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Speaker 1: Okay, remember yesterday we had that conversation about the decline

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Speaker 1: of capitalism, support for capitalism.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you're about to read a list that I think.

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Speaker 1: Is going to reveal some of why that may be happening.

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Speaker 3: Did you see that John Fetterman came out and said

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Speaker 3: that Democrats were morons who are embracing socialism. Kevin, do

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Speaker 3: you have that clip?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I literally was in a former communist nation and I

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Speaker 4: asked that. I said, some people in my party, some

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Speaker 4: of the lefties, are talking about socialism. Now, what do

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Speaker 4: you think. He's like, that's the worst thing ever. You're

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Speaker 4: going to need a reality check if you ever adopt

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Speaker 4: any of those things. You know, like you are morons.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 1: The problem though is, and he's right about socialism, of course,

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Speaker 1: the problem is we claim to have a capitalistic society.

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Speaker 5: We really don't.

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Speaker 1: The government is heavily involved in everything, and it is

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Speaker 1: much more crony capitalism, in which the government picks winners

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Speaker 1: and losers and takes your money to pick the winners

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Speaker 1: and losers. I mean, see, And you can't just say

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Speaker 1: it's Washington, d C. There's certainly Indiana. See the Indian

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Speaker 1: Economic Development Corporation in which your money is your hard

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Speaker 1: earned money as a middle class person, is taken from

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Speaker 1: you and it's given to a shadow government, quasi government

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Speaker 1: entity where you can't get a lot of information out

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Speaker 1: of them, and they give it to some of the

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Speaker 1: most powerful corporations in the world. See I just experienced

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Speaker 1: this the Harper Collins building coming to Brownsburg Project Tahoe. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I asked, hey, can you guys tell me how

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Speaker 1: much of my money is going to Harper Collins.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not right, you don't get to know.

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Speaker 1: So people, we don't really have a capitalistic society, or

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Speaker 1: that that's the problem. The government is picking winners and losers.

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Speaker 1: The government is taking money from poor and middle class

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Speaker 1: people and elevating further elevating elites and enhancing their fortunes.

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Speaker 1: And people see this and they say this isn't working

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Speaker 1: for me. And the problem is we tell them this

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Speaker 1: is capitalism. We tell them what the government is doing,

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Speaker 1: what our society is doing, is capitalism. So it's only

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Speaker 1: natural if they feel the system's rigged, which it is

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Speaker 1: rigged against them, which it is, they're going to have

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Speaker 1: a negative opinion about capitalism because they're told that's what this.

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Speaker 3: Is Okay, So Forbes came out with their four hundred

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Speaker 3: Richest Americans. It's a new list. Guess who's on top

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Speaker 3: richest person, Elon Musk. Yep, for the fourth consecutive year.

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Speaker 5: What's the number?

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Speaker 3: The number for Elon Musk four hundred and twenty eight billion. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so he's the first person to ever exceed four hundred

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Speaker 3: billion on the Forbes list.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so this is you know, people see this, they'll

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Speaker 1: see these numbers and they will say hey, and they're

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Speaker 1: not people that are radical leftists. They're not people that

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Speaker 1: are you know, extremists. But it's a natural human instinct

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Speaker 1: to say, hey, well, I don't mind people being wealthy.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: I get up and work hard every day. I punched

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Speaker 1: the clock, I raise my kids, I contribute to society.

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Speaker 1: I coach Little League, and I do all the things.

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Speaker 1: And I'm kind of struggling to pay my mortgage or

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Speaker 1: my medical bills or.

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Speaker 5: Stay afloat much. Let's get ahead. And while I don't

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Speaker 5: think it's.

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Speaker 1: Right that some guy is worth four hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: eight billion, and I'm trying to live life the right

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Speaker 1: way and I can't even pay the basics and look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a guy that thinks that there should be

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Speaker 1: limits on wealth. But Elon Musk has utilized the government

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Speaker 1: to enhance his wealth. He is what we just described

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Speaker 1: you and people see that, and they know that that

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Speaker 1: is not capitalism when people use the government to enhance

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Speaker 1: their wealth, or the government favors somebody and helps enhance

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Speaker 1: their wealth. And so no one should be surprised that

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Speaker 1: there is a decline of support for capitalism when they're

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Speaker 3: Nine of the top ten richest people all made their

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Speaker 3: four hundred Americans hit a record six point six trillion dollars.

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Speaker 3: That's up over a trillion dollars from last year. So

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Speaker 3: not only is it there, it's growing, it's growing exponentially

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Speaker 3: a trillion dollars.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Look, you look at the history of the world.

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Speaker 1: Revolutions happen, governments get toppled overthrown, et cetera. When people

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Speaker 1: feel a sense of hopelessness, when they feel like no

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Speaker 1: matter what they do, they can't even stay afloat much

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Speaker 1: less get ahead. And I'm not saying we're there in

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Speaker 1: this country, and it will probably be a long time

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Speaker 1: before we get there, just because of the one, the

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Speaker 1: vast array of land in this country, the state system

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Speaker 1: that's set up. All of these things make the United

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Speaker 1: States unique compared to other circumstances in which this has happened.

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Speaker 1: But when you start seeing these guys in these major cities,

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Speaker 1: these major blue cities, these socialists get elected, it's the beginning.

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Speaker 1: It's the opening salvo on this because our current system

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Speaker 1: doesn't work for so many people. I mean, think about

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Speaker 1: in your own life. You may you know, obviously I

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Speaker 1: talk about all the time about the frugal, meager existence

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Speaker 1: I live.

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Speaker 5: My life wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Change one way or another where I'm I might I

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Speaker 1: might eat a little more at the Applebee's instead of

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Speaker 5: But other than that wouldn't really change.

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Speaker 1: But for a lot of people, they're living this middle

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Speaker 1: class existence. They see the bank account every day, they see,

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Speaker 1: hey man, I'm gonna this car's falling apart. You know this,

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Speaker 1: you know in this refrigerator has gone. All of these

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Speaker 1: things that many people are one or two bad events

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Speaker 1: away from really being behind the.

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Speaker 2: Eight BA right.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And it's not that they're super spenders, or it's

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Speaker 1: not that they're out driving the nicest of cars.

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Speaker 3: Or they haven't had the chance to make that emergency

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Speaker 3: fund right.

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Speaker 1: And you can poo poo this all you want, but

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Speaker 1: that's the reality on the ground, is that people are

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Speaker 1: out there are starting to get and more. There are

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Speaker 1: more and more of them by the day. They're starting

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Speaker 1: to feel more and more a sense of desperation in

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Speaker 1: our society.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So do you want to know some of the

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Speaker 2: other names on the list, Sure, hit suck it to

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Speaker 2: me baby, all right.

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Speaker 3: Elon Musk number one, four hundred and twenty eight billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: Of course, he's got Tesla and SpaceX. You also have

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Speaker 3: Larry Ellison at number two, two hundred and seventy six

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Speaker 3: billion dollars. He's from Oracle number three, you know this name,

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Speaker 3: not Indiana's version. The other guy, Mark Zuckerberg two hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty three billion, of course, from Facebook and Meta.

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Speaker 3: You have Jeff Bezos from Amazon, Washington Post and every

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Speaker 3: other venture that he's a part of two hundred and

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Speaker 3: forty one billion. And then Larry Page from Google at

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Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy nine billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's your top five, all right,