The Glenn Beck Program - March 25, 2020


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Rep. Thomas Massie & Daniel Horowitz ｜ 3⧸25⧸20


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Glenn Beck's new TV show on the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the U.S. and the ridiculous media narrative that conservatives don't care about human life. Plus, the latest on the stock market crash and what it means for the economy.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today we have kind of a different show. We wanted to kind of hear from you and find out what's going on in the world.
00:00:09.840 Because there's a way of looking at things and we can go through all the news and get all the reporters telling us what they think is going on.
00:00:16.480 But we always find that it's valuable to check in with you and see what's going on in your world because we learn so much from doing that.
00:00:22.600 And we take a bunch of calls today from people who have gone through real tough times with this. People who are questioning our future when it comes to our economy and the future of the country.
00:00:33.020 We also go on and take on a little bit of the ridiculous media narratives about how conservatives in particular are being portrayed as not caring about human life.
00:00:46.700 Which is a bizarre accusation when you want to insert abortion into the issue.
00:00:54.300 But the idea being that we don't care about old people because of the stock market futures. That's much more important.
00:01:00.420 We get into that. Glenn has a special TV show on coronavirus today. Make sure you subscribe and check that out.
00:01:06.480 You can get it for free on YouTube as well or subscribe to support the cause and make sure these investigations continue at blazetv.com slash Glenn.
00:01:14.560 If you use the promo code Glenn, you will save 10 bucks. A couple more celebrities and dignitaries have tested positive for coronavirus.
00:01:22.760 We'll tell you about that. And go through the spending bill, which is, there's a lot in there. Highly questionable.
00:01:29.260 We'll get into that as well. And I'll get into the media tonight on Stew Does America.
00:01:33.420 If you are a podcast listener, you can get every episode for free by searching for Stew Does America and clicking subscribe.
00:01:38.680 Please rate and review this podcast and that one as well. And here's the podcast for today.
00:01:44.560 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:59.620 All right, here we go with our coronavirus update.
00:02:02.040 The daily stats, as always, as of 530 a.m. Central Time from Johns Hopkins University.
00:02:08.460 Total confirmed cases worldwide, now up about 40,000 to 434,000.
00:02:15.680 Total confirmed deaths worldwide, 19,000, up 3,000.
00:02:19.680 Total confirmed worldwide recoveries, 111.
00:02:24.380 That's up 8,000 from yesterday.
00:02:26.820 All 195 countries on Earth have confirmed cases except for the penguins.
00:02:31.360 And I am willing to carry eggs on my feet if they will let me in.
00:02:35.160 4% of active cases are now considered serious, requiring hospitalization.
00:02:40.220 That is down from 5% yesterday.
00:02:43.320 But as I pointed out, 13% of U.S. confirmed cases do currently require hospitalization.
00:02:50.040 However, that's because there are so many people, we believe, that are walking around with it.
00:02:55.620 And it's so mild, they're not even noticing it.
00:02:59.620 The U.S. now has 54,000 confirmed cases, 784 deaths, up from 46,000.
00:03:07.680 So a jump of 8,582 deaths yesterday, 784 today.
00:03:15.960 We have 379 officially recovered against the 784 official deaths.
00:03:24.100 L.A. County Sheriff is now closing all of the gun stores.
00:03:27.420 That's going to make it so much better.
00:03:30.320 I mean, nobody's freaking out about the taking away of their rights when you have counties just saying,
00:03:37.040 no more guns for you.
00:03:38.540 No, that's what I would do to calm the masses.
00:03:42.240 America has lost 500,000 millionaires to COVID-19.
00:03:47.680 Bernie Sanders is a pig in when he heard the news.
00:03:51.900 That is, as of the close of 2019, there was an unprecedented 11 million American millionaires.
00:04:01.480 That is a reflection of the longest bull market in history.
00:04:06.300 Well, we lost half a million of them.
00:04:09.760 You don't, you're not celebrating?
00:04:12.280 Oh, well, you should.
00:04:14.140 Because those are the people that are paying the most in taxes.
00:04:16.900 So others can have free stuff.
00:04:20.640 The tandem financial health crisis wrought by COVID-19 has really hit America's small businesses.
00:04:31.440 But 50% of Americans now are living in shelter-in-place or home quarantine orders.
00:04:39.680 Now, there's a difference between sheltering-in-place and home quarantine.
00:04:42.960 I don't know if anybody cares or knows, but quarantine is you.
00:04:47.200 Don't leave.
00:04:49.020 A shelter-in-place or at home, that is, eh, you got to go to the store.
00:04:54.900 You got to do what you got to do.
00:04:56.280 You know what I'm saying?
00:04:56.980 Majority of the public is going to be ordered to stay in home in the coming days as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation.
00:05:04.060 Total of 13 states, at least 16 municipalities have enacted measures to keep residents inside their homes and prevent the spread of the virus, according to CNN.
