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00:00:30.000 Okay, we've got quite a show riddled with facts.

00:00:33.840 We break down the debt, our debt, and what we're spending and compare it to the top 500 companies in the country.

00:00:45.060 What's the comparison here?

00:00:48.040 Also, it's time to close the doors on the unlimited coffers of USAID.

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00:02:31.840 Hello, America.

00:02:34.020 We're going to get back to the border and what's happening with guns here in just a minute.

00:02:40.360 I want to stop before we get there and just do a little mop-up on a couple of other stories that are out there.

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00:02:52.080 There are several stories that are out about how the EPA has just cut their budgets.

00:03:00.840 And everybody's freaking out about Doge.

00:03:02.980 Doge is trying to do all this stuff and they have no right to do it.

00:03:07.640 And USAID, Rubio cut a whole buttload of money out of that and said, we're not going to give it to you.

00:03:14.060 And everybody is saying, we've got to feed the world.

00:03:18.960 Okay, okay.

00:03:19.860 Hey, no, we don't have to.

00:03:22.260 We should be charitable and we already are the most charitable people.

00:03:26.640 This USAID is not about charity.

00:03:29.300 It's a CIA op.

00:03:31.060 That's what it is.

00:03:31.740 A CIA op.

00:03:33.420 I'll give you the details on that.

00:03:35.300 But let me just first give you a little, just a little comparison here on what we're spending

00:03:42.500 and how big this nightmare actually is.

00:03:47.580 Okay.

00:03:49.340 We have a budget.

00:03:50.660 We spend $6.3 trillion.

00:03:55.320 That you can, nobody can even fathom that.

00:03:59.060 Okay.

00:03:59.480 If you look at Walmart, they pulled in $611 billion.

00:04:06.540 This is the biggest store, the biggest revenue king in the world.

00:04:13.880 Okay.

00:04:14.600 $611 billion.

00:04:17.520 How much, how many times have you shopped at Walmart or done, bought anything from Walmart

00:04:23.300 in the last year?

00:04:25.000 Now, if you're in New York, you would look at Walmart.

00:04:27.800 Never.

00:04:28.200 Okay.

00:04:29.720 But for the rest of people, we're at Walmart all the time.

00:04:34.080 Okay.

00:04:35.160 So Walmart, we are spending, our government's spending is like every store, every truck

00:04:46.740 and employee combined for 10 Walmarts.

00:04:50.140 That's what we spend in one year.

00:04:51.900 Let me, let me give it this a better way.

00:04:53.840 Take all of the fortune 500 companies.

00:04:56.640 Now, at the top are things like Apple, Amazon, Google, ExxonMobil, and then 496 other massive

00:05:11.140 global companies.

00:05:12.680 Okay.

00:05:13.460 Their total revenue for a year is $18.1 trillion.

00:05:20.940 That's the 500 largest corporations in the world.

00:05:26.640 $18.1 trillion is their revenue.

00:05:31.280 Our government is spending $6.3 trillion.

00:05:35.920 That's 35% of what these companies, the 500 biggest companies in the world.

00:05:42.880 Think about what they're making, what they're providing, what they're doing.

00:05:47.300 Imagine if we spent 35% of what they are making and building and everything.

00:05:54.780 If we bought 35% of that in oil, in computers, whatever.

00:06:02.780 However, if we got 35% and purchased that, but that's what we're spending, but we're not getting

00:06:09.660 any of that stuff.

00:06:10.700 One third of what America's biggest, 500 biggest companies earn spent by our government.

00:06:22.980 That's kind of big.

00:06:24.200 So, you look at the headcount of the Fortune 500.

00:06:29.380 Headcount.

00:06:30.360 How many people do the Fortune 500 companies employ?

00:06:34.980 29.7 total.

00:06:37.640 Our government employs 10% of that number.

00:06:44.940 Look at America as a company, because it is, gang.

00:06:48.200 I'm sorry to say it.

00:06:49.180 It has to be run like your family or a company, or we go broke.

00:06:53.540 And I don't know if you know this.

00:06:55.120 We've gone broke.

00:06:57.680 10% are employees versus them.

00:07:01.720 Again, think about everything that those 500 companies produce.

00:07:07.660 All of the cars, all of everything that they produce.

00:07:13.440 We have 10% of their workforce.

00:07:17.280 What do we produce?

00:07:19.120 That's not including the military, by the way.

00:07:22.900 One in 10 Fortune 500 workers could be a federal employee.

00:07:28.760 Now, how fast are we growing?

00:07:33.660 In 2000, the budget was $1.8 trillion.

00:07:38.160 In 2023, two years ago, our budget was $6.3 trillion.

00:07:44.940 That's an increase of spending by 250%.

00:07:49.860 Have we grown?

00:07:52.760 I mean, it's not a problem.

00:07:53.900 If you're going to make more money to spend more money, that's fine.

00:07:57.240 You'd spend more money and make more money, and you'd never have a problem with it.

00:08:00.960 Has our government provided 250% growth?

00:08:07.340 Has our Fortune 500 companies given us 250% of growth?

00:08:14.200 No.

00:08:15.540 So why are we spending 250% more?

