Speaker 1: All right, thanks scotch Han An Hour two Sean Hannity Show.
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Speaker 1: four one Sean if you want to join us. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the government shut down is now front and center. The
Speaker 1: big lie has been exposed, and that is the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Oh no, we don't want to fund health care for
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. They've all been lying. They know they've been lying.
Speaker 1: We've gone over it exhaustively on the program. The fact
Speaker 1: that the leaders in name only Chucky Schumer in the
Speaker 1: House and Hakeem Jeffries I'm sorry, Chucky Schumer in the Senate,
Speaker 1: Hakiem Jeffries in the House are so beholden to the
Speaker 1: radical left of their party they are afraid, scared to
Speaker 1: death to ever take them on and do the right
Speaker 1: thing or stand by their very publicly stated positions. In
Speaker 1: the case of Schumer, that's gone on for decades, So
Speaker 1: the Schumer shut down continues. I can't think of any
Speaker 1: person better to talk of this and much more is
Speaker 1: our friend Louisiana Senator John Kennedy. By the way, he
Speaker 1: has a new book out next week. This book is hilarious.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love this book. He's probably one of the
Speaker 1: funniest guys I've ever met. And it's how to test
Speaker 1: negative for stupid. You know, always be yourself unless you suck.
Speaker 1: I say this gently. This is why the aliens won't
Speaker 1: talk to us. If you trust government, you obviously failed
Speaker 1: history class. I believe that our country was founded by geniuses,
Speaker 1: but it's being run by idiots. Always follow your heart,
Speaker 1: but take your brain with you. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: go through some more in a minute. But our friend,
Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy is with us. Senator, how are you,
Speaker 1: my friend?
Speaker 2: I'm well, Sean. Thanks for missing my book. It'll be
Speaker 2: out tuesday. It's it's not a policy book, per se.
Speaker 2: It's a story book, and I talk about policy through
Speaker 2: the stories. Many of them are funny, some of bizare
Speaker 2: and all of them are true.
Speaker 1: And that's the best part.
Speaker 2: Look, the meta drama continues on the shut down. I
Speaker 2: think it was Mama Gump who said stupid is as
Speaker 2: stupid does. This has also pointless. We have asked where
Speaker 2: the Republicans have asked to extend the status quo the
Speaker 2: current budget for seven more weeks. So we can continue
Speaker 2: to talk about a permanent no strings attached, no conditions,
Speaker 2: just give us seven more weeks to continue to negotiate.
Speaker 1: And it's called a cr and that it is you
Speaker 1: fund the government at current levels. And Democrats, you know,
Speaker 1: for years, have always pushed that and now and tried
Speaker 1: to blame Republicans, and now their demanding one point five trillion,
Speaker 1: including moneys for health care for illegals, for a seven
Speaker 1: week extension.
Speaker 2: In return for them agree to just to our at request,
Speaker 2: we just extend the status quote status quo for seven weeks.
Speaker 2: They are demanding that we agree to make the federal
Speaker 2: government one point five trillion dollars. Figure, give them one
Speaker 2: point five trillion dollars. Now, I'm not going to vote
Speaker 2: for that. My mother didn't raise the food and if
Speaker 2: she did, it was one of my brothers. There's no
Speaker 2: way if they cut it in half, I wouldn't vote
Speaker 2: for that. Uh. They're just not serious, and we're going
Speaker 2: to sit here until until they come to their census.
Speaker 2: I don't want it. But in the meantime, President Trump
Speaker 2: and rust Vote are just going to continue to reduce
Speaker 2: the size of government.
Speaker 1: Senator I could play every prominent Democrat. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: the person I can play the most over the years,
Speaker 1: you know, speaking out so passionately against government shutdowns, is
Speaker 1: the minority leader from New York, Chucky Schumer. And I
Speaker 1: think there's a very logical reason why Chuck Schumer has
Speaker 1: turned on a dime. I think Chuck Schumer sees that
Speaker 1: his political grip on power is evaporating, and if he
Speaker 1: doesn't give into this radical wing of his party, your
Speaker 1: friend AOC and others that he is going to be out.
