Learn English with Firebrand Speaker John Boehner. Speaker Boehner speaks on the need for single subject legislation and the need to get back to single subject spending bills. He also speaks on why Kamala Harris is still the worst vice president in the history of the United States and why she should go home to her home state of Florida. Firebrand is a new podcast from the Firebrand Network produced by Firebrand and produced for Firebrand's Firebrand Podcast listeners. Please consider becoming a supporter of our show by becoming a patron patron patron. Thank you so much to Firebrand for making this podcast possible. We are always open to suggestions for new episodes and guests! Tweet me and let us know what you thought of this episode! Timestamps: 1:00 - Matt Gaetz's call for single-subject spending bills 3:15 - Why single subject bills are the way forward 4:30 - Why Biden and Harris are worse than Obama 5:20 - Why Kamala is a bad VP 6:10 - Kamala should go back to California 7:00 Kamala s record on jobs 8:40 - Why she needs to go home 9:00 | Kamala's impact on the economy 11:30 Why she's a terrible VP candidate 12:30 | What's going to happen to our economy? 13:00 -- Kamala has been the worst VP candidate in the country? 14:40 | Why she should be the next president? 15:30 -- What are you going to do? 16:15 | What s a better VP candidate? 17:10 | What are we should do in 2020? 18:30 // 16: What s going to be the most important thing? 19:20 | What is the best VP candidate to do in the next four years? 21:10 21 - What s our country s role in the future of our economy under Kamala? 22:40 23: Is she a better than her chances in 2020 or is she better than our current VP candidate than she s the worst presidential candidate in history? 26: What will she do in this election? 27:40 -- Is she going to get a chance to win the 2020 election 24: Does she really have a chance of running for president in 2020 25:20 Is she running for re-election?
00:03:01.000I'm sending the firebrands. - All the talk in Washington is about whether we'll have this flavor of a continuing resolution for government funding or that flavor of a continuing resolution.
00:03:19.000And what that does is it presents the entire funding of the United States government as an up or down vote, an up or down proposition.
00:03:26.000And that is precisely the reason we're nearly 38 trillion dollars in debt.
00:03:31.000We have to break the fever dream of governing by omnibus spending bill and continuing resolution and we have to get to single subject spending bills where these agencies have to defend their budget and its programmatic review.
00:03:44.000And the reason that doesn't happen is because the lobbyists and the special interests who run this town and who own the leaders on both sides, they want it that way.
00:03:55.000And so we have to get back to those single subject bills or we will continue this path we're on We're adding a trillion dollars in debt to the national debt every hundred days.
00:04:24.000And it's important, even if Firebrand isn't at the top of your podcast feed, that you are subscribed to the Gates Network.
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00:04:38.000So today is Thursday, September 12, 2024.
00:04:41.000Kamala Harris is still the worst vice president in the history of the United States.
00:04:44.000And you can find out exactly why by taking a quick peek inside your wallet.
00:04:48.000Not a single American citizen is doing better under this failed story of an administration, unless, in fact, you were a part of that administration or one of their preferred buddies or groups.
00:04:57.000In the last 12 months alone, over 1.2 native-born Americans lost their jobs through Kamala-nomics.
00:05:05.000Now, that could have something to do with the fact that 1.3 million foreign workers have gained jobs during that same period.
00:05:14.000So you're going to hear a lot of discussion from Biden and Harris about all these jobs they've created, all the good job numbers.
00:05:21.000The reality is Americans are losing those jobs to foreign-born workers.
00:05:26.000And While we're at it, prices are out of control.
00:05:29.000See, these continuing resolutions I was just talking about on the floor, they lead to the debt, they lead to the rise in interest rates, they lead to the constrained supply, the high demand that leads to inflation.
00:05:40.000Gasoline prices have skyrocketed by nearly 50% since Kamala Harris took office.
00:05:46.000And if you think you can avoid it by taking an Uber or a Lyft, think again because rideshare prices have gone up by almost 40% as well.
00:05:54.000Now if you decide to drive, you better be paying attention to the road because you'll be paying about 30% more for any repairs that your vehicle may need.
