Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: But apparently our nation civil service is now synonymous with waste.
Speaker 2: Fraud, and abuse. The gravy train.
Speaker 4: For a lot of these folks, it's been on biscuit
Speaker 4: wheels and it's about to run off the dead gum tracks.
Speaker 2: It's about time.
Speaker 3: First of all, there is no way you actually talk
Speaker 3: like that. No way, you're a congressman from Tennessee. You
Speaker 3: didn't spring fully formed out of a primordial cracker barrel.
Speaker 3: All of this help burocra see is a shot uga shoot, shoot.
Speaker 2: To approp this boil on the flat jacks.
Speaker 4: Very funny from the Eastern media elite to media elite. Michael,
Speaker 4: very very well chosen. We'll have a chat after the show.
Speaker 4: I know plenty of people who talk like that.
Speaker 5: I do too, but we need to take it down
Speaker 5: a little on the right with the clever sayings.
Speaker 2: Just too many of them, I feel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, John Kennedy, we're looking at you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: They've just realized, if you want to get on TV,
Speaker 5: a little blurb on Fox News or whatever. You have
Speaker 5: some clever, little homespun saying, and that'll get you on.
Speaker 5: May I apologize to the audience for lying. I said
Speaker 5: that Congressman Tom McClintock would kick off this hour of
Speaker 5: the program. Indeed, we will visit with him at the
Speaker 5: bottom of the hour, but are looking forward to it
Speaker 5: very much. I just read his editorial Washington Times. Great stuff. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I look forward to asking him about this stuff.
Speaker 2: Part of the.
Speaker 5: Problem with framing Doge in all this is waste, fraud
Speaker 5: and abuse is that it misses the point that, even
Speaker 5: if it's all legitimate, we can't afford it.
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, well said I.
Speaker 5: Mean you if you I've been here before when I
Speaker 5: I was broke, sometimes you look at like where can
Speaker 5: you cut and you think I need all of these
Speaker 5: things I'm spending money on, but you still don't have
Speaker 5: as much money coming in as going out, and something
Speaker 5: has got.
Speaker 2: To go right, right.
Speaker 4: Indeed, it might be helpful to say waste, fraud, abuse
Speaker 4: and overreach. Yeah, or or at some point and some
Speaker 4: point soon it's going to be which of these things
Speaker 4: that we like and need do we like and need?
Speaker 2: The least because sure the rubber is going to meet
Speaker 2: the road at some point anyway before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike has got to go in favor of need,
Speaker 4: because like is spending us into oblivion.
Speaker 2: Back to you.
Speaker 5: Starbucks announced their coffee chain is laying off eleven hundred jobs,
Speaker 5: seven percent of its non retail staff. Is there gonna
Speaker 5: be a big media scramble to get to Starbucks employees
Speaker 5: and have them on there.
Speaker 2: I thought I'd get to work at Starbucks forever. I
Speaker 2: just moved here for this job.
Speaker 5: I was working really hard because that would I'm sure
Speaker 5: plenty of them would say that. But they lost their
Speaker 5: jobs because here in the private sector, that happens all
Speaker 5: the flip and time.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: Another economic thing that I thought was interesting that I
Speaker 5: will explain why I think it is a big deal.
Speaker 5: In the second, Apple said it's gonna invest half a
Speaker 5: trillion dollars in the United States over the.
Speaker 2: Next four years.
Speaker 5: So half a trillion over four years and open a
Speaker 5: new factory in Houston to build AI servers. I gotta
Speaker 5: wonder if maybe they had they wouldn't have built that
Speaker 5: in China or something.
Speaker 2: If this were twenty years ago. Oh yeah, one hundred
Speaker 2: percent and.
Speaker 5: Now it's gonna be built in the United States for
Speaker 5: you know, all the reasons that you know. But at
Speaker 5: the same time, brit Hume tweeted this out and thought
Speaker 5: this was a big deal. Huma Fox. I follow him
Speaker 5: because I generally think he's right. The President just released
Speaker 5: a new policy that does some big things. It's an
Speaker 5: economic policy. It makes it easier for friendly nations to
Speaker 5: invest in the United States, and makes it harder for
Speaker 5: hostile nations to invest in the United States. And it
Speaker 5: makes it harder for hostile nations to steal American technology.
Speaker 2: Those are all big things that are definitely welcome.
Speaker 4: I would like to see, and this is an issue
Speaker 4: nobody talks about. I would like to see China booted
Speaker 4: the hell out of our housing markets.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yes, oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yes, conglomerates buying up like every house for sale they
Speaker 5: can renting them, and.
Speaker 2: It becomes impossible to get a house.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in my town, absolutely, that what goes on. When
Speaker 5: I was trying to buy a house. I'm a renter.
