The Ben Shapiro Show - Leftists Love Illegal Immigrants...Until They Go To Martha's Vineyard | Ep. 1575

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00:01:27.000 Well, here is the thing about altruism.

00:01:30.000 If you are truly altruistic, this means that you dip into your own pocket to give people things, right?

00:01:34.000 True altruism is when you are charitable with your own resources.

00:01:39.000 It's a wonderful thing, right?

00:01:40.000 Being altruistic about your own resources, recognizing that you owe something to your community because you're a member of that community, you're a member of that body politic.

00:01:48.000 That's a good attitude to have.

00:01:50.000 You know what's a terrible attitude to have?

00:01:52.000 Is when altruism actually amounts to, I'm going to put my hand in your pocket and I'm going to give your money away and then I'm going to pat myself on the back for how altruistic I am.

00:02:01.000 And unfortunately, an extraordinary amount of democratic policy, economic, Environmental, foreign, enormous amounts of this policy are predicated on the idea that you are most altruistic when you are putting your hand in somebody else's pocket and then giving away their money.

00:02:17.000 When you are taking somebody else's life and affecting their life in a way that makes you feel good.

00:02:22.000 But it doesn't actually have any effect on you, but it makes you feel incredibly good because you are making Bob pay the bill.

00:02:28.000 And let's face it, Bob deserves to pay the bill.

00:02:30.000 You don't deserve to pay the bill.

00:02:31.000 You're the good person.

00:02:32.000 You're making Bob pay the bill.

00:02:33.000 But so long as you are making Bob pay the bill, you owe no consequences.

00:02:38.000 You don't have to actually be altruistic.

00:02:39.000 You don't actually have to do anything.

00:02:41.000 It's all up to you to make sure that somebody else does this thing.

00:02:45.000 So much of left-wing policy is predicated on this very idea that the rules that you think should broadly apply to humanity and the consequences of which are not owned by you Those rules are good, so long as you promulgate them.

00:02:57.000 And then, the minute you are clocked in the face by reality, the rules become really, really bad.

00:03:01.000 This is true on tax policy.

00:03:03.000 Democrats in blue states across the country will raise state taxes to extraordinary levels.

00:03:07.000 And then, they'll go to the federal government, and they'll ask for state and local tax deductions.

00:03:11.000 The idea being that you should be able to deduct your high taxes in the state of California, for example, against your federal income tax.

00:03:18.000 Because after all, the other states should pay for the fact that you've decided to raise taxes in your state.

00:03:25.000 When it comes to homelessness, homelessness is a human right until precisely the moment the tent cities arrive in Malibu.

00:03:31.000 Environmental policy.

00:03:32.000 Environmentalism is all wonderful and good, especially for people who live in areas where you don't.

00:03:38.000 Meanwhile, you get to basically fly around in a private jet, right?

00:03:41.000 Environmentalism is a luxury of the wealthy, and generally, the people who are most interested in environmentalism also have the largest carbon footprint, because they also happen to be the most wealthy, and wealth goes along, in most cases, with a higher carbon footprint than people who are very, very poor.

00:03:56.000 So, this has now reared its head again with the issue of illegal immigration.

00:04:00.000 The left, for my entire lifetime, has basically been soft on illegal immigration.

00:04:05.000 They've suggested that illegal immigration, the free movement of people across America's southern border, and the ability of those people to then rely on the American welfare state Particularly on the state and local level.

00:04:16.000 The ability of these folks to move across borders, to take jobs, to not pay their full share of taxes, to get free public education for their kids, to take advantage of the healthcare system.

00:04:27.000 All of these things are a good.

00:04:29.000 And to oppose this is to be cruel and nasty.

00:04:33.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:04:35.000 Most of the people who are pressing this sort of policy Particularly the elite levels of the Democratic Party never actually have to deal with the consequences.

00:04:42.000 They feel as though they are creating a new voter base.

00:04:44.000 People are coming in and they are more dependent on government.

00:04:46.000 They tend to be poorer than the average in the United States.

00:04:48.000 They tend to be less educated on the average in the United States and thus they are more dependent on government largesse in the United States.

00:04:54.000 And so the idea was bring this entire new group of people in and these people are more likely to vote Democrat.

00:04:58.000 This is how the demographics of California, for example, shifted from California being a red to purple state and now to a pure blue, deep blue, sea blue state.

00:05:07.000 Okay, but here is the magic.

00:05:09.000 In order to foment illegal immigration, what you really have to do is you have to suggest that border towns in Texas have to deal with it.

00:05:17.000 And certainly not Barack Obama up in Martha's Vineyard.

00:05:19.000 Certainly not Kamala Harris over at the Naval Observatory in Maryland.

00:05:23.000 Those people don't have to deal with it.

00:05:25.000 Certainly not Eric Adams in New York City.

00:05:27.000 The people, Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, those people don't have to deal with it. 0.59

00:05:29.000 Because after all, the true altruism is making sure that the people down on the border in Texas who are saying, you know what, this is really screwing up our city.

00:05:36.000 Those people are the bad guys.

00:05:37.000 Greg Abbott is the bad one.

00:05:39.000 Doug Ducey in Arizona, he's the bad one.

00:05:41.000 The people along the border who say, you know, this is creating real societal and cultural problems and economic problems and crime problems.

00:05:47.000 Those people are just, they're intolerant.

00:05:49.000 They're bigots. 1.00

00:05:49.000 They're bad. 1.00

00:05:51.000 Because we're altruists, right?

00:05:52.000 They're bad.

00:05:53.000 We are the altruists.

00:05:55.000 And so there is something extraordinarily ironic about the hue and cry that is now coming from top level Democrats over the move by border state Republicans Ron DeSantis in Florida, which technically is not a border state, but there's a lot of illegal immigration into Florida, or Greg Abbott in Texas, who have now been saying to Democratic governors and Democratic mayors, you know, guys, if you love illegal immigration so much, if you want to say that you are a sanctuary city without actually having to deal with the predominant force of illegal immigration,

00:06:25.000 And guess what?

