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00:01:40.000So, before we get to the latest in the Build Back Better drama, and whether Joe Biden is going to be able to cram through this $1.75 trillion boondoggle, which actually is not $1.75 trillion, it's actually closer to $3 trillion, as we will discuss, it is important to mention that everything right now, in terms of the Democratic hopes, relies on Glenn Youngkin not winning in Virginia.
00:02:00.000So, this Virginia gubernatorial race has now become one of the great shockers in modern American political history.
00:02:09.000There are two separate polls out yesterday showing Glenn Youngkin up substantially on Terry McAuliffe.
00:02:13.000Remember, this is a state that Joe Biden won just a few months back by 10 points.
00:02:18.000The state has now shifted dramatically against the party of the President of the United States.
00:02:22.000According to a brand new poll provided to the Washington Examiner, Youngkin is now at 47 and McAuliffe is at 43.
00:02:30.000And that's not the only poll that is like this.
00:02:32.000There's another poll that is out from Fox News.
00:02:34.000Fox News historically has been a very pro-McAuliffe poll.
00:02:38.000The new poll shows Youngkin up 8 points on McAuliffe, 53 to 45.
00:02:45.000Youngkin leads among registered voters by one point and likely voters by eight.
00:02:49.000Youngkin is at plus 14 with parents, plus 11 on the economy, plus eight on education, plus 12 on crime and even plus one on COVID.
00:02:57.000We are only a few days out from the election.
00:02:59.000Now, this is not the first time that something like this has happened.
00:03:02.000Actually, Bob McDonnell, when he won election in Virginia, that had been right after a Democratic sweep, and then he won election in Virginia by like a wide margin, shifted from a plus six Democratic state to like a plus 17 state for Bob McDonnell.
00:03:15.000So, Virginia does have a habit of backlashing against radicalism, and that's what you are seeing right here.
00:03:20.000And Democrats have to be running a little bit scared, because McAuliffe has run on the Biden agenda and by yelling Trump a lot, and it's not working.
00:03:58.000If Terry McAuliffe goes down to flaming defeat in Virginia, there are going to be a lot of Congress people, blue dog Democrats, if they still exist.
00:04:04.000Some of the senators are going to say, I don't really want to reap the whirlwind in order to push through a bill that is just loaded with pork for Joe Biden's friends.
00:04:18.000So yesterday, Joe Biden tried to ram this thing through, the infrastructure bill at the very least.
00:04:22.000So his basic idea was divide up the infrastructure bill and build back better.
00:04:25.000Well, if he can get the infrastructure bill passed, Then there will be no leverage for the progressive caucus on the Build Back Better plan because they'll either have to vote it up or vote it down, but they'll be voting it up or down in the absence of any piece of leverage.
00:04:44.000If, however, they hold up the infrastructure plan in order to get people to put more pork into the Build Back Better plan, then they have a little bit of leverage.
00:04:53.000So Joe Biden was really pushing yesterday for an infrastructure plan vote.
00:04:59.000He put out a framework for Build Back Better.
00:05:00.000He hoped that this would get the Congressional Progressive Caucus on board to vote for the infrastructure plan.
00:05:05.000And then he could separate off Build Back Better and then he wouldn't have to worry about the progressives.
00:05:09.000He could just go ahead and push forward his moderate plan, get enough votes on the Democratic side of the aisle to do it.
00:05:14.000And the progressives would probably join in because it's better for them to vote up or down on Build Back Better and vote in favor than not to vote for it at all.
00:05:23.000The leverage game is over if there's a vote on the infrastructure plan.
00:05:25.000So late last night, Joe Biden was pushing very hard for there to be a vote.
00:05:29.000Nancy Pelosi was pushing hard for there to be a vote.
00:05:31.000This is the second straight week Nancy Pelosi has said they wanted to vote on infrastructure.
00:05:34.000And this is the second straight week that it simply didn't happen.
00:05:37.000So if this extends, if this discussion extends all the way past the election next week, which is happening on November 2nd, If that election ends up going in Glenn Youngkin's favor, I think it's going to be very difficult for Democrats to pass anything that looks remotely like even what they're discussing right now, because none of the details have been worked out.
00:05:53.000Maybe they get an infrastructure plan, but it's hard to imagine that Manchin, who's in the state next door to Glenn Youngkin, and Sinema, who's going to be running a competitive race next time, she didn't win by very much last time, that both of them are going to be So remember that Sinema and Manchin are actually just shielding a couple of other Democrats in the Senate who are really in tight races right now.
00:06:17.000So Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire, for example, is not guaranteed a reelect in her race.
00:06:25.000So if she votes for Build Back Better and votes for tax increases in a state that is a very low tax state, New Hampshire, and doesn't like taxes very much, she could easily lose that seat.
00:06:34.000That's another senator who is going to be on the firing line if Young can win in Virginia.
00:06:42.000He ran a very competitive race last time, but there's no reason why he wouldn't be highly vulnerable if this bill passes with his vote and it passes on a straight party line vote, 50-50.
00:06:51.000So, what happens in Virginia matters an awful lot, which is why Joe Biden is trying to force this thing through fast.
