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Speaker 3: Were a few minutes away from our chat with Senator
Speaker 3: Rand Paul from Washington, DC, and he is standing by
Speaker 3: right now. Senator, good morning, hope you're well today.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Thanks for having.
Speaker 1: Me absolutely, I always like having you here. Hey.
Speaker 3: First of all, look, I don't want to get into
Speaker 3: you know, are your feelings hurt, whatever the case might be,
Speaker 3: But I do want to ask you about not being
Speaker 3: invited to the lunch yesterday with other senators at the
Speaker 3: White House with President Trump. I mean, it seems to
Speaker 3: me that you can have disagreements inside of a party.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to disagree with the other party, but
Speaker 3: you can have disagreements inside your own party yet still
Speaker 3: let all the voices be heard. I thought that was
Speaker 3: a mistake on his part. I assume maybe you feel
Speaker 3: the same way or no.
Speaker 5: Well, I try not to take it too seriously. There
Speaker 5: are you know, people can be petty here and there,
Speaker 5: and you know, I could care less whether I'm invited in.
Speaker 1: The lunch or not.
Speaker 5: But what I do think is that I'm on their mind.
Speaker 5: And that's a good thing because the things that I
Speaker 5: represent are basically balancing the budget, reducing spending, making government
Speaker 5: small and constitutional. And I stick to my guns on that.
Speaker 5: So when Republicans propose a spending bill, it'll be two
Speaker 5: trillion in debt, which is going on right now, I
Speaker 5: oppose it. Democrats have proposed a spending bill, it would
Speaker 5: be retrly an in debt. I post that also, But
Speaker 5: there needs to be some part of the Republican Party
Speaker 5: that is still fiscally conservative, consistent and sticks to its principles.
Speaker 5: And so the thing is is I am on their mind.
Speaker 5: And the president, you know, may have thought it was
Speaker 5: kind of funny that I wasn't invited, But the other
Speaker 5: thing is is he's having to think about me. And
Speaker 5: when we posted that, Thomas Massey and I were having
Speaker 5: lunch instead, we had two million people view that posting.
Speaker 5: So there is a constituency still out there for fiscal
Speaker 5: conservatism and I'm going to continue to try to represent that.
Speaker 3: Okay, But I got to ask you, knowing what you
Speaker 3: just said that the Democrat spending would be three million.
Speaker 3: The Republicans, I think you said two million, Why did
Speaker 3: you vote again, I'm sorry, why did you vote against
Speaker 3: just a clean CR on this deal?
Speaker 5: The clean CR are the Biden spending levels basically, so
Speaker 5: last December, the CR levels continuing resolution spending levels were
Speaker 5: set and these were the Biden levels. And you remember
Speaker 5: Republicans complaining, I evan in the election about Biden nomics,
Speaker 5: Biden inflation, Biden spending. Most Conservatives voted against these spending
Speaker 5: levels last December. Come March, Republicans were in charge. Trump
Speaker 5: was in the White House. Then the Republicans, most of
Speaker 5: them other than me, flipped and voted for it. The
Speaker 5: interesting thing now is the Biden spending levels are now
Speaker 5: the Republican CR. All the Democrats voted for this in
Speaker 5: December of twenty four also, but now they've flipped. So
Speaker 5: it's kind of only in Washington. Can you imagine that
Speaker 5: all the Republicans now support other than me support the
Speaker 5: Biden spending levels, and all the Democrats are opposed to
Speaker 5: the Biden spending levels. So it's a crazy topsy turvy world.
Speaker 5: But there has to be someone who's consistent in all.
Speaker 1: Of this mess.
Speaker 5: So I voted against the Republican plan because they're the
Speaker 5: Biden spending levels and it will lead to a two
Speaker 5: trillion dollars deficit this year and that's just untenable.
Speaker 3: Well, with that in mind, though, with the CR and look,
Speaker 3: you've forgotten more of this stuff than I'll ever know.
Speaker 3: But wouldn't a c R, though, Senator Rand Paul wouldn't
Speaker 3: at least give you the chance to negotiate through some
Speaker 3: of this stuff.
