Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1259 ｜ Deporting Danger： Why Leftists Hate ICE ｜ Ron Simmons

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00:01:00.280 What is really going on with immigration, with the ice rage?

00:01:04.020 You're hearing a lot of things, but what is really true?

00:01:07.160 And is this government shutdown ever going to end?

00:01:10.340 Also, when can you expect to feel relief in this economy?

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00:01:39.380 Well, good day to you on a happy Monday.

00:01:43.720 I hope everybody is having a good day and coming off of a very good and relaxing weekend with your family and whatever else that you had.

00:01:52.260 I hope your football teams won.

00:01:53.940 None of mine did, but hopefully yours did.

00:01:56.480 Well, I'm sitting in here for Allie today because Allie is going to be speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Louisiana State University tonight, LSU.

00:02:07.000 Incidentally, I had two of my nephews and my brother, I mean, my younger brother both went to school there, so they're excited about that.

00:02:15.440 And we're excited that Allie's doing that.

00:02:17.860 You know, Allie talks about it all the time.

00:02:19.640 It's taken about 20 of them of conservatives like her to replace Charlie, and it's not even a replacement, but just to kind of fill in. 0.91

00:02:27.300 So she's going to be there.

00:02:28.680 I'm sure it's going to be streaming live somewhere tonight if you want to watch that.

00:02:31.800 I think it starts at 630 Central Time, maybe even on the Blaze, so if you don't have a Blaze subscription, you might want to get one of those.

00:02:39.000 I'm not sure if it'll be on there or not, but it might be, but I'm sure you can search it and find it.

00:02:43.860 And just be praying for her today, for her safe travel, and also that, you know, God will just put the words in her mouth that she needs to say to the people.

00:02:54.640 I'm sure they're going to have a question and answer session like Charlie's done in the past.

00:02:57.980 It is going to be inside, so it's a little bit easier to secure.

00:03:02.520 And, of course, you know, my wife and I are always concerned about her security, but we're confident that the team that she has around her is doing a very, very good job.

00:03:12.680 But anyway, what we're going to do today, and this might get a little detailed for you, so please stay with me, whether you're just listening in your car or at your home or watching it on YouTube.

00:03:21.460 We're going to get into some detail about immigration, because I know that has been a concern for a lot of you as to what's really going on related to the Trump administration's policy on illegal immigration.

00:03:35.460 And then we're also going to talk a little bit more about the government shutdown as to kind of where we are with that.

00:03:40.840 And then finally, we're going to answer, really, this is a response to some of your questions relating to cost of living and inflation.

00:03:49.560 I know that's a concern for many, many, many people across the country.

00:03:53.480 So anyway, let's get started.

00:03:55.060 And what I want to do is kind of explain to you at first what the administration's policies are related to illegal immigration.

00:04:06.180 Now, we have to go back a little bit, because remember, during the Biden years, somewhere between 11 and 14 million illegal immigrants entered this country.

00:04:19.000 And some of them were given, you know, a temporary, the ability to temporarily stay here.

00:04:27.980 Now, a lot of those weren't vetted properly.

00:04:30.460 And so some of the things that we're doing is we're going back and re-vetting some of those people that were let in and given temporary legal status.

00:04:38.560 But many, many of the 11 to 14 million just came across illegally because Biden was not enforcing the border.

00:04:47.040 No matter what Ms. Kamala said, who was the border czar, never forget that.

00:04:52.780 She never even went to the border except during her final days of the campaign.

00:04:56.680 She went to El Paso for about 30 minutes or so.

00:04:59.220 So anyway, we're going to talk about that.

00:05:01.840 Now, this information is a couple of weeks old because they update it every month or so.

00:05:08.040 But and I've got a lot of notes here, so I'll be reading those.

00:05:10.560 But as of the end of September, which is about 250 days into the Trump administration, over 2 million illegal aliens had been removed from the country.

00:05:20.980 Over 2 million.

00:05:23.140 Now, it's interesting as to how that happened.

00:05:24.960 About 500,000 of those were actually deported by force.

00:05:31.220 Okay.

00:05:31.400 In other words, we executed ICE, executed deportations.

00:05:35.520 The remainder, a little over 1.5 million, though, self-deported, meaning that they were encouraged to deport, you know, just through general information that's out there.

00:05:48.340 And I didn't know this until I did this research, had this research done, is that the Border Patrol offered $1,000 and free flights for self-deported.

00:05:59.440 So there was incentive there and, you know, they would deport back to their country or another country of their choice.

00:06:05.440 So of the 2 million that removed, two-thirds of them went back on their own or actually three-fourths went back on their own.

00:06:12.580 And so that's a good thing.

00:06:14.840 That's what you want.

00:06:15.680 That's the easiest thing to happen is for them to go back on their own.

00:06:18.700 We don't have to, you know, we don't have to arrest them or anything like that.

00:06:22.180 The other thing is, is that remember what we've tried to say or what you've heard saying is that the focus has been on criminals, all right, illegal alien criminals.

00:06:32.420 And either they are, have been convicted of a crime back home or they have committed crimes here in the U.S.

00:06:40.800 And we have been seeking their arrest and that's the worst of the worst.

00:06:45.740 And that's 75%, listen to this closely, okay, 75% of ICE arrests, by extension, that means deportations, involved illegal aliens with convictions or pending charges in the U.S.

00:07:01.040 or records from their home country, such as gang affiliation or terrorism ties.

00:07:06.620 Now, I don't know about you, but that's what I want my government to be doing.

00:07:12.200 And I'm excited that they've been doing that.

00:07:14.520 That includes 1,155 gang members and 39 known or suspected terrorists, which was actually just in the first 50 days of the Trump administration.

00:07:26.860 These are like MS-13 and the other one, I don't even know how to say it, Strinday, Aruga, Aruga, whatever that is.

