The Charlie Kirk Show - Buy American. Save America.

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00:00:08.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, should people support Buy American?

00:00:13.000 I dive into that and also a Washington Post swing and miss at Turning Point Action.

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00:00:57.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:30.000 Hey, everybody.

00:01:31.000 Hope you're doing great.

00:01:32.000 We are crisscrossing the country, literally, to try to get our president re-elected.

00:01:36.000 And it was really interesting.

00:01:38.000 I pulled open my computer very early this morning and flipped open my news consumption.

00:01:46.000 And I saw that an article the Washington Post did on our political vehicle, Turning Point Action, was on the front page of Drudge.

00:01:51.000 Now, I don't necessarily go to Drudge anymore, not exactly my favorite website.

00:01:55.000 I think it's gone very far to the left.

00:01:57.000 I prefer realclearpolitics.com and also Revolver News, amongst other news aggregating websites.

00:02:04.000 And I saw this article that the Washington Post did on us at Turning Point Action was traveling and kind of going viral, which was really perplexing to me.

00:02:11.000 And if you read this article in the Washington Post, it's such an incredible nothing story.

00:02:16.000 And it was about 1,300 or 1,600 words.

00:02:20.000 And this reporter went out of his way to try to paint a picture that those of us at Turning Point Action are trying to misrepresent things on the internet.

00:02:30.000 So just very clearly, at Turning Point Action, our 501c4 organization, we run a digital war room with volunteers and also paid staffers to help put forth positive messaging on the president and also put out facts about Joe Biden's record.

00:02:47.000 This is called a digital war room.

00:02:49.000 Anyone who's worked in politics before knows that this is very run of the mill.

00:02:53.000 It's not anything out of the ordinary.

00:02:55.000 Yet the Washington Post decided, for whatever reason, that this warranted a very big story.

00:03:01.000 And then Drudge Report put on the front page of their website.

00:03:04.000 Breitbart.com, Alam Bukhari, and you guys heard him on our podcast, did a phenomenal counterpiece to this.

00:03:11.000 His piece was terrific, where, and unfortunately, because of the Washington Post's, let's just say, overzealousness going after turning point action and the work that we are doing.

00:03:24.000 Now, mind you, the Washington Post went out of their way to try and contact these social media companies to misrepresent the activity that we were doing, which is really nothing more than a digital war room or influencer marketing.

00:03:36.000 Because of this, real life teenagers that were using their real accounts that love the president had their accounts suspended and banned from social media.

00:03:44.000 This article from Breitbart is a great counter to the Washington Post's attempted hit job on turning point action, which ended up being one of the biggest swings and misses of the activist journalist landscape that I've seen in recent memory that said, Washington Post compares pro-Trump teenagers to Russian trolls, gets them banned from social media.

00:04:03.000 And he said it best here: Alam Bukhari said, conservative digital activists were smeared as behaving like, quote, Russian trolls by a recent article in the Washington Post.

00:04:12.000 The writer also made sure to reach out to both Twitter and Facebook to get the teenage activists banned.

00:04:17.000 Alum continues by going through the actual names and faces and stories of these teenagers that were doing nothing more than engaging in a volunteer network with some paid people as well in a activist mindset on the digital landscape.

00:04:33.000 And one of the activists, Paige Noonan, said the Washington Post completely misrepresented their behavior and misrepresented comments made to the newspaper by her father.

00:04:42.000 Quote, I don't know why they put the article there.

00:04:44.000 They totally misrepresented my dad.

00:04:46.000 She also continued to say, It's sick that the Washington Post and Twitter are working together to take away my right to free speech because she, a teenager, now is completely kicked off of social media because the Washington Post, in bloodthirsty fashion, saw this story where they were trying to attack turning point action and the work we are doing to elect the president of the United States, and they wanted to personally destroy anyone who is remotely associated.

00:05:12.000 You go through, and Alam does a great job of this on his article on Breitbart.com of the job postings on Democrats that are trying to do the exact same thing that we were doing.

00:05:24.000 The Texas Democrat Party is currently advertising for a deputy digital organizing director who will recruit and manage an in-state volunteer digital captains program to develop, curate, and distribute grassroots-generated content in support of Democrats up and down the ticket.

