1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Okay, listen now to President Trump. He addressed the nation 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 1: last night, growing economic anxiety among many, that cost of 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: living is still just too high, and Republicans now are 4 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: down in the polls. Democrats have now won multiple special elections, 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: and the fear is now it could be a bloodbath 6 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: next year in the November mid terms. Trump is now 7 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: telling the country, I am fixing what Biden had destroyed, 8 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: peace by peace, by peace, and now wait till the 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: Big Beautiful Bill kicks in next year. You're gonna have 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: more money in your pocket, and you're gonna be able 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: to spend more, and the prices of everything are gonna 12 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: go down. It takes time, but we're getting there. Roll 13 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: cuts six a Mike. 14 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. 15 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: Our country is ready to fail, totally failed. Now we're 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 2: the hottest country anywhere in the world. And that's said 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 2: by every single leader that I've spoken to over the 18 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 2: last five months. Next year, you will also see the 19 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 2: results of the largest tax cuts in American history that 20 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 2: were really accomplished through our great, big Beautiful Bill, perhaps 21 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 2: the most sweeping legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped 22 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: twelve different bills up into one beautiful bill that includes 23 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 2: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no 24 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: tax on social security for our great seniors. Under these cuts, 25 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: many families will be saving between eleven thousand and twenty 26 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year, and next spring is projected to 27 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: be the largest tax refund season of all time. 28 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: Bring it on, baby, Bring on that big mother tax refund. 29 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: I'm waiting. I can't wait. Six one seven two six 30 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: six sixty eight sixty eight. Jim in Boston, Thanks for 31 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: holding Jim, and welcome, Hey Jeff, how you doing. 32 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 3: I know this might bother some people. 33 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,399 Speaker 4: But boo freaking who listen. We sound like a bunch 34 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 4: of liberal socialists this country. What made this country great 35 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 4: and what Trump's trying to do is we need to 36 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 4: work harder, We need to work smarter. Our parents work 37 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 4: three four whatever damn jobs. 38 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 3: They didn't complain, they didn't ask for these. 39 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 5: Corrupt democratic programs like medicaid, medicaid unemployment. 40 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 4: Again, don't probably bother a lot of people, but I'm. 41 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 3: I'm sick of it. Everyone's like, help me, help me. 42 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 3: It's this lazy mindset. You know what happened to It's 43 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 3: not what your country can do for you. 44 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 4: It's what you can do for your country. 45 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 6: You know. 46 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 3: Our president's example of that. He works hard, he works strong. 47 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 3: This man never sleeps, He literally never sleeps. Follow his example. 48 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 3: Stop following the liberals and. 49 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 5: Saying, oh, we need this, we need that, I. 50 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 3: Can't afford it. Well, guess what if you can't afford it, 51 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 3: you move. That's what That's what happens. You don't. Nothing 52 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 3: is guaranteed yet. I'm sorry. You're not guaranteed college, not 53 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 3: guarantee you a car, get a bike. Sorry, I know 54 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 3: that sounds harsh, but you work hard, you work smart. 55 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 5: It's not for the ground up. I didn't come for money, 56 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 5: and I've made a lot. I did very well, you know. 57 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 5: I did what I had to do, and I did. 58 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 3: Well for my children, and everyone can do that. I'm 59 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 3: sick of these complaints and this weakness. You know, this 60 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 3: is why the countries are getting ahead of us, whether 61 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 3: it's China or name your country. At this point, I mean, 62 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 3: it's just this mindset of. 63 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 5: Like help me, help me, Oh, just help yourself, help yourself. 64 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:36,559 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, and I know it comes harsh. 65 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 4: But people do it, and people do all the time. 66 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: Jim, let me ask you, for you and your family 67 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: the last eleven months, how would you grade Trump just 68 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: on the economy? Has your life improved? Has your standard 69 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: of living improved? Are things cheaper? Is your cost of 70 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: living going down? In other words, how would you rate 71 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: him just on the economy and on the issue of affordability? 