The Glenn Beck Program - 12⧸26⧸17 - Tax Reform Has Come to America (Mike Broomhead in for Glenn)

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00:00:12.520 Glenn Beck.

00:00:13.320 Welcome, it's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:14.560 My name is Mike Broomhead, Phoenix, Arizona.

00:00:16.220 In for Glenn, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.

00:00:17.940 Hope you had a great Christmas day.

00:00:19.880 A lot to talk about in the news.

00:00:21.120 Let's get started with the tax code.

00:00:23.380 The tax reform has come to America.

00:00:25.040 We now know that most Americans are going to get a tax cut.

00:00:28.120 Bernie Sanders himself talking about it.

00:00:30.040 We're going to get to that in a moment.

00:00:31.040 I want you to hear Bernie Sanders finally making the admission that middle-class Americans are going to get a tax cut.

00:00:36.500 This tax reform bill, whether you like it, love it, or hate it, there are some things about it that are not great.

00:00:41.180 There are some things about it that are not perfect.

00:00:43.280 But there are also some places we need to fill in the blank that you need to know about.

00:00:47.460 Hearing what Bernie Sanders had to say, finally making the admission that middle-class Americans are getting a tax cut,

00:00:54.500 I want you to realize the biggest issue for Democrats in all of this is that it is now going to be an election year.

00:01:02.400 January 1 starts the midterm elections.

00:01:05.880 They had high hopes.

00:01:07.000 The Democratic Party had high hopes or have high hopes that they are going to be able to retake the House.

00:01:11.940 Now, there's only a two-seat majority in the Senate, so a lot of people think that's the more likely House to flip,

00:01:16.600 except there are 25 Democrats up in the Senate race, so they would have to win two seats.

00:01:23.200 Arizona's got one that's up for grabs with Jeff Flake's seat, and I know Senator Flake fairly well,

00:01:28.240 but Jeff Flake not running again means there is not an incumbent there to beat.

00:01:32.360 So they're hoping to win that seat in Arizona.

00:01:34.880 There is also going to be a seat.

00:01:36.480 They're hoping to win New Mexico, so they would have to win all 25 Democrat seats,

00:01:40.120 plus the two in the Arizona and a New Mexico seat in order to flip the United States Senate. 0.98

00:01:45.400 The likelihood of that happening is very, very slim.

00:01:48.460 The wild card in all of that, of course, is John McCain.

00:01:51.200 Is John McCain going to return?

00:01:53.180 Now, everything I've heard and the people that I've talked to,

00:01:55.520 I've been in contact from the very beginning of the diagnosis of Senator McCain's illness with the family,

00:02:01.440 and I'm friends with Meghan McCain, and she has kept me informed largely of what's been going on

00:02:09.120 since the initial diagnosis was announced publicly by Senator McCain.

00:02:12.180 And for those of you in the audience, I have a good relationship with the senator.

00:02:16.920 I know there's a lot of political disagreements.

00:02:18.540 I have some myself, but I have the utmost respect for him as a person.

00:02:22.280 And so he's on my show quite a bit.

00:02:23.860 The first interview he did after the treatment began for his illness,

00:02:27.060 after the two or three controversial votes on health care reform or health insurance reform,

00:02:33.360 his first interview in the country after he began treatment was in my studio in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:02:38.760 So I have a good rapport and relationship with the family.

00:02:41.980 I have not spoken to the family at all since he went to Walter Reed.

00:02:45.320 Then he returned to Arizona when he did not take part in the tax reform vote.

00:02:49.160 I have not had any contact with the family whatsoever.

00:02:51.840 And that doesn't mean anything either way.

00:02:54.460 Our governor in the state of Arizona has talked to the McCain family.

00:02:57.280 So is Senator Flake, both of them saying that Senator McCain intends to return back to his job in January.

00:03:04.340 So the question remains, will there be two seats in the state of Arizona that may be up for grabs?

00:03:08.860 Arizona is going to be very it's going to be the spotlight will be on the state of Arizona in the next election year,

00:03:15.320 especially if something were to happen and John McCain were not able to continue.

00:03:18.260 All indicators are from his family to everybody in the public and privately that I know that he's planning on returning.

00:03:25.040 The chances of the Democrats flipping the Senate are very slim.

00:03:28.920 They believe they've got a shot at flipping the House.

00:03:31.860 Well, that diminishes greatly when they can no longer say that this is a do nothing Republican Congress,

00:03:37.560 when they can point the finger at Paul Ryan and say you're getting nothing done.

00:03:40.840 Mitch McConnell in the Senate, a lot of that is getting blocked.

00:03:43.660 But the difference is this. Now we've got a tax reform bill that's passed.

00:03:49.700 A tax reform bill is passed.

00:03:51.940 And even the Democrats have to admit now that the middle class Americans are going to get a tax break.

00:03:58.780 I want you to hear Bernie Sanders.

00:04:00.500 Bernie Sanders was on CNN talking about this tax reform bill,

00:04:03.960 was asked about the fact that the middle class is getting a tax cut.

00:04:08.100 Here's what Bernie Sanders had to say.

00:04:09.820 According to the Tax Policy Center, next year, 91% of middle-income Americans will receive a tax cut.

00:04:16.600 Isn't that a good thing?

00:04:17.600 Yeah, it is a very good thing.

00:04:18.760 And that's why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent. 0.98

00:04:22.320 But what the Republicans did is made the tax breaks for corporations permanent,

00:04:26.900 the tax breaks for the middle class temporary.

00:04:28.800 And according to the Tax Policy Center, that same organization, at the end of 10 years,

00:04:35.580 83% of the benefits go to the top 1%.

00:04:39.400 60% of the benefits go to the top 1 tenth of 1%.

00:04:43.700 Meanwhile, at the end of 10 years, well over 80 million Americans will be paying more in taxes.

00:04:50.200 13 million Americans as a result of this legislation are going to lose their health insurance.

00:04:55.400 Health care premiums are going up.

00:04:57.120 We've got a $1.4 trillion deficit as a result of this bill.

00:05:02.560 And Paul Ryan is going around saying, oh, we have to offset that deficit by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

00:05:08.980 To answer your questions, should we have focused on the needs of the middle class?

00:05:14.080 We should have.

00:05:14.700 Okay, now Bernie Sanders, there's a lot there, and we're going to cover this as quickly as we can.

00:05:20.940 First of all, the dirty little secret they don't want you to know is the Senate rules preclude them from being able to cut any more than they did.

00:05:28.040 Why?

00:05:28.520 Because in order for them to get a simple majority and not the 60 votes necessary in the Senate,

00:05:32.860 there was a threshold of cuts they were allowed to make.

00:05:35.600 To make that, they made the choice to make the business tax cuts permanent.

00:05:38.780 Now, when he says that, and he's right, that these tax cuts are going to sunset or go away in 10 years.

00:05:46.560 Well, there's a lot of time between now and 10 years.

00:05:48.660 They can go back at any point, and they can change the tax code.

00:05:52.340 They can make them permanent on another vote.

00:05:55.900 They could have made all of this permanent and made deeper tax cuts to the taxpayer if the Senate had helped them and given them 60 votes, which they refused to do.

00:06:05.000 So they can lay this at the feet of the Republicans if they want to, but the fact of the matter is they are now in defensive mode.

00:06:11.080 So a couple of other things that Bernie Sanders is saying.

00:06:13.760 Number one, he's talking about all of these cuts, and he's talking $1.5 or $1.47 trillion in deficits.

00:06:20.640 That is over a 10-year period.

00:06:23.160 Now, I don't believe those numbers are accurate.

00:06:24.920 There are many that don't believe those numbers are accurate.

00:06:26.920 There's going to be the repatriation of almost a trillion dollars into the country from businesses overseas that they're not counting in their numbers.

00:06:33.780 I also think that business growth and expansion and wage increases, you're going to see more money into the tax coffers.

00:06:40.500 I may be wrong, but let's go with their numbers.

00:06:43.040 Let's just take Bernie Sanders' numbers at face value.

00:06:46.120 Let's say over the next 10 years, this adds $1.5 trillion to the budget.

00:06:51.240 That is $150 billion a year added to the deficits.

00:06:55.740 We have had, in the first three quarters of the year, over 3% growth for the first time in a decade.

00:07:02.140 Never in the Obama administration did you have growth like this, ever.

00:07:07.560 The fourth quarter of this year predicted to be even higher.

00:07:11.660 The fourth quarter of this year predicted to be at 4% growth.

00:07:15.780 Take a look at the Christmas spending, the holiday spending and travel setting records.

00:07:20.240 Consumer confidence is way up.

00:07:22.000 So for $150 billion added to the deficit, worst case scenario, using their numbers, $150 billion added to the deficit, 3% to 4% growth the four quarters of the first year of the presidency.

00:07:38.180 You then mirror that against the eight years of the Obama presidency.

00:07:41.920 They're going to tell you, well, they had to fix the Bush economy.

00:07:44.900 The stimulus had to happen.

00:07:46.760 They added over a trillion dollars, sometimes a trillion and a half dollars every single year.

00:07:54.060 Ten times the deficit spending that Bernie Sanders is complaining about.

00:07:58.620 Ten times that spending was done.

00:08:00.640 Every single year of the Obama presidency with nothing over what, 2% growth, a little over 2%, the most sluggish recovery in the history of our country since the Great Depression.

00:08:13.100 The numbers don't lie.

00:08:14.840 The nice thing about this is we all know you can skew numbers to look at them any way you want.

00:08:19.540 I am a pragmatic person.

00:08:21.380 I look at the bottom line.

00:08:22.940 I look at my wallet.

00:08:24.040 I'm not getting much of a tax cut, but you take a look at the families.

00:08:29.340 CBS over the weekend did exactly the same thing.

00:08:32.560 They had an accountant come on, three different families across America, and the accountant found out that all three families were going to have their taxes cut.

00:08:41.960 They were going to pay less.

00:08:44.180 CBS tried to dance around it.

00:08:45.620 CBS tried to do the same thing Bernie Sanders did.

00:08:48.040 They are throwing a bunch of shade on this for one reason.

00:08:51.300 It is an election year in 2018.

00:08:53.240 The Democrats want the House back.

00:08:55.940 In order to do that, they have got to try to pound this class warfare thing into the heads of the people that somehow the big tax cuts go to the rich.

00:09:05.660 The dollars are higher for the rich people because they pay much more in taxes.

00:09:11.480 Percentage-wise, you take a look at where the tax cuts are.

00:09:14.820 Families making a family of four, filing jointly, making $200,000 a year as a family.

00:09:21.760 That's not a wealthy family.

00:09:23.060 That is a strong, middle-class family.

00:09:25.520 They're not getting rich.

00:09:27.900 And depending on where you live in the country, $200,000 a year for a family of four is not big money at all.

00:09:34.000 Live in a city like L.A. or New York.

00:09:36.180 For a family of four making $200,000 a year, it's not exactly getting wealthy.

00:09:41.080 They are going to get a 7% tax cut.

00:09:44.100 That is $14,000.

00:09:45.720 That is more than $1,000 a month.

00:09:50.240 When the American people see their bottom line change, they vote with their wallets.

00:09:55.500 That is the fear of the Democrats.

00:09:58.320 That's what Bernie Sanders is afraid of with this tax cut.

00:10:00.980 Now, yeah, they are getting a tax cut, but they should be permanent.

00:10:04.580 Make them permanent, Bernie.

00:10:06.080 You have the power.

00:10:07.400 Walk across the aisle.

00:10:08.980 Tell Mitch McConnell you want to vote on making them permanent next time around.

00:10:13.100 Let's see how that goes over.

00:10:15.180 We'll talk about this year.

00:10:16.400 This year, the presidency.

00:10:17.780 Is President Trump given a fair shake in accomplishments?

00:10:20.600 Has he accomplished anything, or is it like America says?

00:10:23.340 We'll do all of that coming up in the next portion of the show.

00:10:25.980 My name is Mike Broomhead.

00:10:26.940 I'm in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:10:28.080 If you're a Twitter user, you can follow me on Twitter, at Broomhead Show.

00:10:31.960 And Broomhead is spelled just like it sounds.

00:10:33.820 At Broomhead Show on Twitter.

00:10:35.600 I'll be back in just a moment.

00:10:36.740 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:10:51.500 Hey, thanks for being here.

00:10:52.600 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:10:53.540 My name is Mike Broomhead, Phoenix, Arizona.

00:10:55.200 In for Glenn today and tomorrow.

00:10:57.060 Doc Thompson after that.

00:10:58.940 Bottom of the hour, we want to talk about giving at Christmas.

00:11:03.340 It is the time of year that most people, this is at Christmastime, New Year. 0.96

00:11:07.860 We are a lot, we take inventory, and a lot of us do a lot more giving.

00:11:11.060 I spent Christmas Day at the local St. Vincent de Paul here in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:11:15.680 And at 735, a discussion about programs where private citizens are going to be a lot of giving.

00:11:20.580 And private organizations do things in their community versus when the government handles them.

00:11:24.940 And the good and the bad of both of those.

00:11:26.860 Because there's a story out of Atlanta that had me kind of shaking my head about feeding homeless people.

00:11:31.760 So 735, a little after 730, we'll talk about that.

00:11:36.000 There is a CNN had a story on their website about the President Trump thinks he doesn't get enough credit for his accomplishments.

00:11:43.960 And we'll get to that in a moment.

00:11:45.920 This tax reform conversation, though, if the premise is we're going to put more money in the pockets of the taxpayers, I don't understand why that's ever a bad thing.

00:11:58.080 There are two different ideologies at work right now.

00:12:00.560 And the one from the left, and I'm not just going to say Democrats, because I also think there are some Democrats that see the benefit in this.

00:12:08.420 I believe that it was the working class Democrat families that actually elected President Trump.

00:12:12.540 I don't believe it was white nationalists.