00:06:56.000What's amazing is that he's trying to force this thing through in the face of overwhelming evidence that the American people are not interested.
00:07:02.000His approval ratings are down in the low 40s.
00:07:05.000And the harder he pushes his plan, the lower his approval ratings go.
00:07:16.000According to the Washington Post, the U.S.
00:07:17.000economy grew at a disappointing 2.0% annual rate in the third quarter.
00:07:23.000I love how the Washington Post has to try and salvage Joe Biden from himself.
00:07:31.000So, right now, you should not be having quarterly growth of 2%.
00:07:33.000You should be having quarterly annualized growth of 7 or 8%.
00:07:37.000It is what was forecast all year long.
00:07:40.000Yes, there's going to be a fast growth year overall because we had the worst year in terms of GDP growth in modern American history last year because of the artificial shutdown of the entire economy thanks to COVID.
00:07:50.000But Joe Biden's policies have now crimped an economy that should have been racing ahead at full speed because he has pushed inflationary policy, because he has pushed bad tax policy, because he has made people unlikely to invest.
00:08:02.000And even if you are investing, you can't even get workers out there.
00:08:55.000So Joe Biden from the White House yesterday was trying to push forward his Build Back Better plan.
00:09:00.000He put forward a framework, okay, not the actual plan.
00:09:03.000So when people say they'll vote for it or vote against it, it doesn't mean anything until we actually have all of the details.
00:09:08.000But he put together a framework, and he basically said, I'm skipping town tomorrow, right, because today he's headed over to Europe to jabber with the Europeans about global warming or some such, and hang out with the Pope in a non-televised event.
00:09:19.000And Joe Biden He says, I'm going to dump this framework out there.
00:09:24.000And then I'm going to pretend like we've achieved some sort of grand progress here.
00:09:26.000Here he was yesterday trying to push Bill back better.
00:09:28.000And of course, he is not an inspiring figure, folks.
00:09:32.000This framework includes historic investments in our nation and in our people.
00:09:37.000Any single element of this framework would fundamentally be viewed as a fundamental change in America.
00:09:52.000The words of a charismatic leader there from Joe Biden.
00:09:56.000I'm sure he's going to start convincing people.
00:09:58.000Maybe if he yells at us, maybe just randomly yells in the middle of sentences, that'll do it.
00:10:03.000We used to lead the world in educational achievement.
00:10:06.000Now the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ranks America 35th out of the 37 major countries when it comes to investing in early childhood education and care.
00:10:19.000We know how our children start impacts significantly and how they'll finish.
00:10:29.000Also, Head Start, as we will discuss in a little bit, which is kind of a big part of this program, they're basically trying to universalize Head Start.
00:11:04.000Again, Joe Biden's plan as of yesterday was, let's get the infrastructure vote done.
00:11:07.000So he throws out the framework, hoping that the congressional progressives will endorse the framework and feel so comfortable that they then vote on the infrastructure plan, which takes away all their leverage on the framework.
00:11:19.000According to Politico, the House voted Thursday night to temporarily reauthorize transportation funding, abruptly reversing course after Democratic leaders earlier vowed to pass a bipartisan Senate-approved infrastructure bill.
00:11:30.000The move came after progressives refused to relent in their opposition to the $550 billion infrastructure bill amid a standoff over Democrats' separate party line $1.75 trillion social spending measure.
00:11:41.000It followed a visit to Capitol Hill by President Biden, who personally asked House Democrats for their support on both of them.
00:11:49.000Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team were ultimately unable to win over dozens of dug-in liberals in time for a Thursday evening vote.
00:11:55.000Instead, they're now breaking for the weekend.
00:11:57.000House liberals said they want to review the legislative text of the $1.75 trillion social spending legislation the White House outlined on Thursday.
00:12:05.000And get a commitment of support from centrist senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, something the two have not given outright at this point.
00:12:11.000And again, cinema and mansion, when I say that they are really on razor's edge here, if Youngkin wins in Virginia, they have got to be looking at their political futures and saying, if I vote for this thing, what exactly do I get?
00:12:23.000Despite an aggressive whipping campaign from Democratic leaders, as many as 30 liberal Democrats threatened to block the roughly $550 billion Senate-passed infrastructure bill, according to multiple people familiar with the vote-tallying operation.
00:12:34.000Asked how Democrats headed home for the weekend in defeat, many were infuriated and left wondering how they had stumbled yet again, pointing fingers within their own party.
00:12:43.000Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair, Representative Pramila Jayapal, she said, I tried to tell anybody who had listened that we didn't have the votes.
00:12:51.000She then added, we want assurances that Build Back Better is going to pass in the Senate before we commit to actually passing the infrastructure vote.
00:12:55.000Here's Representative Pramila Jayapal, who on the left is running things for the Democratic Party.
00:13:00.000We need to see both votes on the Build Back Better Act and the infrastructure bill moving forward together.
00:13:09.000We also want to see the commitment from the two senators, and frankly all 50 senators, that they are also supportive of this framework and that it will be passed with no undermining in the Senate.
