Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 4: Allergies are brutal apparently nationwide, more states with high allergy.
Speaker 3: Alert than I've ever been at one time. Climate change
Speaker 3: or who knows?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Can we get? A giant national hepafilter? Is that possible?
Speaker 3: To ask me about that?
Speaker 1: Wow? And make Mexico pay for it? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Something like that would be nice, yes, or just a yeah?
Speaker 1: A gigantic series of fans on the border with the
Speaker 1: filters to recirculate the air. Yeah, why not? So last
Speaker 1: night on Special Report with Brett Bear, Brett sat down
Speaker 1: and talked with gosh was it seven guys? Seven? Oh
Speaker 1: my lord? With six or seven of the guys who
Speaker 1: are heading up the DOGE efforts, including Elon Musk. Of course,
Speaker 1: executive producer Hanson has done a fabulous job of getting
Speaker 1: us many many highlights, many more than we could play
Speaker 1: on air. Meeting time, Jack, I say, I want to
Speaker 1: hear a couple from Elon Musk because the interview begins
Speaker 1: with him. But i'd really, really like to highlight at
Speaker 1: least a little bit from each of the guys because
Speaker 1: to me, the great takeaway and Elon is a brilliant
Speaker 1: guy and interesting, but between his overexposure and his halting
Speaker 1: speaking style, and as a parent of an autistic kid,
Speaker 1: I get it, and I'm used to it more or less,
Speaker 1: but it can be distracting. And my big takeaway from
Speaker 1: it was this is an amazing collection of brilliant people
Speaker 1: who are a dead serious about doing what's right for
Speaker 1: the American people, not within a thousand miles of the
Speaker 1: haphazard monster that the mainstream media is portrayed. So what
Speaker 1: do you think of a little touch on all the fellas?
Speaker 3: Then why the Hitler salute?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we were kicking around a picture on the
Speaker 1: Private Well, Jeffrey Goldberg was probably on it. But the
Speaker 1: private show thread last night of Musk waving with two hands,
Speaker 1: we called it the double Hitler. So obviously we're dabbling
Speaker 1: with Nazism here to even play it. But so here's
Speaker 1: Brett Bear with Elon Musk talking about when they took
Speaker 1: a look at the government books, what they found. We'll
Speaker 1: start with fifty one Michael and.
Speaker 5: Talk to all the guys here about the specifics. But
Speaker 5: for you, what's the most astonishing thing you've found out
Speaker 5: in this process?
Speaker 6: The sheer amount of waste and ford in the government.
Speaker 6: It is astonishing, It's mind blowing. Just we routinely encounter
Speaker 6: wastes of a billion dollars or more casually. You know,
Speaker 6: for example, like the simple survey that was literally ten
Speaker 6: questions survey that you could do with survey monkey quashed
Speaker 6: about ten thousand dollars. Was the government was being charged
Speaker 6: almost a billion dollars for that for just the survey.
Speaker 6: A billion dollars for a simple online survey do you
Speaker 6: like the National Park? And then there pays me no
Speaker 6: feedback loop for what will be done with that survey?
Speaker 6: Sole say, we would just go to nothing. It's like
Speaker 6: you're saying you tacking.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then to the criticism that they are making
Speaker 1: mistakes and running rough shot over the federal bureaucracy fifty
Speaker 1: three Michael.
Speaker 5: There obviously are dose critics who are reading all kinds
Speaker 5: of stuff. Obviously lawmakers on the other side of the
Speaker 5: aisle are attacking you, and they characterize the approach is
Speaker 5: this fire ready and then aim and.
Speaker 3: How do you approach that. How do you respond to that.
Speaker 2: Well, I do agree that we act.
Speaker 6: We want to be careful in the cuts, so we
Speaker 6: want to measure twice if not thrice, and cut once.
Speaker 2: And actually that is our approach.
Speaker 6: They may characterize it as shooting from the hip, but
Speaker 6: it is anything at that which is not saying that
Speaker 6: we don't make mistakes.
Speaker 2: If we were to approach this with the.
Speaker 6: Standard of making no mistakes at all, that would be
Speaker 6: like saying someone in baseball's got a bat a thousand
Speaker 6: as impossible. So when we do make mistakes, we correct
Speaker 6: them quickly and we move on.
Speaker 4: I think it's interesting that so the crowd that's angry
Speaker 4: at DOGE, they don't get angry when they hear the
Speaker 4: government spent a billion dollars on a ten thousand dollars survey.
Speaker 4: And then it's not even for anything anyway. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's all money that could be going to programs you
Speaker 4: like that eventually won't happen because we'll be broke, or
Speaker 4: you should be angry that they're taking your money at
Speaker 4: all that you earned, not letting you and spending on that.
Speaker 4: You have no anger about that, only about when they
Speaker 4: get it wrong now and then before they can fix it.
