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Speaker 1: I am an idiot, and I freely admit that.

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Speaker 2: Sorry that that was the wrong one. Let me sorry,

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Speaker 2: I was just preparing for later. Hang On, tried this one.

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Speaker 1: I am the dumbest son of a bitch in the

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Speaker 1: world right.

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Speaker 2: Now, that's on me again. Hang On, I got the

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Speaker 2: real one. This is the real one.

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Speaker 3: I promise, promise, morning meditation, walk and lovely chili Michigan.

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Speaker 3: Listening to my morning bird sounds.

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Speaker 1: This has been cool. Eight fifty am, ninety four to

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Speaker 1: one FM on your morning wake Up? Did I ever

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Speaker 1: tell you about losing my wallet?

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Speaker 2: Temporarily, I didn't quite remember, but then you said something.

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Speaker 2: And then, because I don't pay attention to you when

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Speaker 1: Attention to this because it is tough gas. It is

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Speaker 1: shows how I can be a total doofist sometimes and

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Speaker 2: So on.

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Speaker 1: I think it was either February tenth or sixteenth, I'm

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Speaker 1: Forgot that i'd done that. Did I make the uber

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Speaker 1: Where is it? And this is I don't know, I'm

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Speaker 1: So I'm now going back through everything I did that

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Speaker 1: to reach out to Uber. Absolutely impossible, but they have

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Speaker 1: got my Chase credit card, I opened my account and

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Speaker 1: sure enough, on my business Chase there's a pending twenty

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Speaker 1: I'm not on my I'm on the app Uber Support.

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Speaker 1: Leave a message. I type in my message basically saying,

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Speaker 1: that charge. I get this response, Michael Brown, Thanks for

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Speaker 2: Now what does that tell you? It's just automated.

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Speaker 1: Well, but they but they got something right. Sure to

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Speaker 1: We're unable to respond to conversations that have been closed. Ah,

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Speaker 1: Please note that your message has not been Please note

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Speaker 1: received by our support team. Beautiful, So you tell me

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Speaker 2: Oh, the automated service got the message, but to a

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Speaker 1: what did I do this? This is over twenty dollars,

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Speaker 1: For forty five seconds. One just to irritate her father

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Speaker 1: Bazillion dollars, exactly right, And now I'm fighting Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: not fighting. Chase. Chase is wonderful. Chase was just like immediately, hey,

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Speaker 1: we've resolved your dispute, and I'm like, what, you've resolved it? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Oh great great? Isn't that bizarre? So there's no that

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Speaker 1: the driver just lied. The driver lied and told Uber

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Speaker 2: Now, all those Uber drivers out there know how to

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Speaker 1: Right, Just just just send into the company that you

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Speaker 1: found a person, you returned it to somebody, and they'll

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Speaker 1: add a twenty dollars. They'll add twenty Now here's what's interesting.

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Speaker 1: They say. Uber says that it's twenty dollars to compensate

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Speaker 1: wonder if that's really true or does Uber just keep

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Speaker 1: you're listening, Carlos, for you to lie about having retrieved

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Speaker 1: didn't do that, Carlos, you lines piece of poop. Good brief.

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Speaker 1: So that's my day so far today. Yeah, how's your

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Speaker 1: day going. I am an idiot, and I freely admit

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Speaker 1: that if you, if you, just if you happen to

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Speaker 2: You're just screwed.

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Speaker 1: And then think about the time when I'm doing messing

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Speaker 2: Or something over a month ago. Yeah, so it's been

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Speaker 2: What am I supposed to not be sorry about?

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Speaker 1: built twenty three thirteen in Washington State is a real bill.

