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Speaker 2 we've got quite a show riddled with facts.

Speaker 2 We break down the debt, our debt, and what we're spending and compare it to the top 500 companies in the country. What's the

Speaker 2 comparison here? Okay. Also, it's time to close the doors on the unlimited coffers of USAID.

Speaker 2 We're telling you the truth about USAID and trying to arm you with an argument that you can make with your friends who are just so blind they hate Elon Musk.

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Speaker 2 I want to stop before we get there and just do a little mop-up on a couple of other stories that are out there. They're in the newsletter today.

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Speaker 2 There are several stories that are out about how the EPA has just cut their budgets, budgets and everybody's freaking out about Doge, Doge is

Speaker 2 doing all this stuff and they have no right to do it. And USAID, a Rubio cut a whole buttload of money out of that and said, we're not going to give it to you.

Speaker 2 And everybody is saying, we've got to feed the world. Okay, okay.
A, no, we don't have to. We should be charitable.
And we already are the most charitable people. This USAID is not about charity.

Speaker 2 It's a CIA up. That's what it is, a CIA up.

Speaker 2 I'll give you the details on that, but let me just first give you a little, just a little comparison here on

Speaker 2 what we're spending and how big this nightmare actually is.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 We have a budget. We spend $6.3 trillion.

Speaker 2 Nobody can even fathom that. Okay.

Speaker 2 If you look at Walmart, they pulled in $611 billion. This is the biggest

Speaker 2 store, the biggest revenue king in the world.

Speaker 2 $611 billion.

Speaker 2 How much, how many times have you shopped at Walmart or bought anything from Walmart in the last year? Now, if you're in New York, you would look down in Walmart. Never.

Speaker 2 Okay. But for the rest of people, we're at Walmart all the time.
Okay.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 Walmart,

Speaker 2 we are spending, our government's spending

Speaker 2 is

Speaker 2 like every store, every truck, and employee combined for 10 Walmarts. That's what we spend in one year.
Let me give it this a better way. Take all of the Fortune 500 companies.

Speaker 2 Now, at the top are things like Apple, Amazon, Google, ExxonMobil, and then 496 other massive global companies. Okay.

Speaker 2 Their total revenue for a year

Speaker 2 is $18.1 trillion.

Speaker 2 That's the 500 largest corporations in the world.

Speaker 2 $18.1 trillion is their revenue.

Speaker 2 Our government is spending $6.3 trillion. That's 35%

Speaker 2 of what these companies, the 500 biggest companies in the world, think about what they're making, what they're providing, what they're doing. Imagine if we spent 35%.

Speaker 2 of what they are making and building and everything. If we bought 35%

Speaker 2 of that in oil,

Speaker 2 in computers, whatever.

Speaker 2 If we got 35%

Speaker 2 and purchased that, but that's what we're spending, but we're not getting any of that stuff.

Speaker 2 One-third of what America's biggest 500, biggest companies earn spent by our government.

Speaker 2 That's kind of big.

Speaker 2 So you look at the headcount of the Fortune 500. Headcount, how many people do the Fortune 500 companies employ? 29.7 total.

Speaker 2 Our government employs 10%

Speaker 2 of that number.

Speaker 2 What? Look at America as a company, because it is, gang. I'm sorry to say it.
It has to be run like your family or a company or we go broke. And I don't know if you know this, we've gone broke.

Speaker 2 10%

Speaker 2 are employees versus them. Again, think about everything that those 500 companies produce.
All of the cars,

Speaker 2 all of everything that they produce.

Speaker 2 We have 10% of their workforce. What do we produce? That's not including the military, by the way.

Speaker 2 One in 10 Fortune 500 workers

Speaker 2 could be a federal employee. Now, how fast are we growing?

Speaker 2 In 2000, the budget was $1.8 trillion.

Speaker 2 In 2023, two years ago, our budget was $6.3 trillion.

Speaker 2 That's an increase of spending by 250%.

