Sept. 2, 2026

The Bill Martinez Show 09 02 26

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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.

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And now, Bill Martinez.

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Hey, good morning, America. Glad you could join us. Bill

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Martinez here just about six minutes after the top of

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the hour. And we've got Mark Manilla joining us from

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Financial Issues. Mark, good morning. How are you?

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Welcome.

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Doing great. Thanks for having me, Bill. Good to be

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back with you.

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Great to have you here. You know, there's a lot

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going on to talk about. Interesting, Rasmussen says 50 percent

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of America thinks the Iran situation is worse than Trump says. Well,

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you know, that's I mean, I have to give a

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lot of credit to the mainstream media because everything that

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they talk about when it comes to Iran certainly is

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not to promote Trump. And if anything, it's to promote

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the midterm advantage for the Democrats and even the media, though,

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so conflicted because what Democrat party are you supporting? Are

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you supporting the old guard or are you supporting the DSA, right?

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Right.

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That's incredible. I would have never in my life up

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until now thought this could be this way, where the

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Democratic Party would be split into socialists and over half

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of them are signing up for that. How can that happen?

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It's just ridiculous.

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Well, Mark, I got to tell you, going into the

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2020 elections, I had predicted that there was going to

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be a disassembling of the Democratic Party. But, you know,

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I didn't think they were going to cheat to win.

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I thought they were going to lose so badly in

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2020 that they were going to have to go out

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to the desert and kind of discover themselves. But here

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they are imploding and disassembling the party and allowing the

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party itself, I mean, to be hijacked. By a small minority,

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I mean, you know, I think back in 2016, and

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I was surprised at these numbers, which just goes to

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show you how politics works. Bernie Sanders had about 6,000

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card-carrying DSA members, socialist members, 6,000. Look at all the

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havoc he caused for Hillary Clinton in 2016, right? He almost,

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as an independent, not even a Democrat, almost got the

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Democratic nomination for president. And now here we are, fast-forward,

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to 2026, now there's only 120,000 card-carrying DSA members who

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have fallen out of the closet and said, here we are,

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and they have taken over the Democratic Party. What does

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that tell you?

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Absolutely. Well, it tells me that the party isn't listening

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to their membership. They're not listening to the true Democrats,

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the mom and dads that are working every day, that

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are making a life of and do more than just

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take money out of our paychecks. The people running the

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Democratic Party seem to be ignoring the Democratic Party.

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Right.

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Do you think a little bit cuts both ways that

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maybe the Republicans need to learn something here? I mean,

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these young kids that are gravitating towards socialism or toward

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the message of DSA, I'm saying, don't throw the baby

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out with the bathwater. I don't think they're all wrong.

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They may not be able to put their finger on

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the situation. All they're saying, you know, in their terms,

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it's an affordability issue. Well, okay. When you drill deep

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into the issue of affordability, there's regulations, there's all this

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corruption and fraud that we've been carrying, you know, through

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the system for decades and And now we're $ 40 trillion

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in debt. And guess what? And I hate this. I

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hate to say both parties are guilty of it. But

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you have to say both parties are guilty of it.

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And I think if the Republicans, if they miss this message,

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they do so at their own peril as well.

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Bill, you're absolutely right. Here's the situation. Over $ 1. 9 trillion

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a year in waste and fraud is what's calculated right now.

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That's what we're over on our budget every year. $ 1. 9 trillion.

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I saw a news article today talking about, I guess

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it was about Jackson Hole and the conversation Mr. Warsh

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had there. And they brought up the idea of affordability

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somehow being part of that conversation, which obviously they just

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want to go there to badmouth something. But what they

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didn't say, they said, even if we got rid of

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all waste and fraud, it would only be a fraction

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of our budget.

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Of our budget.

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And it's like, no, it's $ 2 trillion of our budget.

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Let's just get rid of it. Let's get rid of

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all waste and fraud. We don't need to get rid

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of social security or Medicare or Medicaid. We just need

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to get rid of the fraud involved in those and

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everywhere else. And the waste, how many, how many more

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organization NGOs and stuff are receiving billions of dollars a

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year still that, that this administration hasn't found. even though

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they found a lot, which we're really grateful for. But

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the whole idea.

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Of- But it's the tip of the iceberg, isn't it, Mark, though?

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Yeah, it is.

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From the federal government and then bring it back home again,

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the affordability thing. Did you know, I think it's 18

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out of 20 of the last years. No, I'm sorry. Well,

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the first four years that Trump had, The real wage

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growth was positive. Now, Bill, I don't know if everybody

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listening understands. Real wage growth is the difference between inflation

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and what people are taking home, how fast their income

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is growing. If it's positive, then their wages are growing

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faster than inflation. If it's negative, then it's growing slower. Well,

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the first year of this administration, this time it was positive.

