June 3, 2026

The Bill Martinez Show 06 03 26

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Are you ready, Yeah, Okay, let's do it.

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Bill Martinez Live a program about current events, our culture,

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our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez.

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Well, good morning, six minutes after the top of the hour.

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Right now, Bill Martinez here. Good to have you with us. Also,

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good to have Bruce Atrus joining us. He's the director

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of communications for the American Small Business League and the

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Don't Cheat Women Project that supports advocacy work that aims

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to elevate women own small businesses in federal contracting. Bruce, welcome, Michelle.

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Good to have you with us.

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It's great to be here. How are you today.

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Hey, I'm doing terrific. There's lots to talk about, Bruce

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that I'm eager to, you know, to exchange with you.

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First of all, you know, let's talk about your book,

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God School nine to eleven and JFK, The lives that

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are killing us and the truth that sets us free.

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This has been a constant on our show, I mean

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ever since day one. I mean I've been broadcasting for

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over fifty years and I've been doing this show for

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the last twenty years almost and a core to this

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show is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but

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so the title of your book, you know, rhymes with

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my reason. So thank you for that.

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Well, thank you and kudos to you to have such

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a career and to be so passionate and determined about

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the truth, because it can set us free, and it

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takes individuals like you and me, because authority, unfortunately is

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corrupted so far and so much that we've got to

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educate ourselves, and we've got to educate each other.

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Right if we're really truly going to save this country.

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I know a lot of politicians talk about saving the country,

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but I think they say that in such a casual,

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surface sort of way, because in order to deal with

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the lies that have enslaved us, it's becoming institutionalized. I mean,

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we're talking a heavy lift.

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Here, Bruce, enormously heavy. For a starting point, President Eisenhower's

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farewell address January seventeenth, nineteen sixty one, where he warned

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not only the country but incoming President John F. Kennedy

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about three really big problems that have all blossomed and

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metastasized and have poisoned us ever since. The military industrial complex,

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the technological revolutions, so that policy is captured by a

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technological elite, and then finally going into such debt that

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we've mortgaged and bankrupted our children's future. We're hanging on

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by our fingernails economically. We have to be prepared every

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day for the lights to go out, for such catastrophic collapses.

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I will invite us to talk about positive things before

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the show's over.

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I swear no, no, we will. And the thing is,

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I appreciate humoring me a bit because this has been

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heavy on my heart, Bruce. Is that you know, we

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keep seeing the problems the frustration of everyday Americans, and

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I'm trying to wake everybody up to realize that we're

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delusional to think that the Constitution is still in play here.

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This is no longer a government of foro by we

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the people. That is a bygone era. If you want that,

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then we have to reclaim it. And that is where

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the heavy lift, that's where the courage comes in. Because

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you know, one of the other things in a way

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you referenced it, the technological forces, the administrative state, which

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goes back to the turn of the century, and how

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that has metastasized and it has made government so complex

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and has made every day Americans so reliant on the

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government that it's become too big to fail or.

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Jayes, Yeah, too big to fail or jail. Our reliance

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is also due in large part to the dumbingest down,

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to the enfeeblement of our souls, our characters, our self confidence.

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That's really the bullseye. We don't trust ourselves because during

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our formative years we're trapped in prison I mean school,

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and we don't exercise freedom. We don't exercise, we don't

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make decisions, we don't develop our own judgment. We don't

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trust ourselves for the rest of our lives. So we're

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happy to do what we're told. And you hit the

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nail on the head. The elephant in the room is

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that we are not America anymore because we are not

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under the Constitution. And the enormity of that is the

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heavy lifting. And now there also is our opportunity, because

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if anyone's ever thrilled to any hero in any realm,

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and let alone the founding generation, it's our chance to

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do our version of it, which is to create America.

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It's to.

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Spread the word about these realities to the extent that

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so many any of us agitate and do things, hopefully

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non violently to reinstate the Constitution to force our representatives

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to honor our constitutional rights and be accountable to us

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with transparency. We have to dream a beautiful dream and

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have ideals and work relentlessly toward them.

