1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: Mac old Goober thirty three thirty three. Here, I'm wondering 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: if we could follow the money and find out what 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: activists of ringing these lawsuits that these activist judges are 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: ruling on to stop all of Trump's activities. These activist 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: judges don't make these rulings out of whole cloth. Somebody 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: brings these court cases. I wonder who that is. Thank 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: you well. 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 2: I datus Judge Boseberg's daughter that it's hurt in goo. 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 2: But remember she's one of hundreds of NGO that do that. 10 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 2: They so we are as taxpayers, we're funding probably the 11 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: majority because they don't you know, they rely a lot 12 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 2: on grants, so they get a lot of taxpayer dollars 13 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 2: to go advocate against our own self interest drives me crazy. 14 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: If I have time, I would try tie two topics 15 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 2: together this hour. If I don't, we'll do the second 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 2: one tomorrow morning. But here are the two topics in 17 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 2: reverse order. Yesterday on my X timeline at Michael Brown USA, 18 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: you need to be followed me on X at Michael 19 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 2: Brown USA, someone had posted a photo of Shanghai, Shanghai, 20 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 2: China and said quote, if communism is so bad, then 21 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 2: why is China so advanced and the responses were just 22 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 2: kind of disgusting. And so I want to talk about 23 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:47,119 Speaker 2: the difference between say, communist capitalism if I could dare 24 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: use a phrase like that, and a free market and 25 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 2: our constitutional republic that gives us individual liberty and individual 26 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: freedom which feeds into our form of capitalism, which are 27 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: free markets. And then the second topic is we've mentioned 28 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 2: before when we during the shutdown about how SNAP has 29 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 2: forty two million people receiving food stamps. Now, that is 30 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: depending on what you look at as the most recent 31 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 2: population of the United States, that's between twelve, I mean 32 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 2: between ten and twelve percent of the US population is 33 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 2: getting food stamps, which cost taxpayers nearly one hundred billion 34 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 2: dollars a wealthy nation. A wealthy nation, nearly forty two 35 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 2: million people rely on food stamps. There are twenty one 36 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: million kids that get free or reduced price school lunches. 37 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: So I think that's reasonable for asking some questions how 38 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: many people are getting help but aren't truly needy. And 39 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 2: what told is America's illegal alien crisis taking on those programs. 40 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 2: So as welfare enrollment hovers at historically high levels, you 41 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 2: start getting stories you can find stories all over the 42 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 2: interwebs about states that are trying to crack down on 43 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,839 Speaker 2: ineligible food stamp users. And when you really dig into 44 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 2: those stories or you do the follow on because there'll 45 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: be a big headline initially, Oh my god, Colorado, which 46 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 2: we can only wish. Colorado's going to cut down and 47 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 2: review all of their food stamps and you're going to 48 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 2: have to reapply now in Texas and someplace they're actually 49 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 2: doing this. Well, that grabs all the headline, That sets 50 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: all the oxygen out of the room, and you never 51 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 2: get to the well, what'd you find out? I mean, 52 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 2: once all the hullabaloo was over, and let me just 53 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 2: say this, why should we be upset that someone who 54 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 2: is getting some of your heart earned to or that 55 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 2: we're going into even more debt nationally? Why is it wrong? 56 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 2: I don't think it's either wrong morally, ethically, legally anyway 57 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: to ask the question, Hey, prove to me that you 58 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 2: are entitled or that you meet the requirements to all 59 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 2: the prerequisites to get this particular benefit. What's wrong with that? 60 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: We've been browbeat to the point for simply asking the 61 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 2: question is Oh my gosh, you can't ask that question, Michael, 62 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 2: you might offend somebody. Well bite me, because I want 63 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 2: to know. I want to know the truth. Here's the 64 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 2: stark truth for you. From states that crack down on 65 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 2: ineligible food stamp users, minimal reforms could slash case loads 66 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: by up to eighty percent without harming those that are 67 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 2: truly in desperate need. Now that tells me that over 68 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 2: the years enforcement has become loosey goosey, that the programs 69 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 2: and their requirements have become you know, broader and broader 70 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 2: for eligibility, and that has now reached an almost unsustainable level. 