00:06:26.000 You asked for it.

00:06:27.000 You got it.

00:06:28.000 And so Greg Abbott and Governor DeSantis, they've now been sending illegal immigrants to deep blue areas where they support sanctuary cities and open illegal immigration.

00:06:35.000 They've been saying, now we'll see how much you like it.

00:06:37.000 We'll see how altruistic you are when your hand is in your own pocket and not ours.

00:06:42.000 We'll see how kind and charitable you are with your own resources and how much you like illegal immigration when it actually affects you.

00:06:50.000 We'll see how much you enjoy defund the police when the criminals are sitting right side your house.

00:06:56.000 We'll see how much you enjoy homelessness.

00:06:57.000 When again, there are people who are camped out in your front yard.

00:06:59.000 We'll see how much you enjoy high tax rates when there is no state and local tax deduction.

00:07:04.000 Making people own the consequences of their own political decision-making is a net positive.

00:07:09.000 This is also true, by the way, intergenerationally.

00:07:10.000 Democratic economic policy is predicated on the idea that you can steal from future generations and then you can use the money here.

00:07:15.000 And this is not just true in the United States.

00:07:17.000 This is true all over the world.

00:07:18.000 The decline of Western economics is largely based on the fact that we have abandoned These sort of Burkean notion that you owe a debt to future generations, not the other way around, right?

00:07:28.000 They owe a debt to you in the sense that they are supposed to inherit a stable and decent system, but they are not supposed to pay your bills.

00:07:36.000 It is a fundamental fact of morality that a parent is supposed to provide for the child.

00:07:42.000 And that typically speaking, only in old age are children supposed to provide for their parents.

00:07:46.000 But the idea is not that you burden your unborn grandchildren with debts they are never going to be able to pay.

00:07:51.000 And yet we have broken that intergenerational barrier.

00:07:55.000 We've destroyed that morality.

00:07:56.000 And so now we have basically impoverished our children and grandchildren on the back of extraordinary levels of public and yes, private debt here in the West.

00:08:04.000 And that is why you're seeing low rates of economic growth across the West.

00:08:06.000 And this has been true for at least a couple of decades.

00:08:10.000 So making people own the consequences of their decisions in the here and now is a very good way of forcing better policy.

00:08:16.000 So I'm very much in favor of Ron DeSantis, for example, sending a couple of charter planes of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard. 1.00

00:08:24.000 Now, what's hysterical about this?

00:08:25.000 So there's video that emerged yesterday of this happening.

00:08:27.000 Fox News had the video.

00:08:29.000 Apparently, Governor DeSantis sent a couple of charter planes filled with illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, right?

00:08:36.000 It's the playground of the rich and famous Barack Obama.

00:08:39.000 Should have plenty of place.

00:08:40.000 I mean, he should have lots of room on his estate.

00:08:42.000 He's got a 29.3 acre estate on Martha's Vineyard, which must have caused A fairly large fortune.

00:08:48.000 Well, Martha's Vineyard is a place where the rich play and you don't really get to go there.

00:08:52.000 I mean, so on that, on that score, I guess some of these illegal immigrants are very lucky. 1.00

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00:09:59.000 According to the governor's communications director, Taryn Fenske, she said yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard today were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations.

00:10:10.000 States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as sanctuary states and support for the Biden administration's open border policies.

00:10:21.000 As you may know, in this past legislative session, the Florida legislature appropriated $12 million to implement a program to facilitate the transport of illegal immigrants from this state consistent with federal law.

00:10:32.000 But DeSantis has sent migrants on a plane to Martha's Vineyard.

00:10:34.000 to the after hours email saying the Baker-Polito administration is in touch with local officials regarding the arrival of migrants in Martha's Vineyard. At this time, short-term shelter services are being provided by local offices. The administration will continue to support these efforts. Here's a little bit of the video of the charter planes arriving in Martha's Vineyard.

00:10:48.000 But DeSantis has sent migrants on a plane to Martha's Vineyard.

00:10:54.000 Now, this is where the Obamas have a home, Oprah, Beyonce, even James Taylor, who's going to be seeing fire, rain, and migrants. 1.00

00:11:04.000 Not to mention Rosie O'Donnell.

00:11:06.000 I mean, everybody basically that you know on the left has a home there.

00:11:10.000 Do you think they're going to be embracing their new neighbors?

00:11:14.000 You know, these are all sanctuary cities until they're in their sanctuary.

00:11:18.000 I doubt they'll embrace them.

00:11:20.000 Don't know that I've ever been to Martha's Vineyard.

00:11:22.000 I've been to places where we've seen these migrants come across.

00:11:25.000 This is not good for America.

00:11:27.000 Every town's a border town, and we need to make sure we get our southern border secured exactly like we did for four years, Jesse.

00:11:33.000 Meanwhile, the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, is doing something similar with regard to Kamala Harris.

00:11:37.000 According to Fox 5 DC, Fox News is reporting that two buses of migrants arrived on Thursday morning outside Kamala Harris's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.

00:11:45.000 Approximately 100 migrants, mainly from Venezuela, arrived just before 7 a.m.

00:11:48.000 from Del Rio, Texas, and were offloaded near the Naval Observatory's main guard gate.

00:11:52.000 The migrants were picked up in Eagle Pass, Texas, and were sent by Governor Greg Abbott.

00:11:55.000 Here's a little bit of Fox News's report.

00:11:58.000 Buses filled with migrants from our southern border have just arrived outside Vice President Kamala Harris's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.

00:12:11.000 Griff Jenkins is live on the scene to tell us more.

00:12:14.000 Griff, is that Massachusetts Avenue that I'm looking at right there?

00:12:20.000 Yeah, good morning Steve, Anthony, and Brian.

00:12:22.000 This bus just arrived moments ago.

00:12:24.000 I talked to some of the folks.

00:12:26.000 Apparently this bus has come from Del Rio, Texas.

00:12:29.000 Okay, so the typical response in the media is, this is horrible.

