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TRUMP TELLS CONGRESS NO TO SCREWING AMERICANS ON STIMULUS CHECKS! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: So how do you know when your government is broken?
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Speaker 1: Let me give you an example of when you know
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Speaker 1: when the country's COVID nineteen relief bill includes ten million
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Speaker 1: in gender programs for Pakistan. You might know that your
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Speaker 1: government is broken when a spending bill comes to the
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Speaker 1: four of the House with only four hours to read it.
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Speaker 1: You know your government's broken. When the spending bill is
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Speaker 1: five thousand, five hundred and ninety three pages long, you
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Speaker 1: know that your government is broken. The latest stimulus bill
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Speaker 1: is five thousand, five hundred ninety three pages long. They
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Speaker 1: had just a few hours to read it, and if
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Speaker 1: every member of the House and send it printed it out,
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Speaker 1: they would have used two point nine nine two million
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Speaker 1: sheets of paper to put it in perspective about what
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Speaker 1: is in this bill. Now, let me just again tell
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Speaker 1: you how you know that the government of the United
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Speaker 1: States America is not working for you. In fact, they're
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Speaker 1: working for everybody else in the world. But you American
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Speaker 1: taxpayers are having to deal with the coronavirus lockdowns, and
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Speaker 1: we're now being told to show out billions of dollars
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Speaker 1: in foreign aid to countries with a two point three
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Speaker 1: trillion dollars spending bill that was unveiled on Monday. This
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Speaker 1: budget busting bill was posted online Monday afternoon, only hours
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Speaker 1: after how Speaker Dainty Pelosi he said a vote would
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Speaker 1: be held. I want you to hear what one congressman
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Speaker 1: had to say about how insane all of this is,
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Speaker 1: because it is insane. It is insane that no one
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Speaker 1: had time to actually read the bill. It is insane
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Speaker 1: that you had all of this money right, all of
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Speaker 1: this cash going out to foreign countries when Americans actually
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Speaker 1: need it. Take a listen to Center Mike Lee. He
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Speaker 1: posted this on Twitter last night as he was printing
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Speaker 1: out the bill behind him on a printer. We're in
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Speaker 1: the process of printing out the spending bill that Congress
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Speaker 1: will be voting on late tonight. We just received it now.
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Speaker 1: The bill is five thousand, five hundred and ninety three
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Speaker 1: pages long. I've been in the Senate now for ten years.
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Speaker 1: This is by far the longest bill that I've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that it's extraordinary about this one
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Speaker 1: is that because of the length, it is impossible that
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Speaker 1: anyone will have the opportunity to read it between now
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Speaker 1: and the time that we will vote. And I am
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Speaker 1: absolutely certain that this has been poppled together by a
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Speaker 1: very small handful of Members of Congress and their staffs,
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Speaker 1: to the exclusion of ninety eight percent of members of
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Speaker 1: Congress of both political parties in both houses. The interesting
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Speaker 1: thing here is that it took us about three minutes
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Speaker 1: just to print out the first hundred pages, which I've
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Speaker 1: got right here. But given the length of it, this
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Speaker 1: is going to take us over three hours just to
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Speaker 1: print it out. That's before anyone's even had a chance
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Speaker 1: to read it. I wish I could say that this
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Speaker 1: sort of thing was unusual the length is. But being
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Speaker 1: asked to vote on something that we have never had
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to even see, much less digest an amend
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Speaker 1: is unacceptable. Legislation like this needs to be voted on.
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Speaker 1: It needs to be understood at the time it's voted on.
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Speaker 1: Members need to have the chance to not only read
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Speaker 1: it and understand it, but also vet it with their
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Speaker 1: constituents and improvements or being told that we'll have none
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Speaker 1: of those opportunities tonight, and I think that's very unfortunate. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: one fourth of the spending bill under consideration in Congress
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Speaker 1: today has nothing to do with America. It's money going
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Speaker 1: all other areas of life. The bill is so huge
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Speaker 1: that lead as you're in said, said, there would take
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Speaker 1: three hours just to print it out, and they'll still
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Speaker 1: have to vote on the bill tonight. Three hours to
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Speaker 1: print the damn thing. Here's a really sad thing. We're
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Speaker 1: being told. There's will be no opportunity to amend or
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Speaker 1: improve this bill. As a result, nearly every member of
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Speaker 1: Congress House and send a Democrat a Republican will have
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Speaker 1: been excluded from the process of developing the bill, which
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Speaker 1: will cause some American taxpayers tradings of dollars. It's processed
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Speaker 1: by which members of Congress are asked to defer blindly
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Speaker 1: to legislation to gootiate entirely in secret by four of
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Speaker 1: their colleagues. Must come to an end, Michael said. It
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Speaker 1: won't come to an end until no longer works for
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Speaker 1: those empowered by it. This can happen, but only when
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Speaker 1: most members of both houses and both political parties stop
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Speaker 1: voting for bills they haven't read and but by design,
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Speaker 1: cannot read until after it's already been voted on. He's right,
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Speaker 1: by the way, would it would take enough members to
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Speaker 1: vote no on the bill until they they've had the
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Speaker 1: chance to read it. Honestly, now would be the time
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Speaker 1: to do so, since the election is over. In the
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Speaker 1: next elections at least two years away. But we all
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Speaker 1: know that that will not happen because they love this.