Speaker 1: And he's likely going to be out as leader of
Speaker 1: the Democrats anyway. But if she runs against him, she's
Speaker 1: going to clopper him in New York.
Speaker 2: Well, some shutdowns are policy based. This is not one
Speaker 2: of them. This is based on politics. The loon wang,
Speaker 2: the Bolshevik wing, moss wing, the socialist wing, whatever you
Speaker 2: want to call it of the Republican Party is an ascendency.
Speaker 2: They're now in charge, Chuck. Senator Schumer wants them to
Speaker 2: love him, are at least like him. They don't, and
Speaker 2: they never will. And the person really in charge is
Speaker 2: congress forman Oko Cortes. She's about to elect a safe
Speaker 2: socialist mayor of New York mister mom, Donnie's going to
Speaker 2: win that race, and her wing of the party is
Speaker 2: clearly calling the shots. And all Chuck's doing is trying
Speaker 2: to make them love him, and they will never love
Speaker 2: him unless he just does everything they want.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's kind of you know, I love
Speaker 1: having you on both radio and TV because and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you plan out a lot of the
Speaker 1: comments that you make, but you you have this this folks,
Speaker 1: the Louisiana down home way of just kind of laying
Speaker 1: people out with simple, basic, fundamental truth. And as Ben
Speaker 1: Franklin once said, the sting in any rebuke is the truth.
Speaker 1: And you seem to get under the skin pretty well,
Speaker 1: but you expose the truth. And that's a big part
Speaker 1: of your book. I mean, if you trust government, you
Speaker 1: failed history class. I love it. I believe our country
Speaker 1: was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots.
Speaker 1: I mean, you put all of this in a book
Speaker 1: and it's not fiction. This is real life. Explain the
Speaker 1: daily experiences that you have there.
Speaker 2: The book is called Hali Test negative for stupid. It
Speaker 2: shows that ender is mighty weapon. I do say what.
Speaker 2: I think that's my right as in America, I don't
Speaker 2: get nearly enough credit shown for the things I don't say.
Speaker 2: I do buite my tongue sometimes, but I hope if
Speaker 2: you know what, I want to know what the Senate
Speaker 2: is ruling on on the inside. If you know what,
Speaker 2: I want to know what President Trump is really like
Speaker 2: to work with President Biden, Chuck Grassley, Bernie Sanders, President
Speaker 2: she I talk about my meeting with President c in China.
Speaker 2: I hope you'll take a look at the book How
Speaker 2: to Test Negative for Stupid. It comes out Tuesday. Hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll be out of the shutdown then. But I'm not
Speaker 2: going to give in. I don't care what the others do.
Speaker 2: I'm just like a Missouri mule on this. I'm sitting
Speaker 2: my butt down in the mud and I'm not budgeting.
Speaker 2: If the Democrats want to come to their senses, they can.
Speaker 2: If they don't, then I'm happy as a clam at
Speaker 2: high tide. They can just keep this thing shut down.
Speaker 1: Let me talk a little bit. I've never asked you
Speaker 1: this question, and I find you fascinating because you come
Speaker 1: on the program and I asked you one time. I said,
Speaker 1: is this all? Is this all extemporaneous? So do you
Speaker 1: think these things out ahead of time, like comments that
Speaker 1: you make and comments now that you put in your
Speaker 1: book How to Test Negative or Stupid. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it's on Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com as of Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and bookstores all around the country. Does this come out
Speaker 1: in the moment? Is this extemporaneus or do you spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time thinking about it?
Speaker 2: Five minutes before an interview, I stopped, and I really
Speaker 2: start thinking about how I'm going to answer the questions,
Speaker 2: whatever they mighty like they may I might be. Look,
Speaker 2: I wrote this book at my dining room table with
Speaker 2: a handheld its phone in al a blue pant And
Speaker 2: this is the way I talk in public and the
Speaker 2: way I talk in private. This is the way I think.