00:12:32.000 How could they do this?

00:12:33.000 So just to get this straight, when a bus filled with migrants arrives in Del Rio, Texas, that's a net good for the United States. 1.00

00:12:39.000 That's a good thing, because forcing Del Rio, Texas to take all those people in is great. 0.92

00:12:44.000 Remember a few years ago when there was a migration crisis under President Obama?

00:12:47.000 There's a city in California called Murrieta and there are a bunch of presidents there who are saying, don't take these buses here.

00:12:52.000 Like we live here.

00:12:53.000 We don't have the resources to take care of these people.

00:12:55.000 They're just going to be sitting around in the bus station.

00:12:58.000 And we don't know who they are.

00:12:59.000 We don't know their backgrounds.

00:13:00.000 We don't know how to feed them.

00:13:01.000 And the people of Murrieta were treated as though they were terrorists.

00:13:05.000 How dare these people?

00:13:06.000 Not just... I mean, don't we have a statue?

00:13:09.000 And on that statue it says that we should take in our tired, our weary, our huddled masses yearning to be free.

00:13:15.000 Don't we have... I mean, the Statue of Liberty!

00:13:17.000 The Statue of... Okay, now, this has been a typical Democratic talking point for a very long time, but it turns out that the Statue of Liberty is in New York.

00:13:23.000 Okay, fine.

00:13:24.000 So if we send the migrants to New York, then presumably everything should be hunky-dory, right? 1.00

00:13:28.000 If we send the illegal immigration wave that has been fostered by this administration, we're talking in excess of 1.3 million illegal immigrants have entered the country since Joe Biden took office.

00:13:37.000 And that is not counting the gotaways, which could be up to another million.

00:13:41.000 And when you have that many people who are arriving and they are swamping border towns, those towns don't have the resources for them.

00:13:46.000 So why not send them?

00:13:47.000 I mean, income inequality, guys.

00:13:49.000 Equity.

00:13:50.000 Why not send them to the richest enclaves in America?

00:13:52.000 Places like Martha's Vineyard.

00:13:54.000 Why not send them to Malibu?

00:13:55.000 Why not have them camp out outside Barbra Streisand's house?

00:13:57.000 After all, if you're in favor of these policies, you should own the policies, should you not?

00:14:02.000 You should be the person who's willing to pay for those policies.

00:14:04.000 Should you not?

00:14:06.000 You shouldn't be foisting them on the people who are unfortunate enough to live at the border that you have decided to leave wide open in complete defiance of basic governmental duty.

00:14:17.000 And yet the reaction from the left has been this extraordinary wailing and gnashing of teeth.

00:14:21.000 This is terrible.

00:14:22.000 It's a human rights violation.

00:14:23.000 So let me just get this straight.

00:14:25.000 It is a pleasure cruise when Barack Obama and Joe Biden and all the rest of the glitterati on the left go to Martha's Vineyard.

00:14:32.000 That's what they do for vacation. 0.96

00:14:33.000 It's like the nicest place in America.

00:14:35.000 But if an illegal immigrant arrives there on a bus, then it's like Auschwitz. 0.99

00:14:39.000 Basically, you send a bus filled with people to Martha's Vineyard, and my God, it's a human rights violation. 0.98

00:14:44.000 It's not a human rights violation, by the way, to leave the border open and incentivize hundreds of thousands of people, including small children, to cross some of the most dangerous areas on planet Earth.

00:14:53.000 There have been something like over a thousand migrants who have been found dead along the American border because people are falling, people are sick, people are starving, people are dehydrated.

00:15:03.000 That apparently is not a problem.

00:15:04.000 You have serious migration crisis human rights violations by coyotes who are bringing people in in hot trucks and then leaving them to die in the back of these trucks.

00:15:12.000 That's not a problem.

00:15:14.000 But you know what's a real problem is if you put people on air-conditioned airplanes from Florida to Martha's Vineyard, that's a serious problem.

00:15:20.000 I've noticed that maybe it's only a serious problem because now you have to see it.

00:15:25.000 And now you have to own the consequences.

00:15:26.000 That's the really serious problem.

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00:16:43.000 It's amazing to me the extent to which we are told that a city like New York City, okay, so New York City has a population, a grand total population in New York City of 8.4 million people.

00:16:55.000 If 1,500 migrants show up from Texas, we are told that this strains the city's resources.

00:17:02.000 8.4 million people live in New York City.

00:17:04.000 How many people live in Del Rio, Texas?

00:17:07.000 Del Rio, Texas, I'm sure is taking in, it's like 36,000 people live in Del Rio, Texas.

00:17:13.000 So when they're hit with 1,500 migrants, that's a good thing, according to the residents of New York City. 1.00

00:17:17.000 When 1,500 illegal immigrants arrive in New York City, a city of 8.4 million people, that's a really, really bad thing. 1.00

00:17:23.000 The same thing in Chicago.

00:17:24.000 It's a human rights violation, apparently, to send illegal immigrants to Chicago. 0.59

00:17:27.000 Chicago has a population of 2.7 million people.

00:17:32.000 But the idea is that if you send a few hundred illegal immigrants up there, well, we can't handle that. 1.00

00:17:36.000 I mean, after all, we are a blue city.

00:17:39.000 I mean, we can't really do that.

00:17:40.000 That'd be really bad.

00:17:42.000 So here is Lori Lightfoot, the absolutely incompetent mayor of Chicago, a place where there are more shootings every weekend than a typical weekend in Iraq. 1.00

00:17:51.000 Suggesting that, you know, the real problem here is it's a national problem.

00:17:54.000 I noticed that now you think it's a national problem.

00:17:56.000 How weird.

00:17:57.000 How weird that when the consequences at home for you, you start to realize that illegal immigration is a national problem for you.

00:18:01.000 Amazing.

00:18:03.000 We need, D.C.

00:18:04.000 needs, more assistance.

00:18:07.000 And obviously I know that there's work being done by the White House and some of the executive agencies to look to other resources.

00:18:16.000 That can't happen fast enough.

