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Speaker 1: always please to welcome with the fifty five PERC Morning Show,
Speaker 1: Senator Rand Paul. Senator Paul, Welcome back, my friend. It's
Speaker 1: always a pleasure to have you on the program.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Brian, thanks for.
Speaker 1: Having me and I guess you more than anyone, are
Speaker 1: so disappointed that the Anthony Fauci Museum exhibit has been
Speaker 1: canceled thanks to the work of dads.
Speaker 3: Can't you imagine? And the thing is is, this kind
Speaker 3: of craziness has been going on for decades and nobody's
Speaker 3: pointed it out. Every administration comes in and just doesn't
Speaker 3: know where to look and doesn't look hard enough. I've
Speaker 3: been pointing it out for a decade, but they've been ignoring,
Speaker 3: you know, the fact that now we've got Elon Musk's
Speaker 3: help and the loudest and biggest microphone in the world,
Speaker 3: and so it's coming to light and people are rightfully outraged.
Speaker 1: And you know, the interesting thing about it, the most
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting components of it is the
Speaker 1: outrage expressed by the Democrats trying to defend the indefensible.
Speaker 3: This is where they're so out of touch. Somebody wrote
Speaker 3: an article the other day saying Trump takes every eighty
Speaker 3: twenty issue an issue where eighty percent of the public
Speaker 3: is outraged and percent is not, and the Democrats are
Speaker 3: standing up for the twenty percent. On all of these issues,
Speaker 3: like should boys play in girls sports? Almost nobody believes
Speaker 3: that it's probably a ten percent issue, and the Democrats
Speaker 3: are loudly supporting this. Should a thirteen year old be
Speaker 3: able to make a decision him remove part of their
Speaker 3: body parts against their parents' wishes, and the Democrats are
Speaker 3: standing up for that as well. Should we have an
Speaker 3: anti Anthony Fauci museum? They want to have that too.
Speaker 3: They just their outrage is so misplaced because the American
Speaker 3: people are frankly thinking most of this stuff is ludicrous.
Speaker 1: They do, and then I guess it's illustrative of the
Speaker 1: impossible reality of trying to follow each and every allocation
Speaker 1: out to every non governmental organization that is a recipient
Speaker 1: of this, regardless of how stupid the program is. I mean,
Speaker 1: if fifty five thousand dollars for a climate change presentation
Speaker 1: in you know, for an LGBTQ journalist, now nobody look
Speaker 1: in to see how the money was actually spent. That's
Speaker 1: like the tail end of the receipt. The receipt's bad enough,
Speaker 1: the allocation's bad enough. But didn't that go to pad
Speaker 1: someone's fat five oh one to three c salary.
Speaker 3: Or went to a convention in Los Angles or something.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's just such an insult to
Speaker 3: the hard working people of America. And this is going,
Speaker 3: you know, this bridge is any kind of party affiliation.
Speaker 3: If you are a working person in America, you are
Speaker 3: outraised that your tax dollars are going to this. And
Speaker 3: it's also why the uh, you know, extreme action of
Speaker 3: closing down USID completely locking the door and pushing all
Speaker 3: the people out is necessary because they've been using this
Speaker 3: as their own fiefdom for for decades to not spread
Speaker 3: diplomacy and not spread American will to spread you know,
Speaker 3: you know, ideology on sex and gender that really some
Speaker 3: in other countries, particularly some conservative Muslim countries, aren't too
Speaker 3: interested in this. It actually repels some of those countries.
Speaker 3: It really shouldn't be part of diplomacy. I mean, spending
Speaker 3: three million dollars on girl centric climate change education in Brazil,
Speaker 3: what kind of person thought that that was a good
Speaker 3: use of our money, and.
Speaker 1: Who thinks girls are more impacted by if climate change
Speaker 1: even exists? Climate change anyhow, well.
Speaker 3: It also is insulting to girls because what are they
Speaker 3: going to do? Have barbiees talking to each other that
Speaker 3: girls can only listen if barbies are involved. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's very sexist, it's incredibly you know, unreasonable. So yeah,
Speaker 3: but it just goes on and on. I mean, we
Speaker 3: spend four point eight million on social media influencers in Ukraine.
Speaker 3: You know, we sent a bunch of Ukrainian fashion designers
Speaker 3: to the Paris Fashion Show. It just doesn't end. And
Speaker 3: with every new outrage, though, I think the people are saying,
Speaker 3: I think we chose Wiley wisely, and the whole thing
Speaker 3: does need to be disrupted. And ultimately, though Congress have
Speaker 3: to do something. The President can and Elon and all
Speaker 3: that gang can temporarily stop stuff, but eventually the commerce
Speaker 3: has to stand up and say, we'll accept the money
Speaker 3: back for the treasury through like what's called a recision package.
