The Majority of Americans Are Frustrated with Our Economy, The Border, Immigration, Crime and a Weap

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FOURCY Radio. Well, welcome to
the Bill Martinez Show. Great to have

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you with us. We're going to
be talking about the frustration of the majority

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of Americans, and it's increasing.
And it's increasing because only I guess the

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truth of when they go to the
grocery store and the gas stations, they

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see what's going on. It can
no longer be denied. Even though you

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have the present claiming that Bidenomics is
working, he says, but whether it's

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that or the border, we're going
to talk about his shift in policy.

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Member, he said, watch my
lips. In so many words, you

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know, he was not going to
do anything. Not an inch, not

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an inch of border wall was going
to be built in his administration. Well,

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you know, sometimes politics has an
interesting way of forcing you against your

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own ideology. We're going to talk
about that in immigration, crime, and

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of course a weaponized government description.
Ed Poswillie is with us the president of

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Florida based law firm Trip Scott and
former chair of the Republican Party in Broward

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County, Florida. He says,
America is thirteen months away from our next

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election. Will it determine if we
can keep this democratic republic? Will we

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protect and preserve our personal liberties that's
under attack by a growing minority of the

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left wing of the Democratic Party using
the ever growing federal government that has weaponized

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the legal system. Will we unify
to protect our sovereignty by protecting our borders

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and protect our freedoms as parents,
the small business owners, and hardworking Americans.

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That's the question that is before us
today. Ed Puswalding, welcome,

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Good to have you back with us. How are you, sir? Hey,

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welcome, Bill, Thank you for
having me. Well, where do

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we start here? Ed? It's
just crazy, I guess. Well,

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let's start with the first of all, what happened in the House of Representatives.

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You know, Kevin McCarthy had agreed
with with the with the House that

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it would only take one person to
to vacate the chair. And by that

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ruling, one person stepped up,
Matt Gates, and in fact vacated the

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chair. Yeah, and so there's
there's two sides to this. I mean,

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in some respects Matt Gates presented a
case and he got eight other Republicans

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and all the Democrats. But effectively
his case was, hey, Speaker McCarthy

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worked with Democrats with when he shouldn't
have to pass that forty five day extension

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to keep the government running, and
so he was a violation of the agreements,

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and so he brought forth the motion
to vacate, which was his right

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under their arrangement. And so he
did, Matt Gates did. He made

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the argument and got eight Republicans along
with every single Democrat to ouse Senator to

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ouse Speaker McCarthy right now, one
hand, we need to keep speak the

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speaker whoever that is accountable to whatever
arrangements they made going in. And so

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working with Democrats, I mean,
I'll be blunt, Bill. There was

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a time when that was viewed as
a good thing. In this case,

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the idea of forty five days and
keeping the government open and would would and

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not extracting appropriate concessions around keeping the
government open. That seems to be the

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rub that Matt Gates had and eight
other Republicans. But here's the other side

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of this is that Republicans are controlling
the House, and so Americans are looking

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at this, and let's be blunt
about something. Americans are not looking at

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individual Americans and not looking at all
the nuances about who said what and everything.

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What they're seeing is Republicans control of
the House. And it looks a

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little bit like a chocolate mess.
And so we want to make sure that

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while we hold whoever the speaker is
accountable. And I do think there's validity

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to that conversation that Congressman Gates are
set forth. On the other hand,

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we want to prevent it looking too
much like a circus because Americans, they

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are taking a snapshot. Is this
what we have when Republicans are leading?

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That's the balance we have to say
exactly. Well, and they've got a

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week, you know, they've got
a weak break here. I think it's

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unfortunate they took a break. I
think they should have responded to this with

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a sense of urgency. I think
that would have said a lot to the

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American people because it demonstrated some leadership. I will say, as a sidebar,

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interesting that Matt Gates would would have
some disdain for the speaker a former

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speaker working with Democrats. But it
was working with the Democrats that allowed Matt

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Gates to effectively get rid of the
speaker. So you know, it's just

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this is you know, you can't
take politics way too seriously. But I

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think that Will Rogers would have had
a lot of fun in commedy on that,

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right probably. I mean, you
know that it took all every Democrat

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vote in the House to house the
speaker. Now and it looks like,

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you know, whether it's Jim Jordan
or Steve Scalice or maybe even Donald Trump

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to come in. And it's a
tough job and there's some balance to it.

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But in the end, Bill,
what we really need is Republicans to

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bind together because I I you know, think of this analogy. You know,

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they took care of if the speaker's
issue here was a creak in your

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back door, but your house is
on fire higher, right, do you

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really want to focus on the creek? You know in the back in your

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back door, right when your house
is on fire. So, in my

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view, America is in crisis.
We have a crisis at the border.