Speaker 2 Have we grown? I mean, it's not a problem. If you're going to make more money, to spend more money, that's fine.

Speaker 2 You'd spend more money and make more money and you never have a problem with it has our government provided 250 percent growth has our fortune 500 companies given us 250 percent of growth no

Speaker 2 so why are we spending 250 percent more

Speaker 2 some of this is inflation

Speaker 2 but what causes inflation

Speaker 2 the government spending money it doesn't have and printing and borrowing money.

Speaker 2 So there's no way around this. It's not the capitalist system.
It's the fact that the government doesn't work within the framework of common sense or a capitalist system.

Speaker 2 I hate to say capitalist system. I just mean balance the budget.

Speaker 2 Fortune 500 companies churn out cars, phones, oils, medicine, everything that you use every day.

Speaker 2 And it's efficient because it has to or it will go out of business. See, the market demands results.
We don't for some reason. We spend all of that money,

Speaker 2 all of that money, 35% of what all 500 of these companies actually make in a year. We spend 35%

Speaker 2 and we don't demand any results.

Speaker 2 Have things really gotten that much better? Do you believe we've gotten 250% better as a nation? Do you believe we've gotten 25% better? Do you believe we're 2.5% better than we were 25 years ago?

Speaker 2 I don't.

Speaker 2 So here's how they've been spending your money, and this is why all of these cuts matter. $1.1 trillion on DEI programs.

Speaker 2 You could even say it was noble. I don't think it was.
But let's say you do. Was it $1.1 trillion

Speaker 2 in value for one

Speaker 2 year?

Speaker 2 I don't think so.

Speaker 2 $312 million in loans, you ready for this one, to kids for COVID.

Speaker 2 I don't even know how that happens.

Speaker 2 $17 billion in EPA DEI grants. Those were canceled.
Billions that could have fixed roads or, I don't know, fed our veterans, gotten some of our veterans off the streets.

Speaker 2 The VA, they announced yesterday that they have renegotiated 2%

Speaker 2 of their contracts and saved almost a billion dollars with 2% of the contracts renegotiated. If 2% saves that much just for the VA, let's just start with the VA.

Speaker 2 What are the... How much savings would happen with the other 98% of the contracts? And now let's take that out of the VA

Speaker 2 what would happen if we renegotiated oh I don't know

Speaker 2 50% of all of the government contracts and line them up with common sense

Speaker 2 you have to fight to survive every single day but the government doesn't have to

Speaker 2 when you're a business I don't care how big you are, ExxonMobil could go out of business. Somebody comes up with a better way, a better thing, they'll go out of business.

Speaker 2 And there's nothing that could stop that because they don't have guns that says, you will buy oil from us.

Speaker 2 They don't have that. The government has that gun.
You will buy your government services from us, no matter how much we suck, no matter how much we waste, you're buying it from us.

Speaker 2 Oh, and by the way, if we want to waste money beyond people's imagination, we can and we're going to to bill your kids and your grandkids, and they'll be in debt forever.

Speaker 2 I don't think so. No, thank you.

Speaker 2 Our national debt is $34 trillion.

Speaker 2 Our deficit in 23, it's bigger now, but our deficit in the last confirmed numbers in 2023 is $1.7 trillion. That means we spend $1.7 trillion that we don't have.
We have to borrow that money.

Speaker 2 That's $1.7 trillion, $2 trillion

Speaker 2 more than we can collect from people.

Speaker 2 Our GDP

Speaker 2 is $26 trillion. Our debt to GDP is 130%.

Speaker 2 Our deficit is 6.5% of our GDP. Imagine a company that has a debt 1.3 times its revenue.

Speaker 2 It doesn't last.

Speaker 2 It goes out of business.

Speaker 2 But it goes out of business because the banks won't lend it any more money. Nobody will lend it money.

Speaker 2 Everybody in the stock market will take their money out and say, I don't believe in that one anymore. But we have the full faith and credit of the United States of America because we're big.

