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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer never sleeps The Kooner Report weekend edition on

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Speaker 2: Joining me now as she always does at this time,

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Speaker 2: Doctor Grace putting liberals in their place, Grace Voto. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I definitely married up. And she reminds me of this

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Speaker 2: almost every day, My wonderful wife, Grace Woto. Grace, how

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Speaker 2: are you?

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Speaker 3: I am very well, King Coooner. I don't think you

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Speaker 3: quite express what our marriage is really like on the air.

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Speaker 2: Oh you're saying I have it better than the way

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Speaker 2: it comes across.

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Speaker 3: You know that's the case. You know that's the case.

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Speaker 3: That's why you tease me so much.

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Speaker 2: Grace. I've got to ask you you obviously, and you're

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Speaker 2: a great cook. And I thought last night, by the

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Speaker 2: way dinner was, it was delicious, outstanding. But let that go.

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Speaker 2: As I like to say, people are gonna go hungry

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Speaker 2: this Saturday. Food stamps, the food stamps are going to

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Speaker 2: stop flowing. Many beneficiaries now millions and millions of them

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Speaker 2: potentially could go hungry. Many of them have openly said

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Speaker 2: on TikTok on Instagram. Has been widely reported that they

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Speaker 2: are just going to hit grocery stores, including here in Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: and just start looting the stores. That they're not gonna

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Speaker 2: go hungry. They're not going to let their children go hungry.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna come in with carts baskets and just start

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Speaker 2: throwing food into those carts and take them right to

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Speaker 2: the car. And if anybody gets in their way, they said,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna punch them in the face, or there's going

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Speaker 2: to be a brawl, or but I am not going hungry.

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Speaker 2: And others are even saying they're gonna grab grocery bags

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Speaker 2: out of shoppers's arms in the parking lot, that they'll

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Speaker 2: do what they have to do to feed their family.

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Speaker 2: Are you worried? What's your reaction? Are we facing a

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Speaker 2: food hunger crisis in three days?

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Speaker 3: Jeff, I sincerely believe that we are not facing such

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Speaker 3: a crisis. I think this is being manufactured and egged

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Speaker 3: on by the Democrats. This is part of their create

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Speaker 3: chaos strategy to undermine President Trump. What they really want

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Speaker 3: is day in day out that the television screens are

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Speaker 3: full of negative imagery and they want this to be

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Speaker 3: seared into the minds of the American people to give

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Speaker 3: the illusion that everything is just dysfunctional and not working

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Speaker 3: during the Trump presidency. The truth of the matter is

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Speaker 3: that many of these people, the illegals especially that are

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Speaker 3: using these government programs, many of them are working. Also,

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Speaker 3: they're working under the table. They got money from all

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Speaker 3: kinds of other sources. And so I think that it's

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Speaker 3: a fake panic that is being manufactured by the Democrats

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Speaker 3: because they really just need a strategy to undermine the president.

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Speaker 3: And the truth of the matter is what Republicans should

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Speaker 3: do is they should send a letter to every American

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Speaker 3: household saying Obamacare is a complete failure, as we told

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Speaker 3: you it was going to be. Remember, Jeff, you and

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Speaker 3: I were really vocal during that time saying do not

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Speaker 3: go down this road because this is a road that

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Speaker 3: is financially unsustainable. And what we're really arguing about is

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Speaker 3: how do we bail out a program that is financially unsustainable.

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Speaker 3: Obamacare is bankrupt, and that's why they need subsidies after

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Speaker 3: subsidies after subsidies, because the program does not work. And

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Speaker 3: Republicans have been proven right in that we knew it

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Speaker 3: was going to fail and it is failing.

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Speaker 2: In other words, the source of the shutdown for the Democrats.

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Speaker 2: You're saying the underlying issue Republicans need to hammer that

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Speaker 2: point home again and again. I agree with you, but Grace,

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Speaker 2: I want to go back, if you don't mind, just

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Speaker 2: to the food stamps lapsing on Saturday. What is it,

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Speaker 2: twelve oh one am, November first, on Saturday. I'm just

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Speaker 2: to get your take on this. Forty two almost forty

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Speaker 2: three million Americans, now one out of eight Americans are

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Speaker 2: now on food stamps. That's a staggering number. It actually

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Speaker 2: doubled under Biden, almost all of them illegals, and just quickly,

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Speaker 2: forty five percent of the migrants that Biden brought in

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Speaker 2: from Afghanistan forty five percent, that's almost half food stamps,

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Speaker 2: forty two percent from Somalia that Biden brought in food stamps,

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Speaker 2: thirty four percent, from Iraq food stamps, Haitians twenty three percent,

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Speaker 2: that's almost one in four food stamps. And so, by

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Speaker 2: the way, sixty percent of all illegals, those are the

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Speaker 2: ones that are willing to admit it, they're on foodstamp apps.