72 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 3: Great? I mean attack of the comment. It's it's literally 73 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 3: not even been a year yet. So the tax that's coming, 74 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be fantastic. Gas prices have gone 75 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 3: down a little bit, which is wonderful. You know, there 76 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 3: was a sky high with a five plus. 77 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 4: A gallon for for for gas. Oh yeah, you know 78 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 4: I run a business that relies a lot on that. 79 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it's uh so yeah, I mean, is 80 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 3: it this dramatic effect. But we don't need that. 81 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 5: Like I said, I'm not looking for, you know, this 82 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 5: government to keep it handing everything out. I'm looking for 83 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 5: people to start, you know, grab the grab the bootstraps 84 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 5: and get to work. 85 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 3: But uh yeah, I do think. I do think it's 86 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 3: definitely been improved. It's only going to get better. 87 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: Jim, thank you very much for that call. I really 88 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Well, no, look, Trump was adamant on this 89 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: point that he wants to take us away from the 90 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 1: socialist welfare state model that was being pushed hard by 91 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: Obama and Biden, and to liberate people from being on welfare. 92 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: And you know, he said that explicitly, I want to 93 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: cut government. I want to have more people in the 94 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: private sector. I want everybody to have a job. I 95 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: want them to be able to achieve the American dream. 96 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: He also said he wants a country now that really 97 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: values hard work, entrepreneurship, a new technology, really make America 98 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: now the most competitive, prosperous, business friendly country in the 99 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: entire world. And he says that's why he's cutting all 100 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: these trade deals, that's why he's bringing in all this 101 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: foreign investment. That's why he wants to sell as many 102 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: of our products to countries all over the world. He 103 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 1: wants an economic renaissance. And he says entrepreneurship and the 104 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: private sector very importantly. 105 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 2: There are more people working today than at any time 106 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 2: in American history, and one hundred percent of all jobs 107 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 2: created since I took office have been in a private secture. 108 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 2: Think of that, one hundred percent of all jobs have 109 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: been in the private sector, rather than government, which is 110 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 2: the only way to make a country powerful and great. 111 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 2: This historic trend will continue. 112 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: That's just a little bit from Trump's speech yesterday. Again 113 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: my assessment to me, and I'm more convinced of it 114 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: now than even two and a half hours ago when 115 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: I delivered my opening monologue. I thought it was a 116 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: very powerful speech, a very high energy speech, a very 117 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: strong speech, and clearly a very important speech. He is 118 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: now setting the tone for what he expects next year, 119 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: and he is taking on the Democrat media narrative that 120 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: somehow he's to blame for the affordability crisis and that 121 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: Trumpanomics has failed. Trump is saying it's the exact opposite 122 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: who created all this inflation, Biden and the Democrat who's 123 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: fixing it, me and my policies, and they are starting 124 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: to work. Agree, disagree. Eight thirty two on the Great 125 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: WRKO Jeff Kooner Liberalism's worst nightmare. Let's go right, Let's 126 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: go back to our phone lines. Tanya in Boston. Thanks 127 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: for holding, Tanya, and welcome. 128 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 7: Hi Jeff, Hi Tanya. 129 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 6: So I want to make a comment because I think 130 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 6: you've brought this up a couple of weeks ago, and 131 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 6: here we are again with the Republicans a handful of 132 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 6: them not being confident. And the first thing I want 133 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 6: to say to these Republicans that have this this I 134 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 6: don't know issue, they really need to watch the documentary 135 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 6: of the Truth about Communists, narried by Ronald Reagan in 136 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 6: nineteen sixty two, and it's on YouTube and it's free, 137 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 6: because after they watch that, they'll understand exactly where we 138 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 6: were headed because it talks about Lenin, it talks about Stalin, 139 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 6: it talks about Marx, and it talks about how they 140 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 6: made all these promises to the civilians. Meanwhile they're doing 141 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 6: all these backdoor deals with other countries China, from O 142 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 6: Peace and all this crap. It was all just garbage. 143 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:29,559 Speaker 6: But then when they're leaders there there's there people didn't 144 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 6: agree with. Like with Stalin, didn't agree with him, he 145 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 6: had them killed. So what is happening here? Now We've 146 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 6: got democrats, We've got democrats that are you know, we're assuming, 147 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 6: but that seems to be the similar thing. We've got 148 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 6: Republicans just suddenly killed by who most of them were 149 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 6: a Democrat or someone that was an anti trumpler. And 150 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 6: then if you go back to Stalin, and we talk 151 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 6: about sorry, I'm losing transs. We go back to Salin 152 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 6: and he talks about how he's going to make all 153 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 6: these promises and talks about how he's going to do 154 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 6: all this stuff. Next thing, you know, Russia and they're 155 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 6: all killing off the Poles. It wasn't as bad as 156 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 6: the Holocaust, and they do compare the two, but Stalin 157 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 6: and Hitler are kind of one the same. That said 158 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 6: Hitler was much worse because he was starving those Jews. 159 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 6: The Poles just got shot, killed and put in a grave. 