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of Thomas Sole's epic book of Conflict of Visions.
Speaker 1: People have just gotten the message that in our tribe
Speaker 1: we are anti this, so shout that it's evil and
Speaker 1: they say, okay, I will. That's part of all the
Speaker 1: rational thought that goes into it, and that's part of it.
Speaker 4: I think there is the rational thought of there's endless
Speaker 4: government money, or it's not my money, or I don't
Speaker 4: pay taxes or whatever, that you just don't care about waste,
Speaker 4: fraud and abuse.
Speaker 3: I think true, a lot of people just don't care
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: And as I've said a million times, that's actually part
Speaker 1: of the progressive playbook is to narrow the tax base
Speaker 1: as much as possible so there aren't enough votes to
Speaker 1: vote against the graft that you spread to your cronies. Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on from Elon Musk Brett now turns to Steve Davis,
Speaker 1: and I should have jotted down all these guys credentials.
Speaker 1: They touch on some of it, but he's the first
Speaker 1: of the many, very very impressive, serious people who is
Speaker 1: helping Elon head up the doge thing. Fifty four Michael.
Speaker 5: Some people say this shouldn't take a rocket scientist, Steve Davis,
Speaker 5: you are a rocket scientist.
Speaker 2: It used to be yeah.
Speaker 5: Now essentially you're the chief operating officer of dough day
Speaker 5: to day operations.
Speaker 7: Fair to say, yeah, part of part of the Dose team.
Speaker 2: So how did you end up here?
Speaker 3: What's the biggest challenge?
Speaker 5: You see?
Speaker 7: The reason I'm here, which is probably for many, is
Speaker 7: that I think the goal is incredibly inspiring. I think
Speaker 7: most of the taxpayers in the country would agree that
Speaker 7: in order to have the country going bankrupt would be
Speaker 7: a very bad thing, and therefore the country going not
Speaker 7: bankrupt is a good thing that all of us are
Speaker 7: willing to kind of put our lives on hold in
Speaker 7: order to do. I think the thing that's special right
Speaker 7: now is we actually believe there's a chance to succeed,
Speaker 7: that there's an administration that's supportive and a great cabinet
Speaker 7: and just a great group that will actually make success
Speaker 7: a possible outcome. And I think that's given the inspiring
Speaker 7: mission and given the non zero chance of success, it was.
Speaker 1: Worth h Obviously the voice of a monster, right, and
Speaker 1: one principle that hung over in a good way all
Speaker 1: of the discussions that was repeated many times is we
Speaker 1: need to be adults and recognize the country is going broke.
Speaker 1: We need to get serious about this before the train
Speaker 1: wreck occurs or the beloved social programs that everybody's screaming about,
Speaker 1: even though they're not talking about touching them, really will
Speaker 1: go away. The outcome you are screaming about will happen
Speaker 1: unless we do this very very serious. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's worth resetting the retirement mind? I think that's covered
Speaker 1: pretty thoroughly. I was surprised they got into that the
Speaker 1: way they did. Yeah, just a great story.
Speaker 4: We played a whole bunch of clips on that several
Speaker 4: weeks ago when Elon first started talking about it, that
Speaker 4: they still do it paper like it's the fifties down
Speaker 4: in a mine.
Speaker 3: For all.
Speaker 4: The retirement paperwork for government employees is just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Right, and they're trying to modernize that to make it
Speaker 1: easier for federal employees to do everything they need to do,
Speaker 1: including to retire. They mentioned you have to take a
Speaker 1: seminar to teach you how to retire as a federal
Speaker 1: government employee. Let's see, all right, let's skip ahead to
Speaker 1: Arab Mogadasi, who is a software engineer as he explains
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Speaker 1: the computer systems of the government are a terrible, sad
Speaker 1: joke and far from irresponsible frat boys. The DOGE team
Speaker 1: is taking a serious look about how to make the
Speaker 1: government more responsive to us. Let's start with sixty Michael.
Speaker 5: Parham Moganasi DOJE engineer go into these places, one of
Speaker 5: the more than a dozen engineers. First people to go
Speaker 5: into the agencies and view the computer data sets. Tell
Speaker 5: me what you're finding, and for people who don't understand
Speaker 5: how that process works, explain it for them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll say the first thing that got me really
Speaker 8: excited about DOGE was learning basically the state of government computers.
Speaker 8: By some estimates, government it costs about one hundred billion
Speaker 8: dollars and it's funding systems that are over fifty years
Speaker 8: old in the case of something like Social Security or
Speaker 8: the IRS. So really critical systems are old, they cost
Speaker 8: a lot of money to maintain, and they can be
Speaker 8: the efforts to improve them are often very delayed. So
Speaker 8: I thought, I'm a software engineer that that maybe can
Speaker 8: make a difference here, and.