Speaker 5: When I was trying to buy a house and all
Speaker 5: these houses that seem ridiculously overpriced were selling, That's what
Speaker 5: real estate agents told me.
Speaker 2: No the Chinese.
Speaker 5: The Chinese, various entities and businessmen are buying up pay
Speaker 5: cash and they don't care what they cost, And yeah,
Speaker 5: that is a distortion. And I butt head sometimes with
Speaker 5: my libertarian brethren on this topic because foreign investment in
Speaker 5: the United States is one of the reasons we all
Speaker 5: have such a great standard of living, and that's absolutely true.
Speaker 5: But a commodity is limited and incredibly necessary is housing,
Speaker 5: which is then limited so severely by government policies zoning
Speaker 5: and environmental stuff and whatever. That just causes a distortion
Speaker 5: that beats down American families, American workers. And it reminds
Speaker 5: me of what we were talking about last hour, where
Speaker 5: David Leonhardt, a fairly moderate guy at the New York Times,
Speaker 5: is writing, Hey, all these left wing governments from the
Speaker 5: US to France, to Germany to Canada to Australia, when
Speaker 5: their working class was saying, hey, this rampant the immigration
Speaker 5: is hurting us badly. They were told shut up by
Speaker 5: their left leaning governments, and now it's coming home to
Speaker 5: coming back to bite them.
Speaker 4: I think the housing thing is similar. People are They're
Speaker 4: screaming for relief and we've got our communists over lords.
Speaker 4: Snap it up houses.
Speaker 2: It can't last well.
Speaker 5: Last week we were talking about Senator Tom Cotton's new
Speaker 5: book Seven Things You Can't Say about China, and we
Speaker 5: hope to talk to him soon. One of them, I
Speaker 5: don't know if he mentions the housing market at all
Speaker 5: in the book. We'll have to ask him about that,
Speaker 5: because that's interesting. But one of them is how China
Speaker 5: sending their bright young people over here to attend our
Speaker 5: colleges at full freight and eating up all the slots
Speaker 5: in the colleges and distorting the price of college because
Speaker 5: they don't care what it costs. They just want to
Speaker 5: send their students over here to get the best engineering degrees,
Speaker 5: invest this and that, and also occasionally a spy distorted
Speaker 5: the whole college market. Always a spy had this headline
Speaker 5: sitting around, hadn't get gotten to it yet. Under Biden,
Speaker 5: American universities raked in nearly a billion dollars from offshore donors,
Speaker 5: including many link to China. Yeah, China, and cutter and
Speaker 5: all sorts of loathsome regimes have utterly perverted the curricula
Speaker 5: of American universities. Again, we fell so in love with
Speaker 5: the whole global thing. We forgot that not everybody's nice
Speaker 5: like we are. It's funny, the great Satan, the big
Speaker 5: belliger in America. No, we're like the nicest people on earth.
Speaker 5: We think everybody wants to be our friend worthy the proverbial,
Speaker 5: if somewhat insulting naive corn pone from Iowa buying fake
Speaker 5: rolexes in Manhattan because we don't know better as a country.
Speaker 2: Which is really crazy.
Speaker 4: As the superpower, it's it's almost endearing, but the evildoers
Speaker 4: are starting to really exploit it, and it's time to
Speaker 4: get tough.
Speaker 2: I bought a fake rolex.
Speaker 5: I knew it was a fake rolex in Times Square
Speaker 5: in New York once, and it was quite cheap. It
Speaker 5: did not work and felt very flimsy. My son has
Speaker 5: a great fake rolex that he bought on Amazon for
Speaker 5: seventy dollars.
Speaker 2: It was like super cheap.
Speaker 5: It is great, really heavy, good metal runs. Wow, looks
Speaker 5: real your son or rapper he gets. He gets compliments
Speaker 5: on it all the time. It's just the look though
Speaker 5: a teenage boy with a road.
Speaker 4: It's a little odd, but you know, teach their own
Speaker 4: u So speaking of economic matters, and then we'll take
Speaker 4: a break because we've got something just great to get to.
Speaker 4: Two years ago, you might remember Teamster's boss Sean O'Brien.
Speaker 4: You remember him spoke at the Republican Convention and said
Speaker 4: I hate Republicans. He touted a historic labor agreement with UPS.
Speaker 4: United Parcel Service. Now comes the rest of the story,
Speaker 4: and it's not pretty. UPS shares are plunged recently after
Speaker 4: it announced workforce and delivery reductions. Workers who lost their
Speaker 4: jobs can thank mister O'Brien once again.
Speaker 2: Interview the UPS of people that lost their jobs. I
Speaker 2: thought I could work here forever. I just moved here
Speaker 2: for this job.