71 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 2: Then you add the lax oversight, lax oversight combined with fraud, 72 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 2: waste and abuse, or expanded eligibility or no requirement that 73 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: you every ninety days every year. I don't care, but 74 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 2: at some point you have to requalify for the benefit. 75 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 2: It shows that there might be actually be billions of 76 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 2: dollars in a being wasted. And if you ever thought 77 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 2: about this, there might actually be some people who are 78 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: eligible that are not getting their benefit. Isn't that just 79 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 2: as bad as someone who isn't eligible getting a benefit. 80 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 2: So for all the that are like, oh, you're just 81 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 2: told you about no what about the fact that if 82 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 2: you don't tighten up eligibility, if you don't require someone 83 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 2: to reapply and make certain that they are eligible, that 84 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 2: what you're really doing is you may have people who 85 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 2: actually have a legitimate need and they're not getting that benefit. 86 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 2: Think about it that. 87 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 3: Way, Brownie Dragon, I really know you're making the big bucks. Now, 88 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 3: this is my first day off where I could actually 89 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 3: hit koa button and I have to listen to a 90 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 3: thirty second Cadillac commercial just to get me through, And 91 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 3: then you must have been on break and it was 92 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 3: at least, I say, at least four more minutes of commercials. 93 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 3: Proof positive you two are making the big box. 94 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 2: And proof positive that you didn't pay any attention to 95 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 2: the clock over on the other station where we had 96 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 2: breaks where I actually went out and took a nap. 97 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: I'm just impressed he's getting the algorithm is feeding him 98 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: Cadillac ads. 99 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: He's that's right, that's right, right, because at the same 100 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 2: time we're feeding Cadillac ads, we're also the Sodo ads 101 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: at the same time Cars for Kids, Cars for Kids. 102 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 2: That's probably the other ads that he tuned out exactly. 103 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 2: But I do find it interesting the comparison between the two, 104 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 2: because you and I would You and I would go 105 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: to lunch during some little spot blocks over there, so 106 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: I like this clock, like this block. Go back to 107 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 2: the Great Depression. Nineteen thirty nine, we launched the country 108 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 2: does we launch a program to help struggling families buy. 109 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 2: We would buy surplus agricultural goods, big blocks of cheese 110 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 2: and you know, sacks of flower and all sort of 111 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 2: They were commodities. And I'm not I'm not too proud 112 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 2: to tell you this story, but my maternal grandfather would 113 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 2: sometimes use those. He would he would come see my 114 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: mom and he would go out to the fairgrounds where 115 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 2: they would distribute the commodities, and he would he would 116 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 2: come back and and my mom would just, you know, 117 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: she would try to explain to my sister wasn't alive 118 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 2: at the time, to my brother and I about you know, 119 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 2: you know, it's just this way. She didn't like it, 120 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 2: but that's what he did. But they weren't they weren't 121 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: food stamps. I mean, it was just basic commodities that 122 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 2: you would need, fol oil, you know, cheese, just the 123 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 2: things that staples I guess you might describe them. Then 124 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 2: nineteen sixty four and Lyndon Johnson under the Food Stamp 125 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 2: Act of nineteen sixty four, part of the Great War 126 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 2: on Poverty, which we still haven't fixed, the food stamp 127 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 2: became a permanent fixture. It was Johnston's way of combating 128 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 2: hunger by providing poor Americans with literally stamps. They started 129 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 2: out with staying, you get a little book of stamps, 130 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 2: and then of course, as we you know, went into 131 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 2: a digital world. Then that War on poverty morphed into 132 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 2: EBT cards, Electronic benefit transfer cards for groceries, you know, 133 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 2: And now there's a whole black market about how to 134 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: deal with the EBT cards. So from nineteen sixty four 135 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 2: to say, mid nineteen seventies, about twenty million people were 136 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 2: getting I'm generic food stamp, just food stamps. Yeah, in 137 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 2: a second, I'll tell you more about how that figure 138 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: has more than doubled what it is today. Meantime, we 139 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:53,239 Speaker 2: created another social safety net, the National School Launch Program. Now, interestingly, 140 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 2: it provides overlapping benefits for a lot of these families. 