Speaker 3: We'll quit spending it, and ultimately you just have to
Speaker 3: spend less. You can't expect to have better people in government,
Speaker 3: you know, because there may be people on the right
Speaker 3: there as bad as people on the left, as far
Speaker 3: as where they want to spend the money. You have
Speaker 3: to give the agencies less money. This is what I've
Speaker 3: been saying forever. It's not a matter of well, this
Speaker 3: is wasteful because a bad person spent it. No, if
Speaker 3: you gave them a billion dollars last year, you need
Speaker 3: to give them less than a billion dollars this year.
Speaker 3: You need to give them eight hundred million, twenty percent less,
Speaker 3: and then they need to figure out, you know, what
Speaker 3: ends up going away is the worst of the worst stuff.
Speaker 3: But you have to give people less money. That almost
Speaker 3: never happens because the big spenders in both parties, you know,
Speaker 3: are clamoring for more of your money. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: the first package the Republicans are putting forward right now
Speaker 3: is a three hundred and twenty five billion dollars spending
Speaker 3: package they're going to spend, and they're going to increase
Speaker 3: spending by three hundred and twenty five million dollars in
Speaker 3: their first package.
Speaker 1: Well at one of the areas of government that I
Speaker 1: hope that Elon Musk and his career unleashed on. And
Speaker 1: I've been a critic of the size of the American
Speaker 1: military budget. Not the American military, but eight hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty or forty billion dollars annually, biggest expenditure out of
Speaker 1: government beyond payment of our interest on the national debt.
Speaker 1: You know, Senator Paul, that there is a gob a
Speaker 1: heapload of fraud, wasted abuse in that multi billion dollar
Speaker 1: spending package.
Speaker 3: Did you see the interview with John Stewart and that
Speaker 3: ridiculous woman. I think she was a Pentagon apologist, and
Speaker 3: she was saying, well, you know, the audit doesn't find
Speaker 3: waste and fraud, and you know, Stuart was won. He said, well,
Speaker 3: if it can't be audited, doesn't that implied that there's
Speaker 3: waste in fraud And she just didn't seem to get it.
Speaker 3: She was so arrogant and didn't seem to get it.
Speaker 3: And we still to this day have not had a
Speaker 3: full audit of the Pentagon. So I've been for years
Speaker 3: on board with the built audit the FED. But I've
Speaker 3: also been on board with the build audit the Pentagon.
Speaker 3: But instead of saying, well, maybe we should hold the
Speaker 3: line on spending with the military so they can find
Speaker 3: the waste and be forced to find the waste, the
Speaker 3: you know, the Hawks up here are adding one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty billion dollars in new military spending, and that's
Speaker 3: on top of a three percent increase. So you just
Speaker 3: got a three percent increase, and now they're getting another
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty billion added to that. And the
Speaker 3: Republicans that are for this are gleefully rubbing their hands together, saying,
Speaker 3: we get to give it to military without giving it
Speaker 3: to welfare at this.
Speaker 4: Time because we don't have to have the Democrats votes,
Speaker 4: but they need the Republican votes, and I've told them, frankly,
Speaker 4: I'm not voting to increase spending by three hundred billion dollars,
Speaker 4: particularly if it has a.
Speaker 3: Fake cut, you know, if there's a fake pay for.
Speaker 3: What they're talking about as a pay for is ending
Speaker 3: Biden's forgiveness of student loans. The problem is is that
Speaker 3: never went into effect, so it's not really a savings.
Speaker 3: The course ruled it illegal, it never went into effect,
Speaker 3: and Trump was going to cancel it. So how how
Speaker 3: in the world is that in actual savings? You know
Speaker 3: what it is is it's money that you know, we
Speaker 3: were going to lose if Biden got his way, but
Speaker 3: it never happened, and then they can say, oh, well,
Speaker 3: that all sets the three hundred billion dollars in new spending,
Speaker 3: and that's why the debt keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 3: But you know, the ten year estimate for interest is
Speaker 3: fourteen billion dollars in interest over the next ten years.
Speaker 3: I mean fourteen trillion. I'm not not a billion. Fourteen trillion.
Speaker 1: So lost a few zeros there on that one sentator.
Speaker 1: It's easy to do when you're talking about this kind
Speaker 1: of money. A billion dollars is nothing anymore, one thousand
Speaker 1: million dollars. They just spit it out like it's nothing anyhow.
Speaker 1: You know, I have I have an idea, and I'm
Speaker 1: not quite sure if it would work, But someone's got
Speaker 1: a ferret this out. There has to be a number
Speaker 1: of people assigned to the task of going through all
Speaker 1: of the following the money show and figure out where
Speaker 1: it is and what happens. How about turning loose the
Speaker 1: eighty seven thousand new IRACE agents and rather than having
Speaker 1: them audit the American people, have them look inwardly and
Speaker 1: audit the federal government.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that would be a good idea actually,
Speaker 3: because they they've never been able to master it. Him.
