00:00:16.000Plus, a viral clip of LeBron James saying that stay at home moms are somehow lazy.
00:00:20.000So, people keep talking about an affordability crisis.
00:00:24.000Don Lemon is blaming JD Vance for affordability problems, which is a hell of a take.
00:00:31.000This is a bizarre take here from Don Lemon.
00:00:34.000Instead of saying that the birth rates are down or that people can't afford to have kids, right, that he's saying that this country is now anti family and anti child.0.99
00:00:48.000This country is not anti family and it's not anti child.1.00
00:00:51.000It's because of your horrible policies and because you have done such a terrible job with the economy that people can no longer afford, as you said, Daniel, to have children.
00:01:01.000That's what you should be saying, and that's how he should have been corrected.
00:01:19.000What's hilarious about this is that Don Lemon and JD Vance are quite similar in economic matters.
00:01:24.000And the vice president is not exactly a small government conservative, he is a large scale advocate of government policy designed at fostering a lowering of family costs.
00:01:36.000That many of the proposals that he puts forward are actually not useful in generating more childbearing and rearing.
00:01:42.000And that actually, both Lemon and Vance are wrong.
00:01:45.000And the reason why people are not having kids is not because of affordability issues.
00:01:48.000The reason people are not having kids is because they just don't want to have that many kids.
00:01:52.000They see them as a net cost, they do not feel a religious obligation to have children.
00:01:56.000This is why you may notice that many of the poorest communities in America, if they are religious, have lots of kids.
00:02:03.000It turns out that many of the poorest places on planet Earth have lots of kids.
00:02:07.000The actual reason why people are having fewer kids is that as countries get richer, people have fewer kids because they start to see kids not as some sort of economic asset, but as an economic cost.
00:02:17.000And unless you have a religious obligation to have kids, and kids are very difficult and very time consuming, they're also the greatest thing in life.
00:03:11.000A real but small share of Americans are in genuinely miserable financial situations.
00:03:15.000They have more bills than they can pay.
00:03:16.000They're one missed paycheck from eviction.
00:03:18.000They frequently have literally zero money.1.00
00:03:20.000The unemployable woman with the worthless degree from a fraudulent for profit college is in this category.
00:03:24.000So, as a 58 year old who got laid off from a manufacturing job, exhausted his savings, can't get hired anywhere, and watches his wife work double shifts at Walmart, these people need money.
00:03:32.000The institutions that make their lives worse, the for profits that produce unemployable graduates, the medical billing systems designed to confuse people into paying twice, need to be regulated or eliminated.
00:03:50.000And that group of people are people who are essentially middle class and they can't afford to live in big cities.
00:04:00.000These are people who have student debt but also make a high income, and the affordability in New York is just difficult.
00:04:08.000They say the first example, when it comes to the deeply poor, is a redistribution problem requiring cash transfers and safety nets and regulatory crackdowns on the worst predators.
00:04:20.000And requires zoning reform, occupational licensing reform, and breaking up the entrenched cartels in housing, healthcare, education, and childcare.
00:04:28.000And the point that these authors make is that Democrats are fond of using these solutions for people who are legitimately dirt poor to apply to people who just can't afford a nice apartment in New York.
00:04:38.000And Republicans are fond of using these sort of clear up the economic skies and allow people to flourish arguments for people who legitimately can't take care of themselves.
00:04:48.000Now, I think the second critique is not really true.
00:04:50.000Republicans Have, particularly on the local and state level, very often advocated for welfare systems that take care of the poorest.
00:04:58.000The hardest problem in that area is trying to construct a public policy that doesn't allow people to free ride, that doesn't actually incentivize people not to work, for example.
00:05:07.000This is why Republicans were for welfare reform, not welfare elimination back in the 90s.
00:05:12.000But when people pretend that the affordability crisis in America is all a problem of the government just grabbing more money and spewing it out in random directions, that is not true in the slightest.
00:05:25.000In other cultural news, LeBron James is making some weird statements.