141 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: Together with SNAP, it gives poor children help of the 142 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 2: total of five meals a day per child. And then 143 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 2: in places like Colorado, it doesn't make any difference how 144 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 2: wealthy you are, how poor you are. Everybody gets fed. 145 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 2: And of course they knew when they launched the program 146 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 2: in Colorado that the costs were going to be higher 147 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 2: than the mount of revenue, and so they knew they 148 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 2: come back and in LLL and MM whatever, those two 149 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 2: issues were on the ballot this month. Of course it 150 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 2: passed because it was for the children. But we don't 151 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 2: realize how overlapping those programs have become. The original school 152 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 2: launch program, signed into law back in June and nineteen 153 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 2: forty six by President Truman. It was simply a response 154 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 2: to post World War two concerns over child malnutrition and 155 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 2: the fact we had agricultural surpluses. It wasn't just necessarily, hey, 156 00:10:55,960 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 2: it's a way to you know, cater to voters. No, 157 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 2: it was because we had agg surpluses and we had 158 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 2: severe child malnutrition. You know. Interesting liar just says a 159 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 2: footnote here. I would argue that have we really helped 160 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 2: child malnutrition? Maybe the school lunch program has, But I 161 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 2: would certainly argue that the food stamp program has not, 162 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 2: because how many bags of ritos do you really need? 163 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 2: And how nutritious is the bag of ridos, but back 164 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 2: to June of nineteen forty six, that the purpose was 165 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: really nourishment and what do we do with all these 166 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 2: surplus agricultural products in the school year. Last year, about 167 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 2: twenty one point four million kids got free or reduced 168 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 2: price meals in school. That accounted for almost seventy three percent. 169 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 2: Can we just round it up? Three course of all 170 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 2: public school meals served were free or reduced price, and 171 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 2: that means Hey, Michael, I noticed your shows a little 172 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 2: quicker paced and more harder hitting since moving over to KOA. 173 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the old blow torch effect 174 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 2: or if. 175 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 3: This is because you've had to convince your showdown and 176 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 3: you can't get away with an hour of goofing off anymore. 177 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 4: So let me know what it is. 178 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: Huh. 179 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 2: Are you bitching or moaning? Are you happy or sad? 180 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 2: Not that we care, don't get me on, not that 181 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 2: we care. I'm just curious. Do you want us to 182 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 2: mess around more? Yeah? I mean, come on, we can 183 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 2: mess around all day long and not do anything serious. 184 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 2: There's too much to talk about. There's too much. For example, 185 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 2: there are two topics I'm trying to squeeze into this 186 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 2: hour and if not, if I can't get to the 187 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 2: second part, the communism part, We'll get to that tomorrow. 188 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 2: But I said, I told you at the end of 189 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 2: the last segment that twenty one point four million school children, 190 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 2: Why shouldn't you say school child just children, because they're 191 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 2: not all in school, got free or reduced price meals 192 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty four school year. That accounted for 193 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 2: seventy three percent. Can we just say seventy five? Okay, 194 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 2: thank you. Seventy five percent of all public school government 195 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 2: school meals served were either free or reduced price. I'm curious, 196 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 2: Sir Michael, does that include all of the Colorado schools 197 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 2: that are free lunch for all. I think the numbers 198 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 2: will have to change now based on what happened a 199 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, so it's actually going to increase. 