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We have an economic crisis with interest
rates rising and the basics groceries and food

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and energy, gasoline all rising.
And remember when we talk about you know,

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three oh, it's now getting under
control, it's only four and a

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half percent. Well that's four and
a half percent more than it was last

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year, which was ten percent more
than it was the year before. So

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it's a compounding issue. And so
between groceries and gas, the American families

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getting squeezed, and with housing being
impacted with higher and higher interest rates,

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you know, and this is all
related to government spending that's out of control.

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So we have that crisis. We
have a crisis in China on many

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fronts. We have a crisis dealing
with Ukraine and Russia. We have a

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crisis in education and you know how
to teach who gets to control education in

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this country, whether it's parents or
bureaucrats, those are things that are being

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left on the side while we're sort
of diddling around with the creek in our

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back door. Exactly. And Ed, let me ask you, I mean

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Okay, they've supposedly have four or
five already bills ready to go to the

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Senate. And so again here you've
got to pick a speaker, and you've

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got to get these individual bills across. But after everything is said and done,

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I mean, you know how this
works. What is the likelihood that

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there is going to be a huge
difference though the Republicans can say, hey,

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look at these are the bills we
wanted, But by the time the

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Senate gets a hold of it,
it's going to have a lot of a

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Democratic Democrat rewrite and Joe Biden approval
on it. Yeah, I mean put

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aside Joe Biden's approve because ultimately that
would be you know, put aside that

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just for a second. The question
is how do we lever How do we,

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as the Republican leadership inside of Congress, both House and Senate, lever

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our position. Now we do control
the House, and hopefully we're going to

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speak with one clear voice and and
set forth an agenda that talks about protected

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protecting personal liberties, and providing people
more freedom both economically and otherwise. And

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look, in the end, you
know, the Senate is going to sort

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of do what it does under Schumer
and Gang because the Democrats sadly control the

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Senate. But but I'll say this, we've got it. We've got to

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put forth those arguments and then try
to defend against them ordering it down more

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and more and more. But Bill, ultimately, i'd like to see,

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you know, as a as an
American citizen, I'd like to see progress

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made on how to protect how to
control our border. I'd like to see

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progress made on bringing under control,
out of control government spending, because that

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is really what's driving inflation. I'd
like to see, you know, a

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real hard discussion about what we're doing
in Ukraine and what the endgame is and

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whether this is a blank check or
at least I'd like to have somebody try

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to defend us spending the type of
money we are spending there, and I'd

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like to have a debate about that. There's nothing wrong with that. So

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I think that's what should be taking
place in Congress today. And look,

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you and I both know that.
Frankly, if the government shut down for

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a couple of days, would I
wouldn't care? Yeah, I think,

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and I think a good amount of
people, to be honest with you,

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are thinking exactly the same way,
it's no big whoop, and maybe maybe

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they should shut down just to feel, you know, maybe feel some pain.

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And I agree with I can't remember
who it was, because one of

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the congressmens said, if the government
shuts down, I'm not going to take

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a paycheck. I feel it's uncomftable
for me to take a paycheck while everybody

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else is not getting one because of
our inability to handle this. And you

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know, we've had a year to
take care of this, you know,

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at least at least seven eight months
anyway, to take care of this,

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and this thing has been drug out
and again it's in typical Beltway fashion.

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Let's just kick it down the road. And what the Democratic Party has always

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worked with that, as you know, is you get it down, the

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time starts running out on the clock, the threat, oh my god,

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we're going to shut down the government, and then all of a sudden you've

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got to come, you know,
you've got to approve this omni omnibus bill.

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And that omnibus bill is a perfect
time for both sides to start attaching

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all these ornaments, you know,
to the budget. That just exacerbates the

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problem even more so. Right,
Well, Bill, how about if we

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have Congress not being able to take
a salary in the event they never pass

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they don't pass a budget every year. I think that's why do we do

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that, not just on the shutdown, but also if they don't, if

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they don't pass a budget, a
real budget as to a continuing you know,

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these continuing amendments and continuing obligations that
they do every year. Cry,

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I haven't been a budget in a
decade. Let's get back to the business

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of what the Congress should be doing. And they control the purse strings of

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the federal government, they as a
matter of just to check the box,

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should pass a budget every year because, as you know, when you make

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a budget up at home or in
a small business, where you spend your

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money is where your priorities lie.
Exactly. I'd like to see that debate

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go on every year. That's what
the budget making process should be about.