00:07:34.960 And they've been transferred to facilities like the El Salvador prison and what have you.

00:07:40.340 So they are going after the worst of the worst.

00:07:43.840 This information that they have about families being separated, okay, I had a question that was emailed to me about this.

00:07:50.380 Is that, you know, people were concerned about, well, there's some of the family is here legally, but let's say the mom or the dad's not here legally.

00:07:58.720 And so they're separating families.

00:08:01.100 That's not true.

00:08:02.260 That's a choice that the families are making, meaning that if, let's say the dad is here illegally and mom and the kids are here legally.

00:08:11.920 Well, yes, if they do not want to leave the United States, then yes, the dad is going to be deported, right?

00:08:19.860 However, that's their choice.

00:08:21.600 They, their entire family can leave if they choose to, if they want to keep the family together, that is their choice.

00:08:28.400 And believe me, when they came over here illegally, they knew what the risk was.

00:08:33.980 And the risk is, is that if you not, if you come here and you don't have the right documentation, you're not here legally, then there is a chance that you're going to be deported.

00:08:43.440 And that's what's happened.

00:08:45.200 So the fact, the splitting up of families is by people's choice.

00:08:49.720 It's not something that, you know, the ice is ripping families apart and sending dad this way and no mom and kids, you can't go.

00:08:58.480 That's, that's, that's not correct.

00:09:00.280 Now, are there any better solutions to that?

00:09:03.040 There might be.

00:09:03.960 And I think that's something that the administration and hopefully Congress is working on.

00:09:07.800 Uh, I think it, it should depend somewhat on what that person that is here undocumented illegally, uh, is doing what they have been doing, that type of thing.

00:09:19.180 Uh, maybe there's something, uh, that would work that, or, uh, that they could work around to be able to keep the family together either at their home country or here in the U S that's, that's what the goal is.

00:09:29.360 Um, what, what happened was, and this is according to, uh, Tom Holman, who is the head of border patrol is that they, what they did was remove children with their mothers who requested the children depart with them.

00:09:46.420 That's a parental decision and the right one, by the way, uh, whether, you know, whether you're in the United States or you're in another country, keeping families, families choosing to stay together is the right thing to do.

00:10:00.040 Uh, of course, you've heard a lot of negative information coming out of the mainstream media about, uh, about what the Trump administration and does, but ice does not arrest or deport us citizens unless, and this is a, this is important.

00:10:16.420 Unless they are obstructing or assaulting law enforcement.

00:10:21.400 So if, if, if, if, uh, ice is doing a raid and they're, and they're picking up the illegal immigrants here, and there is someone here that's legally, that's obstructing that they're going to get arrested as well.

00:10:35.260 Now they're not going to be deported.

00:10:36.580 Okay.

00:10:37.240 Although I guess technically you could remove their legal status if they're not a citizen, but, uh, they are not, uh, doing that.

00:10:45.180 They're not arresting and deporting U.S. citizens.

00:10:49.120 So whatever you're hearing on that is simply just not true.

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00:12:12.100 So you can see that it is a crackdown, and we're going to see some information here in just a few minutes that there are even some people that are way far on the other side of the aisle that are admitting that President Trump and his team are doing a really good job on that.

00:12:32.440 But there definitely has been a crackdown.

00:12:33.920 But it's not what you're hearing from the mainstream media as far as they're separating families and what have you.

00:12:42.220 The policy is that if you're here illegally, you are subject to deportation, no matter what the scenario is.

00:12:50.340 Now, our first priority is getting the bad folks away, the gang members and people like that or people that have committed a crime here or have committed crimes back in their home country.

00:13:01.420 That's the first priority, and they are looking for those people.

00:13:05.580 Now, a lot of times they will know who they are.

00:13:09.580 They just need to figure out how to find them.

00:13:11.380 The challenge that we're having, of course, is in some of the blue cities and blue states around the country, our law enforcement are being obstructed from being able to do that.

00:13:21.920 And then, you know, they talk about that these ICE people wear a mask and all this.

00:13:26.540 They wear a baraclava over their face.

00:13:28.940 Well, the reason they have to do that is because the left will expose them.

00:13:35.440 They'll try to tell them who the ICE officer is.

00:13:37.920 They've even had some of them that they have, you know, posted where they live and all that type of stuff, which is totally, totally, it's immoral as well as illegal and irrational.

00:13:48.840 But that's what people do because a lot of people on the left are like that, unfortunately.

00:13:53.820 Also, the other thing to remember, you know, you keep hearing about, well, illegal aliens contribute to society and what have you.

00:14:03.580 And I don't have any doubt that there are some undocumented people that are here that are just here for the work and they're not here to cause any harm.

00:14:10.420 I got that.

00:14:11.080 But there's a lot of people that came here legally.

00:14:13.840 So every time someone comes here illegally that disenfranchises the immigrant that came here legally, there's no two ways around that. 0.59

00:14:21.900 You can't reward one for bad behavior while you make the other people jump through the hoops to do it properly.

00:14:29.660 Now, should it be easier to be here legally?

00:14:31.740 Probably so.

00:14:32.520 If we can have the right vetting system and all that type of stuff, that's something Congress has to handle.

00:14:37.720 That's not the executive branch of the government's responsibility.

00:14:41.720 The executive branch of the government's responsibility is now listen up.

00:14:45.340 This is important.

00:14:46.180 OK, if you're my age or you're my even my kid's age, my oldest one anyway, you had this something on Saturday mornings called Schoolhouse Rock.

00:14:55.900 I don't know if you remember that where they kind of told you how things became a bill and the different branches of the government.

00:15:01.680 The executive branch is only there to carry out the laws that the legislative branch has put into place.

00:15:11.240 That's what the executive branch does. 0.94

00:15:13.240 All right.

00:15:13.680 And the judicial branch obviously determines whether the laws are constitutional or whether they're being carried out properly.