00:05:39.000 The South Carolina Democrat is currently recruiting a digital organizing manager.

00:05:43.000 The Kansas Democrat Party, it wants someone who will take care of personally executing voter contact through what?

00:05:49.000 Engaging digitally, phone calls, and texting.

00:05:52.000 So, what we were doing because of the shutdown and the virus is we put our staffers and we put our grassroots organizers online to go contend for the president's re-election on the digital landscape.

00:06:03.000 For the Washington Post, they find such great exception for this.

00:06:06.000 The Washington Post, for whatever reason, they are very triggered and they're very upset that there might actually be a grassroots groundswell and a concerted effort to try to get this president re-elected on the digital landscape.

00:06:21.000 For them, this is of great concern.

00:06:24.000 So, it's been a fun 24 hours dealing with the fallout of continually being on the front page of Drudge and Washington Post, but that's all part of the program.

00:06:31.000 And all of you out there, you know exactly the price that is built into this fight.

00:06:36.000 You know that if you are going to go above and beyond to try to support this president, you're going to continue to have activist members of the media go out of their way, try to misrepresent your positions and try to find something that isn't there.

00:06:47.000 By the way, by the way, you go a level deeper.

00:06:51.000 The Democrats are doing exactly this all the time.

00:06:53.000 The Democrats have professional operations that engage in kind of digital activism and do things that are multiples more newsworthy than anything that we are doing.

00:07:07.000 For example, they have actual activist campaigns that try to harass and try to go after people they disagree with.

00:07:13.000 That's what the Democrats are funding.

00:07:15.000 In fact, there's job positions for it.

00:07:16.000 So I want to thank Alan Bakari from Breitbart.com for defending us and for defending Turning Point Action, our political vehicle.

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00:08:35.000 So I was slipping through realclearpolitics.com.

00:08:37.000 I encourage you guys to check out this website.

00:08:39.000 It's phenomenal.

00:08:40.000 It's become my go-to news aggregator, that and Revolver News, revolver.news.

00:08:45.000 I have to say that realclearpolitics.com, there is this article out there that really caught my eye.

00:08:50.000 And I want to dissect it because it's a very important point.

00:08:52.000 And it's something that is just outside of the general news cycle, but we all talk about.

00:08:55.000 It said, both candidates support Buy American.

00:08:58.000 Both are wrong.

00:09:00.000 It's by Andrew Wilford.

00:09:02.000 Andrew Wilford, at the end of the article, identifies himself as a policy analyst with the National Taxpayer Union Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to tax policy, research, and education at all levels of government.

00:09:14.000 He opens the article by saying this.

00:09:15.000 There are plenty of differences to be found between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

00:09:19.000 But on one issue, at least they speak with one voice.

00:09:22.000 Of course, on that issue, so-called buy American regulations, and they're both wrong.

00:09:27.000 So President Trump has long said that buy American, high American is a cornerstone of his domestic policy from day one.

00:09:34.000 Joe Biden, who of course plays follow the leader, that's what he does, he saw the effectiveness of that and rolled out his own $700 billion plus buy American campaign in early June of this year.

00:09:45.000 But Andrew Wilford, who's a policy analyst with the National Taxpayer Union Foundation, thinks that they're wrong because we want products made in our country.

00:09:53.000 He said this while criticizing Trump.

00:09:56.000 While President Trump signed a 2017 tax reform law, which encouraged foreign income repatriation and headquartering in the United States, he has also curtailed foreign trade in many harmful ways.

00:10:06.000 Import taxes on American consumers have more than doubled under President Trump, costing the average American household $555 a year.

00:10:13.000 Well, never mind that President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which saved an average American family $2,000 a year by government estimations.

00:10:23.000 And the repatriation of jobs from overseas, spurred by the 2017 law, have helped establish record low unemployment across the country.

00:10:31.000 And according to Bloomberg, it said U.S. companies repatriated cash hit $1 trillion under the tax law as the end of 2019.

00:10:39.000 But then he goes deeper into why he thinks things should not be made in this country.

00:10:45.000 Now, under doctrinaire and dogmatic Austrian economics, which I can resonate a little bit with when it comes to monetary policy and some other things, you would say that you never want any tariffs and you would want to have the most amount of comparative advantage possible.

