WEBVTT - I'm Urinating Green! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.240 Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Jetty. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.520 US officials say strikes hit dozens of missiles, radars, drone 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.680 and air defense systems in Yemen. At least fifty three 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.760 people have been killed and nearly one hundred injured. Whothi's 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.360 promised to respond, claiming they launched retaliatory missiles and a 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.600 drone at USS Harry Truman in the Red Seat, the 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.839 same aircraft carrier that sent these fighter jets to strike Yemen. However, 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.280 are US officials hells ABC News their claim wasn't true. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.040 President Trump writing a ron support for the group who's 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.120 targeted commercial vessels and US Navy ships at one of 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.000 the world's most vital shipping routes must end immediately. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.400 Before we get to Marco Rupe on facinination, Answering questions 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.440 about this reading from The New York Times over the weekend, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:11.120 which includes Trump's post on uh, I don't know if 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.400 this was a tweet his truth thingy. The hoothy attack 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.400 on American vessels will not be tolerated, Trump said, on 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.119 social media over the weekend. We will use overwhelming lethal 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.480 force until we have achieved our objective, he said to 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.720 Iran support for Houthi terrorists must end immediately. All caps 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.600 warning the government in Tehran that America will hold you 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:37.160 fully accountable and we won't be nice about it, which 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.320 is kind of a funny thing to say, as a 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.560 Trump's thing to say, the most powerful man in the world, 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:45.200 and we won't be nice about it. Here's Marco Rubio 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.160 being asked about how long we're going to do this. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.360 How long will this campaign last and will it involve 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:52.600 ground forces. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.040 Well, first of all, the problem here is that this 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:56.960 is a very important shipping lane and in the last 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.120 year and a half, last eighteen months to whosies have 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.720 struck our attack one hundred and seventy four naval vessels 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.920 of the United States attacking the US Navy directly one 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.440 hundred and seventy four times, and one hundred and forty 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.240 five times they've attacked commercial shipping. 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:10.640 So we basically have a band. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.680 Of pirates, you know, with guided precision anti ship weaponry 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.440 and exacting a toll system, and one of the most 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.720 important shipping lanes in the world. That's just not sustainable. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.800 We are not going to have these people controlling which 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.760 ships can go through and which ones cannot. And so 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.960 your question is how long will this go on? It 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.359 will go on until they no longer have the capability. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:31.280 To do that. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.040 The only question about this whole situation is how in 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.280 the hell did the free world? Has the free world 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.360 allowed this to go on so long? Whether it's US 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:47.080 or Great Britain or whoever, the amount of free travel 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.239 in the seas being disrupted by this group of numbnuts. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:56.880 It's absolutely astounding. And I'm going to illustrate the point. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.880 You're going to think I'm changing the topic, but I'm not. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.440 Well. This is a clip number fifty eight. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:07.640 It's Brooke Taylor of Fox News talking about an immigration 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:08.640 related topic. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.959 Fewer migrants are taking the journey to reach the US 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.799 border through the Darien Gap, the treacherous jungle connecting Columbia 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:16.639 and Panama. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:17.760 At its peak in. 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.359 August twenty twenty three, nearly eighty two thousand migrants took 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.360 the journey. A year later, in August twenty twenty four, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:28.160 it dropped to sixteen thousand, six hundred and this February, 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:32.240 under the Trump administration, just four hundred and eight migrants crossed. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.280 That's according to data from an agency in Panama that 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:36.520 keeps track of migration. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:38.800 Now we have a proud to that's that's fine. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.320 That's fine because Trump's saying don't come, and so people aren't. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.560 The number of people making the journey through that gap 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.640 to coming to the United States illegally went from eighty 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:55.480 two thousand a month to four hundred and eight, I 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.760 would suggest to you, And that was while the eighty 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.280 two thousand was wild. Alejandro Mayarchis was saying the border 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.760 is secure. I would tell you that the answer to 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:11.760 your question about the who the thees is that the 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:18.040 Biden policy on that was every bit as astoundingly stupid 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:23.440 and futile and inexplicable as his immigration policies. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.799 They were as insane and indefensible. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.440 And it's funny because I don't want to come off 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:37.200 as merely a partisan shouter, because I try to be fair. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:43.160 I don't think you can underestimate how horrifically terrible his 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:49.159 foreign policy was. It was disastrously stupid. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.320 Here's more from the Secretary of State sort of on 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.600 that front, as Marco Rubio brings it up on facinination. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.640 What does US S intelligence tell us at this point, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.479 because the US had been conducting strikes for some time 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.840 but has not stopped the Hoho thies. So what's going 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.880 to be different right now? Do you have more fidelity 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.200 in the intelligence that would make this more successful. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.160 Well, those strikes were a retaliation strike. So they launched 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.440 one missile, we hit the missile launcher, or we sent 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.600 something to do it. This is not a message, This 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.320 is not a one off. This is an effort to 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:30.640 deny them the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.080 And this is not going to happen. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.800 He is more critical at various points during that interview 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.240 of the Biden administration for just not responding much. You 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.480 hit one missile launcher, as he said, as opposed to 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:45.719 like putting them out of business. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.040 Here's a little more. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.400 Do We're not going to have these guys, these people 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.240 with weapons able to tell us where our ships can go, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:53.840 where the ships of all the world can go. By 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.320 the way, it's not just the US we're doing the 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.080 world a favor. We're doing the entire world of favor 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.880 by getting rid of these guys and their ability to 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:03.039 strive global shipping. That's the mission here, and it will 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.720 continue until that's carried out. That never happened before. The 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.200 Biden administration didn't do that. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:08.240 All the Biden. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.159 Administration would do is they would respond to an attack. 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.719 These guys would launch one rocket, We'd hit the rocket launcher. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:13.480 That's it. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.039 This is an effort to take away their ability to 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.680 control global shipping in that part of the world. That's 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.200 just not going to happen anymore. And it will continue 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:22.080 until that's finished. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.880 It's not very many years ago in my lifetime where 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.880 a Democrat or Republican president would have done this, and 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:29.960 everybody would have thought, of. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:30.600 Course, we did that. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:36.120 You can't have some crazies disrupting world shipping like that. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.560 That's not tenable. What was you say to the hoodies? 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.480 Don't don't? Right? 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.080 And Margaret Brennan with her, what's different about this? 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:51.520 A lot? A lot? I just told you, simpleton. So 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.599 I mentioned the other part of it. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.919 And Iran is involved in all of this stuff in 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.400 the Middle East is Trump sent a message to the 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.840 Iotola last week that he wants to negotiate a way 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.599 out of their nuclear weapons program, and they had said 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:12.200 they're not interested in talking, and Trump has threatened that 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.760 that is a really really bad idea and that it 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.320 and we're going to be coming hard if they don't 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.640 give up their nuclear weapon capability. So that is going 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.800 to happen, I think in the next couple of weeks 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.320 or months. Absolutely, whether it's Israel with our help or 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:34.360 US mostly or whatever, I think that's absolutely happening. I 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.280 was trying to find the quote from I've got from 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.000 Malc Mark Halprin over the weekend on Trump's foreign policy 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:45.280 around this that I thought was pretty interesting. Basically that 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.480 Trump seems to be in the sweet spot even with 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.160 his non interventionist here. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.280 Is this it bu. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.760 No, Trumps seems to be in the sweet spot even 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.600 with is the non interventionist chunk of the Republican Party. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.440 That he does things that are just. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.560 Overwhelmingly obviously need to be done and with no risk 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.960 to the United States getting sucked in really and seems 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:18.080 to be very popular. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.200 Yeah, getting back to Iran, I've got to believe there's 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.440 some sort of like manual, and it's not even as 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.000 complicated as how to put together your new gas grill. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.040 It's a fairly simple manual how to deal with the 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.000 United States when they're really really mad at you or 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.880 threatening you, and it has to do with, you know, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:41.199 in transigence to belligerence, resistance until you've got to until 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.480 you know the pooh's going to hit the fan or 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.280 the missiles are going to be launched, and. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:46.760 Then you say, you know what, I see your point. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.280 I think we need to negotiate because Iran's really good 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.080 at this. They say, you know what, I've seen the light. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:53.760 Trump you're just the guy to get us a deal. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.240 Or Obama you're just a Biden. You're just a guy 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.800 that we want to deal with. And you string out 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.079 the negotiations for month, months and months and months. You 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:02.800 obey him for about a week and a half. Then 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.520 you start to violate him. You deny you're in violating, 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.120 bring it to the UN blah blah blah blah blah. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.360 And by that time there's another election, right, and then 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.480 if it's the same guy, rinse and repeat. If it's 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.240 the new guy, you know, then you go back to 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.840 belligerents and grabbing everything you want or lobbing bombs at 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:19.600 our shifts. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.960 It's just I'm afraid, you know. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.760 It's like I always say, every system if it exists 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.040 long enough. Those who are trying to scam the system 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.840 get too good at it and it ruins the system. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.240 And there are days I wonder whether we're there with 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.800 our democracy. But Iran's pretty good at that. North Korea 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.960 is really good at it too, and I'm not sure 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:40.800 how you get around that. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:41.160 Well. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.760 I just want to play one more. This is from 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.439 Mike Walls, who is the National Security Advisor. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.160 Is that what he is? I believe that's correct. On 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.360 ABC this week, we have. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:56.720 Seventy percent of global shipping is now diverting around Southern Africa, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:01.640 adding to the cost of goods, disrupting glowe economies, shutting 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:07.000 off supplies to the United States. President Trump is founded unacceptable. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.760 Iran needs to hear him loud and clear. It is 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.760 completely unacceptable and it will be stopped the level of 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.880 support that they've been providing the Hoothies. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.280 Yeah, my final comments on this. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.360 So seventy percent of global shipping is being diverted because 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.960 of the Hoothies, and only the United States, and only 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.160 now is willing to step up and do something about it. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:30.959 It gets to what we were talking about last week 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.400 and how week. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.280 Great Britain's military is for instance, or any of the 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.599 other European countries that just apparently have no interesting I 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.400 guess we'll just have to divert our shipping around Africa 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.319 and everybody pay a whole lot more. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.280 What are we gonna do? Crazy? 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.840 Yeah, it's like the Western worlds of fire department that 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.640 hasn't fought a fire in forty years? 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:52.640 Can we don't? We don't. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.200 I don't even know where the hose is. Our ability 0:10:55.240 --> 0:11:01.160 to respond to threats and hostility is. So you know, atropheed, right. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.960 And then you know when Trump talks tough on NATO 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.520 or says this or that, it's we're abandoning our allies here, 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.120 allies ain't doing crap at least not with this issue. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.320 Right, Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:18.520 Final note, because naval power is so important going forward. 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:19.960 I thought this was shocking. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.600 Rich Lowry wrote a great piece for The National Review 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.920 about Well, the title is Trump is right to emphasize 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.840 shipbuilding and talking about how China's going crazy and our 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.360 navy has really stalled in its growth and its strength, 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.400 and it's up to datedness, and our shipyards are are 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.160 few and run by foreign companies. How about this stat 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.359 According to a recent report for the Center for Strategic 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:53.120 and International Studies, the Chinese China State Shipbuilding Corporation, which 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:58.520 is their big BMS shipbuilding group, built more commercial vessels 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.040 by tonnage last year then the US industry has since 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.360 the end of World War Two. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:08.080 Whoa last last year China built more than we have 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.040 since World War Two. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:09.760 Yeah. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:15.920 Correct, that's how you get replaced as a superpower status 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:16.400 like that. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.400 Wow, that is amazing. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.240 Well and if anybody's thinking, well, let's just build some 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.000 shipyards and start building ships so we can be started 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.280 by what August or spring next year? 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.640 M Wow, that is. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.600 A troubling stat that scares the crap out of me. Also, 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.040 what scares the crap out of me? AI, Well, it's 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.000 not as great yet as some people had claimed to. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:39.880 Got some good examples of that. We'll get to later 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:45.640 in the hour. I hope you can stick around. We 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.559 got to start our Saint Patrick's Day celebration weekend, right. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:50.720 It's Saint Cractic's Day. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.960 Well, a couple of days I already saw a guy 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:53.840 puking in the street. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:13:03.320 No I did. It was my stockbroker. I thought it 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:04.839 was because of Saint Patrick's Day. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.160 But it was because of the market drop over the tariffs. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:14.680 Not drunkenness, but discouragement. Yes, now I get it, I 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.400 am your nad and green already I have had so 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:17.240 much green beer. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.760 Oh, for goodness sakes, welcome ronarm Strong and get these 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:20.559 dollars and cents. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:26.280 Michael played the theme music do we not? Dollars and 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.560 cents was spelled in essay. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:35.959 Of course, in a pathetic masquerade of cleverness, job seekers 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:40.160 hit wall of salary deflation. There was not long ago, 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.559 an almost unavoidable bump. You switch jobs, you're gonna make 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:51.800 seven point seven percent more come January than if you'd stayed. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.800 That was five point five percent, So it was a 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.360 little more than two percent gap. Changing job was profitable 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.400 back in when was this twenty twenty three, the beginning 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.360 of twenty twenty three, as people at the labor market 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.560 was actually pretty good for workers. Now it has turned, indeed, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.719 and it's statistically the same whether you stay or get 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.880 a new gig. And they quote a bunch of people 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.240 from a bunch of different industries who are saying, yeah, yeah, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.560 I'm getting offers, And not only is it not for 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.680 more money, it's for less money. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.360 So I'm staying right here. Makes it hard to justify leaving. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.920 Yes, indeed, unless you truly hate what you're doing. It's 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:33.600 interesting now, and to say the least, that the rhythms 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.600 of these things seem to change much more quickly than 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.520 they did. You know, I mean, a business cycle used 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.080 to be a fairly predictable number of years, and now 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.680 it seems like it can be a month. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.160 And a half an afternoon. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.960 I'm just thinking back, scanning my memory banks about all 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.480 the times we've talked about you know, it's definitely a 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.960 it's a worker's market. I mean, people can punch the 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.240 recruiter in the stomach and they'll still get, you know, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:00.000 a job. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.560 Off for it. People were quiet quitting exactly. Yeah, they're 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.480 not going to fire me when I feel what. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.920 Was that thing called lazy Monday or what was that? 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.280 There's a name for it, remember anybody slow start Monday 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:16.000 or something like that. Yeah, take it easy Monday, ease 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:16.600 into the week. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.200 So before you tell your boss exactly what you think 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.120 of him or her, perhaps consult the Wall Street Journal's 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:25.680 article on that topic. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:26.600 Female boss. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:31.280 Good lord, I know, so I talked about this a 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.880 little bit last week, but I didn't finish the discussion 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:38.360 in a way that is terrible, unjustified, horrific. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:39.240 I apologize. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.360 We're talking about as Congress is wrangling over the budget, 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.960 and you know, will there be a government shutdown? 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.720 Chuck Schumer says yes. Then Chuck Schumer's changes his mind. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.640 He's getting heat from the left. Blah blah blah. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.680 It's about the politics, but nobody ever talks about the crazy, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:56.960 crazy way it works. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:58.280 And the part we did. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:03.119 Mention last week is that Congress uses this baseline budgeting 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:05.920 that the CBO demands. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:12.440 That means that even if you keep. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:17.760 The current law on taxes, if you continue them past 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.320 you know, when it was supposed to expire, the CBO says, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.720 you've cut taxes and you've cut revenue because they have 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.680 this assumption that the taxes will go back to what 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.920 they were, and that's what we're all planning on, right. Okay, fine, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.480 but it does not work that way for spending. The 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:42.640 Democrats got this going in twenty twelve as part of 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.720 a compromise. So the CBO bases its ten year budget 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.560 estimates on current law, but the way it looks at 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.040 taxes is completely different than expenditures. Expenditures are assumed to 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.320 always go up. They will always go up no matter 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.160 what the law says, even if there is a law 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.480 that sun sets, but not so that's why you see 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.800 Republicans desperately trying to find pay fors for a policy 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.680 that really hasn't changed. It's it's not only a thumb, 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:11.960 but a foot on the scale. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.240 There's no way to run a. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:20.600 Government Armstrong and Getty and Los Angeles jury has awarded 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.800 a man fifty million dollars after he was seriously burned 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.400 by a Starbucks drink. Security camera video shows hot tea 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.080 landing in Michael Garcia's lap. Garcia blamed an employee for 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.119 not securing the cup in the takeout tray. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:34.440 Starbucks says it. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.320 Disagrees with the jury's decision that it was at fault. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.320 It also called the damages excessive and plans to appeal. 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.720 Fifty million dollars. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.119 Now, the person got burnt pretty good, but I had 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.080 to on his junk, on his junk, and says he 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.960 can't have sex any more. Although you would make that 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.199 argument if you're trying to get fifty million dollars. So 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.399 whether that's accurate or not, I do not know. But 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.440 and I'm not a lawyer, but I don't know how 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.040 you work this out in society in a fair way. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.760 You know, on one hand, I'm going through the drive 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.520 through at Starbucks. I don't deserve to be maimed for life. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.160 No, certainly, not in my privets. Yeah. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:18.879 On the other hand, it's an impossible expectation that nothing 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:23.040 ever goes wrong ever, And you know, nailing down whether 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.879 it was the employee's fault or the person in the 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.000 car's fault is difficult. I mean, if you ever go 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.600 to Starbucks and you get more than one drink, they 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.400 give you that cardboard holder that the drinks fit in, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.800 and this person claimed that they didn't secure. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.240 The tea in. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.880 It was sitting at an angle and then it spilled. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.440 Oh maybe it was or maybe you hit it on 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.159 the window or with urob or whatever. I don't know, 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.399 But anyway, you can't get everything perfect all the time. 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:49.600 Fifty million dollars. 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.400 The problem with this to me is what it's what 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.639 drives so many of the things that make us nuts 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.439 in life. The fact that's the school won't let your 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.359 kid play if it's rain the last two days, you 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.320 have to stay inside for recess because they might slip and. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.560 Some jury will award one hundred million dollars. 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:11.080 I mean, it's just it's an unworkable situation for society. 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.480 So I don't and you know, you wouldn't want Starbucks 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.919 to be able to like, here comes my girlfriend's ex boyfriend. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:20.520 I'm gonna throw hot tea in his face at the 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.760 drive through, and there'd be no penalty for that. I mean, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.639 so there's got to be aligned somewhere obviously. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.960 Yeah, I just think we've gotten so far off tracks 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.840 as a society because it's very different than virtually any 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.120 other legal system on Earth. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:35.399 You're not gonna get a fifty. 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:40.159 Million dollar reward like this in Argentina or or probably Britain. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:40.800 I don't think. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:45.320 But I don't think we as people understand how far 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.639 off we've gotten. And a big reason for that. What 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.160 is the number one profession among legislators. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:52.160 It's not even close. 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:58.399 You know, it's an attorney, right, and the whole jury thing, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.600 where this is one of the that we regularly say, 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.119 you know, don't make those jokes about how to get 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.280 out of jury duty. Show up on the jury so 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.320 you could say, so you could be there as a 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:13.400 smart person, say, fifty fifty million dollars is insane, Yes, 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.639 because you gotta. I'm guessing you got a jury fro 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.400 of peoples of Starbucks is rich, they can afford it. 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:24.120 I don't like them anyway. You know that sort of thing, right, Yeah, yeah, boy. 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.320 If there's one technology mankind has not perfected, it's the 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.240 getting the cup lid to click on the cup. 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:32.800 Thing in the world of coffee. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.000 And you know, granted, I'm a I'm an older fellow now, 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:40.080 and I I've learned the hard lessons of life, sometimes 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.920 more than once, usually more than once before I absorb them. Boy, 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.800 anybody who has boiling hot coffee and assumes that lid 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.560 is on their right, you are a bold man and 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:50.440 a foolish one. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:50.840 Yeah. 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.600 I just when I heard that, I just thought, oh crap, 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:57.160 this is gonna lead to even more Sorry, we can't 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.560 allow you to do this stuff. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.919 Or do you get like room temperature coffee? 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.359 Right, coffee can't ever be? That might be the reaction 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.919