00:05:12.940 I have to tell you, I don't know why we're closing down everything, everywhere.
00:05:18.360 I don't understand that.
00:05:19.820 There are towns all across America that are still working and can keep social distancing that don't have the virus yet.
00:05:29.340 They should remain online just with social distancing so we can still go to work when we can.
00:05:40.200 Again, 13 states and 16 municipalities have enacted measures.
00:05:48.580 That number amounts to 148 million people, or half of the population.
00:05:57.280 Uniformed military personnel yesterday set up a makeshift morgue outside of New York City in a hospital.
00:06:03.840 It is Hollywood disaster scenes that are starting to be seen in some of America's biggest cities.
00:06:12.560 Also, UV rays proven now to destroy the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
00:06:18.780 The infection rate of COVID-19 is 22 times higher in Iceland as compared to Australia.
00:06:25.520 The research comes as scientists in Hong Kong demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is easily destroyed with UV light, just like all other coronaviruses or flus.
00:06:40.280 So it looks like there is indeed going to be an end to this this summer as the season changes.
00:06:51.080 But it will also mean that it will come back if we haven't found some sort of a vaccine or some sort of a some sort of an old medicine or drug that works.
00:07:04.320 Again, Prince Charles has tested positive.
00:07:06.780 I'm wondering, I'm wondering, I'm wondering if people in in in Scotland and Ireland see that as good news or bad news.
00:07:18.620 The Queen, I hope, is in isolation.
00:07:20.580 By the way, did you see Vladimir Putin and he came out yesterday in a space suit?
00:07:26.800 He had a bio suit on.
00:07:29.520 Did it did that?
00:07:31.840 Did that look like the brave Putin?
00:07:34.800 I mean, I mean, did that look to me like a leader that was a coward?
00:07:40.300 Can you imagine if somebody would have put Donald Trump in that suit and he would have gone into a hospital where they had some patients?
00:07:47.640 You would in America, you would say, don't ever do that.
00:07:51.740 Don't ever put him in that situation.
00:07:53.820 Not not because he would be in danger, but because he would look like a goofball.
00:07:58.960 Yeah, it's the old, you know, Dukakis on a tank type of look.
00:08:03.160 It's not exactly ideal, though.
00:08:04.700 There's a spot between what Putin did and what the president of Mexico has been doing lately, which is still walking around and hugging and kissing people and eating the cheeks of children for whatever reason.
00:08:16.280 And he is how that that whole story is the most undercovered story to me in this entire crisis, which is we can do whatever we want here.
00:08:26.840 We can social distance all we want.
00:08:29.720 That's all wonderful.
00:08:30.760 However, the fact that we have a country just to ourself across a border that we don't want to enforce, that is not doing anything, that is still having soccer matches very, very recently, still having festivals, still having their president walk around and do rallies among tons of people.
00:08:49.060 There's almost no testing going on in that country.
00:08:52.100 They are almost certainly ravaged by coronavirus.
00:08:56.620 And the second we were to cure it here, it would be coming over the border like crazy from there.
00:09:02.940 It would make no difference and we'd have to do it all over again.
00:09:05.700 Yeah.
00:09:06.340 And if we ever got serious, if they were out of control and we got serious about our border, Donald Trump, of course, be called racist again.
00:09:13.660 How can you not help?
00:09:15.060 They didn't do anything in their own country.
00:09:17.780 They didn't do anything.
00:09:19.220 You're yelling at Donald Trump for not doing enough.
00:09:22.380 They're not doing anything.
00:09:24.140 And let him come in.
00:09:25.400 Let's go to Felicia in Colorado because I want to finish up today's show.
00:09:31.200 We're going to get into that $6 trillion bill.
00:09:35.860 Yeah, it's not two.
00:09:36.640 It's $6 trillion.
00:09:38.900 We're going to get into that here in a little while.
00:09:40.820 But I also wanted to spend some time with you on the phone to just a gut check on how you're feeling and what's happening in your life.
00:09:47.280 Felicia called us from Colorado.
00:09:48.820 Hello, Felicia.
00:09:50.360 Hi, Glenn.
00:09:51.240 It's such an honor to be on.
00:09:52.520 I've been listening to you for years.
00:09:54.000 You're my you.
00:09:55.540 Thank you.
00:09:55.920 You have changed my life.
00:09:58.900 Well, thank you.
00:10:00.200 Let me tell you the reason I called in a second.
00:10:02.340 But what I want to let you know is I'm immune compromised.
00:10:05.460 Fifty three years old was in the hospital all December rehab.
00:10:10.000 All November, I had to learn how to walk again, diabetes, high blood pressure, et cetera.
00:10:15.900 But I have.
00:10:16.660 Are you in a bubble?
00:10:17.600 You should be.
00:10:19.220 Are you in a bubble?
00:10:20.400 Because you should be.
