Speaker 1: It's nice size.
Speaker 2: Undellianzy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sure that all of you in the last
Speaker 3: three weeks have heard about all of the executive orders
Speaker 3: that President Trump has signed. Many of those executive orders
Speaker 3: were intended to overturn executive orders signed by former President Biden.
Speaker 3: Some of the executive orders were very much welcomed by
Speaker 3: his his most significant supporters, and certainly very much in
Speaker 3: the forefront is the whole question of Elon Musk's role.
Speaker 3: And there was an extraordinary news conference that was held
Speaker 3: late this afternoon where Elon Musk was standing in the
Speaker 3: Oval office while Donald Trump was sitting behind the resolute desk.
Speaker 3: And Elon Musk took questions for about thirty minutes. And
Speaker 3: clearly he's a pretty smart guy, and he mentioned some
Speaker 3: things that caught my ear. I don't know how accurate
Speaker 3: they are, but he talked about there were some people
Speaker 3: who were receiving so security benefits who have to be
Speaker 3: long dead because they were born one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: years ago. Now, I don't know if he was speaking metaphorically,
Speaker 3: if he was speaking precisely accurately, but it would be
Speaker 3: very interesting to find out if there is anyone who
Speaker 3: was born one hundred and fifty years ago, which would
Speaker 3: put them back into the nineteenth century. But that sort
Speaker 3: of is a kind of sets the table for our conversation.
Speaker 3: One of the areas that Donald Trump has been criticized
Speaker 3: in most roundly by Democrats is his efforts to diminish,
Speaker 3: if not eliminate, the amount of money that we spend
Speaker 3: as a country with USAID, us ai D, the US
Speaker 3: Agency for International Development, and well, just let me give
Speaker 3: you a little quick advance. This is a congresswoman from Connecticut,
Speaker 3: Rosa de Laura. She's an MSNBC. She's very much concerned
Speaker 3: about these cutbacks. Rob, I should have given your heads
Speaker 3: up on this. I want you to go for me
Speaker 3: to cut number fifteen from today's cut list. Cut fifteen, please, Rob.
Speaker 4: We are not only relying on the courts as normal
Speaker 4: eyes and pointed out the courts the American people, I
Speaker 4: would have the Congress will not let this succeed, and
Speaker 4: the courts are important and we will be.
Speaker 5: In the House.
Speaker 4: While we do not have standing to sue, we are
Speaker 4: working with the organizations that are bringing suit. We will
Speaker 4: file amicus briefs so we will use the courts are
Speaker 4: critically important in this area.
Speaker 3: She continued in cut again. Just to give you a
Speaker 3: sense of this, she continue and cut fifteen A.
Speaker 4: Please Rob, it's USA, it's education. They're going to go
Speaker 4: to medicaid. And it is about the effect of what
Speaker 4: happens in the lives of American people, of middle class families,
Speaker 4: of working families, of what is going to happen to
Speaker 4: their ability to be able to survive both economically and
Speaker 4: to be able to have a future going forward.
Speaker 3: Now, the other point of view has been expressed by
Speaker 3: Secretive State Marco Rubio. This is a quote from the
Speaker 3: new Secretary of State. Cut sixteen A.
Speaker 6: By the way, you know, we issued a waiver which
Speaker 6: allowed all these life saving programs to continue. And obviously,
Speaker 6: you know there's any time you have a pause or
Speaker 6: some hiccups about how to restart the payment programs. But
Speaker 6: all that's going to get taken care of you very quickly,
Speaker 6: and those programs will continue. We're not walking away from
Speaker 6: fourign aid. We are walking away from foreign aid. That's dumb,
Speaker 6: that's stupid, that wastes the American taxpayer money. We're just
Speaker 6: not going to continue to.
Speaker 3: Do those So that sort of sets the two sides
Speaker 3: of the argument. Now, what happened, I guess was last
Speaker 3: week the Press secretary at the White House listed about
Speaker 3: a dozen examples, similarly outrageous examples, and the Washington posted
Speaker 3: some fact checking on it. And I think what happens
Speaker 3: is that the Trump administration makes the mistake of not
Speaker 3: having their information together. And I don't know where they
Speaker 3: pull this information, but a lot of it had some
Speaker 3: substance to it. So this is the Washington Post fact checker, okay,
Speaker 3: And these were some of the claims that were made.
Speaker 1: Uh, And.