Speaker 2: Writing is painful for me, but God blessed me with
Speaker 2: a good memory, and when I read a clever turn
Speaker 2: of phrase, I will remember it. I don't know why
Speaker 2: that's way. He's the good Lord made. And I don't
Speaker 2: have a joke writer. I don't have anybody who writes
Speaker 2: my speeches, so I can't blame the stuff on anybody else.
Speaker 1: It is what name I'd want all the credit in
Speaker 1: the world. I wish my brain worked like yours. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: Well. Not everybody agrees with Sean on the social media,
Speaker 2: he said, Kennedy, I hate you. You remind me of
Speaker 2: my second wife. I thought that was.
Speaker 1: I thought, let me go over a couple of more
Speaker 1: of your sayings.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: You said, always follow your heart, but take your brain
Speaker 1: with you. I'm not going to bubble wrap it. The
Speaker 1: water in Washington, DC won't clear up until you get
Speaker 1: the pigs out of the creek. I have the right
Speaker 1: to remain silent, but not the ability. Common sense is
Speaker 1: illegal in Washington, d C. I know, I've seen it firsthand.
Speaker 1: I'll get one more. I believe that we're going to have.
Speaker 1: You know, we're going to get some new conc inspiracy theories.
Speaker 1: All the old ones have turned out to be true. Wow,
Speaker 1: very funny.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you a fifteen second story. I almost got
Speaker 2: the sent to reform school. One time I was asked
Speaker 2: about to compare Schumer and McConnell, and I said, here's
Speaker 2: what you need to know. They have a lot in common.
Speaker 2: Each are smart, each is tenacious, and each could probably
Speaker 2: lose his place during sex to reform school with that one.
Speaker 1: You know, this is what makes you special in the
Speaker 1: unique you know, usually in the upper Chamber, most senators
Speaker 1: don't have the courage to speak their mind. I do
Speaker 1: have a question, though, can you talk to your Democratic colleagues?
Speaker 1: What are those conversations like? I mean, are there's some
Speaker 1: that you get along with, some that you have fun with,
Speaker 1: some that you go out to dinner with, some that
Speaker 1: you argue with. I mean, what are those relationships?
Speaker 2: Like I get along with all of them, probably maybe
Speaker 2: a third of them, where their politics on the sleeve.
Speaker 2: In words, they're just self righteous. They know they're right,
Speaker 2: and they're angry to varying degrees if you don't agree
Speaker 2: with them. Another of them, another group you know they're
Speaker 2: willing to missen. And then you've got another group to
Speaker 2: say they're willing to listen. But they're going to do
Speaker 2: it they're told and right now what they're told to
Speaker 2: do is being dictated by the socialist wing of the party.
Speaker 1: They're scared, they really are, you sense they're scared. Quick
Speaker 1: freak right back more with our favorite senator from Louisiana,
Speaker 1: John Kennedy, is with us Harby continue Senator John Kennedy
Speaker 1: of the Great State of Louisiana. Here's a new book out.
Speaker 1: It's called How to Test Negative for Stupid Anyways on
Speaker 1: Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com. It'll be in bookstores
Speaker 1: all around the country on Tuesday. You want to get
Speaker 1: a copy. It's a great book. It's funny. You're gonna
Speaker 1: laugh and you're gonna ask you So, why didn't I
Speaker 1: think of that?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Do Democrats realize this is going going very badly for them,
Speaker 1: that there's a backlash against this Schumer shutdown?
Speaker 2: Oh, they do know. But but as long as their
Speaker 2: base is satisfied for the moment, and by the base,
Speaker 2: I mean the socialist wing of the party, they feel
Speaker 2: like they can take the pain to hell with the
Speaker 2: country and the American people. I mean, I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 2: what this is all about. It's not about policy, and
Speaker 2: they're going to destroy I believe in the two party system.
Speaker 2: They're going to destroy the Democratic Party if someone doesn't
Speaker 2: stand up to these folks and say, all of you
Speaker 2: people on the left who took a hard left and
Speaker 2: kept driving, you folks are crazy as a bid bug,
Speaker 2: and we're not going to follow you anymore.
