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On today's episode of "Monkey Madness," Glenn explains why Generation Z is going through the worst economic times of their lives, and why the hippies are responsible for it. He also explains why it's time for Generation Z to get their act together.
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You do not want to miss, you do not want to miss on today's podcast, Monkey Madness.
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You know, when you think of monkeys and weird, weird, I mean, sick, demented monkey stories,
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nothing comes to mind, at least in my mental Rolodex here.
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So, Stu brought one to the table, and the good news is, it's an American story.
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Also, we talked to Generation Z-ers, if you will.
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There are these videos going around with these Generation Z people that are saying,
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you know, I can't, an eight-hour workday, nine to five, that's incredible.
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And they're getting a really bad name because of, because of these Generation Z-ers that are
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But we talk right directly to them and say more than what's being said online.
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I want to make the case to Generation Z that I get it.
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I understand what you're going through because you grew up in a different age, but it's important
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that you understand who's responsible for the things that you're going through.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I want to continue our conversation with Gen Zers that feel like it's not worth even trying to go to work
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You can't afford, you work a full-time 40-hour week, you still can't afford a place to live.
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But I want them to know that I blame a lot of it on the hippies.
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Hippies have been screwing things up since the 1960s.
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And they have become everything that they said they despised back in the 1960s.
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But these are the people that have come up with all of these policies that now you feel like this is the way the world is.
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And I was talking about crime, looters, squatters, riots.
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My own company used to provide the best health care insurance in all of New York City and New York State.
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At one point after Obamacare passed, they were taxing us, you know, Cadillac taxes.
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I was the only company that still carried that until the insurance company stopped carrying it.
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Since Obamacare passed, health care costs have gone up 55% for the average premium.
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Since Biden has entered office, it's up again from $21,000 to $24,000 a year.
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But you have to remember, politicians promised that if we pass this big government program,
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I mean, you're in school, you know, $2,500 savings is not the same as an 80% increase.
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I understand you can't afford, I can't afford health care at these costs.
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You also are starting your life thousands of dollars in debt.
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You could take a job and work a job to pay for your college as you went.
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When they took out their loans, most likely the government wasn't behind their loans.
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Once that happened, once the government said, you know what, we're going to guarantee all the loans.
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Once that happened, like health care, the cost of going to a university skyrocketed and it hasn't stopped.
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In 1965, it was Lyndon B. Johnson who said, we're going to just guarantee.
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We're going to guarantee everybody's college, don't worry about it, we'll help you with the loan.
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Well, once the government guaranteed it, universities found, well, we can just charge more.
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You're currently paying on the average $26,000 a year.
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Many of them revolve around the Fed and our debt.
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Look, you have been fed lies probably your whole life.
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And your parents just realized it during COVID.
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Hopefully it hasn't been beaten out of you in these indoctrination camps we call schools.
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But they haven't been listening to your mom and dad and people like me.
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And a lot of people just thought, oh, well, we could get away with it.
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And many of us have been saying, no, we can't pass this on to our children.
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So when you say, Generation Z, that, you know, this is, you know, the adults, you created this world.
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And as many people do, they want to believe the lie because it makes them feel better.
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Quite honestly, it's what's happening in your generation with that's a female when it's not.
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But it makes us feel better to go along with the lie because we don't want to hurt his feelings.
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That's the same thing that happened, except this time it was with money.
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We wanted to believe that we could spend all this money because, honestly, it would provide you, our children, with a better life.
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And when anybody said, wait, we're going to have to pay this off.
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We never saw the consequence, and it was always way out in the future.
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Nobody wanted to listen to the doomsday people saying, no, it's going to come faster than you think.
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Our government now is printing $1 trillion every 100 days.
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We have more debt than any country has ever had in the history of the world.
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They're going into debt like we've never seen before.
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That's why real, true constitutional conservatives, okay?
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And you have to understand that everything is being cut into fractions now.
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There are Marxists and there are decent Democrats that still believe in the Constitution and the rule of law.
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There are Republicans that still believe in spending all kinds of money, getting us involved in every war around.
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And then there are constitutional conservatives that believe that we should conserve the things that have worked, throw out the things that don't work, but we can only do those things that are allowed by our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
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Because all of our problems are caused by government and the people supporting a government that will do things that are not in our Constitution.
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But that's what this election is really all about.
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But one is going to try to cut the size of this government down, which is causing the problems.
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All of these programs, all of the things that we've said we wanted, you know, your parents can't retire now.
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You know, you have the opportunity that they didn't.
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They were promised, I was promised, that we could retire at 65 and we'd get Social Security and we could live off that.
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You, if you look at the bright side, you're paying for Social Security now, but at least you know you're never going to get it.
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I'm probably the first generation that knows we're not going to get it.
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But all of the people that are older than I am, they didn't necessarily know it was a lie.
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And I know people think about retirement, but honestly, especially for guys, if you retire, you generally die.
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That doesn't mean you stay in the same job doing the same things.
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It's something, something that drives you, maybe if you're lucky, by the time you're older.
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We have to find a way to keep the people who have been raping this country and our treasury for so many years away from you.