Speaker 3: Let's let's hit them, okay. The administration, the Trump administration
Speaker 3: said this was the lists that were presented by the
Speaker 3: Trump administration one point five million dollars to advance diversity, equity,
Speaker 3: and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities. Now, my
Speaker 3: question would be, why are we involved in Serbia's workplaces
Speaker 3: and business communities? And I think that's a legitimate criticism
Speaker 3: that the Trump administration would have here. One point five
Speaker 3: million dollars, of course is not a lot of money,
Speaker 3: but it's it's significant. Nonetheless, Uh, and I have no
Speaker 3: idea what what would be diverse, diverse, or equitable or
Speaker 3: inclusive in Serbia. Washington Post, this is mostly accurate. USAID
Speaker 3: provided one point five million to a group called groupa Izagi,
Speaker 3: which focuses on creating opportunities for young LGBTQ people. Lgt
Speaker 3: LGBTQ people face discrimination, so one area of focus was
Speaker 3: insuring people ensuring acceptance of Belgrade Pride, an annual event
Speaker 3: annual parade that previously was canceled after threts of violence.
Speaker 3: The twenty twenty four parade was peaceful. The government is
Speaker 3: discussing legislation on same sex partnerships again.
Speaker 1: Is that our role? I don't really think so. Then.
Speaker 3: The administration also said seventy thousand dollars for production of
Speaker 3: a Dei musical in Ireland. The Post characterized this as wrong.
Speaker 3: It says this is wrong. This was a State department grant,
Speaker 3: not USAID. Twenty twenty two, the US ambassador hosted an
Speaker 3: event featuring Grammy winning OK duo Francesco Teresi and Rhonnan Gittons,
Speaker 3: along with other Irish and American musicians. Two point five
Speaker 3: million dollars for electric vehicles for Vietnam.
Speaker 1: This is wrong. This was for more than electric vehicles.
Speaker 3: USAID launched a two point five million dollar fund that
Speaker 3: provide upwards of one hundred thousand dollars to organizations with
Speaker 3: promising new products, business models, with financing models in de
Speaker 3: Nang or Ho Chi Minh cities.
Speaker 1: The fund was.
Speaker 3: Part of a larger effort to bring green energy to
Speaker 3: a country that's one of the world's fastest growing per
Speaker 3: capita greenhouse gas admitters. Again, that's a policy I guess
Speaker 3: that the Biden administration believed in, but I think the
Speaker 3: Trump administration is more than justified to point that out.
Speaker 3: Here's one forty seven thousand dollars for transgender opera in Colombia. Again,
Speaker 3: the Washing Post says this is wrong. USAID did not
Speaker 3: fund this. The White House appears to be referring to
Speaker 3: a twenty five thousand dollars State Department grant to Univasadad
Speaker 3: de los Andes in Bogata to stage and opera as
Speaker 3: one composed by Laura Kaminski, an American. The rest of
Speaker 3: the money came from other sources. According to Wanna Montsalva,
Speaker 3: the lead actress in the Columbian performances, what are we
Speaker 3: doing spending money and thirty two thousand dollars for a
Speaker 3: transgender comic book in Peru.
Speaker 1: This is wrong.
Speaker 3: USA did not fund this. It was not specifically transgender. Instead,
Speaker 3: the grant says the State Department provided thirty two thousand
Speaker 3: dollars under the guys of public diplomacy to Peru's Education
Speaker 3: department to cover expenses to produce a tailor made comic
Speaker 3: book featuring an LGBTQ plus hero to address social and
Speaker 3: mental health issues. The Post article goes on, and the
Speaker 3: point is well, two million dollars for sex changes and
Speaker 3: lgbt activist i me in Guatemala. The Post says this
Speaker 3: is misleading, as it suggests USA arranged for sex chases
Speaker 3: for sex changes. The three year grant to a Guatemalan
Speaker 3: lgbt Q t i Q plus organization was to strengthen
Speaker 3: transled organizations to deliver gender affirming healthcare.
Speaker 1: Et cetera. The point is that this is this is legitimate.
Speaker 3: Policies of one administration versus the other. Now, you may
Speaker 3: support those policies, but when the Trump administration says we're
Speaker 3: going to stop those policies, how do you keep them going.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It just seems to me that when
Speaker 3: a new administration comes in policies are going to change,
Speaker 3: and I think that the Trump administration would be advised
Speaker 3: to basically get their act together so they are not criticized,
Speaker 3: find the abuses that they perceive exist, and make sure
Speaker 3: that you're accurate citing the amount of money, citing what
Speaker 3: the money was to be used, what the money was
Speaker 3: to be used for, and citing the agency that provided
Speaker 3: the money. That's pretty simple. It just is so interesting
Speaker 3: in my mind that there is this.
Speaker 1: Fight going on over this.
Speaker 3: If Elon Musk can find substantial savings and can find
Speaker 3: fraud and waste in Social Security and find out that
Speaker 3: there are somehow people's identities who are long since dead,
Speaker 3: this is what he claimed today. But again, you don't
Speaker 3: make those claims off the top of your head. You
Speaker 3: make those claims backed up by evidence and by you know, support.
