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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the Saturday Podcast or

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Speaker 1: whenever it is you're reading. It's a bonus listening. It's

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Speaker 1: a bonus podcast, and that means it did not air

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Speaker 1: as a live broadcast during the week. It's just for you.

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Speaker 1: We've been doing interviews or playing stuff that we thought

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Speaker 1: was really good, whether it was from Heritage or prager you.

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Speaker 1: This week there was some audio I didn't get to

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Speaker 1: that I thought was interesting that I don't want to

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Speaker 1: go to waste those There are things that there was

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Speaker 1: a reason that were put in there in the first place,

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Speaker 1: and so without further ado, let me get to those.

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Speaker 1: you directly with them. And I loved I love to

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Speaker 1: do that with the shutdown earlier this week, we had

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Speaker 1: some audio I wanted to get to that I think

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Speaker 1: is noteworthy. New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer broke ranks with

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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on Fox News calling for

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Speaker 1: an end to the shutdown. This is what it takes

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Speaker 1: Democrats have to fix their own party. This is clip

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Speaker 1: number four two, mister Jimbo of.

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Speaker 2: The Empowerment Control Act of nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 3: The contingency funding that we set aside for SNAP is

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Speaker 3: not optional spending.

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Speaker 1: It is required by the law. President of the Federation

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Speaker 1: of Government Employees, Everett Keller Kelly, sorry Kelly, was on

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Speaker 1: CNN with Jake Tapper calling for an end to the shutdown.

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Speaker 1: This is a very very Democrat group.

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Speaker 4: Should the Democratic senators from New Mexico, your home state,

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Speaker 4: vote to open the government so that these SNAP funds

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Speaker 4: are not at risk?

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Speaker 2: Let me be clear. The administration is choosing to starve

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Speaker 2: American children with money that they already have appropriate the

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Speaker 2: White House. This is a choice by the White House.

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Speaker 4: This is also this is also a choice by Senate

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Speaker 4: Democrats to not volks open the government.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is.

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Speaker 4: I understand why they're doing it. They're doing it because

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Speaker 4: they want Medicaid funds restored. They're doing it because they

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Speaker 4: want Obamacare premiums to be extended past the end of

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Speaker 4: the year. I understand the reason.

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Speaker 2: I let me just be clear. The money for contingency

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Speaker 2: plans is sitting there. That is why the states are

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Speaker 2: suing the White Houses withholding funds from two to three

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Speaker 2: weeks worth of SNAP funds. Yeah yeah, well you may

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Speaker 2: not be a big deal to you, but let's is

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Speaker 2: a big deal to me. The grandparents for.

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Speaker 4: GRI is a big deal.

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Speaker 2: They literally are feeding their children. My point is that

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Speaker 2: it's a short term solutions accounts. It's a short term.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, people need to be

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Speaker 2: able to feed their families, and Saturday is when those

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Speaker 2: funds are also strong.

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Speaker 4: Fighting Congresswoman, why not asking the Senate Democrats from New

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Speaker 4: Mexico to vote to open the government so that the

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Speaker 4: SNAP funds.

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Speaker 2: I am here in the House of Representatives. It is

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Speaker 2: shut down. I am fighting to get the government reopen.

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Speaker 2: I am fighting to get funding put back into SNAP

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Speaker 2: that is already existent, and I am fighting for the

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Speaker 2: American people. I am here, But show me a single

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Speaker 2: Republican that is here. Not a single one is here

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Speaker 2: to make sure that Americans are fed on Saturday. That

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Speaker 2: is why I am here.

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Speaker 1: The hood rat Congressman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett, weigh in

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Speaker 1: on these SNAP benefits running out soon thanks to the

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Speaker 1: Shumer shutdown. She was very upset about the shutdown and

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Speaker 1: the benefits running out because she cares about the po people.

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Speaker 1: She wants you to know that she thinks recipients should

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Speaker 1: receive more money for not working because these folks are

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Speaker 1: too hungry. Well, I've seen a lot of pictures people

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Speaker 1: that are claiming that they're hungry and they don't like

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Speaker 1: they've missed a meal.