00:15:21.620 That's that's what happens.

00:15:22.880 And so what the executive branch, the Trump administration is doing, is they're carrying out our laws that are on the books.

00:15:29.380 And our laws on the books say that you have to come into this country through a certain process.

00:15:35.560 And if you don't go through that process and there's two or three options for that, then you are subject to deportation.

00:15:42.540 You have committed a crime.

00:15:44.700 You have committed a crime.

00:15:46.660 And I 100 percent support the enforcement of that law.

00:15:52.280 Obviously, we want to get rid of the most of the bad is all the bad people first.

00:15:55.840 But then I also don't think that the people that are here illegally should be able to stay. 1.00

00:16:01.000 I mean, I'm sorry.

00:16:01.840 That's just the way it is.

00:16:03.000 That's what our law says.

00:16:04.440 Other countries have the same thing, right?

00:16:06.680 Just like you don't want somebody coming into your home without your invitation.

00:16:11.540 That's why you have door locks or why you maybe have a gate or you live in a gated community.

00:16:16.840 It's the same way we have for our country is that we don't want people coming in without our invitation.

00:16:21.880 That's the way that's how you have a country.

00:16:25.080 Another thing, though, that happens is it's costing us money.

00:16:29.420 There's no question about it, because some states and here's a list of them that we that we were able to find.

00:16:35.340 Some states actually do provide health care to illegal immigrants.

00:16:41.020 Now, the Democrats will say that's not they're not doing that.

00:16:43.580 Nobody's doing that.

00:16:44.600 And the federal government doesn't technically allow that.

00:16:48.820 However, we one thing we learned, hopefully, from listening to me and Ali on this and heard some of our guests is that money is fungible.

00:16:55.020 If I send money to a state to help pay for their health care, I'm the federal government.

00:17:00.440 And they do that for everybody that's on Medicaid and other programs.

00:17:05.480 And I want to use that money for to help cover illegal immigrants. 0.98

00:17:11.120 Then all I do is move money around.

00:17:14.040 You know, it's supposed to be state money.

00:17:15.960 But if I want to use the federal money, it's just it's moving the chess pieces because money is fungible.

00:17:21.020 Just like when we sent money to Iran for supposedly humanitarian reasons and they used it for, you know, increasing the uranium to try to increase it to weapons grade.

00:17:33.260 They they they took the money.

00:17:35.380 We sent them for human aid and humanitarian aid.

00:17:39.060 And they just replace that with other money to go into the nuclear program.

00:17:45.660 So that's what happens in some of these states.

00:17:47.540 Here are the states, California, not surprised.

00:17:50.280 None of these are surprising to you.

00:17:51.720 New York, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Maryland and Colorado.

00:17:57.540 All of those states provide some type of health care to illegal immigrants.

00:18:03.440 And that is costing these states money in California.

00:18:06.880 That's over eight billion dollars.

00:18:08.980 All right.

00:18:09.800 In in New York, it's two and a half billion.

00:18:13.460 Illinois, three hundred million, Washington, seven hundred and fifty million.

00:18:17.660 Washington is not even a hugely populous state.

00:18:20.600 Four hundred million in Oregon.

00:18:21.860 Same thing there.

00:18:23.160 Maryland is starting this coming up and it's one hundred and fifty million.

00:18:27.840 And in Colorado, three hundred million.

00:18:31.000 So it is a huge cost.

00:18:33.580 And if you live in those states, OK, and really all of us around the country, we're paying for that.

00:18:39.140 Most of that is technically state money.

00:18:40.780 But as I said, money's moved around.

00:18:42.620 It's fungible.

00:18:43.400 We're paying for that.

00:18:45.320 And that why couldn't that money be used to give you a break on health care? 0.97

00:18:50.860 You know, if you're like me, you pay a lot of money for health care.

00:18:54.320 And why couldn't that be used for you?

00:18:57.260 You know, but it but the states, those states are ones that are simply providing health care to illegal immigrants, something that is should not be done. 0.99

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00:20:06.160 The other thing is, is that we've had, and we talked about this a little bit earlier,

00:20:15.180 is that we've had obstruction, okay?

00:20:17.120 And you've heard some of the Democrats and what they're saying about ICE agents and all

00:20:20.940 that type of stuff.

00:20:21.980 I'm going to put up something on the screen in here in just a second.

00:20:25.900 But one of the things that really ticked me off is something that Nancy Pelosi said when

00:20:34.420 she was being interviewed and joining Democrat Representative Kevin Mullen in a statement on

00:20:41.540 October 23rd.

00:20:43.080 Then this statement said, our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they

00:20:48.820 break California law.

00:20:50.280 And if they are convicted, the president cannot pardon them.

00:20:54.520 And this is also something else.

00:20:56.400 I'm going to put it on the screen now of what Nancy has said, what her tweet was.

00:21:00.420 And you can see that a mass deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area is appalling

00:21:04.560 and abuse is appalling abuse of the law and enforcement power.

00:21:08.340 The people of San Francisco stand with our patriotic immigrants who are the constant reinvigoration 1.00

00:21:14.900 of America.

00:21:15.920 We will not be intimidated by politically motivated fear tactics.

00:21:19.880 That statement is so inappropriate and in some ways factually incorrect that it's just

00:21:29.080 appalling.

00:21:29.660 Now, Pam Bondi, though, on this next little video clip we're going to show you, has a response

00:21:35.960 to that.

00:21:36.360 So we're going to go and listen to Pam Bondi.

00:21:39.580 Pelosi got a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

00:21:43.380 So did Brooke Jenkins, that DA in San Francisco. 0.84

00:21:47.760 We told them, preserve your emails, preserve everything you have on this topic, because if you

00:21:53.120 are telling people to arrest our ICE officers, our federal agents, you cannot do that.

00:21:59.800 You're impeding an investigation and we will charge them if they think I want.