00:18:18.000 So we're going to continue to be in conversation with them, to let them know what is happening on the ground here.

00:18:24.000 I had a series of very productive conversations when I was in D.C.

00:18:29.000 on Friday, but we're not going to Take our foot off the gas to say that we need a comprehensive plan from the federal government.

00:18:38.000 And again, we all know what the reality is.

00:18:40.000 This is a national problem.

00:18:42.000 It needs a national solution.

00:18:44.000 And we as cities and states cannot be left to fend to ourselves.

00:18:48.000 We can't be left.

00:18:49.000 You know, it'd be a solution, securing the border.

00:18:52.000 But this administration says the border is secure.

00:18:54.000 So it'd be time for you now to talk to the White House about securing that.

00:18:56.000 But you're not going to do that.

00:18:57.000 Instead, you're going to virtue signal and pretend that you've been victimized by Texas.

00:19:01.000 El Paso, Texas, which is one of the big pass-through cities for illegal immigration.

00:19:04.000 It has a big border patrol station over there.

00:19:08.000 The total population of El Paso, Texas as of 2020 is like 680,000 people.

00:19:12.000 The city of Chicago is 2.7 million people.

00:19:14.000 The Illinois governor declared an emergency over migrants bused from Texas.

00:19:18.000 How many migrants were bused from Texas?

00:19:19.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, 500.

00:19:23.000 500.

00:19:23.000 So 500 people show up in a city of 2.7 million and the Illinois governor declares a state emergency.

00:19:31.000 Meanwhile, 2 million people show up on the southern border in places like Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.

00:19:37.000 And that's hunky-dory.

00:19:38.000 That's totally fine.

00:19:39.000 The administration's got this whole thing under control.

00:19:41.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Illinois Governor J.B.

00:19:43.000 Pritzker declared an emergency and called up 75 members of the Illinois National Guard to marshal resources to cope with an influx of asylum seekers busted Chicago and other cities by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

00:19:52.000 About 500 migrants have arrived in Chicago since the first busload pulled into a downtown bus station on August 31st.

00:19:58.000 More continue to arrive without any advance notice from Texas.

00:20:01.000 Pritzker said the state of Illinois is doing everything in its power to support local jurisdictions to help ensure that the right tools and supports are in place as we move forward with this humanitarian response.

00:20:09.000 This proclamation will help the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and other state agencies coordinate with the city of Chicago, Cook County and other local governments to provide services to migrants.

00:20:16.000 Those services include transportation, emergency shelter and housing, food and medical attention.

00:20:21.000 And of course, Pritzker criticized Abbott.

00:20:23.000 He said it was a stunt playing games with people's lives.

00:20:25.000 No, you know, it's a stunt playing games with people's lives, like actual lives.

00:20:28.000 It's not playing games with people's lives to send them to a major American city with a huge welfare program.

00:20:33.000 You know, it's a major stunt leaving the border open.

00:20:35.000 That is a major stunt that you guys have been doing for literally decades.

00:20:39.000 Governor Abbott said, quote, Sanctuary City mayors complain they're overwhelmed by a few dozen migrants arriving on buses from Texas.

00:20:44.000 It's a fraction of what Texas faces on a daily basis.

00:20:46.000 We will continue busing migrants until Biden secures the border.

00:20:50.000 Correct.

00:20:52.000 By the way, Joe Biden is taking action, hysterically enough.

00:20:55.000 According to Reuters, as border crossings have soared to record highs, U.S.

00:20:59.000 President Joe Biden's administration is quietly pressing Mexico to accept more migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

00:21:04.000 Under a COVID-19 expulsion order, the White House has publicly sought to end, according to seven U.S.

00:21:08.000 and three Mexican officials.

00:21:09.000 So they won't just say, we're going to close the border.

00:21:11.000 Instead, they're still using Title 42, COVID emergency, which they said they were going to end, and which they said is no longer applicable.

00:21:17.000 They are saying that they're going to use Title 42 to pressure Mexico to take all of these migrants now. 0.58

00:21:22.000 So they're not going to say the quiet part out loud, which is illegal immigration is a problem for the United States.

00:21:26.000 Instead, they're going to pretend that this is a COVID threat still, and they're going to do it quietly behind closed doors.

00:21:31.000 U.S.

00:21:31.000 Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concerns about an escalating number of crossings by migrants from the three countries during a visit on Monday to Mexico City.

00:21:38.000 According to two U.S.

00:21:39.000 and two Mexican officials, Mexico did not promise any specific actions.

00:21:42.000 One U.S.

00:21:43.000 official said trying to convince Mexico to agree is an uphill battle.

00:21:46.000 Yeah, no bleep.

00:21:48.000 So, again, Democrats owning the consequences of their own actions, it's the killer app.

00:21:53.000 It's the kryptonite to democratic bad policy, which shifts the burden of their policy positions to literally everyone else.

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00:23:08.000 Speaking of which, this again, all democratic policy is predicated on the idea that you pay for it, that you are the person who is supposed to pay for all of this.

00:23:16.000 The latest example of this is this U.S.

00:23:18.000 railroad strike, which was just averted as a tentative deal was reached.

00:23:21.000 So Joe Biden has made it a high priority in the United States to boost unions.

00:23:25.000 Why is he boosting unions?

00:23:26.000 He's boosting unions because unions support him.

00:23:28.000 Because democratic policy is the single most corrupt area of American political life.

00:23:33.000 It's not money from corporations in politics.

00:23:36.000 That's not great.

00:23:37.000 It's not individuals spending a lot of money on politics.

00:23:40.000 All of those are free speech issues.

00:23:41.000 Unions can do it too. 0.86

00:23:42.000 The biggest problem in American public life is not people who are pressing for the interests of their particular group in politics.

00:23:48.000 That is the norm.

00:23:49.000 The biggest issue in American public life is unions that sign actual contracts with the government of the United States, paying for the people Who they are negotiating with to get elected.

00:23:59.000 That's just the most corrupt bargain in American public life.