00:06:01.000And that's on top of your insurance, which has gone up by almost 55%.
00:06:05.000So if Kamala Harris becomes president, you might as well kiss your freedoms goodbye because you'll be stuck in your house for the next four years.
00:06:11.000If you cannot afford to leave your house, your house is a prison.
00:06:16.000And with these prices, that's what's happening.
00:06:18.000Inflation under Kamala Harris has risen by 20.2%.
00:06:23.000And it's not only affecting transportation.
00:07:03.000And as I said before, there is no outcome too far-fetched when it comes to Kamala-nomics.
00:07:09.000So joining me to talk about the interface between the very liberal tax and spend agenda of Biden-Harris and what we see in the House of Representatives, a great firebrand, former head of the House Freedom Caucus, Congressman from Arizona, Andy Biggs.
00:07:25.000As we look at these rising prices, which I know you're hearing about in Arizona, I hear about in Florida, who do you blame?
00:07:32.000Well, I blame Congress and the policies of this administration.
00:07:38.000The reason you blame Congress is because we've done nothing to effectively stop the ridiculous spending levels that are being imposed on us even more by this administration.
00:07:48.000And when you talk about inflation, inflation has two drivers right now.
00:08:06.000And the other one is when you devalue your currency by just loading it with national debt like we do, well, you know, that's inflation.
00:08:15.000That's the classical definition of inflation.
00:08:17.000I'm wondering how this is going to play out specifically in Arizona.
00:08:20.000When I'm in Arizona, there's a lot of driving.
00:08:23.000A lot of people do have to come into the suburban centers or the urban centers that live out in more rural places.
00:08:31.000The average drive in Arizona is probably longer for a worker than the average drive in Massachusetts or Connecticut.
00:08:39.000And I wonder if that's going to be a voting issue.
00:08:41.000And then also, when I've been with you in some of these areas along the border in Arizona, there's talk of, well, when there's all this increase in price on the US side, people go over to the Mexican side to get their dental services, to get auto repairs, for all types of things.
00:08:57.000And when we see this type of inflation in the US... Does it hurt the small businesses in Arizona when they're losing customers to Mexico?
00:09:06.000And could that cause some of them to vote Republican if maybe they weren't otherwise inclined?
00:09:12.000Yeah, I mean, so if you're in Nogales or Douglas or if you're in Yuma or even Tucson, which is about 45 miles north of the border, it's fairly easy to go across and go shopping there.
00:09:25.000You're a little nervous because of the cartels right now, but I mean, you can go find anything.
00:09:30.000So I know people who go to Tijuana for big surgeries.
00:09:59.000And you get to what we're going to do about it here in Congress.
00:10:02.000Now, we've been in the bowels of the Capitol, in meetings with our leadership, in meetings with our colleagues.
00:10:08.000And what they want is a continuing resolution and just kind of share your reaction to that and what your concerns are.
00:10:16.000Well, I'm opposed to that because as you said in your monologue, or your tape, that dates me, of the video of you on the floor, it's a monolithic vote to keep a massive bloated spend.
00:10:43.000And do you think our colleagues get that there's a connection between green lighting, that additional trillion plus in debt, and these high prices on poultry, on eggs, on ground beef, on auto repairs, on insurance?
00:11:01.000I think we work with people who believe they can continue spending in Washington and that the Wizard of Oz is off somewhere else turning dials on inflation.
00:12:03.000Well, the fiscal hawk has become the latest endangered species in Washington, D.C. You know, after 2010, you saw a lot of the Tea Party folks come in and say they really were going to wrestle federal spending.
00:12:15.000And in large part, we've seen spending grow since.
00:12:17.000And a lot of those folks have abandoned the mission and have returned to other features of life.
00:12:25.000At times a small group trying to get back to single subject bills because we actually think individual review of spending is what drives it down.
00:12:34.000But all the talk now in the digital world and in the talking headspace is about a strategy to fund the government with a requirement that the Senate take up and pass the SAVE Act and that the President sign it.