Speaker 2 The world can't last without us. They're about to, gang.

Speaker 2 It can tax you and print cash. So you know, that's not a fix.
That's a delay. A delay of the inevitable.
$34 trillion in dollar dollar bills would circle the entire planet 130 times.

Speaker 2 The deficit of $1.7 trillion is

Speaker 2 three times the Walmart revenue.

Speaker 2 Every year,

Speaker 2 the family budget,

Speaker 2 $50,000 a year. If you spend $65,000 a year, you have to borrow $15,000 every year.
In 10 years,

Speaker 2 you owe triple your income.

Speaker 2 And then you have to go get a loan for that and you have to keep renewing that loan. What do you think your interest rates would be? What do you think the bank would say you are as a credit risk?

Speaker 2 What do you think your credit card interest rate would be if they would even issue you one?

Speaker 2 That's what we're facing right now.

Speaker 2 A business has to sell what people want or it goes out of business. A restaurant run by the federal government serves you cold soup littered with flies and they don't care.

Speaker 2 Because if you don't buy it, it doesn't matter to them. You have to pay for it anyway.
Your great-great-grandkids are going to have to pay for it anyway.

Speaker 2 No competition, no accountability, just a blank check. The government has our credit card and it has no limit.
It swipes $6.3 trillion, pays $4.6 trillion, and then charges the rest.

Speaker 2 And no bank says, stop.

Speaker 2 Interest compounds.

Speaker 2 One day we have to pay for it.

Speaker 2 There are cracks in the dam.

Speaker 2 $1.1 trillion on DEI programs. That's two Fortune 500 companies revenue.
Gone.

Speaker 2 Did that make us safer or stronger or richer?

Speaker 2 $17 billion in EPA grants? Canceled. But why spend it in the first place? That's 28 Walmart profit margins.
$312 million to kids for their companies at COVID? What?

Speaker 2 Absurd. Who approved that? I know it's pocket change, but not to you, not to me.
We'll never make that kind of money to be able to give it to the government in our taxes.

Speaker 2 Every million counts when you're talking 6.3 trillion. 900 million from 2% of VA contracts?

Speaker 2 That's one agency. Multiply that across the government.

Speaker 2 Waste is not the exception. It's the rule.
Cut spending. Boost our revenue.
Easy to say, hard to do. Cutting programs means somebody's going to hurt and they're going to lose votes.

Speaker 2 You have to or we're all going to lose. Waste is the lowest hanging fruit.

Speaker 2 What are we doing?

Speaker 2 Why is the house on fire and we're debating paint colors?

Speaker 2 Why?

Speaker 2 We have a budget. We have to hit the budget.
We have to turn around.

Speaker 2 If we don't, the fire wins.

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Speaker 2 Okay, so Rubio is cutting the budget from, what is it, Pat? 85% of the USAID programs he's cutting.

Speaker 2 Let me just put you at your kitchen table here for a second. You got the bills spread out all over your table and you're like, oh,

Speaker 2 where's all this money going? I can't afford to meet all of the bills. Where's the money going? And then you see on your credit card a charge for $70,000 for a musical in Ireland.

Speaker 2 And you're like,

Speaker 2 honey,

Speaker 2 right? That's the first thing you would say. Honey.

Speaker 2 Did we sign up for a musical in Ireland? You know how close we are to bankruptcy? What the hell is this? Well, I just thought it would be nice.

Speaker 2 No more spending on musicals in Ireland for the love of Pete. But that's what's been happening with your tax dollars through USAID, and it's much worse than that.

Speaker 2 So 83% of all of the USAID programs are getting the axe. Amen and amen.
If you have been listening to me for the last 15 or 20 years, I've been circling USAID over and over and over again.

Speaker 2 Really bad collection of radicals that are spending your tax dollars on things you you don't know about.

Speaker 2 This is a long overdue reckoning, okay?