00:10:21.300 My apartment is surrounded with saran wrap.
00:10:25.200 My kids, they don't let me go anywhere, which is great.
00:10:28.540 And my husband, he's essential personnel because he works.
00:10:32.340 He built hazmat tents for first responders.
00:10:35.060 But the reason I called is this local guy.
00:10:39.080 I'm doing this for a friend.
00:10:39.980 This local guy owns three apartment properties.
00:10:42.600 And she came home the other day and he posted on all their doors that we expect all of our tenants to pay all the rents and monies.
00:10:50.900 Do us just like always.
00:10:52.300 If you don't pay it on time, you're going to get an eviction notice and we will evict you.
00:10:58.840 And and he said, we're paying all of our bills and you'll be held responsible for the payment of all your bills.
00:11:06.260 Nothing is free.
00:11:07.540 This guy is a jerk.
00:11:09.060 And holy cow. 1.00
00:11:10.760 Yeah.
00:11:11.020 And a lot of them have lost their job because, you know, they're and he sounds like a slumlord because they're lower rent apartments, you know.
00:11:19.600 And he posted these on all his three properties.
00:11:24.580 Now, the governor, Governor Polis, not a fan of him, but Governor Polis and the Jefferson County where I live, the biggest county in the state.
00:11:36.160 They have not decreed anything, but they have said they recommend that landlords, you know, make payment arrangements, you know, don't charge late fees, those kinds of things.
00:11:47.180 But they can't these these landlords like this are protected because it's not a decree.
00:11:54.660 So I really wish Dr. Carson would decree that that, you know, be be show some humanity.
00:12:03.160 Well, I tell you, Felicia, this is I agree with you.
00:12:07.240 And this is where we this is where the rubber meets the road.
00:12:10.420 And this is what I was talking to Thomas Massey about.
00:12:13.420 People have to worry about their rent.
00:12:15.440 They have to worry about their rent at home.
00:12:17.940 If you're a business person, you have to worry about the rent or the mortgage payment for your offices.
00:12:23.700 And that's where people need money right now.
00:12:26.600 We don't need money to go shopping other than food.
00:12:29.820 If you don't if you lost your job, you can't pay your rent.
00:12:34.500 And these banks are getting four trillion dollars and they will be made whole.
00:12:39.920 And there's I don't understand why the government just didn't say, you know, no evictions, no mortgages and not have.
00:12:48.340 You know, the person who owns this guy sounds like a jerk, but the person who owns apartment buildings, they do still have to pay that mortgage.
00:12:56.640 And if nobody pays them, they can't pay the mortgage and then they lose the apartment building.
00:13:02.780 So everybody's in it, like you said, together.
00:13:06.440 So it makes sense that we all kind of do what we have to do and work together.
00:13:11.740 But that requires the bank, you know, the person who holds the note to also say, OK, you know what?
00:13:19.380 I know it's tough times and you can only make a third of your mortgage payment.
00:13:23.220 That's fine. Don't worry.
00:13:24.280 That's good. But is that happening?
00:13:28.000 And that's what really needs to happen.
00:13:30.240 Everybody needs to do what they can, but it has to happen all the way up to the top.
00:13:36.700 You don't want to you don't again.
00:13:38.760 This guy sounds like a jerk, but you don't want to stone people because they're higher up on the the the ladder, as you would might see it.
00:13:49.080 And they own this big property. Well, they might be fighting for their life as well, and they're not getting any relief.
00:13:55.220 And that's the problem. We have to understand that the entire food chain here has been disrupted.
00:14:02.480 Felicia, God bless you.
00:14:03.860 Please stay inside and tell your friend we will pray for them, as we all should be praying for the people who are in these situations.
00:14:13.920 Many people have already lost their jobs.
00:14:17.140 We as the president says, we've got to turn this engine back on pretty darn soon.
00:14:21.800 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:14:40.080 Welcome to the program. Let's go to Thomas Massey in Washington.
00:14:43.900 You're not actually in Washington, are you, Thomas?
00:14:46.620 Actually, I am.
00:14:47.480 Congressman, are you there?
00:14:48.080 Oh, jeez. Sorry for that.
00:14:52.100 You there? I'm sorry that you actually had to be in Washington.
00:14:57.500 Yeah.
00:14:58.300 Yeah, I am here. I'm in Washington.
00:15:01.960 So, Thomas, tell us what's actually in this bill.
00:15:07.320 It's a six trillion dollar bailout if you add what the Fed is putting on top of it.
00:15:13.780 And that's without all the other stuff the Fed has already done.
00:15:16.620 So, six trillion dollars.
00:15:19.800 I don't even begin to understand it.
00:15:22.640 Tell me what the geniuses have done.
00:15:27.840 Well, they're so smart, they're not even sharing the language with us yet.
00:15:31.940 So, supposedly, they came to an agreement last night, and it's a thousand pages, and you got the price tag right, as far as what I'm hearing.