Speaker 2: That's that's really what.
Speaker 1: Inspired me at a high level.
Speaker 4: That's going to be something when you come out of
Speaker 4: the tech world where you're probably using the very latest,
Speaker 4: greatest of its last week, to come into government and
Speaker 4: realize you're using stuff that's fifty years old and figure
Speaker 4: out what that even was.
Speaker 1: Right, And here's another incredibly successful guy who answered the
Speaker 1: call and said, yeah, you know what, we might be
Speaker 1: able to actually do this for the American people. I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give it a try. I like the
Speaker 1: way the next part is framed sixty one sixty two
Speaker 1: back to back. Please the first a montage of Democrats
Speaker 1: with their messaging over Doge.
Speaker 9: It's absurd that Elon Musk is trying to eliminate billions
Speaker 9: of dollars from Social Security.
Speaker 10: Elon Musk and President Trump have set their sites on
Speaker 10: cutting Social Security.
Speaker 11: Their goal is clear, destroy social Security from within.
Speaker 5: You're in the building, I mean, you're in the computers.
Speaker 2: What's happening there?
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it doesn't line up with my experience on the ground.
Speaker 2: And I'll say the two.
Speaker 8: Improvements that we're trying to make to Social Security are
Speaker 8: helping people that legitimately get benefits protect them from fraud
Speaker 8: that they experience every day on a routine basis, and
Speaker 8: also make the experience better.
Speaker 3: And I'll give.
Speaker 8: You one example is at Social Security. One of the
Speaker 8: first things we learned is that they get phone calls
Speaker 8: every day of people trying to change direct positive information.
Speaker 8: So when you want to change your bank account, you
Speaker 8: can call Social Security. We learned forty percent of the
Speaker 8: phone calls that they get are from fraudsters.
Speaker 10: That's right, almost half.
Speaker 2: Yes, And they steal people's social security. Is what happens
Speaker 2: is they call in, they say they claim to be
Speaker 2: a retiree.
Speaker 6: Then they and they convinced the post the Social Security
Speaker 6: posts on the phone to change where the money is flowing,
Speaker 6: it actually goes to some fraudster. Is this happening all
Speaker 6: day every day and then and then somebody doesn't receive
Speaker 6: their social security is because of all the fraud loopholes
Speaker 6: in the social security system.
Speaker 3: They're trying to destroy social Security from within.
Speaker 1: And then Musk makes the point, we're trying to make
Speaker 1: sure people get more money, not less.
Speaker 3: Not politics is awful.
Speaker 1: The appalling dishonesty is problem number one. Secondly, standing in
Speaker 1: the way of actual improvement is a second evil, unforgivable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got more of this and other stuff too.
Speaker 4: But man, how much of America had heard this take
Speaker 4: on Doge. Not very much, Not very many people stay here.
Speaker 4: We got a text from somebody listening to this stuff,
Speaker 4: the Doge stuff about the computers being out of date,
Speaker 4: and he used to work in that world, and he
Speaker 4: said a lot of it was they have this stupid
Speaker 4: requirement where the new system has to integrate with the
Speaker 4: old system so that end users don't notice a difference
Speaker 4: during transitions, which means you have to hold on to
Speaker 4: all the stuff from the old system for the new system.
Speaker 4: And it just doesn't work in any way to try to,
Speaker 4: you know, move forward with new technology, so you just
Speaker 4: end up sticking with the old stuff, sometimes fifty years.
Speaker 3: Down the line apparently, if.
Speaker 1: You're just tuning in. Brettbair did a fabulous series of
Speaker 1: interviews with the leaders of the Doge effort last night,
Speaker 1: including Brad Smith, who is a health care entrepreneur and
Speaker 1: is working on the Department of Health and Human Services stuff.
Speaker 1: You may have heard in the various lefty media that
Speaker 1: they're trying to gut scientific research and causing damage to
Speaker 1: our elite. You know universities blah blah blah. Here's Brad
Speaker 1: Smith talking about their efforts sixty five Michael Brett.
Speaker 5: Smith working at HHS, And obviously another element is Medicare
Speaker 5: and Medicaid NIH.
Speaker 10: What do you find it?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Well, I'd say there's a couple of things we're
Speaker 12: really committed to in our work at AHHS. Number one,
Speaker 12: making sure we continue to have the best biomedical research
Speaker 12: in the world. And number two making sure which President
Speaker 12: Trump has said over and over again, that we one
Speaker 12: protect Medicare and Medicaid. But there's a lot of opportunity.
Speaker 12: So if I take NIH as an example today, if
Speaker 12: you're a NIH researcher and you get one hundred dollars
Speaker 12: grant at your university today, you get to spend sixty
Speaker 12: of that and your university spends forty of that. The
Speaker 12: policy that we're proposing to make is that you get
Speaker 12: to spend eighty five of that and your university spends fifteen.