00:13:26.000Okay, so again, the progressives are not going to give up their leverage.
00:13:31.000And Biden and Pelosi really can't do much about that at all, other than trying to get the progressives on board for the actual build back better.
00:13:37.000Again, the more time that passes, the worse this gets for the Democrats.
00:13:40.000Remember, we are now at the end of October.
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00:15:36.000Again, the progressives are holding up the infrastructure bill because they want more from the Build Back Better plan.
00:15:41.000Here's Bernie Sanders making that statement yesterday.
00:15:44.000It is amazing how the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party now has real influence.
00:15:49.000From day one, both of these bills are linked.
00:15:52.000I support the infrastructure bill, but I want to see a strong Build Back Better bill as well, and they're linked together.
00:16:01.000So what you don't want to see is the infrastructure bill passed, and then not have the kind of Build Back Better bill that we need.
00:16:08.000And that's why you need 50 members on board before there should be a vote, in my view, in the House.
00:16:16.000Now Politico is trying to spin this as a win for Biden somehow.
00:16:19.000What they're trying to spin as a win for Biden is the fact that Pramila Jayapal and the CPC put out a statement on the status of the Build Back Better negotiations, in which they said that they overwhelmingly voted to endorse in principle the entire Build Back Better Act framework announced by Biden today.
00:16:32.000They say we appreciate the President's leadership and his commitment to getting this process over the finish line.
00:16:36.000He reaffirmed, as our caucus has month after month, that both the Infrastructure Bill and the popular Build Back Better Act must move together because they are part of the same agenda.
00:16:44.000Today, we are reiterating our enthusiastic commitment to delivering that entire agenda to people across America.
00:16:49.000The reality is that while talks around the infrastructure bill lasted months in the Senate, there has only been serious discussion around the specifics of the larger Build Back Better Act in recent weeks.
00:16:57.000Thanks to the Progressive Caucus holding the line and putting both parts of the agenda back on the table now, Congress needs to finish the job and bring both bills to a vote together.
00:17:04.000This can't be accomplished without legislative text that can be fully assessed and agreed upon by all the parties.
00:17:10.000So, Politico is trying to play this as a win for Biden because the CPC said that they agree with the framework.
00:17:16.000But agreeing with the framework don't mean squat.
00:17:19.000If they really agreed with the framework, they would have voted on the infrastructure plan yesterday, which they didn't.
00:17:23.000And Nancy Pelosi is super pissed about it.
00:17:25.000According to Politico, earlier in the day, until they called the vote off Thursday evening, Pelosi and other top Democrats had been firm in their calls to vote.
00:17:31.000Projecting confidence, Pelosi teed up a House Rules Committee meeting on a bill text that will make up the base of the social spending bill.
00:17:37.000Cabinet members and outside advocates also pushed liberals to back the infrastructure bill before Biden landed in Rome.
00:17:43.000Pelosi said, quote, Let's do it in timely fashion.
00:17:46.000Let's not just keep having postponements and leaving doubt as to when this would happen.
00:18:49.000We need to see the two bills simultaneously moved together.
00:18:53.000If there is urgency in getting this done, The Senators need to understand that urgency as well and move as urgent as they want us to move so that we can get the two legislations done.
00:19:07.000Okay, so according to Punchbowl, which is another DC insidery publication, quote, there's no denying Thursday's episode was an embarrassing setback for Democrats, Biden included.
00:19:17.000Biden was supposed to help Pelosi bridge an ugly split between moderates and progressives.
00:19:20.000That didn't happen. In fact, it may be even worse. Strangely, when Biden met with House Democrats on Thursday, he didn't ask them to vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which Pelosi was trying to get to the floor. Instead, the president urged rank and file lawmakers to back both the infrastructure bill and the framework for the Build Back Better Act, which the White House unveiled early that morning.
00:19:39.000Pelosi had to jump up and say they should vote for the infrastructure bill first.
00:19:45.000They later argued that Biden had given them the green light to say no on infrastructure.
00:19:49.000So Joe Biden came in like the senile, doddering fool that he is, and he completely undercut Nancy Pelosi.
00:19:54.000Pelosi's like, we want to give you the infrastructure win, and then they won't have any leverage on Build Back Better, and we can do exactly what you want, Mr. President.
00:20:00.000And Biden came in, he's like, well, you should vote for him.
00:20:13.000According to Punchbowl, this wasn't just an oversight by Biden.
00:20:16.000The White House then adopted a deliberate hands-off approach to yesterday's scheduled vote, according to Democratic lawmakers.
00:20:23.000And then, apparently, there was a call between the White House Legislative Director of Legislative Affairs, Louisa Terrell, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, several senior White House officials, and key Democratic lawmakers.
00:20:34.000Apparently, Terrell was repeatedly asked to spell out their position on infrastructure.
00:20:38.000Representative Suzanne Delbean from Washington, chair of the New Democrat Coalition, asked straight out whether Biden wanted House Democrats to vote for the infrastructure bill.
00:20:45.000The White House officials then said they support both bills, which again, undercut Pelosi.