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Speaker 1: And what happens is is you get to put in
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Speaker 1: all your port barrells spending. You get to put it
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Speaker 1: in and no one gets to take it out. So
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Speaker 1: everybody gets whatever the hell they want to put in there.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, Joe Biden loves this. He's already
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Speaker 1: greeting the passage of the six thousand page bill, the
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Speaker 1: rown Up Bill, with a call for even more spending.
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Speaker 1: President elect Joe Biden said yes to this massive six
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Speaker 1: thousand page coronavirus relief and spending bill with calls for
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Speaker 1: more spending on a pandemic in the new year when
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Speaker 1: he's the president. Quote, I applaud the relief package, he said,
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Speaker 1: but our work is far from over. Starting in the
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Speaker 1: new year, Congress will need to immediately get to work
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Speaker 1: to support our COVID nineteen plan. My message everyone out
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Speaker 1: there struggling right now, help is on the way. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you get six hundred dollars while the rest of the
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Speaker 1: world gets millions now. Biden's assessment is consistent with what
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Speaker 1: he's been saying in recent weeks, echoing the view of
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Speaker 1: many Democrats who see the bill as the beginning of
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Speaker 1: a negotiation, not the end. The notion the more aid
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Speaker 1: is necessary, the mode, the idea that more lockdowns are necessary,
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Speaker 1: but government a will come in so you'll submit to
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Speaker 1: their lockdowns. Biden times has said talks should start as
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Speaker 1: early as January. This sets up perhaps the first major
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Speaker 1: legislative tests for the new president and his self proclaimed
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Speaker 1: negotiating skills. Democrats had held back from passing a coronavirus
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Speaker 1: relief bill before the election because they didn't want Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump to get any credit for it. How Speaker Niswer
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Speaker 1: Pelosi all but admitted this when asked why they've been
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Speaker 1: willing to accept less spending now than she demanded before
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Speaker 1: the election. Pelosi had used such taxics before delaying the
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Speaker 1: passage of a bipartsion relief bill in the spring and
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Speaker 1: stalling for the expansion of the payment Protection Program earlier
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Speaker 1: this year. Because she doesn't care about you. She cares
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Speaker 1: about winning. She cares about power, same way that these
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Speaker 1: governors are power drunk, trying to shut you down, and
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Speaker 1: the weaker you get, the stronger they get. That is
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Speaker 1: the part that everybody needs to understand. When Democrats do
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Speaker 1: things like this, what they just did, You know they're intent.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to guess. This is about shutting you down.
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Speaker 1: This is about beating you. This is about silencing you.
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Speaker 1: When you're weak, they are strong. When you are strong
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Speaker 1: and independent, they don't have the power over you that
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Speaker 1: they desperately want and need. That is exactly why they're
7:49
Speaker 1: doing this. This is exactly why they've decided to do
7:56
Speaker 1: this because they believe that when you lose your business
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Speaker 1: and lose your ability to provide for yourself, that they
8:09
Speaker 1: will then come in and say I got you. When
8:12
Speaker 1: you hit rock bottom, they are your master. When unemployment
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Speaker 1: rates are high, they have extreme power. When you are
8:22
Speaker 1: independent and things are low, they have no power. Never ever,
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10:07
Speaker 1: to where some of your money is going, so you
10:09
Speaker 1: understand exactly how much your money is being wasted going
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Speaker 1: overseas while Americans desperately need capital, They desperately need loans,
10:17
Speaker 1: they desperately need financing. They definitely need money coming in
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Speaker 1: with all of these COVID shutdowns. Let me just give
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Speaker 1: you some of the money and where we know. It's going.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and sixty nine million to Vietnam, including nineteen
10:32
Speaker 1: million to remediate dioxins. That's on page fourteen seventy six.
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Speaker 1: Unspecified funds to continue support for it not for profit
10:42
Speaker 1: institutions of higher education Kabul, Afghanistan that are accessible to
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Speaker 1: both women and men in educational environment. That's on page
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Speaker 1: fourteen seventy seven. One hundred and ninety eight million to Bangladesh,
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Speaker 1: including twenty three point five million to support the Bernese
10:59
Speaker 1: Refuse GEEZ and twenty two point three million for democracy programs.
11:05
Speaker 1: It's on page fourteen eighty five. One hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: million for Nepal for development and democracy programs. Pakistan, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna give them some money, fifteen million for democracy programs,
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Speaker 1: whatever the hell that means. And ten million to Pakistan
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Speaker 1: for gender programs. That's on page fourteen eighty six. So
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Speaker 1: apparently we're gonna give twenty five million to Pakistan and
11:27
Speaker 1: we think Pakistan's gonna go to a democracy. Sure, okay,
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Speaker 1: I believe you. Yeah, no problems in Pakistan right now.