00:11:02.000 Now, in a lot of different ways, I take exception with this.

00:11:05.000 I used to believe that, oh yeah, why wouldn't we want to have cheaper labor markets in Southeast Asia?

00:11:11.000 I mean, we get more stuff for that.

00:11:13.000 And then I look at the landscape of this country.

00:11:16.000 I go to places like Hamilton, Montana, or Columbus, Ohio, or Charleston, West Virginia.

00:11:23.000 And I drive by countless factories that were once flourishing, endless amounts of businesses that have closed.

00:11:34.000 And I asked myself the question, where is the breaking point where all of a sudden the amount of manufacturing decay that you have in your country has resulted in a permanent underclass of people that are either addicted to opioids, in a state of depression, or go to government assistance.

00:11:53.000 And then if they go to government assistance, it'll only mean that we have to raise our taxes in the future to help pay for the welfare state for the people that were once gainfully employed.

00:12:02.000 So while, yeah, it might be that we might have to pay a little bit more for a sweatshirt or a little bit more for a pair of sneakers or a little bit more for a backpack.

00:12:11.000 What about the total cost for the society and the culture?

00:12:14.000 And some people would say, such as Andrew Wilford, seems like a nice guy, I'd be happy to talk to him.

00:12:19.000 He says that we at all costs must try to bring down the cost of production.

00:12:28.000 This is a predominant think tank mentality that in some ways has plagued our government for decades, namely on the right.

00:12:37.000 He continues by saying, on this issue, neither Canada has the right vision for a productive American economy.

00:12:44.000 I'd be very interested in hearing from Andrew how unproductive the American economy was prior to the Chinese coronavirus.

00:12:51.000 I think the author knows that answer, but he doesn't want to talk about it.

00:12:56.000 This article feels as if it was influenced or written on behalf of corporate interests.

00:13:02.000 Corporate interests, I quite honestly are okay with the 12 million manufacturing jobs that were shipped overseas.

00:13:09.000 And it's not just the jobs themselves.

00:13:12.000 It is the churches in those communities that then see declining tithes.

00:13:16.000 It is the schools that see a declining tax base.

00:13:19.000 It is the small business owner on the side of the street, the restaurant, the laundromat.

00:13:23.000 It is the soul of these communities that fall within the weight of themselves.

00:13:28.000 And it gets even worse than that.

00:13:30.000 We've talked about this before on our program where we're trying to pick apart what is driving the arson and the unrest happening in our country.

00:13:38.000 Why are we seeing the repeated cycles of destruction?

00:13:41.000 Who is doing this destruction?

00:13:43.000 One of the major reasons this is happening in our country is because the people that are doing the destroying don't own anything.

00:13:51.000 They're renting.

00:13:53.000 They are verticalized.

00:13:54.000 They're not horizontal.

00:13:55.000 One of the main reasons why young people are taking to the streets is they're not building equity.

00:14:01.000 Because when they're 27, their life looks the same when they're 32 or they're 37.

00:14:08.000 In fact, despite working hard and playing by the rules, they actually don't see their lives get materially or incrementally better.

00:14:18.000 A lot of the hyper-urbanization push in our country is because middle America, rural America, that used to have communities that were 20,000 to 30,000 people.

00:14:29.000 We used to have communities like that all across the country, went from 20,000 people to 8,000 people.

00:14:34.000 Where do those people go?

00:14:35.000 They moved to bigger megaplex cities.

00:14:38.000 They started to verticalize their lifestyle.

00:14:41.000 They stopped thinking about owning land or preserving a specific cultural identity.

00:14:48.000 They stopped focusing or looking at supporting the small business owner on the side of the street or the local coffee shop and said they go shop at Starbucks.

00:14:58.000 Now, mind you, I'm all for the efficiency of Starbucks.

00:15:01.000 I think it's a good thing that you're able to order coffee 10 minutes down the street and have it waiting for you.

00:15:06.000 I think that free market, innovation, and enterprise is a very beautiful thing.

00:15:11.000 I really do.

00:15:13.000 However, when it becomes so hyper-corporatized, where the only thing that we care about is the optimal level of productivity, and you don't care about wages, you don't care about family formation, when you don't care about living a quiet and peaceable life, I think that balance is extremely important.