00:22:05.120 They have not met me because we will charge them if they are violating the law.

00:22:10.640 I say hooray.

00:22:12.420 Thank goodness.

00:22:14.060 Thank goodness that they're willing to do that.

00:22:16.320 And, you know, Blanche went on to say that in this letter that if you, any arrest, attempts

00:22:26.920 to arrest or interfere with federal agents is illegal and futile.

00:22:31.500 Also, one should know that touching federal agents during their duties constitutes a crime.

00:22:39.380 So I hope that they'll enforce that to the fullest extent of the law.

00:22:44.660 All these men and women are trying to do is carry out their responsibilities that are passed down from the leaders of the executive branch.

00:22:55.760 That's what they're trying to do.

00:22:57.440 And again, they're not deporting U.S. citizens and they're focusing primarily on those that have committed crimes here in the U.S.

00:23:07.480 or at home, and then the other people that are here illegally, they also are subject to being detained and determine whether or not they should be here or not.

00:23:19.180 So it's very, it's just sickening to, and almost, in my opinion, what some of these people are trying to do is on the border of treasonous.

00:23:29.180 When you're trying to impede federal law being upheld, I don't know what else there could be.

00:23:35.920 I mean, you become almost an enemy of the state.

00:23:38.880 And I know that's harsh to say that, but it's true. 1.00

00:23:42.100 Now, it is, I will tell you, this next video clip that we're going to show, it's surprising to me.

00:23:48.600 I will just tell you that.

00:23:49.760 I thought I was living in an alternative universe when I first watched this.

00:23:54.840 So we're going to show you a video clip from our good friend, Bernie Sanders.

00:24:00.420 If you don't have any borders, then you don't have a nation, right?

00:24:03.040 In a sense.

00:24:04.900 So has historically the United States done well on the Democrats and Republicans protecting the border?

00:24:11.440 The answer is no.

00:24:13.040 Trump did a better job.

00:24:14.360 I don't like Trump, you know, but we should have a secure border.

00:24:18.340 And it ain't that hard to do.

00:24:20.220 Biden didn't do it.

00:24:21.060 Those before him did not do it.

00:24:22.800 We should have a secure border, period.

00:24:26.240 Okay.

00:24:26.940 You did just not leave your body and go into a different world to watch that.

00:24:31.400 That was actually what Senator Sanders said.

00:24:35.320 And it's the truth.

00:24:37.120 It is just simply the truth is that Trump has done the best job on the border of any recent president in history.

00:24:44.360 And that even goes back to some of my favorite presidents, President Reagan, of course, and President Bush.

00:24:50.420 But Trump has done the best job on that.

00:24:53.080 And I'm very proud of him for doing that.

00:24:55.360 And as even Senator Sanders says, we should have a secure border.

00:25:01.200 And I think that's what President Trump is doing.

00:25:04.080 Do not be—listen, as Christians, we do have empathy for people, okay?

00:25:08.400 But we don't, as Allie talks about, we don't want that to be toxic empathy.

00:25:12.280 And we've got to be careful because the left will use that against us.

00:25:16.440 Do we want to support people as human beings and as fellow children of God?

00:25:22.200 Absolutely we do.

00:25:23.760 However, we also must obey the laws of the land.

00:25:27.500 And that's talked about over and over in the New Testament and in the Old Testament.

00:25:31.980 But in the New Testament, especially where it talks about—Peter talks about it multiple, multiple times.

00:25:38.540 And that's where—remember, the government is ultimately set up there because God allows it to be set up.

00:25:44.980 And even the ones we don't like, he allows that.

00:25:48.080 And maybe he allows it to bring us closer to him.

00:25:52.220 Maybe he allows it so that we can learn a lesson to be able to change that in the future through our election process.

00:26:00.340 But remember, there's nothing—As Allie always says, God's plan is going off without a hitch.

00:26:06.540 And just need to remember that and remember that we need to be able to have open borders.

00:26:12.600 But we also need to update our immigration policies, our actual statutes, our laws.

00:26:20.700 And that falls on Senate and the House of Representatives.

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00:27:49.700 Speaking of that, the Senate, let's talk about the government shutdown.

00:27:54.400 I think we're at about day 27, 28.

00:27:57.280 I'm not sure exactly.

00:27:58.320 And I think the biggest concerns that are out there right now with the government shutdown is there are about 40 million people in the U.S.

00:28:07.340 that are dependent on what they call Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and that's called SNAP.

00:28:14.720 And these are what we might, when I was growing up, would call food stamps so that people can have federal assistance in being able to get groceries and food.

00:28:26.340 And that takes about $8 billion a month in federal funding, and that funding is going to run out if it hasn't already run out.

00:28:37.360 And it's amazing, the hardship it is putting on the people that need it the most.

00:28:46.020 And remember, the reason that the government shut down is 100% the Democrats.

00:28:54.160 One hundred percent.

00:28:55.480 And I invite any of you that disagrees with that to please email me, ron at ronsimmons.com, and we can have that discussion.

00:29:03.380 We can have that debate.

00:29:04.360 But when they pass a resolution to keep the government open, the House passed it with virtually no Democrat help.

00:29:12.440 I think there may have been one or two that voted for it.

00:29:15.640 So that's passed.

00:29:16.780 It got over to the Senate.

00:29:18.380 And, of course, it takes 60 votes in the Senate, not just a simple majority.

00:29:22.180 The Democrats have blocked it with only two or three going along.

00:29:26.600 I think Fetterman from Ohio and the two Georgia senators, which are both up for election, so I know why they voted for it.

00:29:34.480 They don't really believe that Schumer must have given them the okay to vote to open it up.

00:29:40.860 But the Democrats, the Schumer shutdown is happening because of what the Senate is doing.

00:29:47.320 And the reason that they're doing it is they believe that the pain that's being caused is giving them leverage.