Speaker 1: The only one that seems to be willing to do
Speaker 1: that is John Fetterman, and a poll came out today
Speaker 1: that shows Democrats in Pennsylvania don't like them, like sixty
Speaker 1: percent against them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you look at Fetterman's poll numbers overall, with.
Speaker 1: All the voters he's got, that's true.
Speaker 2: It's approval rating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, you're right. But Democrats, you know, they
Speaker 1: seem to be embracing crazy. I mean, look at Zoron Kami,
Speaker 1: Marxist Mundani. It looks like he's gonna win.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, did you ever think that we
Speaker 2: would elect a mayor of New York City, which has
Speaker 2: the largest Jewish population in the United States, one of
Speaker 2: the largest in the world, who who does not like
Speaker 2: Jewish people? He sided with Hamas and.
Speaker 1: The global Enta fight. I wouldn't condemn it forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm like, you know, I'm like, gosh,
Speaker 2: what has happened to our country? What's happened in New
Speaker 2: York City? But it's true, and that's what's that's what's
Speaker 2: driving this training shot.
Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you, it's been a pleasure
Speaker 1: to get to know you. The book is phenomenal. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, you're gonna laugh. You're gonna wish you thought
Speaker 1: of everything that he wrote in this book. It's called
Speaker 1: How to Test Negative for Stupid. We have a link
Speaker 1: on Hannity dot com. It's on Amazon dot com as
Speaker 1: of Tuesday, is going to be in bookstores all around
Speaker 1: the country. The one and only Senator John Kennedy from
Speaker 1: the great State of Louisiana. Senator, we appreciate you, thanks
Speaker 1: for fighting the good fight every day, and good luck
Speaker 1: with the book. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Sean, thanks so much.
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Speaker 1: say hi to Karen is in Nashville, Tennessee Music City.
Speaker 1: What's up, Karen? How are you hello?
Speaker 3: Sean. I'm doing well, second second generation listener here and
Speaker 3: Tennessee Conservatives, and I was hoping you could clarify some
Speaker 3: things for me regarding the healthcare marketplace and some concerns
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 1: You bet, I'm glad to I love our friends in that.
Speaker 1: Nashville is a cool city. Do you go to Music
Speaker 1: Row much or no?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 3: Well, it's a crazy place down there, and I think
Speaker 3: the locals find themselves down there more often when visitors
Speaker 3: are in town, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you got to take you know, when your
Speaker 1: friends come, Oh, let's go to music Row. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Music Row. It's sort of like if you live
Speaker 1: in Orlando, let's go to Disney. You want to you
Speaker 1: want to shoot yourself exactly.
Speaker 3: And nash is such a great place as a killer town.
Speaker 3: We've got so much going on here that you know,
Speaker 3: Broadway is just a part of it.
Speaker 4: So for us locals, there's.
Speaker 3: A lot of other good things to do and see,
Speaker 3: so just a percentage of the good stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, I love it in Nashville. I lived ninety miles
Speaker 1: south of you in Huntsville, Alabama. Actually it was Athens, Alabama,
Speaker 1: just down Highway sixty five, and used to go up
Speaker 1: to Nashville, gay Lord all the time. I actually once
Speaker 1: even got to host the Grand Old Opry. How cool
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Wonderful? Yeah, I've heard you and your show mentioned that
Speaker 3: in the past. Of course, you know, Huntsville is quite
Speaker 3: a city now up and coming now as well, especially
Speaker 3: with the NASA stuff, more stuff heading there and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you definitely were here at a different day
Speaker 3: and age. But to have that opportunity is a wonderful thing.
Speaker 3: So tudos to you on that.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. So what's on your mind today this Friday?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so bear with me them from kind of and
Speaker 3: you're on this. My time to take an information and
Speaker 3: discern what's going on in the world is usually a
Speaker 3: much hour traffic listening to Falk radio, you know, coming
Speaker 3: back and forth to work. So if I misrepresent information,
Speaker 3: you know, you will certainly not offend my sensibilities clarifying
Speaker 3: some things for me, But I just want to I
Speaker 3: don't mind.
