Hour 3 - FL Stole the Cash Cows
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1:00Something I wanted to get into, Clay, the two hearings are going on right now,
1:03or I should say today, not right this moment necessarily, but two hearings that were
1:06going on today on Capitol Hill.
1:09One was the Mark Wayne Mullin confirmation hearing.
1:12I do believe he will be confirmed.
1:14Senator Rand Paul will be a no vote, as he just told us in the
1:17last hour, and these two guys just don't like each other.
1:21That's just where this is.
1:22There are people who, you know, Clay, some people don't like me, which I find
1:30unfathomable. But there are people who don't even know me and don't like me, and
1:34there are some people, very few people know me and don't like me.
1:36But, you know, even Clay Travis, as affable a fellow as he is, I'm sure
1:42there are, I don't know, some woke sports writers out there who...
1:45There are lots of them, actually, that hate me.
1:47Yeah, just don't like you.
1:49And they say mean things about my friend Clay, and then I want to fight
1:52them. But, you know, it's okay.
1:54People have their disputes, and, of course, the senators will weigh in on what they
1:59think about all this with their votes, with their confirmation votes.
2:02So we put it out there.
2:03We will have Senator Mullin on after, assuming he's confirmed, or either way, actually.
2:08Just if he wants to, he may not come on, by the way.
2:10He may say, look, everything that had to be said was said, but we're not
2:14taking some position on this other than letting these two important voices in the Republican
2:20Party have that discussion. So, yeah, we've already reached out to his team, and so,
2:24you know, he's welcome to come on.
2:25Okay, a couple things here.
2:29First one is the... So Tulsi Gabbard is testifying on the Hill.
2:33I want to get to her, some of her testimony, the DNI.
2:38I don't even think I agree with Tulsi Gabbard necessarily on a whole range of
2:42foreign policy issues, but I do like her as a person.
2:44I think she's an ethical, good person, and I think she's a patriot.
2:47So that informs my judgments of her.
2:49I feel the same way about Joe Kent.
2:52I think he's a patriot.
2:53I think that he has given a lot to this country, and I don't really
2:58like people throwing that to the wayside over a policy dispute on the right so
3:02quickly. I'm seeing a little bit of that.
3:03You can say Joe Kent is wrong.
3:05You can say Joe Kent is crazy for what he's putting forward on this Iran
3:09war. That's up to you.
3:10But the guy served, and the guy lost his wife, who was serving in a
3:15forward -deployed, you know, combat -enabling role.
3:21So let's all just maintain that level of, I think, earned respect that the guy
3:25has. Again, you want to trash his resignation or you think it's a bad idea,
3:28that's fine. But people are saying things like, you know, I'm not even going to
3:32say what they're saying, but they're saying crazy stuff.
3:33Oh, he's a traitor. The guy's not a traitor.
3:36Caroline Levitt spoke about this.
3:38This is cut nine. Let's hear what she had to say about the Joe Kent
3:41resignation from NCTC director. He said he always thought Joe Kent was a good guy,
3:46obviously has a commendable military record and experience.
3:52However, he was not someone who was involved in the presidential daily brief, part of
3:57the president's intelligence briefings over the last several months.
4:00I have not seen him here at the White House for quite some time, and
4:04the president feels it's deeply disappointing that after the president gave him an opportunity in
4:08this administration to serve the American people, that he would resign with a letter filled
4:13with falsehoods, accusing the president of the United States by being controlled by a foreign
4:18country. That's both insulting and laughable all at the same time.
4:22The president is the leader of the most powerful country and military in the world.
4:26Nobody tells him what to do.
4:28Now, this is basically, Clay, what we were saying.
4:31I mean, I even said this.
4:32I'm like, no one tells Trump what to do.
4:33I said that yesterday. It's like, no one puts baby in a corner.
4:35No one tells Trump what to do.
4:37But the way that this was handled by Caroline Levitt here from the White House,
4:41I think this is totally, totally within bounds, totally on point, which is he's a
4:46good guy. I think he loves America.
4:48He's over his skis on this one.
4:50It's a shame he didn't do more with the role.
4:52And, you know, people are allowed to disagree.
4:54This is America, you know, nothing nasty or personal, but saying he's he's off on
4:59this one. And, you know, that's that this.