Speaker 3: And that's what's going on once again the Trump administration,
Speaker 3: in its efforts to change things, some of the things which.
Speaker 1: Need to be changed, Do it right, Do it right?
Speaker 1: That's that is.
Speaker 3: The frustration that that I have as someone who looks
Speaker 3: at the Trump administration and so, okay, this, these are
Speaker 3: things we should not be spending taxpayer money on. Maybe
Speaker 3: there's small amounts of money, a few million dollars here,
Speaker 3: a few million dollars there, but that eventually adds them
Speaker 3: in some real money. And also, if they are policy
Speaker 3: positions that Trump supporters he was elected president, disagrees with,
Speaker 3: they should change, just as if there's a Democratic president
Speaker 3: who gets elected at some point, then the Republicans are
Speaker 3: on the other side of the field. They can criticize,
Speaker 3: but they can't change. That's my position. I'd love to
Speaker 3: know what yours is. Six one seven, four ten thirty
Speaker 3: six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. If you're
Speaker 3: going to advocate for change, if you're going to try
Speaker 3: to make the case to the American people that these
Speaker 3: are excesses, philosophical excesses that have no legitimate purpose or function,
Speaker 3: make the case, but make the case correctly, make it effectively,
Speaker 3: and make it accurately.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to a phone call six one seven,
Speaker 3: four to ten thirty. Again, this is an interesting issue
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: It is a political issue at this point. Uh.
Speaker 3: It was fascinating to watch elon Musk hold Forth today
Speaker 3: in the Oval Office. It's it's really I think we're
Speaker 3: gonna have a lot to talk about in the weeks ahead.
Speaker 3: Jose in Belmont, Joe, next time, first off this hour,
Speaker 3: night side, Joe, thanks for calling in, go right ahead.
Speaker 7: You're welcome. Dan. What do you think Elon musk Is
Speaker 7: five greatest weaknesses?
Speaker 1: I don't know Elon Musk enough to know that. I
Speaker 1: really don't know.
Speaker 3: What do you think his five weaknesses are?
Speaker 7: Well, some people, I mean some people say he's a genius,
Speaker 7: but I would think he is a genius.
Speaker 3: I think he is a genius because you know, there's
Speaker 3: not too many people who have been able to accomplish
Speaker 3: in the other times when he's already accomplished.
Speaker 7: But I don't want to be taken down the road
Speaker 7: and fools by him. I would like some of your
Speaker 7: callers to criticize and so we could find out what
Speaker 7: is we are.
Speaker 1: Well. I don't know that he I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what he has. I have no idea, you know.
Speaker 3: All I know is that that he's what the wealthiest
Speaker 3: person in the world, which probably means he's not the
Speaker 3: dumbest person in the world. He's probably pretty smart. He's
Speaker 3: he's a guy that that that sends some rocket ships
Speaker 3: into space and and brings them back to be reused.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. So yeah, but.
Speaker 7: Dan, no man has one hundred percent of the truth,
Speaker 7: not even me or you.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't need one hundred percent of the truth.
Speaker 3: I think that that all of us oftentimes look at
Speaker 3: issues and it's our interpretation of what the truth is.
Speaker 3: You know, I might walk out today and say, it's
Speaker 3: an absolutely beautiful day. The snow is in the ground,
Speaker 3: the trees are sparkling, and you might look at me
Speaker 3: and say, what are you talking about. It's it's tend
Speaker 3: to it's a brutally cold day.
Speaker 7: So but say, but what I'm saying by that is,
Speaker 7: you know, one hundred percent of the truth is you
Speaker 7: know that we're all human and we can make mistakes,
Speaker 7: and so conn of Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: I think you're right, Joe. We'll see what We'll see
Speaker 3: how he does appreciate you, Carl, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Let me go next to Scott in Newton. Scott, go
Speaker 3: right ahead. I think we're in. It was in a
Speaker 3: deep philosophical discussion there with Joe and I hope you
Speaker 3: can bring it back to the to the topic at hand.
Speaker 8: Yes, I can.
Speaker 1: Dan.
Speaker 8: You know I've been calling you off and on at
Speaker 8: different subjects that you have, But you know, I just
Speaker 8: I feel like, you know, Eli must to go back
Speaker 8: to what he was saying. He's looking at what he
Speaker 8: gets for information and he's going through it. I mean,
Speaker 8: I don't see that he has anything to gain from it,
Speaker 8: but he's trying to help get this country back on track.
Speaker 8: And you know, he's a very smart man. And I
Speaker 8: also heard Erny Fox say one time, if I'm the smartest,
Speaker 8: if I'm the smartest guy in the room, then you
Speaker 8: know there's a problem, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 8: that's why darl was looking for other people to help.