Speaker 5: Well, now is the time to negotiate. And the thing
Speaker 5: is is I put forward a proposal. They voted on
Speaker 5: my proposal two weeks ago, not because they wanted to,
Speaker 5: but because I forced them to, because it's a privileged
Speaker 5: vote vehicle, because neither party put forward a budget. So
Speaker 5: I put forward mind the Penny plan about three weeks ago,
Speaker 5: and we did get a vote, and we got about
Speaker 5: thirty six Republicans, so that's not bad. We've got no Democrats,
Speaker 5: but it illustrates that there is a solution. My Penny
Speaker 5: plan would balance the budget over about a five year period.
Speaker 5: That's what we need to be doing, and that's what
Speaker 5: I'm going to continue to be for. And I just
Speaker 5: don't feel like, you know, taking a backstop of two
Speaker 5: trillion dollars in new debt next year. I mean, the
Speaker 5: interest payment now alone is a trillion dollars, and I
Speaker 5: think it's untenable. And I think our country is at
Speaker 5: risk because of this. So I don't treat this lightly.
Speaker 5: I don't treat this as ooh, you know, I'm going
Speaker 5: to be petulant vote against both. I treat this as
Speaker 5: sort of life and death with the nation, that we
Speaker 5: just cannot keep adding two trillion dollars every year in debt.
Speaker 3: Is there any resolution in sight for this government shut down?
Speaker 5: I think it's going to eventually end, either this week
Speaker 5: or next. And here's the reasoning. The Democrats. These are
Speaker 5: Democrats spending levels, These are the Biden spending levels, now
Speaker 5: called the Republican z are. They all voted for it
Speaker 5: last year in December. They're eventually all going to vote
Speaker 5: for it this time. What happened is their base, their
Speaker 5: left wing base, the socialist base, of the Democrat Party
Speaker 5: decided they wanted more. They didn't want just the Biden
Speaker 5: spending levels. They also wanted these add on Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 5: It's important that your listeners know what the Democrats.
Speaker 6: Are asking for.
Speaker 5: The add on Obamacare subsidies give one thousand dollars to
Speaker 5: somebody who makes two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. So,
Speaker 5: if you make two undred twenty five thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 5: the Obamacare subsease, the add on subsease give you one
Speaker 5: thousand dollars a year. If you make one hundred and
Speaker 5: seventy thousand dollars a year, the Obamacare add on gives
Speaker 5: you thirty six hundred dollars a year. So this is insane.
Speaker 5: We're two trillion dollars short, and I think you're pretty
Speaker 5: well off if you make one hundred and seventy thousand,
Speaker 5: If you make two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars,
Speaker 5: and you shouldn't get any government money. So I really
Speaker 5: think we're gonna end up winning this argument because giving
Speaker 5: rich people money for health insurance that passes on to
Speaker 5: billion dollar you know, multi billion dollar insurance companies. The
Speaker 5: only people that have gotten rich off. You know, the
Speaker 5: rich get richer, and the insurance.
Speaker 1: Companies get rich.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's a terrible situation. I think the Democrats
Speaker 5: will eventually fold on.
Speaker 3: This another topic, I'm kind of curious. Bear with me
Speaker 3: for a second. Why try at least to draw this
Speaker 3: sort of comparison. You have come out, you have come
Speaker 3: out sternly against some of these bombings, for lack of
Speaker 3: a better term, of some of these boats that are
Speaker 3: blowing getting blown up by our military that are trying
Speaker 3: to bring drugs into the country.
Speaker 1: You know, I was singing about this last night.
Speaker 3: Tell me if I'm just completely mad about this, right,
Speaker 3: I look at this kind of like, Okay, what if
Speaker 3: somebody is trying to bring something deadly into my house
Speaker 3: and to hurt my family. I don't care what their
Speaker 3: rights are if they come in to try to bring
Speaker 3: something that would be deadly to my family, I'm going
Speaker 3: to do everything I can to protect my family from
Speaker 3: being hurt by whatever it is they're bringing in. What
Speaker 3: is the difference between that and again, if you tell
Speaker 3: me I'm crazy, I get it. What's the difference between
Speaker 3: that and these boats bringing drugs into our country that
Speaker 3: we know are going to kill people in this country.
Speaker 3: Why are we worried about their rights?