160 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 6: But regardless, I mean, well. 161 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: You put your finger right on it. I mean, Stalin 162 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: was one of the great mass murderers, one of the 163 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: most horrific mass murderers of the twentieth century. He's up 164 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: there with Hitler, there's no question, along with Mio, along 165 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: with Lenin. This is what the left does. And I 166 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: you know, I think people are forgetting now on in 167 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: November twenty twenty four, we dodged as a nation and 168 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: as a people, we dodged a bullet. There's no other way, 169 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: a communist bullet. That's what we dodged. And I hope 170 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: we never forget that. And the Democrat Party hasn't changed. 171 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: It is now, for all intents and purposes, a communist party. 172 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: You can call it social democratic, democratic, socialism, far left, progressive, 173 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: put whatever term you want on it. It's fundamentally now 174 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: a Marxist communist party. And look, this is what Kamala 175 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: Harris vowed to do. These was her explicit campaign promises 176 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: that she was going to continue to keep the border 177 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: wide open, so we were going to get another twenty 178 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: to thirty million illegals poring in that all the illegals 179 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: were going to be given amnesty amnestyl, which means not 180 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: just that they would all become automatically American citizens and 181 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: be legalized and be able to vote, which would guarantee 182 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: a Democrat one party regime for one hundred years, but 183 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: then they could all legally beyond welfare. This alone would 184 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: have financially bankrupted the United States. But she wasn't finished. 185 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: The Green New Deal, check socialized medicine, check a twenty 186 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: five dollars an hour across the country, national minimum wage. 187 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: She would have wrecked the economy she talked about. It 188 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: was in her platform, the collectivisation of agriculture. You speaking 189 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: of Stalin, That's what Stalin did in Ukraine, and it 190 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: starved to death five to seven million Ukrainians and led 191 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: to a chronic, massive famine. By the way, Lenin did 192 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: it as well. It led to a famine. Mao did it. 193 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: It led to a famine. Castro did it. It led 194 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: to a famine, Chavez and Maduro. I've done it in Venezuela. 195 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: It led to a famine. Paul Pott in cam it 196 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 1: led to a famine or or mass hunger or mass starvation. 197 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: When I saw that proposal that she put out saying 198 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: she wants to collectivize agriculture, I said, this woman is 199 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: bat You know what, I can't say it bat crap crazy. 200 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: The one thing you don't do is you don't play 201 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: with the food supply, like do you understand, like you 202 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: can you want to do your stupid DEI initiatives. I 203 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: think they're horrible. I think they're very bad. But okay, 204 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: we can survive. But when you start playing around with food, 205 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: when you start even talking about quote collectivizing agriculture, you 206 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: are insane. Okay, your satanic. You have no business going. 207 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: By the way, South Africa now was toying with that idea. 208 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: Zimbabwe did it. They threw out the white farmers and 209 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: they tried to collectivize. It led to mass im and hunger. 210 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: So I think people like everybody that's all calmed down 211 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: a little bit. Do you believe me? It could always 212 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: be so much worse and we were right there now. 213 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 1: You know, look, I want Trump to achieve his goals. 214 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: I'm not going to give him a pass if he 215 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 1: doesn't deliver. But give the guy a break. I mean, 216 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: I'm pleading with people almost like, come on, give him 217 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: some time. I mean, look, is he not working his 218 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: rear end off? I mean, just that alone, how many 219 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: vacations did Biden take? The guy was looking if he 220 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: worked two days a week. Trump is working twenty hours 221 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: a day, seven days a week, literally twenty hours a day. 222 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 1: His staff. You want to know, the biggest complaint that 223 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: he's going to drive himself to a heart attack. And 224 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: look at him lately. He does look tired. He looks tired, 225 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: he looks a bit exhausted, he looks he's got so 226 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: much on his plate. So you know, is he not 227 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: working his rear end off? You better believe it. Is 228 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: he not putting out fire after fire, You better