00:24:03.000 We're supposed to pretend that this is all normal.

00:24:05.000 It is not normal that the unions spend every election cycle billions, maybe billions of dollars to get Democrats elected, and then they negotiate with those same people for really, really Wonderful and rich contracts.

00:24:18.000 And you know who pays the bill for that?

00:24:19.000 The actual taxpayers.

00:24:20.000 The taxpayers, the consumers.

00:24:22.000 Those are the ones who pay the bill.

00:24:23.000 Just like everything else.

00:24:24.000 Democratic policymaking is a question of shifting the burden to somebody else.

00:24:29.000 Always.

00:24:30.000 Always.

00:24:30.000 Your political allies Get all the benefits and your political enemies are the ones who receive all of the costs.

00:24:36.000 You stick everybody else with the bill.

00:24:37.000 And this is a perfect example of this.

00:24:39.000 So Joe Biden has driven approval of labor unions to the highest point since 1965, according to Gallup.

00:24:45.000 Americans approval of labor unions, which was all the way down at like 48% in 2009, has been steadily increasing to the point where it's now at almost 68%.

00:24:52.000 That is the highest point that has been in 50 years, basically.

00:24:58.000 That is the current highest rating that they've ever seen.

00:25:00.000 That is because, again, Democrats approve of labor unions because labor unions basically are a Democratic Party tool.

00:25:07.000 Approval has increased among nearly major all-demographic subgroups since 2016.

00:25:11.000 One exception is labor union members.

00:25:13.000 Their approval has been no lower than 75% since 2001.

00:25:14.000 percent since 2001. Currently 86 percent of union members approve of unions down from the recent high of 93 percent in 2019. Approval is relatively high among young adults aged 18 to 34 most of whom are not members of unions by the way and don't actually have to abide by union strictures and those with annual household incomes under 40,000 dollars.

00:25:31.000 Democrats approve of unions by an extraordinary scale, right?

00:25:35.000 90% of Democrats approve of unions.

00:25:37.000 That is really where the uptick has happened, because Democrats have put heavy focus on the people who basically pay for their politicians to get elected.

00:25:45.000 Do you approve of billionaires spending money on behalf of your political interests?

00:25:55.000 That's basically what the labor unions do. 1.00

00:25:57.000 And what does this result in?

00:25:58.000 It results in, prior to an election, unions can hold up the Democrats At gunpoint, and the Democrats will just give away the store.

00:26:04.000 That's exactly what just happened with the railroads.

00:26:06.000 So there are these railroad unions, and these railroad unions have been demanding things from places like Amtrak.

00:26:11.000 There's a lot of government involvement in the negotiation of these contracts.

00:26:14.000 These are sort of public-private partnerships a little bit.

00:26:17.000 And because the railroad workers union works with the railroads, some of the railroads are sort of quasi-public institutions.

00:26:24.000 Joe Biden has been making overtures to the unions for quite a while.

00:26:27.000 He's basically been saying to them, hold us up, right?

00:26:29.000 Do it.

00:26:29.000 Tell us what you want.

00:26:30.000 We'll give it to you.

00:26:31.000 He's done it on everything from the teachers where he's got Randy Weingarten, one of the most nefarious figures in American public life, a person who essentially kept children out of school for two years because she's such a Because she cuts directly against the interests of school children.

00:26:46.000 She basically runs education policy at the Biden administration.

00:26:50.000 You have labor unions that are running the ports that have contributed heavily to the supply chain crisis. 0.53

00:26:55.000 And now, directly prior to the midterm elections, this was no coincidence, the railroad unions decided they were basically going to hold up the store.

00:27:01.000 And the amount of damage that was likely to have been done if this railroad strike had happened would have been egregious, which meant that they had Joe Biden over a barrel.

00:27:09.000 Andrew Biden was then going to hold all of the railroads over a barrel.

00:27:13.000 All of the railroad owners and private public partnerships and all the rest of this.

00:27:16.000 How bad was it going to be?

00:27:19.000 Well, the strike, according to the New York Times, would have exacerbated the congestion that has plagued American ports.

00:27:23.000 It would have brought fresh pressure to bear on trucking companies, the most obvious alternatives for moving freight, as they complain they still can't find enough drivers.

00:27:28.000 It would have stymied the movement of goods, just as politicians and markets wrestle with soaring prices for consumer products. 0.93

00:27:34.000 Rail moves roughly two-fifths of long-distance American freight and one-third of exports, making the stakes enormous.

00:27:39.000 Also, rail is a central component of a complex global supply chain that depends on the coordinated movements of cargo ships, trains, and trucks.

00:27:47.000 So, what exactly was going to happen here?

00:27:49.000 Well, what was going to happen here is more economic disaster.

00:27:51.000 And Joe Biden couldn't have that before a midterm election, so he gave away the store.

00:27:56.000 How much did the Biden administration give away the store in this deal that was just cut with the railroad unions?

00:28:02.000 It's so bad, they won't even release the details of the deal.

00:28:05.000 That's how bad the deal is.

00:28:06.000 You know the government cut a bad deal?

00:28:07.000 I'm like, it's secret.

00:28:08.000 It's a secret deal.

00:28:09.000 When's the last time the government cut a secret deal?

00:28:11.000 And it was amazing for the American people.

00:28:13.000 It just worked out unbelievably well.

00:28:16.000 The answer is never, obviously.

00:28:17.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House said Thursday it had reached a tentative agreement to avoid a potential railway strike that threatened to shut down a crucial vein of the U.S.

00:28:23.000 economy.

00:28:24.000 Again, this is beautiful democratic policy at its height.

00:28:28.000 Incentivize the unions to hold you up.

00:28:30.000 Give them whatever they want.

00:28:31.000 And guess who gets to pay the price for this?

00:28:33.000 Taxpayers and consumers.

00:28:34.000 Wonderful.

00:28:35.000 Everybody else pays the price, just not Joe Biden.

00:28:37.000 Joe Biden said the tentative deal is an important win for our economy and the American people.