00:15:31.000 Especially, and I encourage all of you to do this.

00:15:33.000 If you live in a major city, go take a drive from your major city on a major interstate and just take an exit.

00:15:40.000 Take an exit where you have bad sell service.

00:15:43.000 That's my challenge to you.

00:15:44.000 It might be through Nebraska, might be South Dakota, Iowa, Virginia, and go 20 miles off the grid and go to these cities.

00:15:52.000 These cities that tend to be 10 to 15 miles apart for a reason, because that used to be the half-day capacity of transporting grain or goods on horseback.

00:16:04.000 There's a reason why it's almost laid out in a grid fashion in that part of the country.

00:16:08.000 And drive around that town.

00:16:10.000 And then go into the small business there.

00:16:12.000 Go visit the church and just ask questions.

00:16:14.000 What did this town used to be?

00:16:16.000 Has it flourished or has it decayed?

00:16:19.000 Have most people moved out from here?

00:16:20.000 And some of you might say, well, that's a good thing.

00:16:21.000 You know, people need a call to adventure.

00:16:23.000 I totally agree.

00:16:24.000 Absolutely.

00:16:25.000 But when can something that sounds good all of a sudden become a bad thing if you get too much of that thing?

00:16:31.000 And that's exactly what's happened.

00:16:33.000 And so our addiction to cheap plastic products from China and a complete betrayal of any sort of buy American economic position has resulted in a middle class that is quickly disappearing.

00:16:50.000 He continues in this article by saying, quote, Trump has flirted with Buy America rules, specifically targeting medical supplies, a potentially disastrous idea in the midst of a pandemic.

00:17:01.000 While a strong domestic industry prepared to manufacture medical supplies is a laudable goal, the American economy has already gone into overdrive producing all kinds of pandemic supplies, restricting supplies from other countries that only reduce Americans' access to these products.

00:17:16.000 This is just parsing out a positive response to a pandemic to find a narrative suiting negative.

00:17:24.000 So explain to me, Andrew Wilford from the National Taxpayer Union Foundation, I'd love to talk to you.

00:17:30.000 Why would it be a bad thing if we made vitamin C in our country?

00:17:34.000 Why wouldn't it be a good thing if all of a sudden we made penicillin again in our country?

00:17:38.000 Why do we need to wait for China to ship us Advil?

00:17:42.000 Why was it a good thing that we weren't making personal protection equipment here?

00:17:46.000 Why should other countries dominate our manufacturing base?

00:17:50.000 See, for Andrew, and this is the way he views the world and many other corporate Republican types, the only thing they care about is the optimal comparative advantage and the profit at the end of the transaction.

00:18:03.000 And mind you, I'm all for profit.

00:18:04.000 I think that profit should be incentivized.

00:18:06.000 I think you should be able to keep your profits.

00:18:08.000 I think that profit's a good thing.

00:18:09.000 I think without profit, you do not have a market.

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00:19:27.000 Adam Smith said, In order for a market to exist, in order for entrepreneurs to succeed, you need skill, dexterity, and judgment.

00:19:37.000 Now, lots of nations work hard, but the difference between poverty and prosperity are those three things: skill, dexterity, and judgment.

00:19:48.000 Now, Americans have a lot of skills.

00:19:50.000 We do.

00:19:52.000 And a skill that we have decided no longer matters on the socioeconomic landscape is working with your hands.

00:19:58.000 I was in Winnetka right before the shutdown, right before the big Chinese virus shutdown.

00:20:04.000 It was early March and late February, right around that time. 0.99

00:20:08.000 I was talking about how we have too many people going to four-year college in our country.

00:20:12.000 I was talking about how, because we have so many people going to four-year college in our country, 59% graduate.

00:20:19.000 That means 41% of people that go to four-year college do not graduate.

00:20:24.000 41%.

00:20:25.000 And out of the people that do graduate, 44% are employed in positions that do not require a college degree.

00:20:33.000 That is a stunning indictment of higher education.

00:20:36.000 In fact, that is a categorical failure for higher education.

00:20:42.000 So the question should then be: do we have too many people going to college?

00:20:47.000 The answer is, of course, we do.

00:20:49.000 We don't have enough plumbers, electricians, carpenters, welders.