Speaker 4: Like the government employees, UPS is having to shrink, shrink
Speaker 4: its contracts, just do less work and make less money
Speaker 4: and less profit because in Amazon, one of the big clients,
Speaker 4: is not going to do more of their own deliveries
Speaker 4: because UPS can't do it at a cost anywhere near
Speaker 4: Amazon can. Because Amazon's drivers aren't unionized. The Teamsters, according
Speaker 4: to the General Editorial Board, have found little success trying
Speaker 4: to organize Amazon workers. The UPS agreement increased average compensation
Speaker 4: from full time drivers over five years to one hundred
Speaker 4: and seventy thousand dollars a year. Teamsters at UPS get
Speaker 4: up to seven weeks of vacation and don't pay healthcare premiums.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was a teamster.
Speaker 5: It was the most amazing healthcare I ever had in
Speaker 5: my entire working life. It was insane, but as actually,
Speaker 5: you shouldn't have healthcare this good as a guy who
Speaker 5: stacks boxes for a living. I mean, it's just it
Speaker 5: doesn't really make sense. Loved it, of course, but it
Speaker 5: was pretty ridiculous given US standards.
Speaker 4: So UPS is firing thousands of workers and management closing
Speaker 4: two hundred sorting centers. You know, union to have their
Speaker 4: role and certainly have in history, but a union like
Speaker 4: this one, in this case, all it does is concentrate
Speaker 4: wealth in the hands of its members and leaders. It
Speaker 4: has nothing to do with work. We're for working people,
Speaker 4: We're for labor. No, you're for yourself and your members,
Speaker 4: which is fine, but society and UPS need to recognize
Speaker 4: that and encounter it. It's just hundreds and thousands and
Speaker 4: thousands of workers are losing their jobs so that the
Speaker 4: chosen few can get artificially high salaries.
Speaker 2: Oh that's just lovely. Ah.
Speaker 5: The Trump versus the AP fight is way more important
Speaker 5: than you might think. It's not over the Gulf of America.
Speaker 4: Well, it kind of is, which is funny, but it's
Speaker 4: about something much more interesting and important.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in a second.
Speaker 5: When I was a team stur at ups, the insurance
Speaker 5: was I had one hundred percent coverage on medical, no deductible,
Speaker 5: one hundred percent deadal noductible, and no do and no payments.
Speaker 5: I should have gotten all my teeth pulled and had
Speaker 5: several babies. I just should have taken advantage of it.
Speaker 2: You're a fool.
Speaker 5: We got all that stuff Joe mentioned, And we're going
Speaker 5: to talk to a Republican Congressman, Tom McClintock coming up
Speaker 5: this hour. I look forward to talking to Tom McClintock
Speaker 5: as a fiscal conservative and a member of the House
Speaker 5: of Representatives, a Republican where he is on the whole
Speaker 5: doage thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, I have a feeling, I know, since
Speaker 4: he's been a fiscal hawk, since he was a.
Speaker 2: Knee high to a grasshopper. Oh that's right.
Speaker 4: We're not going to be charmingly homespun anymore. There's too
Speaker 4: much of that in our nation's discourse. Uh So, one
Speaker 4: of my many jihads is against conservatives and even moderates
Speaker 4: who for some reason conformed to the language demands of
Speaker 4: the left. They say, don't say this that anymore, say this,
Speaker 4: and we obey them, even though that change in language
Speaker 4: is deliberately designed to pervert the argument or to win
Speaker 4: the argument in advance, Like gender affirming care that settles
Speaker 4: the argument. Well, all you're doing is affirming the poor
Speaker 4: child's gender. Now it's a sex change experiment.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: Trump and the administration are in a bit of a
Speaker 4: frakis a bit of a sparring match with the Associated Press.
Speaker 4: You may have read about it, the particulars of their
Speaker 4: band from the press room, temporarily whatever, the Gulf of
Speaker 4: America thing. That's all a distraction because the main issue
Speaker 4: is the AP and its style book, which if you're
Speaker 4: not in journalism you might not realize is incredibly influential
Speaker 4: and has been for decades. It essentially says, all right,
Speaker 4: here's how to word something. Here's what words are acceptable unacceptable,
Speaker 4: here's the punctuation you should use. From the very mundane
Speaker 4: to now. And this is a new development in the
Speaker 4: last you know, several years now, it's become extremely ideological.
Speaker 4: For instance, and we mentioned this late in the show. Yesterday,
Speaker 4: AP began capitalizing black when used as a racial designation,
Speaker 4: but not white, because no, no black especial white is
Speaker 4: just well, you are white people, and you're bad people.