00:28:41.000 He credited the unions and rail companies for negotiating in good faith and reaching a tentative agreement that will keep our critical rail system working and avoiding disruption of our economy.

00:28:48.000 The Biden administration had been holding talks with representatives from both sides to avoid transport disruptions that could have snarled supply chains, putting new pressure on prices when inflation has been hovering near four-decade highs.

00:28:58.000 Ahead of the Friday deadline, passenger rail provider Amtrak said it would suspend all long-distance train services starting on Thursday.

00:29:04.000 While the negotiations don't actually involve Amtrak workers, the company's long-distance trains operate on freight lines.

00:29:10.000 Amtrak said Thursday it was restoring long-distance train services.

00:29:14.000 The company was contacting customers to accommodate them on the first available departures.

00:29:18.000 Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who had been meeting with the representatives and who is basically just an emissary of the unions, applauded the agreement on Twitter, quote, moments ago, following more than 20 consecutive hours of negotiations at the Department of Labor, the rail companies and union negotiators came to a tentative agreement that balances the needs of workers, businesses, and the nation's economy.

00:29:35.000 The White House didn't specify the details of the tentative deal.

00:29:37.000 But you know who did spill some of the details?

00:29:39.000 The Association of American Railroads.

00:29:41.000 Which represents the nation's freight railroads.

00:29:43.000 They said three unions representing about 60,000 workers had reached a tentative agreement.

00:29:47.000 Okay, so what exactly is in this agreement that the Biden administration just forced through?

00:29:51.000 Which is going to increase your costs.

00:29:52.000 Okay, there's just no question about this.

00:29:54.000 How sweet is this deal for the unions?

00:29:57.000 The new contracts provide rail employees with a 24% wage increase during the five-year period 2020 through 2024.

00:30:04.000 I have a question.

00:30:06.000 It is now, as you noticed, 2022.

00:30:10.000 So that means that they are going to be making up, I assume, whatever ground was not made up during 2020 to 2022.

00:30:16.000 And they're just backdating it to pretend that there is a wage increase that they can include in that 24%.

00:30:20.000 All right, fine.

00:30:22.000 How many of you, over the next couple of years, expect a one-quarter pay increase?

00:30:27.000 Is that something that's baked into your contract where you work?

00:30:30.000 Seems kind of a sweet deal, does it not?

00:30:33.000 This also, by the way, includes an immediate payout, on average, to all the employees of $11,000 upon ratification.

00:30:42.000 Sounds pretty sweet, right?

00:30:43.000 I mean, what if you, at your job right now, you got a 25% pay increase over the next two years because, remember, it is 2022.

00:30:50.000 Plus, you also got an $11,000 signing bonus.

00:30:52.000 Sounds pretty amazing, right?

00:30:54.000 Sounds pretty great.

00:30:55.000 Why, almost as though the Biden administration basically went to all of these railroad companies and said, your brains or your name is going to be on this piece of paper.

00:31:02.000 Because we cannot afford to go into a midterm election with snarled supply lines and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg trying to go back on paternity leave.

00:31:11.000 The Association did not mention whether changes to attendance policies were made as part of the deal.

00:31:15.000 The AAR said the terms were reached following the recommendations of the Presidential Emergency Board Number 250, which was established by the White House to investigate the dispute.

00:31:22.000 Ah, there it is.

00:31:23.000 So the White House basically put together a blue ribbon commission, and then they crammed down the deal.

00:31:28.000 Earlier, one of the unions representing U.S.

00:31:30.000 railroad workers said its members had rejected a tentative agreement its leaders had reached.

00:31:33.000 The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, or IAM, had said its 4,900 members had voted to reject an agreement reached with the biggest U.S.

00:31:40.000 freight railroads as part of broader negotiations.

00:31:42.000 A central dispute was over attendance policies and unscheduled days off if workers or their family members got sick.

00:31:47.000 Two other labor unions had also raised the issue and were seeking to include changes to attendance policies in the talks.

00:31:53.000 So now these agreements are going to go back to the unions for a vote.

00:31:57.000 Under the deal, the parties agreed to a post-ratification cooling-off period expected to last several weeks.

00:32:03.000 If the talks had broken down and led to a strike, Congress could have intervened to delay or stop any strike.

00:32:07.000 But White House officials were reluctant to call on Congress to step in to extend the deadline for negotiations or force a resolution to the dispute, of course.

00:32:13.000 Of course, they didn't want Democrats in Congress to have to go back to their union crony district and tell the unions that we stopped you from destroying the supply chains in the middle of an emerging recession.

00:32:24.000 Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, she said Congress stood ready to take action, saying that it had the authority to ensure the uninterrupted operation of essential transportation services.

00:32:33.000 She said the House had prepared and reviewed legislation.

00:32:34.000 We would have been ready to act.

00:32:35.000 But thankfully, this action may not be necessary.

00:32:39.000 Oh, well, um, yeah, that's amazing.

00:32:42.000 Amazing.

00:32:43.000 I can't believe that you guys signed a sweetheart deal with the unions.

00:32:46.000 Just incredible.

00:32:47.000 Somebody else will foot the bill.

00:32:47.000 You will foot the bill because those increased costs are going to be passed on to you, the consumer, to you, the taxpayer.

00:32:53.000 Once again, democratic policy is predicated on the idea that everyone except for them should pay the bill.

00:32:59.000 They get to reap the political benefits of having unions continue to pay for all of their politicking.

00:33:04.000 They get to reap the political benefits of saying that they solved the problem, but instead they didn't really solve the problem.

00:33:09.000 They just had somebody else pay for the problem, which is a pretty wonderful way of doing things.

00:33:13.000 And it turns out the basis of their entire economic policy.

00:33:17.000 Which is why inflation is going to continue to spike.

00:33:20.000 There are a few unexpected surprises on the way with regard to inflation.

00:33:24.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

00:33:25.000 Well, folks, this week, Obama economist Larry Summers said we have a serious problem with inflation, but Joe Biden refuses to see it that way.

00:33:32.000 He says the economy is fast.