00:20:51.000We would have had a victory today if only he had asked for it, one Democratic aide, instead of Biden.
00:21:22.000In some ways, the worst thing that has happened to Biden is the fact that Republicans blew both of those Georgia Senate races, because now there's been an actual ask made of Democrats.
00:21:31.000If Mitch McConnell were running the Senate, we all know this would be DOA.
00:21:34.000But because it's mansion and cinema, it's put Biden in a box of his own making because he is not pursuing anything remotely like a moderate policy.
00:21:42.000And they're making clear, Biden is, that so much of this is performative.
00:21:47.000The way that he is marketing Build Back Better is not as a moderate attempt to shore up holes in the social safety net.
00:21:54.000He's pushing it as a transformative plan that is going to radically redefine how economics is done in the United States.
00:22:01.000And so maybe his goal is that nothing passes.
00:22:04.000Because then he can say that he was trying to be transformative and everybody else failed him.
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00:23:18.000Alrighty, so Joe Biden, again, he is pitching this entire thing as a transformative policy.
00:23:23.000Americans are not interested in your stupid transformative nonsense at a moment when the economy should be booming but is not, thanks to your policy failures.
00:23:30.000Now, it is amazing how the media are reporting that last quarter's economic downturn was largely due to Delta, not to the policies of the Biden administration and blue state governors.
00:23:41.000We know that's not true because here in Florida, where we have a red state governor, and we are not paying attention to anything that Joe Biden has to say, the economy is booming.
00:23:49.000Once again, I repeat, it is the single most important economic statistic because if the states are laboratories of democracy, then their policies ought to show some differences.
00:23:57.000If you look at the unemployment rate by state in the United States right now, I'm looking at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for September.
00:24:05.000Okay, here are the best states in terms of employment.
00:25:45.000It looks more like this has less to do with Delta than it has to do with political policy.
00:25:50.000The Democrats have to keep claiming, and the media have to repeat it, that the real economic downturn is not democratic policy when we all know that it is.
00:25:57.000And they have to keep claiming that so we will pretend that Joe Biden's massive spending plan isn't going to be just as damaging as the rest of his garbage agenda.
00:26:04.000So what exactly is in this budget framework?
00:26:07.000According to the Wall Street Journal editorial board, The blueprint the White House released is more frame than work.
00:26:13.000The jury-rigged plan is an enormous expansion of government with quarter-baked entitlement programs that will retard work and $1.58 trillion in tax increases that will distort and limit investment.
00:26:23.000The $1.75 trillion cost the Democrats have assigned is a lie.
00:26:26.000They use phony accounting to finance a few years of new spending with 10 years of tax increases.
00:26:30.000For example, the plan extends the $3,600 child tax credit for one year at a cost of $110 billion.
00:26:36.000But Democrats are going to extend it next year.
00:26:39.000If it's extended for 10 years, that would be $1.1 trillion, not $110 billion.
00:26:43.000So literally they are saying that the cost of a program they are extending is $110 billion.
00:26:48.000The actual cost over 10 years, if it were extended as they hope to do, is $1.1 trillion.
00:26:54.000The agreement drops the House's proposed Medicare vision and dental expansion, but preserves a new hearing benefit, which the White House claims will cost a mere $34 billion and start in 2024.
00:27:04.000The annual cost of the hearing benefit, once fully phased in, is $16 billion.
00:27:12.000And this sort of stuff is true throughout the bill.
00:27:15.000The real cost is likely closer to $4 trillion than $1.75 trillion.
00:27:20.000Meanwhile, the plan is to ratchet up taxes in a wide variety of ways.
00:27:27.000They're trying to claim $400 billion in revenues from $80 billion in quote, IRS investments, a 66% budget increase for the IRS, including hiring more auditors.
00:27:51.000Americans hate the IRS, and for good reason.
00:27:54.000By the way, it's a lie that this is going to claim $400 billion in revenue.
00:27:57.000The CBO says this is only going to yield $200 billion in revenue.
00:28:01.000And because we're spending $80 billion on the IRS to build them new toilets, it's actually only going to net about $120 billion to the federal government.
00:28:08.000Also, the $1.85 trillion in tax increases includes a 15% minimum tax on book income of large corporations.
00:28:15.000But we all know what's going to happen here.
00:28:17.000Democrats are then going to create carve-outs for all their friends.
00:28:21.000Corporations are going to be taxed on stock buybacks.
00:28:23.000So corporations will just shift the way that they pay people from stock buybacks to share dividends.
00:28:29.000Despite its anti-corporate advertising, the bill is a giant boondoggle for, it's basically Solyndra.
00:28:35.000They're dedicating $555 billion for climate spending.
00:28:39.000Investing in renewables, nuclear, hydrogen, carbon capture, electric vehicles, batteries, and transmission lines.
00:28:44.000That's on top of the tens of billions in green energy handouts and the Senate infrastructure bill.
00:28:49.000How much of that is going to be efficient spending?
00:29:02.000We know this because one Barack Obama tried to do the exact same thing.
00:29:04.000You remember those green jobs that were supposed to materialize?
