The Glenn Beck Program - August 03, 2021


Best of The Program | Guest: Hayden Dublois | 8⧸3⧸21


Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

170.51178

Word Count

7,482

Sentence Count

6

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

On today's show, we cover the latest on the Andrew Cuomo scandal, the alleged abuse of power by the Prime Minister of Australia's Prime Minister, AndrewCuomo, and the massive infrastructure bill. We also cover what's going on in Afghanistan and the "Taliban" in Afghanistan, and we discuss the craziness that is happening in the streets of Australia, including the arrest of a yoga instructor who was doing yoga in a public park without a mask.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 welcome to the podcast uh today it's a big show um we go over what's in this infrastructure bill
00:00:07.940 a lot you're not going to want to you're not going to want to miss out on the terrible details
00:00:12.640 of the trillions of dollars we're spending we also have what's going on in afghanistan as we're
00:00:18.000 pulling out no surprise the taliban is coming in and brutalizing the population we will go into
00:00:24.380 that today uh we also uh will talk about the andrew cuomo allegations the big report has come out now
00:00:33.340 and is we have it we're going to go through some of the accusations in there uh long story short
00:00:40.040 even the democratic attorney general is saying he harassed women around the office we'll get into
00:00:46.040 the details there as well should remind you of course andrew cuomo was awful dot com you can go
00:00:52.280 there and say the unquestionable truth about andrew cuomo uh that is available to you we'll also be
00:00:59.180 covering this in detail going through the entire report on studios america tonight and we've been
00:01:03.020 look we've been all over this story with cuomo since the very beginning um going back over a year now
00:01:09.860 and we are going to make sure that each piece of this uh sees the light of day the show is available
00:01:17.380 of course right here on podcast you can subscribe for free follow the show and rate and review the
00:01:23.120 show if you don't mind that would be fantastic also available on youtube same for of course this
00:01:28.760 wonderful radio program we'll be back to talk about this even more depth tomorrow thanks so much for
00:01:34.720 tuning in here's the podcast you're listening to the best of the blend back program
00:01:48.100 we welcome from the incredibly popular podcast um what's pat's i was thinking about another podcast
00:02:00.560 what's the name of pat's podcast pat gray unleashed oh pat gray unleashed you know from that podcast
00:02:05.640 uh here here's mr pat gray hello pat that was funny it was it yeah i laughed inside i'm laughing
00:02:11.480 yeah you're laughing yeah inside so what do you have on your plate today uh did you have you seen
00:02:18.380 what's going on in australia uh yeah yeah you mean with the military showing up yeah yeah the lockdowns
00:02:26.240 the military going door to door the uh look at this i i think we have the the video of uh the people
00:02:34.080 in the park there there's a guy doing yoga in the park out by himself but he didn't have a mask on
00:02:40.000 so police come and uh cuff him behind his behind his back and then drag him off and arrest him can we
00:02:48.400 play that it's maybe we don't have no don't have it what was it in your pile of stuff it was in my pile of
00:02:55.200 crap yeah uh uh but do you know do you know how severe their situation is with the covid 19
00:03:03.840 it's really bad it's really really bad it's no wonder they've gone off the deep end well they're not
00:03:09.520 vaccinating they're not vaccinating at all right yeah and thus 924 people have died since this began
00:03:17.680 in the on the whole continent whole continent 25 million people 924 people if that is outrageous
00:03:26.160 that's outrageous what are they doing it's like i mean is there anybody left yeah there's only 24
00:03:32.160 million you know 900 and something of us so so uh you know the good news is is that i think the people
00:03:43.140 of australia are starting to feel the tyranny here and they don't like it at all and so they'll grab
00:03:50.020 their guns and they'll start going oh wait oh hold it just a second they turned in all their guns yeah
00:03:55.220 they did darn it yeah they did darn it darn it darn it well you know and to me this is just a precursor
00:04:01.860 of what could be in store for everybody i mean this is a free country this is a a country that appreciates
00:04:08.100 doesn't have guns they they don't have guns yeah let's just let's just let's just remember that
00:04:12.980 these are countries that don't have guns both australia and the uk yeah well they did a gun
00:04:19.300 buyback program uh yeah i bet with i bet they wish they had that money and could give it back and get
00:04:25.140 their gun right now yeah i mean look i don't think that they're necessarily going to go into an armed
00:04:30.180 revolution right now uh you know what does it take no seriously i mean not yes yes yes yes yes but i mean
00:04:35.860 what does it take your country is being destroyed it's 900 people and now your own your own citizens
00:04:46.420 in the military are being told to keep you inside at all cost it's this is this is insanity well to be
00:04:54.900 fair don't do yoga in a park by yourself you can't don't do that no that's that's like that kid remember
00:05:02.020 that guy in colorado that was was playing baseball with his kid way away from everybody else yeah
00:05:07.300 and they were like 20 feet away good thing we put him in jail yeah right i hope he's not out right
00:05:12.260 the bastard i hope you know i hope they beat him senseless before they put him behind bars well
00:05:18.100 it's about time we start beating people's senses isn't it sure is like i well you mentioned this
00:05:23.700 earlier glennon like in theory right you will you have a continent of your own right it's an island
00:05:30.020 essentially you're not letting anybody come you're not letting anyone in you're not letting
00:05:34.100 anyone out you could i guess crack down enough to limit cases and limit the the spread of the virus
00:05:39.300 like there is some level of lockdown you can do this with however on the other side of that there
00:05:44.820 has to be a strategy for this to end and what australia has done is lock down super hard anytime they
00:05:50.740 see any sign of the virus so they've been able to keep everything super low and i don't mean lockdown
00:05:55.220 u.s style lockdown where we all still kind of go do our thing and it's annoying it's all
00:05:59.380 depot is open like they shut down hard like you can't walk your dog and so um they've done all
00:06:09.380 that and then they have 12 of their population vaccinated so like what is the other side of
00:06:14.180 this like it's one thing if you want to lock down until in theory you get everybody vaccinated which
00:06:18.500 again is a problem on another in another direction but like what's eventually you're going to have to
00:06:25.060 let your people go out and they're not going to have any immunity and they're going to they're
00:06:29.620 going to get it you can't keep people inside all the time no this is you know what this is is you
00:06:35.940 know this is the extreme example of uh well you can stop wearing masks and we go as soon as we get
00:06:42.500 a vaccine well as soon as it calms down we don't have the hospitals overrun yeah then it's well when we
00:06:47.940 get the vaccine well the vaccine's not good enough they just they just cut right to the end they're just
00:06:54.180 like we're never letting people out or at least we're being honest and it is weird coming from
00:06:58.900 australia because we think of them as having similar sensibilities as us right yes instead
00:07:05.380 it's a penal colony again yes i mean honestly you have those you have spiders that size i'm staying in
00:07:14.500 anyway it's true there's no reason to go outside in australia and i want a gun because i would shoot
00:07:20.180 those spiders have you seen them they're like they're what is that three feet they're like three
00:07:25.860 feet across that's not even a spider that's um oh yeah i've never seen a spider three feet across
00:07:31.860 oh i oh i'll show you i live in texas it was uh oh no i'll show you a picture when i gotta find it
00:07:37.260 when we're off air but i i've got a picture of one because it i i could not believe it they were
00:07:43.540 telling me when i went to australia they were like oh yeah you see the one that was just found in a barn
00:07:47.700 i'm like no they're like yeah there's this barn that was there and you know these old people owned
00:07:54.300 it and when the new buyers came in they opened up the door and they saw a spider web it was three
00:07:59.260 feet across what no way the spider web was three feet across no the spider wow that's and they saved
00:08:07.940 it they put it like in a zoo or something because they're like hey there's a big spider yeah let's
00:08:14.260 kill it no wonder the entire country was on fire that was probably the smart thing to do
00:08:18.460 you see a spider like that you'd light the continent on fire you're like no thank you
00:08:24.620 no thank you so we have uh uh we have the mayor of uh washington dc i don't know if you've you've
00:08:34.200 seen muriel browser uh bowser what she's done uh but she had an in indoor mask mandate she announced
00:08:41.480 it citywide i love this indoor mask mandate thursday and it's effective saturday at 5 p.m
00:08:50.580 which was convenient for her because she threw herself a celebrity studied birthday party
00:08:55.580 on friday night it's so good nobody wore the masks yeah then she officiated on saturday morning
00:09:04.100 a maskless outdoor wedding in washington and then apparently a maskless indoor reception
00:09:11.160 now the birthday party was not a surprise so she knew that was happening but the mask mandate wasn't
00:09:17.740 in but neither was the wedding she knew about the wedding too she she's not just violating she is
00:09:25.780 knowingly um putting into action a mask mandate that she intended to violate and again her activity at
00:09:38.060 an outdoor wedding is completely appropriate even in the covet era there's no reason to believe
00:09:44.540 there's any problem with that however she's the one yeah who implemented the rule and it was also the
00:09:51.120 the reception was inside and the reception was inside inside so so which so which is it she either
00:09:57.720 wants to spread the covet 19 through unmasked parties and she's like i'm going to do it myself
00:10:03.720 right or she believes that vaccinated people are safe and can gather together and she's right
00:10:09.380 right obviously that's what it is this is what's so silly about it is like a lot of times we complain
00:10:13.680 about these celebrities uh doing these things and politicians and usually what they're doing is
00:10:18.980 something that's actually sensible it's fine but it's against what they're saying rules and did you
00:10:24.320 see okay so it's it was a reporter a journalist from uh the washington examiner that took the
00:10:30.800 photograph of her inside without a mask yeah right so the washingtonian later in the day had this
00:10:38.040 update update the washington examiner writer who published photos of mayor bowser maskless at a wedding
00:10:45.940 over the weekend was not invited to the wedding oh no are you kidding so i guess that negates the
00:10:53.780 photo it does it does if you crash a wedding it negates all information it's those journalistic
00:10:59.640 standards man they don't ever do stuff like that right it's like the police not having a warrant none
00:11:05.100 of the evidence counts right because you gotta crash the wedding completely out of your mind
00:11:09.180 don't worry about the fact that muriel bowser was maskless inside doesn't matter because the
00:11:16.000 person shouldn't have been there anyway to take the photo it's in the wedding crash your cause of
00:11:19.360 the constitution right it is it is right there in plain sight three c well not plain sight you have
00:11:25.600 to do the the lemon rub and then right and then you have the ben franklin glasses blow dry that's
00:11:30.820 really good uh one one other thing the american federation of teachers uh the union president randy
00:11:37.640 weingarten uh says the kids have got to mask up this fall good uh and they said you know look
00:11:45.680 i'm not going to promise that schools are going to reopen uh but gotta be kidding no no we're good
00:11:53.460 this is a quote we're going to try oh wow so i don't know try i don't know there is no try i don't
00:12:00.800 know what what exactly they have to rehearse or try to i mean you get into your car you turn the key
00:12:07.620 you drive to the school you use your key to get into the school you open up the door you turn on
00:12:12.520 the lights you stand there at the chalkboard and you go hi kids i'm going to teach something it's not
00:12:17.320 that hard uh they've been doing it for years but maybe they have forgotten in the last year and a
00:12:23.660 half i now i can't believe they are saying they're making a big deal out of the safety for our kids they
00:12:28.420 have to be masked up or the teachers are not coming in today i saw an msnbc a long story about the
00:12:36.180 police officers are committing suicide do you know there are six police officers that committed
00:12:40.160 suicide uh after january 6th yeah yeah yeah they committed suicide and msnbc is very upset about
00:12:47.020 the the cops well they love the police you know they do they love the police just how supportive
00:12:51.600 they've been and this just caused them so much stress um now as i'm watching it i'm screaming at the tv
00:13:00.460 exactly what oh you love the police now you're worried about their mental health now okay and
00:13:08.100 they're very worried about suicide with these police officers how about the epidemic of suicide for our
00:13:16.200 kids our kids are going through absolute hell suicide rate is up 30 percent because of the
00:13:25.380 the the uh schools and the masks and the you know uh social distancing and they don't give a flying
00:13:32.120 crap you never hear about their mental health you never really hear unless you're reading something
00:13:38.580 from conservatives about how the test scores what this is doing to them not only socially but
00:13:44.640 academically you never hear a peep about that why is it we still don't know anything we have
00:13:51.940 nothing no one is talking about if you've had it you have god's vaccine this has been something we
00:14:00.860 have always done this is why you give a vaccine because it tricks your body into thinking you've had
00:14:07.760 it and so you make natural antibodies uh for it but how come those of us who have natural antibodies
00:14:15.820 we are like we're we're we're spreading the plague why why for the first time is that not how the body
00:14:23.900 works is that not how this vaccine works yeah i mean it's it's you know long term there's a longer
00:14:31.500 conversation on that but yeah you're right we have not focused on that enough at all enough yeah at all
00:14:37.460 i haven't heard anybody say yeah they don't count it as if it's anything correct right when you talk
00:14:44.180 about people who are vaccinated they don't add in the people who have had herd mentality
00:14:49.460 herd immunity is about herd immunity yeah you'll notice we're not talking about herd immunity anymore
00:14:55.360 because that requires you to have enough people either vaccinated or sick to get to a certain point
00:15:01.380 to where the the society has enough antibodies to pretty much handle it in a completely unrelated story
00:15:08.320 i know this has nothing to do with what you're talking about right now nothing but they just
00:15:12.280 announced that pfizer is going to make 33.5 billion dollars from this it'll be the biggest
00:15:16.920 selling drug of all time by far and i know that doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking
00:15:23.560 about there's no reason that you would be pushing this drug for monetary purposes that would be so
00:15:29.440 cynical to believe i mean i would note i would note yes johnson and johnson is selling theirs at cost
00:15:35.980 so if you are concerned of profit motivation you could always get it from johnson and johnson is
00:15:40.600 selling it selling it at cost because the white house came out and said i don't know might kill
00:15:45.320 you whoops no it doesn't they announced they did it in 2020 they made this decision before the vaccine
00:15:51.420 was even available it could give you leprosy i'm just saying leprosy you'll be in a wheelchair and
00:15:57.020 your body will be falling out of the wheel or a blood clot could shoot straight to your brain and kill
00:16:01.620 you instantly don't worry about it sorry all wrong about that one sorry all right
00:16:09.780 i hate you i know you're rolling your eyes like we're spreading misinformation or something
00:16:15.260 sound attack it's leprosy get leprosy
00:16:19.140 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
00:16:26.580 today i want to i want to talk to you a little bit about uh uh the the good news coming out of
00:16:38.640 afghanistan and i know the press is all over this because they're so eager to uh report all of the
00:16:46.540 bad things uh in uh in an in an ongoing war and so that's why the coverage is practically non-stop
00:16:54.740 about how badly things are going in afghanistan first of all there are thousands of people that
00:17:03.020 are fleeing afghanistan and going over to pakistan all the people that were living in pakistan until
00:17:09.500 we took over and you know there was a chance that the taliban would be out they moved back into
00:17:16.500 afghanistan they're now moving back out of afghanistan but the real people i want to talk
00:17:21.520 about are the people that helped us the translators the people who believed that we would be there for
00:17:27.640 them yeah we haven't really made a plan for them you know uh there's about i don't know about 10 000
00:17:33.920 of these people and they helped us for years and years and years uh but i mean should we have a plan
00:17:41.740 to help them stew why plan when you can just do it on the fly as the taliban is just taking district
00:17:48.880 after district it's like one of those shows where they like re uh they redo the home like a home
00:17:54.920 renovation show and every every episode's like oh my gosh they're around the corner should we put up
00:18:00.400 these last curtains you know what i mean and it's like this really it's always a close call like why
00:18:04.480 did you just tell them like to stay out of there for another extra hour there's no real reason for
00:18:08.580 the drama here right that's kind of what's happening in afghanistan right now except it's not made for tv
00:18:13.720 no this is just it's real yeah the the the people who are saying that are the people who helped us
00:18:18.940 they're like oh my gosh the taliban's right around the corner help yeah they're they're saying now
00:18:25.140 330 000 uh afghans have been displaced already many of them leaving the country once again realizing
00:18:32.940 that this is just going to happen again you know um and that's terrible enough in addition though the
00:18:40.260 people who actually helped us during the battle translators and all sorts of different types of
00:18:46.400 people who've helped the u.s military you're going to be stunned to hear this if the taliban gets
00:18:51.940 controlled they're all going to be murdered they're just going to be murdered because they
00:18:55.980 shouldn't have been helping in the taliban's view the american effort so we have some so there's a
00:19:02.820 group of they think about 20 000 people who are in this category and we have a couple thousand that
00:19:09.280 we've actually been able to help the um and get out of the country some of them have come to the united
00:19:14.920 states people the most reliably vetted uh of those have come uh so some of this has happened
00:19:21.660 there they think some of the 20 000 maybe are not really shouldn't qualify for this program a special
00:19:29.420 immigrant visa type of situation where they can be moved not only either to the united states or to
00:19:34.280 a third country where we have maybe you know a base or something but again get them out of the way of
00:19:39.660 the taliban and the knives they're swinging uh and so they are now moving some of them to third countries
00:19:47.540 and and and various places where they can try to do this but there does not seem to be a plan for
00:19:52.760 as you point out about 10 000 of these guys that are likely to get killed the second we used them
00:19:58.620 you know that does seem to be the philosophy i think it is of the united states in way too many cases
00:20:04.280 let me tell you let me tell you a story about a guy named raul wallenberg
00:20:08.540 uh i've talked about him before and he is one of my favorite 20th century heroes and most people
00:20:14.740 don't know who raul wallenberg is um a lady who wrote a um a book on raul wallenberg over in sweden
00:20:22.680 and it is the it's the it's like uh what's his name's bonhoeffer book it is the the book yeah uh on um
00:20:31.880 on raul wallenberg and she came over and she had been doing interviews here in the united states she did
00:20:36.320 you know good morning america and everything else she came to do an interview with me and
00:20:40.840 she almost welled up halfway through the interview and uh she said i cannot believe it you're the only
00:20:48.880 american at least as a broadcaster that i have talked to that even knows who he is and i'm like
00:20:55.900 he's a hero of mine he's an absolute hero so he would go on she'd go on and do the interviews on and
00:21:01.740 they had no idea who this guy was they have no idea this is an american hero in many ways um that
00:21:08.100 we abandoned just like we did in the talent with the taliban right now um we're not changing our spots
00:21:14.520 if you know and if americans knew about this we would say let's get those who helped us to safety
00:21:22.140 but we're getting the blame for it because of our weasels in the government so let me tell you about
00:21:29.860 raul wallenberg it's 1940s uh and he's in sweden he is the heir to a a large fortune um and uh they
00:21:41.120 are very high up on the ladder remember the nazis are involved in sweden and so everybody's kind of
00:21:46.960 nervous the united states comes to uh raul wallenberg off the you know through the oss and says hey um
00:21:54.460 we need you to uh go over to i think it was i think it was prague uh and just watch what the nazis
00:22:03.480 are doing we we understand that they are rounding up jews and we need to know if that's true he says
00:22:09.620 i'm you know uh i don't know and they said just just ask the king if you can be appointed to the embassy
00:22:17.440 and then just spy for us he said okay well he got over there and he saw that not only was it true
00:22:24.300 uh that it was in enormous numbers that every jew was being rounded up he couldn't abide by it he
00:22:32.640 he would write letters to us he'd write letters to the king and the the king was like i can't do
00:22:38.500 anything the nazis are right here uh and so raul wallenberg decided he was going to do something
00:22:45.560 and he started issuing what's called a schutz pass my wife gave one to me for christmas
00:22:51.400 uh years ago and she said she took it back she gave me the present and then she took it back
00:22:56.080 right away and she said i'll give it to you tomorrow and i said why and she said because
00:23:00.340 you're going to spend all day crying and i said i'm not it's christmas everything's fine and she said
00:23:04.620 oh i know you you're going to cry and i'm like i'm not going to cry i opened it i cried all day
00:23:08.920 it it is such a remarkable piece of paper uh a monument to what one man can do
00:23:18.160 he would issue these schutz passes which means that whoever gets this paper and their name is
00:23:26.240 filled out on it you get that paper um you are now a under the protection of the king of sweden
00:23:33.460 and so raul wallenberg was claiming people as his so if you were stopped for papers you didn't have to
00:23:40.360 wear a yellow star anymore because you were now under the protection of the king of sweden
00:23:45.300 well the king of sweden was getting all kinds of heat for this and i mean he issued thousands of
00:23:51.260 them he would type them all up and then he would go to the trains that were going to the death camps
00:23:56.020 and he would stuff them in between the slats of the train and then he would stand on top of the train
00:24:02.120 next to the coal car and he'd say stop you have the wrong people these are my people
00:24:09.220 and the train would unload and they would check the papers and anyone who had a schutz pass
00:24:15.380 was free he saved thousands of people
00:24:20.260 towards the end of the row end of the war the russians were coming in
00:24:31.120 and um some of his people at the embassy said raul you got you got to go you got to go right now
00:24:40.240 now we know now in history stalin hated this guy knew what he was doing and they hated him
00:24:47.860 and uh raul said no there's too many more i can save he was last seen running to the russian troops
00:24:57.080 the first brigade that came in uh and that's the last we ever saw of him i have a cigarette case
00:25:07.760 from one of the guys in that garrison that came in that he was running to and uh it's really quite
00:25:18.100 worthless unless you know that that's the those are the soldiers that he ran to saying they can't be
00:25:24.520 as bad as the germans because in russian on the front of the case it says let's kill all the jews
00:25:29.940 and go home he was taken there's a few endings to this story he was taken and shot and executed
00:25:37.880 there immediately unlikely because stalin is said to have wanted to talk to him so the next version of
00:25:49.040 the ending of his life was that he went he was interrogated and uh you know by stalin and his
00:25:54.940 people and he died in a concentration camp in like 1948 i think the worst outcome is that he went to a
00:26:04.620 hard labor camp in uh the soviet union and died in 1972 here's the reason why i tell you this story
00:26:12.020 here's a guy here's a guy we asked to help here's a guy that every single one of us should know his
00:26:20.480 name his name is raul wallenberg he is a he's a hero in sweden there are statues to him in sweden
00:26:30.760 there should be statues of him here because we asked him to do it and then at the end of the war
00:26:39.040 when we had clout with stalin we didn't even ask where he was we didn't ask to exchange we did
00:26:49.200 nothing to save his life no matter how many times the swedes and everybody else asked the united states
00:26:55.260 will you please ask them we never asked about him until 1976
00:27:03.500 we're doing the same thing and it is not the people of the united states
00:27:17.180 it's an out of control large government that doesn't always put the same priorities on things
00:27:29.640 that we might
00:27:31.300 we're doing it again now in afghanistan 10 000 people that helped us they are now living in fear
00:27:42.840 and in hiding because the taliban will take over and we knew this you and i we all knew that the
00:27:52.880 taliban would come back that's why we should have gone in killed osama bin laden and left
00:27:59.460 instead we spent 20 years and how much treasure and how much american blood in that place
00:28:10.240 and what we all knew would happen has happened
00:28:14.860 the bad guys just waited us out we cannot build countries we cannot pass on freedom hell we don't
00:28:28.820 even want it ourself it seems
00:28:31.240 people have to want it and they have to be willing to stand up for it themselves
00:28:41.360 this group of people did and we are letting them die
00:28:46.800 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
00:28:53.700 oh wow i uh oh this is great this is man i can't tell you how excited i am
00:29:20.580 that our roads and bridges and infrastructure are finally going to be fixed all fixed
00:29:25.400 are you going to be finally i mean jeez we've been we've been paying for this infrastructure
00:29:31.320 every president has been like i gotta fix the infrastructure and we give them the money and
00:29:35.560 then we don't ever hear about the infrastructure except but we have to do more so thank goodness
00:29:40.800 this is that infrastructure bill is a godsend or not the senior research analyst foundation for
00:29:48.380 government accountability hayden dublois is uh with us now i asked hayden to come on because
00:29:54.580 this is 2700 pages long and it takes a team to go through it so what is what's in it hayden
00:30:02.740 sure thanks for having me on glenn well what's in it is important to recognize that only about 20
00:30:10.060 of the new funding in this bill goes towards what you and i and millions of americans think about as
00:30:15.860 traditionally infrastructure that is our roads and our bridges is that going to be enough to fix them
00:30:21.320 gosh i you know i don't know but i what i can say is this is that this is really tied to a larger
00:30:28.480 package of what the democrats are trying to push through that is nearly five trillion in new
00:30:35.260 government spending on expansions of welfare step towards the new green new deal and other pet projects
00:30:41.800 i mean that's really what's at issue here is and we can't excuse some small portion of legitimate
00:30:48.860 infrastructure spending when it's way overbalanced by the priorities of the far left in congress
00:30:54.680 well uh 20 billion dollars goes to amtrak i don't know why we keep bailing amtrak out but we do
00:31:03.200 amtrak and climate change and related green efforts what they're trying to do is to try to get us
00:31:09.660 to go to electricity but i don't understand this electricity it it doesn't come from the magic box
00:31:18.000 in the wall it's most likely made by coal sure sure no you're absolutely right we've seen i mean they've
00:31:27.220 just got tons and tons of investments in here that they're trying to create a new clean energy office
00:31:32.260 department of energy ev charging they've got 250 million dollar grant for low emission ferries which
00:31:40.020 everyone knows is such a big problem those you know ferries we really need to do oh i know they're
00:31:45.520 horrible yeah but i mean you dive a little bit deeper into this i mean it's 2700 pages i tried to
00:31:52.600 read what i could but case in point example page 167 it says and i quote that they're going to enable
00:31:59.580 and encourage children including those with disabilities to walk and bicycle to school
00:32:04.660 end quote i mean that's what they're doing they're worried about kids carbon emissions
00:32:08.760 when they're going to school i i mean what's next are they going to put carbon footprint
00:32:12.740 you know ankle monitors to make sure these kids are you know under the quota of their carbon footprint
00:32:18.400 i mean wait it's just out of control does it say how they're going to do that
00:32:22.640 well they're they're trying to create a new program they're saying it's all about incentivizing
00:32:29.100 uh you know healthy lifestyles and making sure that you know kids are are getting the physical
00:32:35.600 exercise but it's really under the guise of part of the climate agenda here that we're talking about
00:32:42.720 but how are they going to do that i mean even with disabilities get them to walk to school are they
00:32:47.900 going to say we're not picking anybody up inside of this radius or or what well i you know i think i
00:32:54.300 think a lot of it is going to be with pressuring uh a lot of these areas with grants to you know
00:33:00.300 encourage what i think are bad incentives for uh for kids to do i mean we see this throughout the bill
00:33:06.300 i mean on the topic of energy they've got they've got another study in there about the effects of
00:33:11.840 closing the keystone xl pipeline for example without restarting any construction we don't need
00:33:17.440 another study we know the effects of canceling the construction of this we don't need a government
00:33:23.260 report another one telling us that it's a bad idea and this is what this bill is filled with it's filled
00:33:29.020 with just uh you know wasteful spending on things we already know or things we don't need instead of
00:33:36.920 prioritizing the roads and bridges and you know potholes that americans really think of when they think
00:33:41.880 about infrastructure i was talking to mike lee yesterday about this and he said the one of the
00:33:46.240 problems that he has with it is it is it takes over a lot of the things that belong to the states
00:33:51.700 and to the local municipalities he's absolutely right yeah i i listened to that interview and he
00:33:58.000 made a great point that you know while people are going to say well it's good because they've got
00:34:02.400 interstate highway funding and that should be done by the feds there's a lot in here that is like
00:34:07.880 rural surface transportation grants that shouldn't be coming out of a centrally planned
00:34:12.440 federal office you know that's written up by by some senators states could administer that much
00:34:18.420 more efficiently than the federal government can the entire you know precipice and foundation of this
00:34:24.160 bill is that infrastructure spending is best when it's centrally planned which we know isn't true
00:34:29.860 and then when you realize and recognize how that's all tied in to the other trillions or trillions of
00:34:37.320 dollars of other priorities that are completely unrelated to infrastructure like expanding welfare
00:34:43.200 and expanding the child care tax credit and all of that i mean we're really stretching uh the
00:34:49.680 definition of infrastructure to a point it's never been at there are also there are provisions in there
00:34:55.380 for uh bitcoin and uh and cryptocurrency to where yes if you sell your cryptocurrency you'll be called a
00:35:06.200 broker uh and then all brokers have to report all activities uh to the irs right yeah which is
00:35:14.980 senator toomey issued a statement on this actually and he said it's virtually impossible to implement
00:35:19.680 because you don't have the required information you know the 1099s to do that and uh a lot of the
00:35:26.200 blockchain companies are saying that's a it's a ridiculous provision because they're doing that
00:35:30.980 to try to raise revenue through this but they're saying that the revenue estimates are way off
00:35:36.140 to me called this a hastily designed tax on uh blockchain he's absolutely right uh this is just
00:35:42.620 you know stifling yet another you know innovation in the cryptocurrency sphere that we don't need and
00:35:49.040 really isn't going to work and isn't going to pay for what this bill tries to pay for they say that
00:35:53.600 it's trying to you know help raise the funds to pay for this etc but i i disagree with you i don't
00:35:58.620 think it is to do that i think it's to cripple cryptocurrency because they know what they're doing to the
00:36:04.680 us dollar and they need a d usd a digital us dollar you know that that very well could be the case
00:36:12.980 because well let me put it this way the the the underlying theme in this conversation that we can't
00:36:18.880 forget about is inflation inflation inflation right we we did a poll uh at the center for polling
00:36:24.440 excellence affiliated with fga 87 percent of voters including majority of democrats are either very
00:36:30.500 or somewhat concerned about inflation and glenn i keep thinking of three numbers 30 30 30 30 30
00:36:36.460 trillion dollar national debt 30 percent annualized rate of inflation for producers goods and 30 years
00:36:43.740 high of core inflation this bill and the associated five trillion in spending is only going to fuel for
00:36:51.920 future inflation we're going to wind up with the inflationary consequences of this infrastructure bill
00:36:57.460 where people won't be able to even afford the gas to drive their cars on the roads that this bill is
00:37:02.600 allegedly going to fix how fast do you think that i mean you know what what's really irritating to me
00:37:10.440 is they're saying they're paying for this with a lot of the covid emergency money uh remember when they
00:37:15.600 just started saying oh we're just we need this we need all this money and then they never spent it
00:37:20.740 they knew this was coming in uh and so they're moving moving all of that emergency covid spending
00:37:27.020 over to pay all of this when does this money actually if approved start to get pushed out into
00:37:33.640 the system well here's part of the problem with this and this is really an underlying problem with
00:37:38.700 this bill as it relates to the funding we don't even know how much that is going to cover the cost i
00:37:44.120 mean they have yet to issue a congressional budget office score for this bill and they're trying to get
00:37:49.200 it read well nobody's going to read it but try to get it passed and understood and comprehended
00:37:54.060 before congress goes on summer recess they don't even know what it costs i mean that's preposterous
00:38:00.320 for anyone to expect that the senate is going to be able to have legitimate debate on this and if you
00:38:04.980 look at some of the funding mechanisms you're talking about i mean you've got the you've got the
00:38:09.040 unused covid provisions one of the most egregious ones in my mind is they're trying to book 49 billion
00:38:15.440 in savings by delaying a rule uh from the trump administration that would have changed how drugs
00:38:20.860 are paid for by medicare instead of going to insurers they would have passed prescription savings
00:38:25.860 on the seniors and and some of the truly needy but because they're delaying that rule uh that rule
00:38:31.500 will essentially be propping up billions of dollars on the spending priorities of the democrats
00:38:36.440 you know which range from low emission ferries the clean energy supply chains on the backs of our
00:38:41.940 medicare recipients i can't speak to the senate but i i don't think that's a good way to fund an
00:38:46.540 infrastructure proposal especially when you've got these seniors living on fixed incomes when
00:38:50.900 inflation is so high so i want to be charitable to people like mitt romney but i have a hard time
00:38:56.980 doing that um they say that this is uh this is just going to make it cheaper on the other end
00:39:02.740 uh because if we give them this then it won't be so bad in the end but um nancy pelosi is saying
00:39:09.200 she's not going to pass anything in this bill unless she gets the full boat in the second bill
00:39:14.920 yeah yeah i mean that's what i think folks have to take away from this this is not a you know i hear
00:39:22.220 the number 550 billion dollar infrastructure package that's not what this is about this is about a five
00:39:27.760 trillion dollar welfare filled expansion one of the largest in u.s history if it gets passed
00:39:33.080 that nancy pelosi and aoc and joe biden are attaching at the hip to the infrastructure package
00:39:39.520 that's what's at issue here and that's the fundamental problem is that this is tied to
00:39:45.560 unbelievable increases in spending in all the wrong areas that have nothing to do with infrastructure
00:39:51.520 the infrastructure package is just the tip of the much bigger iceberg that forms the basis of what
00:39:57.760 we're talking about here we're talking to uh hayden de blois he is the senior research analyst for
00:40:02.520 foundation for government accountability hayden you know the one thing that we saw in uh the obama bill
00:40:08.860 was that it it would create these new things and then it would say at the discretion of the um you know
00:40:17.840 the um the head of you know uh sure the the of the department and it was it just left it open for
00:40:27.100 all this new infrastructure to be built without congress being involved at all
00:40:32.560 it do you see that in this as well oh sure i mean this is this is a case study of uh you know
00:40:40.600 centralizing power in the hands of bureaucrats and central planning i mean that that's this is exactly
00:40:46.040 and precisely what that is and we know those are not the right people to make decisions for
00:40:51.500 you know uh paving of state roads i mean there's no accountability none no there's no knowledge
00:40:59.680 there's no accountability every time this is you know happened it fails i mean it reminds me of the
00:41:04.620 you know the milton friedman quote you know if you put the government in charge of the sahara desert in
00:41:08.680 five years there'd be a shortage of sand i mean that's what we're really going for here that's what's
00:41:13.300 going to happen all right thank you so much um the odds of this passing i would imagine are pretty good
00:41:21.680 right yeah that's the unfortunate reality here is that there there seems to be enough support where
00:41:28.640 this is going to go through and then they're going to attach it to the larger reconciliation
00:41:32.400 process with all those democrat wish list items but it's unsustainable and to leave you you know with
00:41:39.040 a thought 12 years ago we had the obama stimulus about 800 billion we're essentially going to a
00:41:45.860 place where that's considered a drop in the bucket with congress i mean this this infrastructure package
00:41:50.800 is being treated like a rounding error for them we need to demand that you know congress really
00:41:57.100 change the way they look at these federal expenditures and deficits why are everyday americans you know forced
00:42:02.860 to live within their means when congress is intent living beyond it well the the debts the debt ceiling
00:42:08.260 is coming up it's expiring and they have to renew it uh and raise it otherwise we default and already
00:42:17.140 the treasury department is saying you you have to pass this right now you cannot default on this and it
00:42:23.240 is irresponsible for the united if we default our interest rates everything goes through the roof and
00:42:30.020 we're really screwed uh i mean so so what do people do well to mike lee's you know mike lee made a great
00:42:38.040 point on your show yesterday he asked the question why are we doing this now why are we doing this at a
00:42:43.560 time when inflation is hitting new records at a time when federal deficits and federal debt are at
00:42:50.180 unbelievable uh and really unparalleled records i mean this does not make any sense the the bottom line
00:42:57.440 is americans should tell their congressman listen i can hold off on the potholes for now if you you know
00:43:04.220 if it means avoiding bankrupting my kids and their kids and their kids after them that's what you know
00:43:09.560 people should be telling their members of congress is that you know i'll wait on the you know the small
00:43:14.120 portion of this that actually goes towards infrastructure if it means avoiding the consequences
00:43:19.160 of higher inflation higher taxes higher spending higher debt hayden thank you so much appreciate it
00:43:25.540 thank you glenn by the way it was this kind of spending that led greece into the revolution
00:43:31.660 and uh you know when you see what's on the other side of this you'll wish you would have made that
00:43:37.400 call to your congressman and said if you sign up for any of this crap i will make it my mission
00:43:44.000 to make sure you are never never re-elected
00:43:49.280 you
00:43:51.340 you