00:33:34.000 And strong.

00:33:35.000 It must be fun to be Joe Biden where everything is just hunky-dory and every day somebody wakes you up and reminds you you're President of the United States.

00:33:40.000 Well, we thought we'd give the old fellow the benefit of the doubt.

00:33:43.000 We applied his fiscal policies to our Dailyware merch sale to see if it gave you a better deal.

00:33:47.000 After crunching the numbers, we quickly realized no one wants to pay 8.3% more for anything.

00:33:51.000 So instead, we're going with our gut.

00:33:53.000 We are cutting prices by 40%.

00:33:54.000 That's correct.

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00:34:03.000 It's about to get worse in a bunch of ways.

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00:34:13.000 Alrighty, so meanwhile, the inflationary spiral that this administration has brought about, it's about to get worse in a bunch of ways. One area where it's about to get worse is that Social Security is about to push forward a massive cost of living adjustment that spikes all of those checks.

00:34:28.000 So remember, social security has a COLA, a cost of living adjustment, baked into the cake, right?

00:34:33.000 As the cost of living increases, social security checks are supposed to rise.

00:34:37.000 Well, they haven't really been rising to keep pace with inflation because nothing can rise that fast.

00:34:42.000 I mean, they're rockets that don't move as fast vertically as the inflation rate is currently moving right now.

00:34:47.000 In a letter sent on Tuesday, according to The Hill, Senior Citizens League Policy Analyst Mary Johnson said recipients could see an 8% COLA spike next year.

00:34:54.000 That is a huge increase, reflective of high inflation people are experiencing across the country.

00:34:58.000 It's actually a smaller COLA than the Senior Citizens League projected just a month ago.

00:35:02.000 At that time, Johnson was forecasting an almost 10% hike.

00:35:04.000 Hey, so if you're talking about an inflated economy, you know how many people are on Social Security in the United States?

00:35:10.000 The number of people on Social Security in the United... I mean, we're talking tens of millions of people.

00:35:16.000 69.1 million people receive benefits from programs administered by Social Security.

00:35:22.000 Almost 70 million, probably now in excess of 70 million because those are 2019 stats.

00:35:25.000 In excess of 70 million Americans receive some sort of benefit from Social Security.

00:35:30.000 A lot of those benefits are cost of living adjusted.

00:35:32.000 So as those checks go out and those checks are now larger in number to reflect the inflation, they're going to boost the inflation because you're now injecting more liquidity into the system.

00:35:41.000 You're injecting more money into the system, which is going to put prices, put pressure on prices upward.

00:35:47.000 It turns out that once you start baking inflation into the cake, the cake just keeps rising and there is no way to prick that cake and make it go down.

00:35:54.000 You can't reduce the inflation, except through extraordinarily harsh measures from the Federal Reserve, which is what is expected to come next.

00:36:02.000 So you're going to go from very high inflation to a significant economic downturn.

00:36:06.000 And the fact is, by the end of the year, the Federal Reserve is now talking about interest rates at something like 4.5% minimum.

00:36:13.000 And just by way of contrast, The current Fed funds rate is approximately 2.3%, 2.33%.

00:36:20.000 The current target rate is like 2.5%.

00:36:24.000 Okay, so you're talking about more than, essentially doubling the Fed funds rate.

00:36:32.000 That is what we are talking about right now.

00:36:35.000 You think that's not going to have any impact on economic growth or job growth or any of the rest?

00:36:40.000 Because again, when you make other people pay the bills, eventually the bill comes due.

00:36:43.000 Well, even ABC News has been forced to report that the inflation stats are real bad for Democrats.

00:36:47.000 So here's ABC News reporting that families are spending $460 more every month than they were spending just a couple of years ago.

00:36:55.000 Inflation isn't going anywhere, and the average American family, according to Moody's, is now spending $460 more every single month in order to deal with these price increases.

00:37:07.000 And you're seeing it in inescapable areas, like grocery prices up 13.5%.

00:37:13.000 Shelter costs, those include rent prices, up 6.2% from a year ago.

00:37:15.000 6.2% from a year ago and medical care services up 5.6% from a year ago.

00:37:22.000 Wages aren't keeping up.

00:37:23.000 The Federal Reserve is doing everything in its power to aggressively fight inflation.

00:37:29.000 But what this really underscores is how hard that is to do when it's deeply embedded in the economy.

00:37:35.000 But the good news is you have Ron Klain tweeting his way through it.

00:37:35.000 That is correct.

00:37:39.000 So Ron Klain, who only appears on MSNBC and CNN, you know, his friendlies, the White House chief of staff, he says, you know, inflation is going well, guys.

00:37:46.000 It's doing great.

00:37:47.000 It's fantastic.

00:37:48.000 And you got to love the chyron here from MSNBC.

00:37:50.000 Biden celebrates Inflation Reduction Act adding to list of legislative wins.

00:37:54.000 You forgot the part where inflation is at 8.3% and we have the worst inflationary spiral in two generations here in the United States.

00:38:02.000 What is your projection on when they will see an effect in inflation?

00:38:06.000 Inflation is coming down.

00:38:07.000 Today's inflation report was lower than last month's, which was lower than the months before.

00:38:12.000 We still have some work to do, Lawrence, to continue to bring down prices.

00:38:15.000 As you mentioned, gas prices are down $1.30 a gallon over the course of the summer, 91 days in a row.

00:38:22.000 They continue to drop.

00:38:24.000 So we're starting to make progress on inflation.

00:38:26.000 It's still too high.

00:38:27.000 It's unacceptably high.

00:38:29.000 We need to continue to drive prices down.

00:38:32.000 We're getting there with gasoline prices, little progress on food, a lot more work to do.

00:38:37.000 A lot more.

00:38:37.000 Guys, it's going to be good.

00:38:38.000 We're doing an amazing job.

00:38:41.000 It's not happening.

00:38:42.000 There is no amazing job being done.

00:38:43.000 Meanwhile, you've got people like Chris Coons, the Democratic Senator from Delaware, who again is celebrating.