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Month after month, we're seeing positive except for two months. Now,

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think about that. So the affordability thing is pretty much

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major propaganda. Now, I'm not telling people that there aren't

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things like beef and stuff that are a problem right now.

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But that problem isn't from inflation. That problem is because

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we have the lowest number of cattle in the herds

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in history since they've been tracking it. And it takes

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two to five years to grow the herds back because

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you have a little baby calf. It takes it two

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years before it matures. So affordability on beef, sure, I

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get it. We all can't eat steak every night right now.

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But when I grew up, I don't ever remember getting steak.

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So I think there's also an expectation creep there.

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Right, exactly.

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It's part of the story the media can use to

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beat Trump up. I get that. But what caused the

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depletion of the cattle?

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Well, first it was Mexico and a worm screw, a

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screw worm, I think it's called, So we stopped importing

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from Mexico. Um, we also, they stopped the agricultural, uh, the,

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the cattle farmers, they had a drought at the same time.

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So they were sacrificing cattle, just killing them off because

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they're going to die anywhere way. So killing them off

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because they can't be fed and selling them off so

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that they all shrunk down. So there was a, there

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was several, I guess, you know, the perfect storm type

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of situation. Uh, Now we're seeing them starting to come back.

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Craig Haugard, he's our ag guy on financial issues. He's

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going to be on tomorrow to talk about this and

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a few other things. He has brought it to light

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that it could take a little while to grow those back.

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When you can't feed the cattle, then you have to

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cut the herd down. And when you have a drought,

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that kind of thing happens. And then when you can't

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import it, because of the screw, which has changed now.

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We are starting to import Mexican beef now from Argentina.

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And then the Democrats threw up, well, that's going to

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have a lot of microplastics in it, and it's going

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to be bad beef and blah, blah, blah. It's like, no,

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it's not. It's beef, you know?

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Right.

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Yeah, exactly. It's not like, we're not like talking turtles

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from the Pacific Ocean.

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Right.

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They're choking on all kinds of plastics. I mean, you

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got to love the arguments. And this is the thing.

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And this is why the voter politic has to exercise

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some critical thinking. I mean, they've really dumbed us down

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in such a way that they want people to believe

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everything they say, which is nonsense. I mean, these are

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the same people that told us that, you know, the

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vaccine would keep us from getting COVID, right? and all

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the other lies that went along with, oh, and Obamacare. Yeah,

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you like your doctor, you get to keep your doctor,

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and it's going to be cheaper. I mean, these are

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the same people that are telling us now. It's like,

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I want to kick them out of the marketplace, Mark.

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Hey, we're talking with Mark Minnelli. He's the host of

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Financial Issues, the nationally syndicated radio and TV program on

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over 500 stations across America. You know, Mark, we're so

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grateful that you've joined us so that we can, you know,

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talk about You know the whole truth and nothing but

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because this is part, I'm sure you deal with it

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on your show and trying to educate your audience to say, okay,

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let's break it down. Let's give you the facts.

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Well, I'll tell you what, you know, the DSA, the

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Democratic Socialists, what they're saying is that Gen Z and

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what's coming after that, I forget what they're calling them,

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but they're saying they're lazy. They're saying that affordability is

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an issue here, Bill. And I know you have an

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intelligent audience, just like Financial Issues does. So they can

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tell the difference. And one of the things that they've

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done is they've come around and the propaganda coming out

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is affordability. They never talk about the true cost of stuff.

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But I think you and I talked before. Lumber's down

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60% from its high during Biden. Used cars are down 20%.

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We actually have food down. Groceries are down. Housing actually

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came down just a couple of percentage. All these things

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are true, but what's being told to them is that

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it's not. What they're being told is they can't have

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a new house. They can't realize the American dream.

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Guess what?

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My wife and I went out driving the other day

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and looking at houses, just using an app to look

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at prices of houses and stuff. Starter houses are about

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$ 180 to two and a quarter, okay? Account for inflation

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and wage growth from back when you and I got

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our starter house. It's cheaper today than it was then, okay?

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Think about that. So it isn't that they can't get

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into a house, it's that they've been programmed to think

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that they can get into a five-bedroom, four-bath, three-car garage

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on three acres in the most expensive part of town

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Just like their mom and dad have right now that

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took them 35 to 40 years to grow into. Exactly.