Speaker 1: By the way, I want to add one thing. It
Speaker 1: was a great friend of mine who's a talk show host,
Speaker 1: Bill Valentine, who I missed dearly, and I do stay
Speaker 1: in touch with his brother and get updates on his family.
Speaker 1: He was a great guy. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: remember Phil.
Speaker 3: I remember him well and that was quite a tragedy,
Speaker 3: but yes I do.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I didn't mean to interrupt, go ahead.
Speaker 3: No, no worries so quickly, briefly, I know you've got
Speaker 3: plenty of other callers. My scenario is twenty twenty. I
Speaker 3: had a business to twenty years. Unfortunately I had to
Speaker 3: make the tough decision to close the door, sold off
Speaker 3: what I could, and moved on to bigger, better things
Speaker 3: in my life. And at that time, I found myself
Speaker 3: without health insurance for myself and my two children, single parent,
Speaker 3: So I found myself on the marketplace and not knowing
Speaker 3: what was what I you know, just put my head
Speaker 3: down and eat through it. And it turned out to be,
Speaker 3: I hate to say, a good experience. I saved considerable
Speaker 3: amount of money on what I was accustomed to paying monthly,
Speaker 3: and I loved the leverage I had and getting onto it,
Speaker 3: I thought seemed like a simple platform and my collective experience.
Speaker 3: Get on there and identify, you know, what plans are
Speaker 3: best suited to my children and what our needs are
Speaker 3: so we can refine. You know what I'm shopping for
Speaker 3: and ultimately get the best the best health insurance or
Speaker 3: health care for my children. And I had the best
Speaker 3: cost and it felt like I had a little leverage
Speaker 3: over health insurance that I don't normally have, you know,
Speaker 3: a mother experience through business vicariously or through an employer.
Speaker 3: So got on then and understood how how the program
Speaker 3: was intended to work. And until I kind of got
Speaker 3: on my feet and moved forward, I had tax credits,
Speaker 3: and then as my salary would increase, respectfully, those tax
Speaker 3: credits would decrease, which certainly sounds more than fair. And
Speaker 3: then ultimately, you know, you can phase out of that.
Speaker 3: So as time has gone by, I was blessed to
Speaker 3: get a job with a previous customer of mine that
Speaker 3: have been with them for four years. Now, as my
Speaker 3: salary has grown, I've seen the corresponding tax credits decrease,
Speaker 3: which is great, all good, on board with that. And
Speaker 3: then now kind of on the cusp where I really
Speaker 3: necessarily like this last year, I actually contributed more above
Speaker 3: and beyond my tax and sent more moneys in the
Speaker 3: for the disparity and making up tax credits that because
Speaker 3: my earns were increased. So my findings so far have
Speaker 3: been wonderful. The business I'm with, the small business i'm with,
Speaker 3: I guess that's an important thing to signify small business,
Speaker 3: as we all know, it's much more difficult to acquire,
Speaker 3: you know, price breaks. You know at all smaller company
Speaker 3: is a larger company. But for me and my children,
Speaker 3: if I went through viciously to the company, my couts
Speaker 3: was I mean significant, almost eighty percent higher. So if
Speaker 3: the health place marketplace goes away, you know, obviously I
Speaker 3: have some severe concerns. I've tried to educate myself a
Speaker 3: little bit lately on this and reading what I could,
Speaker 3: and I've saw that people that are making the income
Speaker 3: I'm making on the platform, if this goes away, you know,
Speaker 3: our policies will about one hundred and four percent, it says,
Speaker 3: our equivalent of around seventy five eleven five hundred a year.
Speaker 3: So you know, the single parent that's concerning right So.