00:38:48.000 Love all the chyrons on MSNBC, which are basically just written directly by the Agiprop team over at the White House.

00:38:54.000 President Biden holds White House events to celebrate passage and signing of the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:38:58.000 Here's Chris Coons doing the same thing.

00:39:00.000 The inflation reduction act is going to reduce prescription drug prices, healthcare prices, energy prices.

00:39:07.000 There's a $300 billion down payment on reducing the deficit this year, and there's those significant additional measures to reduce the cost that most households feel, whether at the pharmacy or at the pump.

00:39:21.000 Or in paying their monthly heating bills.

00:39:23.000 I think as Americans go to the polls in November, they'll see these two sharp contrasts.

00:39:29.000 President Biden and the Democrats passing a fully paid for bill that tackles the daily prices that matter to them, that tackles the climate crisis, that makes our country more competitive and more secure.

00:39:41.000 Do you feel more competitive and more secure because we're going to spend a trillion dollars on green boondoggles?

00:39:44.000 Do you feel really good about that?

00:39:46.000 And I love MSNBC.

00:39:46.000 Again, the MSNBC chyrons here are amazing.

00:39:48.000 So you have Chris Coons out there talking about inflation.

00:39:51.000 The chyron is about Lindsey Graham proposing a 15-week abortion ban. 0.86

00:39:55.000 Can you guys like run away from your own crappy policies any faster here?

00:39:58.000 I don't think it's possible.

00:39:59.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden was on the campaign trail, which is to say that he was stumbling around.

00:40:03.000 He went to a car factory, I believe it was at Ford, and he was driving a $61,000, it was a Cadillac actually, he was driving a $61,000 electric Cadillac, which is what you need, right?

00:40:14.000 I mean, in order to fight those high gas prices and inflation, if you could actually spend like 60 grand on a car right now, Joe Biden is up for it.

00:40:20.000 And he was walking around attempting to speak words from his face hole.

00:40:23.000 It didn't go amazingly.

00:40:25.000 I ran for office to build a better America, not just to get us back to how things were before the pandemic.

00:40:31.000 So we launched a once-in-a-generation effort to invest in America.

00:40:35.000 We're working to deliver an economy that finally works for working families.

00:40:39.000 We started with the American Rescue Plan.

00:40:42.000 It's taken us from economic crisis to economic resurgence.

00:40:45.000 Jobs are up, incomes are up, people are back to work.

00:40:47.000 Okay, jobs are up because they shouldn't have been out of work in the first place.

00:40:51.000 That was COVID.

00:40:52.000 And then incomes are down.

00:40:56.000 Vis-a-vis inflation, wages are down.

00:40:58.000 So, yeah, that's not true.

00:41:00.000 And then, it wouldn't be a Joe Biden speech without some creepy whispering.

00:41:03.000 And he's gonna treat that microphone like it's a 14-year-old girl who just used some herbal essences. 0.93

00:41:08.000 I used to always hear from my friends on the other team, yeah, they spend a lot of money, and maybe some of it worthwhile, but they're just increasing the deficit.

00:41:17.000 Guess what?

00:41:19.000 First year in office, we reduced the deficit by $350 billion!

00:41:25.000 And if he just keeps repeating this lie, it's unbelievable.

00:41:27.000 Guess what?

00:41:29.000 This year, this year, we're on track at the end of the fiscal year to reduce the deficit by over one trillion dollars.

00:41:38.000 The lies here are just astonishing.

00:41:40.000 Reducing the rate of increase in the deficit is not reducing the debt.

00:41:44.000 It does not reduce the debt.

00:41:45.000 And no matter how many times you tell this lie that you are bringing money back into the government to pay off debt, it is not true.

00:41:53.000 The number is only moving one way.

00:41:54.000 And you know what? 0.99

00:41:55.000 People can see through this crap. 1.00

00:41:55.000 They really can. 1.00

00:41:57.000 This is why the Democratic Party is desperately attempting to spin away from its own economic policy.

00:42:01.000 Long article in the Wall Street Journal today talking about how Latino voters are splitting along economic lines.

00:42:06.000 Working class Latino voters are moving toward Republicans.

00:42:08.000 Of course!

00:42:09.000 Because the working class are paying for a lot of this. 0.97

00:42:12.000 Inflation hits the working class disproportionately.

00:42:14.000 It isn't a bunch of journalists in Washington D.C.

00:42:16.000 who care about inflation.

00:42:17.000 They can afford to go down to the local grocery store.

00:42:19.000 They can go to the bodega in New York City and they can pick up their milk.

00:42:21.000 It's the people in the working class who are paying for all of this bad economic policy. 1.00

00:42:25.000 And those people are disproportionately minority.

00:42:28.000 This is why the Wall Street Journal is reporting That Latinos are moving sizably toward the Republican Party.

00:42:34.000 Latino voters are among the fastest growing groups in the electorate, accounting for some 16 million voters in 2020, more than 10% of the voter pool.

00:42:41.000 Once a solidly Democratic bloc, Latino voters are emerging as a swing group, available to both parties, with its voting preferences splitting along economic and class lines.

00:42:49.000 In 2020, Latino voters who backed one of the two major candidates gave Joe Biden 63% of their vote, but that was 8 percentage points lower than Joe Biden's party had won four years earlier.

00:42:59.000 Moving away from Biden's party was even larger, some 11 points among Latinos who are working class, commonly defined as anyone without a four-year college degree.

00:43:06.000 And those are the people who are paying the bill for all of this.

00:43:08.000 All right, you guys, the rest of the show is continuing now.

00:43:10.000 You don't want to miss it.

00:43:11.000 We'll be getting into Nancy Pelosi, who's cracking lies about abortion, plus the Supreme Court apparently going after an Orthodox Jewish school for the great crime of not forwarding the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign happy face emoji agenda. 0.56

00:43:23.000 You don't want to miss it.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 15, 2022

Leftists Love Illegal Immigrants...Until They Go To Martha's Vineyard | Ep. 1575

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