Speaker 2 The United States Agency for International Development. Notice that it's called USAID, but they never say it that way.
It looks like that, but it's not. It's USAID.
That's what it's called.

Speaker 2 Not USAID, USAID. Why? Because it's the Agency for International Development.

Speaker 2 It rolled into the scene in 1961, courtesy of John F. Kennedy.

Speaker 2 And it was supposed to be our shining beacon in the Cold War, a way to win the hearts and minds, showing the world what freedom and generosity could look like. Remember, we're in the Cold War.

Speaker 2 We're trying to beat the Soviets. So it's less than inspiring when you really know.
Maybe it's clever. when you know what it was really meant to do.

Speaker 2 It was meant

Speaker 2 to overthrow communism.

Speaker 2 It was meant to

Speaker 2 buy elections, work with revolutionaries, and also

Speaker 2 go into countries and say, look how great Uncle Sam is, right?

Speaker 2 But we jumped that last track long ago. Your tax dollars, we shelled out $1.5 million to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace of Serbia.

Speaker 2 I don't think most Americans could find Serbia on a map.

Speaker 2 Why do we care about what Serbians are talking about around the water cooler? Okay?

Speaker 2 $70,000 for a DEI-themed musical in Ireland. Honey!

Speaker 2 I don't really think that Uncle Sam needs to swoop in with a song and dance number. I really don't.
Ireland, you're on your own with that thing.

Speaker 2 $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. Now, as much as I love the arts.
No!

Speaker 2 What the hell is that?

Speaker 2 $32,000 for a transgender comic

Speaker 2 in Peru.

Speaker 2 Are we running a charity or is this some sort of global art festival?

Speaker 2 I'm not really sure.

Speaker 2 So USAID finally is caught red-handed

Speaker 2 funding the meals that ended up feeding al-Qaeda fighters in Syria. Now, when I got up this morning, I was thinking to myself, you know what, we should be more charitable towards al-Qaeda.

Speaker 2 No, it wasn't me. Maybe, I don't think it was you.
If it was, maybe you should, honey,

Speaker 2 ask yourself, when the hell did I become for that?

Speaker 2 And then there's the millions and millions of dollars funneled into EcoHealth Alliance. Do you you remember that name? EcoHealth Alliance, the makers of the Wuhan lab and COVID-19.

Speaker 2 Why did we spend all of that money?

Speaker 2 Okay, also, can we talk about the elephant in the room? And when I say elephant in the room, I mean the one that's wearing a

Speaker 2 trench coat, a hat, and dark glasses. You know, the CIA elephant that is in the room.
Because that's what this is. This is

Speaker 2 a

Speaker 2 CIA front. That's what USAID is.
That's not tinfoil hat stuff. That's cold, hard fact.

Speaker 2 Back in the Cold War, they were training foreign police in counterinsurgency tactics, torture techniques in Latin America.

Speaker 2 You know, all those fun things that we've all grown to love so much and have really caused the rest of the world to love us so much.

Speaker 2 That's not a conspiracy. That's history, documented and undeniable.
Now,

Speaker 2 what happens when the Cold War ends? Well, we have to find new enemies because all that funding is there. So what do we do now?

Speaker 2 Okay, well, the Cuban Twitter fiasco to stir up dissent in Cuba, bankrolled by USAID. Then there's Ukraine.
I don't even know where to start with Ukraine. Hey, do you remember Hunter Biden? who

Speaker 2 had that cushy-cushy gig on the board of Burisma? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, while Hunter was cashing those checks, his dad was VP, USAID was pouring money into Ukraine for development and governance programs. Guess who one of the recipients of that was?

Speaker 2 Everybody's favorite, George Soros.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 2 I don't think that's a good idea. Is this aid?

Speaker 2 Or is this revolution? Is this aid or is this just greasing palms?

Speaker 2 There's going to be people who stand, Democrats and people on the left, and I shouldn't say, really good people who really care about aid, who really care about people.