Speaker 5: The main difference is this, when someone comes into your
Speaker 5: house or tries to break into your house alleged to
Speaker 5: be doing it, you actually see them when you shoot
Speaker 5: them as they come in the door trying to kill you.
Speaker 5: So the difference is with these boats is there's a
Speaker 5: word called alleged. You don't know who these people are.
Speaker 5: We don't know their name, we don't have any evidence.
Speaker 5: They're presenting, no evidence even have drugs. They're not all Venezuela,
Speaker 5: and some of them are Colombian, some are Ecuadorian. Think
Speaker 5: about this. We bombed a boat the other day, killed
Speaker 5: a bunch of them, found two of them swinging in
Speaker 5: the water. Did we pick up the debris and put
Speaker 5: it into a court case against them for drugs now
Speaker 5: that we found them floating in the water. None, We
Speaker 5: just send them back to Colombian Ecuador. Doesn't it seem
Speaker 5: bizarre if they really are in the drug trade, that
Speaker 5: we wouldn't prosecute the very people that we blow up
Speaker 5: with these missiles. So the thing is there is a
Speaker 5: difference in our country. So if someone breaks into your house,
Speaker 5: you have the right to shoot them. But if someone
Speaker 5: you know committed an assault and you think that they
Speaker 5: live across you know, three streets over, you can't go
Speaker 5: over there and just shoot them or blow.
Speaker 1: Their house up.
Speaker 5: That's a difference. I mean, so if you're at sea,
Speaker 5: if the coast guard is at sea and they say
Speaker 5: to a boat, halt stop, we're going to search you
Speaker 5: for contraband or for drugs. If they don't they run away,
Speaker 5: the coastguard has the right to pursue them, has the
Speaker 5: right to shoot at them to disable them, and if
Speaker 5: they fire deadly shots of the coastguard, the coastguard can
Speaker 5: sink them. This has been the rules of engagement for
Speaker 5: probably a couple of hundred years. The coastguard can use
Speaker 5: deadly force, but there's an escalation of the rules on this.
Speaker 5: The reasoning is this, when the coast guard finally boards
Speaker 5: the ships off of Miami, twenty five percent of those
Speaker 5: suspective having drugs have no drugs on board.
Speaker 6: So if we're wrong.
Speaker 5: Twenty five percent of the time, would it be okay
Speaker 5: to blow people up? These are human beings, for goodness egs.
Speaker 5: I mean, what if it's you know, an eighteen year
Speaker 5: old fisherman who they've kidnapped his sister and that he's
Speaker 5: being made to do this or his sister's going to
Speaker 5: be raped or guild. So there's a lot of if
Speaker 5: sam's or butts about this that should be explored. And
Speaker 5: none of these drugs are at all likelihood even coming
Speaker 5: to America. This is an outboard vote two thousand miles away.
Speaker 5: These drugs, if there are drugs, because it's still alleged,
Speaker 5: are going to Trinidad and Tobago. This is a drug
Speaker 5: trade to the Lower Antilles, the lesser Antillies. These boats
Speaker 5: have no means. It would take twenty tanks of gas.
Speaker 5: You'd have to stop and fill up twenty times on
Speaker 5: an outboard motor to get all the way United States
Speaker 5: from there. So they're not even presenting evidence of who
Speaker 5: the people are, whether they have drugs. But they're also
Speaker 5: not presenting evidence of these boats two thousand miles away
Speaker 5: have any intention of coming to America.
Speaker 3: Hey, last thing I wanted to ask you about, and
Speaker 3: this is way off topic here, but you know, depending
Speaker 3: on what happens here in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: there is a chance that the largest city in America
Speaker 3: is going to basically vote in certainly a socialist, if
Speaker 3: not an outright communist to be the mayor of New
Speaker 3: York City. In your wildest means, could you have ever
Speaker 3: imagined that might happen in this country.
Speaker 5: No, and it's hard to believe it is, and it
Speaker 5: does happen. There's been a huge exodus from New York
Speaker 5: and particularly New York City. A lot of the means
Speaker 5: in capital, you know, it was the greatest financial city
Speaker 5: in the world, have been leaving for years. But I
Speaker 5: think there'll be a mass accidents, and what you'll be
Speaker 5: left with is no financial engine and just a poverty
Speaker 5: and what comes from socialism. So no, it's a disaster
Speaker 5: that's unfolding in slow motion hopefully that people will see.