Speaker 12: So that's more money going directly to the scientists who
Speaker 12: are discovering new cures. Another example at NIH is today
Speaker 12: they have twenty seven different centers. They got created over
Speaker 12: time by Congress, and they're typically by disease state or
Speaker 12: body system. There's seven hundred different IT systems today at NIH.
Speaker 5: Seven hundred different ITS software systems.
Speaker 2: They can't speak to each other, so they don't talk
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 12: They have twenty seven different CIOs. And so when you
Speaker 12: think about making great medical discoveries, you have to connect
Speaker 12: the data.
Speaker 8: Time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, time, twenty seven different chief information officers correct, correct,
Speaker 5: and most.
Speaker 2: Of your non technical. So there's a lot there.
Speaker 12: There's a lot of opportunity. It will make science better,
Speaker 12: not yours.
Speaker 1: No, No, they're derailing important research. This is Elon is
Speaker 1: a Nazi. They need to be stopped.
Speaker 4: I live in a university town and a lot of
Speaker 4: people have been really upset about this aspect of it.
Speaker 4: And I mean just like sad and scared for America
Speaker 4: And how are we going to weather the next three years?
Speaker 3: Well, how about this, how about.
Speaker 4: Make it even slightly more efficient and you can have
Speaker 4: more money to use for your research.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's squeeze in sixty six. Michael, you're quite right.
Speaker 6: Yes, when I say that our job is tech support,
Speaker 6: I really mean it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to fix the computers.
Speaker 6: If the computers can't talk to each other, you can't
Speaker 6: get research done. If the computers can't stay online, people won't.
Speaker 2: Receive as social security.
Speaker 6: So what we have here are a bunch of failing
Speaker 6: computer systems that are preventing people from receiving their benefits,
Speaker 6: that are preventing people from preventing research from happening, that
Speaker 6: are extremely vulnerable to fraud.
Speaker 2: And we're fixing it.
Speaker 5: And does that include AI does that include kind of
Speaker 5: changing the system overall? That's what I guess what people
Speaker 5: are afraid of is they don't know what this is
Speaker 5: all looking like and is it going to affect me
Speaker 5: in the long term.
Speaker 6: It's going to affect them, It's going to affect people
Speaker 6: very positively. So the changes that we're doing here will
Speaker 6: ensure the solvency of the American Government, of the American
Speaker 6: of the United States of America. This is what we're
Speaker 6: trying to do, is ensure that people do receive their
Speaker 6: benefits in the future. And you can all receive your
Speaker 6: benefits if the country is operating in a healthy and
Speaker 6: competent way.
Speaker 4: I like elon always bringing it back to that, because
Speaker 4: that's what drives the whole thing. We're going to become insolvent,
Speaker 4: We're going to have no money we're not going to.
Speaker 3: Be able to do anything if we don't change it.
Speaker 1: Course right right next, we'd like to feature Anthony Armstrong,
Speaker 1: who's a banking giant who's trying to get a hold
Speaker 1: of federal personnel and duplicated efforts and redundancy and waste
Speaker 1: in that way, another very serious person doing serious work
Speaker 1: for you, not against you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's on the way.
Speaker 4: If you missed a segment at the podcast Armstrong and
Speaker 4: Getty on demand, but stick around Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: But it is.
Speaker 13: Very important to recognize that that the people who work
Speaker 13: in government who are working on health.
Speaker 3: Are dedicated public servants.
Speaker 13: There are neighbors, there are friends, There are people in
Speaker 13: our family who are committed to improving the lives of
Speaker 13: people across our country. A lot of them are going
Speaker 13: to be losing their jobs and we're all going to
Speaker 13: suffer because of it.
Speaker 1: That's CNN had this doctor on who is a former
Speaker 1: CDC staffer explaining how cuts and restructuring like Doge is doing.
Speaker 1: It's just a terrible idea. We must not improve anything
Speaker 1: because there's a huge human cost.
Speaker 4: Welling back to the thing I've been complaining about for
Speaker 4: a long time, that the idea of somebody losing their
Speaker 4: job in government is just something that can't happen.
Speaker 1: Well, these are our friends, Jack, these are neighbors. These
Speaker 1: are nice people.
Speaker 4: So before we get back to more Elon Doge stuff
Speaker 4: that is so interesting and not being heard any were
Speaker 4: in America. You know the doctor who tried to push
Speaker 4: his wife off the cliff and killer. The latest is
Speaker 4: he tried to hit her in the head with a
Speaker 4: rock ten times an injector with syringes. Oh so more
Speaker 4: details to come on that it was definitely premeditated.