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Speaker 1: In Sri Lanka, fifteen million for quote, for the reimbursing
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Speaker 1: of a high endurance cutter. That's a boat we're gonna
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Speaker 1: fix for them. Five hundred and five million to Belie,
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Speaker 1: Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala, hod Duras, Nicaragua and Panama to
11:51
Speaker 1: address quote key factors that contribute to the migration of
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Speaker 1: unaccompanied undocumented minors in the United States. Four hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty one million to Colombia for programs related to counter
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Speaker 1: narcotics and human rights. Seventy four point eight million to
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Speaker 1: the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. I don't even know what
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Speaker 1: that is. Don't worry. You don't need the money. You
12:13
Speaker 1: don't need the seventy four million. No, we're gonna give
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Speaker 1: it to them. Thirty three million for democracy programs in Venezuela.
12:20
Speaker 1: Does anybody think that that money's actually gonna do anything
12:28
Speaker 1: we're talking about? We're spending thirty three million dollars to Venezuela.
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Speaker 1: They like, literally hate us. That is not money well spent.
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Speaker 1: I don't care what you try to convince me of
12:40
Speaker 1: that is not money well spent. It's not unspecified spending
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Speaker 1: amount to Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, turn it to add in
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Speaker 1: Tobago for assistance for communities in the country supporting are
12:59
Speaker 1: otherwise impact impacted by refugees from Venezuela. So we admit
13:03
Speaker 1: Venezuela sucks, but we're gonna send thirty three million to
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Speaker 1: Venezuela and then an unspecibout himount to the people who've
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Speaker 1: last Venezuela going to these other countries. You don't believe me.
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Speaker 1: Read that on page fourteen ninety nine. One hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty two million for assistance to Georgia. That's on page
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Speaker 1: fourteen ninine as well four hundred and fifty three million
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Speaker 1: for assistance for Ukraine. Nobody's read any of this crap.
13:25
Speaker 1: By the way, Representative Andy Biggs slammed the bill before
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Speaker 1: the details even emerged, saying, we still don't have text
13:34
Speaker 1: yet for this massive spending bill and we'll likely be
13:37
Speaker 1: expected to vote on it later today. Just another bill
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Speaker 1: we have to pass. The American people to discover all
13:41
Speaker 1: the goodies that special interest jammed into it over the
13:44
Speaker 1: past week. This is what's in the bill. This is
13:51
Speaker 1: what we're doing right now in this country. All of
13:53
Speaker 1: this money I just told you about could have gone
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Speaker 1: to the the American people, could have gone to small business owners.
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Speaker 1: You have to ask yourself the question why why is
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Speaker 1: the money not going to small businesses? Because they don't
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Speaker 1: really want to help you. Why do you think they're
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Speaker 1: only giving you a six hundred dollars. The reason why
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Speaker 1: they're only giving you six hundred dollars is very clear.
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Speaker 1: They don't want you to actually survive that they are flourished.
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Speaker 1: I should say, they don't want your company to do well. Okay,
14:34
Speaker 1: they don't want your company to succeed, your small business
14:38
Speaker 1: to succeed. They don't want you to succeed. You give
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Speaker 1: them no power when you are strong. Why do you
14:49
Speaker 1: think they hated Trump so much? Why do you think
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Speaker 1: they love COVID? COVID gave them their power back. Without COVID,
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Speaker 1: these guys lost everything. I'm referring to the democrats. Egypt
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Speaker 1: and Sudan are both receiving more assistants and Americans who
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Speaker 1: don't know where their next meal will come from. Egypt's
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Speaker 1: getting one point three billion, Sudan's getting seven hundred million,
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Speaker 1: Ukraine four hundred and fifty three million, Israel half a billion,
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Speaker 1: Nepal one hundred and thirty million, Burma one hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty five million, Cambodia eighty five million, Pakistan twenty five million.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy Center is getting twenty six million. Smithsonian is a billion,
15:35
Speaker 1: no offense. But who's going to the Kidning Center right
15:37
Speaker 1: now with this pandemic going on? Who's going to the
15:40
Speaker 1: Sithsonians when they're closed right now? Who's going to the
15:42
Speaker 1: National Art Gallery for one hundred and fifty four million
15:46
Speaker 1: right now? Who's going to the National Arts and Humanities
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Speaker 1: right now dealing with any of that, with what's going
15:51
Speaker 1: on right now? No one. Who's going to the Woodrow
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Speaker 1: Wilson Center for fourteen million of your tax dollars? No one?
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Speaker 1: Right now? We cannot afford these things right now. The
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Speaker 1: government says, oh yeah, we'll take your money and we're
16:13
Speaker 1: going to redistribute it to all of these other countries
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Speaker 1: and all these other people. We're gonna do that. We're
16:22
Speaker 1: gonna do it right now. And you guys should be
16:26
Speaker 1: very happy that we gave you six hundred bucks. You're welcome.
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Speaker 1: Let's also not forget this is six hundred dollars of
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Speaker 1: your own money. Okay, this is six hundred dollars of
16:47
Speaker 1: your own money. We're talking about six hundred dollars of
16:52
Speaker 1: your own money. And all this other money is your
16:58
Speaker 1: money that they're giving away. Right, all of this other
17:03
Speaker 1: money is the money they're giving away. This is your money,
17:10
Speaker 1: this is your cash, this is your dollars. Coming up,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna sit down with Kyle Olsen. This is an
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Speaker 1: incredible individual who has been going through these bills talking
17:31
Speaker 1: about this money. There's also another amazing story that's come
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Speaker 1: out from all of this about restaurant owners that were
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Speaker 1: promised relief in Michigan at the hands of that socialist governor.