Speaker 1: You know what's frustrating to me because you're describing a
Speaker 1: dilemma that many, many people listening to us right now
Speaker 1: are going through. And like you, I went through a
Speaker 1: long period of my early adult life I didn't have
Speaker 1: health insurance. I couldn't afford health insurance. It was not
Speaker 1: a priority of my life. There are so many new innovative,
Speaker 1: creative ways that people can get covered and do it
Speaker 1: way more cheaply, like We have our friend doctor Josh
Speaker 1: umber At was MD. It's now national and you know,
Speaker 1: and that's a healthcare cooperative. And when he started this
Speaker 1: in Wichita, you paid fifty bucks a month unlimited appointments
Speaker 1: with doctors. They took care of everything except major issues
Speaker 1: like cancer, heart attack, stroke, things like that. Although they
Speaker 1: would start, you know, if you went into the office,
Speaker 1: they would offer emergency care immediately, unlimited visits. Fifty bucks
Speaker 1: for an adult, ten bucks for a kid per month.
Speaker 1: That's how they started. And then you'd leave. He would
Speaker 1: negotiate with pharmaceutical companies and you'd pay ninety ninety five
Speaker 1: percent less than others, and it was just brilliant. Now
Speaker 1: he incorporates telemedicine in this, then we that's all. You
Speaker 1: have health care cooperatives, you have telemedicine. Then if you
Speaker 1: if you have a plan like that that takes care
Speaker 1: to your of your day to day needs, where you
Speaker 1: know they'll do stitches, they'll take care of broken arms.
Speaker 1: You know, you get X rays if you need it,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And then you get a catastrophic plan,
Speaker 1: which is relatively inexpensive. The higher the deductible the better
Speaker 1: in the for the god forbid moment, cancer, heart attack, stroke,
Speaker 1: bad accident that is relatively inexpensive. Relatively I'm not saying
Speaker 1: anything's cheap today, but you could do so much better.
Speaker 1: There are so many better ways, innovative ways, and we're
Speaker 1: not used in technology yet to innovate our healthcare system
Speaker 1: and save a fortune. And it sounds like you did
Speaker 1: that on your own before it was fashionable. Good for you.
Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate you saying that, and I appreciate you, you know,
Speaker 3: referencing some other ways that possibly some other pursuits or
Speaker 3: avenues of address I can take. I think that's one
Speaker 3: thing you know when you're when you're working fifty sixty
Speaker 3: hour weeks and you know life. We all have busy days, right,
Speaker 3: So I think it was the attraction, probably of the
Speaker 3: convenience of it. For me, it was all one user
Speaker 3: friendly place. I wasn't having to do the legwork and
Speaker 3: track this information down and find it. Not opposed to
Speaker 3: it at all. And I'm not saying after this conversation
Speaker 3: it's not going to be something I think I am
Speaker 3: interested in now. Certainly, it'll seek the alternatives and see
Speaker 3: what is best for my children and I. The one
Speaker 3: thing I did want to ask you though it's too
Speaker 3: old question and I'll get out of your hair. I
Speaker 3: appreciate your time when I do have an opportunity to
Speaker 3: watch the news or whatnot. You know, I see that
Speaker 3: my fellow Republicans are you know, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: packaging this as it's all, you know, all encompassed by
Speaker 3: the use of undocumented illegals using as a conduit to
Speaker 3: health insurance or healthcare rat and I now understand it
Speaker 3: really is more pertaining too that one line item where
Speaker 3: the Medicaid benefit, you know, van versus hospitals for emergency visions.
Speaker 3: And I totally agree with the Republicans on on our
Speaker 3: use of taxpayer money. I do not agree it should
Speaker 3: go to illegal undocumented illegals, So I'm not proposing that
Speaker 3: at all. But what frustrates me is is our inability
Speaker 3: to effectively work together so that we don't dismantle a
Speaker 3: program that was serving twenty four million Americans. From what
Speaker 3: I understand, somewhat effectively, it's kind of like cut your
Speaker 3: nose off despite your face, so that we can eliminate
Speaker 3: illegal use of this. I would think is as sophisticated
Speaker 3: as we are today that we could develop some type
Speaker 3: of platform that eliminates that type of you know, illegal
Speaker 3: use of the platform. If it is just even this medicare,
Speaker 3: do you think they'll be able to isolate the medicare
Speaker 3: aspect of it from the rest and possibly keep what
Speaker 3: we have moving forward, or maybe take it and improve
Speaker 3: upon it and take it as our own and put
Speaker 3: our own stamp of approval on it.