Speaker 5: But you know, there's not a whole lot of choices.
Speaker 5: I mean, you can vote for the corrupt Cuomo or
Speaker 5: mom Domi, but there also is another choice. I'd vote
Speaker 5: frankly for the Republican. I think Curtis Lee what would
Speaker 5: bring law in order to the place and would be great.
Speaker 5: He's just not polling high enough because there's not enough
Speaker 5: Republicans right now. But he's the best choice, all right.
Speaker 3: Sender Rand Paul can't thank you enough for your time
Speaker 3: as always, and we'll look forward to catching up with
Speaker 3: you again sometime soon.
Speaker 6: Thank you all right.
Speaker 3: Senator Ram Paul from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Speaker 1: Fight eight forty, Good morning to you.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the morning show here on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: Enormously popular, this segment we do it every Wednesday. It's
Speaker 3: called plain Glass Stained Glass. Now, look, you don't have
Speaker 3: to be a believer to enjoy this segment when we
Speaker 3: get together with Pastor Chadhoven from the Horizon Community Church
Speaker 3: right there in Newtown, Ohio along the banks of the
Speaker 3: Little Miami River. Pastor Chad, good morning, Ope, your days
Speaker 3: off to a good start, sir.
Speaker 6: Good morning. It sure is great to be with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All right.
Speaker 3: Look, you wrote a book a number of years ago,
Speaker 3: and we started to talk about it for the first
Speaker 3: time last week called God and Nomics, and that is
Speaker 3: spelled g Odnomics don't make s the money side by
Speaker 3: the way, and you can go to godanomics dot com
Speaker 3: to check it out, the book that you wrote, and
Speaker 3: basically it's a fun, engaging, factfill journey into God's wisdom
Speaker 3: on work and money. But as a lot of the
Speaker 3: people who have reviewed this book have said, said, look,
Speaker 3: it brings in so many whether you are of the
Speaker 3: convinced or unconvinced about God's wisdom on economics, you can,
Speaker 3: and we can, as both individuals, as companies and nations,
Speaker 3: learn more about economics and specifically godenomics. I asked you
Speaker 3: last week for those that missed it, do you believe
Speaker 3: God is a capitalist?
Speaker 6: Well, so, the main idea of god nomics is capitalism
Speaker 6: is a good idea. It's not just a good idea,
Speaker 6: it's God's idea. And you know, I got to be
Speaker 6: careful to isms. You know all the isms, Marxisms, socialism,
Speaker 6: and communism, and they have one thing in common in
Speaker 6: contrast to Appolism, and that is they're trying to abolish
Speaker 6: private property. And so when I defied godonomics, I say, well,
Speaker 6: starts with property rights, right, because we're more responsible with
Speaker 6: our stuff. You can't give away stuff that's not yours.
Speaker 6: If you're going to be generous, you have to own
Speaker 6: stuff to give it away. And the Bible affirms that
Speaker 6: twenty percent of ten Commandments is about property rights. You'll
Speaker 6: steal people's stuff, they'll be jealous of people's stuff. As
Speaker 6: a woman in Proverbs a real successful business woman, So
Speaker 6: she produces, She considers a field to make sure it's
Speaker 6: going to profit. She discerns that the merchandise is good
Speaker 6: because in a free enterprise system, it both incentivizes you
Speaker 6: you want to profit, but the other person has to
Speaker 6: freely engage in making that purchase, so they have to say, hey,
Speaker 6: the price and quality is right for me. So it's
Speaker 6: a great way in which both incentives can both be balanced.
Speaker 6: I'm incentivized to profit, but I have to put your
Speaker 6: needs ahead of my own, so you'll freely choose it.