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Yeah, we have to return to first principles, as you said,

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and paramount and foundational to all. This is the truth,

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the whole truth, and nothing but. And the truth comes

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from God. And as our nation has moved away from God,

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we're seeing the sum total results of it. You may

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not want to admit that it's because you turned your

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back on God, but it's very simple. I mean, you

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look at you look at education, you look at our economy,

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you look at the culture, and you see, steadily, for

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over one hundred years, in the turn of the you know,

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right at the beginning of the twentieth century and maybe

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the end of the nineteenth, you know, Darwinism came into play,

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and all of a sudden, did God really say? You know,

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the big question that was heard back in the garden,

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you know, did God really say? And all of a sudden,

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the questioning of God's authority and plan for our lives

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came into question. And here we are unanchored from the

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truth and running around just like a hot air balloon

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that's been punctured, going in all kinds of different directions,

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and you look at the mess that that has created

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for us, and I keep I mean, I'm praying, Bruce,

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I'm praying that there's a voice or whatever that can able,

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you know, come through and break through the clutter and

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kind of coalesce these people. I say, these people the

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remnant that God has chosen to say, Okay, hey, I'm

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going to I'm going to rebuild. I'm going to revive

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this country based on this remnant that is not bend

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to knee, has not been to knee to bail in

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these instant tuitions of our culture that have captured us. Yeah,

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and God, sorry, I don't mean to be preaching. I

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just get into this side. You probably think it, Oh

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my God, I didn't realize I was talking to a pastor.

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I'm sorry.

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No, I'm very comfortable with the language of Christianity. I

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grew up in it and God School nine to eleven

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and JFK are the four main words of my title.

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Those are the four main chapters where I lay out

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what I say are the lies or misconceptions about those realities.

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And we can agree that Jesus said, God is love. Okay,

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So to turn your back on God is to turn

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your back on love. So to exercise the golden rule,

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do unto others as you would have them do unto

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you unites Christians and non Christians. And the idea that

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love is this powerful thing, and if I'm true to it,

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I can have a happy life. I can enjoy my

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life and my shorts quick speeding span of time. And

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I also can and help others do the same. And

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it also walks us into enormous power. I take us,

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in this conversation about God into quantum physics and the

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nature of reality. So looking at it from a Christian

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point of view or looking at it from a purely

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scientific point of view, there's one thing that exists that's

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manifesting as everything. Do unto others as you would do

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unto yourself. Because in this model we only do to ourself.

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There's one thing that is blossoming and expressing itself as

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Bill and Bruce and everybody else we're going to meet today,

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and karmically and even just physically, we feel what we

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give to others, if it's kindness, if it's anger and hate.

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So life is about growing up, renewing your mind, becoming

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an adult rather than a child, and walking into experimenting

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with the infinite power of love to create nice things

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and to help each other. And we can then always

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discuss at the end of the day, what do we

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do with those who would be cruel, who want to dominate,

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who think that they are better. We have to deal

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with them, But I submit Bill, they like everything, are

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only what we think they are exactly.

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Let's go to quick Let's go to quick break. We'll

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pick it up on the other side. More from Bruce

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Hey, we're back with him, Brista Trus continues with us.

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He's the director of communications from the American Small Business Link.

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Right before we went to break, you said something very powerful,

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and that is that these forces that are anti loved,

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that are deleterious every measure. They're more of what we

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made of them in our minds than reality, aren't they?

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Yes, And to love them is to do it they

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apparently are not doing. It comes down to a handy

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story to remember. This is the survivor of one of

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the Nazi concentration camps. When it was long over, somebody

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asked them, how did you survive when the conditions there

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were so horrible? You were fortunate not to get tossed

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in an oven? But how else did you survive when

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it was so horrible? And the survivors said they could

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beat me, they could starve me, make me sleep on concrete,

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sleep in the snow, but the guards couldn't make me

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stop loving them. To wrap one's head around the implications

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of that are enormous, and tangibly. It's what we can

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do every single day is encourage each other to trust

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their own judgment and thing for ourselves and to weave

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kind of my job into this the American Small Business League.

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Here's my new favorite toy. It's a website called GovTrack

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dot us. It's where people can quickly find their representatives

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they're both senators, and contact them. And can you imagine

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if everybody complaining about political things actually did that, especially

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in light of this bill. I learned recently less than

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ten percent of Americans ever contact a congress person or

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a senator about everything. So can you imagine if everyone

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who's so opinionated in real life or on social media

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regularly bombarded they're representative and they're two senators about the

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things they care about. I can't imagine how things would change.

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I think it can only really really affect huge change.

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And you bring up a good point, and we've been suggesting,

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can you give us five minutes a week to do that?

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It doesn't take a long time because it's not necessarily

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I mean, you'd be very fortunate if you've got a

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hold of your representative be actually answered. But yet there

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are you know, secretaries, people who are there note takers

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who are taking note of the phone call and the

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complaint that you're rendering, and what they will do. You'll

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hear them in conferences say, look at I just got

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two dozen phone calls about X. So it does make

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an impression. And when they convert two dozen phone calls,

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they extend that to mean maybe two thousand.