00:29:07.000And it turns out it was all just a lie.
00:29:10.000Also, we're going to see massive tax increases, a 5% surtax on income over $10 million, 8% over $25 million.
00:29:18.000Those surtaxes raise the top marginal personal income tax rate to 45% or so.
00:29:23.000And in New York and California, where you have state tax on top of that, the people at the top of the tax brackets are going to be paying 60% in New York and California.
00:29:31.000How many billionaires do you think are going to stick around in New York and California for that?
00:29:35.000See, it doesn't make a difference to them if the marginal tax increase between, like, New York and Florida is not all that great.
00:29:41.000But if you're talking about the difference between paying, say, a 45% tax rate and a 60% tax rate, get ready, red states, for a lot of income, because everybody's going to be moving on down to Texas and Florida, which is the reason the Nancy Pelosi and company wanted to restore the SALT deduction.
00:29:57.000They wanted to make sure that you paid your state income tax first so they could essentially give a subsidy to the blue states.
00:30:03.000So the bill is a full-scale disaster, and it's filled again with this notion that there's a great urgency to do all of this.
00:30:10.000And I'm sorry, but there isn't a great urgency to do all of this.
00:30:13.000Particularly the $500 billion on climate change nonsense.
00:30:16.000I mean, that's the single biggest part of the bill, is $555 billion to fight climate change, largely through tax incentives for low-emission sources of energy.
00:30:30.000Those tax incentives for low emission sources of energy are not going to marginally, they're really not going to in any real way lower the carbon emissions.
00:30:40.000People putting solar on their house is not going to make the rate of global warming decrease in any serious material way over the course of the next hundred years.
00:31:38.000Subsidizing electric cars are not something that impoverished people in this country are deeply worried about right now.
00:31:44.000So this is one thing that the wild left is very enthusiastic about, and they have to try and scare you into believing that we need to spend this kind of money.
00:31:52.000So you have the irrepressible Irredeemable.
00:31:55.000AOC, so fresh, so face, faceness and freshness abounding, saying that entire regions of the United States are going to be unlivable unless she can put her hand in your wallet, take out all of your money, and then hand it to a bunch of people who vote Democrat.
00:32:08.000By 2028, crop yields are already projected to begin to fail, with famine beginning to hit the world's most vulnerable populations.
00:32:20.000drought, fire, and extreme heat trends could potentially make whole regions of the United States unlivable if we continue the trends that lobbyists are trying to have us pursue.
00:34:00.000It all is linked together with the progressive agenda to call everything white supremacy.
00:34:03.000So Cori Bush yesterday, she started berating oil executives by calling them white supremacists because they drill for oil or something.
00:34:12.000I don't even understand what she's talking about now.
00:34:16.000For years, you all have continued to promote fossil fuels despite knowing that promoting them means promoting environmental racism and violence in black and brown communities.
00:34:25.000You all are still promoting and selling fossil fuels that are killing millions of people.
00:34:31.000This is a striking example of white supremacy.
00:34:34.000Your profit-driven choices threaten my life, the lives of my family, my neighbors, and our communities every single day.
00:34:43.000Um, I'm sorry, oil threatens black communities every single day?
00:34:48.000You know, it seems kind of like white supremacy to me, frankly.
00:34:50.000A bunch of upper crust white liberals in the main, who are telling a bunch of countries, largely people of color, that they cannot have economic development because we are deeply concerned that over the course of the next hundred years, they might have to move their beach houses in the United States.
00:35:02.000That seems a lot more like white supremacy than people drilling for oil so that people can live in not abject poverty.
00:35:08.000Honestly, carbon-based fuels were one of the great discoveries of mankind.
00:35:10.000And thank God, we are now developing alternative sources of energy.
00:35:26.000But the notion that oil executives are complicit in white supremacy, again, it is all just ball everything up in one ball and we need to redo how the world works.
00:35:34.000In one second we're going to get to the democratic perspective on redoing how the world works because this is really what it comes down to.
00:35:39.000They want every single human in the United States to be dependent on the government.
00:35:44.000They think that this is a fulfilling life.
00:35:46.000Fulfillment lies in you being dependent on the government playing husband and father to you.
00:35:51.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:35:53.000First, you know those gas prices that I was talking about a moment ago?
00:35:55.000You know, the gas prices are truly spiking.
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00:38:49.000Alrighty, so again, the Democrats are trying to force through the notion that this is everything that they are doing is required, because if not, the world will burn.
00:39:02.000And this is why they're focusing in on climate change.
00:39:05.000Everything is a crisis, because whenever you can declare a crisis, this means that you can take absolute control.
00:39:09.000So over the last year and a half, we had an actual crisis in the form of a global pandemic that's killed millions of people, but nobody I mean, but nobody actually thinks that climate change over the course of the next century is a crisis.
00:39:20.000It might be a serious problem that we need to deal with.
00:39:22.000No one thinks it's a crisis that requires us to dump out trillions of dollars from a piggy bank that does not exist into an economy that's already overheated.
00:39:30.000But Democrats have to ratchet up the rhetoric.