Speaker 4: There are a bunch of other examples. You can't use
Speaker 4: alien it's banned, or illegal immigrant in discussing immigration, even
Speaker 4: though those are both statutory you know terms. You can't
Speaker 4: say chain migration, anchor babies, and they have all sorts
Speaker 4: of euphemism, like when CNN infamously described the George Floyd
Speaker 4: riots as a mostly peaceful protest that was partly in
Speaker 4: deference to the the AP saying don't.
Speaker 2: Use riot, oh wow, too hard. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then there is its twenty nine hundred word ideological
Speaker 4: Manifesto that says, quote, do not use the term transgenderism,
Speaker 4: which frames transgender identity is an ideology. It is filled
Speaker 4: with bizarre assertions and jargon which reporters are mandated to
Speaker 4: accept as if they supersede the facts of life. According
Speaker 4: to the guide, a child isn't born a boy or
Speaker 4: a girl quote rather.
Speaker 5: Sex is quote usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants,
Speaker 5: and can turn out to be inaccurate, which happens one
Speaker 5: out of ten thousand times. Examples of gender identities include
Speaker 5: non binary, bigender, agender, gender fluid, gender queer, and combinations
Speaker 5: of identities such as non binary woman. This is all
Speaker 5: radical gender theory.
Speaker 4: Which nobody knew about, cared about, or thought about, and
Speaker 4: certainly didn't believe until a cup of coffee ago.
Speaker 2: And they say the dead.
Speaker 4: Naming a transgender person, that is accurately reporting such a
Speaker 4: person's given name, even posthumously, in obituaries or other coverage,
Speaker 4: is often considered disrespectful to the deceased, their survivors, and
Speaker 4: any transgender people. So if you work for the AP,
Speaker 4: you'd have to say Aitlyn Jenner won the decathlon in
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: For example. Hey, I got a question.
Speaker 5: Has anybody encountered like you're gonna have a baby and
Speaker 5: you you have the doctor?
Speaker 2: You know telepens a boy or girl? Do they like
Speaker 2: fudge their language?
Speaker 5: Do they just say we see a penis or something
Speaker 5: like that to not declare it a boy?
Speaker 2: I wonder if they do that.
Speaker 4: And there's more about how reporters are instructed to squelch
Speaker 4: any challenge to the accepted authorities on sex and gender.
Speaker 4: Don't quote people speaking about biology or athletic regulations unless
Speaker 4: they are experts with a proper background, which is why
Speaker 4: Katanji Brown Jackson infamously said, I can't define woman. I'm
Speaker 4: not a biologist, which is one of the most idiotic
Speaker 4: things ever said. But then I came across a bunch
Speaker 4: of other examples. Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Buh.
Speaker 4: The AP wants refer to former Vice President Kamala Harris,
Speaker 4: one of the most liberal senators to serve in the
Speaker 4: Senate in the twenty first entry as a centrist. The
Speaker 4: AP style book is widely used manual guiding editorial decisions
Speaker 4: for thousands of newsrooms. It says, use the term anti abortion,
Speaker 4: not pro life, oh wow, but use the term abortion
Speaker 4: rights for those who are in favor of abortion. So
Speaker 4: pro lifers are stuck with the anti tag. Pro abortion
Speaker 4: goes with rights.
Speaker 2: Cute.
Speaker 5: There was an AP memo in twenty twenty one instructing
Speaker 5: all reporters staffers not to refer to the border crisis
Speaker 5: as a crisis that's under Biden.
Speaker 4: Remember, and I could go into the numbers of border crossers,
Speaker 4: but it's astounding. A few years before a memo went
Speaker 4: out when Donald Trump was president and said few would
Speaker 4: argue that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding, and.
Speaker 2: Again they are.
Speaker 5: We'll go ahead, the point being that this battle between
Speaker 5: Trump's White House and AP is not just about Gulf
Speaker 5: of Mexico.
Speaker 4: It's all this other strint and using the two pregnant
Speaker 4: people instead of women, for instance, Congressman Tom McClintock next
Speaker 4: gonna talk.
Speaker 1: Doge Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6: Lots of confusion here. We should point out that Elon
Speaker 6: Musk is not an elected official, not Senate confirmed to
Speaker 6: run any agency and is asking employees to report outside
Speaker 6: of their chain of command. And that is what these
Speaker 6: unions are saying is essentially illegal. And now these unions
Speaker 6: are suing and we learned about them amending an existing lawsuit.
Speaker 6: That hearing for that lawsuit against this email set by
Speaker 6: Elon Musk is set for hearing this Thursday.
Speaker 2: Hilarious.