00:29:55.060 Listen to this next thought by a Democrat congressperson.

00:29:59.960 I mean, shutdowns are terrible.

00:30:02.040 And, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer.

00:30:07.900 We take that responsibility very seriously.

00:30:11.720 But it is one of the few leveraged times we have.

00:30:16.500 I want you to play that one more time.

00:30:18.420 Let's listen to that.

00:30:19.300 I want you to listen very closely to the last five seconds.

00:30:22.520 I mean, shutdowns are terrible.

00:30:24.160 And, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer.

00:30:30.500 We take that responsibility very seriously.

00:30:34.280 But it is one of the few leveraged times we have.

00:30:39.480 One of the few leveraged times we have, while there are people that can't get enough food that they need,

00:30:45.400 that were dependent on the program that is under federal law,

00:30:49.520 I cannot believe they said the quiet thing out loud. 0.97

00:30:52.060 That is just ridiculous. 0.99

00:30:54.660 And it is all on them. 0.96

00:30:58.120 I do so much appreciate Senator Fetterman standing up and saying, he says this,

00:31:05.820 I'm a country over party guy.

00:31:08.020 It's wrong to shut our government down.

00:31:10.260 And, you know, the reason it's shutting down anyway is because the government,

00:31:15.820 they can't decide on a full year's budget.

00:31:17.700 So they just keep doing these temporary resolutions, which also drives me crazy.

00:31:22.440 And, again, they're being shut down because the Democrats want to extend additional subsidies for health insurance,

00:31:34.120 which when Obamacare came into play, there were certain subsidies that were available to help pay your health insurance premium

00:31:43.440 based on the amount of income that you made, basically around the federal poverty level.

00:31:48.780 And we've talked about this before and above the federal poverty level for a certain percentage.

00:31:53.600 Well, when COVID came along, a little bit after that, and I think it was in 21,

00:32:01.260 which when they passed what was the so-called, actually, it was not the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:32:06.540 It was the Inflation Enhancement Act, which is what happened, as you know.

00:32:10.980 The Democrat Congress increased those subsidies so that more people would be eligible for health care subsidies.

00:32:18.800 But when they did that, they also put in there that they would end in 2025.

00:32:24.480 So the Democrats are the one that put the limit on it, all right, and properly so, by the way.

00:32:30.560 They should not be extended.

00:32:31.840 In fact, maybe they should have been raised temporarily because of the pain people were going through due to lost jobs and stuff during COVID.

00:32:39.960 But now that they are supposed to expire at the end of this year, the Democrats want to keep going on those.

00:32:45.900 Again, they want to take your money and give it to somebody else.

00:32:49.280 All this is is income redistribution.

00:32:51.740 And we're not talking about money from the, you know, the multibillionaires.

00:32:54.880 That's not going to have one effect on them.

00:32:56.720 But for the average person, you know, having to have increased taxes because the subsidies are going out to other people.

00:33:04.600 And some of those subsidies were going out to people that were able-bodied and could work.

00:33:09.280 Remember, I told you last time, people that are on moms with young children that are at the poverty level, there's nothing going away from that, okay?

00:33:19.540 That's not going to be a negative for them at all, right?

00:33:22.660 But the able-bodied people or the people that are making a medium income, their subsidies should not be continued at the enhanced level.

00:33:31.040 And the Democrats are trying to make that a point of contention.

00:33:36.300 Now, the Republicans already said they would negotiate that once we open the government back up.

00:33:42.380 But the Democrats are saying, no, we're not willing to do that.

00:33:44.900 We want it negotiated as part of opening the government up.

00:33:50.000 I don't think the Republicans are going to, you know, whatever damage they were going to take politically has already been hit, already happened.

00:33:58.160 So they're not going to, in my opinion, buckle on this.

00:34:01.380 That's what I believe.

00:34:02.740 Now, again, I'm not there.

00:34:04.240 I don't have the backroom information.

00:34:06.300 But the people that I talk to that I know that are there tell me that they're going to stay strong.

00:34:11.220 I actually think I heard one congressman say yesterday on one of the news deals that he thinks it will happen, you know, go through Thanksgiving.

00:34:19.840 I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't get opened back up right after the November election of this year, which is just in a couple of weeks.

00:34:28.700 OK, I think any Democrats on the ballot, you know, probably are are saying, well, let's hold this off.

00:34:37.300 And then let's then we can do something after the election that's coming up in November.

00:34:41.920 So we'll see if that's true or not.

00:34:44.440 There's some states that are going through some elections and things like that.

00:34:47.280 And, of course, we have the New York mayor, which we're going to talk about in a few minutes also.

00:34:51.060 But it's a problem.

00:34:52.700 And there are people that are going to suffer.

00:34:54.440 I know I have one of my children that that is a federal government worker as an attorney.

00:35:01.080 And I think that they are missing their paychecks.

00:35:04.140 So that's that's not much fun whatsoever.

00:35:07.340 In fact, what's happened in a lot of ways is the critical workers like now we're talking about people that can't they can't miss they can't miss this.

00:35:19.380 They're essential workers.

00:35:20.200 People like the air traffic controllers missing their paychecks and whatever, talking about needing to go to the food banks and what have you.

00:35:27.160 So it's a it's a mess.

00:35:28.440 In fact, we've got a video clip here of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy talking about that.

00:35:33.480 I don't want air traffic controllers going to a food bank.

00:35:37.880 These are these are we don't have the best technology, as I've talked about with you, Maria, in our airspace.

00:35:43.000 But we do have the best controllers.

00:35:45.060 These are well-qualified professionals that keep our airspace safe, our planes moving on time.

00:35:50.580 And the fact that they have to think about how they how they put food on the table and need air need airlines to put, you know, food into the towers so they can have a lunch and a dinner is outrageous.

00:36:01.020 So, again, I see that burn coming from the controllers.