00:08:20.620 Some of this is inflation.

00:08:22.580 But what causes inflation?

00:08:27.460 The government spending money it doesn't have, and printing and borrowing money.

00:08:35.100 So there's no way around this.

00:08:37.920 It's not the capitalist system.

00:08:39.860 It's the fact that the government doesn't work within the framework of common sense or a capitalist system.

00:08:46.140 I hate to say capitalist system.

00:08:47.980 I just mean balance the budget.

00:08:53.100 Fortune 500 companies churn out cars, phones, oils, medicine, everything that you use every day.

00:09:01.320 And it's efficient because it has to or it will go out of business.

00:09:07.320 See, the market demands results.

00:09:10.180 We don't for some reason.

00:09:11.580 We spend all of that money, all of that money, 35% of what all 500 of these companies actually make in a year.

00:09:21.420 We spend 35%, and we don't demand any results.

00:09:26.520 Have things really gotten that much better?

00:09:29.220 Do you believe we've gotten 250% better as a nation?

00:09:34.360 Do you believe we've gotten 25% better?

00:09:36.360 Do you believe we're 2.5% better than we were 25 years ago?

00:09:40.660 I don't.

00:09:43.480 So here's how they've been spending your money, and this is why all of these cuts matter.

00:09:49.020 $1.1 trillion on DEI programs.

00:09:53.080 You could even say it was noble.

00:09:55.580 I don't think it was.

00:09:57.320 But let's say you do.

00:09:59.640 Was it $1.1 trillion in value for one year?

00:10:08.460 I don't think so.

00:10:10.660 $312 million in loans.

00:10:13.460 You ready for this one?

00:10:14.880 To kids for COVID.

00:10:17.660 I don't even know how that happens.

00:10:21.020 $17 billion in EPA DEI grants.

00:10:25.080 Those were canceled.

00:10:26.240 Billions that could have fixed roads or, I don't know, fed our veterans, gotten some of our veterans off the streets.

00:10:32.280 The VA, they announced yesterday that they have renegotiated 2% of their contracts and saved almost a billion dollars with 2% of the contracts renegotiated.

00:10:47.080 If 2% saves that much just for the VA, let's just start with the VA.

00:10:53.100 What are the, how much savings would happen with the other 98% of the contracts?

00:10:59.940 And now let's take that out of the VA.

00:11:02.520 What would happen if we renegotiated, oh, I don't know, 50% of all of the government contracts and line them up with common sense?

00:11:11.620 You have to fight to survive every single day.

00:11:17.240 But the government doesn't have to.

00:11:20.760 When you're a business, I don't care how big you are, ExxonMobil could go out of business.

00:11:27.760 Somebody comes up with a better way, a better thing, they'll go out of business.

00:11:32.660 And there's nothing that could stop that because they don't have guns that says, you will buy oil from us.

00:11:40.120 They don't have that.

00:11:41.640 The government has that gun.

00:11:44.420 You will buy your government services from us.

00:11:47.760 No matter how much we suck, no matter how much we waste, you're buying it from us.

00:11:53.300 Oh, and by the way, if we want to waste money beyond people's imagination, we can.

00:12:00.040 And we're going to bill your kids and your grandkids.

00:12:01.960 And they'll be in debt forever.

00:12:04.380 I don't think so.

00:12:05.780 No, thank you.

00:12:08.600 Our national debt is $34 trillion.

00:12:12.680 Our deficit in 23, it's bigger now, but our deficit in the last confirmed numbers in 2023 is $1.7 trillion.

00:12:22.540 That means we spend $1.7 trillion that we don't have.

00:12:25.360 We have to borrow that money.

00:12:26.440 That's $1.7 trillion, $2 trillion more than we can collect from people.

00:12:34.540 Our GDP is $26 trillion.

00:12:38.440 Our debt to GDP is 130%.

00:12:41.080 Our deficit is 6.5% of our GDP.

00:12:45.320 Imagine a company that has a debt 1.3 times its revenue.

00:12:54.040 It doesn't last.

00:12:55.660 It goes out of business.

00:12:57.900 But it goes out of business because the banks won't lend it any more money.

00:13:01.540 Nobody will lend it money.

00:13:02.920 Everybody in the stock market will take their money out and say, I don't believe in that one anymore.

00:13:06.500 But we have the full faith and credit of the United States of America because we're big workers.

00:13:11.900 The world can't last without us.

00:13:13.940 They're about to, gang.

00:13:16.960 It can tax you and print cash.

00:13:20.760 So you know, that's not a fix.

00:13:23.780 That's a delay.

00:13:25.800 A delay of the inevitable.

00:13:27.440 $34 trillion in dollar bills would circle the entire planet 130 times.

00:13:38.000 The deficit of $1.7 trillion is three times the Walmart revenue.

00:13:48.780 Every year, the family budget, $50,000 a year.

00:13:55.160 If you spend $65,000 a year, you have to borrow $15,000 every year.

00:14:02.240 In 10 years, you owe triple your income.

00:14:07.860 And then you have to go get a loan for that.

00:14:11.220 And you have to keep renewing that loan.

00:14:13.720 What do you think your interest rates would be?