Speaker 6: And that's why e'n in that passage in Proverbs it says,
Speaker 6: you know she profits. It celebrates that. So that's the
Speaker 6: idea of those isms can be dangerous because you know that
Speaker 6: Black Book of Communism says one hundred and fifty million
Speaker 6: people were killed in the name of communism, And communism
Speaker 6: always comes to you sounding like, you know, Jimmy Stewart
Speaker 6: from the One of the Wife, You want the moon burial,
Speaker 6: moonbeams come out of your eyeball. It always ends with
Speaker 6: Monty Python, you know, bring out your dead, bring out
Speaker 6: your dad. His always sounds good at the front end,
Speaker 6: but it's never been good on the back end. And
Speaker 6: we tried that. Actually, we tried that when the Pilgrims
Speaker 6: first came over. Governor Bradford wrote in his journal, which
Speaker 6: I addressed in the first chapter, what would God say
Speaker 6: to John Adams? And he actually said, we tried it
Speaker 6: we as pilgrims, fundamental pilgrims tried socialism. We're all going
Speaker 6: to work for the common good, and there'd be lazy
Speaker 6: people who weren't working. The people who worked harder wouldn't
Speaker 6: be incentivized. And they're like, come on, guys, have us
Speaker 6: died off? We got to work harder for the common good,
Speaker 6: which is a nice ideal, And he says, ultimately, we
Speaker 6: the fundamental pilgrims, could make socialism work. And I was like,
Speaker 6: if the pilgrims can't make it work, what.
Speaker 1: Chance do we have?
Speaker 6: Then whished over to a model where is that everyone
Speaker 6: working for the communal property. Each person got their own farm,
Speaker 6: they worked their own farm, They had a sense of responsibility.
Speaker 6: It's that of productivity. Is that's a generosity. So we've
Speaker 6: tried this before, and ultimately free enterprise is a way
Speaker 6: in which incentivizes the responsibility, productivity, and ultimately generosity for
Speaker 6: each one of us.
Speaker 3: You know, you also bring in and for those that
Speaker 3: have not heard any of your services before, you bring
Speaker 3: in incredible humor to the whole thing. And you've done
Speaker 3: the same thing in this book, not just a lot
Speaker 3: of facts and figures which there are a lot of
Speaker 3: those in there, and you know references to Steve Martin
Speaker 3: and Monty Python. How do you make a reference? Where
Speaker 3: are you tying in here? Let's start with Elmer fud.
Speaker 6: Well, Yeah, we all have habits, and as habits, we
Speaker 6: say to ourselves, I'm going to change this. I'm want
Speaker 6: to do something different, Like why why didn't I change it?
Speaker 6: Why do I keep overspending or why do I keep overhoarding?
Speaker 6: Why do I keep not being able to do the
Speaker 6: things I want to do? So I'll make a little
Speaker 6: Elmer fudd and money python here. So one of the
Speaker 6: problems is underneath our habit is a wabbit and we
Speaker 6: all have spam in our lives. We're really addicted to
Speaker 6: spun a lot status, performance, appearance, and money. That's spam.
Speaker 6: If you're addicted to status, you're going to spend more
Speaker 6: than you probably should, because it's all about the status.
Speaker 6: If you're addicted to performance, you're going to find yourself
Speaker 6: making compromises in other areas if it makes you look good,
Speaker 6: your appearance, and then money. If those things become not
Speaker 6: just a thing in your life but an ultimate thing
Speaker 6: in your life, you'll be amazed at how the thing
Speaker 6: that promises liberty ends up bringing you slavery. So Elmer Fudd,
Speaker 6: of course we all know Elmer Fudd as well. Hunting
Speaker 6: rabbits must be bad, way very quiet well hunting rabbits.
Speaker 6: Underneath every habit in your life is a wabbit, and
Speaker 6: you got to kill the wabbits.
Speaker 5: Kill the rabbits.