00:36:04.860 And again, I think it's going to play out as we look forward into the coming days.

00:36:08.280 You know, the the Republicans have even tried to pass miniature bills to keep paying these essential workers and the Democrats have stopped those as well.

00:36:19.000 I mean, it's just totally out there on the ludicrous edge.

00:36:22.880 And I'm not sure exactly what's going to cause the breakthrough, but there will be a breakthrough.

00:36:28.460 All right. All of this will pass.

00:36:30.080 I want to make sure that you understand that, that it all will pass.

00:36:33.400 It's not going to, you know, it's not going to be there forever and all these people will receive back pay.

00:36:39.700 Now, some of the people are actually, which I think is a good thing.

00:36:42.000 Some of the people that have been laid off or furloughed, whatever, they're not ever going to be coming back because we have a too, too much of a bloated federal government.

00:36:51.920 So I'm, I'm happy that this is happening.

00:36:54.180 And of course, the Democrats are throwing a fit over that as well.

00:36:56.720 They want as many government employees as they can, as they can get.

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00:37:59.100 A little bit lighter note, uh, in a way, I guess to me, it was a lighter note, uh, is that they had the no Kings day protest.

00:38:11.720 And I think they were to their credit were, were mostly, um, they were mostly nonviolent, which I think is a good thing.

00:38:21.420 And we should be able to protest our government.

00:38:23.640 And some of them were actually kind of funny.

00:38:25.900 Some of the, the silly costumes that they had on, uh, but I really got a kick out of, uh, Donald Trump saying on, uh, one of his posts on social media that says a huge, thank you to all the no Kings protesters.

00:38:42.460 I was very concerned.

00:38:44.380 A King was trying to take my place, but thanks to your tireless effort, I am still your president.

00:38:50.500 Great job all.

00:38:51.640 Now that is just funny.

00:38:52.860 Uh, I don't know if he came up with that himself, but that is just funny.

00:38:57.480 Uh, and, and, uh, he was asked on, um, uh, air force one about the no Kings protest.

00:39:04.020 Here's a clip of that.

00:39:07.020 I think it's a joke.

00:39:08.400 I looked at the people.

00:39:09.460 They're not representative of this country. 0.96

00:39:11.680 And I looked at all the brand new signs paid for, I guess it was made for by Soros and other radical left lunatics.

00:39:18.320 It looks like it was checking it out.

00:39:21.540 Uh, the demonstrations were very small, very ineffective.

00:39:25.120 And the people were whacked out.

00:39:26.840 When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country.

00:39:30.820 Mr.

00:39:31.140 Cousin, uh, besides San Francisco, I'm not a King.

00:39:34.400 I'm not a King.

00:39:35.460 I worked my off to make our country great.

00:39:37.660 That's all it is.

00:39:38.760 I'm not a King at all.

00:39:40.000 You know, just because you don't like a president, um, doesn't mean that they're a King or trying to be a King or something like that.

00:39:48.980 Certainly we didn't like some of the policies that president Obama had.

00:39:52.780 We certainly didn't like almost anything president Biden's done, but I don't, I don't think you ever saw, uh, uh, an uptick of saying, call him a King.

00:40:01.340 And those people did lots of executive orders.

00:40:04.060 Uh, but this is just something that they, you know, that they, that they want to pray on.

00:40:09.800 And it's all there.

00:40:11.440 It's all Trump derangement syndrome.

00:40:13.560 That's all it is.

00:40:14.540 They hate president Trump, no matter what he does.

00:40:16.920 Uh, it's all Trump derangement syndrome.

00:40:19.540 And, uh, you're, you guys may have people in your family that are, uh, uh, falling into that case.

00:40:26.300 We have people in our extended family that, you know, have been at some of these protests and, uh, you know, hate Trump and what have you.

00:40:33.500 And, uh, you know, that people believe what they want to believe.

00:40:36.580 I hear that all the time.

00:40:38.020 And I think that's true.

00:40:39.040 Uh, but those of us that are seeking the real truth are the ones that need to be speaking up and paying attention and what have you.

00:40:47.700 Uh, we asked, as we always do, we asked for questions and, uh, the kind of the questions that we got this time were very kind of closely related.

00:40:57.140 One of the questions or one of the things that came across and the most common was, uh, the growing dominance of dominance of Islam in places like Minnesota, Dearborn, Michigan, um, and other places around the country.

00:41:13.280 And I get what you're saying, uh, about the, the, the Muslim population in the U S is about 2% and it's kind of stayed about that for a while.

00:41:25.400 But what's happened is, is there have been concentrations of people from coming in from basically Muslim countries to the U S settling in one in various particular areas.

00:41:38.000 And while what I, I'm asked, what do I think, what can we do about that?

00:41:43.480 Well, I believe that we, one of the problems that we've had is we've had chain migration.

00:41:51.040 Okay.

00:41:51.560 Which is something Schumer put in to where, you know, uh, uh, one person comes in legally, let's say it's a student or maybe it's a professor or something like that.

00:42:01.340 And then they can bring in, they can, they can ask and use generally approved to bring in other members of their family.

00:42:08.840 All right.

00:42:09.500 That don't really have to go through at getting at the back of the line of just normal, uh, legal immigration.

00:42:15.760 They, uh, because that they're linked, they can do that.

00:42:18.960 Well, I think we need to eliminate chain migration.

00:42:22.340 That's one of the things I think we need to do.

00:42:23.940 And I think it'll help us in that scenario.

00:42:25.820 The other thing that's happening is a lot of these people are coming over here on HB one visas and they're getting married and having kids that are born here, which they're U S citizens.

00:42:36.340 If you're born here, that's the way, that's the way it works currently.

00:42:40.160 And I think we need to, I think that we need to be much more restrictive on some of these visa programs.

00:42:47.400 We need to make sure that we are given our U S citizens, the absolute first and best opportunity.