5:01This is why we played the audio from the 1980s yesterday, because I think there
5:06are a lot of things you can say about President Trump.
5:09If you disagree with him, he's at the behest of anyone or they can bully
5:16him into doing anything, I think is completely and utterly untrue.
5:22The idea that there is anyone who could bully.
5:24President Trump. I don't think there's anyone on the planet who could bully President Trump
5:27into anything that he didn't otherwise want to do.
5:31Right. Can you, which is the job of the president, can you sit down in
5:35front of President Trump and say, hey, this is why we believe we need to
5:39strike Iran or why the Venezuelan decision makes sense.
5:43But you've been in these rooms.
5:45You briefed the president. We really want the president to get a wide variety of
5:51perspectives so that he can hear, marinate, think about different arguments.
5:56And then he's the ultimate decider.
5:59And you, I'm sure, have seen a lot of times when people in positions of
6:03power have been pitched on two divergent perspectives.
6:07I'm not a big fan personally.
6:10This is just me of, hey, I disagree with something someone did.
6:15So I'm going to go public and everybody needs to know that I disagree.
6:20That's my personal opinion. Like if we work for iHeart, if iHeart made a decision
6:26one day that I disagreed with, I wouldn't come on the radio and be like,
6:30I can no longer work here.
6:31I would make my pitch.
6:33Other people make decisions. I don't run the company.
6:35If all of our radio stations invaded Greenland simultaneously and we thought there was like
6:40a human rights issue, it might be a little different.
6:42But yes. And also, by the way, some people out there are like, oh, you
6:47know, I don't really buy that anybody inside of the Trump team can be bought
6:54and paid for anyone. I'm 100 percent certain that Trump is not bought and paid
7:00for by Israel, which is actually insulting to Trump, to me, to argue that a
7:06foreign country could bully or buy and pay him into doing anything.
7:10But I think that this that's I appreciated, you know, Caroline Levitt's obviously excellent at
7:15her job and she's speaking on behalf of the White House.
7:17But I think she's really summarizing very well what Trump's feelings about this are, which
7:22is Joe Kent. Good guy.
7:24Thought he'd be a good member of the team.
7:25He loves his country and he's a brave dude.
7:27And I respect that on this.
7:30He's gone a little wackadoo and it's good that he's leaving.
7:34I'm sorry that he didn't find a way to operate better within the team.
7:36I think he's wrong, but it's not.
7:39This is a person that everybody should like malign and think ill of going forward.
7:43It's this is a departure.
7:45You know, to your point, Clay, look, he believed he didn't.
7:47He was opposed to the Iran war.
7:49He was somebody who didn't want intervention in Iran.
7:52He's a non interventionist and he's a guy who has been out there getting shot
7:57at during intervention. So, you know, I think he's allowed to very much allowed to
8:02have his opinion and have his opinion heard on this.
8:04He didn't change his mind or something on this last minute.
8:07He's not a fit for the administration, isn't this?
8:09I actually think people resigning and saying this is why I'm resigning is is a
8:14good thing instead of if the alternative is remember Trump term one, there are these
8:18people like the guy who wrote that like resistance editorial.
8:21I'm staying in the machine to thwart Trump.
8:23But no, that's wrong. You should not be doing that.
8:27But I just I think the part of this that has rubbed some people very
8:31much the wrong way is the some of the insinuations about the reasons for Trump
8:36doing this as it pertains to Israel and the Israeli lobby in this country.
8:40And people are people are very sensitive about that.
8:43That's just the truth. People get very sensitive about that because there's some really crazy
8:47stuff that people say around those lines, too.
8:50But I think that the way the White House has handled this is is, you
8:54know, at least from this statement from Caroline Levitt, totally respectful and within bounds.
8:58It's a slapdown on the issue, but it's not a slapdown of the man.
9:02Joe Kent's not a bad guy.
9:03He's wrong on this. Do you see the posts that I mean, first of all,
9:08there's a very anti Israel element that is active online that isn't actually very representative
9:15of the nation as a whole.
9:16But there are a lot of people who will say, oh, you're I mean, because
9:21they'll say President Trump is corrupted.