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Because if they teach you, like they taught us, that all of this stuff will work, you're only going to see much, much more pain.
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So we have to try to protect you so you can do your things while we, my generation, stands between you and the older generation that just have raped, robbed, and pillaged through their hippie policies.
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We say, stand back, enough is enough, enough is enough, let go.
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My generation should not be the one that takes the power now.
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Really, the younger generation, 30, 40 years old, they're the ones, because they're going to have to live with it a lot longer than I am.
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You just have to learn enough about the truth about why this has happened to us.
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This constitution lasted longer than any other constitution in the world.
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That's what you should dedicate some of your time to figuring out today.
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And if you end up thinking that Marxism is the solution, more collectivism is the solution, then you haven't done enough homework in the past.
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And the way that starts at the end is exactly what we're going through right now.
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All right, let me go back and play a couple of Gen Zers that are currently online.
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Here's a Gen Zer talking about life and how hard it is.
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Working a 9-to-5 is the biggest f***ing scam out there.
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How the f*** do you want to sit here and tell me that I work every day of my life, every f***ing day, but I still don't have enough to pay my bills?
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Four different, completely different type of jobs.
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And how are you going to tell me none of those four jobs could pay my f***ing bills?
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That's a good point by the Joker's mistress, but I don't think necessarily...
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If you happen to be watching Blaze TV, she has got, you know, candy cane hair or clown hair.
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Perhaps one of the issues was she took a job typing and she was unable to complete the tasks.
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Now, one thing we should note to our Gen Z friends is that when you talk about having four jobs, it's not necessarily quantity you're looking for.
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Like, you're searching for quality, not quantity.
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And, you know, you could say, well, she had four jobs, but I don't think she meant all at the same time.
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My parents worked two jobs each my whole life, really.
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And they, well, they didn't have candy corn hair.
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And I will say, I think, like is the case when you talk to a Hispanic American and they say to you, you know what pisses me off when everyone assumes I'm for illegal immigration?
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And, like, the people who are toughest on the border tend to be legal immigrants from Latin America who are like, hey, I did this the right way.
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I think a lot of Gen Zers look at people like this and say, wait a minute.
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Not every bill is going to be paid if you don't work hard.
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And sometimes you'll work hard and it'll be difficult.
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I know for a fact I went through a period which was a lot of, like, hey, if I have this credit card convenience check that I write to my rent this month, it should work out.
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There were a lot of things that were very difficult as I, you know, came up.
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I know the same is for you, even though you had success very early on in your career.
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But, I mean, I think everybody goes through that.
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And I know I went into the workforce with the idea, this is going to suck for a while.
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I'm going to work a lot and not make a lot of money.
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You know, when I started in radio, I was working as a promotions guy, which I made, like, $6 an hour.
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And I only got paid for when the promotions were occurring, which was, like, a two-hour period.
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And then all the other time that I worked with you and started my career, I made $0 an hour.
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I went in there all the time and did and worked and worked and worked and worked for nothing until that changed, thankfully.
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Now, if it never changed, it would have been, I would have had to change careers.
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But the mindset going in was, this is going to suck for a while.
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Even if that's not true, that should be your mindset.
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If you go in with a mindset of, like, why are they not rewarding me for all of my wonders, you're going to wind up disappointed very early in your career.
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May I just say that one of the reasons why people feel that way, Gen Zers, is because that's the way they've always been treated.
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My family, there were times when they said, you're special, and they didn't mean it, like, in a positive way.
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And, you know, we didn't get trophies for everything.
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You had to earn things, and they have been coddled, and I hate to say this if you're a Gen Zer, because it's going to sound different coming from me than, you know, what your experience might have been.
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But you don't understand, I as a parent know, because I saw the changes in our society.
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And so you may not think, I wasn't coddled, because your point of view is, it's always been like this.
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We bought into a lie from all of these so-called experts that said, oh, always ask your kids how they're feeling.
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You know, you're expecting too much from your kids.
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You know, be there for them when they get a bad grade.
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And then you went to a school where most likely they taught you even more lies.
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That you can't make it unless you go to these very expensive colleges.
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And I know my kids, people were like, so where are they going to go to college?
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That was one of the most frustrating things listening to these social media videos is that they are like,
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well, I went to college and I've got all these loans and I can't make it.
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And it's like, well, why are you blaming, let's say, society for that?
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Why aren't you blaming colleges who, as you pointed out earlier, what was it?
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200 or it was 160% increase in tuition over the past 20 years.
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This is a, this is the dumb, I, look, this is the dumbest thing in the world.
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To send your kid to a place that is going to bring them back as a socialist, most likely,
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that will give them no job skills and will wind up costing them and putting them in debt,
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Like, it's one thing when you've got a good job to take out a loan on a house and all these things
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to start your life with no asset in, in theory.
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I mean, obviously you have the asset of the knowledge, whatever that brings you.
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I mean, you know, Brian Kaplan makes this argument really convincingly and it's called
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The Case Against Education, which is a great title of a book.
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But like you, you go through this and it's like, it's just credentialism.
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Like, everyone's competing to get to the same line where like, hey, we all have the same
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We spent $200,000 and now we all have the same degree that doesn't really do anything for
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us other than clear some like auto-generated filter process for employers.