00:15:40.700 But there's no text.
00:15:42.820 Literally, all I have to go on is the dear colleague letter from Chuck Schumer to the other Democrats where he's bragging on the victories that he got in the bill.
00:15:52.640 Well, that's the most substantial representation of the bill that I have right now, and I suspect they're going to try and pass it here in Congress on a unanimous consent without ever actually having congressmen vote.
00:16:08.060 How does that happen?
00:16:10.680 How can we possibly spend six trillion dollars and not actually have a vote?
00:16:16.960 What does that even mean?
00:16:17.980 How does that work?
00:16:18.800 It means that Congress is just a bunch of eunuchs at that point, is what it means.
00:16:25.960 It means that the administration, people within the administration, and two or three other people, and a bunch of lobbyists got together and wrote a bill,
00:16:36.900 and instead of even giving it the imprimatur of a congressional debate, they're just going to try, I believe, I could be wrong,
00:16:45.460 I believe they're just going to ask for unanimous consent to deem it a law.
00:16:49.960 Like, it wouldn't even be a voiceover.
00:16:51.400 Do you have to vote on that?
00:16:55.800 No.
00:16:56.780 They would just do it.
00:16:58.900 So wait, how is that constitutional at all?
00:17:02.140 Does that mean that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell and the boys all got together and came up with something,
00:17:10.220 and then they get the only vote?
00:17:13.280 That's basically what it means.
00:17:15.560 Now, there are some of my colleagues...
00:17:17.920 Where in the Constitution is that?
00:17:22.040 You know, the Constitution says you have to have a quorum to do business.
00:17:26.520 Yeah.
00:17:26.660 Right.
00:17:27.260 Which is, which in the House of Representatives is 218.
00:17:33.480 So, and what they do is the Speaker assumes that there's a quorum unless somebody raises an objection
00:17:40.480 and points out that there's only one person in the room.
00:17:43.700 But the Speaker has really bad eyesight and doesn't count very well.
00:17:47.720 So if there's one person in the room, the Speaker assumes there's a quorum, and business goes on.
00:17:52.580 Are you going to at least stand up and say, there's no quorum?
00:17:58.680 I want to count.
00:18:00.460 There are a few of us here in Washington, D.C.
00:18:04.500 I don't want to say who the other colleagues are.
00:18:07.560 Okay.
00:18:07.800 They wanted their coordinates known.
00:18:09.440 But we're talking about the travesty here because this is probably, by the way, this is the third bill.
00:18:18.120 This is the third coronavirus bill that will have passed if it passes.
00:18:22.840 And they're already talking about bill number four and bill number five.
00:18:27.040 Oh, my gosh.
00:18:27.820 Oh, my gosh.
00:18:28.660 Oh, my gosh.
00:18:29.340 It's six trillion dollars.
00:18:32.620 It's over, Thomas.
00:18:35.140 I mean, we have to do something, but not give everything away so there's nothing left.
00:18:43.780 I mean, you know, just what little I know, what little I know, does the bill just say, you know what?
00:18:51.540 Hold on mortgages.
00:18:53.140 You don't have to pay for mortgages for three months until everybody gets back to work or you can't foreclose on people.
00:18:59.020 I know the government is not foreclosing on people, but how about regular banks?
00:19:03.900 Because they're getting the backdoor four trillion dollars.
00:19:07.600 How about that?
00:19:08.460 How about how about we're going to make sure that you get immediate unemployment?
00:19:14.340 That's fine.
00:19:15.360 No payroll tax.
00:19:16.720 We're not going to print money.
00:19:17.880 We're just not going to take money from you.
00:19:20.340 None of those are in there.
00:19:22.180 Well, those would be common sense things, but you can be sure that the banks are going to be made whole.
00:19:27.120 And maybe even more than whole.
00:19:30.300 But here's the problem, Glenn.
00:19:31.820 Let's say this shutdown that the governors have perpetrated on our economy takes four trillion out or six trillion out.
00:19:39.320 We inject six trillion back in.
00:19:42.000 You can't eat the money, right?
00:19:44.320 Farmers still need to grow food. 0.70
00:19:46.560 Manufacturers still need to make insulin.
00:19:48.520 Like, you know, automobile, truck manufacturers still have to make ambulances to get people to the hospitals, right?
00:19:58.300 Just because you put the same amount of money into the economy that you took out doesn't mean you've created any goods or grown any food.
00:20:09.560 That's the problem we have here, Glenn.
00:20:11.620 And today they're asking us to jump off a cliff, but they're not telling us how far it is to the bottom or what's at the bottom.
00:20:19.080 I got in my car yesterday and I just needed to get out of the house for a while.
00:20:26.820 So my wife and I took a drive and we drove through a little town here called Southlake.
00:20:34.840 It's Southlake Town Center.
00:20:36.640 Really nice.