Speaker 2 And they're going to stand because they hate Donald Trump so much. They're going to say, this is Donald Trump, he just hates helping people.
Okay. First of all,

Speaker 2 this isn't about Trump. It's not about Trump.
It's about us. It's about you and me and every single taxpayer who is sick of seeing our money flush down the drain on pet projects and covert ops.

Speaker 2 I don't want covert ops that

Speaker 2 are no longer even overseen by Congress.

Speaker 2 This isn't about being stingy. This is not about turning our backs on the world.
This is about accountability. It's about making sure that when we do want to help, we're actually helping, not hurting.

Speaker 2 think about think about it like this you're running a small business and you find out that 83 percent 83 percent of your expenses are going to stuff that doesn't move the needle at all for your business okay

Speaker 2 uh fancy coffee machines you know random side hustles you name it 83% of what you're spending and you're a small business, do you cut that? Or do you go, well, that might be doing good.

Speaker 2 I mean, coffee is very important.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 You would cut it. Why?

Speaker 2 Because everyone suffers if you go out of business and you don't cut it.

Speaker 2 You refocus on what works, what keeps the lights on. And that's what USAID, that's what the overhaul is aiming for.
That's why they didn't cut 100%. I would have cut 100%.

Speaker 2 That's why they didn't cut 100%. I guess some of it does...
does good things. I personally believe in private charity.
I don't want the government in charity business. That's our job.

Speaker 2 But this isn't about killing aid. This is just about making it effective, aligning it with our national interest and dare I say, our values if we have any.

Speaker 2 That's all the while trying to stop the bleeding out of the out-of-control spending. We're bleeding out on the table.
We all know this spending is going to kill us.

Speaker 2 I don't know why we continue to not do anything about it, why we we don't demand, wait a minute, no, Republicans, Democrats, stop the insanity we're bleeding out on the table.

Speaker 2 The longer we make this about Trump or the left or the right or Biden, the faster the patient called America dies on the table.

Speaker 2 Can we focus on what really matters?

Speaker 2 So let's prioritize. What matters? Well, number one, national security.
Okay? We can't help anyone if we are not secure.

Speaker 2 In a world where China is building islands in the South China Sea and Russia's flexing its muscles, we cannot afford to waste any of our resources on DEI musicals or transgender comic books.

Speaker 2 Can we please, for the love of Pete, be a little strategic? I want to build alliances, but I do not want to bankroll our enemies, foreign or domestic

Speaker 2 but this just isn't about security it's also about building an alliance

Speaker 2 okay

Speaker 2 it's about morality when our aid ends up in the hands of terrorists

Speaker 2 We're not just wasting money. We're betraying the people that we're supposed to be helping and betraying the people who gave that money.

Speaker 2 Does no one see, you know, know,

Speaker 2 I get some of the money that you spend on

Speaker 2 the commercials, you know, that's why commercials, they pay me to, because you're going to go out and buy stuff, hopefully, because I've made a good case that it's something that will benefit your life.

Speaker 2 When you subscribe to the Blaze, I get a few pennies on everything that you subscribe. And I look at that as sacred money.
I say this in staff meetings over and over again. What do our listeners need?

Speaker 2 How can we make their lives better? I'm trying to, I look at your money. I know how hard it is for you to buy a subscription.
I know what it is. I know what time we're living in.

Speaker 2 I know you have a billion other choices.

Speaker 2 How can I serve you better is what I ask all the time. Sarah, am I right? All the time I ask that.

Speaker 2 How can we help them?

Speaker 2 Do you really think that this is helping

Speaker 2 the taxpayer,

Speaker 2 the DEI musical in Ireland do you think that's helping you or your friends

Speaker 2 that's not who we are we're better than this

Speaker 2 now let me just talk to your friends or let me just give you the case so you can talk to your friends who just hate Donald Trump and everything is about Donald Trump it's not about logic anymore it's just about Donald Trump I have a challenge for them look past the messenger and hear the message.