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Speaker 1: It was pre filed in the Washington State Legislature. The

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Speaker 1: prime sponsor is somebody the name of Darya Farvovar Phaarivah,

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Speaker 1: who's a democrat of course, from Seattle. The bill would

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Speaker 1: indeed authorize cities to establish publicly owned grocery stores, and

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Speaker 1: also under the bill, cities could acquire land and private

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Speaker 1: property through eminent domain, lease the grocery sites to private

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Speaker 1: or nonprofit operators, or directly operate the stores using Seattle

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Speaker 1: city employees. Now, the post that net are put up

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Speaker 1: points out that one Seattle journalist name Hana Krieg, pushes

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Speaker 1: back on the unilateral ban because that framing is a

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Speaker 1: little off. Wilson, the mayor, was actually saying the city

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Speaker 1: must step in when communities lose food access. Now, how

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Speaker 1: do you lose food access? Well, yes, the grocery stores move,

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Speaker 1: they close, they shut down, they go away. So the

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Speaker 1: ban framing is a fair characterization of the intended consequences

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Speaker 1: of this policy, if not the precise words. Wilson isn't

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Speaker 1: saying you must stay open. She's saying if you leave,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna seize your property and run it ourselves. So

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Speaker 1: the practical difference is nil. You're either trapped in the

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Speaker 1: building or you're watching the government back a moving truck

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Speaker 1: up to your loading dock. The result of the same

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Speaker 1: the state, in this case Washington, Colorado. You know we're

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Speaker 1: on the same track. In Colorado, the state controls your

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Speaker 1: property because you made a business decision that the yahoo's

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Speaker 1: in the politbureau didn't like. Now this got on to

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Speaker 1: the demolition. Let's start with the predicate, the premise, because

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Speaker 1: this is where the whole argument collapses before it even

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Speaker 1: gets started. Why are grocery stores leaving Seattle in the

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Speaker 1: first place. I would tell you it's not a mystery

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Speaker 1: at all, and it's not because capitalism fails. Seattle is

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Speaker 1: a government that has spent years tolerating Does this sound familiar?

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Speaker 1: Denver spent years tolerating open air drug markets, decriminalizing theft,

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Speaker 1: imposing punishing business taxes, burying employers in regulatory compliance costs.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're the sixth most heavily regulated state in

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Speaker 1: the country. And then the express shock, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: when the businesses they drove away actually pack up and leave.

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Speaker 1: Now that's not governance, that's arson, followed by a press

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Speaker 1: conference about fire safety. You know, Michael, the owner of

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Speaker 1: Starbucks has left Seattle. He is moving, yep, moving to Florida.

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Speaker 1: When Starbucks leave Seattle, you know something bad's going on.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the home field. Yeah. Well, but Howard

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Speaker 1: chult Shoots whatever his last name is. He he's moving

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Speaker 1: to Florida because because of the Washington State, like California

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Speaker 1: wealth tax Uber of eighty nine forty four wrights Michael

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Speaker 1: I lost my spare wallet with no idea in Blackhawk

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Speaker 1: with eight hundred dollars, and an employee found it and

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Speaker 1: returned it. Am I supposed to be impressed? I'm not.

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Speaker 1: You know why because the employee in Blackhawk, assuming they

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Speaker 1: were an employee of the casino, knew that you were

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Speaker 1: going to eventually lose that eight hundred dollars anyway in gambling,

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Speaker 1: and they were going to get that back, so they

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Speaker 1: just made They wanted to make sure you spent the

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Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars in the casino. The uber driver who

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Speaker 1: lied about fighting my wallet didn't get squat you know,

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Speaker 1: he could have off of some you know, because well,

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Speaker 1: I tend to carry more than twenty bucks in my wallet.

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Speaker 1: So why are grocery stores leaving Seattle in the first place.

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Speaker 1: It's not because of corporate greed. I'm so tired of that.

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Speaker 1: Retailers Kroger, Target, King, Supers. They don't close a store

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Speaker 1: that is profitable, A company will close the store that

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Speaker 1: is unprofitable. You know, stores wear shrinkage from theft eats

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Speaker 1: into the margins where just the safety of the employees

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Speaker 1: and the customers like makes it difficult to do business,

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Speaker 1: where the regulatory cost of doing business has made the

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Speaker 1: math simply not workable. The businesses didn't abandon the community.