00:12:14.500 And I'll explain why in a moment.

00:12:16.500 But there's a lot of Democrats that see the value in a tax cut for American people.

00:12:22.480 So they would be considered moderate Democrats.

00:12:25.600 But from the left, Rosie O'Donnell says that Paul Ryan's going straight to hell because of the tax plan.

00:12:30.660 Bernie Sanders hates it.

00:12:32.740 Nancy Pelosi called it the worst piece of legislation ever.

00:12:35.700 And this is the woman that gave you Obamacare.

00:12:38.620 Keep that in mind when she says that.

00:12:41.780 But when you look at the American people and putting more money in their pockets, the left ideology is it's our money.

00:12:48.400 My ideology, the ideology of a conservative or someone that is more of an individual thinker is it's your money, whether you're rich or you're poor, whether you are benevolent or you're greedy.

00:13:00.340 And there's both in both categories or you're middle class.

00:13:04.260 It's your money.

00:13:05.980 I think everybody should pay something to live in this great country.

00:13:08.880 I think most people agree they should pay their fair share, whatever they believe their fair share is.

00:13:12.740 Nobody should get a free ride.

00:13:14.340 But when you look at what's happened in America on the left, they treat this pile of money that we have in our economy as our money.

00:13:22.800 Well, it's not our money.

00:13:24.020 It's your money.

00:13:25.160 The government's not giving you anything.

00:13:27.040 What they're doing is allowing you, which sounds like a silly thing, to keep more of your own money.

00:13:33.640 When businesses and when entrepreneurs especially have an opportunity to turn over a profit, they will get involved.

00:13:40.660 I've been blessed to know many people that have a lot of money.

00:13:45.140 I don't myself.

00:13:46.640 I wish to.

00:13:47.620 Someday I hope I do.

00:13:48.900 But everything I ever learned, I learned from someone else.

00:13:52.120 As a tradesman, I grew up as an electrician in the trade, starting as a helper that knew nothing, an apprentice, a journeyman, a master electrician, and a business owner.

00:14:00.620 I learned from someone else.

00:14:02.760 Every one of my employers was wealthier than I was, a lot wealthier than I was.

00:14:07.740 We all want to work for a wealthy company.

00:14:09.680 We all want our paychecks to clear.

00:14:12.040 We all want to make sure we work somewhere that's solvent.

00:14:15.880 So when your boss gets a tax cut, and I believe that it was a working class Democrat families, there were over 200 counties in the United States that twice voted for Barack Obama for president.

00:14:26.600 These were in swing states, over 200 counties.

00:14:29.100 Those 200-plus counties, and I believe the exact number was 206, those counties flipped and voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

00:14:37.380 And the message in those neighborhoods and the message in those counties was, I'm going to cut taxes and I'm going to cut regulation on your bosses.

00:14:43.780 So they repatriate dollars to this country, they expand their factories here, and those jobs you've been working that are paying $25 and $30 an hour will stay, and you're not fighting for a $12 or $13 an hour job.

00:14:54.980 They believed him, and they elected him.

00:14:56.780 So this tax reform bill, when it comes permanent, as it's become permanent for business owners, is going to allow them to free up capital.

00:15:04.520 You look at where the stock market is going.

00:15:06.600 I have a story in front of me that said it's going to be the best year for stocks since 2013 as far as jump in numbers.

00:15:14.280 It's the first time ever that the Dow has increased 5,000 points in one year.

00:15:19.380 That's because it is a nonpartisan organization, the Dow, or the S&P, or the NASDAQ.

00:15:26.320 They don't care who the president is.

00:15:27.740 They don't care who the Congress is. 0.65

00:15:29.100 They're looking at an environment where it's possible for economic growth, and they see the future being bright.

00:15:35.040 Why?

00:15:35.640 Business owners are keeping more of their profits.

00:15:38.380 Taxpayers are paying less in taxes.

00:15:40.100 Business owners have turned around in these major corporations and raised their standard of their minimum wage at their company to $15 an hour,

00:15:47.240 trying to attract good employees and retain good employees.

00:15:50.200 Some are giving out bonuses.

00:15:51.880 That's what they tend to do.

00:15:54.280 So when you look at this past year, has it been a great year for the president?

00:15:58.160 I don't know.

00:15:59.100 It hasn't been on a number of levels.

00:16:01.440 But there are a number of accomplishments that this president has made that I think are remarkable in the sense that they should be talked about.

00:16:07.800 His first foreign policy trip, for instance, the first time this president left the United States, this president of the United States,

00:16:15.140 first place he went to was Riyadh, and he talked with the Saudis.

00:16:18.360 That's where they jumped into Qatar, and they tried to stop them from the terrorist activities.

00:16:23.140 He flew from Riyadh to Tel Aviv.

00:16:25.180 He met there with the Israelis, the first sitting president ever to pray at the Western Wall.

00:16:30.780 From there, he flew to the Vatican, and he met with the Pope.

00:16:33.040 From there, he went to a NATO summit to reestablish the relationship with NATO, not get us out of NATO,

00:16:39.520 but reestablish the rules on who's going to pay their fair share and how it's going to work.

00:16:44.120 But he met with the three major world religions in his very first trip.

00:16:48.820 You mirror that against President Obama and what President Obama did in his apology tour.

00:16:52.700 He flew to Cairo, and he apologized for American arrogance and American greatness.

00:16:55.760 He went on a tour of the world apologizing for the things we had done during the Bush presidency.

00:17:03.160 The president then, our president, goes to South Korea, and he addresses the North Korean problem.

00:17:09.180 He got the Chinese in a matter of six months to change their position. 0.58

00:17:12.320 Nobody believes the Chinese think differently about the U.S.

00:17:14.940 We're still their adversary.

00:17:16.060 But the Chinese went from saying we will stay out of it with North Korea to putting out a joint statement with the United States

00:17:21.900 saying that the North Koreans must stop and dismantle their nuclear program, not freeze it.

00:17:27.320 They must cease and desist.

00:17:29.680 It's a big shift in policy.

00:17:32.180 He went to the Pacific Economic Summit and told them,

00:17:37.460 America first is my job.

00:17:38.940 Your country first is your job.

00:17:40.360 Re-establishing trade deals with those Asian nations saying that it's got to be on a more level playing field.

00:17:46.740 Now, how this all plays out, we don't know.

00:17:49.360 We'll see the long-term effects of these things.

00:17:51.560 But there are some accomplishments.

00:17:53.420 I was on the stage many times with Glenn and others as a Ted Cruz supporter during the primary.

00:18:01.700 I endorsed Ted Cruz.

00:18:03.180 Donald Trump was not my first choice for president.

00:18:05.840 But Donald Trump is my president.

00:18:08.460 Good, bad, and indifferent.

00:18:09.480 I want him to be successful.

00:18:11.840 And I do believe the traditional media, the CNN, the MSNBCs of the world will never give him a fair shake.

00:18:17.920 They will not talk about any accomplishment he's ever made.

00:18:22.140 And I think that they've turned me into a defender of the president because there are some accomplishments that have been made during this administration,

00:18:29.480 especially when it comes to foreign policy.

00:18:31.220 I thought foreign policy was going to be a big shortcoming of this president, and he's turned out to be fairly strong.

00:18:36.500 They've kept the North Koreans at bay for the most part. 0.99

00:18:38.640 We've not gotten into a war with them.

00:18:40.540 You look at the Tomahawk missiles in Syria to stop the chemical weapons there. 0.54

00:18:45.100 There have been some things that have been done, decisions that have been made by the people he's put in place that have done some great things.

00:18:50.820 That doesn't mean he's the next Ronald Reagan or he's not George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

00:18:57.280 But he's not Hitler, and he's not Satan either.

00:19:01.500 Coming up, bottom of the next hour, citizens versus cities.

00:19:06.140 Helping the homeless and the people in need.

00:19:07.920 I'll give you a firsthand account of what I did this weekend and a story out of Atlanta that's going to leave you shaking your head.

00:19:13.500 All that coming up on the next segment.

00:19:14.780 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:15.940 I'm Mike Broomhead.

00:19:19.540 Glenn Beck.

00:19:28.160 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:29.900 You know, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us here at the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:34.540 My name is Mike Broomhead in Phoenix, Arizona, in for Glenn today and tomorrow.

00:19:38.340 I believe it's Doc Thompson a few days after that.

00:19:42.040 I spent Christmas Day at St. Vincent de Paul and was helping to feed homeless people there.

00:19:47.540 And I have a great relationship with St. Vincent de Paul here.

00:19:49.840 And so I love what they do and the way they do it here in Arizona.

00:19:53.780 But wherever you are, whatever organizations you happen to work with, private organizations you happen to work with, they do amazing things.

00:20:00.620 You know, Glenn in Mercury One, what they've done there is amazing work.

00:20:05.040 And it is the charitable arm of what they do.

00:20:08.300 And I try to align myself with organizations, and there are many of them here locally in Arizona that I believe in.

00:20:14.020 These are great organizations that do work in whatever field they're in.

00:20:17.820 There's a military assistance mission is one of them here in Arizona.

00:20:20.900 It started by a woman named Margie Bonds, whose son was killed, was a Haditha Marine.

00:20:27.140 And so she started this organization to help military families.

00:20:30.360 Nobody in their organization gets paid.

00:20:31.960 Everybody volunteers.

00:20:33.060 All the money goes back.

00:20:34.320 And what they do is they're a clearinghouse.

00:20:36.020 They verify a need for a military family, whatever that need might be, and then they take care of that need.

00:20:41.200 If it's an appliance that needs to be fixed or replaced, a car, a rent paid, electric bills, those kinds of things.

00:20:46.860 They, whatever those military families might need.

00:20:50.720 The benevolence of people blows me away over and over and over again.

00:20:55.500 And I love that feeling of watching the benevolence of people.

00:20:59.100 And so I spent Christmas Day at St. Vincent de Paul.

00:21:03.020 We fed over almost 700 people at lunchtime in this dining hall.

00:21:06.420 There was a breakfast.

00:21:07.080 There's a lunch.

00:21:08.460 And here in Arizona, 3,000 meals every single day are given out at dining halls across where I am by St. Vincent de Paul.

00:21:17.720 And the reason why I'm talking about my experience is because I believe that's the experience of most people.

00:21:23.580 Story out of Atlanta, Georgia.

00:21:25.280 A woman named Adele McLean was at Thanksgiving, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, at a park in Atlanta feeding the homeless.

00:21:33.700 She was given a citation for serving food without a permit.

00:21:38.140 Now, she was giving the food away.

00:21:40.080 She wasn't selling it.

00:21:41.060 And she was giving it to people that had no food. 0.99

00:21:44.940 And they were happy to have the food.

00:21:47.020 She was happy to provide it.

00:21:48.140 Now, she showed up in court. 0.99

00:21:49.200 They dropped the charges.

00:21:50.280 It was an embarrassment to the city of Atlanta, as these things normally are, when the city step in with these kinds of nonsense requirements and restrictions.

00:21:59.240 And so the concern is, and I want you to hear somebody making a quote about what they're concerned about.

00:22:06.920 We don't want anybody to stop feeding people.

00:22:09.620 We just want it done in a way that's connected to social services, service providers, and not on the street corner because we can't make sure those connections are being made in these street corner feedings.

00:22:21.780 Everything goes back to a government program.

00:22:24.300 Now, I've got to tell you, I'm not a militia member.

00:22:27.040 I'm not an anti-government person.

00:22:28.720 I'm not that person at all.

00:22:30.680 But I am practical.

00:22:32.160 There are two things at work.

00:22:33.940 First is a sense of giving.

00:22:36.020 There is something inside us that is so filled when we give.

00:22:43.180 And for those of us that don't feel it often enough, it's because we aren't seeking out a place where we can give.

00:22:48.900 There is a great feeling when you give to others.

00:22:53.120 One of the programs I witnessed here is with St. Vincent de Paul.

00:22:57.340 There is a place called Palomino Elementary School in the north part of Phoenix, Arizona.

00:23:02.000 And it is a very – it's a needy neighborhood.

00:23:05.480 It's a poor working class neighborhood.

00:23:07.020 And the kids in this elementary school largely are more on the need list.

00:23:12.420 And what they do every year is in one of their St. Vincent de Paul stores, they have a program.

00:23:18.100 And this happens all over the place, but this is what I'm connected to.

00:23:21.640 They bring these elementary school kids on buses.

00:23:23.760 And for a dollar, they can take anything out of – any two things out of the store that they can carry.

00:23:29.020 If they can carry it, they can buy it for a dollar.

00:23:31.800 And they buy two gifts.

00:23:34.180 And so to watch these kids and the joy on their face when you ask them, there was a little girl that was carrying out a flashlight that she got for her father.

00:23:42.760 And she was so happy to be able to buy her dad a flashlight.

00:23:46.640 I don't even know if her dad needed a flashlight.

00:23:48.140 But I guarantee you her dad's going to love getting that gift from his daughter.

00:23:52.360 But for kids in a poor neighborhood who largely have Christmases provided for them, to give these elementary school children the feeling of being the giver is something I'm sure that they'll never forget.

00:24:05.320 And it's a feeling, hopefully, that will burn in them that they'll grow up wanting to be able to give to someone else.

00:24:13.280 And I think that burns in all of us.

00:24:15.340 So when we turn over the benevolence and the giving to the government, what we're doing is giving up our right and our responsibility to give to others.

00:24:30.940 Now, I'm not saying social services are wrong.

00:24:33.280 I'm not saying that those programs aren't viable.

00:24:35.100 I'm not saying that they shouldn't be there.

00:24:36.940 But for someone in the government to be of the mindset that you as a private citizen shouldn't be out there on the street feeding the homeless.

00:24:43.840 Because you can't connect those people with the social services that really do something about it is such a false narrative.

00:24:51.560 Homelessness is real to me.