Speaker 8: And Rama swear me I love saying his name, and
Speaker 8: you know Ramaswami, right, I love saying my name. Those
Speaker 8: guys are trying to get us back on track to
Speaker 8: where we used to be, and Biden has just trash
Speaker 8: baged this country and walked away. And I just I
Speaker 8: feel like Trump is probably gonna go down as one
Speaker 8: of the greatest presidents we ever had or have.
Speaker 3: And you know it's a little early, it's a little
Speaker 3: early to tell, but yeah. I mean he has an opportunity.
Speaker 3: He will see what happens. I mean today he had
Speaker 3: the the King of Jordan in the in the Oval
Speaker 3: office after his visit up here to the State House yesterday.
Speaker 3: There's there's just so much stuff to talk about, and
Speaker 3: I just what I want to try to do is
Speaker 3: try to figure this out as best we can.
Speaker 1: But I think that eventually most Americans are reasonable people.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: There's there's all sorts of stuff here that that I'm
Speaker 3: looking at. I I'm trying to figure out what is accurate.
Speaker 3: So when we talk about these these different reports about
Speaker 3: giving this to this country to do this or that
Speaker 3: country to do that, I just wanted to be nailed
Speaker 3: down because I think that if we lose, if we
Speaker 3: lose the conversation here, we'll we'll never be able to
Speaker 3: straighten things out here. There's one here that talks about
Speaker 3: a USA spending twenty million dollars on a new sesame
Speaker 3: street show in Iraq. I don't know why we're spending
Speaker 3: a twenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's great.
Speaker 8: And it's just like I don't know, fifty million dollars
Speaker 8: for condoms. I write, how many condoms was fifty million
Speaker 8: buy You know what, It's just ridiculous money going out
Speaker 8: the door that doesn't need to happen, and there's a
Speaker 8: lot of it.
Speaker 3: But but I want what I'm trying to say is
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure that what we're talking
Speaker 3: about is reality.
Speaker 1: Do you remember.
Speaker 3: There was a I always use this as an example,
Speaker 3: the great George Plimpton. Do you know who George Plimpton was?
Speaker 3: He was a sports writer and all that, so he
Speaker 3: was able to work with I think it was Sports
Speaker 3: Illustrated magazine and he did a piece about a picture
Speaker 3: who no one had ever heard of, put him on
Speaker 3: the cover.
Speaker 1: It was it was.
Speaker 3: It was a prank about I think that the name
Speaker 3: they gave the picture was Sid Finch and he could
Speaker 3: throw the ball like one hundred and ten miles in
Speaker 3: irony strike.
Speaker 1: That I heard that, you remember?
Speaker 3: And it was a put on? I okay, but everybody
Speaker 3: knew it was. Everyone laughed at it because it was.
Speaker 3: Some people fell for it, some people didn't. It was
Speaker 3: kind of it was a put on. Well, we're not
Speaker 3: talking about putting putting put ons here. Let's find out
Speaker 3: where the waste is if it exists, and let's find
Speaker 3: out why you spent on and let's be accurate about it.
Speaker 3: The government, the Trump administration has the responsibility to be accurate.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree completely, but like, where where would the
Speaker 8: lie come from? They're coming from a lie because like
Speaker 8: you know that they're giving money the countries and they
Speaker 8: give it to them and they don't know where it's going,
Speaker 8: how they're going to trace the money. But they're just
Speaker 8: looking at the checks that are going out and I go,
Speaker 8: what's this?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 8: Uh, it's just it's so incredible the things that are
Speaker 8: going on. And every day you see something else new
Speaker 8: with Trump, like he got that guy back from Russia.
Speaker 8: And the day before Sat he told, you know, the
Speaker 8: Gaza that you know, they got un till Saturday at
Speaker 8: twelve o'clock.
Speaker 3: And that's what we probably the the the ultimatum to
Speaker 3: Hamas that by Saturday at noontime. I assume he means
Speaker 3: our time. Maybe he means some asster's time.
Speaker 8: I don't know, Oh, get Saturday anyway, you know?
Speaker 1: Right, No, no, no, no, I'm with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: And what I'm saying is that's okay. Now he's he's he's.
Speaker 3: One of those he's he did one of those things
Speaker 3: where if this doesn't happen, this will happen. So he's
Speaker 3: kind of back himself into a corner. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: who supports someone. We'll see what happens. We'll probably talk
Speaker 3: about that tomorrow night, to be really honest with you, right,
Speaker 3: But like his comments about taking over Gaza, he's he
Speaker 3: started to kind of backslide on that a little bit,
Speaker 3: but then today say no, he says we're taking over.