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And they just got to kick it
down the road and never address the compounding

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spending that occurs every year in Washington. And BOSWELLI is with us the president

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of Florida based law firm Trip Scott
and former chair of the Republican Party in

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Broward County, Florida, and I
say, in addition to making a budget

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on time, how about if we
had a balanced budget. Well, well,

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is that impossible to ask? I
don't think it's impossible. I would

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like a budget first. Let's get
a budget's everybody can know what we're actually

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spending on and how we're doing it. And let's have those debates about where

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no one I've never heard in Washington
a debate that goes on every day in

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your house in small businesses around the
world. And here's the issue, how

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do we spend We only have a
limited set of resources. How do we

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spend those limited set of resources.
No one in Washington talks like that because

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they don't see that they have an
unlimited set of resources, because in the

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end, they're printing money and then
just accruing debt over time, which ultimately

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we're going to have to pay for
later on. Exactly. Well, and

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I've maintained, you know, I
think it would be a novel idea if

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the government would phrase all spending just
every once in a while, just throw

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it in there, like, you
know, the end of maybe the end

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of August, worst case, end
of September, just say, look at

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nobody can spend anymore everything's frozen.
Stop. If you haven't spent the money

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by then could you imagine how much
money we could reclaim. I mean,

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then some of these things that for
example, that's being reported open the books

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just sent out a press release our
good friend Adamanziaski, and you got all

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this stupid stuff going on. I
mean, you got the FEDS even during

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COVID time, we're looking at what
they spent. People weren't coming into the

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office and they're buying up new furniture, they're buying what were they buying barbecue

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tables outdoor that were you know,
solar operated, so people could you know,

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they could bring their phones out there
and get their phones charged up on

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the on the outdoor table. I
mean, this is how ridiculous to your

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point, spending gets in Washington because
it's not their money, it's our money,

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and they're irresponsible. It's not only
that, but think about what was

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what the debate was after COVID was
over. They had all this unspent COVID

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relief money that they had authorized,
and the debate was whether or not we

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should take that money back and put
it back into the general revenue fund instead

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of just letting it be spent on
all kinds of even though COVID was now

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over, And so that is where
you sort of it's sort of like,

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you know, I don't want to
you know, disperts the Navy, but

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it's sort of like a drunken sale
with his paycheck in his pocket the time

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at night. But this is every
day in Washington, right. And then

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on top of that, how much
fraud took place, how many people got

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COVID money they shouldn't, how many
billions of dollars I think it was hundreds

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of billions of dollars involved here and
COVID fund fraud that still I have no

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idea. I think maybe it's lost
out there with the you know, with

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the Hunter Biden laptop or something.
I don't know, just saying, but

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we're just focused on some of those
things. I mean, as an example,

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I read an article that half of
the federal workforce isn't even back to

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the office exactly. So the federal
government continues to pay on office space that's

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not even being used. And so
these are things that business owners know how

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to manage them, how to manage
their money so to make it stretch as

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far as it can. They're cautious
with their money because it's their money.

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But somehow the federal government, no
one in the federal government, no one

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in Congress, wants to take accountability
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And frankly, I'm okay with with
sending some money in tax for it in

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the form of taxes if I know
that they're going to spend it correctly and

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I'm going to get some return or
services back on it. But in this

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case, it is just they might
as well take the pile of money they

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get and set it on fire,
which is what's happening. And sadly that

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has been the tradition of the Beltway
and that's irrespondsible. Uh. I like

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the conversation that's coming up on the
Republican side. The vek Ramaswami has been

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saying that we should start with a
zero baseline budgeting, uh, you know,

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which is every business does, but
our government does not. And it's

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goofy. It's confusing to the American
people, and purposely so that they can

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get away with all the shenanigans that
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you know, Beltway mathematics. Right, let's just let's just get back to

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and I totally would support zero based
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a half a step and actually pass
a budget built, yes exactly. Yeah,

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Well, but you can't get there
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you're working with to begin with,
right exactly. Yeah, So you know

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that's the sad part. Well,
and going back to what we were talking

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about in terms of inflation and the
impact that it's had. Clearly, the

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way I look at it, the
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for inflation was Joe Biden's first day
of office when he canceled the Excel pipeline

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and declared a war on fossil fuels. Look, look what's happened. I

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mean, you can clearly go back, in my opinion, you go back

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two and a half years and when
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from energy independence. This has been
the price we're paying and every day Americans,

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and I mean here you got sixty
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pretty much hand to mouth month to
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they don't have enough paycheck to cover
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winner coming up where it's going to be

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cold, and they're talking utility bills, you know, skyrocketing again. I

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mean, and we know that cold
kills. So you know, say what

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you want to say and argue about
climate change. That's a whole other issue.

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But I mean, some of these
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the border that Joe Biden and this
administration are just flat out ignoring and they're

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hurting Americans well. But gas prices
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about, Bill because in the end, the way we transport goods and services

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is still fossil fuel dependent on trucks
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every time the cost of gasoline goes
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it's reflected in the goods and services
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it's in groceries, whether it's in
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is all kinds of things. And
so in the end, that's a hidden

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tax inside of what I consider the
Biden tax. Inflation hurts those who are

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the least fortunate among us economically because
it takes a bite out of the most

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basic things that they need every day. And gas prices is one, and

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food and groceries are another, and
those things hurt people. And the sad

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part is is that under the Trump
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we were producing actually more fuel than
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here. And more importantly than anything
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is that we didn't need to deal
with some folks who are not in the