Speaker 3: This is kind of what Doja's doing. And you have
Speaker 3: to see who the Democrats are on this. The Democrats
Speaker 3: have Docks one of the young men. They've exposed his
Speaker 3: name and his address, and they're trying to, you know,
Speaker 3: get public outrage and perhaps even violence to stop this
Speaker 3: young man from helping. But think of the genius of
Speaker 3: this young man. He went to somewhere University of Nebraska,
Speaker 3: and they have these scrolls that are a couple thousand
Speaker 3: years old. I think they're from Israel and they were
Speaker 3: burned maybe when the you know, the Roman siege of
Speaker 3: sixty eight ADS at two thousand years old. They were burned,
Speaker 3: but they're intact and if you take them, if you
Speaker 3: try to unroll them, they fall apart with an MRI.
Speaker 3: They took MRI of this, they still couldn't figure out
Speaker 3: how to read them. He developed a program for automated
Speaker 3: artificial intelligence, and he can. He has discovered how to
Speaker 3: read these scrolls that are rolled up and burned in
Speaker 3: two thousand years old. And that's the kind of genius
Speaker 3: that is actually now looking at our federal money to
Speaker 3: try to find savings. And what do the Democrats do?
Speaker 3: They attack his character and It's like, we should be
Speaker 3: happy that America still is producing geniuses like this, and
Speaker 3: we should be lauding the young man for coming in.
Speaker 3: I think Elon zaid, most of them are not being
Speaker 3: paid any kind of real way. They're mostly doing it
Speaker 3: for their country.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing to behold, that is. And you know,
Speaker 1: these are the critics that they criticize them because of
Speaker 1: their youth, in spite of the fact that they are
Speaker 1: brilliant young people, brilliant at computer science and understanding coding
Speaker 1: and artificial intelligence. And yet they're the part of the
Speaker 1: advocates for sixteen year olds getting the right to vote.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's insane, but I think it's backfiring them
Speaker 5: on them, because you know what they're doing is, you know,
Speaker 5: Trump is pushing forward issues that eighty percent of the
Speaker 5: public support him on, and the Democrats are clinging to
Speaker 5: support for issues that have very small, loud but very
Speaker 5: small minorities.
Speaker 1: If you'll allow one moment additional time, Senator Paul, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to get your reaction on the Trump's tariffs,
Speaker 1: most notably the most recent ones on aluminum steel.
Speaker 3: Well teriffs are taxes and anytimes you put a tax
Speaker 3: on something, you get less of it. So if you
Speaker 3: tax trade, you'll get less trade. The trade allows the
Speaker 3: average American consumer to save thousands of dollars a year.
Speaker 3: So you know, over the years, as people began to
Speaker 3: shop at Walmart, you know, it was sad, but the
Speaker 3: mom and pop hardware store went away, But each individual
Speaker 3: that shopped at Walmart was saving about one thousand dollars
Speaker 3: a year. So what tariffs will do, if there's enough
Speaker 3: of them, is everybody will spend you know, while we
Speaker 3: have about one thousand dollars less rich. A good way
Speaker 3: to look at this is you say, well, I want
Speaker 3: to help the steel industry. So for every worker that
Speaker 3: works in a steel industry, there are eighty workers who
Speaker 3: work in a steel buying industry. So in our state,
Speaker 3: we have fence manufacturers that buy a lot of steel.
Speaker 3: That will mean less income for those people and less
Speaker 3: wages for those workers. We have automobile industry, they buy
Speaker 3: a lot of steel. We have cement industry, concrete industry,
Speaker 3: we build houses. All of those things will be more
Speaker 3: expensive because of teriffs. Now, some people will benefit. If
Speaker 3: you're one of the thousand workers at a steel plan
Speaker 3: in some state, you will benefit by tariffs, but if
Speaker 3: you add up what it does to the economy by
Speaker 3: the time they respond, it ends up being a significant
Speaker 3: reduction in income for everybody that we do a lot
Speaker 3: of trade with. We do a lot of steel trade
Speaker 3: with Canda, we do a lot of lumber trade. Young
Speaker 3: people are having trouble buying houses. If you put a
Speaker 3: twenty five percent tariff on steel in Canada and they
Speaker 3: reciprocate or on their lumber, all houses are just going
Speaker 3: to go up and be more expensive and harder for
Speaker 3: young people to get.
Speaker 1: Senator and Paul, appreciate your words, Appreciate your opportunity to
Speaker 1: talk with you. I'll look forward to have another conversation
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