Speaker 3: We're not buying it, We're gonna We're gonna take it.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, I don't know how.
Speaker 9: I don't know how it does anything.
Speaker 7: For sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's gonna do it. Uh unless
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's so incredible all the things that are
Speaker 8: going on.
Speaker 3: I'm saying, well, he's got he's got twenty balls in
Speaker 3: the air or fifty balls in the air. And I
Speaker 3: hope that that I hope he can back up what
Speaker 3: he says.
Speaker 8: That's all, you know.
Speaker 1: We'll tell. All right, Scott, keep calling the show.
Speaker 8: I appreciate the audience, Boston loved to everyone, all right.
Speaker 1: I like that, Thanks Scott, that's a positive. Thank you. Much.
Speaker 1: Talk to you soon. Take a break. News at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the arrow. Let's keep it rolling.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 3: The only line that is opening six, one, seven nine.
Speaker 2: You're on night Side with Dan on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to the phones. We've got full
Speaker 3: lines here. Interest people, interest. Let's go from to Jamie
Speaker 3: and Worcester. Jamie and Worcester, you're next on Nightsig right,
Speaker 3: hear me, Dan, I can hear you find Jamie? What's
Speaker 3: on your mind?
Speaker 10: Well, I don't well the whole hate but.
Speaker 11: Elon Musk and all he's doing. Isn't he not getting
Speaker 11: paid for this?
Speaker 3: I don't think he has to get paid. I think
Speaker 3: I think he's he's okay.
Speaker 7: Financial Yeah, I don't think Trump.
Speaker 3: By the way, I don't think Trump accepts a salary
Speaker 3: as president. I believe that various groups and organizations. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that would be surprised. It would surprise me if
Speaker 3: if if Musk was being paid.
Speaker 10: To be honest with you, so this is just all
Speaker 10: a volunteer thing on muskcot He's just doing it for
Speaker 10: the So if he's not getting here's a lot money
Speaker 10: for it, then let's mean he really has a concern
Speaker 10: for help in the country.
Speaker 11: I mean, that's my perspective.
Speaker 3: I would hope, I would hope he does, and I
Speaker 3: would hope you're right on it. And I just hope
Speaker 3: that whatever the trumpet, you know, the Trump administration may
Speaker 3: have the best intentions, I just want to make sure
Speaker 3: that they they implement those intentions intelligently, because if they
Speaker 3: make mistakes, the story will will no longer be the
Speaker 3: good intentions or the intentions, it will be the mistakes made.
Speaker 1: And that's all. That's really what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3: And if you're going to put out a list of
Speaker 3: let's say, dumb donations to various and sundry groups, make
Speaker 3: sure that make sure you got your facts straight, be accurate,
Speaker 3: you know, be professional. Don't allow people to nitpick and
Speaker 3: say you wrong on this and you're wrong, and that
Speaker 3: that's all I'm saying. Just you know, be professional, do
Speaker 3: it right, take your time.
Speaker 1: That's all right.
Speaker 9: No, I agree with that.
Speaker 11: And also he has to make all the decisions himself.
Speaker 11: He's got a super team, and he hired like the
Speaker 11: little avengers you know that are working with him, that
Speaker 11: are giving him information. So I don't think he's making
Speaker 11: all these decisions himself. He's got help around him.
Speaker 3: You know, well, well today, well the help to him
Speaker 3: you're talking about here, I believe is Elon Musk, because
Speaker 3: he's the one who I believe hired this group of
Speaker 3: young people who have had access to government files. According
Speaker 3: to Musk today, and I don't have the SoundBite, but
Speaker 3: I but I did hear him, and I listened to
Speaker 3: it a second time. He said that they have found
Speaker 3: some people who are getting Social Security checks who theoretically
Speaker 3: are one hundred and fifty years old. What he means
Speaker 3: by that is, you know, well, if that's true, if
Speaker 3: that's true, if someone has continued to receive Social Security
Speaker 3: checks for their their great great great grandmother who died
Speaker 3: in you know, nineteen eighty one, that person, whoever's getting
Speaker 3: that money, that person should be indicted.
Speaker 1: That's fraud in the government. And that yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 11: What do you think about Trump saying today he's gonna
Speaker 11: get rid of the penny?
Speaker 3: I think that makes sense. I mean, I think there's
Speaker 3: a lot of pennies in circulation. Uh, and I think
Speaker 3: it costs. I think is it two cents to make
Speaker 3: a penny.
Speaker 12: To make a penny?
Speaker 1: Three cents to make a pen.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so he announced that he wants stop production of pennies.
Speaker 11: So yeah, it will be non existent in a few months.