00:14:16.240 What do you think the bank would say you are as a credit risk?

00:14:20.140 What do you think your credit card interest rate would be if they would even issue you one?

00:14:27.640 That's what we're facing right now.

00:14:31.360 A business has to sell what people want or it goes out of business.

00:14:39.720 A restaurant run by the federal government serves you cold soup littered with flies and they don't care.

00:14:49.160 Because if you don't buy it, it doesn't matter to them.

00:14:52.820 You have to pay for it anyway.

00:14:54.260 Your great-great-grandkids are going to have to pay for it anyway.

00:14:58.420 No competition, no accountability, just a blank check.

00:15:02.200 The government has our credit card and it has no limit.

00:15:06.440 It swipes $6.3 trillion, pays $4.6 trillion, and then charges the rest.

00:15:13.280 And no bank says stop.

00:15:15.800 Interest compounds.

00:15:17.720 One day, we have to pay for it.

00:15:20.080 There are cracks in the dam.

00:15:26.140 $1.1 trillion on DEI programs.

00:15:30.700 That's two Fortune 500 companies' revenue.

00:15:34.440 Gone.

00:15:37.020 Did that make us safer or stronger or richer?

00:15:40.960 $17 billion in EPA grants?

00:15:43.820 Canceled.

00:15:44.360 But why spend it in the first place?

00:15:46.140 That's 28 Walmart profit margins.

00:15:48.380 $312 million to kids for their companies at COVID?

00:15:52.880 What?

00:15:54.320 Absurd.

00:15:55.220 Who approved that?

00:15:56.860 I know it's pocket change, but not to you, not to me.

00:15:59.260 We'll never make that kind of money to be able to give it to the government in our taxes.

00:16:03.400 Every million counts when you're talking $6.3 trillion.

00:16:07.800 $900 million from 2% of VA contracts?

00:16:12.740 That's one agency.

00:16:14.240 Multiply that across the government.

00:16:15.700 Waste is not the exception.

00:16:19.840 It's the rule.

00:16:22.120 Cut spending.

00:16:23.560 Boost our revenue.

00:16:25.180 Easy to say.

00:16:26.420 Hard to do.

00:16:28.060 Cutting programs means somebody's going to hurt and they're going to lose votes.

00:16:35.200 You have to or we're all going to lose.

00:16:40.120 Waste is the lowest hanging fruit.

00:16:43.200 What are we doing?

00:16:48.420 Why is the house on fire and we're debating paint colors?

00:16:52.780 Why?

00:16:54.780 We have a budget.

00:16:56.680 We have to hit the budget.

00:16:59.580 We have to turn around.

00:17:02.720 If we don't, the fire wins.

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00:18:08.400 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:18:12.060 Okay, so Rubio is cutting the budget from Matt.

00:18:18.300 What is it, Pat?

00:18:19.100 85% of the USAID programs he's cutting.

00:18:23.200 Let me just put you at your kitchen table here for a second. 1.00

00:18:26.060 You got the bills spread out all over your table, and you're like, where's all this money going?

00:18:32.080 I can't afford to meet all of the bills.

00:18:34.660 Where's the money going?

00:18:35.660 And then you see on your credit card a charge for $70,000 for a musical in Ireland.

00:18:43.660 And you're like, honey, right?

00:18:47.700 That's the first thing you would say.

00:18:49.520 Honey, did we sign up for a musical in Ireland?

00:18:54.680 You know how close we are to bankruptcy?

00:18:56.940 What the hell is this?

00:18:58.480 Well, I just thought it would be nice.

00:19:00.260 No more spending on musicals in Ireland for the love of Pete.

00:19:03.840 But that's what's been happening with your tax dollars through USAID, and it's much worse than that.

00:19:09.380 So 83% of all of the USAID programs are getting the axe.

00:19:14.100 Amen and amen.

00:19:15.980 If you have been listening to me for the last 15 or 20 years, I've been circling USAID over and over and over again.

00:19:24.080 Really bad collection of radicals that are spending your tax dollars on things you don't know about.

00:19:32.300 This is a long overdue reckoning.

00:19:36.880 Okay?

00:19:37.880 The United States Agency for International Development.

00:19:41.780 Notice that.

00:19:42.560 It's called USAID.

00:19:44.960 But they never say it that way.

00:19:46.720 It looks like that.

00:19:47.780 But it's not.

00:19:48.620 It's USAID.

00:19:51.480 That's what it's called.

00:19:52.340 Not USAID.

00:19:53.360 USAID.

00:19:55.000 Why?

00:19:55.340 Because it's the Agency for International Development.

00:20:00.180 It rolled into the scene in 1961, courtesy of John F. Kennedy.

00:20:06.920 And it was supposed to be our shining beacon in the Cold War.

00:20:10.220 A way to win the hearts and minds, showing the world what freedom and generosity could look like.

00:20:15.300 Remember, we're in the Cold War.

00:20:17.340 We're trying to beat the Soviets.

00:20:20.140 So, it's less than inspiring when you really know.

00:20:23.620 Maybe it's clever when you know what it was really meant to do.

00:20:30.040 It was meant to overthrow communism.

00:20:34.940 It was meant to buy elections, work with revolutionaries, and also go into countries and say, look how great Uncle Sam is.

00:20:47.640 Right?

00:20:47.960 But we jumped that last track long ago.

00:20:52.780 Your tax dollars, we shelled out $1.5 million to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace of Serbia.

00:21:00.440 I don't think most Americans could find Serbia on a map.

00:21:05.660 Why do we care about what Serbians are talking about around the water cooler? 1.00

00:21:12.260 Okay?

00:21:13.340 $70,000 for a DEI-themed musical in Ireland.

00:21:17.120 Honey! 0.98

00:21:17.380 I don't really think that Uncle Sam needs to swoop in with a song and dance number.

00:21:24.140 I really don't.

00:21:25.100 Ireland, you're on your own with that thing.

00:21:28.240 $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.

00:21:33.280 Now, as much as I love the arts.

00:21:36.080 No!

00:21:37.260 What the hell is that?

00:21:39.200 $32,000 for a transgender comic in Peru.

00:21:46.880 Are we running a charity or is this some sort of global art festival?

00:21:53.100 I'm not really sure.

00:21:55.040 However, so USAID finally is caught red-handed funding the meals that ended up feeding Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria.

00:22:07.400 Now, when I got up this morning, I was thinking to myself, you know what?

00:22:10.360 We should be more charitable towards Al-Qaeda. 1.00

00:22:13.060 No, that wasn't me.

00:22:14.740 Maybe I don't think it was you.

00:22:16.540 If it was, maybe you should, honey, ask yourself, when the hell did I become for that?

00:22:22.480 And then there's the millions and millions of dollars funneled into EcoHealth Alliance.

00:22:29.760 Do you remember that name?

00:22:32.420 EcoHealth Alliance, the makers of the Wuhan lab and COVID-19.

00:22:38.640 Why did we spend all of that money?

00:22:42.940 Okay, also, can we talk about the elephant in the room?

00:22:45.700 And when I say elephant in the room, I mean the one that's wearing a trench coat, a hat, and dark glasses.

00:22:52.480 You know, the CIA elephant that is in the room.

00:22:56.240 Because that's what this is.

00:22:58.060 This is a CIA front.

00:23:02.120 That's what USAID is.

00:23:04.500 That's not tinfoil hat stuff.

00:23:06.840 That's cold, hard fact.

00:23:09.000 Back in the Cold War, they were training foreign police in counterinsurgency tactics, torture techniques in Latin America.

00:23:17.400 You know, all those fun things that we've all grown to love so much and have really caused the rest of the world to love us so much.

00:23:25.460 That's not a conspiracy.

00:23:27.380 That's history.

00:23:29.220 Documented and undeniable.

00:23:31.760 Now, what happens when the Cold War ends?

00:23:36.160 Well, we have to find new enemies because all that funding is there.

00:23:39.060 So, what do we do now?

00:23:41.580 Okay, well, the Cuban Twitter fiasco to stir up dissent in Cuba, bankrolled by USAID.

00:23:49.360 Then there's Ukraine.

00:23:50.620 I don't even know where to start with Ukraine.

00:23:52.620 Hey, do you remember Hunter Biden, who had that cushy, cushy gig on the board of Burisma?

00:23:59.300 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:24:00.660 Well, while Hunter was cashing those checks, his dad was VP, USAID was pouring money into Ukraine for development and governance programs.

00:24:11.560 Guess who one of the recipients of that was?

00:24:14.040 Everybody's favorite, George Soros.

00:24:17.820 Now, I don't know.

00:24:20.900 I don't think that's a good idea.

00:24:23.560 Is this aid or is this revolution?

00:24:26.420 Is this aid or is this just greasing palms?

00:24:30.660 There's going to be people who stand, Democrats and people on the left, and I shouldn't say, really good people who really care about aid, who really care about people.

00:24:43.720 And they're going to stand because they hate Donald Trump so much.

00:24:47.680 They're going to say, just Donald Trump, he just hates helping people.

00:24:50.520 Okay, first of all, this isn't about Trump.

00:24:55.180 It's not about Trump.

00:24:57.000 It's about us.

00:24:58.400 It's about you and me and every single taxpayer who is sick of seeing our money flushed down the drain on pet projects and covert ops.

00:25:09.240 I don't want covert ops that are no longer even overseen by Congress.

00:25:15.080 This isn't about being stingy.

00:25:18.180 This is not about turning our backs on the world.

00:25:20.720 This is about accountability.

00:25:23.480 It's about making sure that when we do want to help, we're actually helping, not hurting.

00:25:29.140 Think about it like this.

00:25:33.040 You're running a small business, and you find out that 83%, 83% of your expenses are going to stuff that doesn't move the needle at all for your business.

00:25:44.160 Okay?

00:25:44.340 Fancy coffee machines, you know, random side hustles, you name it.

00:25:50.280 83% of what you're spending, and you're a small business, do you cut that?

00:25:55.700 Or do you go, well, that might be doing good.

00:25:57.720 I mean, coffee is very important.

00:26:00.180 No.

00:26:01.380 You would cut it.

00:26:02.760 Why?

00:26:03.040 Because everyone suffers if you go out of business and you don't cut it.

00:26:09.280 You refocus on what works, what keeps the lights on, and that's what USAID, that's what the overhaul is aiming for.

00:26:19.480 That's why they didn't cut 100%.

00:26:20.640 I would have cut 100%.

00:26:21.740 That's why they didn't cut 100%.

00:26:23.340 I guess some of it does good things.

00:26:26.000 I personally believe in private charity.

00:26:29.360 I don't want the government in charity business.

00:26:31.600 That's our job.

00:26:33.480 But this isn't about killing aid.

00:26:36.100 This is just about making it effective, aligning it with our national interest and, dare I say, our values, if we have any.

00:26:45.680 That's all the while trying to stop the bleeding out of the out-of-control spending.

00:26:53.200 We're bleeding out on the table.

00:26:55.440 We all know this spending is going to kill us.

00:26:57.540 I don't know why we continue to not do anything about it, why we don't demand.

00:27:01.040 Wait a minute.

00:27:01.860 No.

00:27:02.180 Republicans, Democrats, stop the insanity.

00:27:06.240 We're bleeding out on the table.

00:27:10.240 The longer we make this about Trump or the left or the right or Biden, the faster the patient called America dies on the table.

00:27:19.900 Can we focus on what really matters?

00:27:25.080 So let's prioritize.

00:27:26.960 What matters?

00:27:28.640 Well, number one, national security.

00:27:31.000 Okay?

00:27:31.240 We can't help anyone if we can't help anyone if we are not secure.

00:27:35.220 In a world where China is building islands in the South China Sea and Russia's flexing its muscles, we cannot afford to waste any of our resources on DEI musicals or transgender comic books.

00:27:49.540 Can we please, for the love of Pete, be a little strategic?

00:27:53.660 I want to build alliances.

00:27:55.660 But I do not want to bankroll our enemies, foreign or domestic.

00:28:01.340 But this just isn't about security.

00:28:05.560 It's also about building an alliance.

00:28:09.180 It's about morality.

00:28:13.100 When our aid ends up in the hands of terrorists, we're not just wasting money.

00:28:21.360 We're betraying the people that we're supposed to be helping and betraying the people who gave that money.

00:28:27.880 Does no one see, you know, I get some of the money that you spend on the commercials.

00:28:37.320 You know, that's why commercials, they pay me because you're going to go out and buy stuff, hopefully, because I've made a good case that it's something that will benefit your life.

00:28:46.280 When you subscribe to the blaze, I get a few pennies on everything that you subscribe.

00:28:51.360 And I look at that as sacred money.

00:28:53.840 I say this in staff meetings over and over again.

00:28:57.120 What do our listeners need?

00:28:59.400 How can we make their lives better?

00:29:02.060 I'm trying to, I look at your money.

00:29:03.920 I know how hard it is for you to buy a subscription.

00:29:06.500 I know what it is.

00:29:07.440 I know what time we're living in.

00:29:09.540 I know you have a billion other choices.

00:29:12.640 How can I serve you better is what I ask all the time.

00:29:17.480 Sarah, am I right?

00:29:18.800 All the time I ask that.

00:29:21.360 How can we help them?

00:29:24.380 Do you really think that this is helping the taxpayer?

00:29:30.100 The DEI musical in Ireland?

00:29:32.200 Do you think that's helping you or your friends?

00:29:35.060 That's not who we are.

00:29:39.440 We're better than this.

00:29:43.140 Now, let me just talk to your friends, or let me just give you the case so you can talk to your friends who just hate Donald Trump.

00:29:52.000 And everything is about Donald Trump.

00:29:53.580 It's not about logic anymore.

00:29:54.800 It's just about Donald Trump.

00:29:55.780 I have a challenge for them.

00:29:58.700 Look past the messenger and hear the message.

00:30:02.640 This isn't a partisan power grab.

00:30:04.560 It's a chance to clean house, to zero set our budgets and look at it and say, what's important?

00:30:12.240 Do you have subscriptions that you have no idea that you were paying for?

00:30:17.500 Have you ever done that?

00:30:18.200 You look at the subscriptions like, what the hell?

00:30:20.280 This is $6.99 for that and $8.99 for that and $3.99 for that.

00:30:25.820 All of a sudden, those add up.

00:30:28.120 You have to zero set and go, okay, let's just do the right thing.

00:30:33.500 Forget about all these things that we have been doing.

00:30:35.540 Let's look and see what is the right thing to do.

00:30:40.680 When you take USAID and you look at it as USAID, you think, oh, that's a force for good.

00:30:49.420 But it's not.

00:30:50.460 It's a slush fund for bureaucrats and spies.

00:30:54.360 That's what it was designed to be.

00:30:57.360 We don't live in 1961 anymore.

00:31:00.720 I think we should maybe reevaluate the whole thing.

00:31:03.420 And you don't have to love the guy in the Oval Office to see this makes sense.

00:31:08.420 Waste is waste.

00:31:10.340 Inefficiency is inefficiency.

00:31:13.280 Accountability should not have a party label on it.

00:31:16.800 When your friends start talking to you about this, Donald Trump, stop it right now.

00:31:21.420 Stop it.

00:31:22.400 Should accountability have a party label?

00:31:26.440 Is inefficiency ever okay?

00:31:29.340 Is waste of your, you know, they say time is money.

00:31:34.720 You're working until April 19th just to pay your taxes.

00:31:38.900 From January 1st to April 19th.

00:31:42.220 Days after you have to pay your taxes, you're still working to pay those taxes.

00:31:47.180 Are you okay with any kind of waste of that money?

00:31:51.460 Because I'm not.

00:31:53.640 This is not slashing foreign aid.

00:31:56.460 It's not going to turn America into some sort of hermit kingdom.

00:32:02.440 Nowhere is anyone saying we should stop helping people.

00:32:05.220 We're saying we should stop screwing it up.

00:32:09.020 How do you argue with that?

00:32:10.280 We're not saying shut the door.

00:32:14.400 We're not saying isolate ourselves.

00:32:16.460 We're saying can we reevaluate for a second here because we're in deep trouble with our spending.

00:32:24.640 We're talking about taking our treasury and locking the doors when there are thieves at the door.

00:32:32.620 And opening the treasury when there's good to be done.

00:32:36.480 How is that suddenly so unreasonable?

00:32:41.140 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:45.400 I want you to take a deep breath.

00:32:47.260 Okay.

00:32:47.640 Take a deep breath because this one's going to set you off for a little bit.

00:32:51.620 Friday, the Department of Homeland Security dropped a bomb saying they're axing the TSA's union deal.

00:32:59.860 Okay.

00:33:01.220 Why?

00:33:01.700 Well, because they made this deal under Biden and 86% of our airports, more TSA people are clocking in as union reps than are actually checking your bag.

00:33:19.860 Okay.

00:33:20.140 Nearly 200 out of them get paid your tax dollars to sit in meetings, not to stop bombs.

00:33:30.000 Okay.

00:33:30.920 But to, I think, give a middle finger to every one of us who's ever missed a flight or slow security line.

00:33:36.680 Last May, Biden's crew gave 42,000 TSA screeners a huge fat union contract, more rights and bigger checks.

00:33:46.440 Did you get that in?

00:33:48.280 Oh, no, you didn't get that, did you?

00:33:50.680 Okay.

00:33:50.920 Now, DHS is a dumpster fire.

00:33:54.700 They have screeners booking sick days, seven months out.

00:34:00.620 I'm going to be sick in September.

00:34:05.140 Excuse me?

00:34:06.040 How do you know you're going to be?

00:34:07.520 Oh, it's weird.

00:34:08.580 You're sick the same time Coachella is happening.

00:34:13.960 Isn't that weird?

00:34:15.080 So, what's happening is they are just abusing the system and the good ones are all there picking up the slack.

00:34:23.780 I mean, this is the way it happens in government.

00:34:25.680 This is why we've got to cut the size of government and honestly cut the unions out of government. 0.88

00:34:32.680 Over 60% of TSA workers now say the lazy ones are just coasting and that's killing morale.

00:34:40.660 60% of TSA workers.

00:34:43.980 Unions are pissed because Trump said, nah, we're not doing that.

00:34:50.120 They're saying, there's workers' rights.

00:34:52.600 Okay, first of all, you work for the government.

00:34:54.200 So, you don't really have workers' rights like everybody else outside of the government.

00:34:58.780 And you don't have to quote me.

00:35:00.860 You can quote FDR.

00:35:03.620 And he was kind of a big union guy.

00:35:05.720 He loved unions.

00:35:06.640 Remember him?

00:35:07.420 Kind of a progressive icon.

00:35:09.200 He said it cannot happen in the federal government.

00:35:13.340 1937, he writes that public unions are a no-go because they don't bargain with the boss.

00:35:20.640 They bargain with the customer.

00:35:22.880 He said when they slack or strike, we're the ones that end up paying the price.

00:35:30.420 No flights, no services, just chaos.

00:35:35.540 Picture this.

00:35:37.160 200 TSA union reps are chilling and they're just like, you know what?

00:35:42.240 What can we do to make this job easier and the unions stronger in TSA?

00:35:47.380 They're talking about that while you're barefoot holding your toothpaste in a baggie, missing your flight.

00:35:55.700 That's your money.

00:35:57.620 Your money.

00:35:59.520 FDR said this is a power grab, and it is.

00:36:03.700 Government jobs are exploding.

00:36:05.520 We have 7 million people that work for the government.

00:36:09.320 That's federal, state, or local.

00:36:11.300 Unionized.

00:36:12.240 7 million people.

00:36:13.620 That's one in every 20 Americans.

00:36:17.380 Over a third are unionized.

00:36:20.720 Now, what is the rate of unionization in the private sector, in the real world?

00:36:26.180 6%.

00:36:27.220 In the federal world, it's 30%.

00:36:31.920 Why?

00:36:34.860 Why?

00:36:35.720 Private unions fight broke companies.

00:36:38.860 Government unions fight you.

00:36:41.700 And the politicians don't care because it's not their cash. 0.85

00:36:46.120 It's your cash.

00:36:48.080 We spend $6 trillion of our federal budget.

00:36:53.680 Half of that is on salary and pensions.

00:36:56.900 I don't know.

00:36:59.700 Sounds like a problem.

00:37:02.140 You know.

00:37:03.600 Hello?

00:37:04.740 You're 30.

00:37:06.020 You're hustling two gigs.

00:37:07.540 Maybe you're driving for Uber.

00:37:08.980 You got a full-time job, but you also have to do the Uber thing.

00:37:11.660 Half of your paycheck is feeding a machine that doesn't even work.

00:37:17.320 How's that fair to you?

00:37:18.740 Is this the way we're supposed to be?

00:37:23.280 Let me go back to our first principles, the Constitution.

00:37:26.460 It says, government serves of the people, by the people, for the people.

00:37:30.080 It serves us.

00:37:31.660 Article 2 runs the show.

00:37:35.060 Article 1, Congress pays the bills.

00:37:39.420 Where's the part about us funding union reps over our security?

00:37:44.420 It's not in any of the articles.

00:37:47.980 It's not even in an article in the New York Times.

00:37:50.420 Okay?

00:37:50.880 It doesn't exist.

00:37:53.020 When the TSA cares more about job security than America's security or your security,

00:38:00.100 something's wildly broken.

00:38:02.480 You stood in those lines.

00:38:04.000 You've had your shoes off, laptop out, praying your water bottle doesn't get cavity searched.

00:38:10.040 You know.

00:38:11.260 I see you're holding a water bottle.

00:38:13.320 Come on over here.

00:38:14.200 We've got to make sure you don't have another one in your butt. 1.00

00:38:16.420 Excuse me?

00:38:17.200 That's not freedom, man.

00:38:18.740 That's insanity.

00:38:20.620 And it's because we panicked after 9-11.

00:38:22.960 That's what happened.

00:38:24.560 50,000 screeners, $8 billion a year, 432 airports, safety first, right?

00:38:32.700 No, it's not safety first.

00:38:34.720 Come on.

00:38:35.180 We've all stood in those lines.

00:38:36.980 How many times do you stand in line and go, you know what?

00:38:39.340 This is a very efficient and great system.

00:38:41.940 I feel so much safer now.

00:38:43.300 I've never felt that way.

00:38:46.600 Government tests.

00:38:47.900 They do tests every year at the airports.

00:38:50.460 They miss fake bombs and fake guns 70% of the time.

00:38:58.680 Wait, and they just got a raise?

00:39:02.180 Wait, what?

00:39:02.640 95% of the time back in 2015.

00:39:06.940 So they're getting better.

00:39:08.360 They only caught 5% of the bombs and the guns.

00:39:14.020 Now they're only missing 30%, sorry, finding 30% of them.

00:39:22.120 You are more likely to be groped than protected in those lines.

00:39:27.580 And you and I both know it.

00:39:29.260 Now, there's two airports that are doing things differently.

00:39:32.420 Believe it or not, I can't believe this.

00:39:34.300 I don't know how this happened.

00:39:35.880 But San Francisco and Kansas City, those airports are the only two that are privatized.

00:39:43.180 Fully private firms.

00:39:46.700 Guess who nails the tests every year?

00:39:50.820 Okay?

00:39:51.300 Guess which lines move like a TikTok dance?

00:39:55.520 Smooth, fast, effective, happening quickly.

00:39:58.400 Honestly, it's those two airports.

00:40:00.820 You know, the ones that are finding the guns and the bombs.

00:40:03.400 Why?

00:40:03.840 Because private companies cannot afford to suck like this.

00:40:09.560 TSA, that's a government fail.

00:40:12.200 Okay?

00:40:12.660 What happens?

00:40:13.940 Oh, whoops.

00:40:15.140 We let a bomb get on an airport, on an airplane.

00:40:18.040 Whoops.

00:40:19.180 Who's held accountable for that?

00:40:20.800 Do they go out of business?

00:40:22.380 No, they don't.

00:40:23.520 They don't, ever.

00:40:24.460 However, if a private airport can outdo what the federal government is doing everywhere else,

00:40:33.480 why are we stuck with this clown show?

00:40:36.020 I'll tell you why.

00:40:38.180 Unions.

00:40:39.780 Government.

00:40:42.040 If they miss a bomb at one of those two airports and it goes off on a plane,

00:40:47.440 do you think the people, the plane, the airplanes, the airlines,

00:40:56.240 do you think they get sued out of their mind and they go out of business

00:41:00.420 because they hired a firm that was missing a bomb?

00:41:04.420 Yeah, they do.

00:41:06.200 So they're incentivized to make sure no bombs get on that plane.

00:41:10.300 The government, are you going to sue the government?

00:41:12.140 You can't sue the government.

00:41:13.100 You might be 40.

00:41:15.500 You're juggling kids, your mortgage.

00:41:17.960 Why is your tax money funding a TSA that fails when the San Francisco airport thrives?

00:41:26.740 Why are we not ditching this whole thing?

00:41:29.160 I say abolish the TSA.

00:41:31.300 Let the airports hire private security.

00:41:33.660 It works.

00:41:34.900 No airline in the country would allow 70% of the bombs and the fake guns getting through.

00:41:46.040 They couldn't afford it.

00:41:48.100 But the government's like, ah, and they cash the check.

00:41:54.280 This is why our founder, they wanted a lean machine.

00:41:57.340 Madison said in Federalist 51, power hoarding kills republics.

00:42:03.340 Government unions, they're modern hoarders.

00:42:08.380 They lock in the job.

00:42:10.300 They shield the slackers.

00:42:12.360 They grow the beast.

00:42:15.620 Rome collapsed when the bureaucrats got too comfy.

00:42:20.340 It just collapsed.

00:42:22.120 How comfy do you think our bureaucrats are? 1.00

00:42:24.420 Look at them.

00:42:25.120 Look at them.

00:42:27.680 Britain's empire wobbled until it slashed its payroll.

00:42:32.120 We have 7 million government workers, more than the populations of 38 states.

00:42:42.220 Wow, that's a...

00:42:44.600 Wait, say that again?

00:42:47.200 Our government workers total more than the population of 38 different states.

00:42:54.660 That's not public service.

00:42:56.940 That's a heist.

00:43:02.280 So, here's the thing.

00:43:05.040 Trump went in and he said, we're cutting your union contract.

00:43:08.720 No.

00:43:09.520 No.

00:43:10.420 You're not spending...

00:43:11.620 You're not having these employees spend their whole day trying to figure out how they can make the union stronger.

00:43:17.740 We want every employee looking at how we can make our safety better.

00:43:25.000 So, first thing, it has to be done.

00:43:27.740 And, you know, I could dream.

00:43:29.260 I can dream.

00:43:29.960 Hey, I'm a dreamer.

00:43:32.560 No government unions.

00:43:34.600 No collective bargaining for public workers.

00:43:37.020 None.

00:43:37.460 Zip.

00:43:37.820 Zero.

00:43:38.120 FDR nailed it.

00:43:40.800 They cannot hold the people hostage.

00:43:43.200 What they're doing is, they're negotiating with the politicians, but the politicians aren't the ones spending the money.

00:43:53.160 It doesn't cost them anything.

00:43:55.580 And they get kickbacks from those unions.

00:43:58.720 So, you're paying for it.

00:44:01.100 They cannot negotiate like that.

00:44:03.820 Because the one that's actually, the one that's paying the salaries isn't represented there.

00:44:10.340 That's why FDR was against it.

00:44:12.400 And he was right.

00:44:14.420 You can't unionize against your boss and your customers.

00:44:21.860 Merit over membership.

00:44:24.520 Period.

00:44:25.980 Two.

00:44:26.920 Cut the fat.

00:44:28.220 Seven million, more than 38 states.

00:44:30.500 I think we can lose a few.

00:44:32.680 Trump's buyouts.

00:44:34.320 Full pay for eight months to quit.

00:44:37.960 75,000 got out.

00:44:39.540 That's a good start, maybe for a Monday.

00:44:43.820 Freeze the hires.

00:44:45.980 Take the federal government and slash it to 3.5.

00:44:48.800 There's going to be chaos.

00:44:50.140 Yes, there is.

00:44:50.980 Have you ever worked for a company that is dying?

00:44:53.620 A company that is out of business if they don't do things drastically different?

00:44:59.960 We are that company.

00:45:01.780 This country is dying.

00:45:04.100 To save it and to save the employees that we can, because we'll all be out of jobs, you've got to slash and you're going to have some chaos.

00:45:14.320 But then it writes itself.

00:45:17.320 Private companies run lean.

00:45:19.180 3% of the employees are administration.

00:45:23.640 That's the average of private companies.

00:45:26.880 3%.

00:45:27.440 Do you know what ours is for the government?

00:45:30.440 15% of all of them being bosses.

00:45:34.560 15%.

00:45:35.640 I don't know.

00:45:38.640 You're killing it at work.

00:45:39.980 Why is your tax bill propping up paper pushers?

00:45:44.980 Why?

00:45:46.740 Privatize all of the airport security.

00:45:49.840 Kansas City and San Francisco, they do it better.

00:45:52.980 Faster, safer, cheaper.

00:45:55.200 Repeal the 2001 Aviation Security Act.

00:45:59.180 Congress can do it.

00:46:00.320 Let the airports and the airlines compete.

00:46:03.000 You'd rather breeze through than beg some fed to hurry up, right?

00:46:07.680 You'd rather have it done right, competently, and somebody that you can hold responsible.

00:46:13.460 You know, Coolidge was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century.

00:46:20.380 He crushed a police strike in 1919.

00:46:22.960 He said, no, there's no striking against the public.

00:46:25.060 Can't do it.

00:46:26.400 Reagan fired 11,000 controllers.

00:46:28.840 Airplanes are going to fall out of the sky.

00:46:30.900 You know what didn't happen?

00:46:32.480 That.

00:46:34.260 This isn't anti-worker.

00:46:36.620 This is pro-you.

00:46:38.820 Help your friends keep that in perspective.

00:46:44.620 We don't mind the workers.

00:46:46.620 We're going after efficiency, competence, security.

00:46:53.740 This is not against the worker.

00:46:56.660 It's about you.

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