00:13:10.000First of all, people are kind of misleading the public, like it's going to cure the problems that we have with election transparency, right, and fairness.
00:13:19.000That's not going to happen in 2024. This bill only applies to federal ballots, and there's only one state that bifurcates exclusively like we do in Arizona.
00:13:30.000But you have a Democrat governor, a Democrat attorney general, and a Democrat secretary of state.
00:13:34.000So the news you're breaking to the Firebrand audience is, upon the passage of the SAVE Act, there won't be this instant lurch toward election integrity in the state of Arizona.
00:13:47.000Or anywhere, because what will happen is you're going to get these secretaries of state saying, well, to find this out, we're going to have to litigate this.
00:13:56.000And then following the litigation, There's going to be this long period of time saying, well, we don't have the technology to do it, so we need to up the technology.
00:14:05.000So in the long run, which is what you alluded to, it's going to work out fine, and we need to do it.
00:14:11.000But are you willing to spend and keep...
00:14:16.000The Green New Deal in place for something that won't kick in for two and a half, three years.
00:14:36.000Whenever you raise the issue of Planned Parenthood funding in the continuing resolutions, and all these folks who put on their mailers that they would never support funding Planned Parenthood, they were going to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:14:46.000I don't recall even having a vote on stripping the Planned Parenthood funding out of the continuing resolutions.
00:14:54.000In the past, I've introduced an amendment here and there, and they killed the amendment in the Rules Committee.
00:15:00.000I offered 10 amendments to actually reduce spending.
00:15:03.000One of mine, by the way, I had actually two amendments that did this, would have defunded Jack Smith's prosecution and other prosecutions of this, I should say the former president, but our president, President Trump.
00:15:19.000It was the Republicans on the Rules Committee.
00:15:21.000Okay, so I think people are going to watch and wonder, why is it that the Republicans won't fight on these questions?
00:15:27.000Present each one of them, force votes, and then hold our ground when negotiating with the Senate.
00:15:33.000And by the way, if we picked a bunch of these things, the border, Planned Parenthood, the Green New Deal, a lot of the spending priorities that we find wasteful that are targeted in your 500-plus pieces of legislation, we wouldn't win them all.
00:15:46.000But we also, if we were willing to fight, we wouldn't lose all of them.
00:15:50.000And when you don't even go through the legislative process to put your cuts forward, you are certain to lose.
00:15:59.000And there's a part about lying to the public that we will not do.
00:16:03.000We'll tell you the truth, and the truth is ugly in the case of these high prices and the connection to federal spending.
00:16:09.000But what I think some Republicans want to tell you is, well, we're going to act as though this is a big fight we're going to pick on the SAVE Act.
00:16:16.000We're going to send that bill over to the Senate.
00:16:17.000But you and I know they've already pre-choreographed their surrender.
00:16:23.000Where even the SAVE Act, which you've said is frail in protecting the integrity of the upcoming election, even that will be thrown over the gunnels just to continue perpetuating the spending.
00:16:38.000Probably the most knowledgeable congressman on the border.
00:16:41.000You bring multiple members of Congress to the border.
00:16:43.000Do you think it is going to demoralize Republicans and conservatives, and frankly just any American who cares about the border, if we go and say you must have the SAVE Act to fund the government, and then we've already pre-negotiated surrendering on the SAVE Act?
00:16:56.000What will that do to the psychology of people who care about your central issue?
00:17:00.000Well, if they have any exuberance left, it's going to come out like a beach ball, not just through the little nozzle, and you're a Florida dude, you're playing with a beach ball, but it's got a big knife gash through it.
00:17:21.000When you start looking at this and you say, we're going to negotiate away.
00:17:26.000So, I mean, I can't remember whether yesterday when we were meeting with leadership, you used to, whether the generals already negotiated the terms of surrender.
00:18:00.000I actually think that a responsible governing methodology that we see play out in almost every state in the country is one that would be apropos for the Congress.
00:18:09.000But walk through what you think would be a preferable path forward given the reality of where we are.
00:18:15.000I know you and I would probably love to go back to June, July and hammer through these single subject bills.