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Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer. A Michigan restaurant owner impacted by Governor Whitmer's
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Speaker 1: shutdown order, sought to apply for a grant last week
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Speaker 1: to keep her business open. Well, you got to find out.
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Speaker 1: That's so much red tape they give you when they
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Speaker 1: shut you down. You got to even find out if
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Speaker 1: you're eligible. Then after your eligible, we gotta find out
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Speaker 1: how much you're eligible for. Then after that then you
18:03
Speaker 1: have to get in line. Well, she decided to do
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Speaker 1: this because right you've shut down her business, and they say, well,
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Speaker 1: you can dine outside. It's eleven degrees nine degrees thirteen
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Speaker 1: degrees not getting in Michigan right now and the dead
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Speaker 1: of winter, when this is gonna happen for months. But
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Speaker 1: the Michigan governor says, don't worry, I'll let you eat outside.
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Speaker 1: Who eats outside when it's seven degrees? You morons. Don't
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Speaker 1: tell me she wants these people to succeed. She doesn't.
18:28
Speaker 1: She wants them to fail. She doesn't want you to
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Speaker 1: make it. This restaurant owner applied for a grant last
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Speaker 1: week Keybord business only. She ended up eight thousand, nine
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventeenth in line. And then they said they
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Speaker 1: won't even she won't even know if she's gonna get
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Speaker 1: any of the money. It could be a month from
18:49
Speaker 1: now until they even tell her what she might get,
18:52
Speaker 1: and then it could be months after that until she
18:54
Speaker 1: actually gets the money. Meanwhile, her business been shut down.
18:59
Speaker 1: Now't say we're gonna set in your business two months
19:01
Speaker 1: from now. I'm telling you, right now, you get what
19:07
Speaker 1: you voted for a lot of you voted for Joe Biden,
19:11
Speaker 1: and you deserve this others who didn't vote for him
19:13
Speaker 1: do not deserve this. A lot of you do deserve this,
19:18
Speaker 1: though you voted for this moron Joe Biden and the leftists,
19:24
Speaker 1: And this is what I told you they were gonna do.
19:26
Speaker 1: They were gonna seek to grab ultimate power from you.
19:33
Speaker 1: This was about nothing but a total power grab, and
19:39
Speaker 1: everybody knew it. By the way, everybody knew this was
19:45
Speaker 1: a power grab. They all knew it. This was nothing
19:52
Speaker 1: but a power grab. Grab all the power you can
19:56
Speaker 1: get your hands on. Grab it right now, do whatever
20:02
Speaker 1: you can to get it. We make these people weak
20:07
Speaker 1: and everybody else is strong. You look at the political
20:11
Speaker 1: landscape right now, and here's what we know. We have
20:13
Speaker 1: a five thousand plus page bill that's been passed that's
20:17
Speaker 1: spending an insane amount of your money on port bill spinning,
20:20
Speaker 1: and part of that we went through earlier. We also
20:23
Speaker 1: have more money going overseas than should ever be going
20:27
Speaker 1: overseas right now, when Americans are desperate, even with the
20:29
Speaker 1: COVID relief bill, and we don't even know what's in
20:32
Speaker 1: half these bills because no one had time to read them.
20:35
Speaker 1: And then we have states they're saying, don't worry we've
20:37
Speaker 1: got you covered if you need help during these lockdowns,
20:40
Speaker 1: we're making sure that we've got you taken care of.
20:42
Speaker 1: And by the way, you may have shout out of
20:44
Speaker 1: your business, but at least we're gonna send you six
20:46
Speaker 1: hundred dollars while we do that. Because we're the government,
20:49
Speaker 1: we're here to help you. In reality, they're destroying our lives.
20:52
Speaker 1: Let me give you in a great example of just
20:54
Speaker 1: how terrible the states are doing around the country when
20:59
Speaker 1: it comes to helping people. Michigan restaurant seeks relief grant
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Speaker 1: from the state after the governor Whitmer's shut down another shutdown.
21:10
Speaker 1: You ready for this, this Michigan restaurant owners seeking relief
21:13
Speaker 1: that's been promised by the state government. Hey, we're gonna
21:16
Speaker 1: shut you down, but don't worry, we got your back.
21:17
Speaker 1: We got you covered. Ends up nine eight I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: eight thousand, nine hundred and seventeenth in line. That's right.
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Speaker 1: An actual restaurant owner who said, Okay, Governor, I'm gonna
21:29
Speaker 1: do what you're telling me to do. I'm gonna, you know,
21:31
Speaker 1: a buye by the shutdown ers. I'm gonna apply for
21:33
Speaker 1: a grant to keep my business open. So that you
21:37
Speaker 1: know I can survive. Ends up eight thousand, nine hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventeenth in line. Joining me now to talk about this.
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Speaker 1: A man that has an incredible article about this up
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Speaker 1: on bright Bart and we'll tweet it out, put on Facebook, Twitter, Parlor.
21:51
Speaker 1: The whole shebang is Kyle Olsen. He also has a
21:54
Speaker 1: great podcast and I'll tell you more about in a moment.