00:39:32.000So you get a piece like this from the New York Times today.
00:39:34.000When the world is on the brink, $3.5 trillion is a pittance, a pittance by Abram Lustgarten, environmental reporter for ProPublica, a wild left organization.
00:39:45.000There will be no bargains with an overheating climate.
00:39:48.000The $3.5 trillion price tag that President Biden proposed for his climate heavy Build Back Better Act might seem enormous.
00:39:53.000But over the long term, it will be a pittance.
00:39:56.000What we don't spend now will cost us much more later.
00:39:59.000The bills for natural disasters and droughts and power outages are already pouring in.
00:40:04.000Within a few decades, the total bill will be astronomical as energy debts surge, global migration swells, industrial upheaval follows.
00:40:11.000The scale of the threat demands a new way of thinking about spending.
00:40:14.000Past budgets can no longer guide how governments spend money in the future.
00:40:18.000Some economists and climate scientists have calculated climate change could cost the United States The equivalent of nearly 4% of its gross domestic product a year by 2100.
00:40:50.000That we are going to have a $4 trillion budget, that we are going to have dumped out $1.9 trillion earlier this year, that we spent $7 trillion last year.
00:41:00.000And so your notion is we should spend much more money than it's going to cost us?
00:41:07.000Again, all of this neglects the fact that there is going to be future economic growth, and if you crimp the plan, right, if you crimp economic growth with regulation and taxation, what you end up doing is lowering the growth curve.
00:41:20.000So if you say 4% of annual GDP, you have to estimate how much that annual GDP is going to be.
00:41:25.000If the original curve is going to be high, and now you've lowered the curve, okay, that curve lowering itself is a major cost.
00:41:32.000This is something that Bjorn Lomborg is constantly pointing out over at the Wall Street Journal.
00:41:36.000He says, adaptation doesn't make the cost of global warming go away entirely, but it does reduce it dramatically.
00:41:41.000Higher temperatures will shrink harvest if farmers keep growing the same crop, but they're likely to adapt.
00:41:46.000Corn production in North America has shifted away from the southeast and toward the upper Midwest.
00:41:50.000When sea levels rise, governments build defenses like levees, floodwalls, and drainage systems that protected New Orleans from much of Hurricane Ida's ferocity this year.
00:41:58.000Nonetheless, many in the media push unrealistic projections of climate catastrophes while ignoring adaptation.
00:42:06.000You can see how far from reality these sorts of projections are in one heavily cited study, depicted in a graph.
00:42:12.000If you assume no society will adapt to any sea level rise between now and 2100, you'll find that vast areas of the world will be routinely flooded, causing $55 trillion in damage annually in 2100, or about 5% of global GDP.
00:42:26.000But, as the study emphasizes, in reality societies are likely to adapt.
00:42:30.000By raising the height of dikes, the study shows humanity can negate almost all of that.
00:42:34.000Only 15,000 people would be flooded every year, which is a remarkable improvement compared with the 3.4 million people flooded in 2000.
00:42:41.000The total cost of damage, investments in new dikes, and maintenance costs of existing dikes will fall sixfold between now and 2100 to 0.008% of world GDP.
00:42:51.000So in other words, you can do something about climate change, but it does not require this garbage.
00:42:55.000What this is really about is making people dependent on the government.
00:42:58.000So, the White House put forward another one of these absurd, I mean it's just absurd, slideshows.
00:43:05.000Now you remember back in 2012, Barack Obama was pushing very hard on spending on social policy, and he put out something called the Life of Julia.
00:43:13.000And the Life of Julia was roundly mocked because it showed Julia as this woman who was utterly dependent on government her entire life.
00:44:23.000Of course, there are women in manufacturing.
00:44:24.000I'm just saying that heavy manufacturing is stereotypically a male industry, and they know that, which is why they did this.
00:44:29.000Once Leo is born, father nowhere in the picture by the way, Linda begins receiving child tax credits of $300 per month, $3,600 annually to help cover essential costs like groceries, rent, and medicine.
00:44:40.000How much is that going to help if the inflation outpaces the child tax credit?
00:44:45.000Also, if she does not have to work in order to receive the child tax credit, how is that going to impact the hours that she takes on at the manufacturing facility?
00:44:54.000Is she just going to stay out of the workforce considering there are a bevy of other benefits available to Linda?
00:44:59.000But don't worry, the government will step in regardless.
00:45:02.000As Leo grows up, says the White House, the government helps cover the cost for his daycare, guaranteeing that Linda doesn't need to pay more than 7% of her income on childcare.
00:45:45.000Pre-K, universal pre-K, has been a giant fail.
00:45:50.000The Head Start program, which this is modeled on, has poor outcomes.
00:45:54.000And they're pretty clear about this being modeled on Head Start.
00:45:58.000The Head Start program, according to the Heritage Foundation, was launched in 1965, enrolling 560,000 kids in the new federally-funded eight-week summer program.
00:46:06.000At the time, proponents were clear that Head Start's sole purpose was to prepare children for elementary school.
00:46:11.000Unfortunately, more than half a century later, it sucks.