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you know, who are not operating
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as an example. We are now
out there the Biden administration is begging Venezuela

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for additional fuel, and so why
are we supporting what is a socialistic,

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communistic country in Venezuela, And so
why are we supporting them because we just

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refused to As an example, I
have the Keystone pipeline or or to drill,

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or to offer up incentives so that
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instead of dealing with Venezuela and the
folks in the Middle East who do

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not operate in our best interest.
And so here's the question. So we

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now are dependent on our enemies as
I suffer from higher prices, we are

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effectively supporting their counter American efforts around
the world with our gas with the extra

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cost and gas that impacts everybody.
So we get hit with a double whammy

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bill exactly, you know ed,
And people don't even realize the damage that

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has been done by the Biden administration
because let's just say Donald Trump is to

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get elected in twenty twenty four and
he turns the speckots on we start moving

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to energy independence. Do you think
the oil industry is willing to take a

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chance and invest based on four years
of Donald Trump understanding the political wins being

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you know as they are that you
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example, the Democrats could be coming
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know, closing down the spickets again. But here's the question. In the

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end, you know, you and
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air, we want clean water.
We don't want to contribute to to the

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extent that you know, we have
a climate crisis. But let's be bunt

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about something in less and until we
get every country that includes China and India

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exact word with the climate a climate
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today technology around fracking and even coal. Coal is now produced in the United

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States as cleanly as it ever was
in his exactly and so and Trump started

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this, right, Trump made major
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that's why we we left the Paris
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like, look at we're surpassing the
standard that was established by the Paris Accord,

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right, right, and so but
this idea that somehow here's the other

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side of it. Though. So
if you think back into the early nineteen

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eighties when you saw companies like Apple
and Microsoft and all those companies come in

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and with the technology boom around ultimately
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and now we're moving to AI as
an example, those were American innovations

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that took the economy to the next
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Was that government driven? The answer
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driven. And in this case,
what you have, regardless of what al

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Gore would want you to, well, that was put out we're dealing with

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real reality or real reality. Capital
investors and entrepreneurs took risks to investing companies

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that did technologies that we now use
as a staple today. So those are

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American innovations. That was because of
the marketplace. It was not because government

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picking or trying to pick winners and
losers, and in fact, the government

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does have has in fact an awful
record about spending its money wisely and picking

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winners and losers in industry. And
I would suggest to you that this idea

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that we continue to push on battery
electric cars and what and that, and

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we spend public moneys around that.
I'm all in favor of Tesla. I'm

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all in favor of Elon Musk and
and those those kinds of entrepreneurial activities where

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he's putting his own money at risk
and and he's he's he's a big winner

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in that respect. But the bottom
line is is that I don't want government

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money picking and choosing around that because
that technology still is not yet uh just

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to the level from a cost standpoint, to compete with fossil fuels. And

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let's be fun about something else.
This is a long way. I don't

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know what you drive, but you
know my gas car is far more efficient

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than the car that I drove when
I was in college thirty years ago,

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exactly. Gasoline's cleaner. And by
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venezuelan and oil that we're now Biden
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dirtiest fuel. Exactly yeah, I
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does that sit with all everybody here? No, you're you're exactly right.

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I mean here it is America has
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lead the way, but we need
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mean, this keeps cycling back and
it is Republicans. They're conservatives that makes

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common sense out of the energy sector
of of you know, of of our

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economy. And the Democrats, you
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uh, these theories and this,
you know, I call it. You

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know, they're like don Quixote fighting
windmills. I mean here, oh,

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you're you're gonna knock out you Like
California says, oh, by twenty thirty,

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there's not going to be a combustible
engine in California. Even by twenty

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thirty, they're gonna be lucky to
have, you know, enough cars for

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about ten to fifteen percent of the
population, So that means eighty eighty five

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percent of the population in California.
They're gonna all go amish. They're gonna

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have to get a buggy and a
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mean, this is how silly this
stuff is based on this this theory,

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and it's still a theory. There's
no scientific fact on climate change. And

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we've spent five trillion dollars investing in
this, in this foul science, in

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my humble opinion, and what do
we've got to show for it? But

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Bill, it's even let's talk about
the practical impact. Say that California.

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You know Gavin Newsom, the you
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such a good drop with that California. I'm sorry that I live in Florida.

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And by the way, well well
I was born and raised in California.

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I got kids there. Ed see, you understand the pain that I'm

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in. Right, I will say
this, We in Florida, we actually

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enjoyed the best governor in the country
in Rogas. And to be blunt about

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it, what's going in California is
terrible because California is a beautiful state with

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beautiful resources, great cities, great
people. But in the end, policies

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matter. This idea of going to
full electric in twenty thirty and look what

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do they have to do. They
had to alternate days when people can actually

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plug in their electric cars, right
because why because it was putting undue burden

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on the electric grid. And oh, by the way, how does the

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electric how is the electric that goes
to feed the batteries, how is that

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being created? It still goes back
to fossil fuels. That's my gosh,

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kicking ourselves and so and one last
point about batteries. Where are batteries may

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and where's the natural resources that where
are they found a lot of up until

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recently because the United States just found
that a strain. But up until recently,

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the main degreety of electric battery was
almost only available in China where they

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had land to get it. And
then that's where the batteries are produced.