00:24:54.140 One of my heroes growing up, and it kind of, it chokes me up to talk about him.

00:25:01.060 One of my heroes growing up was my cousin.

00:25:03.660 And he's a year older than me.

00:25:05.240 I'm the oldest of three boys, so I didn't have an older brother.

00:25:07.320 And I looked up to my older cousin.

00:25:09.080 He was just a little bit older than me.

00:25:11.080 But he was a superstar athlete when he was a kid.

00:25:14.520 He played football and baseball.

00:25:16.040 And he was just a great athlete.

00:25:17.880 Girls all over. 1.00

00:25:18.720 You know, as a young man, you know, a young teenager.

00:25:20.880 He had girls everywhere.

00:25:21.960 And he was just somebody I admired greatly.

00:25:25.600 He lost his mother early in his life.

00:25:28.060 My aunt had cancer, throat cancer. 0.98

00:25:31.520 And my cousin, Kenny, was devastated.

00:25:33.600 And he turned to drugs and alcohol.

00:25:35.280 He made very poor choices.

00:25:37.440 And ended up homeless.

00:25:39.360 And ended up in Vegas where his older sister lived.

00:25:42.720 And was on the streets in Vegas and was an addict.

00:25:45.100 And I would go and visit my cousins.

00:25:46.820 And he would come and visit with me.

00:25:48.400 And he looked like every other homeless person you ever saw.

00:25:51.600 Disheveled, dirty clothes.

00:25:53.900 But when I saw him, I just saw my cousin.

00:25:56.220 It was just being back with my cousin.

00:25:58.200 And it had to be odd to see him and I walking on the Vegas Strip together.

00:26:02.680 Because walking with him just felt like I was walking with my cousin again.

00:26:07.680 My cousin died in the desert in Las Vegas.

00:26:11.880 Complications to his drug use.

00:26:13.540 And his alcohol abuse.

00:26:15.300 All choices he made.

00:26:16.940 Not blaming anybody else for the choices he made.

00:26:19.740 But homelessness has a face for me.

00:26:22.680 And I have a desire to help people like everybody else does.

00:26:25.620 And when you read stories of where people in the government want to say,

00:26:30.760 We don't want you going into the parks and interacting with homeless people. 0.77

00:26:33.940 Because you're not directing them to shelters.

00:26:35.680 And you're making the problem worse.

00:26:37.460 I don't believe that for a moment.

00:26:40.120 Should we be trying to help people get mainstream again?

00:26:43.440 Do organizations out there do a fantastic job?

00:26:46.500 Are there social services available?

00:26:48.480 Sure there are.

00:26:50.980 Absolutely.

00:26:51.460 But you mean to tell me that the government is saying you should not take your children on Thanksgiving weekend and provide a plate of food for some homeless people and sit with them for a few minutes and hear their story and talk with them about their life and treat them with human dignity?

00:27:10.480 We shouldn't do that.

00:27:11.580 But do you think that we just stood around yesterday just handing people plates of food and then sending them out the door?

00:27:20.140 They sat in a dining hall.

00:27:21.740 They had lunch.

00:27:24.060 Larry Fitzgerald, if you're a football fan, Larry Fitzgerald in Arizona is an icon.

00:27:29.620 He is one of the best players in the NFL, but he's one of the best human beings also.

00:27:33.900 He was there for over an hour taking pictures and interacting.

00:27:36.260 He brought a bunch of kids with him.

00:27:37.620 All of those kids serving food and interacting.

00:27:39.800 This was about human dignity and kindness.

00:27:42.580 This was about showing the Christmas spirit that whether you're living on the streets or you're living in a multi-million dollar home, you're a human being.

00:27:50.440 And all of us on Christmas Day celebrate the same thing.

00:27:53.640 If you're a faith-based person like I am, Christmas Day has the meaning of the birth of what would be our redemption.

00:28:01.840 It is a very significant holy day in the Christian faith.

00:28:06.000 But here in America, whether you are somebody that is a devout Christian or you're of another faith and just celebrate the holiday, this is a time of year where all of us are a lot more mindful of the blessings we've been given.

00:28:17.360 So I'm not one to diminish or denounce government programs, but when people involved in government programs say you as a private citizen or a private organization or a group of people that decide to go and help people shouldn't do it because, A, you're making the problem worse, or B, you're not directing people the solution, which is the government.

00:28:37.120 That scares me a little bit, that scares me more than a little bit.

00:28:43.520 You want something that I promise you will give you back 10 times more than you've ever given, and it's not just writing a check.

00:28:53.080 Find an organization near you, whether it's St. Vincent de Paul or the food bank near you or whatever charitable organization is near you that you believe in.

00:29:00.680 Go and volunteer for one day.

00:29:04.180 Just volunteer for a few hours.

00:29:06.860 Provide a meal.

00:29:08.140 Provide some kind of a service.

00:29:09.640 Interact, whatever it is.

00:29:12.560 Here in Arizona, there was a story a couple of years ago.

00:29:16.060 There was a young man whose mother was homeless, and he had gone through school to be a hairstylist.

00:29:21.720 So he was in the park giving free haircuts to people in the park.

00:29:26.020 Now, nobody would think about that, but think about someone who's trying to get a job, and they can't because they're homeless.

00:29:31.280 Giving free haircuts to people in the park.

00:29:33.540 They tried to lock this guy up.

00:29:35.260 You want to know why?

00:29:36.060 He hadn't finished school yet, so he was not a hairstylist by license yet, so he was cutting hair without a license.

00:29:43.800 They laughed that city out of the courtroom.

00:29:47.480 They actually changed the laws in Arizona to make sure that never happened again because some bureaucrat decided this guy didn't have a license, so he wasn't allowed to provide free haircuts to the homeless.

00:30:00.680 Do you see the mentality of that?

00:30:06.560 You don't have a food handler's license.

00:30:08.720 You can't provide free food.

00:30:10.260 How far can we possibly go with this nonsense?

00:30:14.300 Speaking of nonsense, before we close out this hour, if you haven't heard the story about United Airlines and the big apology, oh, it involves my favorite congresswoman, the gift that keeps on giving, Sheila Jackson Lee, and United Airlines, and what they had to say to a poor passenger who was forced out of her first class seat.

00:30:32.840 We'll get to that coming up before we close it out.

00:30:34.680 Again, my name is Mike Broomhead.

00:30:36.040 I'm in one more day, today and tomorrow, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:43.020 Glenn Beck.

00:30:51.020 Glenn Beck.

00:30:51.980 Hey, it's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:54.260 I'm Mike Broomhead in Phoenix, Arizona, in for Glenn today and tomorrow.

00:30:58.140 Thanks for making us a part of your morning or part of your day.

00:31:01.380 We appreciate a little bit of time.

00:31:02.580 If you missed the discussion, we started off the show with discussing the tax reform that's in America.

00:31:07.820 We're going to do that again, top of the next hour, talk a little bit more about it, a little more detail of what it's doing for people specifically, who it's helping and why, what's happening, and then again, why people are against it.

00:31:17.380 Who would be against it, and why, that coming up just after the top of the hour, and the discussion about homelessness and helping people in need, and again, I can only give you a perspective that's unique to me.

00:31:31.460 I only have my own perspective, and I've had the pleasure of being on this network for quite a few times for Glenn over the last few years, so some of you have heard me on the air before.

00:31:41.120 I'm not a silver spoon guy.

00:31:42.860 I barely graduated from high school.

00:31:44.600 I do not have a college education.

00:31:46.100 I went to work.

00:31:47.520 I've had my first job at 12 years old, and I'm very proud of the way I grew up.

00:31:52.780 My mother is successful in my mind, and she's not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but she is retired, and she maintains herself.

00:32:01.960 She has medical insurance.

00:32:03.480 She owns her car.

00:32:04.320 She owns a small home, and she's retired.

00:32:07.760 She's able to travel between my brother and his kids in southwest Florida and her home where she was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and she's able to travel back.

00:32:16.100 She's able to travel back and forth and enjoy her latter years of her life.

00:32:19.280 And if you had asked her 20 years ago, 25 years ago, if she ever would imagine she would be able to retire, she would have told you she will work until the day she dies.

00:32:28.740 So she is the model of success for me.

00:32:31.660 Growing up as I did, I'm not ashamed to say that we grew up poor.

00:32:36.540 We didn't take government assistance.

00:32:37.840 My mother never took government assistance, but we got help.

00:32:41.120 Neighbors helped us.

00:32:43.200 We had a friend of my mom's show up at our house one day during the summer vacation when we were out of school with a trunk full of groceries for our family.

00:32:52.980 And this woman didn't realize I knew who she was and told my mother later who it was, and we did receive help when we were kids.

00:32:59.440 But it surely wasn't because my mother didn't work hard. 0.86

00:33:01.820 She did.

00:33:03.340 We were never homeless.

00:33:04.580 Thank God.

00:33:05.180 But that was by the grace of God, too.

00:33:09.020 To talk about a need, people in need, I have a very different perspective.

00:33:16.040 To talk about homelessness, I have a unique, very personal experience with homelessness.

00:33:20.280 And for you and for me to give, whether you, everybody has three things to offer this world, money, talent, and time.

00:33:30.480 And we all have it to varying degrees at different points in our life.

00:33:34.400 Whether you donate your money, your talent, your time, or a little bit of all three, that's what we have to offer this world.

00:33:41.700 And to turn that responsibility and that right over to the government is a shame because they're not going to manage it very well.

00:33:47.680 That's just the nature of government in general.

00:33:50.060 But it also takes away from your ability to feel the joy of giving, to feel the fulfillment that comes from saying, I've got my own issues, I've got my own troubles, I've got my own needs.

00:34:01.400 But if I'm able to provide a little bit of assistance to someone else, it fills you up in a way that's indescribable.

00:34:08.840 And so I hope that you won't turn that over to someone else's responsibility through your taxation that someone else has that covered.

00:34:18.000 We should never give up that right to help others.

00:34:22.180 Before we close it out, an angry passenger, United Airlines, Jean Marie Simon, 63 years old, works as an attorney in D.C., purchased a first-class ticket to go from Guatemala.

00:34:34.240 She was told while boarding that her seat had been taken.

00:34:37.380 She claims to have purchased the ticket on December 3rd using her frequent flyer miles and her flight on December 20th.

00:34:42.760 United compensated her with $500, but in their released statement, the airline said Simon canceled her flight.

00:34:50.660 In response, the airline booked someone else.

00:34:53.680 No.

00:34:54.160 Sheila Jackson Lee, congresswoman, making demands that she get a seat.

00:34:59.880 This woman got on the plane with a $500 voucher and a coach seat and saw the congresswoman sitting in her seat. 1.00

00:35:07.000 United Airlines has since apologized, and Sheila Jackson Lee said the response was racist.

00:35:12.180 Merry Christmas.

00:35:13.600 Merry Christmas, everyone.

00:35:15.200 There you have it.

00:35:16.420 Top of the hour.

00:35:17.040 We talk more about tax cuts.

00:35:19.100 Stick around.

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00:35:35.240 Happy New Year.

00:35:35.800 Merry Christmas.

00:35:36.380 On the Glenn Beck program, my name is Mike Broomhead.

00:35:38.440 I'm in today and tomorrow for Glenn.

00:35:40.120 Thanks for being a part of the show and joining us for a little bit, giving us part of your day.

00:35:43.880 We do appreciate it.

00:35:44.960 Um, first hour talked about tax reform.

00:35:49.140 Bernie Sanders comments this weekend, what they are trying to do.

00:35:52.580 And when I say they, I mean Democrats.

00:35:54.720 And we know Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat.

00:35:56.660 He is a socialist and that's self-proclaimed socialist and independent.

00:36:02.980 And is he caucuses with the Democrats had a very good chance if it had not been for the collusion in the Democratic Party of being the Democrat nominee,

00:36:11.240 which shows you, you know, they, they accuse Republicans and it's, it's a fair accusation of sprinting right in a primary because the people that vote in the primary election are the diehards.

00:36:21.860 And so they sprint right.

00:36:23.140 We know the left sprints left, but look how far left they've sprinted.

00:36:26.620 And the tax reform bill has passed.

00:36:29.600 It passed in the house, passed in the Senate.

00:36:31.540 There were some big differences.

00:36:33.520 And so we're going to, I want to talk for a few minutes about tax reform and it is, it's different to me.

00:36:42.320 A number of levels.

00:36:43.680 Let's, let's pick apart some of the things that did not happen before you hear Bernie Sanders, because what he says is kind of extended.

00:36:49.800 And there's a lot to pick apart in this, but one of the things that he talks about is making the tax cuts for the middle class permanent, which should have been done.

00:36:58.640 We'll jump on board, Bernie.

00:37:00.240 I mean, you got to understand if the Democrats would have helped them get to 60 votes, they would have been permanent.

00:37:05.940 Bernie Sanders has also made statements in the last few days that if the Democrats take over the Congress tax, taxes are going up on businesses.

00:37:15.700 They believe that businesses should be taxed at the 35 and 40% range, 39.6% for LLCs, what they call pass-through corporations.

00:37:27.060 And I look at every small business owner, I look at entrepreneurs and I see a difference.

00:37:34.160 You know, an entrepreneur, someone that's made a nice living has put away a nest egg of a lot of money and they don't need to work again a day in their life, their lives.

00:37:43.860 Why would they risk under the past climate, any money at all?

00:37:50.840 You're sitting on a bunch of cash, you make a nice living, you don't need to do anything.

00:37:56.300 Why would they risk the money they've put away in a startup with somebody else's idea when compliance, when the regulations, whether it's EPA or other government requirements are so strict and so expensive,

00:38:09.340 it makes a startup almost impossible unless you've got a lot of money.

00:38:13.960 But secondly, if they're going to tax you between 35 and 40%, 39.6%, why would you take that kind of a risk to give away 40% of your profits?