00:18:20.000But given where we are, we are in the middle of an election.
00:18:27.000So there's two paths that I gave to Johnson.
00:18:30.000Number one is my least favorite, and that is, you know, if you're afraid of a shutdown, go ahead and pass legislation that would fund veterans, military, the contractors, so you can keep building your stuff, and CBP, TSA, FAA, and kind of leave it at that.
00:18:48.000And then try to negotiate through the other 12 spending bills that were required.
00:18:53.000Or another option would be you take the five bills we've passed.
00:18:57.000Ladies and gentlemen, we are required by law, the 1974 Budget Control and Impound Act, to pass those 12 appropriations bills by June 30th every year.
00:19:08.000Hasn't been done since 1976, but we did five.
00:20:05.000Probably than has existed since 1974. Yeah.
00:20:09.000Well, I think that's an excellent option, and I also think it is appropriate in those bills we're addressing to have the focus on the border, and that's really where I want to take our discussion.
00:20:19.000Sasha, throw up our illegal immigration kind of a trend chart there for the audience.
00:20:23.000And here you see the impact of the Biden-Harris administration and their border policies.
00:20:28.000And Andy, one of the arguments we've heard from Secretary Mayorkas and the administration is that, well, actually now border crossings are down.
00:20:35.000We're encountering fewer people at the border now than we did during some of the peaks of the Trump presidency.
00:20:43.000It's because the illegals no longer have to even make the trek to the border.
00:20:48.000We built them an app, gave it to the cartels, allowed them to scale it to the moon, and now there is a CBP1 app that has planes full of migrants flying into the heartland of the country, all over the country, and they don't even have to make an encounter at the border.
00:21:05.000They have created a yellow brick road for illegal immigration.
00:21:09.000That doesn't even go through the border physically.
00:21:11.000It just lands on an aircraft somewhere in your community.
00:21:15.000But debunk that myth that they're advancing.
00:21:18.000Well, when they say that the numbers are down, you can screw around with statistics any way you want.
00:22:54.000It's a lying bunch of people from, you know, 1984. I think that there's real risk in that because they're asking people to believe what they're saying rather than their own lying eyes.
00:23:07.000If you're watching this program, You look around your own community.
00:23:16.000And you see the impact of illegal immigration everywhere now.
00:23:19.000So then to tell people that it's not really happening while they observe it, it risks the government not having credibility, which even when Democrats are in charge, is actually a pretty dangerous thing for America.
00:23:32.000because they always criticize us for being anti-institutional, but when they make the institutions so incredulous, then you get this very bizarre outcome.
00:23:43.000I want to go to this New York Post headline, Cookie and his Monsters.
00:23:58.000The long gun-toting Venezuelan gangs roving around and extorting people and robbing people This is another matter where our colleague Jason Crow of Colorado and Governor Polis of Colorado said this is not really happening.
00:24:15.000This is something that's just being blown up by conservative media.
00:24:19.000How do you think the country is reacting to these scary and stark images?
00:24:25.000They're putting the lie to the people who are lying.
00:24:28.000And so when these guys are out there saying, I mean, we served with Polis before he became governor.
00:24:33.000When he's out there saying, this is just all in somebody's imagination.
00:24:38.000Well, tell that to the lady who's there and there's an AR-15 pointed at your door and people are actually using pry bars to get into your apartment to boot you out.
00:24:48.000Explain that to this Aurora City Council that's now having to condemn those buildings because they're being run down and taken over.
00:25:04.000And again, it's like, well, you know, hey, you guys didn't vote for that bill.
00:25:08.000The bill that would have guaranteed 7,500 people a day, Matt, could come into this country illegally.
00:25:14.000And then on top of that, anybody above that, if you fit into one of 40 categories, they would have let you in with impunity.
00:25:21.000And then, so explain those types of lies to the average person who's watching this.
00:25:29.000It's a scary thing, and we've talked about migrant crime as this new category, but you just identified the category of migrant blight, where when gangs of migrants come in, throw out the Americans, extort the businesses, convert things to their uses, leave it in a state of disrepair, that we're going to have areas of the country, not just in New York City.