00:20:37.860 Very, really just this quaint little thing in the town.
00:20:41.520 It was like a horror movie.
00:20:45.740 It was like everything that you've ever seen in what was it?
00:20:49.780 The quiet movie or the, you know, the one where the monsters are coming out.
00:20:54.420 What's that movie, Stu?
00:20:56.080 Where the monsters hear noise?
00:20:58.000 Quiet Place.
00:20:58.960 Walking Dead.
00:20:59.940 Yeah, The Quiet Place.
00:21:01.320 Yeah, Walking Dead, Quiet Place.
00:21:03.420 The Omega Man.
00:21:05.140 It was there was no place to spend money.
00:21:08.340 There was no place to spend money if you had money.
00:21:12.940 So how is this good?
00:21:14.600 Other than paying my mortgage and making sure that I have money to get food.
00:21:20.180 What else do you need money for right now?
00:21:22.560 What else?
00:21:25.180 Housing.
00:21:25.980 You need medicine.
00:21:27.820 There's a whole number of things you need money for.
00:21:31.860 But I'm saying you can't.
00:21:33.740 That stuff.
00:21:34.660 That's the stuff that should be covered right now.
00:21:37.680 Not just giving me a check.
00:21:41.000 Giving me a check.
00:21:42.580 You're not even means testing.
00:21:44.540 You're not even looking at what I'm going through now.
00:21:48.480 You're just giving people a check for $1,500.
00:21:51.800 Some people have their jobs.
00:21:54.080 Other people don't have their jobs.
00:21:57.100 But there's no testing on that.
00:21:58.980 This is ridiculous.
00:22:00.620 This bill is ridiculous.
00:22:02.120 I did see Chuck Schumer said in his letter that the money will keep coming until this crisis is over.
00:22:11.900 So how do you even know it's $2 trillion once you've promised to pay people money for as long as this goes on?
00:22:17.620 And what does the end look like?
00:22:22.060 Can somebody define the end?
00:22:24.360 I've been looking for tripwires.
00:22:25.900 When is this crisis over?
00:22:28.400 When we're all going back to work?
00:22:30.460 Or does the crisis continue because we have damage to our society and to the engine of capitalism?
00:22:38.440 And so this continues on for another year, another two.
00:22:41.940 I mean, this has opened the floodgates.
00:22:45.000 The floodgates.
00:22:46.900 And it's conditioning an entire generation to a paternalistic government.
00:22:54.360 Glenn, if I told you four weeks ago that the governors would come out and tell people they can't go to church,
00:23:00.200 you'd think I was crazy.
00:23:01.420 But you'd know I was really insane if I said, and people are going to stay home and the churches are going to close
00:23:07.040 and they're going to dutifully do what the government says.
00:23:10.580 You know, I disagree with you.
00:23:13.300 I don't think so.
00:23:14.580 I think people, I think Americans want to do what's right for America.
00:23:20.200 And so when the president came out and said, maybe we should, maybe we should all stay at home.
00:23:25.260 Everybody wants to do the right thing.
00:23:27.340 But the right thing also includes saving the nation.
00:23:32.680 It also includes not just saving people.
00:23:35.500 We are more, we're an idea.
00:23:37.940 We're a nation.
00:23:38.980 We're an economy.
00:23:40.480 The idea is being killed.
00:23:43.060 The economy is being killed.
00:23:44.920 Our opportunity to revive the idea and the nation and the economy is being killed.
00:23:52.700 There is, there comes a point where you have to look at it like the president has been saying and saying,
00:23:58.140 you know, guys, you can't just tell everyone to stay home for the next two months.
00:24:05.400 It's just not going to happen.
00:24:06.860 There's nothing left at the end.
00:24:09.240 There will be nothing left.
00:24:11.100 And to tell, you know, people are going above and beyond what is necessary to do the right thing.
00:24:17.180 And there's a hotline now in Kentucky where you can turn in your neighbor.
00:24:21.900 You can, if you see somebody do something that the governor said not to do, there's a hotline that the governor set up.
00:24:28.480 And I called it just to, just to see, you know, I thought, well, maybe they'll probably staff it with offshore, you know, a call center.
00:24:36.760 But as it turns out, they, the governor's actually just taken people that used to work in other departments and conscripted them to take these calls where people are snitching on their neighbors.
00:24:47.960 And it's busy.
00:24:49.240 So you can't even get through.
00:24:51.000 There's so many people snitching on their neighbors because it's so dangerous.
00:24:57.140 That's so dangerous.
00:24:58.460 That is the one thing we've never had that Europe always did is they had snitches and you never knew who was snitching on you.
00:25:07.040 We've always trusted our neighbor.
00:25:09.260 Thomas, I actually don't have a problem with the governors doing, you know, the heavy lifting and all of that stuff.
00:25:19.020 I have much bigger problem with the government, the federal government doing it because there's no last resort.
00:25:26.560 They are the final policemen.