00:38:26.260 And that was the climate they were in.

00:38:31.420 You reduce the tax rate to 21%.

00:38:33.820 You've greatly reduced regulations on companies and you're going to see entrepreneurs come forward and say,

00:38:39.640 I will join with somebody that's got a great idea.

00:38:42.740 I will use the mistakes I've made.

00:38:45.480 I will show somebody else how to navigate the business world and hopefully avoid some of the mistakes I made coming up.

00:38:51.500 And we'll use my capital, their idea and their sweat equity and let's go build something.

00:38:57.640 I believe those people are coming out of the woodwork.

00:39:01.200 But one of the areas we've not talked about is where it's not been made permanent and a complete repeal of is the estate tax.

00:39:10.820 Now, it's been doubled the threshold.

00:39:13.180 So it's only going to affect the very, very wealthy in this country.

00:39:16.060 Well, let me defend wealthy people since it seems like, and again, I'll just, for disclosures purposes, I'm not a wealthy person.

00:39:24.780 Now, I make a very nice living.

00:39:26.920 I'm very happy with the living I make.

00:39:29.700 I'm not anywhere close to being anywhere near the estate tax level or anything like that.

00:39:36.060 I'm not a millionaire.

00:39:38.800 But the estate tax is stealing from the dead.

00:39:41.860 Are we really so broke in this country that on any level we've got to steal from the dead?

00:39:50.060 The unique perspective I have, farmers and ranchers here in the state that I live in, with the urban sprawl that's been happening over the last 23 years since I've been in Arizona.

00:39:58.600 I've watched very odd things happen, which is kind of, it's fun to watch happen, but very strange.

00:40:06.580 When you drive in the west part of what we call the valley, you will see neighborhoods pop up.

00:40:11.600 And then there will be huge swaths of cotton fields or hay fields where they're growing alfalfa and then another neighborhood.

00:40:18.720 So you go from suburbs to farm to suburbs to farm.

00:40:25.600 Well, it drives the value of that farmland up.

00:40:29.120 Now, these are families that have been farming or ranching that land for generations, not just decades, generations.

00:40:36.300 And when the grandparents pass away, who are the owners of the property, of the land, and the land is then passed on to the next generation, who have been working that land their entire lives as well and making a living but not getting wealthy, they are assessed taxes on the value of that property.

00:40:55.420 And the only way to pay their tax bill is to sell off part of or most of their birthright, their inheritance, to pay the taxes.

00:41:04.160 So they, in essence, become sharecroppers because they sell their land to someone else so that they can work the land that's now owned by someone else and make the same living they were always making.

00:41:17.020 Oh, and by the way, if you're someone that's inherited something and you have to pay the estate tax, and in that portfolio that you've inherited is property, when you sell that property, you pay capital gains tax first.

00:41:33.600 And then you pay the estate tax.

00:41:37.800 Welcome to America.

00:41:39.980 Let me defend the wealthy for a moment.

00:41:42.560 These are people that work just as hard as you work.

00:41:45.140 They love their families just as much as you love yours.

00:41:47.880 And they have accumulated whatever it is they've accumulated to pass on to who they leave behind.

00:41:53.460 You do realize that whatever it is that you pass on, whether it's the remnant of your 401k, the house that you own, cars, whatever it is that you own that you're going to pass on to your loved ones, you're not paying taxes on that, and neither are your loved ones.

00:42:08.060 But wealthy people are.

00:42:11.360 They are stealing from the dead.

00:42:14.060 Are we broke as a nation to the point that we have to grave rob?

00:42:19.440 We are become grave robbers.

00:42:22.280 I think it is the most despicable tax in our country.

00:42:26.780 And it should have been completely repealed.

00:42:28.980 And the next bite at the apple and tax cuts, they should repeal it.

00:42:32.780 So this is about reforming the tax system, not just repealing or reducing taxes for people.

00:42:42.580 It's about real reform.

00:42:44.460 But did we get real reform?

00:42:46.580 I don't know yet.

00:42:47.800 But I guess we'll see when it comes time to do our taxes.

00:42:51.500 I'm going to wait a few moments.

00:42:52.820 I'll let you, in the next part of the show, I'll let you hear Bernie Sanders in his entirety, where he launches into tax cuts for individuals should have been made permanent, business tax cuts were instead, health insurance, and people going without benefits anymore.

00:43:08.340 I'll tell you the real story behind the rhetoric.

00:43:10.820 The problem I have with traditional media is that they're not going to continue and ask the questions and push anybody on anything on that side of the aisle.

00:43:20.140 Once in a while, and there are a few people that will.

00:43:22.320 But for the most part, Bernie Sanders will get a pass for the things he says.

00:43:27.680 Why?

00:43:28.680 A, either they don't have the, they don't dig enough to know where what they're saying is rhetoric and easily, easily dispelled or they're complicit.

00:43:41.100 And they don't like this.

00:43:44.060 Of course, somebody did a video.

00:43:45.660 I saw it on one of the websites this morning where they went out and they took the Trump tax reform plan and they went out to college campuses.

00:43:52.180 And man on the street interviews and told them it was Bernie Sanders idea.

00:43:56.580 All of it.

00:43:57.740 Man, did they love it.

00:43:59.100 They loved what Bernie had to offer.

00:44:01.280 When they found out it was from President Trump, shocked, couldn't believe it.

00:44:05.420 So instead of looking at policy for what policy's value is, it's got to be attached to an individual.

00:44:13.080 We have become such a cult of personality society that we love what somebody does that we like and we hate what somebody does that we don't like.

00:44:21.040 And that's just the way it is.

00:44:22.580 So I'll let you hear Bernie Sanders.

00:44:25.760 We'll do that in a few minutes.

00:44:26.740 When I get back here, we'll do that.

00:44:28.620 If you are a social media user, I'm a big social media user.

00:44:32.100 My name is Mike Broomhead.

00:44:33.060 You can find me on Facebook, the Mike Broomhead Show on Facebook or at Broomhead Show is my Twitter handle.

00:44:38.620 If you'd like to follow me on Twitter, I'm a pretty active user.

00:44:41.760 Instagram, Mike Broomhead, all one word.

00:44:43.660 I would love to hear from you this morning and interact with you a little bit.

00:44:46.660 I'll do that during the breaks.

00:44:48.160 Coming up in a few moments, we'll talk about this.

00:44:50.500 We'll let you hear Bernie Sanders in his entirety and what he has to say about why this tax bill is so bad.

00:44:55.800 And then we'll pick it apart piece by piece.

00:44:57.900 And I'll tell you the truth behind all of it.

00:44:59.380 That's coming up in the next segment.

00:45:00.800 My name is Mike Broomhead.

00:45:01.860 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:45:06.480 Glenn Beck.

00:45:13.900 Glenn Beck.

00:45:15.840 So let's do this.

00:45:16.820 I want you to hear Bernie Sanders talking on CNN, finally admitting that the middle class in America are going to get a tax cut.

00:45:22.920 So middle class Americans, just like Bernie Sanders says he's a champion for all of them will be getting a tax cut.

00:45:27.760 We'll lay some of this out for you kind of piece by piece and pick apart what Bernie says, where he should be questioned on this and pushed a little further and made the answer for some of the claims he makes.

00:45:37.740 Not all of them, but some of them.

00:45:39.300 So I want you to hear a little bit lengthy, but some of the things that Bernie says, and then I'll kind of fill in the blanks for you.

00:45:45.840 So here's Bernie Sanders.

00:45:46.720 According to the tax policy center, next year, 91 percent of middle income Americans will receive a tax cut.

00:45:53.580 Isn't that a good thing?

00:45:54.320 Yeah, it is a very good thing.

00:45:55.660 And that's why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent. 0.98

00:45:59.260 But what the Republicans did is made the tax breaks for corporations permanent, the tax breaks for the middle class temporary.

00:46:05.740 And according to the tax policy center, that same organization, at the end of 10 years, 83 percent of the benefits go to the top 1 percent.

00:46:16.300 60 percent of the benefits go to the top one-tenth of 1 percent.

00:46:21.100 Meanwhile, at the end of 10 years, well over 80 million Americans will be paying more in taxes.

00:46:27.780 13 million Americans, as a result of this legislation, are going to lose their health insurance.

00:46:32.360 Health care premiums are going up.

00:46:34.080 We've got a $1.4 trillion deficit as a result of this bill.

00:46:39.160 And Paul Ryan is going around saying, oh, we have to offset that deficit by cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

00:46:46.320 To answer your questions, should we have focused on the needs of the middle class?

00:46:50.880 We should have.

00:46:52.660 OK, let's go a little bit.

00:46:54.720 First of all, let's start with the permanency of this.

00:46:57.720 Should have made them permanent for the taxpayer.

00:47:00.240 Could have if we'd had 60 votes in the Senate. 0.94

00:47:02.720 Democrats didn't want to get on board, so we had to limit where those tax cuts were going to be made permanent.

00:47:06.900 The president decided that this time around, because of the Republican-led Congress, that they would make those permanent because they never make tax cuts for businesses permanent with the Democrats.

00:47:16.420 All the business owners out there that are Democrats, I feel your pain.

00:47:20.800 I know you must be torn because you understand the difficulty in running a business, even though you agree with the Democrats policy-wise and ideologically with the involvement of government in social programs and how they should lead the way ahead of military programs and some of the others,

00:47:36.300 where the Republicans think it's the other way around.

00:47:38.360 I understand the policy differences.

00:47:39.960 I get it.

00:47:41.080 But I also understand that as you run a small business or a big business as a Democrat and you hear a fellow Democrat belittling businesses and saying that you should be paying more in taxes and that a 35% corporate tax rate doesn't hurt us around the world,

00:47:54.380 it's got to be a little bit, it's got to be tough for you to wrestle with those two things.

00:48:02.320 But tax cuts can be made permanent.

00:48:04.580 That leads us into the 10 years from now thing.

00:48:07.440 All of that is based on the idea of Congress doing absolutely nothing down the road with taxes.

00:48:12.540 They can take up another tax bill and keep that in mind because Bernie Sanders says if the Democrats take over the Congress,

00:48:19.780 they will raise taxes back on businesses, they're not going to give anybody else a tax cut.

00:48:26.220 They will raise taxes on businesses again.

00:48:28.800 He made that promise already that that is going to happen.

00:48:31.780 But the 10-year idea is because of the way this was structured, the way it had to be structured because of Senate rules and the limitations that were there.

00:48:39.520 Talked about the estate tax and how horrible the estate tax is.

00:48:42.760 It was doubled.

00:48:43.580 The threshold was doubled, but it was not eliminated.

00:48:46.100 Second time around, I think it gets eliminated.

00:48:50.540 We'll see.

00:48:51.180 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:48:52.940 Now let's go to the insurance premiums part of this.

00:48:55.640 If remember in this plan, the personal, the individual and business mandates on Obamacare were removed.

00:49:02.120 So when he said people are going to lose their insurance, no, they're not.

00:49:06.920 They're going to give up their insurance.

00:49:09.320 They don't want it.

00:49:10.900 People see the damage that Obamacare has done to health insurance.

00:49:17.700 Now, remember, we were told if you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.

00:49:23.180 That was a lie.

00:49:24.300 If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

00:49:26.700 That was a lie.

00:49:28.020 It's going to drive up competition.

00:49:29.960 It's going to drive down costs.

00:49:32.040 Lie and lie.

00:49:33.620 What we've seen is the health care exchanges have nothing in them.

00:49:39.960 In the state of Arizona, there's one.

00:49:42.500 Many states in the country, there's one or two.

00:49:45.440 There were a lot of states that weren't going to have any.

00:49:48.420 We had those co-ops that were established, which were nonprofit health insurance companies.

00:49:53.220 They were propped up with billions of dollars in government loans.

00:49:56.400 Those health insurance co-ops were supposed to be in the exchanges so that they would drive down costs.

00:50:02.500 Because if you're a nonprofit, obviously, you're going to be able to compete a lot better than the for-profit companies.

00:50:09.760 Therefore, costs will be driven down, right?

00:50:12.060 Well, billions of dollars in loans were made to these companies that started up as co-ops and nonprofit health insurers.

00:50:21.000 Guess what?

00:50:22.240 Very quietly, the co-ops locked their doors.

00:50:25.260 They shut down, and billions of your tax dollars were squandered because they could not compete.

00:50:31.620 So there is no competition.

00:50:34.200 Costs have skyrocketed.

00:50:37.000 We're talking about premiums and deductibles through the roof.

00:50:40.700 And when the mandate has been repealed, people will not buy the insurance.

00:50:46.860 And numbers don't lie either.

00:50:48.580 This is a statistic that they cannot run from.

00:50:51.520 Last year, the fines that were paid by individuals who did not have health insurance and paid the fine, 57% of those fines were paid by people and families with a combined income, an adjusted gross income of $50,000 a year or less.

00:51:15.220 The very people that Obamacare intended to help are getting hurt by the rules.

00:51:22.460 They're not going to say that to you because then they have to admit that their plan backfired.

00:51:28.500 So while Bernie Sanders rants and raves about the permanency of tax cuts, they could do it.

00:51:34.540 They won't.

00:51:35.300 Not while the Republicans are in charge, and they're not going to do it once they're in charge.

00:51:39.120 What they're going to do is back to the fairness thing.

00:51:41.980 Let me ask everybody else a question about what the Democrats, the liberals in Congress want to do.

00:51:46.860 Isn't their plan always about hammering the rich?

00:51:51.760 We're going to get the corporate, you know, we're going to hammer the big corporations.

00:51:54.760 We're going to close the loopholes.

00:51:56.040 They're going to pay their fair share.

00:51:58.100 So, A, they don't just eat the taxes.

00:52:01.120 They pass it on.

00:52:02.400 It's the cost of doing business, oil companies or otherwise.

00:52:06.460 But how many of you out there that are working class conservatives?