21:57
Speaker 1: But before we get into all of that, Kyle, you
22:00
Speaker 1: hear these governments say, just trust us, We're going to
22:02
Speaker 1: do the right thing. We're gonna help you. We're gonna
22:05
Speaker 1: shut you down, but we're gonna fix it. You're gonna
22:07
Speaker 1: be able to survive because we're gonna give you money. Now,
22:09
Speaker 1: you got this, this whistleblower basically telling you, Hey, I
22:13
Speaker 1: went to apply for this grant. I'm eight thousand, nine
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Speaker 1: or seventeenth in line. How does this even happen? Well,
22:18
Speaker 1: it happens because the government thinks that they know what's best,
22:22
Speaker 1: and so they create this situation where people are desperate.
22:25
Speaker 1: They're desperate to keep their business open, they're desperate to
22:28
Speaker 1: feed their families, they're desperate for their kids to go
22:30
Speaker 1: to school. And so then the government says, as you said,
22:34
Speaker 1: we're here to help you, but you just you need
22:37
Speaker 1: to get in line in order for us to help you.
22:39
Speaker 1: And by the way, you may be eight thousand, nine
22:42
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen in line. And so this situation happened
22:47
Speaker 1: to Kim Letty. She's the owner of Delhi Delhi in Pickford,
22:50
Speaker 1: which is in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and she
22:53
Speaker 1: applied for a pure Michigan small Business relief grant. And
22:57
Speaker 1: she said, she told me she was in line of
23:00
Speaker 1: this virtual line for ten hours just to apply to
23:05
Speaker 1: see if she would be eligible to apply for the grant.
23:09
Speaker 1: This is the craziness that's going on in Michigan, in
23:12
Speaker 1: New York, in California and across the country. You know,
23:16
Speaker 1: of course, the government says in Michigan, this again shows
23:19
Speaker 1: you just how how out corrupt, uh, these local governments are.
23:23
Speaker 1: They don't really want you to stay open, uh, so
23:25
Speaker 1: they do stupid things like in New York City, Well
23:27
Speaker 1: you can dine outside during a blizzard. What's the temperature
23:31
Speaker 1: where you are today in Michigan, what's the low to day?
23:33
Speaker 1: Out of curiosity, well it's it's in the low thirties
23:36
Speaker 1: and okay, so so low thirties. So here's the deal.
23:40
Speaker 1: You own a restaurant, and I, as the governor WM,
23:42
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a deal. I'm going
23:44
Speaker 1: to allow you and your establishment to survive by giving
23:49
Speaker 1: you the opportunity to dine outside. Now, out of curiosity,
23:54
Speaker 1: what does the health risk of sitting outside in the
23:56
Speaker 1: low thirties? Kyle in Michigan. Well, that's that's a very
24:00
Speaker 1: very good question. And what Kim told me because her
24:02
Speaker 1: her establishment again is in the eastern Upper Peninsula. She's
24:06
Speaker 1: literally probably five miles from Canada. I mean, the border
24:09
Speaker 1: is right there, and which, of course Canada is cold
24:13
Speaker 1: in the winter. And so I looked it up what
24:16
Speaker 1: the temperature was going to be in Pickford, which is
24:18
Speaker 1: where her business is. There's a low temperature this week
24:21
Speaker 1: of twelve degrees. And so the governor and the government
24:25
Speaker 1: is telling her, well, in order to do in person
24:28
Speaker 1: dining they have people have to be outside. And so
24:31
Speaker 1: there's this absolute disconnect from reality. And so and she,
24:35
Speaker 1: in fact, she said, do you think the governor has
24:37
Speaker 1: even been to the Upper Peninsula before? Because it gets
24:40
Speaker 1: cold here in the winter. Yeah, And just you know,
24:43
Speaker 1: when I saw your article, and it's incredible. It's up
24:45
Speaker 1: on Brightbart and we're gonna link it so people can
24:47
Speaker 1: see this on our parlor account, Twitter and Facebook this
24:51
Speaker 1: article and if you go to Brightmart right now you
24:52
Speaker 1: can grab it. That the headline as Michigan restaurant seeks
24:55
Speaker 1: relief grant after Governor Whitmer shut down ends up to
25:00
Speaker 1: up eight thousand, nine seventeenth in line. You can find
25:03
Speaker 1: it there. But I looked at for one of the
25:05
Speaker 1: first things I looked at when I saw this, Oh this, Hey,
25:07
Speaker 1: you can do outside dining, so you should be happy.
25:09
Speaker 1: I'm the dictator, I'm the governor. I'm going to tell
25:10
Speaker 1: you how to live your life. Right now. It's twenty
25:13
Speaker 1: six degrees in Pickford as we speak, a low of
25:16
Speaker 1: twenty four tonight. Thursday, for example, you high of twenty seven,
25:21
Speaker 1: a low of ten degrees. So go eat dinner Thursday night.
25:25
Speaker 1: It'll be great. You'll really enjoy it. Fridays even worse,
25:28
Speaker 1: a high of twenty degrees with a low of sixteen.
25:30
Speaker 1: Saturday's a high of twenty seven and sixteen degrees below.