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So again this goes back to why
are we feeding our adversaries over what purpose?

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And so it's sort of a double
whammy again. Why are we continuing

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to buttress the economy in China when
we could be doing the providing energy for

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energy resources at home? That makes
no sense whatsoever exactly. And what else

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is tied to it, ad is
the abuse of young people. I mean,

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you've got kids that are out there
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has conscripted, and they're the ones
that are you know, for pennies.

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These young kids are out there tavisting
the the raw elements that are needed,

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you know, for the batteries,
uh, you know, for them to

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be formulated in China. I mean
this, this is a mess. And

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here it is. I mean,
you got the left that you know is

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so self righteous about human abuses in
that, and here it is. I

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mean this, this is amazing.
You know, they're they're every once in

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a while you hear a story about
a celebrity who has a line of clothing

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that is being produced, uh,
you know, out of sweatshops that they

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didn't know about it. Oh my
god, all hell breaks loose. But

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meanwhile, if something that China is
doing, they just look the other way.

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No matter what they're doing with the
wigurs. Uh, you know how

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they've got them in concentration camps and
other h you know, less thands that

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they consider that they can run ramshot
on and take advantage of. Right,

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Bill, we'd be better off on
hooking to the extent that we can.

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We still live in a global economy, but we still should be moving toward

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unhooking our dependence on China around some
of those resources we talked about the ship

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manufacturing some of the pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Now that that is almost exclusively now done

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in China, we need to bring
that back home or exactly to a more

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friendly, friendly country. And they
started to come back ed when Donald Trump

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you know, open the doors,
We cut back on corporate taxes, we

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incentivize them. Of course, they
love coming back to their home country because

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they know the work ethic of Americans
as such that they're better off being here.

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Just you know, get me in
the zip code to where, you

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know, based on you know,
labor costs, and that that I can

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make this work, you know,
pat down some of this crazy regulation stuff,

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which you know Donald Trump started member
for ever, every new regulation you

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had to cancel at least too and
I think at one point, as you

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know, it got up to you
know, they would cancel fifteen, eighteen,

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as many as eighteen. That's how
bad you know, regulation nation had

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become under Obama Biden. We were
so loaded with regulations. It's no wonder

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businesses said, hey, you know
what, Sia, I'm out of here.

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Why don't we invest in investing in
American ingenuity, American entrepreneurship exactly.

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And this is something that I did
want to mention to you. Inherently,

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Republicans, as part of their core
belief should believe in American exceptionalism that Ronald

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Reagan spoke what spoke so eloquently about, despite all of our country's faults,

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whether it's today or historically, put
aside those I understand that there were some

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real issues coming out of our history
and the faults, and we need to

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continue to kind of strive to be
a more perfect union, but put those

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aside. In the end, has
historically is the greatest country in the world's

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history. We provided a constitutional republic
that provided the greatest extent of personal liberties

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to its citizens. It provided a
capitalist based system that provided and fed not

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only our own people, but fed
most of the world, lifted people out

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of poverty. These are things that
we should be talking about exactly. The

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success of capitalism, the success of
our constitutional republic, the protections of the

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personal liberties and freedoms that we enjoy
compared to other around other parts around the

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world, other places around the world. These are success stories. This is

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what sets us apart from the rest
of the world. And to be blunt,

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I'm okay with being a true believe
in American exceptionalism, because I think

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it does set us apart, and
that's what makes the country special when we

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when we diminish those things, and
some on the left now are trying to

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diminish that history and some of those
truths that frankly they should they should not

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be left unchallenged. We need to
be able to say capitalism works, communism,

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socialism does not work. And so
the Bernie Sanders, the aocs of

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the world, Hey, you can
talk all you want about theories and everything,

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but when in practice socialism and capitalism
fail and put people in more miserable

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positions than they are. And capitalism
is that and the opportunities in America that

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provided of those things that lift people
above their current economic station and allow them

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to provide their child or their children
with a better opportunity than they had.

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That is the American dream build.
That's what we exactly rally around. Well,

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you know, and the fact of
the matter is is what you're talking

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about is not theory compared to what
they talk about. The evidence is empirical,

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two hundred and forty siven years of
experience. When we follow you know,

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our constitution, when we follow the
infrastructure of capitalism, this country flourishes,

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the people flourished, the people are
happy when it's oppressed, and it's

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been a pressed time and again when
you know, big government comes in and

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thinks that they know better, as
you say, picking winners and losers.

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And every time they get involved,
because they're inexperienced, they only know theory.