00:25:28.640 They're the final stop.
00:25:29.880 And what the governors are doing by telling President Trump that he has to OK the National Guard is insidious.
00:25:39.820 They're doing it, I think, because they don't want to spend the money.
00:25:43.220 And if he calls it, then the feds pay for it.
00:25:46.060 If the state calls it, then they're off the hook.
00:25:48.820 So the governors are wanting the president to call.
00:25:52.340 But you cannot allow the federal government to have control nationwide of the National Guard.
00:26:00.040 If a governor wants to do it, that's fine.
00:26:04.220 People can get away from that governor to 49 other states.
00:26:07.880 But if the president does it and they don't release the power, there's no place to go.
00:26:13.460 That's a great point.
00:26:15.820 You know, one of the points I've made about the governors doing these things is some of my colleagues here say, look, this is a government taking.
00:26:24.020 The government is taking something from people, their livelihood.
00:26:27.600 So we must pay the people back for their their what was taken from them.
00:26:32.500 But I'm pointing out that it's the governors who are taking and it's the federal government who is giving back.
00:26:39.080 So we are now with this bill, we will be incentivizing governors to destroy their own economy and to put people out of work. 0.96
00:26:47.820 And if you have one governor who stood up to all of it, now the federal government's coming in and saying, well,
00:26:53.840 you might as well go in with the rest of the lot, because now we are going to finance all this malfeasance for the economy.
00:27:01.900 Right. And there are there are states that are looking at these other states like they're crazy.
00:27:09.000 I mean, it's you know, the cities here in Dallas have been and been blasting our governor because he hasn't put the entire state on lockdown.
00:27:17.520 The entire state doesn't need to be on lockdown down.
00:27:21.040 Maybe Dallas does. Maybe Houston does.
00:27:23.840 And those those mayors can do that as they say, see fit.
00:27:28.140 But it needs to be held at the lowest possible level and does not need to be the entire state.
00:27:37.120 What's happening in Seattle doesn't mean it's happening in Spokane, Washington.
00:27:42.260 That's correct.
00:27:43.380 And the only way we're going to know that, by the way, is testing.
00:27:46.980 There's something the government is saying, which really annoys me, is they say we don't want everybody tested.
00:27:53.120 Everybody doesn't need to get tested.
00:27:55.500 Actually, that's how we get out of this is when we know who has it and who doesn't.
00:28:01.420 Yes.
00:28:01.780 When we should all be unity, we should all be tested.
00:28:06.720 And then we can go back to work.
00:28:08.340 Those who don't have it tested.
00:28:09.940 Clear, go back to work.
00:28:13.160 Thomas, thank you so much for all that you do.
00:28:15.740 The congressman from Kentucky, Thomas Massey, will be watching you and the rest of the congressmen and the senators today in the House and the Senate as they as they maybe don't even vote on six trillion dollars being spent.
00:28:31.940 Thanks, Thomas.
00:28:37.740 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:28:52.800 Welcome to the program.
00:28:54.500 We have Daniel Horowitz on with us.
00:28:56.240 He is a play of the blaze podcast host and also with the conservative review.
00:29:01.420 He's the senior editor of conservative review, and he has taken a look into the coronavirus rescue bill.
00:29:11.180 The one that is now six trillion dollars, six trillion dollars, Daniel.
00:29:23.180 I've never seen anything like six trillion dollars, and it looks like they're going to just pass this without an actual roll call vote.
00:29:33.920 They're just going to pass it.
00:29:35.900 Well, Glenn, I don't even know if I'm looking at the bill right now.
00:29:39.740 I got some sort of copy, which is six hundred nineteen pages.
00:29:42.860 But all I know is they're going to vote on it within an hour.
00:29:45.940 So there you go.
00:29:47.600 I cannot give you all the details.
00:29:49.320 Now, to be fair, I think it's two trillion, not six trillion.
00:29:52.940 But well, it's two trillion.
00:29:54.140 It's two trillion with the four trillion from the Fed.
00:29:58.340 So you have four.
00:30:00.380 Yes.
00:30:01.000 And Glenn, this is just the beginning.
00:30:03.500 Here's the most important thing before we get into provisions.
00:30:07.600 Republicans are brilliant.
00:30:08.920 They managed to bankrupt us like Venezuela while still not even covering certain people. 1.00
00:30:18.200 And then all of this is going to go into a black hole within a week or two.
00:30:22.920 If, as the Democrat governors seem to want to do, they keep the shutdown going on this severely, this indefinitely.
00:30:30.960 There's no amount of trillions of dollars you could print that is going to ameliorate that pig.
00:30:35.240 So it's both too large and too little at the same time.
00:30:39.760 And it's going to expose them to a bunch of political peril.
00:30:42.640 And what the Democrats have showed is that you can never outbid them.