9:23Do you see in the comments anytime anybody says anything positive about Israel?
9:27They're like, you got paid $7 ,000 for this tweet.
9:31Have you seen this? Like that's like echoing everywhere.
9:34Yeah, they definitely don't know how much you sold out kick for seven grand isn't
9:39getting pop of clay out of bed.
9:40I'm telling you, I'm just gonna say I wouldn't do anything for seven grand, much
9:44less sell an opinion for seven grand.
9:47I mean, some of this stuff is just the conspiracy theories out there are crazy.
9:55And again, it's really wild.
10:00I think historically, when we write about this, the fact that a lot of people
10:05decided after October 7, that somehow Israel was the instigator and the bad guy of
10:12everything that has happened since, I think is just a total bastardization of what has
10:17truly occurred. And also a function that is misreading what actually has occurred, which is
10:24Hamas thought that they were going to be able to severely disable Israel in many
10:32ways. Instead, Buck, think about this.
10:35Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, now the Iranian, the Ayatollah himself.
10:42Every one of Israel's terroristic foes has been decapitated almost on a literal level as
10:50a result of the October 7th.
10:52attacks. Israel is in a stronger position than it's ever been before, I think.
10:56And Saudi Gulf states are more friendly toward Israeli security and a better future for
11:02the region than they ever have been before.
11:04Major Sunni Arab countries, most notably Saudi Arabia, but other Sunni Arab allies in the
11:09region are. The craziest part of this is, or maybe the most ironic part of
11:17it is that Hamas's horrific 9 -11 style terror attack could end up resulting in
11:22the most pacified Middle East we have seen in our lifetime.
11:27Now, that's a could, that's not is, yet we're obviously still bombing Iran, but you
11:31look at what's going on with the enemies of, yes, the enemies of Israel, but
11:35notice the enemies of Israel, it's not like Israel has beef with Hezbollah and America's
11:40like, you know who we really like?
11:41Hezbollah. Because we remember the Marine Beirut bombings, you know, the Marine barracks bombings in
11:46Beirut. We remember what Hezbollah has been doing in the region, in Syria and around
11:51the world. Like, it's not like Israel's enemies are our groups that we go, man,
11:56they're doing a lot of nice charity work.
11:58And why is Israel so harsh on them?
12:00There are enemies, too. Yeah.
12:01And they would kill us just as quickly as they would kill Israelis.
12:04I mean, that is just an observation of reality.
12:08So I wanted to get into some of the Islamist threats.
12:12Can we get it? Let's hold it because I want to come back.
12:14Cut six. You see there, Clay?
12:15Yeah. She's Tulsi Gabbard. Again, I like, you know, and I tell you, I like
12:20Tulsi. I like Joe Canada's people.
12:21So, you know, take that for what it is.
12:23Tulsi Gabbard going after the spread of Islamism.
12:26Let's play when we come back in a second, because I think people should hear
12:29that this is still a real concern, a real problem, and something that we should
12:33think of as a top national security issue to be tackled.
12:38No doubt. We'll play that for you when we come back.
12:41Cut six. Get it ready, boys and girls.
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14:59Clay, Travis, Buck, Sexton Show.
15:01We appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
15:03We were just talking about playing this cut for you.
15:07I believe cut six, Tulsi Gabbard, if I'm not mistaken.
15:10Listen. The spread of Islamist ideology in some cases led by individuals and organizations associated
15:17with the Muslim Brotherhood poses a fundamental threat to freedom and the foundational principles that
15:22underpin Western civilization. Islamist groups and individuals use this ideology for recruiting and financial support
15:31for terrorist groups and individuals around the world and to advance their political objectives of
15:36establishing an Islamist caliphate which governs based on Sharia.
15:40There are increasing examples of this in various European countries.
15:44And President Trump's designation of certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations is a
15:50mechanism to secure Americans against this threat.
15:52In response to setbacks to their capabilities of conducting large -scale complex attacks, Islamist terrorist
15:59groups have shifted toward focusing on executing information operations to spread propaganda and inspire or
16:05enable individuals located in or with access to the West.
16:11So still a problem. Yes.
16:14And again, what I would say, if you want to be optimistic about things, and
16:19we were just Talking about the continued fallout of October 7, 2023, as we come
16:25up on, what, two and a half years, basically since that terror attack.