Speaker 5: The mainstream media is so concerned with the flow of
Speaker 5: power and who has the right to do what when
Speaker 5: it's cutting government jobs or it's the Trump administration versus
Speaker 5: Joe Biden doing all kinds of crap that he wasn't
Speaker 5: supposed to be able to do well, speak for yourself,
Speaker 5: I for one, am heartbroken at the whole reporting outside
Speaker 5: the chain of command thing.
Speaker 2: Is that terrible?
Speaker 4: To discuss this and the activities of the doge Fellas
Speaker 4: and more. Please, welcome to the show. Congressman Tom McLintock
Speaker 4: of the fifth District of California. If you don't know Tommy,
Speaker 4: he's often described as the gold standard for fiscal conservatism
Speaker 4: in Congress. Tom, always a pleasure.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: This is my pleasure. Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 2: We're wondering where you are on the whole doage thing.
Speaker 5: And Elon telling federal workers they got to justify their
Speaker 5: job with five things they did last week in all
Speaker 5: of the hubbub.
Speaker 1: Well, it this a pretty simple situation. A new boss
Speaker 1: takes over, he brings it an auditor. The auditor calls
Speaker 1: in the staff and says, folks, I'd like to see
Speaker 1: your expense account receipts, and the staff absolutely freaks out, Well,
Speaker 1: what does that tell you about what's been going on
Speaker 1: all that time? And this discussion about well, Musk is
Speaker 1: an unelected official. Well, I've got news for these people.
Speaker 1: The only elected official in the entire executive branch of
Speaker 1: our government is the president. All of the executive authority
Speaker 1: is vested in the president, not some of it, all
Speaker 1: of it. So under the Constitution there's no executive authority
Speaker 1: that's independent of the president. Musk is acting under the
Speaker 1: President's direction, as is every one of the some two
Speaker 1: million employees in the executive branch.
Speaker 4: Not only that, but as you know, regulation and agency
Speaker 4: overage is a big part of the effort, and I
Speaker 4: don't think most Americans fully appreciate. Not only do we
Speaker 4: have a fourth branch of government, the bureaucracy, it's not
Speaker 4: in last place in terms of power. It's really important.
Speaker 2: Day to day.
Speaker 1: Well, it actually now passes ten times the number of
Speaker 1: laws that the Congress passes, and not coincidentally, you have
Speaker 1: about ten times a greater chance of being hauled before
Speaker 1: an administrative law court than an actual Article three court
Speaker 1: that respects all of your rights. Of this is entirely
Speaker 1: contrary to the entire central architecture of the Constitution, the
Speaker 1: entire vision of the American founders, which was to separate
Speaker 1: the three functions of government into three quite separate brand is.
Speaker 1: We all learned that in grade school, but it seems
Speaker 1: more and more of us have forgotten. Is the debate
Speaker 1: goes on.
Speaker 5: I'm going to throw you the all time fat softball
Speaker 5: to a guy like you.
Speaker 2: Is the government too big?
Speaker 1: Well? Yes, the only thing who's keeping us afloat right
Speaker 1: now is the fact that there are still capital markets
Speaker 1: willing to lend us money. But the fact is, every
Speaker 1: dime of our discretionary spending, that's the entire government, including
Speaker 1: the Defense Department, every dime of that is now borrowed
Speaker 1: of the interest on our thirty seven trillion dollars of debt.
Speaker 1: Just paying an interest on what we've already spent now
Speaker 1: costs us more than the entire defense establishment. You know,
Speaker 1: it was what about twelve or thirteen years ago now
Speaker 1: that Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Speaker 1: warned that in his professional military judgment, the greatest threat
Speaker 1: to our nation was the nation debt. And that's when
Speaker 1: the national debt was about half less, in fact, less
Speaker 1: than half of what it is right now.
Speaker 4: Would you agree that if we cannot successfully communicate that
Speaker 4: to the American people before the disaster strikes, it's time
Speaker 4: to abandon democracy and try monarchy again, because well, I mean,
Speaker 4: it's not like you know, we've stepped in front of
Speaker 4: a bus, or we're heading toward a cliff. I mean,
Speaker 4: we're heading toward the biggest cliff in the world. There
Speaker 4: are giant signs that say cliff aheads stop running.
Speaker 2: It would just it would.
Speaker 4: My head will explode if we can't get our heads
Speaker 4: wrapped around this or.
Speaker 2: Do something about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was what the election was all about. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were two central questions, both of which are these
Speaker 1: warnings that history is shouting at us. Countries that cannot
Speaker 1: defend their borders aren't around very long, and countries that
Speaker 1: bankrupt themselves aren't around very long. Because before you can
Speaker 1: provide for the common defense or provide for the general welfare,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to pay for and you
Speaker 1: can't pay for it if you are running up a
Speaker 1: debt so huge that it threatens your ability to continue.