Speaker 3: Well, there won't be any new pennies, but maybe the
Speaker 3: retailers will make everything end with a nickel. So in
Speaker 3: other words, you won't have selling candy bars for ninety
Speaker 3: nine cents. They'll either charge a dollar or ninety or
Speaker 3: ninety five cents.
Speaker 8: Right, tickles my vacation.
Speaker 1: Put you got it right?
Speaker 3: I'm with you, right, Thanks Jamie, Thanks God, Gladen, thanks me,
Speaker 3: great call, appreciate it. Let me go to Scott and Quincy. Scott,
Speaker 3: appreciate you. Holding on you next on nights that Scott.
Speaker 9: A great show there, Dan. You know, one of your
Speaker 9: callers asked about what was Elon Muss's weakness, and one
Speaker 9: of the things we do know about him, like myself,
Speaker 9: he is on the autism spectrum, supposedly has ass Berger's syndrome.
Speaker 3: I don't consider that a week, I don't consider that
Speaker 3: a weakness.
Speaker 9: Well, one of the things about that is you randomly
Speaker 9: say and do stuff that you really were at later,
Speaker 9: like some of his outbursts, some of some of the
Speaker 9: things that have really stirred up public eye. Are some
Speaker 9: of the crazy things that he said or tweeted, you know,
Speaker 9: give me an example.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me an example if you could, because I'm
Speaker 3: unfamiliar with with what you're referring to.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, so I can't give you a specific example.
Speaker 9: But he's well known for his crazy and outlandish things
Speaker 9: that he's tweeted. He got in trouble a few years
Speaker 9: ago tweeting something out about one of his companies that
Speaker 9: created a huge, huge movement in the stock market, and
Speaker 9: then took it back and things swung back. I think
Speaker 9: he got in trouble for that. If you recalled.
Speaker 3: Again, I'm not suggesting for a second that you're you're
Speaker 3: very accurate.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I just don't know. And it was if
Speaker 1: if if, if, if.
Speaker 3: Must let's say, must tweet it out that he was
Speaker 3: visited recently by a family of Martians who stayed at
Speaker 3: his home. Uh, and they were from the planet zipped on.
Speaker 3: I would think that's pretty weird. But but I don't
Speaker 3: know that it is.
Speaker 9: Level but moving but moving on, but moving on. You know.
Speaker 9: The whole thing with the US, the whole thing with
Speaker 9: usaid UH to me, a government agency that's solely created
Speaker 9: to give away taxpayer money and supports the whole bureaucratic
Speaker 9: infrastructure whose job it is to give away our money
Speaker 9: to other countries, many of which hate US. Is what
Speaker 9: what would you call it? Prima fasse evidence that it's
Speaker 9: a waste, waste and an abuse of taxpayer money in
Speaker 9: a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: I think, well, I would believe that, and you and
Speaker 3: you would believe that, but there would be other people
Speaker 3: who would say, hey, there there are ways. I think
Speaker 3: that USA defends itself and said that for many years
Speaker 3: they had used money to combat Russian propaganda uh in
Speaker 3: Eastern Europe.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: Now again, you know whether or not we should be
Speaker 3: in that business at all, I think is a threshold question.
Speaker 3: And then the question if you get past as a
Speaker 3: yes there, to what extent do you want to be in?
Speaker 3: You need there's some questions that need to I think
Speaker 3: what happened is that you get to work for US
Speaker 3: A I. D. And then you have a pet project
Speaker 3: and you think to yourself, oh, it'd be great to
Speaker 3: to to send let let's let's say Gilbert and Sullivan
Speaker 3: operas over you know, to to whatever you know, or
Speaker 3: to to export you know, stories about baseball. I would
Speaker 3: be saying, let's export baseball to Europe. Let's because that's
Speaker 3: my interest. But when you start getting into areas where
Speaker 3: you're using taxpayer money for a political cause, that is
Speaker 3: separate and apart from what the policy is of the
Speaker 3: country at any given point. I mean, right now, things
Speaker 3: are changing a little bit because of the election of Trump,
Speaker 3: and it has to be respected and recognized.
Speaker 1: It's the Biden world is over. It's now Trump.
Speaker 9: World, right. But the big picture thing here I believe
Speaker 9: is that the government is too big, spending way too
Speaker 9: much money, and the debt ceiling keeps going up and up,
Speaker 9: and we're literally going to bankrupt ourselves. And if we
Speaker 9: don't turn things around, you know.
Speaker 1: We're probably right now.
Speaker 3: We look look right now, I think our gross national product.
Speaker 3: I think we've probably produced like thirty trillion dollars a
Speaker 3: year and we're already we have a debt of thirty
Speaker 3: seve and trillion. How are we ever going to pay
Speaker 3: it back?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Scott, appreciate you follow somebody luck. I'm
Speaker 1: with you. Good luck.