25:33
Speaker 1: Sunday high of twenty six, low of thirteen Monday. You
25:38
Speaker 1: really should It's gonna be partly cloudy. So there's that
25:40
Speaker 1: perk high of seventeen guys, a loo of seven. And
25:45
Speaker 1: this is the governor saying, well, you can eat outside.
25:48
Speaker 1: We allowed you for outside dining. A space heater can't
25:51
Speaker 1: keep up with the weather in Pickford of a high
25:54
Speaker 1: of seventeen a love seven. That means you're shutting down
25:57
Speaker 1: your business. And the government knows this. They knew this
26:00
Speaker 1: when they made this ridiculous role in the winter. They're
26:02
Speaker 1: not idiots, absolutely, and they want but they're creating the
26:08
Speaker 1: situation where they want people dependent on what is the
26:12
Speaker 1: what's the governor's next order going to be? And are
26:14
Speaker 1: we going to be able to open our businesses. My
26:17
Speaker 1: kids play hockey, and so she shut down arenas, which
26:22
Speaker 1: means they can't have practices, they can't have games, and
26:26
Speaker 1: so you as a parent, and of course she's shut
26:28
Speaker 1: down schools. High schoolers can't go in person, and so
26:31
Speaker 1: you as a parent are sitting here going, Okay, what's
26:33
Speaker 1: her next order going to be? When are we going
26:36
Speaker 1: to be able to have some return to normalcy? And
26:38
Speaker 1: so she's creating the situation where she really you know,
26:41
Speaker 1: a lot of people are calling her the dictator of
26:43
Speaker 1: Michigan because she's just acting arbitrarily. Her orders were ruled
26:49
Speaker 1: unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court, so she just changed
26:52
Speaker 1: the department that's issuing the orders. And it's just it's
26:56
Speaker 1: one thing after another with Gretchen Whitmer. And she says
27:01
Speaker 1: that that restaurants are going to be able to return
27:04
Speaker 1: to in person dining on January fifteenth, but of course
27:07
Speaker 1: back in November she announced this three week quote unquote pause,
27:11
Speaker 1: which she has since extended. And so I don't know
27:15
Speaker 1: anybody who really trusts what she's saying and that you know,
27:19
Speaker 1: she's going to be able to give us some amount
27:21
Speaker 1: of freedom back. Let's talk about this relief. And again
27:25
Speaker 1: I use Michigan as an example of what's happening nationwide.
27:27
Speaker 1: When these guys, they have no clue you're you're living,
27:31
Speaker 1: you know, paycheck to paycheck, right if you're working in
27:33
Speaker 1: many of these business as small business owners of the
27:35
Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck, they pay their staff first and whatever's
27:37
Speaker 1: leftovers kind of theirs. During these lockdowns, many of just
27:40
Speaker 1: been dipping it further and further and further into the savings,
27:43
Speaker 1: just trying to survive so they can get back to
27:45
Speaker 1: a normal day of work. But but you look at
27:47
Speaker 1: this business owner has been told hey, you can have
27:50
Speaker 1: outside dining, which is worthless. After she was finally able
27:54
Speaker 1: to apply for these these state loans, right the state grants,
27:58
Speaker 1: they said they would contact her in January or forty
28:03
Speaker 1: five days to see if you even qualify. So when
28:08
Speaker 1: you apply and you need the money now, the reality is,
28:12
Speaker 1: even if she does qualify for the grant, which was
28:15
Speaker 1: up to fifteen thousand dollars, we have no idea if
28:18
Speaker 1: she's going to get this money for months, correct, until
28:20
Speaker 1: it actually hits her bank account. Yes, that's correct, And
28:23
Speaker 1: that's the problem when you have bureaucrats involved in these
28:27
Speaker 1: sorts of things. These businesses are dying right now. The
28:32
Speaker 1: Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association did a survey of their
28:35
Speaker 1: members and they said, if this goes on another six months,
28:39
Speaker 1: there could be as many as six thousand restaurants closing
28:42
Speaker 1: in Michigan. And of course it's not just the owners
28:45
Speaker 1: that are affected, it's the vendors, it's the suppliers, it's
28:49
Speaker 1: the employees. This has a tremendous effect, and it just
28:54
Speaker 1: is so frustrating to so many people because it's like
28:58
Speaker 1: the bureacrats don't care. The governor doesn't care, whether it's
29:03
Speaker 1: Whitmer or Cuomo or any other governors across the country.
29:08
Speaker 1: It's like they just don't care. They prefer to be
29:11
Speaker 1: in control, order you to wear a mask, order you
29:14
Speaker 1: to not be able to eat at a restaurant, all
29:17
Speaker 1: of these sorts of things. That's that's what they want
29:20
Speaker 1: to focus on. My guess is that Kyle Olson, he's
29:23
Speaker 1: a writer with Brightbart News. This article you can grab.