00:05:32.000And by the way, we do have a YouTube coming out for Father's Day on fatherhood.
00:05:35.000So you're going to want to check out our YouTube channel.
00:05:38.000But LeBron talked about how he can't have a stay at home wife.0.84
00:05:44.000And somehow this is bad to have a stay at home wife.
00:05:48.000I think personally, me today, if I was not in a relationship today, I could not have a stay at home woman.
00:05:57.000It's not like for me who I am at 40 and what I got going on, just coming home and just seeing somebody just sitting on the couch every day, just sitting there, just chilling like that wouldn't float for me, you know.
00:06:10.000So, like, you know, being where I am today, knowing, you know, how she is, you know, she's home with Zuri sometimes.
00:06:18.000Boom, I come home, she's not there, she's at work.
00:06:20.000Boom, she may be on the road with Bryce, you know, at college, she's doing all these things.
00:06:24.000I think that's what I think is just who you are and where you are, you know, at that point in your life, what kind of moves you.
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00:07:50.000So, my wife, the doctor, she took off time after the last baby.
00:07:54.000And I assume that she'll take time off after this baby, which means that she'll probably have a several year consecutive not being in the workforce pattern here.
00:08:04.000Not only is that her choice, I think it's been a very good choice for the kids.
00:08:07.000I think it's been great for the kids to know that mommy is always there and that mommy takes care of the issues and that mommy is always there to organize the day and to teach them and to educate them and to make them better people.
00:08:20.000The bizarre argument that it's sort of bad to have a stay at home wife, again, this is coming from a person whose wife is as well educated as any woman in America, and who I'm sure will at some point want to go back into the workforce.
00:08:32.000But the notion that somehow it is bad to have a stay at home wife is a bizarre take.
00:08:36.000It's a bizarre take from LeBron James.
00:08:40.000It turns out that it's actually quite important for a woman to be in the home.0.96
00:08:45.000It is why the vast majority of women, when given the choice, actually like a part time life.1.00
00:08:51.000In other words, they like to drop the kids off at school, go to work, and then come home before the kids get home from school.1.00
00:08:55.000If they could opt for it, this is the life that polls show the vast majority of women would seek.0.98
00:09:01.000One of the problems with our society more generally is the fact that we have made that non normal.0.88
00:09:10.000Now, that again is a problem of choices.
00:09:12.000That is not a problem of the economy per se, that is a problem of choices.
00:09:16.000Some people like to portray that as an economic issue that, you know, we need to construct an economy whereby a woman can stay at home and The family can survive on a single parent income.
00:09:27.000The reality is that economically speaking, the sort of bizarre time in American history was the 1950s.
00:09:33.000And that was because the rest of the world was destroyed.
00:09:36.000Before that, if you go back to, say, 1900, half of the American economy was agriculture.0.53
00:09:41.000The stay at home mom was still work.0.92
00:09:42.000Again, it is work to take care of kids, it is work to take care of the home, it is work to organize lives and educate children.0.91
00:09:52.000They are not compensated work in the same way, but you actually can put an economic value on these things because.
00:09:58.000You know, for example, if mom is working and dad is working, usually you have to hire a nanny.
00:10:02.000Usually you have to hire somebody to clean.
00:10:04.000Usually you have to hire somebody to babysit.
00:10:07.000Usually you have to hire tutors, right?
00:10:09.000All of these things have economic value.
00:10:12.000Now, it shouldn't be measured in economic value because the true value of staying at home is non-economic in nature.
00:10:17.000Obviously, spending time with your kids, you could put an economic, you can put a price on anything, literally anything, but because all prices are, are a system of evaluating trade-offs in terms of time.
00:10:27.000With that said, is it more important that mommy be there for the kids?
00:10:32.000Then that mommy worked a few more billable hours?
00:10:33.000Of course, the answer on a sort of raw moral level is yes.
00:10:38.000And so, the sort of bizarre notion that a woman is only truly, fully herself when she is working a lot outside the home, and that LeBron is putting forward here, that is a misnomer.
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