Speaker 1: She money insanity. So the interesting part, well, one of
Speaker 1: the interesting parts of Brett Bear's interview with a bunch
Speaker 1: of Doge leaders last night was that it wasn't just
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, who's a lovely fellow and brilliant, but it
Speaker 1: was the group of extremely smart, capable, accomplished people who
Speaker 1: had been assembled who are working as hard as they
Speaker 1: can on improving the federal government how it functions and
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's benefits for American taxpayers. Having been
Speaker 1: portrayed is as this loose band of frat boy lunatics
Speaker 1: in most of the media, these are dead serious people.
Speaker 1: For instance, Anthony Armstrong, Morgan Stanley Banker. He is working
Speaker 1: for DOJE at the Office of Personnel Management, trying to
Speaker 1: modernize and make more efficient that huge part of the
Speaker 1: federal government. Clips sixty seven.
Speaker 5: Michael Anthony Armstrong, DOZE, Office of Personnel Management.
Speaker 10: You're Morgan Stanley Banker, M.
Speaker 5: And a guy you know money, And this is a
Speaker 5: lot of money slashing around.
Speaker 14: There's a lot of money slashing around. It's a lot
Speaker 14: of money slashing out the door. And if you look
Speaker 14: at the federal government in the way the workforce works,
Speaker 14: it's really a one way ratchet over decades.
Speaker 10: So it's all going up. It's only going up. You
Speaker 10: never you never take it away.
Speaker 14: So that leads you with duplicative functions, It leaves you
Speaker 14: with overstaffing, and it leaves you with functions in the
Speaker 14: wrong places. So a couple of examples duplicative functions Brad
Speaker 14: mentioned twenty seven CIOs. If you had kept going with Brady,
Speaker 14: probably even talk about the communications office.
Speaker 10: I think you've got forty forty distinct.
Speaker 14: Communications offices in HIHS, right, wow forty yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 14: that's not unusual, by the way, multiple offices like another
Speaker 14: a healthy wow.
Speaker 4: If you had three, you'd think you need three different
Speaker 4: communications offices for one agency.
Speaker 1: No, forty Wow, it's a one way ratchet. It just grows.
Speaker 1: Next to Michael, this.
Speaker 10: Is not about the employees there.
Speaker 14: There's been many, many hard working, well meeting people who
Speaker 14: took these jobs. These jobs were out there, they applied
Speaker 14: for them, they took them.
Speaker 10: They're doing what's there. It's just that they're.
Speaker 14: Duplicating the effort of forty offices. So you've got that,
Speaker 14: you've got overstaffing. A good example of overstaffing would be
Speaker 14: the IRS has got fourteen hundred people who are dedicated
Speaker 14: to provisioning laptops and cell phones. So if you join
Speaker 14: the RS, you get a laptop and a cell phone.
Speaker 14: You're provisioned. So if each of those IRS officers or
Speaker 14: employees provisioned two employees per day, you could provision the
Speaker 14: entire IRS in a little more than a month, so
Speaker 14: twelve times a year.
Speaker 2: You can read this.
Speaker 6: Why would you have fourteen hundred people whose only job
Speaker 6: it is to give out a laptop on the phone.
Speaker 10: Right, The whole IRS could be hand once on a month.
Speaker 10: So that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 14: And President trump'son very clear it's scalpel, not hatchet, and
Speaker 14: that's the way it's getting done.
Speaker 1: And of course that's all being portrayed as you will
Speaker 1: not be able to get the irs to answer the phone,
Speaker 1: which they never have, or get good tax advice from
Speaker 1: you never have, and these suedus are trying to get
Speaker 1: to those outcomes. Anyway. One more fell at a feature.
Speaker 1: This is Tom Krause, who is the CEO of the
Speaker 1: Cloud Software Group. He is working at the Treasury Department.
Speaker 1: We'll start with seventy Michael.
Speaker 5: Tom Crass working at Treasury, you are having access to
Speaker 5: the payment system oversees all the outgoing payments. Essentially those
Speaker 5: payments were going places we didn't know where they were going, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately that's the case right.
Speaker 9: As an XCFO of a big public tech company. Really,
Speaker 9: what we're doing is we're applying public company standards to
Speaker 9: the federal government.
Speaker 1: And it is.
Speaker 9: Alarming how the financial operations and financial management is set
Speaker 9: up today.
Speaker 1: Michael, let's continue on with this frat boy doge boy
Speaker 1: loose camp.
Speaker 9: There is actually really only one bank account that's used
Speaker 9: to disburse all monies that go out of the federal government.
Speaker 2: Time about one blank account it's a big one. It's
Speaker 2: a it's a big one.
Speaker 1: It's a big one.