Speaker 6: Those wabbits are those things in your life that you're like, Oh,
Speaker 6: my goodness, as long as stay is king in my life,
Speaker 6: as long as other people's approval is king in my life,
Speaker 6: I'm going to find myself doing things and compromising things
Speaker 6: I shouldn't. So the first thing you got to do
Speaker 6: is say, who's the wabbit or who's the wabbit in
Speaker 6: my life? I need to kill. I need to subordinate
Speaker 6: a good thing like status, a good thing like approval,
Speaker 6: a good thing like you know, even my own family,
Speaker 6: to something greater, a greater a God, a greater thing
Speaker 6: that can bring you freedom. And it's amazing how when
Speaker 6: you put God first in your life, those other important
Speaker 6: things they settle in subordinated to that thing, and you
Speaker 6: actually find more liberty. I can use my money without
Speaker 6: my money using me, I can I can enjoy my
Speaker 6: money without my money driving me. And so really the
Speaker 6: hunt for the wabbit is to find out what's that
Speaker 6: ultimate thing in the center of your life. It's under
Speaker 6: the service, right Elmer Fuds got to go under the
Speaker 6: ground to go find that wabbit. And often if you
Speaker 6: don't go under the service and figure out, like, what's
Speaker 6: the theme that keeps driving these decisions I'm making, you're
Speaker 6: never gonna get to the heart of it. You'll keep
Speaker 6: making promises, you'll double down on the promises, which you've
Speaker 6: got to find the wabbits beneath your habits.
Speaker 3: You know, you talk about the status part, and I
Speaker 3: think all of us see so much of that if
Speaker 3: we're not guilty ourselves from time to time right looking
Speaker 3: in the mirror. And it's the old adage about keeping
Speaker 3: up with the joneses. I mean, you can, you can
Speaker 3: run yourself and your family, and you talked about the
Speaker 3: other three as well here, But when you think about status,
Speaker 3: there are so many people that are trying to, as
Speaker 3: I said, keep up with the jones and man, it
Speaker 3: can lead to absolute financial.
Speaker 1: Devastation without a doubt.
Speaker 6: And you know, everyone else's wabbit looks silly, but not yours.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 6: I can't believe they would do that like mine would
Speaker 6: be approval. I like, you'll be happy with me. I've
Speaker 6: driven myself crazy trying to make everybody happy. It's a
Speaker 6: it's total ridiculous rabbits, but it's one of my wabbits.
Speaker 6: And one of mine is productivity. And man, there's times
Speaker 6: that I don't feel productive. And I saw that my grandfather.
Speaker 6: I saw that my father both of the genius of it. Man,
Speaker 6: we get a lot done. But the downside is when
Speaker 6: Grandpa had a stroke, and when Grandpa went to that
Speaker 6: final season of life and I took care of him
Speaker 6: in his bedside, he's fell into a deep depression because
Speaker 6: he loved helping people, which is an awesome thing. He
Speaker 6: loved being productive, but when he couldn't be, who am
Speaker 6: I if that doesn't happen. My dad was in town
Speaker 6: last week getting some surgery done for cancer. Very successful
Speaker 6: and where we'll celebrate that. But I could just see
Speaker 6: how frustrated he was during the recovery because he can't
Speaker 6: be productive. It's always a reminder of me of when
Speaker 6: you look at your family of origin, you say, hey,
Speaker 6: what are the great things my family passed? On to me,
Speaker 6: how do I bring that along with me? But also
Speaker 6: what parts can I leave behind? I want productivity to
Speaker 6: be of value, but not my ultimate value. You know,
Speaker 6: I want to your point performance and status. Who doesn't
Speaker 6: want performance and status? But you don't want to be
Speaker 6: king in your life. You don't want to be the
Speaker 6: ultimate definition of your value and identity.
Speaker 3: Interesting, and there's nothing wrong with spending a lot of
Speaker 3: money at your alma mater, for example. We touched on
Speaker 3: this a little bit last week. Where you know, you
Speaker 3: give a bunch of money to a school they name
Speaker 3: a building after you, Right, I mean, it's a great thing,
Speaker 3: and it's something it's a legacy thing. You are helping
Speaker 3: a lot of people that are going to that school
Speaker 3: in some form or fashion, whether you're building, you know,
Speaker 3: something as large as a sports arena or something as
Speaker 3: small as maybe putting in a media center at the
Speaker 3: local high school. Right, all those things are unbelievable. But
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you know, I remember
Speaker 3: Vince Gully, the former Dodger announcer, legendary Hall of famer,
Speaker 3: and he wasn't the guy that came up with this line,
Speaker 3: but it's so true. At the end of the day,
Speaker 3: you're talking about your dad and can't. Yeah, But when
Speaker 3: you're talking about end of life, right, the old saying
Speaker 3: about no one's ever met somebody that when they're on
Speaker 3: their dying bed, they say, gee, whiz man, I wish
Speaker 3: I would have worked more, right, or I wish I
Speaker 3: would have gave more to not necessarily something that you
Speaker 3: would look at as quote unquote share it. You'll be
Speaker 3: there on your due your bed and you'll be saying
Speaker 3: to yourself, man, the best thing I ever did was
Speaker 3: help paying for that kid to go to college or
Speaker 3: that to fill in the blank.