believe it. 229 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: All This guy does is deal with problems, and he's 230 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: got no help from congressional Republicans. He's always being stabbed 231 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: in the back, even by his own I don't want 232 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: to get into it. Look what Susie Wilds did to 233 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: him as chief of staff. She runs to Vanity Fair 234 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: and gives them eleven interviews over eleven months, Vanity Fair 235 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: one of the most rabbid anti Trump outlets, and then 236 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: she cuts him down by saying he's got an alcoholics 237 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: personality Trump, a guy who never touched a drop of 238 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: with alcohol in his life. She then bad mounts JD. 239 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: Vance and says, Oh, he's. 240 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 8: A conspiracy theorist and just a shameless political opportunist. She 241 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 8: makes fun of Russell Vote, the Office of Management director, 242 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 8: who's trying to cut a lot of fat waist and fraud, 243 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 8: and says he's a quote unquote right wing zealot. 244 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: I could go on. She insulted Rubio. I mean, just 245 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: one after another after another after another. And then she 246 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: comes out and says it was a hit piece. It 247 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: was disingenuous, and I'm thinking, what did you expect? Even 248 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: if I accept your story, which I don't, By the way, 249 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: I think she's a snake, and I think she's been 250 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: leaking against Trump, and I think she showed her true colors. 251 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: But let that go. Say I'm wrong. Okay, just for 252 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: the sake of argument, this is my question to her, 253 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: what the hell were you thinking giving an interview to 254 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: Vanity Fair, unfettered access to your office, unfettered access to 255 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: my administration for eleven months behind my back, to one 256 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: of the most anti Trump outlets there is. I mean, 257 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: there's them, and there's The New York Times. You don't 258 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: get more vile than that. Do you think they were 259 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: going to give you a fair shake? No, you wanted 260 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: that glossy cover. That's what you wanted. You wanted to 261 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: be on the cover of Vanity Fair and to have 262 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: pictures of you inside with your you know, five hundred 263 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: dollars sunglasses, and she wears this dress and she wears 264 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: that outfit. That's what you wanted. And they wanted dirt, 265 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: and so you gave it to them. Okay, very quick reset. 266 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: I want to ask all of you, did you watch 267 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: Trump's address to the nation last night? And what did 268 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: you make of it? What did you make it of 269 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: it as a speech? Did it persuade you? Did it 270 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: move you did it leave you cold? He says he's 271 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: been tackling the affordability crisis. He says he inherited it 272 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: from Biden. He's doing everything he can. Things are turning 273 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: around and it's only going to get better and by 274 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: next year everything will be clicking. Agree, disagree six one 275 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. And let 276 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: me ask you the question I've been asking all morning. 277 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: It's now been eleven months. It's the year in review. Economically, 278 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: your standard of living, cost of living for you and 279 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: your family. Has it gotten better or worse under Trump? 280 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 1: Is it better than it was under Biden? Is it 281 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,959 Speaker 1: the same or is it actually even a little bit 282 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: worse Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Personally, 283 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: I think the economy is clearly improving and much better 284 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: than it was under Joe. But that's me Jack in 285 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Thanks for holding Jack, and. 286 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 7: Welcome, Thanks Jeff, and welcome to the land of the 287 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 7: media gratification. Right push the keyboard in a box, and 288 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 7: I think that's what's happening in theory some of your 289 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,719 Speaker 7: callers that've been taking exception to his approach. Here, I'm 290 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 7: going to say that we're probably born at the nineteen 291 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 7: ninety so it was probably good fifteen twenty years before 292 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 7: they began actually say economically conscious. They had to actually 293 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 7: pay bills. I'm sixty eight years old, right, and We've 294 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 7: been around a long time to see economic upturns and downturns. 295 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 7: We had a stock mircro crash in eighty seven, et cetera. Right, 296 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 7: so we have to just you know, I don't think 297 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 7: anyone's ever heard of a You don't hear belt tightening anymore, 298 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 7: do you. You don't hear cutting coupons anymore on the 299 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 7: home front. But I've got some data of some stats 300 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 7: that usually sends the moon. That's fine, and this is 301 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,239 Speaker 7: what Trump is dealing with. The Inflation Reduction Act will 302 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 7: end up forcing has ended up working, forcing working class 303 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 7: Americans to pay billions of dollars in new taxes. According 304 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 7: to the non partisan CBO, number one, we moved down 305 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 7: in twenty twenty three. Business bankruptcies serve to fifty eight percent. 