29:25
Speaker 1: We've linked it on Facebook, Twitter, and parlor so you
29:28
Speaker 1: can read it if you want to, just google it
29:31
Speaker 1: real quick or go to brightbart dot com. Michigan restaurant
29:33
Speaker 1: Seeks Relief is the title of this incredible expose into
29:37
Speaker 1: what real government screwups look like, and this relief grant
29:42
Speaker 1: after the governor shut down these restaurants saying don't worry,
29:44
Speaker 1: you can have outside dining when it's seven degrees. She
29:47
Speaker 1: ends up eight thousand, nine hundred and seventeenth line, and
29:50
Speaker 1: we wait possibly months to even get her money or
29:52
Speaker 1: even know how much money she's gonna get if she
29:55
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Speaker 1: to another point here that is one that has to
31:35
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31:38
Speaker 1: your article, and that is we have no idea when
31:42
Speaker 1: this relief money goes out. If they're going to be
31:45
Speaker 1: extending these stay at home orders and you know, okay,
31:49
Speaker 1: you can eat outside. They want to shut down restaurants.
31:52
Speaker 1: They want these businesses to fail. We're seeing the numbers
31:55
Speaker 1: that you just mentioned all of the country, and Michigan
31:57
Speaker 1: is is not exactly a massive, heavily populated state, right,
32:02
Speaker 1: It's beautiful and spread out. But you brought up a
32:05
Speaker 1: number a moment ago, and I want to dive into this.
32:08
Speaker 1: It is some statistics about how many restaurants would be closing,
32:12
Speaker 1: and the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association said at least
32:15
Speaker 1: five thousand, six hundred restaurant operators predict they will not
32:19
Speaker 1: be in business in six months if these lockdowns continue.
32:23
Speaker 1: Yet the governor clearly believes that these lockdowns are somehow working,
32:27
Speaker 1: even though nationwide contact tration showing about one point five
32:31
Speaker 1: percent transmission rate coming from actual restaurants, right, that's right.
32:37
Speaker 1: And in Michigan specifically, restaurants have not been in the
32:41
Speaker 1: top three for spreading the virus. So the logical question is, well,
32:47
Speaker 1: then if restaurants are not in the top three, then
32:50
Speaker 1: why is the governor going after them? And that's a
32:52
Speaker 1: very good question. And today at Breitbart I'm writing about
32:56
Speaker 1: the Liquor Control Commission. There's only seventeen states that have
33:00
Speaker 1: her control commission. California doesn't have one, New York doesn't
33:03
Speaker 1: have one, Florida, Texas don't have one. But for whatever reason,
33:07
Speaker 1: Michigan has a Liquor Control Commission. And a state senator
33:12
Speaker 1: last week told the story about one of his constituents
33:15
Speaker 1: who had this individual. He's a restaurant owner. This individual
33:20
Speaker 1: came up and said he was lonely and he was
33:24
Speaker 1: just looking for a meal, and so the restaurant owner
33:27
Speaker 1: took pity on this person and made him a meal.
33:31
Speaker 1: And then it turned out that the individual was an
33:33
Speaker 1: inspector from the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, and because he
33:38
Speaker 1: fed him a meal, he considered that in person dining,
33:42
Speaker 1: he was violating the governor's order and he took his
33:46
Speaker 1: liquor license away. That's the kind of punitive action that
33:50
Speaker 1: the governor is doing in the state of Michigan. And
33:52
Speaker 1: so this idea that she wants to hand out these
33:55
Speaker 1: grants and so businesses can stay open and so people
33:59
Speaker 1: can be him Floyd and they can provide for their
34:01
Speaker 1: families is nonsense. She wants compliance, she wants control, and
34:07
Speaker 1: if you aren't going to do that, then she's going
34:10
Speaker 1: to punish you. It's not just power drunk. I said
34:14
Speaker 1: this earlier, and I truly believe that this is about
34:19
Speaker 1: making the citizens weak so that they are strong. When
34:23
Speaker 1: the citizens are strong, government is weak. When the citizens
34:27
Speaker 1: are weak, the government is strong. When we are powerless,
34:29
Speaker 1: they have all the power. Am I wrong? No, that's
34:33
Speaker 1: absolutely right. And think back to twenty sixteen and twenty
34:37
Speaker 1: seventeen when all we heard from the mainstream media and
34:40
Speaker 1: the Democrats was that Donald Trump was going to be
34:43
Speaker 1: a dictator, and he was going to be this fascist dictator.
34:47
Speaker 1: And here comes the coronavirus. If there was ever a
34:50
Speaker 1: time for him to be a dictator, it was in
34:53
Speaker 1: the age of coronavirus. And yet he didn't do that.
34:57
Speaker 1: But who did that? It was the Democrat governors like
35:00
Speaker 1: Cuomo and Whitmer and all of these governors across the state,
35:05
Speaker 1: across the country. It's fascinating that there are people like
35:09
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Ronda Santis and Florida and others who
35:16
Speaker 1: Christy Nome is another one in South Dakota who have said,
35:18
Speaker 1: we want to have freedom. We're not going to use
35:21
Speaker 1: our power to restrict people's freedom in this age of coronavirus.
35:28
Speaker 1: It's the age of coronavirus. It's it's let's just grab
35:31
Speaker 1: power at all costs, no matter what. I want to
35:34
Speaker 1: talk to you real quick about the spinning bills, because
35:36
Speaker 1: it's not just happening like you mentioned in Michigan with
35:38
Speaker 1: these rules. But you look at the actual numbers that
35:41
Speaker 1: we're seeing right now. In this new budget. You got
35:43
Speaker 1: twenty six million for the Kennedy Center. That doesn't help
35:46
Speaker 1: Americans right now. You've got a billion for the Smithsonian.