00:52:10.080 I mean, you're not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but you just believe the government screws up everything it touches, so you'd rather have a small government.

00:52:16.860 You have a 401k?

00:52:19.640 You looking to retire someday?

00:52:21.740 You have some kind of an IRA where you think someday I might be able to retire?

00:52:27.300 You check it once a month or so to see how you're doing, what your trajectory is like, what your path to retirement looks like.

00:52:34.300 When you weaken corporate America, when you weaken the oil companies, when you, you know, the S&P and the NASDAQ and the Dow,

00:52:41.680 when you weaken those major corporations and their value drops, so does every 401k in the country because we're all invested in them.

00:52:51.080 We're invested in the oil companies.

00:52:52.800 We're invested in big corporate America.

00:52:54.560 Our 401ks and the success of those businesses go hand in hand.

00:52:58.620 Your ability to retire and the quality of life you're going to have is directly tied to the strength of those companies.

00:53:05.000 So why in the world would you want to go into, why would you elect and reelect people whose goal it is to damage the value and the power of those companies?

00:53:15.240 The class warfare in America is destroying Americans.

00:53:23.120 I know I've mentioned on this show before, and I talk about it till I'm blue in the face on my show in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:53:28.680 Read the Communist Manifesto.

00:53:31.520 Read the part about the immiseration of the proletariat.

00:53:35.060 You know, the two groups of people, the bourgeoisie who are the haves and the proletariat, the haves-nots.

00:53:40.000 Those are the two groups of people.

00:53:41.560 And in the Communist Manifesto, they call it the immiseration of the proletariat.

00:53:46.780 And the principle is this.

00:53:48.940 If the people don't know how bad they have it, we will go and explain to them just how bad they have it. 0.99

00:53:54.620 You are too dumb to realize how bad you have it under corporate America and under the corporate thumb. 0.98

00:54:00.140 The corporate America and the big old good old boys club of the Republican Party where the rich get richer and you get held down. 1.00

00:54:06.700 That's the principle.

00:54:07.700 This class warfare is destroying America. 0.73

00:54:14.100 835.

00:54:16.120 A new angle on giving.

00:54:18.020 At this time of year, we are a lot more mindful of giving.

00:54:21.140 I talked in the first hour about benevolence and giving, whether it's individually with a group of people through a private organization or social services.

00:54:30.360 A story out of Atlanta.

00:54:31.420 So we'll talk about that at 835 one more time.

00:54:35.360 And then the Chicago Police Department and their TASER policy.

00:54:38.600 Stick around for that.

00:54:39.300 It's a Glenn Beck program.

00:54:43.400 Glenn Beck.

00:54:51.900 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:54:53.860 Hey, thanks for joining me this morning.

00:54:56.120 My name is Mike Broomhead, Phoenix, Arizona, in for Glenn today and tomorrow.

00:54:59.160 After that, I believe it's Doc Thompson.

00:55:00.860 So thanks for making us a part of your day.

00:55:02.320 Hope you're having a great New Year time.

00:55:03.840 Hope you had a great Christmas.

00:55:06.120 And I spent my day on Christmas Day, a portion of my Christmas Day.

00:55:10.800 I was with my grandkids for a big part of it as well.

00:55:12.760 But I spent a big part of my day with homeless people, feeding the homeless.

00:55:17.940 And it's a different experience where I did it.

00:55:21.080 And the reason why I'm bringing this up is we tend to, there's some ideologies at work in our country.

00:55:26.620 And if we just understand the differences we have without throwing rocks at each other, a lot of times we can agree on so many different things.

00:55:35.040 Because I learned a long time ago that people on the right don't have the corner on patriotism and people on the left don't have the corner on crazy.

00:55:42.960 I learned this years ago.

00:55:45.360 And there is somewhere in the middle.

00:55:47.840 I have a very close friend who's very, well, a few close friends who are very, very liberal.

00:55:52.380 And fortunately for me, there are people that I genuinely care about.

00:55:55.900 And I know them as good human beings.

00:55:58.400 Because politically, we are so diametrically opposite that if I didn't already know them, maybe I wouldn't want to.

00:56:08.020 And I think that's more of a confession than anything else.

00:56:12.680 But I have a very close friend that I grew up with and another one that I've made here.

00:56:16.580 And we are from two different worlds.

00:56:19.140 And we see the world from two different spectrums.

00:56:22.840 One of them I grew up with and I'm amazed.

00:56:25.100 We literally rode the same school bus together beginning in sixth grade.

00:56:29.840 And we grew up in the same neighborhood playing football with the same friends.

00:56:34.360 And we did the same things and listened to the same music and had the same teachers, the same upbringing.

00:56:41.080 How could we, you would believe politically from different planets.

00:56:46.460 He's a good man and a good father.

00:56:49.620 And when my brother, those of you that know my story, I had a brother who was killed in Iraq way back in 03 at the beginning of the war.

00:56:56.460 When my brother was killed, he was one of the first people at my family's side.

00:57:02.080 And we are so opposite politically.

00:57:05.420 But in the end, what we do agree on is we would like to leave this world better for our children than we found it.

00:57:11.620 We may have different visions of better, maybe.

00:57:14.240 But he loves his children as much as I love mine.

00:57:18.200 Now, he doesn't have grandchildren.

00:57:19.440 I do.

00:57:20.920 And that's where I see the future is with my grandchildren.

00:57:24.420 Because now I'm a generation removed from my kids.

00:57:27.720 And now I see how fast 20 years goes by.

00:57:32.280 That my oldest grandson, who is six in 20 years, will either be in the military or the workforce.

00:57:38.940 Hopefully not still in college, I guess.

00:57:40.740 Although, you know, my gene pool possibility.

00:57:42.780 Heck, you might still be in high school with my gene pool.

00:57:47.340 But six and a half, almost five, one and a half, and a newborn.

00:57:57.520 All boys.

00:57:59.500 I see the future there.

00:58:03.700 And the ideologies that are different than what we want in this world and what we see in this world.

00:58:08.240 I have a unique view on things from my upbringing, just like you do.

00:58:13.120 We all bring a different perspective to the table.

00:58:15.120 And the three things I said last hour, and I'll say it again.

00:58:18.200 There are three things we have to offer this world.

00:58:20.320 All of us do.

00:58:21.400 Money, talent, and time.

00:58:24.100 And we all have it to differing degrees.

00:58:25.880 There was a time in my life where I didn't have a lot of money, but I had time.

00:58:29.960 And I would donate my time, and it made me feel good.

00:58:32.300 I was an electrician, so I was able to go on work projects, whether it was through a church group or privately, and be able to do things and help people.

00:58:40.460 I still do, you know, when I can for people with my expertise.

00:58:43.920 Now, usually, somebody will call me, which I like a lot better than putting on tools and actually doing anything.

00:58:48.260 If you want to call me and ask me an electrical question, I'm happy to help over the phone.

00:58:52.100 If I got to show up with my tools, it's a little bit different now.

00:58:54.220 But then I had time.

00:58:58.200 Now I've got more money and a lot less time.

00:59:03.800 So I choose where I give my time very, very carefully because I have so little of it to give.

00:59:11.220 But we all have money, talent, and time to give to differing degrees.

00:59:16.140 The story I mentioned last hour was out of Atlanta, Georgia, where people, a woman was in the park the Sunday before Thanksgiving feeding homeless people.

00:59:23.860 And she got a citation to appear in court for serving food without a permit.

00:59:28.000 Here in Tucson, Arizona, there was a young man going through hairstylist school, which I think is one of the most absurd things in the entire planet is hairstylist school.

00:59:38.320 But don't please don't email me on this.

00:59:40.600 But I just think it's absurd.

00:59:42.540 But a thousand hours to become a hairstylist.

00:59:45.040 I was an electrician working in non-union states.

00:59:47.960 I never had to pass a test.

00:59:49.220 I just showed up on a job site.

00:59:50.480 If I could do the job, the boss would hire me.

00:59:52.120 If I couldn't do the job, the boss would fire me.

00:59:54.240 But you got to go a thousand hours to get a license to cut hair.

00:59:57.280 Okay.

00:59:58.100 And don't tell me about the chemicals and hair coloring.

01:00:00.400 I get all that.

01:00:01.240 Trust me, a hairstylist in my family.

01:00:03.960 But this young man was going through school to be a hairstylist.

01:00:08.960 And his mother was homeless.

01:00:11.560 And I guess his mother had passed away.

01:00:13.100 And in memorial to his mother, he was going into the parks in Tucson, Arizona, and giving free haircuts to homeless people.

01:00:21.540 Not only were they going to arrest this guy, but they were going to make him drive all the way up, which is about a two-hour drive to Phoenix, Arizona, to the state capitol.

01:00:30.100 And appear before the cosmetology board, whatever power that group has, to answer for him cutting hair without a license.

01:00:40.540 Do you realize the absurdity in that?

01:00:43.600 Do you realize how much of the power we have?

01:00:46.880 That would be a First Amendment issue to me.

01:00:49.760 But the absurdity that the government dropped all these charges.

01:00:52.660 Arizona changed the rules.

01:00:54.020 Atlanta dropped the charges against this woman.

01:00:56.240 Because when you point out the absurdity to people, they get it.

01:00:59.160 They don't want to be embarrassed.

01:01:00.080 So they go away.

01:01:02.080 But the fact that somebody wrote the citation to begin with shocks me.

01:01:07.940 One person in Atlanta talking about individuals helping the homeless said this.

01:01:12.260 We don't want anybody to stop feeding people.

01:01:14.460 We just want it done in a way that is connected to social service providers.

01:01:19.900 And not on the street corner because we can't make sure those connections are being made in these street corner feedings.

01:01:25.460 You understand in the mind of some, it all goes back to government assistance.

01:01:30.640 I'm not diminishing government assistance.

01:01:32.580 I'm not diminishing social services.

01:01:34.460 What I'm saying is, as an individual, you have money, talent, and time to give.

01:01:40.740 Mercury One is an organization set up by Glenn and the power of the Blaze and his network.

01:01:49.300 And it's an organization of benevolence through the listeners.

01:01:51.980 It's a cohesive group where it's somebody you trust that that organization is going to squeeze every penny out of every dollar.

01:01:59.020 I went down to the border.

01:02:00.060 I was in McAllen, Texas with Mercury One Dollars.

01:02:02.740 We went down there and we watched that in action.

01:02:05.740 We watched the toys and the food and the benevolence of the listeners to this program and the power of unity in all of that.

01:02:13.680 But as an individual, like I was just an individual yesterday, the ability to go down to, for me, it was St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix and donate my time.

01:02:23.440 But I was there with about a hundred other people.

01:02:25.800 We fed about 700 homeless people yesterday for lunch.

01:02:29.180 In an hour and a half, about 700 meals fed.

01:02:33.340 Superstar athletes were there, past and present.

01:02:35.480 Local television personalities there.

01:02:43.240 And to watch everybody come as an individual on Christmas Day to make a difference in the lives of people they've never met and may never see again.

01:02:51.400 For me, it's one day a year.

01:02:53.540 I mean, it's not.

01:02:54.340 I mean, I do it more often.

01:02:55.560 But it's not every day for me.

01:02:57.300 For groups like St. Vincent de Paul and other very worthwhile groups across the country, it's every single day.

01:03:06.920 But you have the ability.

01:03:09.020 But it's not responsibility, although I believe it is.

01:03:12.140 But you have a right.

01:03:13.400 You have a right to be a giver.

01:03:15.340 You have a right to do these things.

01:03:17.420 And for a government agent to say, you know what?

01:03:20.460 We don't want to stop you from feeding people.

01:03:22.320 We want you to do it through the proper channel so it all comes back to us and it connects to social services.

01:03:26.660 And that, to me, is such a scary way to think.

01:03:32.040 Should people be connected to services that may mainstream them and get them off of addictions and get them off the street and get them mainstreamed?

01:03:39.120 Absolutely.

01:03:40.080 Are there private organizations that do a great job of that?

01:03:42.620 Oh, you bet there are.

01:03:43.740 All over the country.

01:03:45.440 Are there government agencies that can assist?

01:03:47.480 Yes, there are.

01:03:48.540 But there are people in our society who have the belief that you should only give in a way that pushes people back to social services or you're doing harm.

01:03:59.140 I want you to think about that.

01:04:03.480 That if you don't have a food handler's license, you can't give out food in a park.

01:04:08.640 That's one way for them to shut you down because what you're doing is you are enhancing the problem because now that homeless person is not going to get up and seek out a shelter or seek out social services because you fed him or her in a park.

01:04:21.080 You gave a homeless person a bag of groceries and something to drink, some water.

01:04:30.540 Therefore, they're not going to seek out government services, so you're belaboring and lengthening the problem.

01:04:37.860 It's a dangerous mindset.

01:04:41.440 It is an absolute dangerous mindset.

01:04:43.580 And I don't think we should ever give up our responsibility.

01:04:48.760 We should never lose that sense of responsibility to give to others, nor should we ever give up our right to do it as an individual or a group we want to get together.

01:04:57.580 I was with a church group.

01:04:58.720 We used to go to get together on the weekends.

01:05:00.280 Everybody would bring a six-pack or a 12-pack of soft drinks or water.

01:05:03.220 We'd put it on ice, and we'd walk around the parking lots in Arizona where it's 115 degrees in the summer, and we would just hand out free drinks to people.

01:05:09.620 They always thought it was a catch.

01:05:10.840 What do we got to do?

01:05:11.620 Nothing.

01:05:12.280 Here's what you want, something to drink.

01:05:13.400 We got diet.

01:05:14.100 We got regular.

01:05:14.680 We got water.

01:05:15.460 We got whatever you want.

01:05:17.860 Just an act of kindness.

01:05:19.000 We just felt like doing something nice for people.

01:05:21.340 Going to shut us down because we didn't have a food handler's license.

01:05:23.640 We didn't have a permit.

01:05:27.120 Don't ever give up your ability, your desire, or your right to perform acts of kindness for other people.

01:05:36.620 Corporately, you can make a big difference, whether it's Mercury One or somebody you believe in.

01:05:40.140 But individually, we can make a dent in our society.

01:05:43.480 Money, talent, and time.

01:05:45.380 And don't let anybody tell you that giving of any one of those things to anyone ever diminishes or is hurtful.

01:05:52.920 And the people that are of that mindset are just dead wrong.

01:05:57.320 Chicago Police Department has changed their TASER policy.

01:06:03.040 You know, their less than lethal use of force policy.

01:06:06.040 What some members of the police union are shaking their head about.

01:06:09.040 And if you're a police officer, you're going to want to hear this.

01:06:11.440 Now, I'm not a police officer, but I call many of them friends.

01:06:14.060 And my youngest brother is a police officer in my hometown and truly is the hero of my life.

01:06:20.400 The men and women that put on that uniform do an amazing service in their community every single day.

01:06:25.660 And restricting their ability to do their jobs and protect themselves is hurtful all the way around.

01:06:30.760 Chicago, one of the most dangerous places to live, never mind be a police officer.

01:06:34.860 And what they're now doing to the police there and restricting them has got police unions just shaking their head.

01:06:40.740 We'll get to that coming up here in just a few moments.

01:06:42.580 Once again, my name is Mike Broomhead from Phoenix, Arizona, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:06:50.000 Glenn Beck.

01:06:58.740 Glenn Beck.

01:07:01.220 Use of force.

01:07:02.200 It's always a question about police departments all over the country.

01:07:04.720 When is the right amount of force to be used?

01:07:06.760 When is it excessive force?

01:07:08.580 Let me start with a couple of things.

01:07:10.400 Number one, I am unashamedly pro-law enforcement.

01:07:13.720 I believe that the vast majority of police officers, first responders in general, but specifically in this case, police officers, do the job they do from the goodness of their heart because they legitimately want to serve their country and their community.

01:07:26.840 They don't want to violate people's constitutional rights.

01:07:29.200 They want to protect their constitutional rights.

01:07:31.040 That's my belief, and it comes from experience.

01:07:33.840 I know many police officers.

01:07:36.260 I call them friends here in Phoenix, Arizona, where I call home, across the cities around what we call the Valley, and at home.

01:07:43.760 I grew up in a law enforcement family, cousins, uncles, and most importantly, my youngest brother.

01:07:48.380 My youngest brother is a sheriff's lieutenant in my hometown of Fort Myers, Florida, the Lee County Sheriff's Office, and I've said many times on this show and on my show, he is absolutely, without a doubt, my hero.

01:08:01.320 He serves his community honorably.

01:08:03.320 He is a good cop.

01:08:04.480 He's always been a good, fair cop.

01:08:06.700 He's always done his job.

01:08:07.780 He's had the respect of the people that work with him and now the people that work for him.

01:08:11.380 He took the job because they were safe where we lived growing up, and he wanted it to remain safe for his children.

01:08:17.220 He's got three kids who I absolutely adore.

01:08:20.320 I've got two nieces and a nephew.

01:08:22.240 His wife is incredible.

01:08:25.500 She is absolutely one of my favorite human beings in the entire planet.

01:08:30.480 He is a great family man.

01:08:32.100 He serves his community.

01:08:33.700 He is a doting father, and that, for me, is the vast majority of police officers in this country.

01:08:38.880 Nobody, nobody hates a bad cop more than a good cop because it makes their lives dangerous, it makes their lives miserable, and it tarnishes the image of the agency.

01:08:54.300 So out in front of it, that's where I am on this story.

01:08:57.620 I'm coming at you with a very big bias.

01:09:00.140 The other thing you need to know about police officers is the scenario is a split-second decision.

01:09:09.760 Shoot or don't shoot.

01:09:12.820 Shoot the wrong person or pull the trigger at the wrong time. 1.00

01:09:17.220 Lose your job, go to prison. 0.99

01:09:20.040 Don't pull the trigger.

01:09:21.120 They go home and tell your family you're never coming home, and you're buried.

01:09:29.360 That's a legitimate scenario that most police officers face at least once in their career, some multiple times.

01:09:37.980 It's a dangerous job.

01:09:39.180 They know it's dangerous when they take it.

01:09:40.540 They're not complaining about the danger.

01:09:41.800 But when you, in the interest of community relations, do things like Chicago, police are now deterred from using stun guns, or more known as tasers, on people who are running away, intoxicated, or vulnerable to injury.

01:09:59.960 What about the cop that's vulnerable to injury?

01:10:03.040 What about them?

01:10:03.960 So critics say the policy has been too permissive, while the union representing rank-and-file cops argued the department did not have the right to change rules without its input.

01:10:14.040 Again, when you, if you're a doctor, you know what they do?

01:10:18.560 As a doctor, you go before a review board of your peers, of other doctors, not the cops.

01:10:24.900 Citizen review board. 0.98

01:10:27.780 Silly, right? 0.81

01:10:28.460 A citizen review board, never put a badge on, never put on the uniform, have no idea what that scenario is like. 0.97

01:10:38.440 Thank a cop.

01:10:39.420 You see them working today?

01:10:40.720 Thank them for what they've done in your community.

01:10:43.140 Coming up, we'll talk about accomplishments of the administration.

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01:11:03.400 My name is Mike Broomhead, Phoenix, Arizona.

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01:11:06.420 For today and tomorrow.

01:11:07.760 Thanks.

01:11:08.100 And by the way, social media users, I appreciate the outreach.

01:11:10.620 A lot of people following me on Twitter.

01:11:12.420 I'm at Broomhead Show on Twitter.

01:11:14.400 If you're an Instagram user, Mike Broomhead.

01:11:16.500 All one word.

01:11:17.400 No dots, no dashes.

01:11:18.480 My last name's spelled just like it sounds.

01:11:20.520 You can find me there.

01:11:21.640 The Mike Broomhead Show fan page on Facebook is where you can find me as well.

01:11:24.760 I do a show Monday through Friday, 6 to 10 a.m.

01:11:27.020 At KFYI in Phoenix, Arizona.

01:11:29.160 So I love the outreach.

01:11:30.240 I'm going to start interacting with more people on social media during the commercial breaks.

01:11:33.340 But I do appreciate that's a great tool for me.

01:11:36.260 I don't use Snapchat.

01:11:37.260 I'm too old.

01:11:37.780 I'm 50.

01:11:38.500 And no one my age should use Snapchat.

01:11:41.220 But I love the social media world.

01:11:43.240 So if you want to join me there, I'd love to interact there.

01:11:47.640 One of the big stories, one of the storylines I have been following for the better part of this year,

01:11:53.900 and the word I've been using more often than not, is narrative.

01:11:57.900 Because the narrative is being painted by people in what I call traditional media.

01:12:02.240 People would say the mainstream media, but traditional media.

01:12:04.320 And the narrative is whatever they want it to be.

01:12:08.660 Not exactly a lie, but not exactly the whole truth either.

01:12:12.500 We know that some very prominent names in the media have been called out, caught lying.

01:12:17.800 Lying to you very recently.

01:12:20.300 Brian Ross for one of them at ABC.

01:12:22.540 We know that CNN carries a narrative all their own.

01:12:28.120 And many Americans still upset about the tax plan.

01:12:32.160 Okay, wait until there were many Americans upset about Obamacare, too.

01:12:36.980 You said that was a great thing.

01:12:38.180 And then it turns out the people that hated it were right.

01:12:41.100 Well, now many people upset about the tax reform plan.

01:12:45.660 Well, let's see if you're right or wrong.

01:12:47.560 Because now CBS, three different networks, three different families assessed by an accountant on CBS News.

01:12:58.460 All three families paying less.

01:13:00.100 CBS didn't like that very much.

01:13:02.480 Tried to downplay it.

01:13:03.520 Bernie Sanders trying to downplay it.

01:13:06.100 My point is there is always going to be a narrative shared by someone.

01:13:10.380 You tune into this program or you tune into my program in Phoenix, Arizona.

01:13:16.440 You're going to get a certain narrative, a point of view.

01:13:19.440 The difference being I've never told anyone that I'm not giving you my opinion.

01:13:25.580 I'm an opinion-based show.

01:13:27.280 I am taking news stories.

01:13:30.320 I'm not telling you what to think.

01:13:32.560 I'm telling you how I think.

01:13:35.020 Here's my unique perspective.

01:13:37.360 My unique conservatism coming from where I have to where I am now.

01:13:43.880 Realizing that if I were in the Democratic Party, I'd be a hero.

01:13:49.580 You realize if I came to you with a liberal perspective of punish the rich, they'd love me.

01:13:57.100 Barely a high school diploma, clawed out of the gutter, you know, raised poor, but now has been successful spreading the liberal message.

01:14:06.260 Not anymore because I don't spread the liberal message, but there is a narrative to be told.

01:14:16.560 There is a narrative being put forth.

01:14:19.920 CNN headline, why Trump isn't getting the credit he thinks he deserves.

01:14:28.540 It's always self-serving.

01:14:30.400 Remember CNN headline that said, Trump gets two scoops of ice cream.

01:14:35.320 Everybody else just gets one.

01:14:36.920 That was an actual CNN headline.

01:14:40.260 Don't believe me?

01:14:41.640 Look it up.

01:14:42.880 Even late night talk shows made fun of them for that.

01:14:46.420 There is a narrative for whatever reason that has turned me into a defender of this president on many levels, not on every level.

01:14:57.580 I have disagreements with everyone and I am not going to be a part of any cult of personality.

01:15:02.600 I have the utmost respect for George W. Bush.

01:15:11.700 I've met him on a number of occasions.

01:15:14.120 He was the president when my brother was killed in Iraq.

01:15:17.200 His outreach to my family, his connection to my family was sincere.

01:15:24.060 My interactions with him have been sincere.

01:15:26.000 I find him to be a good human being.

01:15:28.140 I don't agree with George W. Bush on everything.

01:15:30.860 Never did.

01:15:32.140 Disappointed.

01:15:32.600 And what happened to the economy the last couple of years of his presidency.

01:15:37.660 Thought there should have been spending cuts to go with the tax cuts.

01:15:40.380 By the way, we could talk about that in this tax reform bill.

01:15:45.540 I will say this to you about tax reform.

01:15:48.260 The United States of America does not have an income problem.

01:15:53.860 Bernie Sanders laments that we didn't make tax cuts permanent in the addition to the debt that may be happening because of the Republicans' tax reform plan.

01:16:04.820 Let me remind everyone that in every quarter of every year of the Obama presidency and including every quarter of every year of the Trump presidency, the United States Treasury has set records for income.

01:16:18.460 Year over year, the Treasury has taken in more money than it ever has before every single year.

01:16:25.460 And yet we have created deficits every single year.

01:16:31.460 Everyone's right now getting ready to do their taxes for the year.

01:16:34.340 If you're an employer, you're getting them ready for your employees.

01:16:36.620 If you're an employee, you're waiting on your W-2 so you can file your taxes.

01:16:40.080 If you sit down with your husband or your wife or your significant other, whatever, and you do your taxes for the year and you look at the W-2 and you say, wow, we have made more money this year than we have ever made in our lives.

01:16:52.880 It's not even close, more money this year than last, and yet we're still living in debt.

01:17:01.320 Is that an income problem or is that a spending problem?

01:17:06.160 America does not have an income problem.

01:17:08.720 The United States government has a spending problem.

01:17:11.560 You can't lay that at the feet of Barack Obama only.

01:17:14.040 There has been Republican-controlled Congress for a long time while Obama was president.

01:17:18.180 This is a governmental problem.

01:17:20.100 This is a nobody-wants-to-be-told-no problem.

01:17:23.800 Don't let them give you the narrative that this is an income problem and we need to raise taxes on rich Americans or raise taxes on business owners.

01:17:34.880 There's plenty of money in the United States Treasury.

01:17:37.960 They just don't spend it well.

01:17:40.120 As a matter of fact, one of the stories that I have is, whoa, it's one of my favorite things to talk about, is government waste.

01:17:46.080 Do you know that we spent over $300,000 on a clown school in Argentina?

01:17:53.920 Not making it up.

01:17:55.400 It was fact-checked.

01:17:57.480 We give foreign dollars through USAID or other organizations to foreign governments and NGOs, non-governmental organizations, to help foster whatever it is we're trying to foster in other nations.

01:18:08.460 And we as a government, as the people of this country, we gave over $300,000 to a clown school in Argentina.

01:18:24.540 I want you to let that sink in the next time somebody tells you that we have a problem with the way the government works here and the things that we do.

01:18:35.480 And that we need to tax people more, that they are not paying their fair share.

01:18:42.180 Does anybody not understand the absurdity of this? 0.79

01:18:48.080 We, as a government, spend money on the most ridiculous things. 0.97

01:18:59.480 $324,015 to pay for a clown school in Argentina. 0.96

01:19:03.980 That was the accusations tweeted as part of his annual airing of the grievances.

01:19:08.660 It was tweeted by Rand Paul.

01:19:11.480 The U.S. agency provided foreign aid to a circus school in Argentina for their youth.

01:19:19.060 Paul released a waste report each year, draws attention to the federal dollars spent around the globe.

01:19:23.780 In 2017, a tongue-in-cheek example ranging from $100,000 to teach farmers how to use Facebook, $1.8 million to remind Cambodian motorcycles to wear helmets.

01:19:34.200 And he also tweeted out $300,000 for a clown school in Argentina.

01:19:38.620 Well, listen, that's going to pay huge dividends as soon as the Argentinian circus comes to America. 0.99

01:19:44.400 You and I will be entertained for years to come.

01:19:48.100 The school funding comes from the Inter-American Foundation.

01:19:51.160 The U.S. agency provides an unorthodox alternative to traditional foreign aid.

01:19:55.380 It has awarded 5,100 grants worth more than $720 million since 1972.

01:20:01.140 The most creative ideas for self-help for Latin America and the Caribbean.

01:20:07.480 There you have it.

01:20:11.520 So you want to know what the problem is?

01:20:14.740 Well, there's the problem.

01:20:18.300 Rosie O'Donnell said Paul Ryan's going to hell because of the tax cuts.

01:20:22.600 Trump says this is bad.

01:20:24.020 Nancy Pelosi says it's the worst piece of legislation ever.

01:20:27.560 And in the meantime, we are sending hundreds of millions of dollars overseas for clown schools.

01:20:37.660 What is it exactly that's being done now this year?

01:20:41.980 By the way, we're going to talk a little bit about Israel in the next segment.

01:20:46.600 The president deciding that we're going to make good on a promise America made years ago to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

01:20:54.180 Another nation, albeit not a big nation, joining us in that.

01:20:59.120 And what happened to all that violence that was going to happen in the streets?

01:21:01.680 If you remember, if we do this, there's going to be mass chaos around the world and violence everywhere.

01:21:07.100 Even the New York Times had to admit it never quite happened.

01:21:10.320 So a little discussion about Israel and our plans there.

01:21:13.100 And then coming up a little after the bottom of the hour, immigration and what illegal immigrants are now doing to circumvent federal law.

01:21:20.480 All that coming up.

01:21:21.560 My name is Mike Broomhead.

01:21:22.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:21:27.220 Glenn Beck.

01:21:36.340 Glenn Beck.

01:21:37.340 All right, let's talk immigration.

01:21:39.820 Big across the country, we know about the Dreamers. 1.00

01:21:42.000 And this is, again, the narrative you're going to hear going into an election year.

01:21:45.300 And this is already the straw man that's being propped up by people on the left.

01:21:49.200 And listen, politics happens on both sides of the aisle.

01:21:51.580 I'm being critical of the Democrats right now.

01:21:53.220 I can be critical of the Republicans at times, too.

01:21:55.500 But right now, we've got to look at what's happening.

01:21:58.100 Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House.

01:22:00.920 The Democrats are desperately trying to stop right now in the midterms what they believe to be the Trump agenda that is ruining America.

01:22:09.240 I absolutely love this.

01:22:10.880 And I'll tell you why.

01:22:12.020 I spent eight years feeling like the Democrats have felt for the last 12 months.

01:22:16.500 I didn't understand how he elected Barack Obama the first time.

01:22:19.900 I was shocked.

01:22:21.240 I was godsmacked that he was elected a second time.

01:22:24.720 Didn't think he would be.

01:22:27.160 And I've got to tell you, I think it was damaging to America.

01:22:30.620 I thought his foreign policy was abysmal, and it's going to take a decade to fix.

01:22:35.440 And I can defend that with a few, just a few things.

01:22:38.940 Let me point out just a couple of things.

01:22:42.680 He promised in the first three months of his presidency to get us out of Iraq. 1.00

01:22:45.820 Took him a lot longer than that, but he did it.

01:22:47.740 He was warned by people on both sides of the political aisle, from the military to national defense experts that said,

01:22:54.240 don't do it, you're going to create a vacuum.

01:22:56.240 And he did.

01:22:57.580 Why?

01:22:58.360 Because he was getting heat from the liberal left.

01:23:01.020 The vacuum was created, and it was filled by what he called the JV squad.

01:23:06.200 They're called ISIS. 0.84

01:23:09.020 That president of the United States traveled the country, traveled the world on an apology tour.

01:23:14.760 He was going to be nice to our enemies.

01:23:16.600 They were going to respect us instead of fear us.

01:23:20.160 How'd that work out?

01:23:21.240 The JV squad eventually took over a big chunk of Iraq.

01:23:26.320 They controlled the entire border between Syria and the U.S.

01:23:29.960 They not only slaughtered Christians. 0.87

01:23:31.980 They didn't just slaughter the infidel. 0.99

01:23:34.240 They slaughtered fellow Muslims. 1.00

01:23:36.180 They shot people. 0.99

01:23:37.640 They hung people.

01:23:38.580 They destroyed historical religious relics all across the globe. 0.64

01:23:44.460 But if you insulted Koran, we're going to blow up a train.

01:23:50.420 That's just one example of the foreign policy mess that that president created.

01:23:57.060 How about the story we now know about Hezbollah dealing drugs in the United States and high-ranking members of Hezbollah being blocked from arrest that the DEA worked on for years so that John Kerry could complete the nuclear deal with the Iranians? 0.53

01:24:16.280 Look at North Korea, 1994.

01:24:21.140 Bill Clinton stands at a podium and says, this landmark deal we've cut with the North Koreans will ensure that they never proliferate a nuclear weapon. 0.76

01:24:30.460 And it's going to be that way that they're going to keep their centrifuges for nuclear power, but they will never enrich to weapons grade.

01:24:37.140 And we are going to ensure this because we are going to have inspectors there.

01:24:40.460 They are going to have strict oversight.

01:24:41.900 We will have 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week access.

01:24:46.380 Therefore, the North Koreans will never have a nuclear weapon.

01:24:50.220 23 years later, look where we are.

01:24:53.340 So what happened two years ago?

01:24:55.940 Two and a half years ago now?

01:24:58.160 Barack Obama stands at a podium with his vice president over his right shoulder and says to the world, we've cut a deal with the Iranians, that they're going to be able to keep their centrifuges. 1.00

01:25:08.540 They'll be able to create nuclear power, but they will never, ever enrich to weapons grade.

01:25:13.800 How do we know this?

01:25:14.640 We're going to have inspectors there.

01:25:15.860 We're going to have access 24 hours a day, seven days a week to ensure that the Iranians never proliferate a nuclear weapon. 0.51

01:25:22.100 The entire world lost its mind, including the nations in the Middle East. 1.00

01:25:26.820 When that deal was being made, our president stopped Hezbollah from being arrested for dealing drugs in the U.S. in order to make that deal go through.

01:25:39.820 Foreign policy of that president was abysmal.

01:25:42.840 So for all of you on the left, I feel your pain.

01:25:47.400 I felt it for eight years.

01:25:49.080 Welcome to my party.

01:25:51.060 So, and you know what I never did that you're doing is I never threatened to move to another country, and I never said he wasn't my president.

01:25:58.060 Barack Obama was my president.

01:25:59.640 You know why?

01:26:00.280 I believe in the process.

01:26:02.840 I believe in the United States form of government.

01:26:05.540 I didn't complain about the Electoral College.

01:26:07.640 I didn't complain about popular vote.

01:26:09.080 I didn't complain about anything.

01:26:09.980 I was shocked that the Americans elected that man twice.

01:26:17.700 Time for you to grow up, put your big boy and your big girl pants on, and deal with the fact that Donald Trump's the president.

01:26:26.960 But the foreign policy was a nightmare.

01:26:30.440 One of the things that's being dealt with is immigration.

01:26:34.240 Now, if you remember, this was a federal problem.

01:26:39.980 Local government should not be involved.

01:26:43.160 The sheriff of the county I live in, Joe Arpaio, convicted of a crime, lost the election for re-election.

01:26:51.600 Because local jurisdiction have no place here.

01:26:55.520 Federal issue.

01:26:57.720 Well, now, of course, Donald Trump's president.

01:26:59.880 Now they're sanctuary cities.

01:27:01.320 That's necessary.

01:27:03.200 Harboring fugitives.

01:27:04.220 How about the Kate Steinle case?

01:27:09.880 How about those parents?

01:27:14.840 Parents on a pier walking with their daughter and a whacked out illegal immigrant. 1.00

01:27:21.360 And it wouldn't matter if he was illegal. 0.93

01:27:22.420 She's just as dead.

01:27:23.280 He just happened to be in the country illegally multiple times, sneaking across the border.

01:27:26.640 Convicted felon.

01:27:27.500 High out of his mind and carrying a gun. 1.00

01:27:33.640 Shoots this girl in front of her parents. 0.98

01:27:35.920 Her dying words were, help me, dad. 0.94

01:27:39.800 Every parent out there just had a shiver go down their spine.

01:27:43.120 The only thing they could pray for was justice.

01:27:45.800 They get it?

01:27:47.500 Nope.

01:27:48.120 Not guilty.

01:27:48.780 So now, what was a federal issue?

01:27:52.980 Local jurisdictions and local governments, stay out of it.

01:27:56.820 This is Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and then Loretta Lynch.

01:27:59.580 Their problem, not yours. 0.60

01:28:01.080 Their job, not yours. 0.98

01:28:02.400 Immigration is a federal issue.

01:28:03.840 Stay out of it, local law enforcement.

01:28:05.480 Stay out of it, local jurisdictions.

01:28:06.860 None of your business.

01:28:09.800 Two Cambodian refugees living in Northern California have been convicted of crimes years ago.

01:28:14.100 Under the Trump administration, more aggressive immigration enforcement policies,

01:28:17.920 those offenses place them on a path toward deportation.

01:28:22.400 In comes Governor Jerry Brown and pardons them of their crimes.

01:28:27.460 They are now allowed to stay in America. 1.00

01:28:30.440 And the left goes crazy.

01:28:34.660 What happened to local jurisdictions staying out of a federal issue?

01:28:39.060 What happened with local governments staying out of it, immigration?

01:28:41.820 I thought that was a federal issue, people on the left.

01:28:43.980 I thought immigration was to be left to the federal enforcement agents.

01:28:48.900 Local jurisdictions had no business here, remember?

01:28:53.640 Now, local law enforcement can help the DEA.

01:28:56.760 Local law enforcement can help the ATF.

01:28:59.520 Local law enforcement can help the federal marshals.

01:29:02.260 Local law enforcement can help in drug crimes, bank robberies, fugitive task forces.

01:29:10.520 Hands off immigration, remember? 1.00

01:29:12.340 We live in an end-justify-the-mean society.

01:29:19.200 The left hates Donald Trump.

01:29:20.840 And any way to circumvent that authority, they're happy with.

01:29:23.980 They are all for it.

01:29:25.860 All for it.

01:29:30.620 Isn't that hysterical?

01:29:34.080 So here you got these Cambodian refugees.

01:29:36.740 And it's going to happen all over the country.

01:29:38.720 What do we need to know?

01:29:45.260 What do we need to know about what's happened in this country in the past 12 months?

01:29:49.620 That's accurate information.

01:29:51.140 Where we should be satisfied with the work that our Congress has done and our president has done.

01:29:55.380 And where is some room for improvement?

01:29:58.360 The popularity of the Congress is in the low teens.

01:30:01.440 And yet, the vast majority of members of Congress will be re-elected.

01:30:08.160 Glenn Beck.

01:30:15.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:30:17.600 Hope you had a Merry Christmas.

01:30:18.780 Hope you're going to have a Happy New Year from the Glenn Beck Program.

01:30:20.980 My name is Mike Broom.

01:30:21.840 Had Phoenix, Arizona in for the rest of the show, obviously, today.

01:30:24.420 And then tomorrow, I'll be in for Glenn as well.

01:30:26.780 Doc Thompson, a couple of days after that.

01:30:29.180 As we move along, the questions of this administration, legitimate questions about performance.

01:30:36.460 And not just from the Trump administration, from Congress.

01:30:39.280 We all have questions.

01:30:40.300 Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell.

01:30:41.920 Are they effective leaders?

01:30:42.840 It always strikes me as odd that the approval rating for Congress is in the low teens.

01:30:48.280 And yet, almost every representative gets re-elected.

01:30:50.600 It seems as if most representatives are liked by their constituents.

01:30:53.760 But as a body, they don't seem to get much done.

01:30:57.340 I am much happier now that I am an observer of American politics.

01:31:02.260 I'm not as immersed in the decisions that are made anymore.

01:31:05.180 And I've kind of gotten away from the cult of personality.

01:31:07.500 There are a few people that I've gotten to know in, you know, our state legislature, local legislators, and, you know, in the federal government.

01:31:14.760 And I've gotten to know and respect some people.

01:31:17.500 And, but for the most part, what I've stayed away from is getting emotionally involved anymore.

01:31:23.580 I'm much happier for it as an observer.

01:31:25.960 So watching it like I do anything else, professional sports or otherwise, it does shock me.

01:31:32.060 Because when it comes to leadership, it isn't about good guy, bad guy.

01:31:37.500 Good girl, bad girl.

01:31:40.000 It is about performance.

01:31:45.900 I could give you many, many examples.

01:31:47.920 But the best example I can give you when it comes to professional sports is Andy Reid.

01:31:53.920 He is the coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.

01:31:57.460 Was the coach of, for years and years and years, of the Philadelphia Eagles.

01:32:02.320 In Philadelphia, I imagine we'll name streets after him someday.

01:32:07.940 He's a legend in that city.

01:32:10.060 But when the team wasn't performing up to the fan standards, and it's a very, very tough city to play professional sports in.

01:32:17.880 He was let go.

01:32:19.500 Went on to different things, bigger and better things for him, and bigger and better things for the Philadelphia Eagles and that organization.

01:32:25.640 Because it's a performance-based business.

01:32:27.780 It's why the NFL prints its own money.

01:32:30.420 With the exception of what's happening with the kneeling, which I'm in full support of the people that leave the stadiums for a multitude of reasons.

01:32:39.420 I don't believe it's the time or the place.

01:32:42.460 Unintended consequences are always.

01:32:45.360 It's funny how, to some people, unintended consequences are all that matter unless it's something that they're passionate about.

01:32:52.920 I don't believe that NFL players that take a knee intended to insult veterans or intended to insult first responders.

01:33:02.840 Veterans.

01:33:05.100 But they did.

01:33:06.320 And so, when looking at the unintended consequences, why not change the behavior?

01:33:13.240 Because it doesn't help your message, number one.

01:33:16.220 But number two, most of us see sports as an escape.

01:33:21.160 When I go to a sporting event and I see somebody wearing a Cardinals jersey, I want that to be a fellow Cardinal fan.

01:33:28.920 I don't want to worry about if they donate money to Planned Parenthood.

01:33:33.760 You know what I mean?

01:33:34.300 You're there for an escape from the everyday world that you're in.

01:33:39.780 And so, dragging something like that into it seems odd.

01:33:45.200 And I don't understand why the NFL doesn't do something.

01:33:47.560 Because the NFL, they call the NFL the No Fun League.

01:33:50.880 And they call it the No Fun League because of the rules they've created.

01:33:54.500 The Dallas Cowboys wanted to wear something on their helmet to commemorate all those police officers that were killed in that terrorist attack.

01:33:59.720 And the NFL told them, no, that it wasn't a league-wide thing.

01:34:02.440 And as a team, you can't do anything individually.

01:34:05.040 Nobody thought that the NFL was being anti-cop, anti-fun, anti-individual, of course, but not anti-cop.

01:34:14.160 So, when this happens and they don't stop it, it makes you scratch your head and wonder why it's such a uniformed league.

01:34:20.600 They are so concerned about the way the uniform looks and everybody being the same.

01:34:27.960 But I'm all for the boycotts.

01:34:29.640 I think it's great.

01:34:30.440 I think that the players do have a right to kneel.

01:34:34.080 No doubt.

01:34:34.800 I don't think they don't have that right.

01:34:37.100 I mean, unless an owner says stand up and then the owner has a right to say you work for me as long as you're wearing my uniform.

01:34:41.460 And there's been a precedent set for that.

01:34:45.840 But the fans have a right to protest as well, and they are across the country.

01:34:51.680 But by and large, the NFL has been able to print money.

01:34:54.200 When you look at baseball, you see a manager wins a World Series.

01:34:58.760 Year or two later, gone.

01:35:01.400 A man named Ken Wisenhunt took the Arizona Cardinals one play away from beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl.

01:35:07.660 The Cardinals went to the Super Bowl one play away from winning the Super Bowl.

01:35:13.880 A couple years later, out.

01:35:16.080 The team wasn't performing.

01:35:18.660 It's a results-oriented world, except when it comes to our government.

01:35:23.340 Then it's a, he's a very good guy.

01:35:25.820 Mitch McConnell's a good man.

01:35:27.140 He might be a good man, but is he an effective leader?

01:35:29.960 Even if he is an effective leader, is there somebody more effective?

01:35:32.640 We had a president that was apologizing for America.

01:35:38.580 Now we've got a president that says America first.

01:35:41.440 If you owned a company, a big company, and your board of directors said, we need a CEO.

01:35:47.920 We need someone to steer this ship.

01:35:52.000 And your company makes, let's think of a product.

01:35:57.080 Your company makes radios.

01:36:00.680 And you bring in a guy that says, you know what?

01:36:04.200 I hate loud music.

01:36:05.720 I just do.

01:36:06.740 I don't listen to much music.

01:36:08.440 I'm more of a reader.

01:36:09.600 I don't listen to the radio very much.

01:36:11.800 I'm more of a reader.

01:36:13.880 Is that the guy you're going to pick for your CEO?

01:36:16.680 No.

01:36:18.180 We did.

01:36:18.820 We picked a guy to be our CEO twice that went around the world and apologized for American 1.00

01:36:25.140 excellence and American exceptionalism and arrogance is what he called it.

01:36:30.520 So Donald Trump now says America first.

01:36:33.560 Oh, look at this nationalism.

01:36:35.300 This is Hitler. 0.93

01:36:36.620 Hitler all over again. 0.96

01:36:38.860 Donald Trump went to the Asia Pacific summit and said, my job is America first.

01:36:45.680 First, your job is your country first.

01:36:49.320 We need you.

01:36:50.920 You need us.

01:36:52.380 Let's get something on the table.

01:36:54.980 That's fair for all of us.

01:36:56.620 And we all are going to grow stronger together.

01:36:59.160 My job is to look out for my country.

01:37:01.140 First, your job is to look out for your country.

01:37:03.520 First, no one applauded.

01:37:05.360 I didn't hear applause.

01:37:06.440 First, I'll give you another example of where I think it's kind of gone unnoticed, but I

01:37:13.940 think it's a very big deal in this presidency.

01:37:16.920 And again, I will tell you with wholeheartedly, unashamedly, I've been a critic.

01:37:23.620 I was a Ted Cruz guy.

01:37:27.120 I traveled across Arizona with Glenn and with a lot of other people in favor of Ted Cruz.

01:37:31.220 But when Trump won the nomination, he was far and above a better candidate than Hillary.

01:37:39.220 And as we're seeing a much better president than she would have been. 0.95

01:37:45.960 But one of the things that recently what the president did was he traveled to Utah and they

01:37:51.620 have reduced drastically reduced the size of two national monuments.

01:37:55.640 And he said to the people of that state, we're doing this because you've bonded with this

01:38:02.080 land.

01:38:02.540 You are much better equipped to manage this land than some bureaucrat thousands of miles

01:38:07.340 away.

01:38:09.620 I was by myself and gave him a standing ovation.

01:38:14.920 I live in a state.

01:38:16.080 There are a couple of places in this country, and I'm not trying to insult anywhere else in

01:38:19.120 the country, but there are a couple of places and I've traveled around the country quite

01:38:22.360 a bit where there is a, a pride in being from that state.

01:38:26.800 If you are born and raised in that state, Arizona is one of them.

01:38:30.580 Texas is the other.

01:38:32.500 You could have been, you could have moved to Texas when you were two days old.

01:38:35.400 You're not a Texan unless you were born there.

01:38:37.000 You're not a Texan.

01:38:38.640 People of Arizona aren't so strict.

01:38:40.480 We are a tree, we are a transient state, but the people that have been here for generations

01:38:45.480 are proud of the fact that they've been in Arizona for generations.

01:38:48.000 Who is better equipped to manage our forests?

01:38:52.960 Some bureaucrat thousands of miles away or the families that have been hunting and fishing

01:38:58.020 in these forests and hiking in these forests for generations?

01:39:00.840 Who wants to preserve the wildlife, the game, the forest themselves?

01:39:06.680 The people of that state, that's who.

01:39:09.820 According to the bureaucrats, if you turn Arizona over to the people of Arizona, we're going to

01:39:13.980 clear cut the forest and build soccer fields or something.

01:39:16.640 So we don't manage the forest, we don't thin, we don't cut the underbrush.

01:39:24.180 We don't cut in fire trails, so we can't get to the fires when they start.

01:39:27.880 We got to wait till they burn or fight them from above.

01:39:31.760 And it's a poor way to manage the land.

01:39:34.340 So for all the environmentalists that think they're helping, they're hurting.

01:39:37.660 And it should be managed by reasonable people that live and are invested in that state.

01:39:43.980 Not some bureaucratical nightmare.

01:39:46.640 So when the president went to Utah and said, we're reducing the size of these national monuments

01:39:49.960 because you're better equipped to manage that land, I thought, there you have it.

01:39:53.300 I am a state's rights advocate.

01:39:55.380 Let the people of that state manage their land.

01:39:59.440 We should be doing the same here.

01:40:02.380 We should be managing our own land here and across the Western United States where there's

01:40:06.140 huge portions of land that are still managed by the federal government.

01:40:09.100 These are just a couple of examples of things that I think where the president has done some

01:40:13.360 of the right things and he's never gotten any credit for it, recognition for it.

01:40:18.580 He laid out his national security plan.

01:40:20.980 Guess what was left out?

01:40:23.240 Climate change.

01:40:24.860 Climate change is not a national security issue for the president.

01:40:28.140 Does that mean the president wants dirty air and dirty water?

01:40:31.000 Of course it does.

01:40:31.760 He's a corporate baron.

01:40:32.780 But, you know, we want dirty water. 0.96

01:40:36.420 I'm one of those evil people too.

01:40:37.980 I want, you know, my grandkids, I, you know, I've had enough clean water my whole life.

01:40:42.120 My grandkids will toughen up.

01:40:43.540 It'll make them tough.

01:40:44.420 Let them drink dirty, polluted water.

01:40:46.000 It'll make them tough in the end.

01:40:47.620 Are you kidding me?

01:40:52.780 It's an insane way to look at the world.

01:40:54.680 And yet they look at it this way every single day.

01:40:58.780 Managed by a big nanny state is better off than the people in those states. 0.89

01:41:03.600 We are 50 individual states that has a federal government, not the other way around.

01:41:13.700 And the sooner we emphasize that, the better off we are.

01:41:18.260 Local control of tax dollars, local control of schools, local control of land, local control.

01:41:26.400 And if you don't like the way that state operates, go somewhere else.

01:41:30.140 Go to California.

01:41:31.560 If you don't like the way Arizona operates, go to California.

01:41:34.540 If you don't like the way New Mexico operates, go to Colorado.

01:41:37.660 You don't like the way Massachusetts operates?

01:41:40.040 Well, nobody does.

01:41:42.100 I'm kidding.

01:41:43.580 Kind of.

01:41:44.040 50 individual states who have a federal government, not the other way around.

01:41:52.580 Before I close it out for today, one more story about Congress, this time a candidate,

01:41:58.140 this one from Virginia, and why I think she fits right in.

01:42:01.820 That's coming up.

01:42:02.500 My name is Mike Broomhead, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:42:08.220 Glenn Beck.

01:42:14.040 Hey, thanks for being here.

01:42:18.920 Happy New Year.

01:42:19.480 Merry Christmas from the Glenn Beck Program.

01:42:21.120 My name is Mike Broomhead in the rest of the day and then tomorrow in for Glenn once again.

01:42:25.560 Talking about Congress, some of the things that are happening, this may a lot of people feel about it.

01:42:30.100 You know the power of the vote still exists.

01:42:32.440 I've never been a term limits person because I think it's a lazy way to vote.

01:42:36.080 I got to tell you, it's making me change my mind the more behavior I see because of how entrenched everyone gets.

01:42:42.440 I'm not there yet.

01:42:43.400 I still think we still have the power of the vote.

01:42:46.180 We all do.

01:42:47.360 We could wipe out, I mean by vote, not literally wipe out.

01:42:50.980 We could change the entire House of Representatives every two years and a third of the Senate every two years.

01:43:00.360 If they're not doing their jobs, send a message.

01:43:03.620 But then who are we sending?

01:43:05.280 You know, the House of Representatives is supposed to be that way.

01:43:09.960 The House of Representatives is supposed to be what it is.

01:43:14.520 And it's small groups, small districts.

01:43:18.020 But if you look the way even that's done now, it's crazy.

01:43:21.780 The gerrymandering that goes on.

01:43:23.820 There's a district in Arizona where I live that literally goes from northern Arizona to southern Arizona.

01:43:29.180 And it's like a skinny little snake that makes its way down.

01:43:32.300 How is one member of Congress going to cover that many hundreds of miles and the diversity from northern Arizona up in the mountains to southern Arizona down in the desert and still be able to serve those constituents?

01:43:42.380 Instead of just small groups of people in a small area, sending a representative from that neighborhood, whoever they believe that right person is, to what's called the people's house.

01:43:51.600 It's the way it's supposed to be.

01:43:53.460 That's not even accurate anymore.

01:43:55.880 But I give you this.

01:43:58.600 Her name is Sean Brown.

01:44:00.080 She's a Democrat from the state of Virginia, candidate for Congress.

01:44:06.520 And I believe she is absolutely fit to be a member of the United States Congress, and I'll tell you why. 0.79

01:44:15.120 And she's a Democrat.

01:44:17.640 She's been charged with fraud, theft, and embezzlement even before she's in Congress.

01:44:22.800 I mean, she's overqualified to start with, don't you think? 0.96

01:44:26.240 She's already been charged with those crimes. 0.72

01:44:28.540 They allegedly took place back in 2012.

01:44:31.860 If convicted, she faces 20 years in prison.

01:44:36.200 Now, it usually takes a member of Congress two, three terms to rack up those kind of charges.

01:44:42.320 She's got it going in.

01:44:44.140 This woman's overqualified the day she walks in the door. 1.00

01:44:48.500 According to the indictment, she filed fraudulent claims with the Summer Food Services Program of part of the Jobs Community Outreach Development Corporation.

01:44:58.540 By inflating the number of children from low-income families and their records in order to receive more money.

01:45:04.980 Her organization received roughly $803,000.

01:45:09.200 So she's already toying with numbers in federally funded programs to inflate the dollars that she gets. 1.00

01:45:16.480 If that isn't proof that she is legitimately ready to be a member of Congress, I don't know what is.

01:45:24.080 You know, usually as a freshman, you're just kind of wide-eyed and you go in kind of watching what everybody else does so that you can see how it works.

01:45:33.580 She could be training people the day she walks in. 1.00

01:45:39.420 She denies the wrongdoing and she says she'll vigorously defend.

01:45:42.640 She maintains her innocence.

01:45:43.920 This is according to her attorney.

01:45:45.680 She's scheduled to be in court January 12th. 0.82

01:45:49.220 So Sean Brown, I think, is already overqualified for a job in the Congress.

01:45:53.540 I want to thank you for being a part of the show today.

01:45:55.100 My name is Mike Broomhead, at Broomhead Show on Twitter, the Mike Broomhead Show fan page on Facebook, or Mike Broomhead, all one word, on Instagram if you want to follow me.

01:46:04.960 Have a great day, everyone.

01:46:06.320 We'll be back again, of course.

01:46:07.600 I'll be back tomorrow morning.

01:46:08.880 God bless.

01:46:09.280 God bless.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 26, 2017

12⧸26⧸17 - Tax Reform Has Come to America (Mike Broomhead in for Glenn)

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