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They don't know, you know,
practical application. This is why I

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got to tell you for me,
Ed it was a long you know,

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I think all my life I had
waited and in fact, my dad and

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I used to talk about this repeatedly, that the White House needed a true

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chief executive officers, somebody that knew
business. You know, remember when Ross

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pro came on the scene, he
laid out with his I think he was

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the first one to do those extended
kind of infomercials with the party. Yeah,

430
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exactly. And here he is.
I mean, he generates, you

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know, eighteen twenty percent of the
vote, but he's a business guy.

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And then Donald Trump comes and we're
able to realize, oh, okay,

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this is what happens when you get
a real chief executive officer in the White

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House. And the thing is,
it's so antithical to the traditions of the

435
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Beltway, that they were doing everything
they could and still are doing everything they

436
00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:29.440
can to kneecap him and to make
sure that he doesn't get in the White

437
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:34.079
House again. Because this is what
you know, power, absolute power does.

438
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It absolutely corrupts, and this is
where we are. And unfortunately,

439
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you know, to your point earlier, Ed, the free press, it

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is their job, the first Amendment, you know, you know, freedom

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of press, they are missing in
action. And because they're missing an action

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and not reporting on the very things
that you're talking about, to hold the

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government accountable, to talk about,
you know, these great stories of capitalism

444
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that have taken place, you know, from from day one. They they're

445
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ignoring this in order to get in
line with these neo Marxists. A small

446
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percentage of people that you know,
flat out just hate America, and Ed

447
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the Democratic Party you know, has
been so you know, so tainted by

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this hatred of America. You've got
over over a million Democrats that have said

449
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I'm out of here, and you've
got what a dozen elected elected Democrats that

450
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have changed parties to the Republican Party
because of you know what you pointed out,

451
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this is untenable. Well, I
would suggest to you as an example

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of Florida is a good example for
the rest of the country. We during

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during in the Obama last Obama election, there were three hundred and fifty thousand

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more Democrats than Republicans in the state
of Florida. Obama one the state of

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Florida in his second in its first
and second run. But now we have

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seven hundred thousand more Republicans. And
here's the reason. Over twenty years we've

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had Republican the central leadership, both
in the governor's mansion and in the state

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00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:20.320
legislature. Florida balances its budgets.
It actually has a budget every year.

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It actually has over the last couple
of years, reduced its debt through bond

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00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:30.440
repayments and whatnot for its public programs. It is now vaulted to the number

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one position in education across the country
that includes K twelve plus higher ed.

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It has a plus, It has
the greatest plus migration from other states coming

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in. And originally a lot of
Floridians were concerned about the way it might

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change politics, but the fact is
it's now been re emphasized. During COVID

465
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there were clear protections on personal liberties
by opening schools sooner, not getting caught

466
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up in the hysteria of the COVID
and the phantom COVID piece. And the

467
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:07.320
bottom line is schools were open sooner, so so students were able to get

468
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back learning. Because we're still that's
still going to be reckoned with that.

469
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That day of judgment is going to
come when a lot of a lot of

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students across the country who fell behind
a couple of years, that's still an

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issue for us later on. We
need to catch those kids up as quickly

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as possible. Well, I have
an idea for that, ed and I've

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been trying to get a hold of
the governor's wife because I think she can

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champion this. And I also talked
with Lieutenant Governor Win some seeries and you

475
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know, my goal is to get
a couple of other governors that I know

476
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together and because I've got a plan
and how we can you know, speed

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up and accelerate getting these kids up
to speed because education is that critical and

478
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it's doable. You know, we
can, we can make that happen,

479
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but you've got to have a concerted
plan in which to do that. And

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uh, this is one that i've
you know, I've been talking about for

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the last five years, you know, because I felt like God put this

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on my heart and I said,
you know, and then after COVID even

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more so it's like, man,
we need to do this because I think

484
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we could, you know, we
can reinforce education and better prepare these kids,

485
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you know, especially you know,
K through eight, so that by

486
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the time they transfer into high school
that they're well prepared, their study skills

487
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are set and whatever they may have
missed along the way, because as you

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know, through those eight years of
education, you miss things, and there's

489
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nothing wrong with going back and kind
of you know, like like you would

490
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with a computer, where you relay
the software, you relay a fresh line

491
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of software that repairs those holes and
those viruses that may have interrupted the operating

492
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system, you know, along the
way. And so that that's kind of

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the essence of this idea that I
have, that we can do this in

494
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short order with like these many boot
camps. That wouldn't take more than a

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semester to get these kids up to
speed and then some and really you know,

496
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send them off into the next semester's
full steam ahead, better prepared to

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be able to be you know,
better educated and better students. You know,

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Bill, that you really touched on
a really good point. We need

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to have kids in the classroom celebrating
academic achievement, focus on learning how to

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read and write and do mathematics,
and put aside all the social discussion and

501
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the culture debate inside the classroom.
There are two things that are certain.