200 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 2: But if you take those numbers from twenty twenty four, 201 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 2: I'll try to find twenty twenty five numbers. If I 202 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: can to make Bozo back there happy or no Boso 203 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 2: back there, should start looking for the twenty twenty five numbers. Nah, yeah, 204 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 2: that's what I thought. That means that seventy two percent 205 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 2: of public school family in this country are supposedly unable 206 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 2: to support their children's nutrition needs, and that's costing you 207 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 2: and me as taxpayers almost eighteen billion dollars a year 208 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 2: seventeen point seven billion dollars for poor families that are 209 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 2: eligible for both free or reduced price school meals and 210 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 2: the SNAP program the Food Stamp program. The programs offer 211 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,239 Speaker 2: two meals provided directly at school, lunch off and breakfast, 212 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: plus help with three more meals via the SNAP program, 213 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 2: and then SNAP calculates the cost of three low cost 214 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 2: nutritious meals for a household under the USDA's thrifty Food program. 215 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 2: If you were to diagram this like you diagram a sentence, 216 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 2: it's just tentacles going out everywhere. In fiscal year two 217 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 2: thousand and one, six point one percent of Americans got 218 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 2: benefits six point one. Today we've bloated that up to 219 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 2: almost thirteen percent. Now, are you going to try to 220 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 2: convince me that that is a proportional increase. No, that's 221 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 2: an exponential increase. It's out of control. In fiscal year 222 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 2: two thousand and one, six point one percent seventeen million people. 223 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 2: Then the rocket ship takes off, peaking at about fifteen 224 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 2: percent of the population or forty seven point six million 225 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen. That was the highest rate in the 226 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 2: program's history. Now, the COVID pandemic and the shutdown triggered 227 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 2: another spike, and I want you to pay attention to 228 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 2: these numbers because if you don't think that we're still suffering. 229 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 2: By the way, I just got a text message from 230 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 2: Walgreens Healthcare alert there's a new COVID vaccine available for 231 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 2: anybody over the age of three. Delete. The COVID pandemic 232 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 2: triggered another spike. Now why well, because jobs were lost, 233 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 2: the economy was shut down, and you had emergency expansions, 234 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 2: and that pushed enrollment above forty two million people in 235 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, and the current level remains elevated, which 236 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 2: just proves my point. Once you start a government program 237 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 2: and you reach a threshold, every time you reach a 238 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 2: new threshold, it's a new threshold upwards. The threshold always is. 239 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 2: The trend line is always upward, it's never down. Let 240 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 2: me retell you again. In fiscal year twenty four, an 241 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 2: average of forty one point seven million people roughly again, 242 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: about twelve and a half percent of the population collected 243 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 2: food stamps, costing US A ninety eight point eight one 244 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 2: hundred billion dollars a year, and we exacerbated that program 245 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 2: through the COVID shutdowns. And yet if a state like Texas, 246 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 2: I mean Texas in Colorado can be two more diverse 247 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 2: examples in Colorado, we don't take e span expand expand 248 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 2: Texas is like, wait, wait a minute. What we ought 249 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 2: to do is why don't we start kicking everybody off 250 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 2: and making you re enroll. And the blowback is irrational, 251 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 2: It's truly irrational. So I want to ask you a 252 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 2: simple question. Have we reached the point in the country 253 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 2: where once you start getting a benefit, regardless or my 254 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 2: least favorite word in the world, irregardless regardless of whether 255 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 2: or not you continue to remain qualified, we don't care. 256 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 2: We just want to We want you to stay a 257 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 2: ward to the state. We want all of the all 258 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 2: of you schmucks out there, you know, working your butts 259 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 2: off right now to feed your own family. We want 260 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:18,719 Speaker 2: you to also feed everybody else's family. Almost almost thirteen 261 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 2: percent of the population, more than ten percent of the 262 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 2: population now illegal aliens. They're eligible for free, free or 263 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 2: reduced price school lunches. So then once you get that 264 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 2: surge that we had in the Biden