00:25:54.000And you're going to see a blight and a degradation of America that Biden and Harris are willing to tolerate because they ultimately want to convert them to voters.
00:26:16.000The average American who sees this feels the inflation they give you, feel the danger and insecurity in their cities, and they watch what's happening on the border, and these guys won't stop it?
00:26:37.000Now this post comes from the Springfield, Ohio Crime Watch Facebook group, and the gentleman there carrying the dead goose does not appear to be the head of the Springfield, Ohio Crime Watch Facebook group.
00:26:51.000I don't think he's being elected as the new block captain of the Crime Watch, but There's the photo.
00:27:14.000One day she came home from work and as soon as she stepped out of her car and looked toward her neighbor's house where Haitians live, she saw her cat hanging from a branch like you do to a deer for butchering and they were carving it up to eat.
00:27:28.000I've been told they do this to dogs and have been doing it at Snyder Park with the ducks and geese.
00:27:34.000I was told the last bit by the rangers and police.
00:27:38.000Please keep a close eye on these animals.
00:27:41.000So that is the post from Springfield, Ohio.
00:29:16.000And I just worry that more of these third-world behaviors, the defecating in the farms of the Yuma farmers that we went and talked to, they talked about the ways a lot of these Haitian migrants, even using running water in some cases, or when there would be grace extended to try to create food opportunities or sanitation opportunities, the level of desperation is so deep.
00:29:37.000These are the people who will eat the ducks out of the neighborhood pond and then will string up and gut the cat.
00:29:43.000Yeah, you have to acknowledge that the U.S. has a rather unique culture, and we are an affluent country, a very affluent country.
00:29:54.000You're bringing in people, literally by the millions, who have no sense of who we are, and we have no sense of who they are, really.
00:30:06.000And so you have a culture clash going on.
00:30:10.000Because we have over 170 countries where people have come in in the last year.
00:30:15.000And since they're coming in by the millions, It really actually is going to have an impact on wherever they gather because you're just going to have a cultural impact.
00:30:28.000And that's not to say that we can't try to understand it, but the problem is at the same time you're allowing millions of illegal aliens to come in, you have over a million legal in migration as well.
00:30:45.000More than all other countries combined in the world And still somehow we're expected to open up when people who don't have any intention to assimilate.
00:30:55.000I mean, there's no intention for them to assimilate.
00:30:58.000And the Biden-Harris program specifically includes exclusion from those numbers we were talking about of Haitians, Cubans, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans.
00:31:23.000And our own NGOs that are funded by our own government are doing the enticing of the very groups that we're seeing impact, those overall immigration numbers, but in a clandestine way because it's not being accurately reported.
00:31:35.000One more thing I want you to help me set up before we go.
00:31:38.000You are the chairman of our crime subcommittee on the House Judiciary Committee.
00:31:43.000about violent crime, about the way that these soft on crime policies are impacting Americans at a time of this great immigration wave.
00:31:50.000Just give a quick update to the audience about why you held the hearing today and what your big takeaways.
00:31:55.000Well, we held the hearing for the purpose of kind of exposing Some of these soft on crimes, it just so happened that we were talking about California, Minnesota, where you have had probably some of the worst soft on crime policies, and I will just tell you, when you listen to the victims of these crimes, and then the guy who was head of the business organization And you see it, and by the way, your questioning was brilliant.
00:32:21.000It was wonderful stuff with the gentleman restaurateur.
00:32:24.000And I talked to him some more after the hearing.
00:32:26.000I said, so tell me what else is going on.
00:32:28.000He said, he owns four or five restaurants.
00:32:30.000I can't remember the number, but he said, all of them are thriving in the suburbs.
00:32:54.000I don't even know how you have the gumption to stay in business when you're constantly under that threat and you don't even have your own government on your side.
00:33:33.000Just a couple weeks ago, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, referred to California's crime policies as a national model.
00:33:40.000And Vice President Harris, of course herself from California, has said that California is a, quote, role model for what can be done around the country.