00:42:57.020 We should be prejudiced in favor of U S citizens so that to get these, uh, jobs that we're saying that we need to hire these engineers and other places for, from around the world. 0.98

00:43:08.880 I don't think we need to do that.

00:43:10.540 All right.

00:43:10.940 I think that we need to first make sure that we're, uh, given a clear path for our students to be able to participate in these high paying, uh, technical jobs that are out there in engineering and software development, software design, all those types of things.

00:43:27.180 We need to be really looking at the economy of the future.

00:43:30.460 The economy of the past is not the economy of the future.

00:43:34.760 And we need to make sure that our education system is looking at that.

00:43:38.300 What are we doing at the basic levels of our education to make sure that we're training our students to be able to take those, to have those jobs and our universities, our universities should admit every U S citizen before they admit foreign citizens. 0.99

00:43:56.000 I just do not believe that we should be recruiting, uh, foreign, foreign students to come to our universities. 1.00

00:44:04.000 When we have students here, that would be very good, uh, representations in those universities.

00:44:10.460 It makes me sick.

00:44:11.740 Even here in Texas at some of our leading universities, it's harder for someone here in Texas that has a high grade point average to get into the university of Texas or Texas A&M or some of our other top universities than it is for someone coming from another country. 1.00

00:44:26.520 And that just shouldn't be that way.

00:44:28.500 And that's something that absolutely we need, we need to handle.

00:44:32.420 Of course, the other thing that we need to do is in our neighborhoods and things like that, we need to show the kindness of Jesus in those particular areas so that they have a desire.

00:44:45.660 I mean, it's, it's, it's up to us to be the messenger.

00:44:48.880 It's up to Jesus and it's up to God to change people's hearts, but we need to show them that being a Christian is something that's a positive and it's, and, and, and that the true son of God, uh, is Jesus Christ with that's, that's what we need to show.

00:45:05.060 Um, but I do think there are things that our government can do.

00:45:08.860 We, we, we should try to, when we have immigrants come in, they should, we should try to have them assimilate into society, just like it, just like it has been done for hundreds of years.

00:45:20.140 Now you're always going to end up, you know, you're always going to want to be around people that are familiar to you and you like, and like the same things and what have you.

00:45:28.580 But in general, we need to assimilate people into American society, not under some, you know, uh, foreign, uh, uh, theocracy that they want to follow.

00:45:41.160 That's absolutely not what we need to do.

00:45:43.520 And the way the government can help on that is just to make sure that, you know, there's no, uh, local ordinances or regulations or laws that, uh, take away from what our constitution says.

00:45:54.780 And we should totally get rid of chain, uh, migration and we should really rethink our, any of our, all of our visa programs so that we put Americans first before we put people from other countries. 0.88

00:46:08.880 That's, that's what I think we should do.

00:46:10.660 And I'm hopeful that we can do that, but you should be making sure that you're communicating when you're elected officials on those things.

00:46:16.820 Absolutely.

00:46:17.300 Um, here's another one that's, here's another question that's come up is, uh, is AI ethical.

00:46:24.780 It's ethical and it's economic implications.

00:46:27.940 Well, it's just like anything, the internet, as you both know, there's really, really good stuff that comes out of it.

00:46:34.560 Allie gets her messages out via a lot of it through the internet, right?

00:46:40.360 So what she does on social media and what have you, I think that's been very beneficial to a lot of people that are listening based on the messages that I see that she gets back.

00:46:50.360 Uh, so it's good and bad and AI is the same way.

00:46:53.900 AI can be used for good and AI can be used for bad.

00:46:57.740 What I have to rely on is what the, it says in the Bible where it says what man intends for evil, God can make good.

00:47:06.520 And that's a paraphrase, but you understand what I'm saying that that's the way it works.

00:47:11.120 Um, but I do think we have to be very, very careful about it.

00:47:14.000 In fact, I hope in one of the future episodes that Allie or I one will have, uh, my friend Giovanni Capriglione on, uh, who's one of the leading experts on, uh, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity on the show to talk about that, how families can protect their kids from the evil parts of AI.

00:47:31.980 And the evil parts of what's going on out there in social media.

00:47:36.380 He's a state representative here in Texas and really, uh, uh, uh, someone that not only people at the state level, but at the federal level have sought his advice on just a really very smart guy in this area.

00:47:50.680 Hopefully we can have him on, um, in the future.

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00:48:55.380 The other thing is what's going on with the economy.

00:49:02.300 And I was looking at this some more and we've had a couple of shows about this, as you know.

00:49:06.720 So gas prices, you know, those are down since the height under Biden by almost 30%, if not more than that.

00:49:16.640 So they're coming, they're back into more reasonable range, at least reasonable based on what you and I know today.

00:49:23.720 When I started driving, which was a long time ago, but it was right after the, there was a huge oil crisis in the early 70s

00:49:31.640 because Saudi Arabia quit pumping oil for a while to hurt our economy, or at least they slowed it down.

00:49:39.020 And we had gas prices, you know, double overnight, but they were doubling from like 30 cents a gallon to 60 cents a gallon.

00:49:45.280 So it's nothing like it is today, but I'm hopeful that gas prices can get back down to gasoline anyway.

00:49:55.500 You know, in the low $2 range, I don't know if that'll happen or not.

00:50:00.280 I saw them just a week ago, so down in the 230s, which I thought was pretty good.

00:50:05.420 Now, we were also out in California, my wife and I were last week, and I saw that still over $5 there, close to $5 a gallon in California, which is crazy.

00:50:14.220 Most of that's California taxes, by the way.

00:50:16.740 That's not just the underlying price that people pay for gasoline, the wholesale, pretty much the same all around the country.

00:50:23.980 I want to talk to you about food inflation because that's important.

00:50:28.840 I know that when we go to the grocery store, things are expensive.