00:30:45.600 If you don't provide a bold contrast in addressing the crisis in a different way, again, there are certain things we have to do with the surge in funding for the hospitals.
00:30:55.960 They have $130 billion for that.
00:30:57.580 We agree to that.
00:30:58.900 Extending unemployment benefits because we shut people down.
00:31:02.260 In some states, that will be $1,000 to $1,400 a week now.
00:31:06.900 Very generous.
00:31:07.600 So, done.
00:31:09.440 Do that.
00:31:10.220 And then let's get back to work over the next few weeks with the prudent balance geographically, demographically, and take care of the actual problem.
00:31:19.580 But instead what they do is they indiscriminately throw $500 billion in the form of $1,200 rebates at people, $500 per kid, even to families that didn't lose a penny.
00:31:34.000 But then if you're earning more than $150,000 as a family, as a small business owner, but that's last year.
00:31:42.060 On last year's tax returns, but this year you're slaughtered, you get nothing.
00:31:46.860 So they're going to get hit politically for that.
00:31:49.580 And this whole thing just, it makes no sense, Glenn, because either we address this in a different way and we get back to solving the problem, or there is no money in the world that will solve this.
00:32:08.000 So there is no money in the world that will solve this.
00:32:11.180 What needed to happen, Daniel, I think, is solve the immediate needs of those who lost their job or those who are about to lose their house because they lost their job or those who are about to lose their business.
00:32:30.220 I mean, anything that helps business people out, you know, especially the small business person, just by saying, look, you don't have to worry about your rent.
00:32:40.740 How much is your rent?
00:32:42.200 Send us the bill.
00:32:43.660 Send us what's going on.
00:32:45.120 Some way of just, even if you have a mortgage, talking to the banks and saying, look, you know you guys are going to get it $4 trillion through the back door.
00:32:56.580 And that's just what we're announcing this week, let alone what we did last week, and let alone what you know is coming next week.
00:33:03.560 So no mortgage foreclosures, mortgage break for three months for everybody.
00:33:09.500 That would take care of the apartment building owner that has to make the nut and pay for that mortgage. 0.99
00:33:16.620 They could then pass that on.
00:33:18.700 I mean, that's the kind of things that we need, and none of that's in there.
00:33:23.780 None of that's in there.
00:33:25.460 That's exactly the point.
00:33:27.060 Once you are giving $1,000 to $1,200 a week for unemployment benefits indefinitely, and, you know, again, in the last bill, they took care of the paid leave for 12 weeks, which now they will advance the cash to the small businesses to cover that up front.
00:33:44.100 So you have the immediate problem, the Band-Aid.
00:33:47.300 Why they need to spend an extra $1.5 trillion on the $500 billion for the bailouts for the industries, another $367 billion in small business loans, but there's nothing to loan for because they're shut down.
00:34:00.940 And then $150 billion thrown at state governments, and then they have, you know, $30 billion for education, another $20 billion for mass transit, which I thought that's the ultimate people spreader.
00:34:14.040 We want to keep that shut down.
00:34:15.280 It doesn't make any sense, but then at the same time, they're adamantly saying, how dare you, Mr. Trump, hope to get back to work in some modicum of normalcy by April 12th, by Easter.
00:34:27.660 How dare you do that?
00:34:28.820 This needs to go on indefinitely, and it's almost like they're happy about it.
00:34:32.860 So in that case, again, this money will be gobbled up in no time and will be on to the next $10 trillion.
00:34:39.720 And here's the final question, Glenn.
00:34:41.660 If there is no downside to doing this, to, you know, no pain to spending so much immediately more than we need to just now, which is what any normal person would do, why not blow this wide open and give every family a $100,000 check?
00:34:59.100 No, really, where is the limit?
00:35:01.460 I mean, if there's no limit, here's my question.
00:35:04.760 Why? You know, there's a lot of anxiety.
00:35:07.760 Everyone's worried about the balance of getting back to work and the coronavirus.
00:35:11.320 You know what? Just stay home.
00:35:12.640 Here's $100,000.
00:35:14.040 Nothing to worry.
00:35:15.040 I want to know what is wrong with that.
00:35:17.340 Where is that line?
00:35:20.080 The reality is Mitch McConnell said that this is a wartime World War II-like investment.
00:35:25.620 Where he's wrong is there's nothing to invest in.
00:35:29.220 You can't invest in a dead body.
00:35:31.320 Exactly right.
00:35:31.740 It's going to go in a black hole.
00:35:32.980 Exactly right.
00:35:33.720 Yeah.
00:35:34.220 What you need is deregulation.
00:35:37.780 In World War II, we had planes and tanks and factories at the end of it.
00:35:43.780 At the end of this, what did we invest in?
00:35:47.020 What do we have?
00:35:48.760 What do we have?
00:35:50.820 We're not walking away with anything that can be used.
00:35:54.260 Pardon me?
00:35:55.440 Yeah, you're investing in people staying home.
