WEBVTT - 10-29-25 Bill Cunningham Show 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.119 My Billy Cunningham, the great American, Welcome this Wednesday afternoon 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:11.640 in the tri State. A little bit of rainy. We 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.120 need a little Wednesday and Thursday. Things are going to 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.880 be clear on Friday for Halloween, but until then, all 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.040 hell's breaking loose. Of course, I monitor all the shows 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.280 so you don't have to. MSNBC is blaming the Republicans, 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.400 mainly Congressman Warren Davidson, of everything happening bad in the world. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.080 You watch the other shows, and basically it's the idea 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.879 that the Congress has voted to fund food stamps that 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.520 went down the tubes. Then the Congress voted to fund 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.400 the military. Democrats didn't like that. And Republicans have offered 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.800 a one year continuance of the Biden budget and the 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.680 Democrats don't want that. So what the hell do they want? 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.200 As Charlie Kirk often said, when the talking ends, that's 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.080 when violence begins. Joanan, you and I now is Congressman 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.280 Warren Davidson. I think of the eighth Congressional District and 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.520 Congressman Davidson. Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. So 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.319 what does the congressman do when nothing's going on? You're 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.720 out of session, not much happening, and Mike Johnson's called 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.360 your backs and not called you back. So what do 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.720 you do if anything, Well. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.440 It's always an honor to join you and your listeners, 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.840 Willie and look, it's pretty similar to normal, except you've 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.240 got less structure to your time. I mean, I'm working 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.920 on bills with colleagues, working in particular on an outbound 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.039 investment bill this morning, back and forth with several colleagues 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:23.600 and staff. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.840 I was out in DC last week. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.039 Met with White House on that and a couple other bills, 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.520 met with Senators on some of these things. And so 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.000 you're still doing some of the same kinds of collaboration. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.200 In a way, it's you get bigger blocks of time 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.640 to focus on other bills. So you're trying to make 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.600 lemonade out of limits I mean, and the limits are 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:41.679 handed out by Democrats. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.560 We've called the votes. The House of Representatives. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.360 Has voted to fund the government, yes, which is why 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.600 we're not in session. We're waiting on the Senate and 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.240 we can't really proceed until they decide how they're going 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.440 to proceed. And they've offered everything in the world to Democrats. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.880 But look, to be fair, Democrats have said, here's our 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.400 list of demands. It's one and a half trillion dollars 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.240 worth of stuff they know they're not getting. No, you know, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.200 we didn't accidentally defund Usaid. We didn't accidentally turn off 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.200 their ability to take credit for funding with state dollars 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.760 but get reimbursed from the federal dollars for funding illegals 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.040 with Medicaid money. We didn't accidentally. We didn't accidentally do 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.000 these things. And frankly, they didn't accidentally set expiration dates 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.200 for the COVID funding on Obamacare. You know, it was 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.919 a bill that passed with one hundred percent Democrat votes, 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.720 just like Obamacare did in the first way. And they're 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.399 just trying to continue the subsidies because Obamacare failed. It 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.120 isn't affordable, and it doesn't work. It works in fact 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.560 the way that we've said that it was designed to, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.040 which is a poisoned pill to destroy American healthcare and 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.080 deliver what they want, which is single payer communist healthcare. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.360 All let's talk about. First of all, I want to 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.480 have out his issue number two. It Issue number one 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:56.120 is snap what's our food stamps? In twenty nineteen, which 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.000 wasn't exactly. The dark age is twenty nineteen. US government's 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.840 spend fifty six billion dollars on food stamps in twenty nineteen. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.160 Now the number is one hundred and two billion. It 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.839 is more than doubled in the last five years. Now, 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.880 I did a little research from the US Budget Office 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.360 about who gets food stamps. How about this one? Food 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:21.200 stamps by ethnicity. Afghans forty five percent, Somali's forty three percent, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:26.440 iraqis thirty five percent, Dominican Caribbean Islanders twenty eight percent, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.919 the Native Americans is twenty five percent, Puerto Ricans twenty 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:37.280 seven percent, Cubans twenty five percent, Cambodians twenty three percent. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.280 Can you smell when I'm cooking? Essentially, may I've raised 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.320 my hand in the back of the room. The cost 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.200 of food stamps have more than doubled, and it's the 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.480 ethnicity of those receiving it. Many here illegally be waiting 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:54.119 for a hearing has increased greatly. So when you show 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.600 up somewhere and you can say I claim refugee status, 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.680 I want a hearing, the officer will say, well, are 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.080 you available in the year twenty five two? Yes, I 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.080 am available. In the meantime, here's your list, your menu 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.560 of government benefits. We are funding the world. Plus there's 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.760 a twenty percent factor of waste, fraud and abuse. So 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.680 if we go back to twenty nineteen levels along with 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.960 the rate of inflation, we should spend about sixty billion dollars. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:18.880 Instead we spend double that. Why is that? 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.159 Yeah, I mean these are things that Democrats designed, and frankly, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.799 the unfortunate part is a lot of this is embedded 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.640 in status quot funding. So this is why Republicans are 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.159 compromising with status quot funding, because the real policy is 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.760 we want to go way different than that. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.720 Now, the big thing that we did. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.040 Back in the summer was we said, look, if you're 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.719 able bodied, working age adult, you don't have dependent kids 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.280 at home, well then you got to go to work eventually, 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.159 you know, you got to get a job, go to school, volunteer, 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.360 do something that used to be bipartisan. And frankly, when 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.440 I pull it in the eighth district, it is bipartisan. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.920 But nationally Democrats say, oh, you know, we can't expect 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.480 that that's totally unreasonable. But knowing full well that exactly 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.279 what they would do for a friend and family member. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.000 I don't know the ethnic breakdown on everybody, but the 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.320 troubling numbers. I think it's about fifty three percent of 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.839 the food stafe dollars are going to non citizens, correct, 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.800 which is crazy, correct, it's crazy correct. So our compassion 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:18.880 is bankrupt in our country. And it's to the Democrats 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.440 that designed this. It's a feature, not a bug. I mean, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.000 they designed the invasion of our country and they're mad 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.240 that we're trying to turn it off. So that's a 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.159 lot of what this fight is about. And I think, look, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.560 in the meantime, there are Americans who need food stamps. 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.560 They do need the assistance, and it's designed to be 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.400 there as a safety net because you know, God forbid, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.520 anyone could run into a time of trouble or need 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.760 and then your friends and family are there, of course directly, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.360 but you've got a government program that says, yeah, your 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.160 whole community is there. We don't want you to stay 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.720 that way. But it's meant to be a hand up, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.599 not a snare to trap you in a system of dependence. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:58.760 And so we need to make it work better. But 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.640 in the meantime, it isn't going to work at all 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:01.719 if we don't get the. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.840 Votes, so you bring it up. Fifty three percent of 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.960 food stamps go to non citizens, and a good chunk 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.680 of those. I know for my years working in the 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.600 Public Defender's office here in Hamilton County that these things 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.640 are also currency. So if you're issued your EBT card, 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.200 you issued your so called food stamps, you sell them 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.400 for fifty cents on the dollar to make money, to 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.640 make cash. And if it's a ten to twenty percent factor, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.760 the cost of foodstamp should be less than half of 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.599 what it is today. But the media, what doesn't the 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.520 media cover this the way you and I just did. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:33.800 Yeah, it's rare. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.640 I mean you'd see like John Stossel or somebody like 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.839 that would occasionally get the truth out on one of 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:43.120 these programming things. But those kind of spots are rare 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.640 at this point. Main when they did food stamp reform 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.160 back years ago. Of course, it's been undone since then 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.400 because the Democrats got in control of their state and 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.440 undid it. But they put a photo id on food stamps, 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.400 and they started cracking down on the places that we're 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.560 doing just what you say. They'll have a conne store 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.680 or something out there and there'll be you know, a 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.559 little bit of groceries on the store, but the store 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.320 isn't designed to sell groceries. It's designed to process EVT 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.640 cards and fifty cents on the dollar sometimes is optimistic. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.600 Whatever the I don't know what the black market. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.400 Rate today is, but I'll bet you Keith favor our 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.080 auditor is because those are the kinds of things that 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.400 our auditor goes after in our attorney general in our state. Look, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.320 I think our state does a better job than most, 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.760 but the fraud's real. There's a real black market out there. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:33.000 People are selling them for money. Yeah, and the big 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.600 big thing is all this inflates grocery prices. So yeah, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.480 it's fair to say grocery prices are higher. So if 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.320 you're going to help somebody, it probably takes more to 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.680 help them, you know, this year than it did in 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.680 twenty nineteen. But if you look, you know, specific programs 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.760 like that where you might have to make some changes. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.480 But if you look holistically, if the federal government spent 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.960 the same money that we spent before COVID, we'd have 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.560 a balanced budget. We wouldn't even have deficits. And people go, well, 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.720 you know, we can't do that because inflation. You're like, well, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.760 let's go back to what causes inflation. When you do 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.440 this massive government spending, it's injecting extra money into the economy. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.960 And the food stamps is exactly a way. If the 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.720 market price had to cover the forty one million people 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.120 what they can afford to pay for groceries, how would 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.240 groceries not be lower? 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:18.240 They would be lower. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.679 Well, an important factor is this that, whether it's food 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.360 stamps or Obamacare, whatever it might be, when the federal 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.280 government gets involved, I can guarantee you that the subsidies 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.200 increase the demand, they raise the prices, causing more inflation. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.439 There is a less deductibility and more waste, fraud, abuse, 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.520 and increase spending that area. It is guaranteed that's going 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.920 to result. So food stamps will be resolved. So I'd 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.040 like to ask you this question, since if we took 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.120 the budget from twenty twenty increased it by inflation, we'd 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.920 have a balanced budget today. But we're spending about i 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.160 don't know about forty percent more forty five percent more 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.320 in the federal government than we spend in twenty twenty 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.920 with less results. And so instead of reforming the system, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.160 even you Republicans keep saying, well, let's keep the same system. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.720 We'll kick the can down the road for another year. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.600 Well we'll give you the same Biden budget, and the 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.600 Democrats do won't even vote for that. And so make 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.480 clear this point. If we spent justin for inflation, the 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.800 same amount of money we spent in the twenty nineteen 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.120 twenty twenty cycle, we'd have a balanced budget today, not 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:24.800 having to borrow two trillion dollars. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.839 Is that correct, That's accurate, and that's the kind of 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.200 agenda that we want to get on. And that's where 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.720 Russ voted at omb put out the president's budget. And 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:39.040 look in the meantime without us taking action, you look 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.920 at what russ vote is pairing back and what he's saying, Look, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.000 we need to furlow these people, and these people need 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.200 to be at work today. It's going to line up 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.400 with what the president's budget is. This is the priority, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.280 this isn't the priority. And so in a way they've 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.680 got an open hand. But in the long run, yeah, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.920 the people that are at work today will eventually get paid, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.560 but but they should get paid today. And that's a 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.640 bill that we put on the floor in the Senate. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.960 Republicans put on the floor in the Senate just to 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:08.760 try to break the logjam in the Senate to get 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.240 to sixty votes, and of course then it would have 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.960 to come back to the House because it'd be changed, 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.880 but we would pass it easily. And this is if 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.560 you're essential enough to be at work this week. Surely 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.920 the payroll clerk is essential enough to be at work 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.040 and you can get paid on time. But Democrats voted 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.520 that down, and you know they don't want to fund 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.640 the whole government, and then they don't want to park 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:35.160 the fund. The paired down quote posential part and the 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.520 fact that people run into suffering, whether it's because they 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.600 don't get their paycheck on time, or the food stamps 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.080 aren't mailed, or contracts aren't being let all these kinds 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.040 of things that we need for the federal government to do. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.560 Catherine Clark, who's the Democrat Whip, one of the senior 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.280 leaders for Democrats in the House, she says this suffering 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.400 is part of their leverage, so they know that these 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.160 are going to be consequences, and they're counting on this 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.360 in their mind. It's going to make people want to 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.160 pressure Republicans to fold and concede to this one and 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.000 a half trillion dollars wish list that isn't going to happen. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.240 So they're going to fold. The matter is how long, 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.240 and so we've offered some alternatives where we could just 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.240 try to do it purely with Republicans, but this is 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:19.920 part of what they want too. They wanted to break 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.600 the filibuster rule but for Joe Mansion and Kristen Cinemon 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.880 they would have broken it in the Senate now, and 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.600 Republicans feel like that's a decent safeguard to make sure 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.280 that there is some sort of bipartisan consensus in governing 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.679 the country. Democrats are ready to abandon it, and they 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.840 want to take They want Republicans to take the blame 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.640 for breaking it, but they want it broken. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.800 Well, the Democrats want chaos. Now next year they'll run 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.680 on a campaign slogan of chaos and democratic behavior calls 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.840 to chaos, and I think many Americans don't understand that fact. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.920 A little bit of statistics indicate that one hundred and 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:57.200 sixty million Americans rely upon employee are sponsored insurance you 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.760 have medical care. And according to that number, on hundred 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:04.160 and six million Americans like here here at the Death Star. iHeartMedia. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.480 Most of our employees are on employer sponsored plans, and 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.040 those on employer sponsored plans say seventy five percent of 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.880 Americans say their coverage they receive through their employer is acceptable. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.520 It's not the best, not the worst, but it's acceptable. 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.640 Twenty two million Americans are on Obamacare, and those individuals 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.719 get subsidies in the government directly and indirectly. I want 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.400 to talk about Marjorie Taylor Green, MTG. She makes about 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.960 two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year. The 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.320 great bulk of that income comes through her job as 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.520 a US congressman in Georgia, about twenty five thousand. She 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.000 has three children. She gets Obamacare subsidies. Can you tell 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.959 me why someone making about a quarter million dollars a 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.880 year has the federal government paying part of their premium? 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:46.600 Can you tell me that? 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.480 Well, here's the thing. They don't ever publish it. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.680 Everyone says Republicans should or Congress should have the same 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:56.040 healthcare as everyone else. Well, if we did that, we'd 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.439 have employer sponsored care, and that's used to be how 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.040 Congress work. We had the same health care plan that 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:07.000 federal employees do you know you're employer. Federal government employees, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.600 not just Congress had essentially the same benefits plan. But 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.000 back when they were pushing Obamacare through, they said, oh well, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.240 then Congress should have Obamacare. So we are on the 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.480 DC Health Exchange. And I will tell you, look, I 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.719 had better health care at the small business in manufacturing, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.480 and it was a pain in the butt. The health 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.200 care system is broken, but Obamacare is breaking it worse 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.720 because it was designed to do that. And yes, Congress 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.400 is suffering under Obamacare. It isn't the greatest. We got 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.480 a high deductible plan six thousand dollars on top of 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.000 premiums that are on average about four or five hundred 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.480 dollars a month more than what we would be paying 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.160 for the same kind of plan as a federal employee. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:53.480 Make it make sense. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.920 Well, according to the study, I see that if you're 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.640 a family of four. Hardly anybody's a family of four anymore. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.040 But if you're a family of four, you have to 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:06.360 spend approximately twenty seven thousand dollars a year with deductibilities 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.360 before you get any coverage at all. Twenty seven thousand 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.120 is five or six thousand dollars per person. A family 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.480 of four indicates about twenty twenty five twenty six thousand 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.200 before anything kicks in. How's that a good plan? It's not. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.280 It's not a good plan. It's not a good plan. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.480 And look, I was talking with a financial advisor back 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.440 years ago and it was probably I don't know, four 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.840 or five years after Obamacare passed, and he goes, why 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.960 don't you have why don't you have health insurance companies 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.680 as an ETF? And I go, I really don't know. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.080 I haven't really looked at this closely. And he goes, 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.600 he goes, well, you need to add that, because here's 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.800 how they're going and if you look at their share price, 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.480 it's been almost vertical, just like health insurance costs. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:47.760 So the health. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.640 Insurance companies are making amend and that's who these subsidies 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.560 are going to in their COVID subsidies. So the plus 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.400 up the Democrats. They couldn't make them permanent. They didn't 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:57.880 have the votes to do it on a party line 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.760 basis when they did it back in twenty twenty one, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.760 So they made them so they expire, and because they 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.520 couldn't even get it across the finish line, so now 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.120 they want Republicans to deliver what they failed to do 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:09.800 in their own right. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.600 But this was for a pandemic. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.760 Press release wise, but on the back end, it was 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.120 just basically the extortion money to pis say to the 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.800 health insurance companies, hey, if we give you this straight 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.440 pipe of extra cash, will you hold the. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:25.720 Premiums down a little bit? 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.560 And that's essentially the play now, and the insurance companies 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.520 are cooperating with it. They're starting to mail out notices 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.120 to say, oh, you know, if you don't pay the 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.480 protection money, your premiums are going to double. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.080 So this is money directly from the taxpayer into the 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:44.160 pockets of Obamacare insurance companies. We all know the big 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.960 three or four names, and they get a direct pipeline 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.240 of money from the Congress every year in order to 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.880 encourage the insurance companies to hold down the premium increases 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.160 that Tony Bender pays for as a taxpayer. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.880 That's the plan that you're starting to catch on to 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.720 what Obamacare is about and what these. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:02.400 Subsidies are for. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.120 And it's just absolutely crazy, and so Republicans aren't going 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.480 to go along with it. And in part to make 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.280 sure that Republicans don't go along with it. Speaker Johnsonson, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.440 just stay out of town. Don't be compromising with these guys, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.800 because we usually have you know, maybe what President Trump 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.160 is called pannikins that will run to the mics and 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.440 be ready to compromise with Democrats at a whim and 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.280 say no, no, we're not for this. Don't change your 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.760 principles here. There are things that we do agree on 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.200 and we can work together, but we're not gonna work. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.040 There's never been a Republican vote for Obamacare. I mean, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.640 McCain famously failed to get rid of it right, but 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.000 he didn't vote for it. And now they want, for 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.720 the first time ever, Republicans to run out and say, oh, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.880 we can't wait to do more obamacareh the crazy position. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.320 It's crazy. The great majority of us receive healthcare through 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.680 our employers, and most of us like it. Government controlled 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:00.800 healthcare means less choice, high deductibilities, less comp petition, and 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.560 lower quality, which is the heart and soul of the 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.960 democratic approach to legislation. Write those four things down. So 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.679 many other issues, so little time. But Warren Davidson, Congressman, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.600 thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and we'll 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.600 see what happens. But don't cave, don't give in, don't 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.840 listen to Marjorie Taylor Green. Let's have assystem based upon 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.320 laws of supply and demand. Got lower premiums, better quality, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.960 get rid of Obamacare. It stinks. Congressman, once again, thanks 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.919 for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And you're a 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.119 great American. Thank you always an honor. GeV bless you 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.959 and all your listeners. God bless America. News coming up, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.639 you're home of the Bengals News Radio seven hundred Wow. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:46.639 Dave Keaton, Hit the music, Hit the music. A broadcast 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.840 journey begins again today. I want to thank Warren Davidson 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.480 for coming on. By the way, according to Jeff Beckham, 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.560 he had a whole in one his third and so 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.800 in addition to representing well the constituents of the eighth 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.280 Congressional District, I guess Warren Davidson is a pretty good golfer, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.400 but that's a secondary matter. He talks about the reality 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.520 and something good happened about ten minutes ago. I monitor 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.720 all the media events and all the media, so you 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:16.919 don't have to. I'm like your source. And CNN just 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.800 flashed up a poll at noon since the shutdown began 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.960 orchestrated by liberal Democrats, not by the way, Charlie Luken, 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:31.159 not John Cranley Democrats, not Bobby Stern, traditional Democrats, for 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.400 other the left wing of zo Ron Mamdani Democrats. These 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.520 are the Marxist communist Democrats. That the rating and generally 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.239 speaking of Republicans has gone up six points. Can I 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.840 underline that for a moment in the last thirty days 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:49.320 since the Democratic engineered shutdown for political purposes has occurred, 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.159 that the American people are starting to figure it out now. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.400 A lot of it has to do with the fact 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.119 that media is dispersed. It used to be in the 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.200 good old days, which, by the way, whenever that good, 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.000 but they were certainly old. One head of very few 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.800 outlets get their media attentions, get their political persuasions, get 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.879 their news from. Today it's different, whether it's social media, 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.840 whether it's Charlie Kirk, or whether it's talk radio or podcast. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.640 You don't rely upon CBSNBC, ABC and NPR to get 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.720 information through a liberal screen which has become Marxist. Now 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.360 you can actually gain information through other ways. And because 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.000 of that, and I have a guest coming up later 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.040 from the Media Research Center Tim Graham to talk about it, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.800 that things are different today because more and more Americans 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.639 are politically adroit. More and more Americans get information not 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.000 from the mainstream media, which is a left wing Marxist screen, 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.080 but rather through people like me and I'm normal and 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.880 I can tell you what's going on. And that's why 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.359 six percent of the American people, according to CNN the 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.160 Clinton News Network, say that their standing of Republicans has 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.840 increased the past thirty days and not decreased. So it's 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.399 all not working. All of a sudden. The Democrats are 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.840 figuring it out. They could become the weak party, in 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.640 which case the Republicans another third party will arise, which 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.560 are traditional working class Americans who have a political viewpoint 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.119 and that right now, your home is right here on 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.760 seven hundred WLW and talk radio with people like me, 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.760 and of course Buck and John Hannity and the great one, 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.800 Mark Levin, etc. Were the ones giving the objective information 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.880