Speaker 1: And that's where we are.
Speaker 5: How do we get entitlements back on the table as
Speaker 5: a conversation, though since both the last two presidents, Trump
Speaker 5: and Biden have said they're off the table.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the first and obvious thing to do
Speaker 1: is to restore the Clinton era work requirement in all
Speaker 1: entitlement programs we forget. That was Bill Clinton. Remember, he
Speaker 1: said we were going to end welfare as we knew it,
Speaker 1: and he did. He installed a very strong requirement that
Speaker 1: able bodied people have got to be looking for a
Speaker 1: job and accept one off one's offered as a condition
Speaker 1: of receiving all federal welfare grants. And you know what happened.
Speaker 1: We saw about a fifty percent reduction in welfare roles
Speaker 1: because people went back to work, and by the way,
Speaker 1: we saw their lives improved dramatically because they were now
Speaker 1: earning productively in the private sector. We saw our tax
Speaker 1: revenues go up, and the economy took off like a
Speaker 1: bat out of hell. So, I mean, that's the first
Speaker 1: and obvious thing to do is restore that work requirement
Speaker 1: that there was lost during the Obama years. Get that
Speaker 1: back in place. That's not a new law, that's an
Speaker 1: old law. Would simply be bringing back an old law
Speaker 1: that worked, and that would mean enormous just in medicate.
Speaker 1: Aloness estimated that would say about one hundred and nine
Speaker 1: billion dollars a year.
Speaker 4: And as we've said many times in discussing this stuff,
Speaker 4: you'll hear somebody occasionally say, well, this is just clipping
Speaker 4: around the edges what Elon and the Doge boys are doing.
Speaker 4: And the one hundred million here and twenty million there.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just a tiny percentage of the federal budget.
Speaker 4: But we think a culture of accountability and thrift is
Speaker 4: the big kahuna, and I just wish we could get
Speaker 4: that going among the American people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that old ever at Dirkson Line. A
Speaker 1: million dollars here and a million dollars there, and pretty
Speaker 1: soon you're talking about a lot of money. Well, now
Speaker 1: we're counting it in billions and now occasionally trillions. You know.
Speaker 1: Think about it this way. Every billion dollars that we
Speaker 1: spend in Washington, that's eight dollars from your family's budget.
Speaker 1: So a trillion dollars, that's eight thousand dollars from your
Speaker 1: family's budget. And you pay for it one way or another.
Speaker 1: You either pay for it through direct taxes, you pay
Speaker 1: through it through the deficit, which is future taxes and
Speaker 1: interest on that borrowing, or you pay for it through inflation.
Speaker 1: And we just came through the worst inflation in forty
Speaker 1: years paying for the Inflation Reduction Act Doges.
Speaker 4: I'm a quintalk of the Fifth District, California on the line.
Speaker 2: Go ahead. Jack Doge is.
Speaker 5: Up against obviously just an entrenched everything lifestyle attitude, offices
Speaker 5: and people, and in some cases a protection of the
Speaker 5: bureaucracy in so many ways around on the how optimistic
Speaker 5: or pessimistic are you about Doge actually getting anything accomplished.
Speaker 1: I think it's already accomplished quite a lot. They say
Speaker 1: that the most closely guarded secrets of the government are
Speaker 1: not those that are labeled top secret. They're those that
Speaker 1: are labeled embarrassing. And Musk has already succeeded in embarrassing
Speaker 1: the political establishment and that goes a long way to
Speaker 1: engaging the American people. You mentioned in American democracy, Well
Speaker 1: it works. That was one of the key issues that
Speaker 1: decided this election. And now we have an elected president
Speaker 1: who is fulfilling his commitment to bring spending back under
Speaker 1: control before it crushes American families.
Speaker 4: Something I've been howling for years, and I think California
Speaker 4: may be lost at least temporary attempt. Rarely on the
Speaker 4: score is that if government itself and government workers become
Speaker 4: an important enough lobbyist of government, people are doomed. Because
Speaker 4: it's just it's a perpetual motion machine of self interest.
Speaker 4: How close to that are we in the federal government?
Speaker 4: Can we the people overcome the bureaucratic class?
Speaker 1: Well, I do worry about that because of you know,
Speaker 1: you hear the left talk about the importance of our
Speaker 1: independent agencies. Well, well that begs the question independent of home. Well,
Speaker 1: what they mean is independent of the president, which means
Speaker 1: independent of the people. Well, that's the very definition of tyranny.