00:46:13.000The Department of Health and Human Services, which administers Head Start, revealed in December 2012 that the nearly $8 billion Head Start program has little to no impact on the cognitive, social-emotional, or health outcomes of participants, or the parenting skills of their parents.
00:46:28.000In fact, participation in Head Start actually had some negative effects on enrolled children.
00:46:33.000Federal researchers reported worse peer relations and lower teacher-assessed math ability for Head Start kids.
00:46:42.000Also, the Government Accountability Office found several Head Start centers around the country actively counseling families to under-report their incomes in order to appear eligible for the services.
00:46:54.000Among the 175 Head Start Centers inspected by the Inspector General, none fully complied with federal, Head Start, or state requirements to protect children from unsafe materials and equipment.
00:47:04.00021 of 24 grantees did not fully comply with federal, Head Start, or state requirements to conduct criminal records checks, conduct recurring background checks, document criminal records checks, conduct checks of child care exclusion lists, or conduct checks of child abuse and neglect registries.
00:47:49.000Born to a single mom because daddy is nowhere in the picture.
00:47:52.000He's been in government schooling since he was three.
00:47:55.000When Leo leaves high school, he's able to enroll in a community college thanks to extended Pell Grants and investment in community college.
00:48:02.000So apparently Leo is not one of the bright eggs.
00:48:05.000So he goes to the community college and requires a Pell Grant in order to do so.
00:48:09.000And then this is my favorite part of the whole presentation.
00:48:11.000Thanks to community college, Leo lands a good-paying union job as a wind turbine technician.
00:48:50.000It's going to be an expensive boondoggle.
00:48:51.000So he's going to be working for the government effectively, because if you're working on a wind turbine farm, there's a very good shot that that is a government subsidized job.
00:48:59.000Leo's job is one of four million new jobs a year, supported by President Biden's economic plan.
00:49:04.000So Joe Biden is going to quote-unquote create jobs by subsidizing giveaway goodies to union buddies, and Leo's going to work for one of those people.
00:49:12.000Later in life, Linda needs home care and hearing care.
00:49:15.000Thanks to President Biden's plan, Linda can access affordable hearing care through Medicare, and Leo is able to afford at-home elder care for his mom.
00:49:22.000Okay, so that's, again, very exciting stuff.
00:49:25.000So the government is going to pay for Linda to get hearing care because apparently no elderly people in the United States have hearing care.
00:49:32.000That's a new one to me, because my grandmother does.
00:49:34.000Actually, both grandmothers do, outside of Medicare.
00:49:37.000And also, apparently, Leo was going to leave mom to rot, but now that he's got this subsidy to a union home health care worker, he's going to pay for all that.
00:49:47.000So again, this is the ideal life, according to the Democrats.
00:49:50.000At no point is there any upward trajectory or upward mobility.
00:49:53.000You basically just stagnate in your lower middle class life.
00:49:58.000Working as a wind turbine technician on a government subsidy?
00:50:13.000I would say these are pretty humble aspirations for both Leo and Linda.
00:50:19.000They also don't have the slide where Leo, having been brought up in a government facility all of his life, goes out in the streets and starts burning down government buildings because he's very upset that the United States is systemically racist and unjust.
00:50:31.000That part they didn't tell you about because that part's a little awkward.
00:50:34.000It was right before he went to community college and also before he got the wind turbine job.
00:50:41.000See, in the original American Vision, the American Dream was, Linda works hard.
00:50:45.000She works a job, and she works difficult and long hours, but she also takes care of her kid, and she's married, so her husband is around to help.
00:50:52.000And they, together, invest enormous time and effort in their son Leo.
00:50:56.000Leo goes on to create a new good product or service.
00:51:01.000And he then proceeds to start a business where he hires lots of other people.
00:51:04.000He becomes inordinately wealthy, having made the country that much better off through his own innovative skill and risk-taking.
00:51:12.000If you were to tell the Horatio Alger story of the American dream, that was the American dream.
00:51:15.000And that's true for so many Americans, because the fact is the vast majority of people who start at the bottom of the American income spectrum do not end up at the bottom of the American income spectrum.
00:51:24.000People tend to rise over the course of their life.
00:51:26.000This is why older people are richer than younger people in the United States.
00:51:29.000But that's not the story the Democrats wish to tell.
00:51:31.000They wish to tell you the story about a lower-middle-income person who stays a lower-middle-income person and lives their life completely dependent on government largesse.
00:51:41.000If that sounds like an inspiring life story to you, I don't know what to tell you.
00:52:05.000Meanwhile, as they impoverish you, and as they tell you that we are going to have to lower our economic estimates because of climate justice, and environmental justice, and white supremacy, and all the rest of the silly progressive buzzwords, as they tell you that the best you can hope for is to one day work at a wind turbine factory with a government unionized job, As they do that, they are giving lottery tickets to illegal immigrant families.
00:52:30.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States is currently in talks to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to families separated at the border.
00:52:50.000Joe Biden is pledging to basically lower his economic growth estimates to below 2% a year for the rest of time.