administration, there were 265 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 2: somewhere between six hundred and forty thousand to seven hundred 266 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 2: and fifty thousand of the roughly eight hundred thousand undocumented 267 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 2: K twelve students that got free or reduce price meals 268 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 2: at our expense. That is roughly one third of the 269 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 2: twenty one million total participants for the year twenty twenty 270 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 2: three through twenty twenty four. So don't try to tell 271 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 2: me that illegal aliens don't have an effect on the 272 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 2: fiscal crisis in this country, because clearly they do. And 273 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 2: if there are some people that are not getting qualified 274 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 2: because the program is so overwhelmed right now, and if 275 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 2: illegal aliens account for somewhere between twenty one point one million, 276 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 2: one third of the twenty one point one million that's 277 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 2: at the expense of American citizens now illegal alien parents 278 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 2: they can also get food stamps. They get food stamps 279 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 2: for their US born children. For those dreamers, Somewhere between 280 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 2: two point two and three million US born citizens children 281 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 2: citizen children of illegal aliens get that form of welfare. 282 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 2: That is a huge portion of the eighteen to nineteen 283 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 2: million children on snap overall. So yes, that's what we're 284 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 2: paying for. The same is true with me dead. So 285 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 2: all of these benefits that are costing us slower growth 286 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,719 Speaker 2: in the economy, increasing our debt. You know, I'm not 287 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 2: really to talk about it. I may talk about it tomorrow. 288 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 2: But Japan's treasury rates bumped up a little bit yesterday, 289 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 2: one point seven percent. They're bonds one point seven percent. 290 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 2: Japan is the largest purchaser of our debt, the largest, 291 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 2: let me be more precise, Japan is the largest foreign 292 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 2: purchaser of our debt. The costs of that debt just 293 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 2: went up. Yes, And of course we're buying more of 294 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 2: our own debt. And at the same time that we're 295 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 2: doing all of that, all of this is going on 296 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 2: in terms of these entitlement programs, and you tell me 297 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 2: that we're okay, nothing to worry about. Want me worry 298 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 2: Every member of Congress, including the President, who allow these 299 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 2: program to continue to just bloat, bloat, bloat, bloat. They're 300 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 2: killing us, are literally going to kill the country. And 301 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 2: bloating those programs is not theoretical, it's evident in what 302 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 2: happens when states tighten the reins with just trying to 303 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 2: do some basic oversite. Maine. Under revisions made in October 304 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 2: of two thousand and fourteen eleven years ago, able bodied 305 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 2: adults without dependence under the age of fifty can only 306 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 2: get food stamps if they enrolled in vocational education, volunteered 307 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 2: an hour a day. It's pretty tough go volunteer an 308 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 2: hour a day, or they worked twenty hours a week, 309 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 2: provided they were mentally and physically able. Now, after one year, 310 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 2: the results in Maine were absolutely amazing. The food stamp 311 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 2: caseloade for Maine for those childless adults prompted by more 312 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 2: than eighty percent. It went from above thirteen thousand to 313 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 2: only about twenty six hundred. And yet we didn't hear, 314 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 2: and you can't find if you go on Lexis nexis 315 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 2: and start searching for headlines of widespread reports of increased hunger. Nope, 316 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 2: but there's clear evidence that many of those had simply 317 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 2: been avoiding work altogether. And Maine's not alone. Next door 318 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 2: in Kansas, go back to twenty thirteen. In Kansas, they 319 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 2: reinstated snapped work requirements for adults able bodied adults working 320 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 2: adults after a waiver period during the recession. Enrollment in 321 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 2: that group created by seventy five percent. It dropped from 322 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 2: twelve thousand to three thousand within one year because thousands 323 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 2: either found jobs or they just went out. They just 324 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 2: left the program. Now, if you just left the program, 325 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 2: and I don't have a breakdown of those numbers, but 326 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 2: if they just left program, that is proof that lack 327 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 2: of enforcement had allowed in eligible users to just linger 328 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 2: on and stay on the