Speaker 1: I think one of the the real threat to democracy
Speaker 1: is an unelected bureaucracy that acts on its own whims,
Speaker 1: irrespective of how people vote. You know that the Democrats
Speaker 1: are telling us it's it's undemocratic for a democratically elected
Speaker 1: president to question how the unelected bureaucracy is executing the laws. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, those are laws the presidents elected to uphold.
Speaker 1: How can can he faithfully execute those laws if he
Speaker 1: and his deputies can't clearly and accurately see where the
Speaker 1: public money's going, verify that it's being spent in accordance
Speaker 1: with law, and put a stop to it when it's not.
Speaker 1: And that's what this fight is really all about. It's
Speaker 1: about whether or not the executive branch of government is
Speaker 1: responsive to the people, or has taken on a life
Speaker 1: of its own.
Speaker 4: What's the next big move we can expect to see
Speaker 4: from dogs you're the president.
Speaker 1: Well, the budget resolutions on the House floor today. That's
Speaker 1: going to set a framework to reduce federal spending by
Speaker 1: about two trillion dollars over the next decade and stop
Speaker 1: the massive tax increase that will be going into effect
Speaker 1: if we don't act. That tax increase is going to
Speaker 1: cost a family earning seventy five thousand dollars about fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year in added taxes. By reducing spending
Speaker 1: by that two trillion dollars, that's going to relieve every
Speaker 1: family on the average of about sixteen thousand dollars of
Speaker 1: expenses over that decade. And that's just the beginning that
Speaker 1: has to be done in order to get the reconciliation
Speaker 1: process in place. That process will then enact the reforms
Speaker 1: that are necessary to bring that spending down. At the
Speaker 1: same time, does we will be able to put into
Speaker 1: that reconciliation bill a great deal of the statutory changes
Speaker 1: that DOGE needs to implement its recommendations.
Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll have you back on in the midst
Speaker 5: of the tax battle, because that's going to be epic.
Speaker 5: I was not used to seeing the United States on
Speaker 5: the side of Russia and North Korea in a vote
Speaker 5: in the UN yesterday. Where do you come down on that,
Speaker 5: on the United States not wanting to condemn Russia for
Speaker 5: invading Ukraine?
Speaker 1: You know, well, I'm still catching up with that, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know I will. I am willing to cut the
Speaker 1: President considerable slack right now as he tries to h
Speaker 1: to to bring this war to an end. You know,
Speaker 1: I believe that Russia was the clear aggressor. I voted
Speaker 1: for the military aid to prevent Ukraine from being defeated
Speaker 1: by Russia because I thought it was so important to
Speaker 1: send that message around the world that you cannot succeed
Speaker 1: by this kind of wanton invasion. But a lot of
Speaker 1: that money disappeared without being spent for Ukraine's military defense.
Speaker 1: This has gone on way too long, and if the
Speaker 1: President can put a stop to this war and bring
Speaker 1: about a negotiated settlement, I'm willing to cut him quite
Speaker 1: a bit of slack right now.
Speaker 4: Congressman Tom McClintock is fifth District California, often described as
Speaker 4: the gold standard for fiscal conservatism in Congress.
Speaker 2: Tom always great to talk. Keep fighting a good fight.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: You got it. His tendency is toward optimism.
Speaker 5: I don't know how optimistic I am toward doje accomplishing
Speaker 5: that much it's worth the effort. Oh oh, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 5: I'm not in the camp of this is a waste
Speaker 5: of time at all.
Speaker 4: I don't think people have a serious concept of how
Speaker 4: close we are to a terrible, terrible crisis.
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Speaker 2: I think I.
Speaker 5: Bought some snake oil over the weekend. I kind of
Speaker 5: knew there was a decent chance I was doing that.
Speaker 5: I have a squeaky snake. You know how it is
Speaker 5: various products that claim they're going to do all these
Speaker 5: different things, and you think, YE know that day. But
Speaker 5: I went ahead and pulled the trigger. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: about coming up, among other things.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 4: When lunk had be Kamala Harris lost the election, proving
Speaker 4: that there is a god, we lost a truly unique
Speaker 4: voice on the American scene. Although she's like ahead of
Speaker 4: those totally stupid, meaningless polls about who the Democratic comedee
Speaker 4: ought to be next time around.
Speaker 5: Plus she'll be governor of California soon.
Speaker 2: Enough, oivey. Anyway, but haven't we missed her? Pearls of
Speaker 2: wisdom goes through your mind when you see this. You're here,
Speaker 2: You're now seeing it up close.
Speaker 7: It's not only saying it, Alex. You can smell it,
Speaker 7: feel it, right, So it's seeing it with our eyes.
Speaker 7: And many people have seen it. You all are covering it.
Speaker 7: But to literally be on the ground here, you can
Speaker 7: smell the smoke that was here. You can feel the toxicity, frankly,
Speaker 7: of the environment. You can feel the energy of all
Speaker 7: of the folks who are still here on the ground.