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Right, Yes, yes, that's just an enormous thing. And not

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to tell, you know, hijack it into you know, political

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and you know, tangible things like that, because the power

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of knowing the truth about any topic, whether it's reality

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and the spiritual nature of existence. Nine to eleven. The

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assassination of JFK. What happens in school. The abomination that

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I think that is the destruction that it causes too

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many Americans ninety percent of us go through public school.

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Bill.

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These are the things that I got really really passionate

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about twenty years ago. And you know, it's an honor

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to discuss these kind of things with you. I don't

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know where you want to take this next on all.

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Years, well, I appreciate it. You know, I want to

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talk about your book, and I think that's foundational, and

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you know you're going to be back and we're going

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to talk about ongoing things. And right now, one of

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the topical issues that you've been tracking on is that

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small businesses can't get through on government websites for a

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tariff free fund. Now, Donald Trump announced that he is

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returning tariff money. I think what one hundred and sixty

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six billion or something is going back. And maybe you

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can give us a little bit of a primer on this,

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because this has been something that's been quite conflicting, you know,

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for the everyday citizen. One head, you know, wondering about tariffs,

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the other thing saying, hey, look at our country. Initially

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when we started, we didn't have an income tax. We

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lived off of tariffs. You know what's wrong? I mean China,

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other countries are utilizing the weight and the advantage of

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their countries and tariffing accordingly. Uh, what's wrong? What's the

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plus and minus? How are we missing out an opportunity here?

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Well, I wasn't aware that they can't get through for

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their tariff refunds. I got to look into that. We

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are the American Small Business League. We track as much

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as we can about all things small business for the

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very important reason build that we are nothing but a

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small business nation. Ninety nine point nine percent of all

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businesses in America are small businesses less than five hundred employees,

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ninety eight percent have less than one hundred employees, and

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tangibly along these lines, to help small businesses, there's there

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are two resources people need to check out and compare

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and contrast the Small Business Administration SBA dot gov, which

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supposedly works for small businesses, and ours ASBL dot com

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American Small Business League. Because the federal government has the

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goal of steering twenty three percent of its contract budget

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every year to small businesses, and every year it says

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it met that goal or surpasses it, we've been showing

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for decades that is not true. The vast majority of

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all the contracts, including those that are called small business contracts,

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go to the one tenth of one percent of businesses

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that are big businesses. And because they're already big.

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And they're tied to unions, by the way.

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Be that as it may, because they're big, they don't

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create new jobs. Small businesses create the vast majority of

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all jobs in America anyway, And if they got the

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twenty three percent that they're supposed to of the federal

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contract dollars. That would be an extra million and a

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half up to two million jobs every year on top

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of the jobs that small businesses create every year, an

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economic boom. That the federal government, Republican and Democrat administration alike,

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stands on the neck of this and doesn't let it happen.

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It's an obfuscation, it's an outrage, and that's what we

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are in the business of exposing, in addition to a

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couple of other initiatives.

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Well, what we've been exposing, and that's why I mentioned

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the unions, is it's really a design grift with anything

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that goes through the government in the administrative state, everybody's

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got to get their big when it goes to the government.

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And so yes, they're fudging the numbers and trying to

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make you think that they're looking out for our best interest.

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But you bring out an excellent point. I mean, this

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is empirical data. This is in your opinion right.

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Right right, And not only us, but dozens of congressional

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investigations and even reports from the SBA's own Office of

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Inspector General has said the same thing. The biggest problem

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in federal contracting are small business contracts. Going to big businesses.

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There's a lot of reasons why they can justify that

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every year, and they do so. In addition to calling

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your representative and your senators, find them at govtrac dot us.

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One should compare and see what we're saying at ASBO

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dot com and then right and ask the SBA is

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this true? Is this what's really going on? And if

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you dig into it you will find that yes, it

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is true. And it's such a unifying issue. It's not

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right or left, it's not Republican or Democrat. It's hey,

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can we get some truth and accountability about where the

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federal contract dollars go? So it goes back to the

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point you made at the top of the conversation bill,

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it's how false, how phony? So much of the operations

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of government, unfortunately are Yes, it's a money go around

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and everybody's going to get their vig.

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Exactly because the deal is the number one job they

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tell incoming freshman elected officials when they come to their

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orientation meeting. You know, they say why are you here?

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And they will pontificate and talk about their ideology, and

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they'll say, know, the number one reason you're here is

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to get reelected. Well, how do I get reelected? Well,

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I got to go deal with the people, you know,

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the powers of K Street. I got to go find

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the money and deal and figure out where the money

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is so that I can get reelected. And so everything,

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The Bill Martinez Show 06 03 26

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