00:52:56.000But we have enough money in the bank to be paying, I kid you not, $450,000 per person in compensation to immigrant families separated by the Trump administration.
00:53:07.000There are several agencies working to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma.
00:53:14.000Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering payments that could amount to close to $1 million a family.
00:53:22.000Though the final numbers could shift, people familiar with the matter said.
00:53:31.000Many families would likely get smaller payments depending on their circumstances.
00:53:34.000The ACLU has identified about 5,500 kids separated at the border over the course of the Trump administration, citing figures provided to it by the government.
00:53:42.000The number of families eligible under the potential settlement is expected to be smaller.
00:53:46.000About 940 claims have so far been filed by the families.
00:53:49.000The potential payout could be a billion bucks or more.
00:53:51.000So remember, there is a zero-tolerance enforcement policy in which the United States would not just release illegal immigrants into the interior of the United States after giving them a piece of paper saying, come back in a month.
00:54:03.000The Trump administration said we're not doing that.
00:54:05.000If you come, you will be held until you actually have your asylum date.
00:54:09.000Until we find out whether you are here, or whether you're here for good reason, or whether you're just trying to cross the border illegally.
00:54:14.000Now, there was something called the Flores Settlement.
00:54:15.000The Flores Settlement said that kids could not be held with their parents in confinement.
00:54:19.000So instead, kids were separated from parents.
00:54:21.000Very often they were handed to a relative.
00:54:23.000Sometimes they'd be put in a holding facility for a little while.
00:54:25.000But that was because of the Flores Settlement.
00:54:28.000The two choices were, release the entire family unit into the interior, or two, don't, and you have to separate the kids from the parents by law because of the stupid Flores Settlement.
00:54:37.000So that's what the Trump administration did.
00:54:38.000Now, if you were one of the illegal immigrants who came with your kid, and your kid was separated from you, the government is going to sign you a $450,000 check per person.
00:54:57.000Isn't that exciting stuff from the Biden administration?
00:55:02.000The lawsuits allege some of the children suffered from a range of ailments, including heat exhaustion and malnutrition, were kept in freezing cold rooms, and provided little medical attention.
00:55:33.000In recent months, lawyers for the families and government have told courts overseeing the cases they are engaged in settlement negotiations.
00:55:40.000LegalEarns, deputy director of the ACLU says, quote, So again, remember that they are not only pushing for a giant check, they're also pushing for people to just get to stay here.
00:55:47.000In his first weeks in office, Biden pledged to reunite the separated families.
00:55:52.000but a pathway to remain in the country.
00:55:53.000So again, remember that they are not only pushing for a giant check, they're also pushing for people to just get to stay here.
00:55:59.000In his first weeks in office, Biden pledged to reunite the separated families.
00:56:04.000By the way, not all the families have been reunited, even still.
00:56:06.000Senator Tom Cotton said the Biden administration's promises of citizenship and entitlement programs have already caused the worst border crisis in history.
00:56:14.000A huge cash reward will make it even worse.
00:56:18.000Some government lawyers view the payouts as excessive for people who had violated the law by crossing the border.
00:56:23.000One government lawyer threatened to remove his name from the case out of disagreement with the potential settlement offer.
00:56:28.000In another instance, a Department of Homeland Security attorney involved in the settlement talks complained on a conference call that payouts could amount to more than some families of 9-11 victims received.
00:56:38.000So, if that's the case, I mean, think about the insane moral logic of that.
00:56:43.000You cross the border illegally with your kid because you're attempting to get into the country illegally.
00:57:07.000Trying to take the cases to trial would be unpredictable, with juries potentially awarding larger sums to the family, said legal experts.
00:57:13.000Damaged class actions in this kind of case are pretty rare.
00:57:15.000It's hard to think of a recent comparison, said Margot Schlanger, who ran the Civil Rights Office during the Obama administration.
00:57:21.000It's a complicated, complex piece of litigation to try to resolve hundreds of different lawsuits at the same time, sometimes even more complex, to try the cases.
00:57:30.000Many of those cases were still pending at the start of the Biden administration.
00:57:32.000damages for loss or harm, some of the cases were resolved under the Trump administration.
00:57:36.000In a 2019 settlement in New Jersey, for example, an adult and a minor received a total of $125,000.
00:57:41.000Many of those cases were still pending at the start of the Biden administration.
00:57:45.000But again, the fact that this administration is now considering a widespread policy of just giving money to people for this sort of thing, like, pretty insane.
00:58:15.000You have an entire side of the political aisle in the United States that basically now says that work is unnecessary, you shouldn't aspire to anything, the government will take care of you, cradle to grave.
00:58:24.000If you don't want to vote for that, then vote for Glenn Youngkin if you're in Virginia.
00:58:27.000And if you don't like it, don't vote for Democrats across the country in 2022.
00:58:31.000I still think that most Americans have aspirations to live more than the life of Linda.
00:58:37.000If that's the case, then Democrats have a real bruising coming to them in 2022.
00:58:44.000Alrighty, we've reached the end of today's show.
00:58:46.000However, we have another hour planned for you later.