Speaker 9: A couple of weeks ago, I had eight hundred million
Speaker 9: dollars in it. But it's the treasury gedital account. So
Speaker 9: when you hear, you know, some of my colleagues here
Speaker 9: what they're talking about in terms of the fraud, you
Speaker 9: have to ask, well, why is this allowed to happen
Speaker 9: at a financial level. Well, it's actually quite simple but alarming.
Speaker 9: The Treasury up until now, and thanks to President Trump,
Speaker 9: we're fixing this. In fact, there's an executive order that
Speaker 9: he just signed the other day which is protecting America's
Speaker 9: bank account because it really is the taxpayer's money, you know.
Speaker 1: One, we're changing the culture.
Speaker 9: The culture is been not a lot of caring and
Speaker 9: not a lot of commitment to doing what's right. Relative
Speaker 9: to financial operations. There's a five hundred million dollars a
Speaker 9: fraud every year. There's one hundreds of billion dollars of
Speaker 9: improper payments, and we can't pass it on it. The
Speaker 9: Consolidated Financial Report is produced by Treasury, and we cannot
Speaker 9: pass it on.
Speaker 1: We have material weaknesses. What that means is.
Speaker 9: That if I was a public company, CFO, I would
Speaker 9: effectively be removed. I couldn't file financial statements, I couldn't
Speaker 9: issue securities.
Speaker 2: Such a question can't pass it on right, the federal
Speaker 2: government cannot pass it in ordered.
Speaker 1: And you know one more. He makes a great point here.
Speaker 9: We're serving five hundred and eighty plus agencies, and up
Speaker 9: until very recently, effectively they could say make the payment
Speaker 9: and Treasury just sent it out as fast as possible,
Speaker 9: no verification. And so what we're doing is what any
Speaker 9: household would do. But imagine you're a household. You have
Speaker 9: a bank account. Everyone has an ATM card connect to
Speaker 9: that account, everyone has a check book that account. It's
Speaker 9: not just your children, it's not just your parents at
Speaker 9: you're in LASS, it's your extended family, and they all
Speaker 9: can go to the account and disperse funds, no questions asked,
Speaker 9: no justification, no verification.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not surprising to me. It's horrifying.
Speaker 1: But I missed the part where they admitted that they're
Speaker 1: just trying to slap Social Security benefits out of the
Speaker 1: mouth of a ninety year old woman who's starving and blind.
Speaker 1: They didn't get to that part, I guess. And then
Speaker 1: finally to put a cap on it bear wrapping up
Speaker 1: ret bear with Elon Musk.
Speaker 5: We didn't talk about any plans to approach cuts at
Speaker 5: the Pentagon.
Speaker 3: You're in there.
Speaker 6: The Pentagon has not passed the orders in a very
Speaker 6: long time. I mean, as crazy as it sounds, they
Speaker 6: will lose twenty thirty billion dollars a year and they
Speaker 6: don't know where They literally don't know where it went.
Speaker 6: I mean, Senator Collins was telling me about how she
Speaker 6: gave the Navy twelve billion dollars for extra submarines, got
Speaker 6: zero extra submarines, and then when she held a hearing said,
Speaker 6: web the twelve billion dollars they didn't know.
Speaker 1: We have howled for years about the idiotic, gigantic theft
Speaker 1: that is the bullet train in California, and the other
Speaker 1: of the twin towers to government squandering taxpayer money is
Speaker 1: the homeless programs in kel Unicornia, billions and billions and
Speaker 1: billions of dollars given out. And we all found out
Speaker 1: last year that not only do they not know if
Speaker 1: any of them have borne any fruit, have been successful,
Speaker 1: they don't even have a means to ask the question.
Speaker 1: And whether it was that little screed about the Pentagon
Speaker 1: or Tyler Hassen, who don't have time to play that tape.
Speaker 1: He's working at the Department of the Interior. They were
Speaker 1: talking about how they have many, many, many programs that
Speaker 1: they are now looking into auditing and realizing nobody knows
Speaker 1: who signed this contract, where the money's going. We're not
Speaker 1: getting anything out of it, but the checks keep getting
Speaker 1: written month after month, year after year. Even so nobody
Speaker 1: has any idea what this is. It's just shocking. And
Speaker 1: again the effort to rain this in is being portrayed
Speaker 1: as the stormtroopers marching across Poland slaughtering the innocent by
Speaker 1: you know, Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffreys and aoc Well.
Speaker 4: And half the country doesn't pay federal taxes. You can't
Speaker 4: count on that half to be too mad.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 3: That's really frustrating.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, different topic. It's it's interesting to me
Speaker 4: for some reason. It's popping into my head. I can't
Speaker 4: imagine what Elon's work day is. I've thought about this
Speaker 4: many times. But people always want to.
Speaker 3: Win the lottery.