35:49
Speaker 1: You got one hundred and fifty four million for the
35:51
Speaker 1: National Arts Gallery. You have the National Arts and Humanities
35:53
Speaker 1: getting in one hundred and sixty seven million, the Woodrow
35:56
Speaker 1: Wilson Center fourteen million. Foreign countries receiving aid one point
36:00
Speaker 1: three billion to Egypt seven hundred million, to Sudan, four
36:03
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three thousand Ukraine half a billion to Israel,
36:07
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty million in Nepaul, Burma, hundred thirty
36:10
Speaker 1: five million Kimbodia, eighty five point five million Pakistan, other
36:14
Speaker 1: twenty five million in Asia are a one point four billion.
36:18
Speaker 1: The American citizens are getting six hundred dollars of their
36:20
Speaker 1: own money while all of these tax dollars that I
36:23
Speaker 1: just mentioned are actually going to these other countries and this,
36:28
Speaker 1: and part of me says, this is what you guys get,
36:30
Speaker 1: this is what you voted for with this Joe Biden.
36:35
Speaker 1: But at the same time he's not even president yet,
36:38
Speaker 1: and Republicans are doing this as well. How do they
36:42
Speaker 1: How can you possibly justify this type of spending going
36:45
Speaker 1: to other countries right now when clearly Americans need more
36:48
Speaker 1: than six hundred dollars of their own money back. Well,
36:52
Speaker 1: that's a really good question, and of course you had
36:54
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi said, well, the six hundred dollars, that's significant,
36:58
Speaker 1: But if you rewind back a couple of years to
37:00
Speaker 1: the Trump tax cuts, she dismissed the thousand dollars tax
37:04
Speaker 1: cuts as a crumbs, that's what she called it. But yeah,
37:10
Speaker 1: I wrote about some of the various foreign aid that
37:14
Speaker 1: is in this bill yesterday for Breitbart. We're giving ten
37:19
Speaker 1: million dollars to Pakistan for quote, gender programs, whatever that is.
37:24
Speaker 1: We're giving fifteen million dollars to Pakistan for democracy programs.
37:28
Speaker 1: We're giving fifteen million dollars to Sri Lanka for quote,
37:32
Speaker 1: the refurbishing of a high endurance cutter, which is a
37:36
Speaker 1: patrol boat. While we're paying for boats for Sri Lanka
37:39
Speaker 1: is beyond me. And we're paying over five hundred and
37:43
Speaker 1: five million dollars to belieze Costa Rica and several other
37:47
Speaker 1: Central American countries to address key factors that contribute to
37:51
Speaker 1: the migration of unaccompanied unaccompanied minors to the United States.
37:56
Speaker 1: It just seems to me, like, you know, this whole
37:58
Speaker 1: narrative about America. First, I think we all believe it,
38:03
Speaker 1: but if you look at this spending bill, you wonder
38:05
Speaker 1: if it's actual reality, especially right now, how can we
38:10
Speaker 1: afford this? And six hundred dollars is not significant when
38:13
Speaker 1: you lose your job, it's not that that might be
38:17
Speaker 1: a week's worth of pay. Using their own numbers from
38:19
Speaker 1: the first shutdown. But then again, you do a five thousand,
38:22
Speaker 1: five hundred ninety three page bill. No one has time
38:25
Speaker 1: to read it within the four hours you got to
38:27
Speaker 1: have to vote on it. It's almost a thousand pages
38:30
Speaker 1: an hour. You would have to read to read this
38:33
Speaker 1: thing before they voted on it. And this just shows
38:36
Speaker 1: exactly what type of government you're getting from Nancy Pelosi.
38:39
Speaker 1: This is her bill, this is what she decided to do.
38:42
Speaker 1: Welcome to what's coming your way. American citizens are put
38:45
Speaker 1: in last place. And this stimulus bill nine hundred plus billion.
38:50
Speaker 1: It's again six hundred dollars times three hundred and twenty
38:54
Speaker 1: eight million people. That comes out of my mass right
38:56
Speaker 1: to one hundred ninety six billion dollars. Where did all
38:59
Speaker 1: the money? Where'd all the rest of the money go?
39:01
Speaker 1: You can figure that out on your own. I really
39:03
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on Kyle today. For people that want
39:07
Speaker 1: to find you on Brightbar News, go to brightbar dot com.
39:09
Speaker 1: You can grab there and tell people where they get
39:11
Speaker 1: your podcasts as well as all the other work you do.
39:15
Speaker 1: Sure you can go to the Kyle Olsen Show dot com,
39:19
Speaker 1: or you can find me on parlor Is Kyle Olsen
39:22
Speaker 1: O L S O N and the number four, Kyle
39:24
Speaker 1: Olsen four. I appreciate it, Kyle, thank you sir. We'll
39:27
Speaker 1: have you back again real soon. I'll leave it at
39:29
Speaker 1: that today as things get pretty crazy here with our
39:33
Speaker 1: government spending on our tax hoars. If you want to
39:35
Speaker 1: know who people are not looking out for it, they're
39:36
Speaker 1: not looking out for you. They're not looking out for you.
39:41
Speaker 1: They're spending your money everywhere else but protecting you. And
39:45
Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that,