Speaker 3: Let's I hope they're successful in what they do. But again,
Speaker 3: let's uh, let's let's let's talk about it here on
Speaker 3: night side and give everybody an opportunity to weigh in. Thanks, Thanks, Scott,
Speaker 3: I agree, got.
Speaker 1: Take a very quick break.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to get everybody in. I will Ian
Speaker 3: uh uh, Matt, I lean, Jim paul Is just we've
Speaker 3: got full lines. We get everybody in. We're gonna have
Speaker 3: to pick the pace up. That's all I'm asking you
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 2: Right after the break, Now back to Dan Way live
Speaker 2: from the Window World, Nice Side Studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, let's try to get everybody, and there's going
Speaker 3: to be tight. I'm going to ask everyone to be
Speaker 3: very direct in in San Antonio and.
Speaker 1: Go right ahead.
Speaker 5: Hi, Janne, nice to hear your voice. So I have
Speaker 5: a story, a personal story concerning social security that I
Speaker 5: want to tell you about it.
Speaker 1: I was a very young girl, and I just asked
Speaker 1: you if I'm.
Speaker 13: Getting there, go ahead.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was a very young girl in not even twenty
Speaker 5: when a friend of a friend asked me to cat
Speaker 5: to deposit a social Security check in my bank accountant
Speaker 5: and give them the cash. Well, I was very naive,
Speaker 5: so I did it and uhurs. Not hours later, a
Speaker 5: few hours later, I had the police at my door
Speaker 5: telling me that that social Security check that I deposited
Speaker 5: was illegitimate from a dead person's grandmother.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: And that's what they asked, and I could have got
Speaker 5: into a lot of trouble. And so they were still
Speaker 5: getting a social Security check from their dead grandmother.
Speaker 1: How long ago was this in?
Speaker 5: A good forty years ago? More than forty years ago.
Speaker 3: So the point is that this, this sort of fraud
Speaker 3: then you would argue, has been going on for a while.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, and it is.
Speaker 5: It's real. It's what I'm trying to say as well.
Speaker 5: It happened to me personally.
Speaker 3: You will thank you, thank you very much. That's a
Speaker 3: great story, and you got it in in a minute
Speaker 3: and a half and I really appreciated that. Particularly tonight
Speaker 3: I got packed lines.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, takes its very much.
Speaker 1: Matt. You got to be quick for me, Matt, go right.
Speaker 15: Ahead, Hey man, I'm gonna be real quick first off,
Speaker 15: very quickly. Elren Mosk and anything with Aspergers or offism
Speaker 15: has nothing at all to do with his actions. That
Speaker 15: is an ignorant comment. And I will not enjoy hearing
Speaker 15: that that aside.
Speaker 3: Right, and I have you know that I called the
Speaker 3: caller up on that because I know you.
Speaker 1: I agree with you absolutely, thank.
Speaker 9: You, thank you.
Speaker 15: The only other point, thank you. The only other point
Speaker 15: is that we have right now a new administration has
Speaker 15: new ideas and new ideas for how we want to
Speaker 15: administrate law, and we want to pass different formats. I
Speaker 15: think there are many different ways with each individual who
Speaker 15: is going to be confirmed, and I think this can
Speaker 15: be very key. And I think the unknown is what
Speaker 15: we have to have to hold on to. I think,
Speaker 15: guess what's the most important thing, And that's what I've
Speaker 15: been end with that holding on.
Speaker 3: With you totally and and and when when there's another
Speaker 3: Democratic president, things will change.
Speaker 1: And again.
Speaker 3: Is that looks as President Obama once said, elections have consequences.
Speaker 15: Absolutely, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you much. Let's keep rolling. You're going to go
Speaker 3: to Eileen and Cambridge. Eileen, want to get you in
Speaker 3: a couple more in goo right ahead.
Speaker 1: Eileen.
Speaker 16: Hi, I think that you mentioned that problems in America
Speaker 16: should be the focus of where the budget funds go.
Speaker 16: And I happen to be living in Cambridge right now,
Speaker 16: and I'm very aware of the homeless population here and
Speaker 16: before we send money for Sesame Street in a Rock
Speaker 16: and the other things that we're sending money abroad for.
Speaker 16: I think we need to look at home where we
Speaker 16: need to take care of people right here in America.
Speaker 16: And the idea that Social Security payments are going to
Speaker 16: people who've been dead for hundreds of years, that's that's horrific.
Speaker 3: And Musk was quoted as saying that people who would
Speaker 3: have would be one hundred and fifty years old, so
Speaker 3: meaning somebody who would have been born in eighteen seventy
Speaker 3: five obviously has long since passed. So let's see what
Speaker 3: they find. Let's give him a chance to do whatever
Speaker 3: they want to try to do fair enough.