program. Now, if we've got 329 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,880 Speaker 2: forty two million people, are you really going to try 330 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: to convince me that there's not waste, fraud and abuse 331 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: net program? If if Maine is at seventy five percent, 332 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 2: and if Kansas is Kansas, and I'm sorry, Maine was 333 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 2: greater than that. Maine was up there, Kansas was at 334 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 2: seventy five percent. In Georgia, they did a pilot program 335 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen. They did it only three counties, again 336 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 2: stricter work rules, and they saw those able bodied adult 337 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 2: working people that participation fell by up to eighty five 338 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 2: percent in some areas of those three counties. Now, Georgia 339 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 2: has now expanded similar requirements statewide as of this November, 340 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 2: and they project that ninety six thousand out of one 341 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 2: point four million recipients could lose benefits if they don't comply. 342 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: What does that do? I mean, that's calling the ineligible 343 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 2: users admit ongoing debates over fraud. Why do we have 344 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 2: this reaction that says, oh, we're just going to go 345 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 2: require everybody to go requalify. Give them, you know, give 346 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 2: them a thirty sixty day period, within a thirty you know, 347 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 2: start today's Monday, November seventeenth, as I'm broadcasting, so on 348 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 2: whatever December first is. Between December first and January thirty 349 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 2: first of next year, if you're currently on the program, 350 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 2: you are going to be kicked off as of January 351 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 2: thirty first of next year. Gives them two full months 352 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 2: unless you reapply and then actually have the staff to 353 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 2: do a series qualification program to see if they really 354 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 2: do qualify. Now, those examples, I think underscore a much 355 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 2: broader issue. When you don't do oversigned case loads swell 356 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 2: with people who could be supporting themselves, and that diverts 357 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 2: resources from families who are in real crisis. Interestingly, the 358 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 2: critics will argue that that only inflates the cost, but 359 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 2: also for fosters a culture of dependency. Really, how the 360 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 2: hell does that happen? Because as Congress starts to I 361 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 2: some reforms. Supporters of targeted enforcements say it isn't about 362 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 2: punishing the poor, it's about ensuring that the aid reaches 363 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 2: those who truly need it before the program's good will 364 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 2: continues to erode under its own weight. Which is why 365 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 2: this is happening right now. If you're one of those 366 00:25:54,840 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 2: who opposes the idea of how to respond to an idea, 367 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 2: to the idea of simply saying you've got to requalify, 368 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 2: and you think that's wrong, you might be part of 369 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 2: the problem these kind of This is only food stamps, 370 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 2: you take unemployment benefits, you take Medicaid, you take Medicare 371 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 2: or Social Security, you take any of those, you take 372 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 2: any entitlement program across the board. And if you don't 373 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 2: require on an annual basis to requalify, and if you 374 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 2: don't put and I guess I'm actually arguing for greater staffing. 375 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 2: If you don't put the staffing in where you don't 376 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 2: put the technology in to really vet people who want 377 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 2: to take money from the pockets of hard working taxpayers 378 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 2: for those who are unwilling to work, to the detriment 379 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 2: of those who are unable to work, then we get 380 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 2: a screwed up system, a totally screwed up system. Let 381 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 2: me try to get in a little bit of the 382 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: one final point I wanted to make about what I 383 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 2: saw yesterday, and that was about communism, because what we're 384 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 2: doing here is we're creating a dependency class that will 385 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 2: eventually lead to a Marxist or communist form of government. 386 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 2: So I see on X on my timeline at Michael Brown, USA, 387 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 2: I see a picture of Shanghai, and under it is 388 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 2: a caption some obviously useful idiot. If communism is so bad, 389 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 2: then why is China so advanced? Now? I know that's 390 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 2: a generalized statement, but let's break it down. Because China's 391 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 2: visible advancement rides on market driven dynamics under one party 392 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 2: Leninist rule. It doesn't rely on communist merit, and that 393 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 2: party state aggressively subordinates wealth, individual rights, the law. It 394 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 2: subordinates the law to political control, and that produces systemic 395 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,880 Speaker 2: repression behind that skyline that you see in that picture. 