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And like, that is, that's a real problem by employers, I think.
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I mean, again, they're not even looking at some of the best applicants that they have because
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a lot of them are just like, oh, we'll just filter out everyone who doesn't have a degree.
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So I understand why you'd want to go get a degree, but like, it makes absolutely no
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sense in the real world unless you're doing very specific things.
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So everything in your life, if you're a Gen Zer, has got to change.
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And there are many of us that believe that we need to change and know what these problems
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For instance, you don't have hope right now, many Gen Zers, that your life is going to get
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If things don't dramatically change, they won't.
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But it will be your generation that will make that change.
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I mean, a lot of Gen Zers and Generation X, they're starting to wake up now and seeing,
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wait a minute, everything I've been promised by politicians, the opposite seems to be true.
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Well, has that worked out for anybody except criminals?
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Do you feel safer in your town, your neighborhood?
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So you know that that, the people who told you this, that we should reimagine the cops,
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you know they were either wildly wrong or they were lying to you.
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Either way, you shouldn't listen to them anymore.
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The people who said we have to violate the free market system to save the free market system,
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Because that's the lie the Federal Reserve and President Bush and everybody else said
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By the way, if you're a Gen Zer, you grew up, I can understand why you are so calloused against this,
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because you grew up at a time where you saw your mom and dad maybe lose their house,
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lose everything they had because of the 2008 banking crisis.
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The Federal Reserve bailed the banks out, but didn't bail mom and dad out.
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So who told you that if we violate all of our principles, that we'll make things better,
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The Federal Reserve, the politicians, and the banks.
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You shouldn't listen to those people because they either were wildly wrong or they lied to you.
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I mean, you could go through this one after another,
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but right now the politicians and the banks and the central banks, the Federal Reserve,
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are all telling you that we need to spend a trillion dollars more than what we have every 100 days.
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Remember, if you put a dollar down on the table every second for every minute of every hour of every day,
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it would take you 36,000 years before you would have a stack of a trillion dollars.
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We are printing a trillion dollars every 100 days.
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And unfortunately, it's going to be you and me.
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Because nobody's going to allow us to default on that debt.
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Well, they try to convince you or your parents or businesses or somebody to buy government bonds.
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The government is issuing a trillion dollars and wanting to sell those bonds,
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which means somebody just, it's like a bank giving you a loan for a car.
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Now that's not a great investment because the car eventually depreciates to nothing.
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But if you want to buy a new car, well, you go to a bank and they look at everything and say,
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So you're making money on that, where with a car, you're losing money.
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And that means that it goes to people, you know, like you, me, big corporations, even banks.
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That's giving the government the loan for their debt.
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What are you getting for that loan, for that trillion dollars?
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Can you tell me today, what have we purchased in the last 10 years that we're proud of, that is appreciated,
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that is really, you look at it and go, wow, but yeah, but we got that.
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We got to have this X number of dollar for infrastructure.
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But I don't ever see our infrastructure really getting better.
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I don't see things where I'm like, wow, look at that.
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Every time, for every trillion dollars that people take, because what they're doing is they're taking their money
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and they're giving that to the government instead of investing that in a company that actually is building something,
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Instead of investing it in the private sector, they're giving that loan to the government,
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In fact, every one trillion dollars that we take in bonds, that reduces our GDP, every one trillion, by 0.28%.
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So that means every trillion dollars, we're losing almost a point off our GDP because the government isn't making something.
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And we're taking this money and instead of investing in a new factory or a new idea,
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So we're going to issue almost $4 trillion just this year.
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If we do it again next year, that's two points off our GDP.
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And we're doing it because the average person is saying and has been saying for a long time,
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But for some reason, the only thing I can think of is that everybody's on the take.
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Nobody in Washington wants to stop spending money.
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And those who do want to stop spending so much money,
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And the old idea that, well, we have a big economy,
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and so, you know, we're going to, we can have a big debt.
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If you had a, if you had a big loan for your house,
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what would everyone in your family be saying right now?
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because it's only going to get worse with your adjustable mortgage.
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If things get worse, you're going to go bankrupt.
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because we sell bonds and they're short-term bonds,
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Many times we're just paying for people to do what?
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which doesn't create anything to the bottom line of the GDP.
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you need to get serious about your own education on economies,
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Because you're the ones that are going to have to save it.
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and I'd like John to address some of this as we go along.
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and November 5th is going to be called something else.
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it's going to be called Christian Visibility Day
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Then we also had this come out over the weekend.
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I do think that we are culturally a Christian country.
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But there's a distinction between being a believing Christian
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If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam,
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now I understand that the number of believing Christians
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And that's how pagan societies have always been.
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And so I believe in the permanency of the church
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that Christianity has been declining in the West
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And I don't think that it's going to be turned around
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and maybe not even in our children's lifetimes.
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Carve out spaces for our churches and communities.
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where it was for most of our history as a country.
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You know, I've been saying for a long time now,
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You also get lulled into a sense of complacency,
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Christianity is not going to be the dominant force
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And that means that Christians are going to become
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And there is no dissent allowed on these things