Speaker 6: Right, Well, you don't have to be religious to have
Speaker 6: a sense of what really matters. When you get kind
Speaker 6: away from your rabbits or see other people's rabbits, you
Speaker 6: begin to go, you know what. I begin to realize
Speaker 6: human beings at some level, I realize are eternal, they
Speaker 6: have value, that they're eternally valuable. And I wish I'd
Speaker 6: spent more time investing my time, investing my energy, investing
Speaker 6: my money in people. And I say, on your deathbed
Speaker 6: often it's who do you want to be gathered around with?
Speaker 6: You know, your stockbrokers, do we gathered ound your investors.
Speaker 6: I'm sure there's great friendship there. You want to be
Speaker 6: around your family and friends, people you care about who
Speaker 6: love you and you love them like, this is what matters.
Speaker 6: People matter, People have eternal valuable In fact, C. S.
Speaker 6: Lewis and his book Mere Christianity likens this to socialism.
Speaker 6: He says Christians believe that individuals are eternally valuable. Therefore
Speaker 6: they're far more valuable than the state, meaning the state,
Speaker 6: like whether it's a government or an empire or a
Speaker 6: dynasty at the very best, maybe a Chinese a thousand years. Well,
Speaker 6: a government a state the last one thousand years, compared
Speaker 6: to an individual, which is eternal, the state is incomparably
Speaker 6: less important than the individual. So you want the state
Speaker 6: to actually protect the rights of the individual because that's
Speaker 6: what's valuable the macro level and at the personal level.
Speaker 6: You say to yourself, well, if I was on my
Speaker 6: deskbed or I was thinking about what said in my funeral,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't want people to talk about what. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: do want to be productive, I want to be important things.
Speaker 6: I want to give to things that outlive me. But
Speaker 6: I also want to know that the people around me
Speaker 6: knew I love them. The people around me knew I
Speaker 6: invested in them. And even when you're giving to the
Speaker 6: poor generically, you're giving the individuals who are able to
Speaker 6: then have a better life. So we talked last week,
Speaker 6: learned how to fish. I'm trying to invest in people
Speaker 6: who invest in people, and that's the way to invest
Speaker 6: your life, and that's where real joy comes from. You
Speaker 6: align your priorities to what you know are true values.
Speaker 6: You're investing in eternal things, not just temporal things. And
Speaker 6: I'm not against temporal things. One that's everything's temporal except
Speaker 6: human beings. Nothing wrong with enjoying stuff. And there's a
Speaker 6: guy in the Book of Acts who gives very, very generously.
Speaker 6: His name's Barnabas. In fact, he's so generous to so
Speaker 6: many people they nickname him the Son of Encouragement. I
Speaker 6: always think, what a great nickname. What if I was
Speaker 6: known for being somebody who I walk into a room,
Speaker 6: I encourage people. I use my money to encourage people
Speaker 6: to do great things. I want to be someone not
Speaker 6: known for I stomped on people in the way up,
Speaker 6: or look how much they hoarded for themselves. Man, Look
Speaker 6: how they encourage other people to be their very best.
Speaker 6: That's what gadnomics is about. Against productivity, it's about liberty.
Speaker 6: It's also generosity. It's about living an other centered life
Speaker 6: that leaves incredible legacy to you, to the people around you,
Speaker 6: your community, to your country. You want to know that
Speaker 6: your life is mattering when you're combining this beautiful mix
Speaker 6: of eternal things fused into temple things.
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Speaker 3: at the grocery store, I'm at udf, I'm wherever, and
Speaker 3: they just tell me how much they enjoy this segment.
Speaker 3: And Pastor Chad, we thank you for it as always,
Speaker 3: and we'll catch up with you again next week. Hope
Speaker 3: you have a great rest of your day and a
Speaker 3: great weekend, sir.
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