306 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 7: How do you recover from that? Not overnight? The federal 307 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 7: government ran a nine hundred somewhat trillion dollar deficit in 308 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 7: his first seven months. I'm talking about Joe initially the 309 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 7: US employment records, you remember his reports, they were overstated 310 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 7: by half a million jobs in some train right. Inflation 311 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 7: Reduction Act ended up forcing working class Americans to pay 312 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 7: billions of dollars in new taxes, according to the CBL, 313 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 7: as I said to his here's some of the impacts. 314 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 7: It's okay, bi nomics right that he said he was 315 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 7: working Wisconsin people were paying more than ten thousand dollars 316 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 7: a year more annually, Ohio ten thousand more annually, Pennsylvania 317 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 7: almost ten thousand more annually, in Montana twelve thousand more, 318 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 7: and Nevada twelve thousand more. Everything under him cost more 319 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 7: when they when he was supposed to stop the Ppe loans, 320 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 7: you remember the moneies that were sent out, He didn't 321 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 7: stop it. He flooded the market with so much cash 322 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,119 Speaker 7: that eighty percent of the cash that was in circulation 323 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 7: or in circulation during Joe Biden's term was printed during 324 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 7: his term, which was a had a monumental impact on inflation. 325 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 7: So any time you present all the facts in the 326 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 7: data to the people that just absolutely you know, with 327 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 7: TDS et cetera, they run the other way and start 328 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 7: nan calling. So I just wanted to this point these 329 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 7: out that I have a long memory. I've looked to 330 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 7: a lot of different presidents and different economies. This is 331 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 7: not any different in many respects, and people just have 332 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 7: to tighten it belts and just kind of foregoing media 333 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,719 Speaker 7: gratification for like maybe six months. And thank you for 334 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 7: taking my call, and thank you. 335 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Jack, all the best to you and your family. Look, 336 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: I'm not going to be here and stand on my 337 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: high horse or sit on my high horse and say, oh, 338 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: you know, Cooner Man's a big belt pipner. Look, I 339 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: don't know what's happened. It's not just the United States, 340 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 1: it's Canada as well, in North America in general. Jack 341 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: is right, we tend to want instant gratification. We're different 342 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: than our parents, We're different than our grandparents. Look, I 343 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: just compare my life to my parents. I have it 344 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: much better than they ever had. And I'm just being honest. 345 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 1: My father, I mean, I work hard. I'm not saying 346 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: I don't work hard. I work very hard. But you know, 347 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: my father would often work seven days a week. My 348 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 1: father would go on these business trips for months and 349 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: months and months on end. He never complained my mother 350 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: cut coupons. She did. My father would often say, no, no, 351 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: we got to tighten our belts. No, no, we got 352 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: to you know, like my family, especially my kids. God 353 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: bless my kids, but they are really typical American kids, 354 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: like they want everything, and they want it now, you know. 355 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: I mean, of course we say no. But what I'm 356 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: saying is, you know, there's no there's no sense of 357 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: deferred gratification. They just know it's you know, come on, daddy, 358 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: You're gonna buy me this toy for Christmas. That's all. 359 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: There's nothing else to say, you know why, because all 360 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: my friends have it. So what I'm saying is we 361 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: were not accustomed anymore to sacrifice. 362 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 7: You know. 363 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,719 Speaker 1: I remember my professors. This was in the nineties when 364 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: I was doing my PhD work. Professor Charles Alexander brilliant men. 365 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: And he wrote a brilliant biography on Eisenhower and anyway, 366 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: in the nineteen thirties he also became a great baseball historian. Anyway, 367 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: he's just just a brilliant man. And you know, out 368 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: of the blue, he just said this. We were in one 369 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: of his classes and he said, look, I'm gonna be 370 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: honest with all of you. And he didn't mean it 371 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: as a criticism of us. He just said in general. 