Speaker 2 This isn't a partisan power grab. It's a chance to clean house, to zero set our budgets and look at it and say, what's important? Have you ever,

Speaker 2 do you have subscriptions that you have no idea that you were paying for? Have you ever done that?

Speaker 2 You look at the subscriptions like, what the hell is a $6.99 for that and $8.99 for that and $3.99 for that? All of a sudden, those add up.

Speaker 2 You have to zero set and and go okay let's just do the right thing forget about all these things that we have been doing let's let's let's look and see what is the right thing to do

Speaker 2 when you take us aid

Speaker 2 and you you look at it and you you look at it as us aid you think oh that's a force for good but it's not it's a slush fund for bureaucrats and spies that's what it was designed to be i don't we don't live in 1961 anymore I think we should maybe reevaluate the whole thing.

Speaker 2 And you don't have to love the guy in the Oval Office to see this makes sense. Waste is waste.
Inefficiency is inefficiency. Accountability should not have a party label on it.

Speaker 2 When your friends start talking to you about this, Donald Trump, stop it. Right now, stop it.
Should accountability have a party label? Is inefficiency ever okay?

Speaker 2 Is waste of your, you know, they say time is money?

Speaker 2 You're working until April 19th just to pay your taxes. From January 1st to April 19th, days after you have to pay your taxes, you're still working to pay those taxes.

Speaker 2 Are you okay with any kind of waste of that money? Because I'm not.

Speaker 2 This is not slashing foreign aid.

Speaker 2 It's not going to turn America into some sort of hermit kingdom.

Speaker 2 Nowhere is anyone saying we should stop helping people. We're saying we should stop screwing it up.

Speaker 2 How do you argue with that?

Speaker 2 We're not saying shut the door. We're not saying isolate ourselves.
We're saying, can we reevaluate for a second here? Because we're in deep trouble with our spending.

Speaker 2 We're talking about taking our treasury and locking the doors when there are thieves at the door and opening the treasury when there's good to be done

Speaker 2 how is that suddenly so unreasonable you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program

Speaker 2 i want you to take a deep breath okay take a deep breath because this one's going to set you off for a little

Speaker 2 bit

Speaker 2 Friday, the Department of Homeland Security dropped a bomb saying

Speaker 2 they're axing the TSA's union deal. Okay?

Speaker 2 Why?

Speaker 2 Well, because they made this deal under Biden and 86% of our airports,

Speaker 2 more TSA people are clocking in as union reps than are actually checking your bag.

Speaker 2 Okay?

Speaker 2 Nearly 200 out of them get paid

Speaker 2 Your tax dollars to sit in meetings, not to stop bombs, okay?

Speaker 2 but to, I think, give a middle finger to every one of us who's ever missed a flight or slow security line. Last May, Biden's crew gave 42,000 TSA screeners a huge fat union contract.

Speaker 2 More rights and bigger checks. Did you get you get that?

Speaker 2 Oh, no, you didn't get that, did you?

Speaker 2 Okay, now DSA, DHS, is a dumpster fire. They have screeners booking

Speaker 2 sick days seven months out. I'm going to be sick in September.

Speaker 2 Excuse me? How do you know you're going to be? Oh, it's weird.

Speaker 2 You're sick the same time Coachella is happening. Isn't that weird?

Speaker 2 So what's happening is they are just abusing the system, and the good ones are all there picking up the slack. I mean, this is the way it happens in government.

Speaker 2 This is why we've got to cut the size of government.

Speaker 2 And this, and honestly, cut the unions out of government. Over 60% of TSA workers now say the lazy ones are just coasting, and that's killing Moral.
60%

Speaker 2 of TSA workers.

Speaker 2 Unions are pissed because Trump said, nah, we're not doing that. They're saying this workers' rights.

Speaker 2 Okay, first of all, you work for the government, so you don't really have workers' rights like everybody else outside of the government. And you don't have to quote me.
You can quote FDR.

