Speaker 1: All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you for being with us. Right down our toll
Speaker 1: free telephone number if you want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program.
Speaker 2: Well, it's been a long night.
Speaker 1: Maybe slept a couple of hours up throughout the entire night,
Speaker 1: and I can tell you the behind the scenes if
Speaker 1: you're interested.
Speaker 2: That's what we do on this program.
Speaker 1: And I spoke with a lot of senators all throughout
Speaker 1: the night, and it wasn't until about eight am, nine
Speaker 1: am this morning that word got back to me that well,
Speaker 1: let's put it this way, all throughout the night, they
Speaker 1: did not have the votes to pass this one big,
Speaker 1: beautiful bill. I mean, this is the problem that Republicans
Speaker 1: have with a small minority in the House, in the Senate.
Speaker 1: It's very tough, and you're dealing with people that all
Speaker 1: have their different agendas involved in the process.
Speaker 2: And I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I will was different and it's frustrating when we get to,
Speaker 1: you know, the point where you know the differences are,
Speaker 1: you know, for me, it was like it was sort
Speaker 1: of like go back to when I did the town
Speaker 1: hall with Speaker Johnson and House Republicans. The first thing
Speaker 1: I said to all of them on TV is you
Speaker 1: all know you're not going to get everything you want.
Speaker 1: And the first thing I did when I had the
Speaker 1: Senate town hall. John Thune was on that and Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz and a bunch of other Senator Kennedy Graham and
Speaker 1: many others, and I said, you all know you're not
Speaker 1: going to get everything that you want now, for better.
Speaker 2: Or for worse.
Speaker 1: That's just the system of governance, as imperfect as it
Speaker 1: is that we have. But with all of that said,
Speaker 1: and I will be the first to tell you, the
Speaker 1: bill is not perfect. I can tell you that the
Speaker 1: visions and policies. I've not read the entire bill because
Speaker 1: I don't have time to read a thousand pages and
Speaker 1: digest it and completely understand it. So I look through
Speaker 1: the various summaries that I've been able to see this
Speaker 1: there's plenty that I don't like here. I wish it
Speaker 1: did cut more and spending that it ended up that
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz ended up being right that the Senate version
Speaker 1: cuts more money than the House version does. And now
Speaker 1: it will make its way to the House. I believe
Speaker 1: the schedule is they're going to debate it and vote
Speaker 1: on that tomorrow. Leading into the fourth of July. But
Speaker 1: let me tell you what I do like about it.
Speaker 1: This is probably when you look at all of the
Speaker 1: bills that have ever been passed, it's they're all the same.
Speaker 1: None of this is any different than how Washington always works.
Speaker 1: It's like watching sausage get made. You don't want to
Speaker 1: watch how it gets made, but you want to eat it,
Speaker 1: and you want to take the good out of this.
Speaker 2: And then the beauty is.
Speaker 1: With the Republicans have in control of the House and Senate,
Speaker 1: there is an opportunity. I'm not putting my confidence in it.
Speaker 1: They might have just been better off doing the three
Speaker 1: smaller bills as had been proposed at one point and
Speaker 1: not gone for one big, beautiful bill. But here's where
Speaker 1: we find ourselves. And now the House is going to
Speaker 1: have to struggle with this. I assume it will be
Speaker 1: as touch and go as it was all night long
Speaker 1: with with senators. And you know, I can't stand as
Speaker 1: salt deduction, for example, drives me crazy. I would have
Speaker 1: liked to save more money. You know, I don't like
Speaker 1: you know, the state and local tax deduction. It rewards
Speaker 1: blue states that'll elect you know, tax and spend liberals
Speaker 1: and regulate everything for their constituents. Here's why that provision
Speaker 1: was included. I'll be very straight up because the Republicans
Speaker 1: that are elected officials, especially in Congress, in the House,
Speaker 1: in California, states like California, Illinois, and California, because without
Speaker 1: fighting for that, they'd have nothing to go back to
Speaker 1: their stituents and say that they were able to get
Speaker 1: out of this bill. It's very expensive. Thought. A dollar
Speaker 1: deduction for person is a lot of money. If you
Speaker 1: get to this deduct state and local taxes, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: So there are provisions here. Now, That's how the sausage
Speaker 1: is made. That's how the game is played. I don't
Speaker 1: think you know you're ever going to get representatives that
Speaker 1: are going to stand okay, I will support this and
Speaker 1: not want to put their changes in there. And they're
Speaker 1: going to they have a duty to represent those that
Speaker 1: elected them. But the legislation is packed with some of
Speaker 1: the most conservative things, especially on the economy, that really
Speaker 1: make me happy. The twenty seventeen tax cuts will be
Speaker 1: made permanent. That will be the largest tax cut now
Speaker 1: ever in American history. Democrats ended up voting against or
Speaker 1: voting for the largest tax increase in American history by
Speaker 1: not supporting it. You know, this bill does eliminate taxes
Speaker 1: on tips and taxes on overtime. Eight percent of seniors
Speaker 1: will not pay taxes on Social Security according to it
Speaker 1: an analysis we have in spite of the lies being told,
Speaker 1: every American working men and women will benefit from the
Speaker 1: Trump tax cuts and that is a fact. We'll get
Speaker 1: into more specificitaty in details in the next hour. But
Speaker 1: the bill cuts Medicaid for people who rely on it.