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Speaker 1: The community's government made the community uninhabitable for the business,

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Speaker 1: and now that community wants to punish the business just

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Speaker 1: for noticing. Uh, we're getting eaten alive here. But let's

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Speaker 1: talk about what government around grocery stores actually produce. I

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Speaker 1: find the reason I find this fascinating. Now, maybe KOA

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Speaker 1: audience doesn't remember it, but I want to say at

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Speaker 1: least ten years ago, longer than that, that the Orange

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Speaker 1: County Register did a editorial. It was when Obamacare was

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Speaker 1: being debated, and it was about government run grocery stores.

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Speaker 1: And I've read that editorial once every few years simply

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Speaker 1: because it points out the absurdity of government trying to

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Speaker 1: compete with private business. For example. I need to study

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Speaker 1: this more. But in Douglas County. The dumbass commissioners in

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Speaker 1: Douglas County have put together something called Link. Now, everybody

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Speaker 1: in Douglas County that's a taxpayer or that spends money

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Speaker 1: in Douglas County pays for this service. You know what

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Speaker 1: it is. It's a government run uber service. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can call up Link and they'll come and you up

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Speaker 1: and take you to the grocery store and you can

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Speaker 1: call them pick them up and they'll take you back.

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Speaker 1: That's government pre competing with private enterprise. Don't Don't you

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Speaker 1: know Duglas County is already facing fiscal problems, and yet

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Speaker 1: the dumb ass commissioners want to put that together. Why

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Speaker 1: because it feels good. The same thing here. We've all

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Speaker 1: seen this movie before. The title changes, the setting changes,

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Speaker 1: the ending is always the same. When government enters a

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Speaker 1: marketplace to provide a service because the private sector has

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Speaker 1: quote failed, three things happen with the certainty of the

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Speaker 1: law of physics. Costs go up, quality deteriorates, Supply becomes

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Speaker 1: unreliable every single time. And this is not being ideological.

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Speaker 1: This is a track record. You want Let's go through

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Speaker 1: the track record. If you don't believe, if you think

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Speaker 1: I'm just being partisan here. Let's go through the track record.

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Speaker 1: Exhibit A federal student loans. When the federal government decided

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Speaker 1: that access to higher ed was a right. Remember it

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Speaker 1: always starts with, oh, it's a right. Housings are right,

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Speaker 1: foods are right, breathing errors are right. Just you know, listening,

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Speaker 1: everything's right now sounds familiar. When we began guaranteeing student

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Speaker 1: loans regardless of the credit worthiness of the borrower, the

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Speaker 1: quality of the institution, or the marketability of the degree.

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Speaker 1: What happened, Well, you know, because I did. What happened

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Speaker 1: The college has become more affordable. Now does the market

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Speaker 1: respond by lowering prices tuition to compete for students flush

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Speaker 1: with government cash? Of course not. Universities did exactly what

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Speaker 1: any rational actor does when price sensitivity is taken out

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Speaker 1: of the marketplace. They raise their prices. They raise tuition.

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Speaker 1: Tuition at four year universities increase it roughly three times

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Speaker 1: the rate of inflation. The federal government got into the

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Speaker 1: student loan business. We now have one point seven trillion

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Speaker 1: dollars in student loan debt nationally. We have an entire

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Speaker 1: generation young people financially underwater, and we have a higher

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Speaker 1: end establishment that charges eighty thousand dollars a year for

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Speaker 1: a degree in I don't know, grievance studies, because well,

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Speaker 1: why not. The government's going to pay for it. The

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Speaker 1: student will stupidly sign anything, and nobody has to make

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Speaker 1: a hard choice about whether the price is worth it.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when government removes market discipline from a

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Speaker 1: sector and substitutes its own judgment about what people deserve,

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Speaker 1: or have a right or need access to