372 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: He goes, look, i've you know he was like in 373 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: the sixties. Then he goes, we could never go through 374 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties or World War Two ever again as 375 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: a culture, as a society, he goes, you know, people 376 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,719 Speaker 1: had to ration food during World War Two. They had 377 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: ration cards. No one's got a ration now, he said, 378 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: you know, they had ration even rubber, meaning for tires 379 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: for cars, so a lot of people couldn't drive cars 380 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: because they couldn't get access to the tires. He goes, now, 381 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: now it'd all be on the black market. In other words, 382 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: every nobody can sacrifice for the country anymore. The way 383 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: as a society, the way he goes, we did even 384 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: sixty seventy years ago. Now gotta have it now. Everything's 385 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: gotta be now, he said, even the way we eat, 386 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: Look at the way we eat. We'll go to fast 387 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: food restaurants. I mean, not everybody, but you know his 388 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: point is, look how Americans have become addicted to fast food. 389 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: I'm addicted to fast food. Just to give you I'm 390 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: not I'm not you know, I'm not preaching. I'm just 391 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: I'm studying the truth. My mother my father did never 392 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: want the mean nonalds. The idea of fast food was 393 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: repulsive to them. A food should not be fast food. 394 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: It is. You know, you gotta get healthy food. You 395 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: gotta make the food. You got to cook the food 396 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 1: to have good food. It takes time. So the notion 397 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:48,400 Speaker 1: of taking your car, you know, drive through. I'll have 398 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: a big Mac. Actually in my case, two big Macs, 399 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: if you want to know the truth. Extra sauce, always 400 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: extra sauce, by the way, unah, large French fry. And 401 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: because you know, I'm trying to watch my way a 402 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: little bit, I'll go a large diet coke. My mother 403 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,919 Speaker 1: would always say that's garbage. My father would say that's garbage, 404 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: like you're putting garbage in your body. But just the principle, 405 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: you mean, what the meal is made for you in 406 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: two minutes, like what you can't go home even though 407 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: you're hungry, I don't know, grab an apple or have 408 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: a banana, hold you over and make your own meal, 409 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 1: you know. Or the rare and it was rare that 410 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: you go out, you go to a place where you 411 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 1: sit down, you order the food. It's a decent restaurant. 412 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: You eat with a forkin a knife. You actually eat 413 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: stuff that's had a bowl this fast fast now fast 414 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: go go, go go, you know. Or again. My parents 415 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,640 Speaker 1: they saved. What I mean by that is if they 416 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: bought a television. Nothing on the payment plan, nothing, you know. Yeah, 417 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: I'll make monthly payments on it. Here, here's my credit 418 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: card or whatever, my debit card or whatever. Yeah, one 419 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: hundred bucks whatever a month, whatever until I pay it off, 420 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: or fifty bucks a month. No, my parents were you save. 421 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 1: Say the TV costs it. I'm just giving you a number, 422 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: one thousand bucks. You get the thousand, then you go 423 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: to the store and you buy the TV. And by 424 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: the way, they were like most people never had TVs. 425 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: The fact that you can buy a TV and eventually 426 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 1: own a TV that was huge. That's a high a 427 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: massive increase in your standard of living. Not today today. 428 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: I don't have the money, but let's go get a 429 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: flat screen TV. Yeah yeah, just put it on the 430 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: payment plan, you know, bang me up, put some interest 431 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: on it, and bang me up. Every month. My parents 432 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 1: wash my mother's first washer and dryer. I'll never forget it. 433 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,239 Speaker 1: My dad's saved for two years. My mom said, I 434 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: want to I need a washer and dryer. She used 435 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: to wash or clothes, but my hands, you know, with 436 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: their hands. It was hard work. And she said, look, 437 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: you know Jack, his name was Jack Jack. I need 438 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: a washer and dryer please, and he said okay, And 439 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: from his check they took money, and you know, every 440 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: month saved in a special account until they got the 441 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: money for an actual washer and dryer. My mother practically 442 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 1: cried when they brought it to our house and installed it. 443 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: I remember I was a young boy. So this idea 444 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 1: that you buy appliances and it's just you know, yeah, 445 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 1: you pay it off in five years. My parents would say, 446 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 1: why you're putting yourself in debt. You got payments up 447 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: to your neck. You're choking on these payments. They're adding 448 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: interest to it, so they're actually paying even more for it. 449 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: Why do you have to have it now? Everything is now? Now. 450 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 1: I want a TV, get it now, I want appliance, whatever, 451 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 1: a car now. My parents were like, you want something, 452 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,959 Speaker 1: you save, you buy and then when you have enough money, 453 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: you buy. And my father and mother always said this 454 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: it's not really yours. I mean, once you pay it off. Yes, 455 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: like the bank's own everything, or your credit cards own everything. 