00:33:49.000So I think that this hearing, looking specifically at California's crime situation, is a timely opportunity to evaluate that thesis as to what kind of a national model California provides.
00:34:03.000When it comes to its approach to crime, and that approach consists of three main elements.
00:34:07.000The first is a systematic effort to defund police departments in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland.
00:34:14.000Second, a systematic effort to not enforce criminal laws with the election of so-called progressive prosecutors like George Gascon, Kamala Harris, and Chase Abodee in San Francisco, Gascon again in L.A., Pamela Price in Oakland.
00:34:32.000And then thirdly is just taking a hatchet to the criminal code with laws like Prop 47, for example, which passed in 2014 and effectively legalized retail theft, spawning this crisis of retail theft and smash-and-grabs across spawning this crisis of retail theft and smash-and-grabs across California.
00:34:51.000Prop 47 also effectively legalized drug possession, even for Class A drugs, even for fentanyl.
00:34:58.000And what that has done is made it impossible for us to get folks who have drug addiction the help that they need, so that you have them just living on our streets and tragically all too often dying on our streets in these open-air drug markets that you have to walk through, wade through, in many of our major cities.
00:35:15.000Two years after Prop 47 came Prop 57, which made tens of thousands of very serious, heinous criminals eligible for early release.
00:35:24.000Now, of course, California voters would never have passed such a thing if it were properly described to them, but unfortunately, the initiative was described on the ballot as only applying to non-violent offenders.
00:35:36.000It was described as such by the then Attorney General Kamala Harris.
00:35:40.000In reality, it made criminals eligible for early release who had committed crimes like rape, human trafficking with minors, assault with a deadly weapon, drive-by shootings.
00:35:51.000All of this was described as nonviolent activity by the Attorney General.
00:35:56.000And so with the passage of these measures, Prop 47, Prop 57, the defunding of police, The so-called progressive prosecutor movement.
00:36:05.000We have seen crime go up in California.
00:36:17.000Aggravated assault with a firearm, 62.9%.
00:36:20.000The violent crime rate in California is 31% higher than the rest of the country.
00:36:25.000But those statistics don't even tell the full story.
00:36:28.000If you look at San Francisco, for example, businesses are closing left and right in just a short span of time in the last year.
00:36:34.000You had the closure of Nordstrom, Whole Foods, T-Mobile, Anthropologie, Saks, the iconic toy store that this movie Toy Story was based on had to close In-N-Out, had to close its first restaurant ever, citing the danger to customers and to their workers.
00:36:49.000Or if you just walk into many of our major cities, if you want to go to the grocery store, you have to dodge needles, you have to wade through encampments.
00:36:59.000And when you go into the store, if you want to buy basic goods like frozen foods or shampoo or conditioner, You have to go get a clerk to open up the cabinet to get it for you because everything is under lock and key.
00:37:12.000In Los Angeles, the police has specifically told people, warned people, that you shouldn't go outside when you are wearing jewelry.
00:37:18.000This is the reality of life in many parts of California following this dangerous decriminalization experiment.
00:37:30.000But the good news is this, that while Gavin Newsom says this is a national model, while Kamala Harris says it's a role model for the rest of the country, the people of California are rendering a very different verdict.
00:37:43.000Those cities that defunded their police have now refunded their police.
00:37:48.000Several of these so-called progressive prosecutors have been recalled or are currently being recalled or being removed from office.
00:37:55.000And there is a bipartisan initiative right now to largely reverse Prop 47 and end the Prop 47 experiment in California.
00:38:05.000And it has received broad bipartisan support.
00:38:08.000I was just on a bipartisan panel supporting it with our colleague Ami Barra.
00:38:11.000The mayors of San Jose, San Diego, San Francisco are supporting this initiative.
00:38:16.000Even though the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has continued to stand by Prop 47 and fought our reform effort every step of the way.
00:38:24.000So, Mr. Chairman, while there are some who will point to California's crime policies as a national model, I would encourage folks across the country to listen to the people of California themselves, who are saying very clearly, this is not a model for the nation, it is a warning to the nation.
00:39:10.000Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Gates.