16:30I'm not sure that we have ever had a potential for a more secure and
16:36more stable Middle East in any of our lives than where we are right now.
16:40Now, that doesn't mean that there may not be a great deal of tumult for
16:43the rest of March, for the rest of April and May.
16:47But I do think if you get the Abraham Accord signed on to by Saudi
16:51Arabia and they normalize relations with Israel, the call, the guest we had on yesterday,
16:57I think is so important psychologically.
17:00Iran has been left behind.
17:02Iran has been completely and totally left behind by its peer groups.
17:08In fact, a lot of countries that were beneath Iran in terms of economics, and
17:14that's embarrassing and somewhat humiliating to many people who live in Iran.
17:17And so it's one thing if the United States is wealthier or even if Israel
17:22is wealthier. But when Saudi Arabia is wealthier, when Qatar is wealthier, when the UAE
17:27is wealthier, that's a form of failure and falling behind your peer countries.
17:33And I do think that that is going to, in many ways, motivate a long
17:38-term positive response. Now, what we just talked about is how long does President Trump
17:44want to be bombing Iran?
17:46How many of these guys are going to be taken out?
17:49Israel seems to have, Buck, a stronger predisposition towards changing regime than the president does
17:57and the United States does, which is why most of the strikes that you're seeing
18:00from the United States have to do with military infrastructure from Iran.
18:05And at this point, most of the strikes from Israel have to do with checking
18:08leadership off the board, taking people out.
18:13And I do think that is a reconciliation that is going to have to be
18:17determined at some point in time.
18:19President Trump wants this to be over, I think, earlier than Israel would prefer.
18:24I also think that even if it isn't a different regime in place, when this
18:31is all over, at least this phase is over, there will be, going forward in
18:36any negotiation, don't play games with us, guys.
18:40Yeah. Don't play games. Don't think you're going to do anything and get away with
18:45it. At least under this president, you are not going to get away with it,
18:49and you will pay a terrible price for any nonsense.
18:52There is advantage in that.
18:55There is value in that concept, and Trump knows that.
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20:01Let's talk about New York for a second, shall we?
20:05Hello to everybody on the WORNYC, fantastic heritage radio station that really covers much of
20:12the tri -borow area. Or, sorry, the tri -state area.
20:15Tri -borow, good Lord. Tri -state.
20:17I haven't been gone that long, guys.
20:19Guy moves to Florida, suddenly doesn't know anything about New York anymore.
20:22The tri -boros, the three boros of New York.
20:25I got to remember things here.
20:26I got to keep things straight, but W .R., great station, listening, many of you,
20:31and the truth is, sorry, we're going to have a little fun at the expense
20:35of New York State governance right now.
20:37That's just where this is going, because a lot of very wealthy people have become
20:43quite annoyed with what's going on in New York.
20:45Not just New York. Washington State now has this millionaire's tax situation.
20:50Same thing, California just got so many taxes.
20:53All kinds of problems. Kathy Hochul, who is honestly somebody that you wouldn't want in
21:02charge of the bake sale for the PTA.
21:05Not even the PTA. You wouldn't want her running the bake sale to raise money.
21:10Like, you would not want this woman in charge of anything of any consequence whatsoever.
21:15She'd be burning the zucchini bread.
21:17There's no question about it.
21:18And here she is telling people that they need to move back to New York.
21:24Wealthy people need to move back to New York so they can fund welfare programs
21:30in New York. Play eight.
21:31There is this anxiety, which is real, and we're continuing to address the affordability crisis,
21:36which I believe should be the number one priority of this legislative session.
21:40What can we do to take off some of that pain that New Yorkers are
21:43feeling that I hear about literally every day?
21:45What I want to make sure we are smart about...
21:47All right. is having a system in place where it's not just taxing for the
21:53sake of taxing and being conscious of the facts that I need people who are
21:58high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in
22:02our state, right? Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up.
22:08Okay, cut me the checks.
22:10I mean, just if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should
22:13be go down to Palm Beach and see what you can bring back home.
22:18I mean, she's saying Florida has stolen her cash cows, and a lot of them
22:25are in Palm Beach. A lot of them are here in Miami Beach.