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Expectation creep is happening. They've been programmed to believe they

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deserve everything their mother and father have right when they

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get out of school. And it's ridiculous. And most people

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don't even realize that they have this expectation. I did

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another thing. I looked up how much the average Gen

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Z person is spending on food delivery. Okay. This is

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meals in a month. Okay. Over almost $ 600 a month.

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That's half a mortgage. That's half my mortgage payment, you know,

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that's half a mortgage payment. So effectively when I grew up,

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we never had anything delivered. If we wanted a pizza,

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my mom and dad thought we could afford it. We'd

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all get in the car and go get a pizza.

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They didn't, you know, want to pay the extra two

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to $ 3 for delivery and stuff, that kind of thing. So,

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It's all a change in programming. And you can get

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your house. You can eat well. You can drive a

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decent car. You just can't drive a brand new one

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every three years. You can't get into your mom and

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dad's house right away. Just do like every generation before

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you does and start with a starter house.

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That's right. Yeah, like I tell the kids, it's all...

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about process. You got to crawl before you walk, before

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you run, right? No matter what it is. And, uh,

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and you go through it. And unfortunately, uh, you know,

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these kids have been propagandized and they've been lied to,

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and guess what? They want some skin. I mean, they're upset.

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And so if it means that we're going to turn

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this country upside down, but look at What are you

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turning it upside down and you're going to find underneath?

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That's the dangerous part because the DSA has nothing to

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offer when it comes to growth and opportunity.

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You know, Bill, let's do this. Let's have a contest

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between you and me right now. I'll take the free

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enterprise side and I'll give you the socialist side. Now,

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this is how the game works. This is how the

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game works. First, you dig me. We'll go through history,

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and you give me every country that adopted socialism that

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came out better, and then I'll give you one that

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embraced free enterprise. Okay, go.

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That's not fair, Mark. There's not one. I've done that.

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I've asked all the econ people that come on the show.

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I say, you tell me one socialist country that is

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better off today than they were before they were socialists.

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I mean, look what's happening in South America, Mark. All

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these countriesâ and, of course, this is the thing. See,

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our government was participating with theseâ what was the term?

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The non-geoâ oh, gosh, the term has slipped my mind here.

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These government groups, these government agencies, right? And so they

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were funding allâ NGOs.

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Yes.

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I'm sorry. Thank you. So here they are. These NGOs

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were buttressing and supporting all these countries in South America.

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And as soon as Marco Rubio and the president said, hey,

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we're cutting NSAID out of the picture, right? Guess what happened?

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They turned from socialism because they ran out of America

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taxpayer money.

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Right.

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They ran out of other people's money. And that's what

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always happens with socialism. Unfortunately, the propaganda is huge. Free this,

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free that. And with younger people, they haven't lived long

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enough to realize that other people's money runs out. As

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soon as it does, that system collapses. With free enterprise now,

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here's what's really cool. You want some good news?

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Yes, give me some good news.

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The entrepreneurship on Gen Z is incredible. What we're seeing

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with the millennials is they're actually over 50% of them

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say they're better off now than they ever have been.

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So they're starting to realize free enterprise works. Gen Z

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has more applications in for starting businesses than anybody else

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in the United States right now. So last month they

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were like, 60% of the applications were from Gen Z.

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That means they're realizing they can start businesses. They can

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do things. They can embrace the free enterprise and not

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have to rely on other people's money or the government

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to tell them how they have to live. This is

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the type of house you have to rent. You can't buy.

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This is how much money you can have in your

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bank account. That's what happens when the government takes over.

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Right.

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Or they come in with an idea like, oh, government

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run grocery stores. And they run local businesses out, right? Yeah.

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And what a mess. I mean, the problems that are

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being created there in New York. I mean, you're talking

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a generational issue here, Mark. I don't know how they

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avoid it.

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No, it's going to be really rough. They got some issues. But,

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you know, you and I saw this. We saw, remember

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when New York was a place you didn't want to

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ever go to because of the crime and everything? And

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then Julianio got in? And he cleaned it up and

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it just turned around to this light on a hillside

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for the world.

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Right.

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And he did it. Broadway was safe again.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I remember being told my first trip to New York,

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never get on the subway. And I went up at

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a great time after it got cleaned up. It was wonderful.

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People were nice. It was just incredible. Yeah. It can

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turn around. So we do have hope there that we

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get in somebody up there good that can turn this

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around next, if he doesn't destroy it too much. But yeah,

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there's a lot going on, Bill. And your broadcasts and

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financial issues and others are waking people up. And that's

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what's needed. Because when they see the reality of it,

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they see that we really do have an incredible country,

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one that God gave us, laid his hand on. One

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