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One is that parents should be paramount
in controlling their child's education package, because

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always, always, a parent will
opt to what they think is best for

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their child, and I think we
have to rely on that basic ten So

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that's one. Two is that over
the years, we have spent a great

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deal of time and energy not focused
on teaching kids how to read and write

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and perform mathematics and learning the basics
of civics as an example. Instead,

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what we have done is that we've
kind of distracted ourselves. And I don't

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want to say it's not important.
It's important. But the celebration of whether

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you are purple, green, white, whether you do this or that in

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your personal life, Okay, those
are important. But you have only this

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much time with a child in the
classroom, and I would like for us

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to focus on maximizing that time so
the children can learn how to read and

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write and perform math. That's the
only way we're going to get them caught

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up from this COVID deficit. And
frankly, it needs to be greater focus

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put on the schools that serve the
socio economics at the lower end of the

517
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socioeconomic scale. Why because that is
ultimately the great civil rights issue of our

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time, where kids who are social
economic disadvantage are not receiving the same level

519
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:20.039
of education as other kids as their
counterparts, and so you're seeing a gap

520
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achievement gap between certain sets of kids. We need to address that gap.

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And by and by diverting your attention
to whether we celebrate X or Y versus

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teaching a child how to read and
perform math, we distract from that goal.

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Well, you know, for example, Gary Bauer wrote yesterday that the

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Los Angeles Unified School district that you
know is very liberal. They're reserving an

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entire week of activities for National Coming
Out Day that's going to be later on

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this months. There are lesson plans
circulating all the way down to elementary schools.

527
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So to your point, at all
this stuff is a distraction and it

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adds to the confusion of these young
kids and what they're being taught. And

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the influence that, uh, that
these teachers are having on these young minds

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is to uh, you know,
confuse them all the more about their sexuality.

531
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And you know, we just we
just can't, we just can't have

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that. Again, this is the
job of the parents, not the school

533
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districts to do this. And it's
off point because you only have so many

534
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:40.519
hours in a day and so many
hours in a in a semester, and

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uh, and you've got important curriculum
to your point that these kids need to

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absorb, not not these cultural ideas
and these theories that somehow have become important

537
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based on the opinions of these adults. And I think it's irresponsible. It's

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00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:05.119
irresponsible, but it's more irresponsible.
It's irresponsible regardless, but it's more irresponsible.

539
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In places like Baltimore there are forty
or fifty schools that do not have

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one student. Can you imagine who's
not one student who is proficient in math

541
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:21.480
or reading? Or Chicago where the
teachers' union reigns supreme there. But the

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bottom line is is that their overall
educational achievement for their students is suffering three

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or four years behind the national average. This is honestly, that is a

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00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:37.360
crime, a crime being perpetrated against
those students. And the more that you

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distract from that mission, the less
time you spend. You only have this

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00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.320
much time with them, it's a
crowding out effect. Bill, and so

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we talk about those social issues all
day long, but in the end,

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I want my child to go to
a school, and when he's done or

549
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she's done, I want them to
be able to read and write and perform

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math and understand the basics of civics. And if the school does that,

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then we could talk about these add
ons and whether or not those are legitimate

552
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or not. But that's really that. Then you begin to get into the

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province about how I want my child
to be introduced to certain what I think

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are more adult subjects. And so
I do believe like in Florida, in

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Florida, this Florida took a little
bit of grief across the country about this

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quote unquote bill they passed in the
legislature and Governor Dean to signed it where

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they basically said, hey, look
we're not going to talk about sexuality to

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to kindergarteners to third grade. That
was adult. Don't say a game.

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Bill, could you imagine a kindergartener, third grader? Why are we even

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discussing those issues at the exactly you
know what it is? You see,

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I wish I wish that when would
have gone all the way to sixth grade

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on that and and even just say
look it, by the way it did

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get extended. Yeah did that?
Okay? All right? Yeah, because

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it's just uh again, you know, for this same reason that you're saying

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right now the things that we can
be focused on, that has nothing to

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do in fact, most amazingly,
in some of these school board meetings where

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you've got parents reading these books,
ed, can you and the school board

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00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.159
members going, hey, don't don't
read the book. Oh okay, oh

569
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:24.199
you can't hear the book, but
you want my fifth grade child to be

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exposed to that book? Right?
Yeah? And in Florida, I will

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give you an example. Parents have
a right to see and understand the curriculum

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that their child is subject to,
and have a right to object or opt

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out to certain portions of it if
they don't feel that it's appropriate for their

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child, particularly in the younger grades. And look, there is Bill,

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there was common sense around this before
when when I was in third grade or

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fourth grade, fifth grade, I
had to go home with a forum for

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get my parent to sign before they
even mention the word even raise the word

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sex. Honestly, that's where the
power should be. It should be with

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the parent on how to introduce adult
subjects that otherwise really adult subjects to their

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children, and how they do that
should be left to the province of the

581
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parent, not some administrator who is
this all knowing or or claims to be

582
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this all knowing that that by the
way, by the way bill that has

583
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a little fascist tone to it,
doesn't it well without a doubt? See.