Speaker 16: Absolutely absolutely, I'm all in favor of this.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks, they talked.
Speaker 1: Soon, have a great night. Let me go to Jim
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Jim, you got to be quick for me, buddy,
Speaker 1: I got two behind you.
Speaker 14: Go ahead, Jim, Yeah, I'll be quick. I wish I
Speaker 14: would have called during the Karen ry two hours of
Speaker 14: Karen Reid. Hey, look at two things. First of all,
Speaker 14: I am absolutely sure that what Elon Musk is doing
Speaker 14: is way beneath him. But he's just doing It's a
Speaker 14: big favor. And there's an old saying you could lead
Speaker 14: a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Speaker 14: He is trying to lead us to the facts that
Speaker 14: we need to straighten out our budget and our spending
Speaker 14: in this country. And we're going to get a very
Speaker 14: brief four year chance here to to see those facts
Speaker 14: and see the error of our ways and straighten ourselves out.
Speaker 14: And if we don't do it, we're just going to
Speaker 14: go bankrupt. And I mean to the extent that people
Speaker 14: are able to bite the bullet and work and you know, uh,
Speaker 14: you know, kind of tightened down on their spending, we
Speaker 14: might do it, okay, but I think things are going
Speaker 14: to go back to the way they were back in
Speaker 14: the sixties, where you know, you just didn't have that
Speaker 14: we have right now. Anyway, I think.
Speaker 1: Malely have a two year window, never mind a four
Speaker 1: your window, because he's a congression a right.
Speaker 14: I gotta go bye bye.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you. I have a great one.
Speaker 3: Let me go real quickly, going to get to in
Speaker 3: Joe and Revere and Paul will be next.
Speaker 14: Go ahead, Joe, hey, Dan, how you doing?
Speaker 13: Just quickly? I'd like to know what you think I've
Speaker 13: heard that Trump has been putting these tax things into place,
Speaker 13: so like for imputs so he can get rid of
Speaker 13: the federal income tax. And I wanted to know, like
Speaker 13: what you know or thought about that any other things
Speaker 13: that would open.
Speaker 3: Up the whole conversation about in place of a federal
Speaker 3: income tax, graduated federal income text as we have now,
Speaker 3: you would either have to.
Speaker 13: My question is are these tariffs to try to take
Speaker 13: care of that?
Speaker 3: No, tariffs won't take care of that because tariff's are
Speaker 3: going to be temporary. If you're going to get rid
Speaker 3: of the income tax, you'd go to a value added
Speaker 3: tax and or a combination with the flat tax.
Speaker 13: My other question was what do you think he could
Speaker 13: be doing better right now? I know a lot of
Speaker 13: the country is in favor of what he's been doing.
Speaker 3: I think he could be slowing down a little bit
Speaker 3: right now and basically doing things more thoroughly.
Speaker 1: That's all that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he's going on fair enough.
Speaker 1: Thanks Joe, Thank you much. All right, let's keep rolling
Speaker 1: you how much would he got, Paul? Would he get
Speaker 1: two minutes? Okay, we got time.
Speaker 3: For Paul, Paul and Monson Monson Massachusetts. Hi, Paul, how
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 12: Thanks?
Speaker 6: Dan.
Speaker 12: They can't go slowly destroying with the wrecking ball as
Speaker 12: quickly as possible. That's you know, and you say that,
Speaker 12: you know, you want to see them go about this
Speaker 12: in a smarter way. Those are these are planned features,
Speaker 12: These are not These are not bugs. Okay, these are these,
Speaker 12: these are these are these are not bugs. So they
Speaker 12: can't point to a single example. This is such a
Speaker 12: dog and pony show, you know, with Aylon Musk standing
Speaker 12: behind Trump looking, you know, looking like, oh, none of
Speaker 12: the rules apply to me. You know this theman is
Speaker 12: investigating worth, investigating Musk in so many different ways, environmental violation,
Speaker 12: labor violations. But then they're doing away with all the
Speaker 12: inspectors in general whose job it is to root out waste,
Speaker 12: fraud and abuse without the thirty day required explanation of
Speaker 12: why they're doing this. People need to understand, okay, that
Speaker 12: the plan is the sets and balances that come from
Speaker 12: three co equal branches of government. Know that is the
Speaker 12: plan is to do away with that. Okay, it's the
Speaker 12: oligarchy all the way. Okay, we were doing this isn't
Speaker 12: what they want.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to cut you off, but I'm
Speaker 3: out of time. I wish you called early. Please call early.
Speaker 3: We'll have a much longer conversation. Okay, thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Done for the night, Rob, great job, Marina, Thank you
Speaker 3: very much to all the callers, all the listeners. I
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