456 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: You miss a couple payments, your car is repossessed, your 457 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 1: appliances are gone. Whatever you have, it's gone. So my 458 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: father and mother always took pride in the fact that 459 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: what we have, we earned, we own, it's ours, and 460 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: it's all paid for. Now if you go to wait 461 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: deferred gratification, you gotta wait, and you're still for them. 462 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:59,239 Speaker 1: You know, you think their parents had TVs, washer and dryer, dishwashers. 463 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: I mean to them, they're like, this is incredible. It's 464 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: just like it's like heaven. So you got to save 465 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: up and wait and you know, until you can earn 466 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: earn enough and save enough to buy it. What's the 467 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: problem now, I'm gonna be honest. I don't know if 468 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: my TV's paid off. I don't know. I mean, I'm 469 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: just you know, I have appliances, it's on the painting plan. 470 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: I don't wait. I'm just I'm being honest. My cars, 471 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how many years it's gonna take for 472 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: me to pay down my cars. I mean, it's just I'm, 473 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: you know, a typical American in that way. So comparing 474 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: myself to my parents now now I want it now. 475 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: It's just I don't know. That's just how it is. 476 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: And my children, God bless them, my two American adopted children, 477 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: one from Minnesota, one from Utah. They're even worse because 478 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: they're always on the computer whatever. Not always, but you 479 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: know they're on a computer, they're on a laptop or 480 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: this or that. It's it's like press button. Everything is 481 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: press button. So you know, their expectations are also much higher. See, 482 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: I think that's also what's changed. Like I know, compared 483 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: to my parents, you know, like stuff that I complain about, 484 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: they would never complain about. You know, my parents would 485 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: often say, you guys have it very well. And I 486 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: don't think you realize how well you have it, Like, 487 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: don't complain. Believe me, you don't know what it was 488 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: like to go through the Great Depression or World War Two. 489 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: Where I remember, just very quick. It was the two 490 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: thousand and four Republican Convention in New York. Long story short, 491 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: that was Bush's he was running for a second term. 492 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: And there was an Irish guy. We were in New York. 493 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: I was there, and there was a I mean he 494 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: was an American but of Irish descent. But He immigrated 495 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: from Ireland, and he came right after the Second World War, 496 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: and he said Ireland was poor back then, he said, 497 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: but even here in the United States. He was talking 498 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: to me and a couple of other my colleagues from 499 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: the Washington Times, and he said, you know, he was 500 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: driving us to the convention. He said, you know, I 501 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: grew up in New York in the nineteen fifties. He goes, 502 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: do you guys have any idea what life was like. 503 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: Even in the fifties, He goes, you know, we didn't 504 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: have freezers like to refriger to freeze your food. We 505 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: had they call them ice boxes, very small refrigerators. He goes, 506 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: you know, we have to have to buy blocks of ice, 507 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: literally blocks of ice, and if you bought some meat 508 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: or whatever, you would throw it on these blocks of ice, 509 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: like packaged to keep it cold and frozen. He goes, 510 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: especially in the summertime, it was horrible. He goes, like, 511 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: you take so many things for granted. You know, centralized 512 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: air conditioning. We had no air conditioning in the fifties. 513 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: He goes, you don't know what it was like June, July, August, 514 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: dog days of summer in these tenement apartments in New 515 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 1: York City. It was sweltering. You couldn't sleep at night. 516 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: The windows are wide open, you can hear every sound 517 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: on the street, and it's still a sauna in your apartment. 518 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: He goes, you take so many things for granted, he 519 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: wasn't criticizing. He was just like, do you realize how 520 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: good you have it? He goes, it's hot, you get up, 521 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: you crank up the ac you go back to bed, 522 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: because God forbid you should be hot for an hour 523 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: or two. So his point was they had to always 524 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: put up with the lot. They had to defer gratification. 525 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: There was much more suffering, much more hardship. Now that 526 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 1: was two thousand and four, he says, I'm talking now, 527 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: like nineteen sixty it was. That's just forty at the time, right, 528 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: that's just forty years ago. You guys got it? Good 529 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: man like, don't complain, and that's all we stayed with me. 530 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: But really, I'm being honest. We want everything, and we 531 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: want it now. We're a very impatient people. And you know, 532 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: after all the destruction that Biden the Democrats have reeked, 533 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 1: let's give Trump eighteen months. I think the man's earned it. 534 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: I think the man deserves it. I don't think it's unreasonable. 