396 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 2: So what does advanced China really look like. I've talked 397 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 2: to a couple of friends, and there are a couple 398 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 2: of people that I follow the on X that stay 399 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 2: in touch and can tell you the truth about what's 400 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 2: really going on in China. China's growed since nineteen seventy 401 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 2: eight actually came from allowing market forces and private enterprise 402 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 2: to operate. Today, the private sector generates most jobs, innovation, 403 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 2: and exports. Even if the Party is reasserting its dominance 404 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 2: over all the top firms that have advanced that. Even 405 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 2: official party documents frame reform in terms of market access, 406 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 2: property rights, language, business registration, even bankruptcy systems. Those are 407 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 2: tools of free markets, not classical communisms abolition of private property. 408 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 2: But and here's the big butt, Communist capitalism is a 409 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 2: misnomer because the Party describes quote socialism with Chinese characteristics. 410 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 2: It's a mixed economy because the private firms create the 411 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 2: bulks of employment and exports, while the party reserves its 412 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 2: ultimate control over everything that makes those companies available to 413 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 2: be profitable. Capital allocation, data, corporate governance. That's all controlled 414 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 2: by the Chinese Communist Party since twenty twenty. For the 415 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 2: past five years now, Beijing is Titaned controlled. Private firmshare 416 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 2: among China's largest companies has fallen precipitously, while state firm 417 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 2: share has increased. Precipitously. So it illustrates politicization over market 418 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 2: discipline at all the commanding heights of this market that 419 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 2: everybody looks at a place like Shanghai and goes, oh, 420 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 2: look how wonderful it is. And growth, Remember this growth 421 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 2: does not necessarily equal freedom or justice because China's government 422 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 2: is assessed, is economically repressed because the party state directly 423 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 2: controls the key levers rix economic freedoms. Despite all the 424 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 2: high investment in all that beautiful infrastructure you see is 425 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 2: all controlled by a single party. And of course you've 426 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 2: got the State Department that identifies widespread human rights abuses 427 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 2: including arbitrary detentions, torture, forced disappearances, severe restrictions of speech, 428 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 2: religion association, across the mainland and in Hong Kong. Go 429 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 2: look at Hong Kong today. It's just a tiny tiny 430 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 2: bit of what it used to be. And least, but 431 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 2: not least and worst, I think the surveillance security state 432 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 2: sing Xiang, Shanghai is located empty. It actually exemplifies the 433 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 2: model pervasive. You've heard of grid management, No, it's not 434 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 2: grid management we think about about managing the electrical grid. 435 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 2: This is a grid by grid by the city, blocked 436 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 2: by block AI driven databases, risk scoring systems. All of 437 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 2: that fees into mass detentions, transforms that region into a 438 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 2: laboratory of tech enabled authoritarianism. So the picture shows a 439 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 2: really shiny object. Don't be confused by the shiny object, 440 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 2: because there are multiple investigations you can find online that 441 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 2: document in tournaments, re education, forced labor programs targeting the leaguers, 442 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 2: and other minorities, all consistent with the findings of possible 443 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 2: crimes against humanity. The shiny object, don't be fooled by 444 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 2: it at all. Communism's core remains coercive, and it always will. 445 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 2: It's a skyscrape illusion. It's simply a sky scrape illusion. 446 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 4: I bet if they gave us a bunch of slave labor, 447 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 4: we could create a really. 448 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 2: Cool world, could we? I can I we could fill 449 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 2: the potholest crazy throw your role there, Michael. 450 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 4: We need more than slave labor to fill potholes. Apparently 451 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 4: it's impossible to fill potholes. Can't wait till this winter? 452 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 4: Really get that? 453 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: Going? Uh? 454 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 2: To my audience, I apologize. I think I get a 455 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 2: nerve with somebody, so I'm out of here.