Speaker 4: You know, the lottery gets up to a billion dollars
Speaker 4: or whatever, and it makes national news and people are
Speaker 4: buying tickets and everything like that, and everybody who wants
Speaker 4: to win most everybody hear about who wants to win
Speaker 4: the lottery. It's just and so they can live this
Speaker 4: incredible life of pleasure. And it's like, you know which
Speaker 4: yacht which, how switch car? You know how much pleasure
Speaker 4: can you get free? Billain does, Yes, that is my dream.
Speaker 4: Go on, and then you got all these guys here
Speaker 4: Elon at the head of them who've got that kind
Speaker 4: of money, and they're doing the exact opposite.
Speaker 3: They're working. They're busting their ass.
Speaker 4: All day long with mind numbing, frustrating, possibly dead end
Speaker 4: work because they that's what they do. They care about
Speaker 4: their country. They just they like working. It's interesting, an
Speaker 4: enormous challenge. Yeah, it's interesting, and that's why they have money,
Speaker 4: because they're built that way to have earned the money
Speaker 4: in the first place, as opposed to so many people
Speaker 4: who you know, when they think about having that kind
Speaker 4: of money, it's oh, man, I'd get up at noon,
Speaker 4: I'd go to my yacht, I'd have a ferrari. And
Speaker 4: that's not what these guys are thinking. I just find
Speaker 4: that interesting. The way they're good at.
Speaker 1: The golf course. Before I went to my yacht. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't mean to quibble. I've got it right day, Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Wednesday and so on. Yeah, yeah, well, there you have it.
Speaker 1: I would love to see somehow elon and more particularly
Speaker 1: it's Eve Davis, Joe Jibeiah Brad Smith, Anthony Armstrong, Aaron Moga,
Speaker 1: Don Dasi Moganasi. I would love to have them get
Speaker 1: out and explain this, but they will not be welcomed
Speaker 1: at most media outlets because it doesn't go with the
Speaker 1: narrative of their tribe.
Speaker 3: Now, you combine the left's love of.
Speaker 4: Big government and government workers and all that sort of
Speaker 4: stuff with just hatred of Trump, Trump's sport, you got
Speaker 4: to be against it. We know all that how the
Speaker 4: whole thing works. So it's just yeah, it's tough. It's
Speaker 4: stuf sletting well.
Speaker 1: And you need to remember always that a big part
Speaker 1: of the patchwork that is the Democrat coalition is government employees,
Speaker 1: and they are It's a fore alarm fire at the
Speaker 1: government employee unions right now because if you have one
Speaker 1: thousand workers, three hundred and forty three of whom are
Speaker 1: completely redundant, unnecessary, and taxpayer money is being squandered on them. Well,
Speaker 1: losing those three hundred and forty three is just purely
Speaker 1: a loss to the government unions. They despise the idea
Speaker 1: of making government more efficient for tax payers. And so
Speaker 1: why do you have a quote unquote civil rights leader
Speaker 1: yelling about this, or up with Palestine person yelling about this. Well,
Speaker 1: it's that whole intersectionality, the NATO of grievances. You're all
Speaker 1: together in this. So yeah, okay, when it comes time
Speaker 1: to yell for us, you're gonna yell for us, rightee
Speaker 1: government employees, and they say, yeah, of course we will,
Speaker 1: So okay. So everybody on the left side of the
Speaker 1: aisle acts like making the government better is an unspeakable
Speaker 1: horror at the cost of the of the American people.
Speaker 1: It's all born by the American people. It's obscene, end
Speaker 1: of screed.
Speaker 4: So I got the latest details on that job doctor
Speaker 4: who luckily was arrested to is trying to push his
Speaker 4: wife off the cliff. Also one of the worst New
Speaker 4: York Post headlines I've ever seen, certainly not for the kids,
Speaker 4: among certainly among other things.
Speaker 3: On the way stay here.
Speaker 11: The Dodgers got to jump on everybody. They started the
Speaker 11: season last week at a two game sweep of the
Speaker 11: Cubs in Tokyo. That's how loaded the Dodgers are this year.
Speaker 11: On opening date, they're already two games ahead of everyone else,
Speaker 11: and they're only spending three hundred and ninety eight point
Speaker 11: two million dollars this year to do it, so they
Speaker 11: don't even need to steal bases, they just buy them from.
Speaker 4: The other team. You're Dodger fan, it's awesome. If you're not,
Speaker 4: it's very annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the owners are going to be saying we need
Speaker 1: a salary cap very very soon, and the players Association
Speaker 1: has been staunchly against it. So hello strike or lockout
Speaker 1: or something. Someday.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about my ongoing sleep problems and
Speaker 4: things I've learned and I'm realizing based on texts we
Speaker 4: get and statistics a lot.
Speaker 3: Do you have trouble sleeping?
Speaker 4: In fact, over half of people say they have trouble
Speaker 4: sleeping on a regular basis, half of adults.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Anyway, more on that a.