00:20:53.000 And so this audience in Winnetka, Illinois, very nice people.

00:20:57.000 And a lot of them are my dear friends.

00:20:59.000 And for those of you that understand, for those that don't know Winnetka, Winnetka is very high class.

00:21:05.000 Some would call it elite.

00:21:07.000 Highland Park, Dallas is similar to this.

00:21:09.000 La Jolla, Del Mar, Beverly Hills.

00:21:12.000 You kind of get the type of community I'm talking about.

00:21:15.000 Winnetka is the richest part of the North Shore of Chicago.

00:21:22.000 So as I was talking about how we have too many kids to go to college, I was starting to win over the audience.

00:21:27.000 And they said, yeah, we absolutely agree.

00:21:30.000 And then I asked a question.

00:21:31.000 I said, how many of you want to see your kid become a plumber?

00:21:34.000 And they laughed.

00:21:36.000 They almost, in an immediate fashion, I said, well, not my kid.

00:21:41.000 As if I was saying, how many of you want your kids to become heroin addicts?

00:21:45.000 It's like they were equating being a plumber with being a drug dealer.

00:21:51.000 That's how much repulsion they had to the idea of possibly working with your hands.

00:22:00.000 So then I took a step further into it.

00:22:02.000 I said, well, why is that?

00:22:04.000 Someone raised their hands.

00:22:05.000 They're like, well, I want my kid to work in the information sharing economy, not in the hands-on economy, for lack of a better term.

00:22:13.000 I said, why?

00:22:14.000 He said, well, I want my child to be someone that's sharing ideas, not just moving pieces around.

00:22:20.000 And I said, this is the problem with our country.

00:22:23.000 One of the problems with our country is the continuous and deliberate debasing and the delegitimization of middle-class work.

00:22:36.000 And so for Andrew Wilford here, who this piece is just a data point on a landscape that you're going to see start to pop up again.

00:22:46.000 Win or lose, post-Trump, whether Trump wins in November or loses in November, you're going to see more articles like this.

00:22:54.000 Well, now that we tried this crazy buy American thing, can we stop that?

00:22:59.000 Let me tell you a story about pickup trucks.

00:23:02.000 Every time I see a pickup truck driving down the street, I smile.

00:23:08.000 Do you know that we have an import tariff for pickup trucks in our country of 25%?

00:23:13.000 It was actually put on by mistake by Lyndon Baines Johnson.

00:23:16.000 He actually didn't do it intentionally.

00:23:18.000 So that means that any other country that makes a pickup truck and they bring it into America, there's a 25% import tariff on it, 25%.

00:23:27.000 And so in the 60s and 70s, the biggest car manufacturers were, of course, American.

00:23:32.000 But pickup trucks weren't really made in America.

00:23:34.000 It was a military converted vehicle.

00:23:36.000 They were very rare.

00:23:38.000 They were only in the countryside.

00:23:40.000 They were not widely produced.

00:23:42.000 Japan and Germany, we're the two biggest car manufacturers outside the United States, mainly Toyota and Nissan.

00:23:49.000 And of course, in Germany, you have BMW, Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi, are the big car manufacturers in Germany.

00:23:57.000 They made a decision that they were just going to get out of the pickup truck market.

00:24:01.000 They didn't want to do it.

00:24:02.000 Eh, who's going to have pickup trucks?

00:24:03.000 So, because they didn't want to pay the 25% import tax.

00:24:08.000 So this tax is on the books, and I admit it's a tax.

00:24:11.000 A tariff is a tax.

00:24:13.000 But what ends up happening?

00:24:16.000 Ford, Chrysler, and GM run straight into the pickup truck market, especially Ford and GM.

00:24:25.000 The pickup truck becomes one of the most desired vehicles in the country throughout the 70s and 80s.

00:24:30.000 And we're the only country that makes it.

00:24:32.000 Not because that Germany and Japan didn't want to.

00:24:34.000 Now, you might be thinking, but Charlie, doesn't Toyota make pickup trucks?

00:24:38.000 You're right.

00:24:39.000 But do you know how they get around the tariff?

00:24:42.000 Do you know how they get around not having to pay the tariff?

00:24:46.000 They make it in our country.

00:24:48.000 So while it might be a foreign company, they're making it here.

