my interactions and dealings with some government regulators myself. So

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and I think it's already starting. So the way and

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when you understand the way these regulatory bodies work, So

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the President has the ability to point the head of

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these regulatory bodies, right, But those regulatory bodies are run

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internally by a board of regents, if you will, or

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somebody else that's appointed, right. So what I would like

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so you start off by replacing the head of the

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agency with somebody that is sympatico to the way you're thinking, right,

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that has those same kind of priorities, and then that

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person can really give you a boots on the ground

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view of what is really going on inside, what is transpiring,

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you know, how things actually work. And then from there

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I'm not an expert in the process by any stretch

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of the imagination, but from there, especially now with the

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red wave turning, you know, Congress red as well. Now

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you've got theoretically the power of the purse, assuming that

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you can hold those votes. And you can do that,

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so A you replace the person at the top, and

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then b you mandate these changes, and if those changes

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don't get if they can bureaucratically stop that anyway, you

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have the ability to starve them out of government funds.

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So basically you can sit there and say, now there's

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a process you have to go to. You can't just

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cut it off. But Basically, you'll have the ability to

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sit there and say, Okay, if you do not capitulate

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to these changes, you're not getting paid. Yeah, we're just

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going to withhold the funds. So I think that's where

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you start. And then, like I said, I don't think

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it's gonna be hard. I think it's gonna be I mean,

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I think it's gonna be like phishing in a stock pond,

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right where the question is literally going to be, you know,

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where there's so much here, where do we start? You

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ever have one of those jobs, like especially as a kid,

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where your parents tell you to go do a job

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and you walk outside and you look at it and

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you're like, I'm so overwhelmed. I don't even know you

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know what I mean? Okay. I think that's kind of

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like on the good side, where you go, okay, we've

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got to cut funds and you're like looking around, going

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are you joking? Right? Like? This is I mean, this

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is like hitting water if you fell out of a boat, right, Like,

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this is not hard. So no, I couldn't be more

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excited about it. I think that you can. I think

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you can. You know, I will it will it make

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a meaningful dent? This alone in the budget or the deficit.

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Probably not. But here's the thing. What the things they're

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going to cut. I think that it won't make a

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huge impact on the deficit. It'll bring it back in

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some but the point is is it's going to be painless,

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meaning I don't think you're going to see any economic

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impact from these cuts because you literally, like I was

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just using that example, you know, when you're when you've

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got this bureaucracy set up the way it is, the

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only people winning winning in that game. It's not the businesses.

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I mean, they get paid, but they'd be able to

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sell their goods to other people as well. It's those

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middlemenum bureaucrats that are completely unneeded, right that are just

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a value extractor from the whole process. Like that, right there,

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we're selling this awesome thing that's gonna save the taxpayers

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tons of money per truck. The bureaucrats get involved and

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take a third right off the top for themselves and

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then they pass that on to the government. So we

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had the price that we wanted to sell it to

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three thousand per unit, they just marked it up to

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four thousand and start selling it. Yeah, and you sit

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back and you're like, oh, my goodness, man, this is

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such a waste. The government's paying twenty five to thirty

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percent over just so these guys that have nothing to

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do with building the product, designing it, patenting it, nothing,

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just so they can stuff their pockets. And of course

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those people have zero incentive to streamline the process, right right,

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Speaker 1: It costs, the more of a cut they can get

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and and and people don't realize how our kane

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this is. So we so they went to govern they

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they went to bases. Okay, there were generals on those

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bases that said we want it, We're gonna buy it. Okay,

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Then they went through the process, couldn't buy it, couldn't

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couldn't execute the transaction because it is so it's like

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a giant maze. And and it's it's unneeded complexity on purpose.

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these agencies, even if the officers or the general of

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the base say we want the good, the only way

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you can transact with them is if you go with

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one of these middlemen that add one thousand dollars a

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cost onto the product for the government to pay. So

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so when these liberals sit there and say stuff like that,

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I look at them and I go, tell me that

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you're ignorant without telling me you're right, because you.

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Speaker 1: Obviously they're gonna They're gonna still con continue to have

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their freakouts because every time Trump does literally anything, anytime

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he makes a decision, there's a whole new reason for

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them to freak out and potentially for markets to freak out.

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And I know that you are doing another one of

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your live webinars soon to talk about projecting what will

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twenty twenty five look like. How can people get in

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on that action?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just go to Bullwardcapitalmanagement dot com. You can sign

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up for the free webinar and we're going to kind

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of go through all the right. I think there's a

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ton of opportunity ahead of us. One of the other things, though,

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that people really need to be conscious of is that, Yeah,

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I think what Trump's going to do is great for

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the economy, but be careful about comparing it to twenty sixteen,

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because this market is currently trading it double the valuation

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it wasn't twenty sixteen, and so I think there's going

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to be big wins. But I also think there's places

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you really need to stay away from. And you know,

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managing risk through this next two years is going to

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be extraordinarily important.

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