00:39:14.000Yeah, I had questions for Mr. Ingram, but that was a remarkable presentation from Congressman Kiley about how things have gone in California.
00:39:21.000And when I heard that they had to close an In-N-Out and a Whole Foods, that is a broad swath of the constituency in California.
00:39:30.000When you get both of those establishments having to close, it's remarkable.
00:39:34.000Mr. Ingram, so we have this dynamic now that Mr. Kiley just laid out perfectly, where you're seeing more and more crimes not really being counted as crimes.
00:39:44.000And you're seeing more and more criminals just being let out and not really deemed part of the criminal justice system for any meaningful period of time.
00:39:52.000And so I want you to bring, like, the average American who's heard the presentation, oh, the crime rates are down, we're safer now under these policies that don't really punish people for things like theft.
00:40:05.000What does that actually mean on the streets of America?
00:40:09.000What would you say to an American that encountered that information but it didn't jive with how they felt?
00:40:15.000What I would equate it to is we see it every day in our city where we sit right now.
00:40:22.000It's mind-boggling on how we talk about crime.
00:40:26.000For us, again, somebody that has been in Minnesota since 2012, the five years kind of we had one burglary.
00:40:33.000Now we've had 12, 13. Every time I get a thing from our district attorney, it says we've reduced the charges to under $1,000.
00:40:42.000Even though it may have cost me $20,000 to repair the building, a safe they rolled down three flights of stairs, ripped out walls, ripped out staircases, we reduced it down to under $1,000.
00:40:55.000And the person is back on the streets, and he robs us again, and we reduce it down, and he robs us again, and we reduce it down.
00:41:07.000Recently, our breakfast restaurant called Hope Somebody broke into it, busted out the garage door, went into the space, and then we get a letter saying we've reduced the crime down to under a thousand dollars, where the glass on the garage door costs more than that.
00:41:24.000To me, it's when we have these, again, this isn't a political thing for me.
00:41:53.000That drug dealer, to my knowledge, is still on the streets to this day.
00:41:58.000Mr. Ingram, Vice President Harris filled out a questionnaire for the ACLU when she was running for president back in 2019, and she advocated for the position of decriminalizing fentanyl.
00:42:09.000Making it where that wasn't something where people would interface with the criminal justice system but would have a different path.
00:42:15.000Do you think that would make your streets safer?
00:42:18.000I don't believe that will make our streets safer.
00:42:20.000People, you must be held accountable for your actions.
00:42:32.000What is happening every single day is what matters, and that's really what we need is common sense to take over.
00:42:39.000If you've been arrested 50 times in three years, you shouldn't be out to do it again.
00:42:45.000Here's what I want to get, Mr. Ingram.
00:42:48.000I've never been a prosecutor, but why would you want to become a prosecutor to then not prosecute the criminals?
00:42:54.000That'd be like opening restaurants and not wanting to make food.
00:42:58.000That'd be like opening a bar and not wanting to make drinks.
00:43:02.000Like, do you ever get to talk to some of these folks in your community and say, hey, like, I just sort of assumed that me being the restaurateur, I would run a restaurant and you being the prosecutors, you would prosecute the criminals.
00:43:15.000Unfortunately, I just get to speak to our first responders that show up on site, and I see the look in their eyes, how defeated they are, because they've arrested.
00:43:38.000Florida's ready when you are, as a matter of fact.
00:43:40.000But I do worry that these bad ideas that we've seen emerge in some of our Democrat-run cities could spread to other parts of the country.
00:43:49.000In our last few seconds, what would be your warning to a community thinking about adopting these policies that reduce theft thresholds and allow this type of conduct?
00:43:59.000My biggest thing would say love people, and love is hard.
00:44:03.000My dad had to discipline me because I made mistakes.
00:44:07.000Discipline sucks, but it has to happen.
00:44:10.000Love people, and that includes discipline.
00:44:20.000We thank Mr. Ingram for his work as an entrepreneur in our country.
00:44:24.000You should be able to do that with the law and the government on your side, not on the side of the people who are trying to victimize you.
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