00:35:58.800 Yes, right.
00:36:00.260 Right.
00:36:00.620 And not investing in their home.
00:36:03.300 If they have a home and they're being foreclosed on, you're not giving them money or any kind of relief.
00:36:09.560 They're still going to lose their home.
00:36:11.660 That's what people are worried about right now.
00:36:14.120 They're worried about their home.
00:36:16.380 They're worried about having enough food for their family and a shelter while they're at home.
00:36:21.860 The next thing is, are we destroying the entire country for a virus?
00:36:28.160 I mean, is there going to be anything left?
00:36:29.920 That's, I think, what they're worried about beyond the coronavirus itself.
00:36:34.980 They worry about those three things.
00:36:36.360 Do I have a home?
00:36:37.060 Do I have food?
00:36:37.920 And is there going to be any job to go back to in the end?
00:36:41.360 This bill doesn't address any of those.
00:36:43.380 And to speak to your home issue, there's another point I think your listeners need to get involved in at a grassroots level with state property or in local property taxes.
00:36:54.220 And it's time to get state legislatures involved in this.
00:36:57.200 One of the problems I see happening in the next few weeks is this.
00:37:00.620 We know the Imperial College study was bogus.
00:37:03.800 Two million deaths, this and that.
00:37:05.260 I'm not saying there's not a serious element.
00:37:06.940 And I do think it is more lethal than the regular flu.
00:37:09.900 But again, is there a value add to going from social distancing to complete lockdown?
00:37:17.120 Where's the evidence of that?
00:37:18.580 Where's the evidence that this stuff wasn't baked into the cake from January and February, which it absolutely was, because we had flights from Wuhan when I was calling for a shutoff in January.
00:37:28.580 So unfortunately, all these people that are like, oh, we have to save lives.
00:37:32.180 Well, yeah, thanks to you, Pelosi had a had a ban on Trump's ban as late as January 29th.
00:37:38.960 So that's baked into the cake.
00:37:40.580 But my concern, Glenn, is that we're headed for the following scenario where Trump's going to try over the next few weeks to see how to achieve the proper balance.
00:37:48.780 And these Democrat governors are suddenly more powerful than God.
00:37:53.640 You know, I wish states would have been this powerful over the last half century.
00:37:56.920 And they're going to just to make him look look bad, push more severe shutdowns.
00:38:02.980 Trump needs to tell them we are not going to bail out the states.
00:38:07.100 If you are going to go more severe than needed in the coming weeks, then you need to pay for that.
00:38:12.280 And one of the ways of doing that is they have to start relinquishing property taxes, like like you said, so homeowners could afford it.
00:38:21.640 I will tell you, Daniel, that I think this is where the president absolutely needs to go.
00:38:26.320 He needs to next week say, you know, here's the plan.
00:38:30.320 We're going to continue to look at how we're doing.
00:38:33.220 But in certain states, they are either past it or it's not the problem.
00:38:39.980 You have to keep your social distancing.
00:38:42.020 But I'm giving this power to the states and every state should open up when they can.
00:38:49.740 We are going to be there to help you open up and we're going to be there and we will encourage you to open up.
00:38:55.700 But it's the individual states.
00:38:57.760 I'm telling you now, open up the country.
00:39:01.620 I'm not saying open up New York.
00:39:03.480 That's for Cuomo to do.
00:39:04.620 I'm not saying open California.
00:39:06.320 That's for Gavin to do.
00:39:07.800 I'm saying as far as the federal government is concerned, we are open for business in what?
00:39:14.460 38 of the states.
00:39:16.160 What do you say?
00:39:17.000 30 of them.
00:39:18.240 How about 25?
00:39:20.620 And we will incentivize people to get back to work as soon as they possibly can.
00:39:26.280 What's what's what's wrong with the president doing that?
00:39:29.260 Well, I'll tell you this.
00:39:31.340 I have a quote from the State Department telling me their hope is to get refugee resettlement back up and going by April 7th.
00:39:39.020 So if it's good enough for refugee resettlement.
00:39:41.760 Oh, my gosh.
00:39:42.980 You can't believe it.
00:39:44.240 I can't.
00:39:44.600 No, I promise you.
00:39:45.560 They said that.
00:39:47.080 I mean.
00:39:48.320 Unbelievable.
00:39:48.960 Would you send that to me?
00:39:50.440 That's incredible.
00:39:51.660 I will send you the email.
00:39:52.520 It's from the State Department's Bureau of Population Migration and Refugees.
00:39:56.320 Yes.
00:39:56.560 Unbelievable.
00:39:59.800 Daniel, thank you so much.
00:40:01.400 Appreciate it.
00:40:02.160 You can read his column.
00:40:04.140 You can follow him at RM Conservative.
00:40:06.980 It's Daniel Horowitz.
00:40:08.980 Also, Blaze podcast and conservative review editor, Daniel Horowitz.
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