535 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: Eighteen months is not forever, but that's me six one 536 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree. 537 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: Lee in Waltham, Thanks for holding Lee, and welcome. 538 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 2: Good named Jeff. 539 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 9: I did watch. I watched last night, every minute, and 540 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 9: I have about three comments here. First of all, I 541 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 9: thought it was an excellent speech. It's right to the point. 542 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 9: I really wish all his speeches would be like that 543 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 9: and not an hour an hour and a half. It 544 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 9: becomes almost tedious to watch. But he made his points. 545 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 9: He was right on target on many of our issues. 546 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,360 Speaker 9: And I want to say something the gentleman from the 547 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 9: Hanshaw that you know he was correct. I mean, you 548 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 9: work for what you have. I'm a seasoned citizen. I 549 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 9: don't call myself a senior citizen. I call myself a 550 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 9: season citizen because I watched what my parents did and 551 00:34:54,160 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 9: how they provided for us back then, and how they 552 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 9: tried to make ends meet. Well, you know a lot 553 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,880 Speaker 9: of people are doing that today, so it's not so different. 554 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 3: But here's my take. 555 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 9: He only missed, in my opinions, one issue, and that 556 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 9: is the issue at the grocery store in department stores. 557 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 9: Now if he had said, I am going to announce 558 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 9: tonight that starting January first, I will give a tax 559 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 9: incentive to every major grocery stoes, not the Little Mum 560 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 9: and Puffs, but the major grocery stores will have a 561 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 9: tax incentive if they bring their prices down at that 562 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 9: end of the chain. That will affect me in a 563 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 9: positive way and many other seasoned citizens and families trying 564 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,320 Speaker 9: to make ends meet. Now, in addition to grocery store 565 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 9: department stores, tax incentive to all the stores in Simon 566 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 9: laww the Macy's, the Targets, the Walmart a tax incentive 567 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:15,680 Speaker 9: to bring their pricing down, because that's where the problem lies. 568 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:22,399 Speaker 9: We are used to they're used to getting two ninety nine. 569 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 9: For example, to eggs. Five years ago twenty twenty, there 570 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 9: were ninety nine cents eighty nine and ninety nine cents 571 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 9: a dozen. Today they're two ninety nine. The cheapest you 572 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 9: can find is to ninety nine. That's a two one 573 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:42,680 Speaker 9: hundred and two percent jump in five years. Milk ninety 574 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:47,680 Speaker 9: nine cents in twenty twenty a dollar fifty nine on 575 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 9: the average for quarter milk. Now sixty one percent more 576 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:57,600 Speaker 9: since twenty twenty. So the gentleman that said we should 577 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 9: stop complaining, it's not complaining. We're consured. 578 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 6: Consured, well, yeah, not. 579 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,760 Speaker 1: Only concerned, I would say, even to be frankly. Look, 580 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 1: I'm getting a lot of text and a lot of emails, 581 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: and I'm very sympathetic, believe me, you know. Yeah, Okay, Jeff, 582 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,880 Speaker 1: sure we're willing to tighten our belts. Yeah, sure, we're 583 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,880 Speaker 1: willing to be patient. But Jeff, our backs are against 584 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 1: the wall. I mean, we're living hand to mouth. That's 585 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 1: what for a lot of people, that's what they're saying. 586 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 1: And I understand, we're barely making ends meet. We're working 587 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 1: and working and paying taxes, and everything is still very expensive. 588 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: You know. It's it's easy to say be patient, but 589 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,480 Speaker 1: you know, you've got to put food on the table 590 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,680 Speaker 1: and feed your family, and everything has just become so 591 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:52,400 Speaker 1: exorbitantly expensive that you know, you're barely making your rent, 592 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 1: you're barely paying your bills, you're barely putting food on 593 00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,960 Speaker 1: the table. It's it's very stressful. I I understand, I 594 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: really do. That's why I'm not saying, you know, give 595 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: the guy forever. That's why I'm really been urging Trump 596 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 1: for a while. You've got to focus on it like 597 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: a laser beam. And in particular, remember what they said 598 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:20,720 Speaker 1: during the nineteen ninety two election campaign. It's the economy stupid. Okay, 599 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,960 Speaker 1: it's the affordability stupid. If it was like one line, 600 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 1: that's the issue. You've got to get prices down, you've 601 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,480 Speaker 1: got to get more money into people's pockets. You've got 602 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,920 Speaker 1: to ease this affordability crisis.