Speaker 2 And he was kind of a big union guy. He loved unions.
Remember him? Kind of a progressive icon. He said, it cannot happen in the federal government.

Speaker 2 1937, he writes that public unions are a no-go because they don't bargain with the boss, they bargain with the customer.

Speaker 2 He said, when they slack or strike, we're the ones that end up paying the price. No flights, no services, just chaos.
Picture this.

Speaker 2 200 TSA union reps are chilling and they're just like, you know what, what can we do to make this job easier and the union stronger in TSA?

Speaker 2 They're talking about that while you're barefoot holding your toothpaste in a baggie. missing your flight.
That's your money.

Speaker 2 Your money.

Speaker 2 FDR said this is a power grab, and it is.

Speaker 2 Government jobs are exploding. We have 7 million people that work for the government.
That's federal, state, or local. Unionized.
7 million people. That's one in every 20 Americans.

Speaker 2 Over a third are unionized. Now, what is the rate of unionization in the private sector, in the real world?

Speaker 2 6%.

Speaker 2 In the federal world, it's it's 30%.

Speaker 2 Why?

Speaker 2 Why? Private unions fight broke companies. Government unions fight you.

Speaker 2 And the politicians don't care because it's not their cash. It's your cash.
We spend $6 trillion

Speaker 2 of our federal budget. Half of that is on salary and pensions.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Sounds like a problem.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 hello? You're 30. You're hustling two gigs.
Maybe you're driving for Uber. You got a full-time job, but you also have to do the Uber thing.

Speaker 2 Half of your paycheck is feeding a machine that doesn't even work.

Speaker 2 How is that fair to you? I'm trying to...

Speaker 2 Is this the way we're supposed to be?

Speaker 2 Let me go back to their first principles, the Constitution. It says government serves of the people, by the people, for the people.
It serves us, okay?

Speaker 2 Article 2 runs the show.

Speaker 2 Article 1, Congress, pays the bills.

Speaker 2 Where's the part about us funding union reps over our security?

Speaker 2 It's not in any of the articles. It's not even in an article in the New York Times.
Okay. It doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 When the TSA cares more about job security than America's security or your security, something's wildly broken.

Speaker 2 You stood in those lines, you've had your shoes off, laptop out, praying your water bottle doesn't get cavity searched. You know, you got, I see you're holding a water bottle.
Come on over here.

Speaker 2 We got to make sure you don't have another one in your butt. Excuse me? That's not freedom, man.
That's insanity.

Speaker 2 And it's because we panicked after 9-11. That's what happened.

Speaker 2 50,000 screeners, $8 billion a year, 432 airports. Safety first, right? No, it's not safety first.
Come on, we've all stood in those lines.

Speaker 2 How many times do you stand in the line and go, you know what? This is a very efficient and great system. I feel so much safer now.
I've never felt that way.

Speaker 2 Government tests. They do tests every year at the airports.
They miss fake bombs and fake guns 70%

Speaker 2 of the time.

Speaker 2 Wait, and they just got

Speaker 2 a raise? Wait, what?

Speaker 2 95% of the time back in 2015. So they're getting better.
It was 90%. They only caught 5% of the bombs and the guns.

Speaker 2 Now they're, now they're, now they're, you know, only missing 30, 30%,

Speaker 2 sorry, finding 30% of them.

Speaker 2 You are more likely to be groped than protected in those lines, and you and I both know it. Now, there's two airports that are doing things differently.
Believe it or not, I can't believe this.

Speaker 2 I don't know how this happened. But San Francisco and Kansas City, those airports are the only two that are privatized, fully private firms.

Speaker 2 Guess who nails the tests every year?

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Guess which lines move like a TikTok dance?

Speaker 2 Smooth, fast, effective, happening quickly. It's those two airports.
You know, the ones that are finding the guns and the bombs. Why? Because private companies cannot afford to suck like this.