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And the thing is is that I
wonder, based on any kind of

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any kind of evidence, why the
why the teachers, why the school districts

586
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:40.079
moved on this that you know,
parents were not teaching their kids. You

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00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:45.000
know, I've heard some instances where, you know, young girls were experiencing

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their first you know, menstrual cycle, and they were confused and ill prepared.

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And what happened is the school districts
took a quantum leap and thought,

590
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:58.760
well, look at parents, aren't
you know, stepping up to their responsibility

591
00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:05.639
and educating their child about something is
basically biological as a menstrual cycle. So

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00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:10.320
now we need to take over sex
education because somehow that makes sense. And

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I'm with you, Ed, this
is something that needs to be done in

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the home with the parents because it's
that personal right. I agree with you

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totally. Now, But here we
are, we'll look at we've got about

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00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:27.840
three and a half minutes left here. Ed. Now, I want to

597
00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:34.039
give you an opportunity to, you
know, to you know, summarize all

598
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that we've been talking about and what
we can look forward to here and what

599
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:45.599
we need to do in order to
ensure that the twenty twenty four elections are

600
00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:50.079
not hijacked like the twenty twenty elections. Well, a couple of things.

601
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One is whoever our nominee is.
And right now the President Trump is leading

602
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:58.400
in the polls. But let's see
how that plays out. But in the

603
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:02.000
end, in the end, Republicans
need to believe in some basic things.

604
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:06.519
They need to believe, in my
view, in American exceptionalism. This is

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the greatest country ever in the history
of the world. That capitalism is the

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00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:19.239
appropriate economics system. Are there abuses, yes, But frankly, market based

607
00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:28.079
capitalism is the most efficient way that
capital gets distributed and everybody benefits. Exactly,

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00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:32.079
more people have been lifted out of
poverty by capitalism than in any other

609
00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:39.199
system, all those other systems combined. And that what we're hearing from the

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00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:47.440
left is not that is not based
on are what I believe to be our

611
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:53.719
core ideals, the idea that you
can preach about the First Amendment. But

612
00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:59.679
when you disagree with my view and
you shut my view out because I'm a

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concernervative, all of a sudden,
the First Amendment doesn't apply to me.

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That to me is an American.
When you tell me that you want to

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equalize, not just not the opportunity
that's given, but you want to equalize

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the results, that to me is
an American. Exactly, you have to

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provide everybody starts with everybody has the
same opportunity. Great, that's perfect,

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but the same result. We cannot
guarantee results. That is not what we're

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based on. And frankly, we
need to protect individual liberties from and inherently

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from the federal government intruding in our
lives. And that includes the weaponization of

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the Justice Department that we're seeing in
certain respects Uneven said, a justice's one

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hand, you have Hillary Clinton the
other hand, you have Donald Trump on

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one hand, you have Hunter Biden. On the other hand, you have

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the Trump family. It just seems
to me to be an unequal application of

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the life law. And it seems
to be because we have to get back

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to to that piece. The idea
is an example that mar A Lago is

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worth eighteen million dollars. Some judge
by the way, Bill's let's get a

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couple of guys in buy three or
four. I'm gonna say, look,

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I want to get in that line, right, yeah, you know,

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So this idea that this is fair. American people are smart enough to understand,

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and this is why you're seeing a
snapback in rallying around President Trump around

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this because they see this as inherent
unfairness. It is shocking to the American

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mind that the government is being used
to beat somebody over the head. It

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just doesn't seem right. We've got
to move back to American exceptionalism, the

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belief in individual liberties, the belief
in freedom, the belief in the strong

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defense, the belief in that America
is a special place. If we can

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agree on those, then liberals and
conservatives can come to a compromise around how

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to solve these issues. But if
you don't start with those basic tenants,

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it seems to me that we're lost, without a doubt. Well, the

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highest calling that God has given us, and this is a true gift,

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is freedom. It's liberty and we
need to cherish it and understand that it's

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not free. I mean, our
founding fathers found out and we have learned.

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Over the years, over a million
people have sacrificed their lives for the

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sake of freedom, and may it
continue to stand. Ed Poswally, thank

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you so much for being with us. Ed is the president of Florida based

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law firm Trip Scott and the former
chair of the Republican Party in Broward County,

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Florida. Great job, Ed,
Thank you, Thank you so much,

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Bill, you got it. Ed
Poswally has been our guest and our

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thanks to him and for more information
and to be a part of this mighty

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movement to return to God and save
our country. Check it out Bill Martinez

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showed dot com. May God bless
you and keep you and make his face

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shine upon you. May He be
gracious unto you and give you peace.

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Always have a great day. Thank
you so much for being with us. Take care