00:24:53.000 So every time I see a pickup truck, I know that an American family is eating tonight because that truck is on the road, even if it's a Nissan, even if it's a Toyota.

00:25:03.000 And that's just one of the successful tariffs that we've put on the books.

00:25:07.000 And I say this as a free market person, but I'm a patriot before I'm a capitalist.

00:25:12.000 And so insofar that there is just this dogmatic repulsion to say that we can't have any form of recalibration of trade, I say prove it.

00:25:24.000 And he doesn't.

00:25:25.000 Andrew Wilford in this article, who's just basically a mouthpiece and in a lot of different ways, articulating the corporate mindset that dominated the Republican Party, that quite honestly, I, for quite some time, parroted before I actually drove the middle part of this country and realized and recognized that piles full of plastic and garbage coming from China and coming from Vietnam are not making our country any wealthier. 0.76

00:25:55.000 In fact, there's also, there's other metrics that we should judge successful in our country, such as can middle-class families pay their medical bills?

00:26:02.000 Can middle-class families educate their children without having to go into debt?

00:26:05.000 Can middle-class families afford to go on two vacations a year?

00:26:09.000 In 1985, it took 35 weeks of work for a family of four to be able to sustain itself. 0.99

00:26:15.000 Now, it takes 53 weeks of work, which forces the woman to go into the workforce. 0.98

00:26:21.000 Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. 0.99

00:26:23.000 If women want to go into the workforce, that's a terrific thing. 1.00

00:26:27.000 The issue, it's now forced. 0.99

00:26:29.000 The issue is that women now have to go into the workforce just to be able to sustain a middle-class lifestyle. 1.00

00:26:35.000 That's not a good thing. 1.00

00:26:37.000 I don't care how many toys and gadgets that you can get for your children that you end up putting in your garage and begging people to take it away from you. 0.99

00:26:46.000 I would much rather have American-made products and less of them that cost more than piles of stuff made in China that I have no connection to whatsoever that was made unethically and at the cost of the strength and the backbone of our country.

00:27:06.000 I think it's a good thing that President Trump has brought back steel production to our country. 0.94

00:27:10.000 I think it's a good thing that he wants to make us the drugstore of the world.

00:27:13.000 I think it's a good thing that we are seeing a renaissance of manufacturing be restored back in our country.

00:27:19.000 We, as the third largest country on the planet, as the wealthiest country on the planet for now, have the intellectual capacity, the entrepreneurial grit, the access to capital markets, and an incredible future ahead of us.

00:27:36.000 Quite honestly, we should be the export capital of the world, where our country is looked to for critical infrastructure.

00:27:46.000 Any country that does not have a stable manufacturing base will not also have a middle class.

00:27:52.000 And President Trump knew this instinctively.

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00:28:52.000 Andrew continues in his article by saying, quote, in the face of such policy, Trump's tax policy that brought American businesses home, Biden's approach would go right back to the old system.

00:29:01.000 But worse, not only would he return to a worldwide system of taxing income from foreign assets, but he would charge a 10% offshoring surtax.

00:29:09.000 So at least this article is fair and it's not a pro-Biden article.

00:29:12.000 Give him credit for that because Biden's tax policy is a complete and total disaster.

00:29:16.000 Tax policy should always benefit the country of which the tax policy is being created in, which is low taxes, incentivizing American investment, and also making middle-class families' lives easier.

00:29:28.000 But here's the thing.

00:29:29.000 The more likely effect wouldn't be to prevent American multinationals from offshoring jobs.

00:29:33.000 It would be to prevent them from headquartering their operations in the United States in the first place.

00:29:37.000 The solution to jobs and tax bases moving overseas is not to try to punish businesses that seek out profitable ventures overseas.

00:29:44.000 It's to create a more business-friendly United States tax system that encourages businesses to invest and grow right here.

00:29:49.000 I completely agree with that.

00:29:51.000 But you also need to incentivize through trade and prioritize middle-class workers.

00:29:58.000 I would much rather see 500,000 more American middle-class workers find meaningful work than 500,000 people in some other country find work.

00:30:09.000 That is doing good by the citizens that elected you.

00:30:12.000 That is the mandate that you have as an elected leader in our country.

00:30:17.000 And so to go back to the top of the article, it says, both candidates support by American, both are wrong.

00:30:22.000 Andrew Wilford is wrong here.

00:30:24.000 He's wrong.

00:30:25.000 When I see Made in America, I know that an American patriot and that family is eating tonight.

00:30:34.000 There are plenty of struggling families out there that do not have work because we ship the jobs overseas that have lots of stuff.

00:30:42.000 And if you asked them, would you get rid of the piles of plastic, the endless amounts of textiles that you bought from Walmart for a meaningful job, they would say yes in an instant.

00:30:55.000 So when you ship careers overseas, you ship dreams overseas.

00:31:00.000 And there's a direct connection to the rise in the suicide rates, alcoholism, opioid addiction, and the lack of religiosity in our country when that form of professional expression evaporates.

00:31:18.000 Buy American is not just admirable, it's moral.

00:31:22.000 The rest of the world should be forced to make products here in this country.

00:31:26.000 You know what will end up happening?

00:31:27.000 Wages will go up.

00:31:30.000 Schools will flourish.

00:31:32.000 Churches will have record amounts of tithes.

00:31:35.000 And the socialist movements that are catching fire in our country because of the corporatist mindset that Andrew Wilford is articulating will be quelled.

00:31:48.000 Under Andrew Wilford's world of no tariffs, appeasing corporate interests, and nothing made in this country, you will become a socialist country very quickly.

00:32:00.000 Socialism is easily sold to people out of work and people who have seen their lives destroyed, like most of Middle America and lots of young people.

00:32:13.000 The solution is to say we want entrepreneurs to invest in our country.

00:32:20.000 We are not a small Western European country with just 15 million people.

00:32:24.000 We have access to capital, energy, and talent, the three things you need to succeed.

00:32:30.000 In a lot of different ways, the trade that we have done with these third world markets may have benefited us in the Ricardo law of comparative advantage.

00:32:39.000 Maybe, not dismissing that.

00:32:41.000 But generally, did it make our country richer in culture, richer with stronger families?

00:32:53.000 Did it help keep families together?

00:32:54.000 Or did the divorce rate also go up?

00:32:57.000 Did single fatherhood also go up?

00:33:00.000 How about the manufacturing plants that once existed in Baltimore that were shipped overseas and the black community that was impacted?

00:33:07.000 But according to the National Taxpayer Union Foundation, they think that's okay.

00:33:10.000 They think, no, it's great because then all the black families in Baltimore can get sweatshirts for $10 instead of $20.

00:33:16.000 They think it's great because you can get headphones for $80 instead of $150.

00:33:20.000 Meanwhile, all those plants in Baltimore that were the tax base, that were the place of meaning, that kept the community together, that kept the crime rate low, shut down.

00:33:29.000 And what do you think people are going to do?

00:33:32.000 What sort of activity do you think they're going to indulge in?

00:33:35.000 This is why President Trump's buy American position is so important.

00:33:41.000 And it's very important that when we see this corporatist nonsense that is shared in op-eds, opinion pieces, and interviews, that we challenge it.

00:33:50.000 It is the moral position and it is the economically correct position to say that we want our country to lead in advanced manufacturing, to lead in textile manufacturing, to lead in intellectual development.

00:34:03.000 The failure for America to do so will only spell doom for the American middle class and with it, the future of the greatest country ever to exist.

00:34:11.000 And I'm actually optimistic because I believe that we can have our best days ahead of us for making things in this country, taking risks and flourishing.

00:34:20.000 That's a future I want, but not one that the biggest companies amongst us want, the ones that Andrew Wilford and the National Taxpayer Union Foundation tend to represent.

00:34:29.000 And I'd love to have them on our podcast.

00:34:30.000 I think it'd be a lot of fun.

00:34:33.000 This is why we must secure four more years for President Trump, so that we make things in our country.

00:34:37.000 And I also encourage all of you listening to go out of your way to buy products made in America.

00:34:42.000 Go out of your way to buy clothes, to buy technology of American sourced, American manufactured, and American developed products.

00:34:53.000 If you believe in our value system, then buy products that are created and support that value system.

00:35:00.000 Shop your values.

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00:35:30.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 17, 2020

Buy American. Save America.

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