Speaker 1: That's another lie that's told. It's not true. The bill
Speaker 1: explodes the deficit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The problem with that mindset and that thinking is there
Speaker 1: is a believe well, if you cut taxes, you've got
Speaker 1: to pay for them. That is the main argument of here.
Speaker 1: That's what liberal Democrats always say. But it doesn't factor
Speaker 1: in the growth of the economy aspect of cutting taxes.
Speaker 1: You know, how is it Reagan dropped the top marginal
Speaker 1: rate from seventy to twenty eight percent, and revenues to
Speaker 1: the government ended up doubling, and we resulted in twenty
Speaker 1: one million new jobs and the longest period of peacetime
Speaker 1: economic growth in history. How is it the twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: Trump tax cuts ended up creating one record low after
Speaker 1: another after another after another. Unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans,
Speaker 1: Asian Americans, women in the workplace, in African American youth,
Speaker 1: unemployment because tax cuts increase revenue to the government, and
Speaker 1: this is a misnomer that you have to quote pay
Speaker 1: for them. What you then have to do is what
Speaker 1: Doze is doing, for example, and Doze is still in place,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk Ando Elon Musk, and they are looking and
Speaker 1: we saw this last week. They were over to identify
Speaker 1: what was at one point seven billion dollars in waste,
Speaker 1: fraud and abuse. And that also is part of this
Speaker 1: bill that they're going to be austere and putting their
Speaker 1: budgets together, and that's going to be a process that
Speaker 1: is ongoing, which I'm very happy and no administration has
Speaker 1: ever tried to tackle this before. But the largest tax
Speaker 1: cut in American history. Democrats vote for the largest tax
Speaker 1: increase in American history, helping out men and women that
Speaker 1: work in the service industry with a dominating taxes on
Speaker 1: tips and taxes and overtime. For people that work extra hard,
Speaker 1: they deserve to keep more of their money, I think
Speaker 1: is a great idea too, getting rid of getting rid
Speaker 1: of waste, fraud, and abuse of Medicaid. That's that's a win.
Speaker 1: Creating a work requirement for able bodied Americans now enrolled
Speaker 1: in the program, that's a win.
Speaker 2: You know it did.
Speaker 1: Also, this bill extends the full child tax credits standard deduction,
Speaker 1: allocates funds for Trump's Golden Dome and the next generation
Speaker 1: of weaponry. I mean, our military under Biden and Harris,
Speaker 1: you know, had been completely neglected and frankly desperately needs
Speaker 1: the monies to get to this goal. It Also, this
Speaker 1: bill is funding desperately needed border security funds and the
Speaker 1: monies to continue the deportation of criminals. Nobody been more
Speaker 1: outspoken on this issue than Tom Homan. And it will
Speaker 1: put America on a path towards energy dominance, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, we need desperately, which also will create high
Speaker 1: paying career jobs for Americans and all the wealth that
Speaker 1: comes with it because oil, gas and coal remain It's
Speaker 1: been now forever, in spite of all these attempts at
Speaker 1: other forms of energy, eighty percent of the lifeblood of
Speaker 1: the world's economy, you know, Biden e climate rules, regulations,
Speaker 1: repealed the Green tax credit, eliminated Biden's student loan scheme
Speaker 1: officially over, and the bill does not decrease Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP,
Speaker 1: or Social Security benefits, although many Democrats have been demagoguing
Speaker 1: and flat out lying about it. Those earning Social Security
Speaker 1: are going to end up taking home more money thanks
Speaker 1: to a reduction in taxes. Medicare payments will increase, while
Speaker 1: Medicaid recipients are protected from fraud, waste, and abuse. It
Speaker 1: also does not increase the deficit. Instead, the deficit will
Speaker 1: go down by around well just the little Shia two
Speaker 1: trillion dollars according to estimates, but they still have a
Speaker 1: long way to go to get us to a balanced budget.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Now, this is going to
Speaker 1: benefit working class Americans. Now here's my hope. When you
Speaker 1: combine the President's tax cuts and especially for working men
Speaker 1: and women in the service industries, and working men and
Speaker 1: women in the trades, and people that get paid by
Speaker 1: the hour and they work over time and they get
Speaker 1: to keep more of their money, and you still keep
Speaker 1: in the essential services that Americans have always shown that
Speaker 1: they wanted, Medicaid, Medicare, social security of a lot of it.
Speaker 1: They have lost their original purpose. And you know, as
Speaker 1: I once warned that Obamacare was just going to funnel
Speaker 1: everybody into, you know, one of these programs as a
Speaker 1: backdoor towards universal healthcare. When you put all of that
Speaker 1: in place, then you add the ten trillion dollars in
Speaker 1: commitments that the President has gotten from countries and companies
Speaker 1: for manufacturing in this country. Ten trillion, not billion trillion
Speaker 1: in the next four years. It's great for national security.
Speaker 1: Why we're gonna now be making our pharmaceuticals here in
Speaker 1: America with the monies that are committed by a lot
Speaker 1: of the pharmaceutical companies. That means we won't be reliant
Speaker 1: on China. We've been far too reliant on foreign countries
Speaker 1: for semiconductor chips. That is coming to an end as well,
Speaker 1: as a result of the President's push for tariff and
Speaker 1: free and fair trade. That's a big benefit. Automobile manufacturing
Speaker 1: is coming back to America. All of these sectors will
Speaker 1: have high paying career jobs. Now, add one more thing
Speaker 1: to that, the President's commitment now to the country to
Speaker 1: now start production of rare earth minerals and magnets and
Speaker 1: all these other things. These components that are necessary for
Speaker 1: computers and cars and industry and especially our defense department.
Speaker 1: These are critical, critical items. And yeah, he did make
Speaker 1: a deal with China. Yeah, that's great for the short term,
Speaker 1: but we can no longer be dependent on foreign countries, frankly,
Speaker 1: for anything, as far as I'm concerned. And it's you know,
Speaker 1: and we we really did see a lot, I mean,
Speaker 1: between this and Mandani Mandani whatever, his name is, Auran Mandani,
Speaker 1: the Marxist Mandani as we call him affectionately, You see
Speaker 1: a void that this could be the party of working
Speaker 1: men and women they claimed for a long time to be,
Speaker 1: but no, they have now evolved into a radical you know,
Speaker 1: in this case, this guy is a stated Marxist. We've
Speaker 1: got new information about him today. He's now talking about
Speaker 1: seizing the means of production.
Speaker 2: Literally.
Speaker 1: Well, that's like what Fidel Castro did in Cuba. That's
Speaker 1: what they did during the Bolshevik Revolution in the former
Speaker 1: Soviet Union in Russia. You know, but Mamdani's goal is
Speaker 1: very very clear. It is a part that is institutionalized,
Speaker 1: you know, hatred against people that I never thought possible.
Speaker 1: You know, we now have the radical Squad and this
Speaker 1: is now the power base and the power brokers. This
Speaker 1: the Mom Donni's of the world, the Aocs of the world,
Speaker 1: the Jasmine Crockets of the world, the Grandpa Bernie's of
Speaker 1: the world, the Elizabeth Warrens of the world.
Speaker 2: The squad.
Speaker 1: This now represents the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: And as goes New York in California, so goes the
Speaker 1: rest of the country. And if you want the results
Speaker 1: that they have in New York and California, then my
Speaker 1: advice is go out there and vote for those policies,
Speaker 1: and you will regret them.
Speaker 2: Is it is.
Speaker 1: Beyond strange, bewildering, bizarre, and troubling to me that people
Speaker 1: are so willing to give up their freedom and the
Speaker 1: name of this false security and guaranteed everything from their government.
Speaker 1: And when you ask a simple question, what does government
Speaker 1: do right? The answer is you can't name anything except
Speaker 1: maybe the military. But even there we do waste too
Speaker 1: much money. There could be more efficiency, and I know
Speaker 1: they're working to clean that up now since Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has got elected. But most schools look at blue states
Speaker 1: and blue cities, how are their school systems doing?
Speaker 2: Not well?
Speaker 1: Spending more per capita on education per student with the
Speaker 1: worst results. How was defund dismantled, no bail laws and
Speaker 1: you know, release the criminals from jail and sending social
Speaker 1: workers Marxist when Donnie wants to do How's that going
Speaker 1: to work out?
Speaker 2: You don't have to be a genius.
Speaker 1: By the way, everyone that predicted Donald Trump was wrong
Speaker 1: on tariff, Well, Department of Homeland Security collected more than
Speaker 1: one hundred and six billion in tariff revenue since Donald
Speaker 1: Trump took office. And guess what, We're not experiencing an
Speaker 1: increase in inflation. And while Americans struggle with health care
Speaker 1: costs and it, Democrats fought to preserve free health care
Speaker 1: for illegal immigrants. The Senate Democrats moved to block efforts
Speaker 1: last night to strip you illegal immigrants of taxpayer funded benefits.
Speaker 1: They voted fifty six forty four on an amendment from
Speaker 1: John Cornyan that would have reduced federal Medicaid payments to
Speaker 1: states that offer healthcare to with legal immigrants. Why would
Speaker 1: they want to do that? Why would Kamala Harris support
Speaker 1: taxpayer funded sex change operations for illegal why did she
Speaker 1: Why did Tim Wall support free college tuition? They're being
Speaker 1: sued now by Pam Bondi anyway, eight hundred nine one, Sean,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 1: This will now make its way to the House, and
Speaker 1: you know there's some anger already emerging. But I think
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they're going to go
Speaker 1: along with the president's policies, look at the overall good
Speaker 1: in it, and then maybe come back and make it better.
Speaker 1: That's my hope. All right, twenty five now to the
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Speaker 1: Foundation all the way. This is pretty interesting. There's in
Speaker 1: Big Big Pack reviews about fake new CNN. But anyway,
Speaker 1: this guy, Henry Harry Enton is pretty interesting. He gets
Speaker 1: a lot of press. I'll say that he said the
Speaker 1: President Trump now is more beloved among his party's voters
Speaker 1: than any other past Republican president in the last few decades.
Speaker 1: He has a whopping sixty three percent approval rating among
Speaker 1: Republican voters as of today. This rating is higher than
Speaker 1: other Republican presidents going back to former President Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 1: those approval ratings did not exceed sixty percent by the
Speaker 1: fifth month of their term. And he said, it's history making.
Speaker 1: We've let all these Republican presidents going back thirty six,
Speaker 1: thirty seven years, five months in, look at this. Former
Speaker 1: President George HW. Bush forty six percent, former President George W.
Speaker 1: Bush fifty nine percent. And remember he had very high ratings.
Speaker 1: You know, after nine to eleven. He did a great
Speaker 1: job rallying the nation at that point. You see in
Speaker 1: President Trump's first term it was fifty three percent. Now
Speaker 1: it's sixty three percent, and he beats all the Republicans
Speaker 1: on the board, and you know, even beats Reagan when
Speaker 1: it comes to strongly the strongly approved category five months in,
Speaker 1: and of course Reagan was coming on. You know that
Speaker 1: that was after that assassination attempt. Reagan's approval ratings stood
Speaker 1: between fifty eight and sixty percent in early July nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty one, only four months after John Hinckley Junior tried
Speaker 1: to assassinate him outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. To the
Speaker 1: bottom line is Trump is really making history with the
Speaker 1: Republican base.
Speaker 2: And very beloved right now.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll get into the issue at the top
Speaker 1: of the hour of the myths of what is being sent.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can say is it was it
Speaker 1: was a long night last night. It was frustrating, but
Speaker 1: I understand it. I've been through too many of these battles.
Speaker 1: Reagan had his you know, his own battles and fights
Speaker 1: within his own party. You know, it's hard to get
Speaker 1: people five hundred and thirty five people, you know, if
Speaker 1: you have slim majorities like Republicans now do in the
Speaker 1: House and Senate, which really does highlight the need to
Speaker 1: elect more you know, maga conservative Republicans so we can
Speaker 1: get more and bigger things done. But this was a
Speaker 1: very very heavy lift. And all throughout the night I
Speaker 1: was getting updates and it's like, uh, we'll still shy
Speaker 1: one vote, still shy. If I could show you all
Speaker 1: the texts, still shy one vote, still shy one. We
Speaker 1: have an Alaska problem. That was Lisa Mkowski. It's frustrating,
Speaker 1: but they eventually got there, and that's the good news.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and be mad at
Speaker 1: people that voted whatever way they voted.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm just glad it got done.
Speaker 1: I don't think as you know, going through all the
Speaker 1: things that I mentioned, I won't repeat myself. But there's
Speaker 1: so much conservative goodness in this. And here's the best
Speaker 1: part to me. If you're looking at this through a
Speaker 1: political lens, it's not the politics of winning. It's it's
Speaker 1: the policies that will lead to the better economy, and
Speaker 1: that's the tax cuts. It also shows the American people
Speaker 1: that the Republicans are the party of working men and women,
Speaker 1: and Democrats voted for the biggest tax increase in history,
Speaker 1: and voted against working men and women, and voted for
Speaker 1: open voters, and voted against energy independence, and voted against
Speaker 1: deporting criminals, and voted against you know, funding the next
Speaker 1: generation of weaponry. And it's that's that's on them as
Speaker 1: they go and elect their Marxist mandanis of the world.
Speaker 1: You know, I know that Elizabeth Warren had to fit.
Speaker 1: This is outrageous, this is wrong. We'll show you some
Speaker 1: of this tonight. This this I'm angry he's very angry
Speaker 1: about this. What did you think was gonna happen? You know,
Speaker 1: Americans are struggling with health care costs. Senate Democrats fought
Speaker 1: to preserve free health care for illegal immigrants in this bill.
Speaker 1: Then I voted fifty six forty four in an amendment
Speaker 1: by John Cornyan that would have reduced federal Medicaid payments
Speaker 1: to states that offer health care to illegal immigrants charged
Speaker 1: their convicted of serious crimes. You know, the four Senate
Speaker 1: Democrats booked their party to pack the measure. The amendment
Speaker 1: failed to clear the sixty vote threshold and will therefore
Speaker 1: not be is not included in this one big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1: That's the party of the Democrats, the party that puts
Speaker 1: the rights of illegals, so called rights of illegals over
Speaker 1: your safety, including criminal illegals like a Brego Garcia. You know,
Speaker 1: look at all the temper tantrums out as ICE is
Speaker 1: trying to do their job in Los Angeles. They arrested
Speaker 1: murderers and child molesters, gang members, I mean, some of
Speaker 1: the worst of the worst. You'd think they would be happy,
Speaker 1: but they're not. And that's the Democratic Party. And you know,
Speaker 1: blue states have enrolled over a million illegal immigrants in
Speaker 1: the program of Medicaid.
Speaker 2: Why are we paying for this?
Speaker 1: MPR reporting more than one million illegal immigrants, most of
Speaker 1: them lack permanent legal status covered by state health programs
Speaker 1: like medical Look at all the money they've had to
Speaker 1: borrow out in California to pay for healthcare for illegals
Speaker 1: and all the other services associated with it. It was
Speaker 1: interesting on the Lisa Murkowski question here that this did
Speaker 1: a lot for Alaska. This bill a lot, especially on
Speaker 1: the issue of energy. In the end, she was I mean,
Speaker 1: there were no votes from Rampaul, Tom Tellis, and Susan Collins.
Speaker 1: My understanding was that they're at ram Paul was willing
Speaker 1: to meet the rest of his colleagues halfway and if
Speaker 1: they would reduce the amount of money in terms of
Speaker 1: raising the debt ceiling by like eighty percent, he would
Speaker 1: have He would have been the crucial last vote for
Speaker 1: this because Susan Collins Tom Tillis were a hard nos.
Speaker 1: Not surprising in either case, but that was that was
Speaker 1: kind of like the behind the scenes. And then finally
Speaker 1: I got the I don't know the text, I don't
Speaker 1: remember phone call, I don't remember from who got to
Speaker 1: give credit to those people that fought for it. I
Speaker 1: know that there are going to be House members that
Speaker 1: are unhappy changed at all. I can only say from
Speaker 1: being up and awake and in touch with a lot
Speaker 1: of people involved in this last night, that this was
Speaker 1: the only way it was going to get over the
Speaker 1: finish line. And that is that's just the process. And
Speaker 1: you know, when you look at other issue is involved
Speaker 1: in the economy. The President is not wrong to send
Speaker 1: mister too late Jerome Powell a fiery notes spelling out
Speaker 1: you know, interest rate failures costing the US of fortune.
Speaker 2: He's not wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, President Trump's tariffs have earned eighty one point
Speaker 1: five billion in new money according to the Department of
Speaker 1: Homeland Security. But with that we also have the ten
Speaker 1: trillion dollars in investments.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The I mean for the President was warning a wopping
Speaker 1: sixty eight percent tax increase on the American people of
Speaker 1: this bill did not pass, and that is now going
Speaker 1: to be in the hands of the US House of
Speaker 1: Representatives and and there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on them to go along with these tax cuts,
Speaker 1: go along with these border security measures, go along with
Speaker 1: these energy policies go along with, you know, filling the
Speaker 1: gap of vulnerability with our military and helping our defense
Speaker 1: department and anyway. It is, uh, it's just very interesting
Speaker 1: to watch. I'm very you know, I've always been pretty
Speaker 1: close to the House Freedom Caucus. They are upset now
Speaker 1: there are other issues here that get complicated and I
Speaker 1: hate to get in the weeds because I don't think
Speaker 1: most of you really care, but the weeds kind of matter.
Speaker 1: They have rules in the House and rules in the Senate.
Speaker 1: The only way this bill had a chance to be
Speaker 1: passed is when the budget chairman in the Senate, Lindsey Graham,
Speaker 1: went forward and said, we're going to use reconciliation. Reconciliation
Speaker 1: means you don't need cloture. Cloture is sixty votes, but
Speaker 1: it has all these provisions have to be budget related
Speaker 1: issues where you lower the threshold from a sixty vote margin,
Speaker 1: because you were never going to get any Democrats to
Speaker 1: support this bill. This is how Obamacare was passed, this
Speaker 1: is how the Inflation Reduction Act was passed, and it
Speaker 1: is Yeah, I think is I think the proof is
Speaker 1: going to be in the putting if history holds, And
Speaker 1: by that I mean if cutting taxes does what it
Speaker 1: always does, and that stimulates the economy, results in more revenue,
Speaker 1: coupled with the ten trillion dollars in investment in manufacturing,
Speaker 1: coupled with you know, hopefully on a path towards energy dominance.
Speaker 1: I think at that point there will be a period
Speaker 1: of American prosperity we've not experienced before. I've always believed
Speaker 1: in conservatism, and one of the fundamental parts of conservatism
Speaker 1: is is more freedom, less government intervention in our lives.
Speaker 1: And I think that holds true today in so many
Speaker 1: different ways. You know, it's interesting. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at a focus on the one comment of Mom Dannie,
Speaker 1: you know billion No, he doesn't want any more billionaires,
Speaker 1: and he wants to take over the means of production.
Speaker 1: We got new cuts of him. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: Mark Simona is going to end up being proven right.
Speaker 1: He was on yesterday that this is going to be
Speaker 1: more or stuff that this guy said that is going
Speaker 1: to be coming out every single day. But you know,
Speaker 1: the idea that we shouldn't have billionaires, he said, I
Speaker 1: don't think that we should have billionaires.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: You are a self described democratic socialist, do you think
Speaker 1: that billionaires have a right to exist.
Speaker 3: I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly,
Speaker 3: it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.
Speaker 3: And ultimately what we need more of is equality across
Speaker 3: our city and across our statement, across our country.
Speaker 2: Equality.
Speaker 1: This is why I call them Marxist mom Dannie, because
Speaker 1: two each according to his need, from each according to
Speaker 1: his ability. That's right out of Karl Marx's mouth, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he's talking about with equality here. How
Speaker 1: do people get wealthy?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Look, people go into professions all the time. They know
Speaker 1: they're not going to get wealthy in these professions. If
Speaker 1: you have a calling, and again I'll go back to
Speaker 1: the word education. It's root derivative from the Latin which
Speaker 1: is a duke, which means to bring forthrom within. Everyone
Speaker 1: was born, in my view, created by God, born with talent.
Speaker 1: We all have our unique fingerprint. You know, the Bible
Speaker 1: tells us the very hairs of our head are counted.
Speaker 1: And if that's if that's true, which is what I believe,
Speaker 1: and that we all are born with different talents and
Speaker 1: callings in life. And if say your calling is law enforcement,
Speaker 1: most people don't get into law enforcement. And I have
Speaker 1: many friends and family members that have thinking they're going
Speaker 1: to get rich, but it's a calling. It's something that
Speaker 1: they feel compelled to do, or teachers they feel compelled
Speaker 1: to do. You know, you don't even become a doctor
Speaker 1: these days with the expectation that you're going to be
Speaker 1: particularly wealthy. And then there are entrepreneurs, and then there
Speaker 1: are inventors, and then there are people that create goods
Speaker 1: and services. And you don't become wealthy if you create
Speaker 1: or provide goods and services that people want, need and desire.
Speaker 1: And if that service, that service, or those goods are
Speaker 1: in such high demand that makes you wealthy, well, you're
Speaker 1: still paying taxes on that money.
Speaker 2: Number one.
Speaker 1: Number two, they're also improving the lives of other people
Speaker 1: because nobody's forcing people to buy your whatever it is
Speaker 1: you've produced, or whatever service it is that you are
Speaker 1: offering here. And it's also the ultimate and a meritocracy.
Speaker 1: You know, if you believe in meritocracy, and that is
Speaker 1: that the human spirit, if you live in freedom and
Speaker 1: you happen to be successful. I mean, they're again, do
Speaker 1: we not want these companies to exist in New York?
Speaker 1: These private equity companies, these big banks, these investment firms.
Speaker 1: What do you how does that How is that going
Speaker 1: to play out in the end? You know, go ahead
Speaker 1: with the guy that you know wants to confiscate wealth. Well,
Speaker 1: what do politicians do with wealth when they confiscated they
Speaker 1: didn't earn it? I don't know, you know, putting aside
Speaker 1: trust fund brats, but people that made their money the
Speaker 1: old fashioned way through hard work and dedication and innovation.
Speaker 1: Why do we think that we have a right to
Speaker 1: empower a politician to take their money and give it
Speaker 1: to us.
Speaker 2: What does that do for the politician?
Speaker 1: Well, that then creates a base of support that wants
Speaker 1: him empowered. Basically taking money from other people and giving
Speaker 1: it to them. I mean, it's insane. And this is
Speaker 1: where the radicalized Democratic Party unfortunately is gone and where
Speaker 1: they're going. You know, mom, Donnie now defending his plan
Speaker 1: to punish white people. I mean, he doubled down Sunday.
Speaker 1: He wants to jack up property taxes on richer and
Speaker 1: whier neighborhoods. Now, let's play jeopardy at home. If somebody said, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna tax Hispanic Americans more or African American,
Speaker 1: African Americans, more Asian Americans, more Jewish Americans, more whatever
Speaker 1: it happens to be. I mean, what do you call that?
Speaker 1: I know one word comes to my mind. I think
Speaker 1: you're all thinking the same word. Not hard to figure out.
Speaker 1: Trump said, he warns that he may cut federal funding
Speaker 1: the New York of Mama Dami wins and uh, you
Speaker 1: know Mamdani's pledging to stop ICE from even doing their job. Well,
Speaker 1: that would be at odds with the federal government. This
Speaker 1: guy is, you know, he wants to He has the
Speaker 1: end goal of seizing the means of production. That is socialist, statist, radical,
Speaker 1: Marxist one oh one, that's him. That's Cuba. That's the
Speaker 1: Bolshevik revolution. That's been tried, many forms, names, manifestations. It
Speaker 1: all ends the same, great promises unfulfilled and then of
Speaker 1: course more poverty. And then you calculate how much freedom
Speaker 1: you gave up in the name of security that was
Speaker 1: never secure.
Speaker 2: It's an age old mistake.