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Speaker 5: Now, mind you, even those that are getting SNAP benefits,

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Speaker 5: they are already too hungry. We are talking about six

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Speaker 5: dollars a day to eat, and this is something that

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Speaker 5: they don't feel like is a big deal. We also

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Speaker 5: know that this is just a preview of things that

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Speaker 5: are to come, because when they passed the Big Ugly bill,

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Speaker 5: they ended up cutting out over three hundred billion dollars

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Speaker 5: from SNAP benefits.

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Speaker 1: My mind, we played this earlier in the week, so

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Speaker 1: forgive me if you heard it, but it's just so

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Speaker 1: good gravy and put together a montage to show how

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Speaker 1: the opinions of Democrats have changed over the years. This

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Speaker 1: is in the nineties when Bill Clinton was president and

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Speaker 1: he's talking about and this won him a lot of

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Speaker 1: support from Middle Americas. He's talking about the importance of

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Speaker 1: getting off of welfare and getting back to work. They

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Speaker 1: called it welfare to work fair, and it was. The

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Speaker 1: idea was that there's no pride, no no dignity in

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Speaker 1: being on government benefits. So get off of them and

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Speaker 1: get to work, you lazy bastards. And that's what would happen.

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Speaker 1: That's what would happen if you stop feeding the zoo animals,

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Speaker 1: they'll have to figure out how to eat on their own.

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Speaker 6: Nearly thirty years ago, Robert Kennedy said, work is the

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Speaker 6: meaning of what this country is all about. We need

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Speaker 6: it as individuals, we need to sense it in our

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Speaker 6: fellow citizens, and we need it as a society and

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Speaker 6: as a people. He was right then, and it's right now.

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Speaker 6: From now on, our nation's answer to this great social

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Speaker 6: challenge will no longer be an ever ending cycle of welfare.

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Speaker 6: It will be the dignity, the power, and the ethic

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Speaker 6: of work. Today we are taking an historic chance to

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Speaker 6: make welfare what it was meant to be, a second chance,

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Speaker 6: not a way of life. This bill will help people

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Speaker 6: to go to work, can stop drawing a welfare check

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Speaker 6: and start drawing a paycheck. It is now clearly better

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Speaker 6: to go to work than to stay on welfare. Clearly

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Speaker 6: better because of actions taken by the Congress in this session.

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Speaker 6: It is clearly better to end the terrible, almost physical

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Speaker 6: isolation of huge numbers of poor people in their children

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Speaker 6: from the rest of mainstream America. We have to do

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Speaker 6: that today. We are ending welfare as we know it.

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Speaker 6: But I hope this day will be remembered not for

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Speaker 6: what it ended, but for what it began, a new

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Speaker 6: day that offers hope, honors responsibility, rewards work, and changes

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Speaker 6: the terms of the debate.

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Speaker 7: For too many. Welfare has been a way of life

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Speaker 7: for too long. It has condemned too many on welfare

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Speaker 7: to a lifetime at the margins of our society. Today

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Speaker 7: we start to change all that.

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Speaker 8: Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual

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Speaker 8: response it's ability contract, so that they're forced to agree

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Speaker 8: up front to the conditions placed on receiving the benefit,

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Speaker 8: and so that they will have a plan from day

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Speaker 8: one on how to get themselves off of welfare. Put

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Speaker 8: them to work and make them want to go to work,

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Speaker 8: and make it reasonable for them to go to work.

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Speaker 8: Be mandatory work requirement for anyone receiving welfare.

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Speaker 3: They actually have charged and run ads saying that President

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Speaker 3: Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare

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Speaker 3: reform bill. I signed that move millions of people from

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Speaker 3: welfare to work. Wait, the requirement was for more work,

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Speaker 3: not less. I am telling you the claim that President

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Speaker 3: Obama weaken welfare reforms work requirement is.

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Speaker 6: Just not true.

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Speaker 8: Best anti poverty program as a job which confers not

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Speaker 8: just income, but structure.

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Speaker 3: And dignity and a sense of connection to community.

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