00:50:32.180 The average increase over the last 20 years, the average annual increase in food prices is about 3%, 2.9%.

00:50:40.440 And 2025, it's about 2.5%.

00:50:43.980 So we're pretty much in average.

00:50:46.000 But what happened was in 21 and 22, food prices grew almost 40%.

00:50:53.700 And they came down a little bit in 23, but they didn't come down to the 2019 level, right?

00:51:01.020 And so the increases since that time have been roughly in line with what history has been, but because they were already at the inflated rate under Biden, a hugely inflated rate, and so when they increased 2% to 3% on that, we obviously feel it more.

00:51:19.340 I don't know that they're going to come down a lot, honestly.

00:51:23.000 I do think that they will not rise very much.

00:51:25.320 They'll kind of stay in the pattern.

00:51:27.080 There have been some things that affected that, like the bird flu and the war in Ukraine, which has cut down on some of the wheat supplies and what have you.

00:51:35.920 But I think that what will happen is that the food inflation, anyway, will probably kind of go back to what it has been in the past, 2% to 3%.

00:51:46.760 That's what it's been able to maintain.

00:51:48.360 The only way that will go down drastically is through a massive, a few things, a massive increase in productivity, all right?

00:51:56.680 So that they can actually make the end product less expensive, or a huge recession, which we really don't want to have, where demand will go way down, and then the prices generally would follow that.

00:52:09.660 But what I think has to happen, all right, is that for us as individuals is that we have to make sure that we are performing at our highest level of ability in our job or career market.

00:52:28.480 Our economy is not set up for someone that has no skills, and I'm sorry about that, but it's just not set up for that. 1.00

00:52:36.700 It's set up to reward people that have skills.

00:52:40.340 Now, you don't have to go to college to get those skills, okay?

00:52:42.900 If you want to go to college, that's fine, and get a degree and seek a career that requires a college degree.

00:52:51.860 But you do have to have some type of skill, and there are so many opportunities out there.

00:52:57.800 You know, we have certification programs for all sorts of things, whether that's computer design, whether that's welding, whether that's plumbing, electrical, whatever it is, you can get certified relatively inexpensively through a community college or through a program.

00:53:15.260 And you may have to go at night.

00:53:17.020 I'll tell you, I went to college, but I did it almost all at night.

00:53:21.700 I tell people all the time, I squeezed four years of college into 10, and I did that because I was working full-time during the day, all right?

00:53:29.640 And you may also, I've had second jobs a lot part of my early life.

00:53:33.720 I had second jobs when I was working, and we had a, when I was working full-time and also going to school, we also had a little, we ran a concession stand at a sports field to make some extra money.

00:53:44.360 We did all sorts of things, and I think you have to be creative, right?

00:53:47.440 What you can't do is sit back and blame somebody else.

00:53:49.880 Do not become a victim in this, okay?

00:53:52.160 Do not become a victim.

00:53:54.480 Let's move forward.

00:53:56.120 Let's get you a skill.

00:53:57.540 Let's do it through college or trade school or something, and make sure you're earning at the highest possible rate you can earn to take care of your family.

00:54:06.480 The other thing is, really look where, you really have to look at your budget, and we're going to do an episode on that in the future as well, on where are you spending your money?

00:54:14.960 Where are you really spending your money?

00:54:16.780 Will you be honest with yourself and say, okay, I am absolutely spending my money in the most efficient way possible?

00:54:25.940 Chances are most of us are not doing that.

00:54:28.100 I probably don't do that either.

00:54:29.500 Now, you know, we've got to a point in our life where I don't have to look at every penny, although I am still a steward of what God has given us, so I need to make sure that I'm as good at that as I should be.

00:54:40.040 And I need to be better at that.

00:54:41.320 There's no question.

00:54:42.040 I'm not as efficient as I should be, and I tell myself that.

00:54:46.960 I need to pay more attention to that.

00:54:49.480 I will tell you, when the kids were younger and when things weren't as good financially for Lisa and I, we were very diligent in making sure that we were utilizing the funds that God had given us in the best way that we possibly could.

00:55:04.180 We prioritized them.

00:55:05.140 Like I told you, our kids all went to private Christian school, and that was a priority.

00:55:09.660 I sacrificed, we both sacrificed things that maybe our friends were able to do or have because we wanted our kids to go to Christian school.

00:55:19.720 That was important to us.

00:55:20.780 May not be as important to you, okay?

00:55:22.720 I get that.

00:55:23.440 I'm not saying it should or it shouldn't be.

00:55:25.240 I'm just saying that it does require sacrifice to be able to do those things.

00:55:29.380 But you can do it.

00:55:30.700 I mean, there's no question about it.

00:55:32.040 There's nothing.

00:55:32.620 If you had a chance to even flum through my book back there, Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon, you read a lot of my story, you'll know that there was nothing special about us.

00:55:41.940 My mom and dad were public school teachers, never made a lot of money.

00:55:46.660 They weren't great money managers either.

00:55:50.080 And so my mom and dad divorced when I was 17.

00:55:53.500 There was nothing special.

00:55:55.060 I don't know what your situation is, but I promise you that God didn't put you here so that, you know, you couldn't make it through the next day because of finances.

00:56:07.440 You can do that.

00:56:08.300 He wants you to do that, but we have to do our part as well.

00:56:11.720 So thank you for having me today, listening in.

00:56:15.060 Allie, of course, will be back.

00:56:16.980 She'll just be down doing the Turning Point USA thing tonight.

00:56:20.440 LSU, pray for her, please.

00:56:21.720 Just, you know, she has got a lot going on and she's doing the most she can, her and her husband.

00:56:29.680 And just ask that they covet your prayers.

00:56:32.540 I know that for sure.

00:56:33.280 So thank you very much and we'll hope to see you next time.

00:56:35.260 We'll see you next time.

00:56:48.820 Bye.

00:56:56.760 Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 27, 2025

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