Speaker 4: She's not good at kamala at the wildfires. Yes, I
Speaker 4: should have not that I'm good at talking nor thinking.
Speaker 4: Often the two go hand in hand.
Speaker 5: So somehow I got on this list from the New
Speaker 5: York Times and I remember what it's called, but it's
Speaker 5: a they recommend products, and I get their emails all
Speaker 5: the time, and been a lot of really good stuff
Speaker 5: on there. And it's not always an expensive product like
Speaker 5: this one. It's often quite cheap. But it's like the
Speaker 5: every day I get when it's like the best coffee
Speaker 5: cup or the best I don't know, anything you can
Speaker 5: think of, the best ironing board or whatever. And they
Speaker 5: have their critics go through like you know, we'll go
Speaker 5: through five hundred different ironing boards and pick out the
Speaker 5: one they think is the best for the price, and
Speaker 5: they'll have the best luxury model gratifying work if you
Speaker 5: can get it.
Speaker 2: But I mean just anything.
Speaker 5: It might be sink sponge, I mean just it, socks,
Speaker 5: pair of socks, I mean just anything you can think of,
Speaker 5: and sometimes I really like them. Anyway, they had one
Speaker 5: the other night for pillowcases, and I've been really having
Speaker 5: trouble sleeping lately, so I got my attention.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 5: But anyway, it's this silk pillowcase, which I've never slept
Speaker 5: on silk before. Katie, are you a silk person.
Speaker 2: Yes, because it's supposed to be good for your hair.
Speaker 2: Jack Well, it's supposed to be good for lots of things.
Speaker 5: It might be the ultimate snake oil of the modern
Speaker 5: world with these silk pillowcases. Listen to some of the
Speaker 5: verbiage around here. It's really hilarious. Clinically shown and it's
Speaker 5: got an asterisk next to it. It's clinically shown them
Speaker 5: down at the pillowcase clinic. Yes, to visibly improve the
Speaker 5: appearance of fine lines on your face, skin hydration, skin texture,
Speaker 5: and smoothness skin radiance, luminosity, or brightness. So I'm just
Speaker 5: wondering if any of you have noticed any increased luminosity
Speaker 5: out of me since I started using the silk.
Speaker 4: You're glowing, Yeah, just sunglasses to do the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, neighbors.
Speaker 5: Are you pregnant? You're just glowing? Nope, I've been using
Speaker 5: this new silk pillowcase thingy. Over ninety percent of users
Speaker 5: agreed that they their skin felt more moisturized and hydrated
Speaker 5: after it.
Speaker 2: Also claims they didn't.
Speaker 5: It also claims creates forty three percent less friction on average.
Speaker 5: Oh finally, Oh is that a thing you deal with
Speaker 5: with your pillow cases currently?
Speaker 4: For the friction, I never really thought about it. I
Speaker 4: wake up with blisters on my cheek. There's so much
Speaker 4: fris sometimes bleeding.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: Well, I particularly liked that they were able to nail
Speaker 5: it down specifically to forty three percent less friction, because
Speaker 5: that's a.
Speaker 2: Very specific lumber.
Speaker 4: Boy, it's a real it's a masterclass in how to
Speaker 4: bulls consumers. Yeah, weirdly, specific numbers seem more credible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is exactly right, because you just have an
Speaker 5: automatic belief that, well, they wouldn't if you said.
Speaker 2: About forty percent, you could be making up.
Speaker 5: If you say forty three percent, clearly you did some
Speaker 5: science to come up with forty three percent. I like,
Speaker 5: they got a picture of this young woman. Two nights
Speaker 5: on a regular pillowcase, she looks all gloom, two nights
Speaker 5: on this slip silk pillowcase, she's all happy.
Speaker 7: You know what.
Speaker 5: And if you're wondering how big a sucker I am
Speaker 5: for snake oil, I did spend one hundred.
Speaker 2: Dollars one pillow case.
Speaker 5: Whoa, it's a desperate I am for decent sleep jack.
Speaker 5: There's this tiny little website called Amazon you can usually find.
Speaker 5: This is from the website of the of the stupid product.
Speaker 2: The New York Times.
Speaker 5: They're actual, actual reporters said they really really noticed the
Speaker 5: difference on their sleeping and it was huge. And I
Speaker 5: mean they're not paid by the companies or anything for that.
Speaker 5: They stressed that, and I thought, well, man, if it
Speaker 5: made a difference the way I've been sleeping.
Speaker 4: Coming up next hour, why is Trump kissing up to Russia?
Speaker 4: Does he have a bigger plan in mind?
Speaker 2: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty