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On today's episode of the podcast, and are joined by to discuss the House of Representatives' failure to pass a bill to raise the debt ceiling, the drug shortage in America, and the lack of congressional oversight of the White House budget plan.
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okay mike so what's the strategy now look the strategy now is to make sure that the united states
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senate is fully informed before its members vote on this and to make sure that the united states
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senate has the opportunity to cast votes on a few amendments that identify some of the more
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egregious errors you could either call them drafting errors if you wanted to assume good faith on the
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part of those who wrote them or you could call them efforts to repair malicious damage inflicted by
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whoever wrote this trying to make virtually every cost savings measure in this bill feckless and almost
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ineffective okay so go through some of them all right so my personal uh uh favorite
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in the sense of the really getting me worked up is this section 265 of the bill section 265
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nullifies completely the regulatory pay-as-you-go measure or pay go as they call it the reg pay go
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provision is section 263 then in 265 just after the provision that promised to bring about accountability
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for government as it expands the regulatory footprint of the federal government it says oh by the way
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the director of president biden's office of management and budget shalonda young may at her
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sole discretion decide not to follow these oh my gosh exempt herself from it and you know glenn the
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funny thing is i discovered this about 48 hours ago and it was tuesday morning when i was reading
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through that particular provision and discovered oh my gosh this could be a problem and a lot of people
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aren't going to read this or understand what it means so it's got to talk about i kid you not by
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the end of the day shalonda young herself omb director at a white house briefing came out and
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said yeah of course i will use that provision and i will use that provision to defend and prop up
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president biden's regulatory agenda so it's just they're not even being mysterious about this so this
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regulatory accountability it was supposed to start with and end with the reins act which would put
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congress back in charge of making the law instead of allowing law to be made by unelected unaccountable
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bureaucratic pinheads uh they stripped that out and they put this one in as a replacement with kevin
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mccarthy who i genuinely like as a human being he i've long really liked kevin personally but he came out
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and said yeah we didn't get reins we didn't even get a short-term reins which is something they should
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have used as a fallback which i'd suggest and at least reign for the duration of the congress but
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we did get something almost as good as that which is this regulatory pago feature only it doesn't work
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it was built to fail built to do nothing what what is the the regulatory pago which the one you just
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talked about okay so it would require the administration each time it issues a new regulation
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to establish what the cost of it would be and to ensure that they're not increasing the net cost
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of regulatory compliance right this may seem odd to put in a debt ceiling deal but it actually makes
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perfect sense because we can't get out of our debt crisis solely by cutting we need to cut yes and we
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need to cut a lot we need to grow our debt is so huge that we need to grow at the same time we cut
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and so what we're left with is no real cuts at least not very much and i'll go over that in a second
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and the pro-growth stuff doesn't work either because it was built to fail now i don't think kevin knew
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this i think he was deceived by someone giving him bad advice but it is what it is and i'm pushing an
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amendment today to strike section 265 to make this thing at least less bad okay so uh mike um you know
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we've got romney's coming out of our nose in in washington uh you're going to be are you going
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to be able to get enough republicans to help look i i i'm whipping the vote uh among senate republicans
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i i believe that we're going to have at least 20 no votes i'm going to try to push that figure higher
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i'd like to get it north of 25 uh between 25 and 30 would be a good outcome what would be an even
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better outcome glenn is we get through some of this and we start voting on some of these amendments
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to strike some of the more egregious provisions or and also at the same time highlight the bill's
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deficiencies and in the process perhaps either repair it so that it actually does something good
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or alternatively if it can't be repaired defeat this thing so we can go back to the drawing board
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and get something that actually works there's no reason we have to be up against this false deadline
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established by janet yellen we're just days away from the moment when we're going to start receiving
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these quarterly tax payments that once they're in will take us into mid to late july before we have
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to do a thing we shouldn't wait that long we got to act now but there's no reason we have to act
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at this recklessly now and monday so um so you know you've got mitch mcconnell standing there saying
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we're going to pass it today yeah he wants to pass it today and i respectfully but very very strongly
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disagree with him look we we've got to make sure that the american people and those they elected to
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represent them know what this thing does and and i believe a lot of the people who voted for this
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last night at least the republicans didn't fully understand what it did they had drunk the kool-aid
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they had been fed misinformation perhaps in good faith i don't know uh by republican leadership over
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there but you know glenn something interesting happened first 71 house heroes were born last night
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71 house heroes who emerged despite aggressive efforts by republican leadership and the news media
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to force them to vote for something they stood up and they voted no you know what's interesting glenn
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more democrats voted for this bill in the house i know they're republican i know more democrats voted
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i have heard i don't i don't know if this is true but i have heard that there were earmarks given to
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key democrats to help them whip the vote there there may well have been i have no way of knowing that
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but what i do know is more of them voted for than did republicans and more republicans voted against it
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than did democrats and yet this was an effort that was supposed to be some sort of win
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and within minutes after that vote was cast and the result was known you had democrats in the house
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saying things like okay i guess we can gloat now we can finally gloat now that this has passed
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that we totally played them and they did in fact play republican of course they did of course they did
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because i swear to you we have the iq among all republican leadership in my opinion we have the iq of a dog
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and a dumb dog possibly a dead dog at that look i i won't speak to their iq and i don't know that
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that is the problem i don't think it is i think that the problem is they're too eager to hear what
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they want to hear that something can be done easily that there can be a kumbaya moment that's not going
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to have problems with it and so sometimes they look the other way when it comes how many mike i'm sorry
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i mean i i appreciate you're being much more christ-like than i am uh mike you know you're not
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questioning their iq but how dumb do you have to be to fall for the same trick every time since the day i was
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born look glenn you're not going to tell me santa claus isn't real again are you because that really
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i mean look let's let's let's get back for a second to the spending issues because this is
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another glaring omission and something that irritates me to know and what they're saying
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they're claiming that this thing saves between i don't know 1.5 and 2 trillion dollars it doesn't
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it's it's smoke in mirrors look in year one that they limit save grow act the one passed a few
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weeks ago by the house would have saved about a trillion dollars in the first year alone that's
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how you tell whether it's serious is what it does in the first year correct because that's the one
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that's immediately under our control as we're doing this thing it's the same congress acting in the
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same moment in the same legislation this one do you want to know how much it saves in year one
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about 12 billion dollars 12 billion as compared to about 1.2 trillion and some would say even more
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because the expense the cost of the green new deal tax credits adopted by the democrats uh which they
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were clawing back which they were going to halt uh are are now understood is likely to be even more
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expensive than we expected but this one saves only about 12 billion dollars possibly as few as six
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you know they claw back 28 billion dollars of unspent covid funds and then they immediately create a new
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slush fund in the department of commerce for 22 billion dollars nobody knows what it does nobody knows what
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it means they're just moving it there so they can spend it somewhere else what i mean wait a minute
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wait a minute wait a minute there shouldn't be any slush funds for any department i mean i'm
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what what mike what does the commerce department do well what could they possibly do very important
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things and in this provision i believe the language is something along the lines of uh establishing
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business necessary hot tech business infrastructure who the hell knows what that means i think honestly
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it's there to serve as a slush fund to make sure that they have money when they feel like it for
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mike how can we help you okay so first of all i hope and pray that senators will pay attention today
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that they will continue to read the bill that they'll study the bill that they will
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listen to arguments being made that when those of us who are proposing amendments and demanding that
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they be debated and voted on will pay attention carefully to what's being said and ask the question
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is this really what the american people need not just what they deserve but what they desperately
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need right now could we do better and secondly anyone who has the ear of a united states senator
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as most constituents do in one way or another reach out to them and ask how they're voting and express
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your views about how you feel about this bill if you feel as i do that this bill is a whole lot of smoke
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in mirrors and that doesn't really save anything and that it may end up costing more money
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let them know yet another point they promised work requirements there were work requirements attached to
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medicaid attached to food stamps and attached to another federal welfare program called tanaf in
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the original limit save grow plan they were great reforms would have saved money and would have also
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helped people get out of poverty making poverty temporary rather than tolerable and sustainable long
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term as poverty this is a pro-growth and pro-human thriving sort of measure what they did in this bill
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they said oh yeah we've got work requirements until you read the fine print and you see that they
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stripped out all of the medicaid work requirements the tanaf requirements are essentially a wash
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essentially meaningless at best then you've got uh the food stamp work requirements those appeared at
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first blush to do something to save money and then we found out last night that according to the
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congressional budget office it actually costs more money it's going to cost us a couple of
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billion dollars not save us anything but cost yeah but we're we're but wait we're saving upside down and
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we're saving money with the irs though right yeah okay so um i think it's less than two billion dollars
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out of 80 billion dollars two billion drop not two billion out of 80 billion that is not just a drop in
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the bucket that is a drop in the ocean as far as we're concerned this still puts us in a position
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where we've deployed this veritable army of people to harass the american people and we don't want that
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we don't need that and we need the money to not be spent the last thing uh thomas massey was on yesterday
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said this is going to avoid a uh an omnibus bill and i've heard now that people are saying no this is going
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to cause another omnibus bill look i love thomas massey he's one of my favorite people in all of
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congress and he's someone i rarely disagree with and i don't question his motives i don't either
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intelligence for one minute he's dead wrong dead wrong here he and look everyone makes mistakes
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from time to time he's definitely made one here he's dead wrong this provision he's talking about
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supposedly bring about an automatic one percent cut now now it might have that effect if the one
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percent cut kicked in on october 1st the day after congress failed to adopt a spending bill or a series
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of spending bills it doesn't kick in until january 1st so that three months interregnum between
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congress's failure to pass something and the moment the one percent kick the cut kick in kicks in
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during that period there's going to be enormous groundswell pressure from the uniparty uh from
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the washington swamp to pass it will encourage congress to pass a giant bloated expensive omnibus
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or perhaps a large cr with some omnibus like creatures dwelling within it or a series of what
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they call minibus bills either way we're going to spend more money not less as a result of this
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mike thomas messi were right he's dead wrong here we will uh hopefully the phones will ring
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in the senate today thank you so much for all your hard work keep fighting mike thanks so much
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glenn you bet thanks so much for keeping america informed thanks uh please call your senator today
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gotta call all of your republican senators uh you have waste don't waste your dime on uh mit romney's
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of the world but call all of them all of them make it clear no on this you're listening to the best
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of the glenn beck program i think one of the bravest and most honest speeches given by any president in
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the last 70 to 100 years came from dwight eisenhower here's just a clip of what he said in his farewell
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address in the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence
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whether sought or unsought by the military industrial complex the potential for the disastrous rise of
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misplaced power exists and will persist we must never let the weight of this combination endanger our
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liberties or democratic processes he went on this was used as you're a conspiracy theorist if you believe
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in that huh and it discredited a lot of people and i always remember hearing the uh vast right wing
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uh the military industrial complex i i grew up believing it was a conspiracy
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and interesting how that works and yet where are we today who's actually making the decisions why are we in
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ukraine well there's a couple of reasons uh i think it would be the way that usually when there is a collapse
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of trust a trust implosion i've talked about it for years trust implosion is usually the last sign before
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a country goes to war and then it resets everything so that's one theory we just want to go to war
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to collapse the old system into a new system and nobody will say anything because they just want the war to stop
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the next one is i think a very good chance we're just laundering money over in ukraine
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there's lots of money coming back into the united states uh your tax dollars going to oligarchs
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and then coming back here i think historians will find that everywhere however those that's speculation
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i will tell you that the military industrial complex the educational industrial complex which he also
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warned about and the scientific industrial complex which he also warned about those three things and what
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he warned is happening back in march the pentagon announced a budget for a whopping 842 billion
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dollars it expanded authority for multi-year contracts for the supply of aircraft ships and ammunition
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guess where the majority of that money is going to go to defense contractors otherwise known as the
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military industrial complex cbs just did a story that said half of the pentagon's budget half will go to
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defense contractors meanwhile some of our our soldiers have to have food stamps surprise surprise
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cbs found that these defense contractors are gouging the government with insanely inflated prices
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do you want to know why ukraine is so important i want you to listen to this the pentagon granted
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companies unprecedented leeway to monitor themselves instead of saving money assad told us the price of
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almost everything began to rise in the competitive environment before the companies consolidated a
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shoulder-fired stinger missile cost 25 000 in 1991 with raytheon now the sole supplier it costs more than
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400 000 to replace each missile sent to ukraine even accounting for inflation and some improvements
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that's a seven-fold increase a seven fold increase now since when has technology made things more
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expensive these have been around forever and they're getting more expensive what technology does that
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especially when you're making them in bulk so a seven fold increase cnn reported that ukraine has
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asked for 500 stinger missiles 400 000 a piece 500 stinger missiles per day
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per day that's 20 million dollars every day we're giving to ukraine just in stinger missiles
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last year the pentagon had allocated nearly 1.5 billion dollars just to restock our own troops with that
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weapon this is the fattest cash cow ever the united states is giving these defense contractors
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all of this money they're making things shipping them do you know some of the stuff from ukraine was just
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found on our border did you know that how did that happen how did that happen defense contractors are
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making record shattering profits now we looked at the list of the top 10 contractors in the country
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stew stew when i say the military industrial complex who do you think i mean big defense contractors like
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raytheon raytheon okay mcdonald douglas sure stuff like that you know four of the top 10
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are pharmaceutical companies four of the top 10 two of the four were the largest vaccine providers
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moderna which partnered with the government creating the mrna covid vaccine okay two of the four
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were the cut were the uh covid vaccine providers and four of them are pharmaceutical companies
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is that just a one-off because of covid or is what's the what's the reasoning for i don't i mean
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well they have to make sure everybody's inoculated right got that going on now they do they do have a
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bunch of other vaccines that the military sure members receive right four of the top 10 that does
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are pharmaceuticals pharmaceutical companies and the and the guys making the stinger missiles again when
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when one missile cost four hundred thousand dollars how could well these how could these programs
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possibly be costing this remember who was the harshest on uh getting the vaccines
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the pentagon but the vaccine doesn't cost four hundred thousand dollars a shot there's something else going
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on there is something else going on i don't know what it is but the government has partnered with all
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of these people and they are bilking you they are taking your money and transferring that wealth not to
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the poor but to the uber rich that's who's running this country the military industrial complex the
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scientific industrial complex and the educational industrial complex all three warned about by eisenhower
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they i mean think of this everything just the military industrial complex uh complex pandemic response
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when biden announced his presidential transition team it was discovered that one
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third of his pentagon team came from organizations financed by defense contractors once he became president
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he began filling top pentagon positions with weapons suppliers last year biden traveled to lockheed martin
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the largest defense contractor in the country to cheer him on as they made the javelin missiles to be sent to
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ukraine so who's running this war the figurehead in chief or the owner of the companies that are now making
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25 members of congress sat on the national security committees at the same time those 25 members traded
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financial assets with the defense industry you imagine how rich you can be if you know a giant contract
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you've just been a part of approving is going and nobody else knows it and it's not illegal for you to use that
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insider information you know how much this is how these people go to washington become rich
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they're they're trading on insider on insider information and they're being led by the nose
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as dictated in the declaration or in the constitution of the united states the constitution is set up for a reason checks and balances
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the purse strings go to the branch that is the closest to the people the house and they tried to do something
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yesterday and 70 members 70 republicans i told you yesterday
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i feel like we do actually have some good republicans in there
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we'll have to look at why they said they weren't going to
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mostly that's what that was the opposition there yeah
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and i think there are far too few people in america that believe that could be true
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within 10 years there'll be blood bodies and buildings in the streets of this city new york city
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and it will have the signature of osama bin laden on it
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one day you're gonna wake up and you're gonna realize