Speaker 4: Little bit later, and then in a few minutes the
Speaker 4: one of the worst New York Post headlines I've ever seen,
Speaker 4: but ongoing story of the doctor who tried to kill
Speaker 4: his wife at the cliff in Hawaii on the hiking trail.
Speaker 3: That story seems to get a lot of attention. I'm
Speaker 3: not exactly sure why.
Speaker 1: It good looking, rich people murder love.
Speaker 3: Remember I told his story the other day.
Speaker 4: I told the story the other day of someone I
Speaker 4: personally know who broke up with a guy, very serious relationship.
Speaker 4: Broke up with a guy because they were hiking along
Speaker 4: a cliff and he said, man, I could push you
Speaker 4: off this cliff right now, and nobody to ever know.
Speaker 3: She was so come out, she's so grouped out about it.
Speaker 1: She broke up.
Speaker 4: Same hiking trail is this guy. So there must be
Speaker 4: something about this cliff that makes you think, wow, there
Speaker 4: is nobody around, and that is straight down. They should
Speaker 4: rename that trail. You know you got you're tired of
Speaker 4: your husband, take your micing on that trail, just to
Speaker 4: give him a little elbow.
Speaker 1: The old Hawaiian divorce, right, it's gonna get a name anyway.
Speaker 3: It's gruesome.
Speaker 4: Obviously, this is horrible, and thank god somebody who's around
Speaker 4: to intervene when she started screaming, help, Elpie's trying to
Speaker 4: kill me. Two people in their forties. This is what
Speaker 4: the testimony is now from her. They're on this trail
Speaker 4: in Honolulu, up on a cliff and everything like that.
Speaker 4: He stood next to her and said, hey, let's take
Speaker 4: a selfie, and then was like edging closer to the
Speaker 4: end of the cliff, and she said no, no, we're
Speaker 4: too close to the cliff, and like walked away, kind
Speaker 4: of freaked out. He then grabs a rock and starts
Speaker 4: beating her on the head with the rock. He'd given
Speaker 4: up on the hole. This will I'm gonna make it
Speaker 4: seem like an accident. I don't know what are you doing,
Speaker 4: but it's just.
Speaker 1: Trying to get her near the edge. And she backed off,
Speaker 1: and he thought, well, I'm all intent on killing her.
Speaker 1: Let's see what do we have at hand.
Speaker 4: Starts bashing around the head with a rock, gets her
Speaker 4: on the ground, then grabs his bag and gets two
Speaker 4: syringes from the bag. So this wasn't a all of
Speaker 4: a sudden he thought of this sort of plan. He
Speaker 4: certainly not he had had this plan in mind. She
Speaker 4: starts yelling and help.
Speaker 3: Help.
Speaker 4: Luckily, he's kind of a weedy guy, apparently, because he
Speaker 4: keeps fighting and hitting herund the head with a rock
Speaker 4: and she's fine. Well she's not fine, but she ain't dead,
Speaker 4: and she's yelling in somebody seasons, somebody runs that direction,
Speaker 4: and then he stops, and then he makes up the
Speaker 4: whole story of she's lying and she fell and all
Speaker 4: that sort of stuff. He's being charged with currently second
Speaker 4: degree murder. But what a weird story.
Speaker 3: It's a freaking doctor.
Speaker 4: I guess you're right. That is part of the appeal.
Speaker 4: It's you know, rich, successful white people.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no offense to anybody. But if a messy trailer
Speaker 1: park couple tries to kill each other, nobody pays much attention.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it happens on a fair early regular basis.
Speaker 4: And then this headline I don't like. Man says he
Speaker 4: im had luck improving this is not for the children.
Speaker 1: Oh boy too boy.
Speaker 4: Man says he had luck improving nighttime erections by thirty
Speaker 4: four percent with shockwave therapy and botox to his penis.
Speaker 4: Couple things about this headline I find interesting. First of all,
Speaker 4: improving nighttime erections is that the thing, like you mean
Speaker 4: while I'm asleep in the middle line, I don't know.
Speaker 4: And thirty four percent seems like a very specific number from.
Speaker 1: The Department of the weirdly specific Yes, well, let's bye
Speaker 1: bye golly. My nighttime erections seem to have improved by
Speaker 1: a third. Wait a moment, let me recal your thirty four.
Speaker 4: Percent night after night shockwave therapy. What are you shocking?
Speaker 4: And then botox? Oh okay, the botox. Why congratulations on
Speaker 4: improving your ntes, which apparently had been letting you down.
Speaker 1: Give me botox, not botox, says I, No, inappropriate, I
Speaker 1: apologize thirty four percent?
Speaker 3: You say, that's pretty successful. We got more news of
Speaker 3: the day on the way.
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