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Speaker 2: So I want to ask you, is the food stamp

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Speaker 2: program being abused? Number one? And more importantly, you work hard,

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Speaker 2: you pay taxes. I work hard, I pay taxes. The

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Speaker 2: listeners to the show work hard and pay taxes. Should

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Speaker 2: we be paying for the food of illegal aliens, non

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Speaker 2: citizens and migrants that Joe Biden brought in jesf.

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Speaker 3: It is absolutely outrageous and this is what the Republicans

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Speaker 3: have to reveal day in day out to the people.

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Speaker 3: There is so much fraud, waste, and abuse. And that's

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Speaker 3: why I think this so called hunger crisis isn't real

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Speaker 3: because these people have multiple sources of income. They have

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Speaker 3: multiple revenue streams, so it's not like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: they're living hand to mouth and without these food stamps

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Speaker 3: they won't need no. They live than most people who

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Speaker 3: work hard, day in day out because they've up multiple

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Speaker 3: revenue streams. They're just gaming the system, and I think

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Speaker 3: it's going to be exposed.

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Speaker 2: Grace, if you were advising the Republicans in Trump now,

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Speaker 2: should they make a deal with the Democrats in case

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Speaker 2: there is you know, people start going hungry, God forbid,

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Speaker 2: stores start getting looted. The images on the TV screens

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Speaker 2: of people saying I can't feed my children, people fighting

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Speaker 2: in grocery stores, people fighting in parking lots, in other words,

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Speaker 2: this manufactured crisis, as you put it, could blow up

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Speaker 2: in the Republicans's face. They could hurt the Republicans and

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Speaker 2: the Democrats could start gaining an advantage. Do you think

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Speaker 2: the Republicans should cut a deal and end the shutdown

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Speaker 2: or should they hold the line and force the Democrats

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Speaker 2: to capitulate.

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Speaker 3: I think we have to hold the line on this one, Jeff.

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Speaker 3: And to tell you the truth, what I'm more concerned

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Speaker 3: about more than this fake people going hungry crisis is

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Speaker 3: the air traffic controllers. If you tell me what would

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Speaker 3: keep me up at night right now if I was

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Speaker 3: a Republican leader, it's more that our air traffic controllers

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Speaker 3: are really stretched in This is a really high stress job.

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Speaker 3: God forbids, something happens, somebody makes a mistake, and there's

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Speaker 3: a crisis with one of the planes. This is going

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Speaker 3: to be a catastrophe for both parties. But if you

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Speaker 3: ask me what worries me, it's the air traffic controllers

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Speaker 3: not getting paychecks, some of them having to get another

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Speaker 3: job at the same time that they're doing this high

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Speaker 3: stress job. I mean, that is nuts. However, I don't

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Speaker 3: think we have a choice right now. The Republicans have

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Speaker 3: to hold the line, and they have to continue to

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Speaker 3: expose that Obamacare is bankrupt and that so many of

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Speaker 3: these programs are actually quote unquote feeding people that have

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Speaker 3: multiple revenue streams, so more waste and abuse. This is

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Speaker 3: the moment of opportunity, and this is another chance for

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Speaker 3: Trump to fix the big problems that he loves to tackle.

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Speaker 3: He loves to fix, you know, big things, He thinks big.

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Speaker 3: He wants to tackle all of the systemic problems that

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Speaker 3: we have faced. This is a chance to expose again

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Speaker 3: the corruption in the food program and to really highlight

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Speaker 3: that Obamacare is a disaster grace.

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Speaker 2: You've got about a minute left. Do you think the

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Speaker 2: Republicans have the guts ultimately to repeal Obamacare and finally

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Speaker 2: fix it. It's been fifteen years they've been promising, they

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Speaker 2: haven't delivered. Will this Congress under Trump, will they finally

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Speaker 2: end Obamacare and fix healthcare once and for all.

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Speaker 3: Well, O, Jeff, you know you're asking a really good question,

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Speaker 3: because what astonishes me in all this, as much as

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Speaker 3: I'm really furious at the Democrats, the Republicans are always

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Speaker 3: flat footed. Like the last statement we have on this

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Speaker 3: from Johnson is that Scalis is working on a plan. Hello,

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Speaker 3: working on a plan? Why don't you have an alternative ready?

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Speaker 3: It's not like this is breaking news. We've been dealing

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Speaker 3: with this since twenty seventeen. We know that the plan is.

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Speaker 3: The program as it is right now is bankrupt and unsustainable.

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Speaker 3: Why didn't they have an alternative ready?

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Speaker 2: Ah, you nailed it as usual. Why they have an

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Speaker 2: alternative waiting? You're dead on Grace as always. You light

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Speaker 2: them up, You light them up. Outstanding job. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: to you, same time, same place next week, Doctor Grace,

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Speaker 2: putting liberals in their place. All of your calls, I

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Speaker 2: promise next.

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Speaker 1: If Jeff doesn't get a day off. This request came

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