Speaker 1: Look, I think that we're going to work through this.
Speaker 1: But the one thing we cannot afford is what the
Speaker 1: Democrats are demanding here. I mean, they're trying to hold
Speaker 1: the country hostage to give people that didn't respect our laws,
Speaker 1: borders and sovereignty access to taxpayer funded healthcare. We can't
Speaker 1: afford it. I mean, I'd like to be able to
Speaker 1: pay for health care for the whole world, but we can't.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody has the responsibility in this, and you
Speaker 1: know the fact that they are willing to push it
Speaker 1: this far is pretty amazing, because again it's another eighty
Speaker 1: twenty ninety ten issue. Anyway, I gotta run, Karen, appreciate
Speaker 1: you calling Nashville. God bless you, and eight hundred ninety
Speaker 1: four one Shawn is a number if you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the program. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: back to our busy phones. Eight hundred nine four one,
Speaker 1: Sean our number. We check out the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: and Steve is there. Steve, I need to warn you,
Speaker 1: Linda is a neighbor of yours. You just don't know it.
Speaker 1: Be careful if you go to school board meetings, she
Speaker 1: may show up.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. It's a real privilege to speak with you, Sean,
Speaker 4: and appreciate you giving me the opportunity.
Speaker 1: What's going on. It's my pleasure.
Speaker 4: Calling in regard to the accountability of the Iowa school Board.
Speaker 4: I'm a general contractor and we do a lot of
Speaker 4: work in schools all the time, and the state law
Speaker 4: here in Pa requires that we submit three separate background
Speaker 4: checks to be approved by the school prior to us
Speaker 4: stepping foot on the school grounds. It's a state police
Speaker 4: criminal background check, a child abuse background check, and a
Speaker 4: federal background check which includes requiring fingerprinting. So not only
Speaker 4: for US contractors, but any subcontractor we hire, any volunteers
Speaker 4: that show up to the school, or even the applications
Speaker 4: that are sitting to the school. Almost submit these clearances,
Speaker 4: and I don't know what the laws are in Iowa,
Speaker 4: but I can't believe that the board would have a
Speaker 4: person for such a prestigious position, would hire a person
Speaker 4: without doing their due diligence. I mean, do you think
Speaker 4: this is just grossing competence or willful negligence?
Speaker 1: Probably a combination. I mean, it's unbelievable to me, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, this person even fords their credentials. You know,
Speaker 1: the idea that this person had this background and they
Speaker 1: didn't catch it. It's unforgivable to me. Somebody's got to
Speaker 1: be held accountable for this. It's really unreal.
Speaker 4: I don't know why they're not looking at you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know if they can bring charges against the
Speaker 4: school board, or why they would keep their positions as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're talking about the you know, the safety
Speaker 4: of our kids. You know, we as parents, we put
Speaker 4: our trust in these individuals to do their job and
Speaker 4: protect our children, and you know, some of these school
Speaker 4: districts you just can't can't count on them to do that,
Speaker 4: To put the interest of your child ahead of their.
Speaker 1: Own, it's pretty remarkable, just like you know, the idea
Speaker 1: that you have so many state governments, you know, Tim
Speaker 1: walls and California gender affirming care without parental consent. What
Speaker 1: they think they know better than we parents. They don't
Speaker 1: believe in parental rights. They think they're smarter than us.
Speaker 1: It's so frustrating, but I can tell you that you know,
Speaker 1: as a parent, you've got to be involved in every
Speaker 1: aspect of your kid's life. You got to pay at tention.
Speaker 1: I probably didn't pay as much attention as I should have. Well,
Speaker 1: my kids were younger and h but thankfully, you know,
Speaker 1: they turned out okay. All right, my friend, appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine four one Seawan. Have a great weekend
Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program.