22:27Let me tell you, I've got neighbors.
22:29And they're in Delray, and they're in Boca.
22:32Hey, a lot of places around here.
22:35And Clay, I appreciate this.
22:39She is so unsophisticated in so many ways that she's just saying the truth here,
22:43which is former New Yorkers, please move back to New York so you can be
22:49milked like the cows you are for the welfare state.
22:52That is her pitch. And so we've told you this, and it is going to
22:57long range mean that states like Tennessee, Florida, Texas, zero state income tax states are
23:04going to be far more effective and well run than super high income tax states
23:11that are losing, as you just heard Kathy Hochul say, a lot of the base
23:15that has paid for all of the government to exist.
23:18What was the data point you gave us, Buck, that New York, I think, has
23:24a little bit fewer people now than Florida, right?
23:27But Florida's government is half the size of New York's?
23:30Well, Florida's budget is half the size of New York's budget, and Florida has two
23:36to three million more residents as a state.
23:38Two to three million. By the way, there are a lot of states that barely
23:41have two or three million residents.
23:42And as a general rule, how would you say, as a Florida resident, that the
23:47Florida budget and the governance is at running the money that they get, at basically
23:53managing the taxpayer dollars? Everything that involves the state of Florida is more efficient, more
24:00reasonable, more sane compared to New York state -level governance.
24:03Everything. Everything is easier. Everything is smoother.
24:06Everything makes more sense. Miami, things get a little third world down here, but state
24:11of Florida, fantastic. Okay, so building on that, you mentioned this stat earlier, and I
24:17saw it and my jaw dropped.
24:18It's rare that I see a stat and I'm like, oh my, I can't believe
24:21this is real. New York, is it New York City, is spending more money than
24:27the average New Yorker makes on homeless people.
24:30What is this math, Buck?
24:32$81 ,000 a year, I believe, was the...
24:36So, all of you out there, you worked a long time when not making $81
24:41,000 a year, Buck. I worked a long time not making $81 ,000 a year.
24:46I aspired to $81 ,000.
24:47I was like, oh my gosh, think about life at 80K.
24:49Yes. This is, by the way, 100 % true.
24:51A lot of you out there are aspiring to life at 80K, right?
24:55That's a lot of money.
24:56That is what New York is spending on homeless people, and you made this analogy
25:03earlier. How many of you out there listening to us right now in New York
25:08are busting your asses all day long, and you're not making 81K, and you're looking
25:14around and you're saying, wait a minute, what is the state doing that they're providing
25:1981K a year in support for homeless people?
25:23This is just so flagrantly flawed.
25:27I mean, it would be better off, and this would be an awful idea, but
25:32if the entire government just got out of the way and they just gave $78
25:36,000 in cash, you would save money if you just walked up and gave $78
25:42,000 in cash to every homeless person.
25:45I also, by the way, there's nothing inherently derogatory about the term homeless.
25:51These people clearly don't have homes.
25:53This whole thing about unsheltered now, no, I'm sorry.
25:57Unhoused is now the phrase to.
25:58Unhoused or unsheltered is the other, the same thing.
26:00No, I'm sorry. We're not doing this, okay?
26:02The reason they're doing this is because homelessness and homeless realities across this country, people
26:09have learned more about this.
26:10They've started to understand that almost all of the homeless, the truly homeless population, almost
26:16all have either extreme substance abuse or extreme mental health or a combination of both
26:22issues and disorders. The stories that you hear about a family of four kicked out
26:30of their home, down on their luck, that can happen.
26:33It does happen. I get it.
26:35It is rare, and they don't stay homeless because there are programs and there are,
26:41you know, this notion that thankful, I mean, but there are things to help people
26:46get back on their feet, and they tend to do so.
26:49The real homelessness issue is people with severe mental health and severe addiction issues overwhelmingly.
26:55So there's stories about someone lost their job.
26:57They're down on their luck.
26:59Like, 1 % of the unhoused or homeless population at any point in time, 5
27:03% maybe, I think that might be too much, it's people with those problems.
27:07Now, those are human beings who deserve help, too.
27:10I'm not saying otherwise. My point, though, is they're changing the definition, truly, or they're
27:15changing... The terms we use of homeless because they don't want people to think about
27:20the discussions about, like Gavin Newsom said, he's going to lower homelessness.
27:23That was a term he was using in California over a 10 -year period.
27:26It's like doubled. Yeah. So they're changing the word so it's like a new problem
27:30now, right? It's like, oh, well, we're not dealing with the homelessness thing, Clay, because
27:33we completely failed. Now we're dealing with the unhoused population.
27:38And here's the other thing.
27:4081 ,000, this is from the comptroller of New York.
27:43This isn't, you know, rightwingangryblogger .net or something.
27:47This is from the comptroller of New York.
27:49$81 ,000 a year per homeless person in New York.
27:54Why are we spending? Think about it.
27:57Should we just give a check?
27:59Should we give a check for half of that?
28:00$40 ,000 in cash to every homeless person?
28:03One -time payment. There you go.
28:04Lump sum. It would actually cut half of the expenditures, to your point.
28:08And you know what's a big part of this?
28:10There are a lot of people who are doing nothing to actually help homelessness that
28:14are being paid a lot of money inside of that $81 ,000.
28:18This is where you get.
28:18This is the ugly true.
28:20This is the ugliness of it, okay?
28:22We're seeing this, my friends.
28:24Some people are going to really start to pull these dots together.
28:26I also think this is part of why Elon, just with the whole Doge thing,
28:30had kind of like a thermonuclear meltdown of there's just so much fraud and so
28:35much waste and so much crap that it was overwhelming.
28:37And nobody fixes it. Unlike in a business where you would have somebody look at
28:40it and say, we can't run a business like that.
28:42We need that for our country and for our government.
28:45I think Elon was truly just overwhelmed by the scale of this, and his brain
28:51is able to tackle these things at scale, and he's just like, this is completely,
28:54this monster is 100 times larger than I even realized.
28:57Anyway, a big part of this, notice, Clay, the autistic kids programs, the child daycare
29:08Somali. I'm talking, look at the autistic kids thing, and that's in California, I think,
29:12they've started to look at it.
29:13The spending on these programs has gone absolutely stratospheric in recent years.
29:18This is fraud, my friends.
29:20People are being paid a lot of money to do nothing of public benefit, and
29:26they're getting taxpayer dollars to do this.
29:27And you know why the Democrats keep this going?
29:29It's a giant cash cow for their constituents.
29:32What do you think? If you walk into some city -funded homelessness program in New
29:37York, what do you think the voting record of the people that are getting checks
29:39from the city to run the program?
29:41What do you think the voting record?
29:42I bet it's 95, 99 % Democrat.
29:45It's just like the public school systems have become now, Clay.
29:47This is about vote harvesting.
29:49This is about donations. This is power for the Democrat Party.
29:53There is a homeless industrial complex now, essentially, of all these NGOs and bureaucrats getting
30:00paid to not actually fix the problem.
30:02And this also ties in with the health care system being broken.
30:07There was a Wall Street Journal editorial saying 99 % of one state, I think
30:14it was Ohio, of the fraud analysis, it was all fraud.
30:2099%. I also think, again, this goes to health care.
30:23Nobody knows what it costs.
30:24The government funds a ton of it.
30:26Doesn't look at spending. There are people being paid $600 an hour to do autistic
30:31rehab that didn't actually have any kids with autism.
30:35I also think this ties in with an interesting question.
30:37We keep talking about how the number of kids with autism has skyrocketed.
30:41That's certainly true. How much of the autism diagnoses that we are seeing are completely
30:48made up and a function of being able to make money at $400, $500, $600
30:55to do autism therapy. I mean, some of these companies, you saw what happened in
31:01Minnesota, but I think the same thing is happening in California.
31:04These companies don't even have a physical location.
31:07They have a P .O.
31:08box, and they're getting paid millions of dollars a year.
31:13They're not even pretending, just like you saw with the Somali daycares thing.
31:18Remember, Buck, it is interesting.
31:20No one has come out that I've seen and said, hey, my family lost daycare.
31:23Leave aside whether you think the government should be involved in Somali daycares at all.
31:28If they were actually doing Somali daycare, wouldn't tons of people have come out and
31:34said, oh, my goodness, the kids' daycare, I can't go, I can't go to my
31:38– I haven't seen anything about this.
31:40This was all a sham, and it's a function of government not being well -run
31:47enough for people to notice where all the money is going.
31:50It's just – it's infuriating for anybody out there that pays taxes.
31:53It really is. It's astonishing, and what you realize is that – and this is
32:00a pretty stark realization, but it's true – we think about fixing this.
32:05Not only are Democrats unwilling to fix it, they don't want it to be fixed.
32:12Yes. Because they believe that this is a redistribution of wealth to people who should
32:17get the money. They want homeless administrators on the city, you know, getting their budget
32:25paid for by the city, by the taxpayers.
32:27They want them making $300 ,000, $400 ,000, $600 ,000 to be a homeless.
32:30Think about how crazy it is that New York is spending more money, more than
32:34$81 ,000 a year for every homeless person.
32:37I mean, it should be infuriating to everyone.
32:39Think about this more than the average household in New York City.
32:41People who are working – Think about it.
32:42Think about it. Think about it.
32:43people who are showing up and we've all been there i have showed up to
32:47jobs on mornings where i hated so much i thought i was gonna throw up
32:51i mean i just like i'm not making any money this sucks i've we've we've
32:54all been but you show up and you suck it up and you do it
32:58you do it for your family you do it for you know the people around
33:01you who are counting on you 80 grand going to every you know spent for
33:07every individual homeless person what are they doing yeah where is all the money think
33:11about this how can that be possible where's all the money going we know what
33:14it is the public school system the public school system in new york pays more
33:16than most private schools cost across the country per pupil you know where the money
33:19goes bloated administrators making 150 grand to show up sit at a desk do nothing
33:26all day there are tens of thousands of them it's crazy how many people don't
33:31teach don't do anything and are just administrators it goes to vice principals of a
33:37district there's a vice principal what like you know in case someone needs to step
33:42in for the principal like vice principals and vice chancellors and all this stuff we're
33:45making two three hundred grand to be working for the public school system of new
33:50york or new jersey or any of these states hmm oh and you can retire
33:53after 20 years and you get all your benefits and everything paid for i mean
33:57friends by the way this is also where all your city taxes and state taxes
34:00are going as well and you know what the game is at the end of
34:03all this clay federal bailout it's coming you get a gavin newsom administration what do
34:08you think he's going to leave california high and dry with its budget deficit oh
34:11no more they'll just well that's a good point because thankfully most states have to
34:17have balanced budgets but a lot of cities have ended up going bankrupt and again
34:23the federal government doesn't so the buck to buck's point the bailout goes on the
34:27books of the federal government i saw today we hit 39 trillion national debt the
34:34number today now is 39 trillion and what percentage of that money do you think
34:40has been well spent again much we could strip 75 of all government and be
34:50better off i i mean i think that there's zero doubt about that unfortunately we're
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36:50closing up shop let me hit you guys who've been waiting a little while and
36:53try to hit as many of these as we can in rapid short order joe
36:58in minneapolis what you got for us hey guys this is a perfect teachable moment
37:03the things that you described going on in new york wanting people to come back
37:06from florida let's accentuate and make this an educational moment margaret thatcher who once said
37:12socialism seems like a great idea until you run out of somebody else's money it's
37:18well said and there's never been a time when the government hasn't wanted more i'll
37:22just point out the billionaires oh we're only going to tax the billionaires remember initially
37:26the income tax was just going to go after the super wealthy how'd that work
37:29out terrence in uh west florida what you got for us that's the uh free
37:34state of west florida uh so this kent guy it's a need to know he
37:43was not in the wiring diagram to know anything he was in counterterrorism he did
37:48not have a need to know the war planning um the war planning that was
37:53going on to uh enter into the the conflict that we have right now in
37:58iran so i'm just sorry and then also this guy he was in all three
38:03parties he was a libertarian he was a democrat and he's a republican he's not
38:08a principled man i'm sorry he's just not an Thank you for the call.
38:13Quickly, Scott in New York State, you got an idea.
38:15You got 10 seconds. I would like to see the $500 bill come back and
38:22Trump be on it, because let's face it, 100 bucks does nothing.