Speaker 2 TSA, that's a government fail. Okay.
What happens? Oh, whoops. We let a bomb get on an airport, on an airplane.
Whoops. Who's held accountable for that? Do they go out of business? No, they don't.

Speaker 2 They don't ever.

Speaker 2 If a private airport can outdo what the federal government is doing everywhere else, why are we stuck with this clown show?

Speaker 2 I'll tell you why.

Speaker 2 Unions.

Speaker 2 Government.

Speaker 2 If they miss a bomb at one of those two airports and it goes off on a plane, do you think the people, the plane, the airplanes, the

Speaker 2 airlines,

Speaker 2 Do you think they get sued out of their mind and they go out of business business because they hired a firm that was missing a bomb?

Speaker 2 Yeah, they do.

Speaker 2 So they're incentivized to make sure no bombs get on that plane. The government? Are you going to sue the government? You can't sue the government.

Speaker 2 You might be 40. You're juggling kids, your mortgage.
Why is your tax money funding a TSA that fails when the San Francisco airport thrives?

Speaker 2 Why are we not ditching this whole thing? I say abolish the TSA. Let the airports hire private security.
It works.

Speaker 2 No airline in the country would allow

Speaker 2 70% of the bombs and the fake guns getting through. They couldn't afford it.

Speaker 2 But the government's like, ah,

Speaker 2 and they cash the check.

Speaker 2 This is why our founder, they wanted a lean machine. Madison said in Federalist 51, power hoarding kills republics.
Government unions, they're modern hoarders. They lock in the job.

Speaker 2 They shield the slackers. They grow the beast.

Speaker 2 Rome collapsed

Speaker 2 when the bureaucrats got too comfy. It just collapsed.

Speaker 2 How comfy do you think our bureaucrats are? Look at them. Look at them.

Speaker 2 Britain's empire wobbled until it slashed its payroll. We have seven million government workers, more than the populations of 38 states.

Speaker 2 Wow, that's a...

Speaker 2 Wait, say that again.

Speaker 2 Our government workers total more than the population of 38 different states.

Speaker 2 That's not public service.

Speaker 2 That's a heist.

Speaker 2 So here's the thing.

Speaker 2 Trump went in and he said, we're cutting your union contract.

Speaker 2 No, no, you're not spending, you're not having these employees spend their whole day trying to figure out how they can make the union stronger.

Speaker 2 We want every employee looking at how we can make our safety better.

Speaker 2 So first thing it has to be done. And, you know, I could dream.
I could dream. Hey, I'm a dreamer.

Speaker 2 No government unions, no collective bargaining for public workers, none, zip zero. FDR nailed it.
They cannot hold the people hostage.

Speaker 2 What they're doing is they're negotiating with the politicians, but the politicians aren't the ones spending the money. It doesn't cost them anything.
And they get kickbacks from those unions.

Speaker 2 So you're paying for it. They cannot negotiate like that because the one that's actually

Speaker 2 the one that's paying the salaries isn't represented there. That's why FDR was against it, and he was right.

Speaker 2 You can't unionize against your boss and your customers.

Speaker 2 Merit over membership, period.

Speaker 2 Two, cut the fat. 7 million, more than 38 states.
I think we can lose a few. Trump's buyouts, full pay for eight months to quit.

Speaker 2 75,000 got out. That's a good start, maybe for a Monday.

Speaker 2 Freeze the hires.

Speaker 2 Take the federal government and slash it to 3.5. There's going to be chaos.
Yes, there is. Have you ever worked for a company that is dying?

Speaker 2 A company that is out of business if they don't do things drastically different?

Speaker 2 We are that company. This country is dying.

Speaker 2 To save it and to save the employees that we can, because we'll all be out of jobs, you've got to slash and you're going to have some chaos. But then it rights itself.

Speaker 2 Private companies run lean.

Speaker 2 3%

Speaker 2 of the employees are administration. That's the average of private companies.
3%. Do you know what ours is? For the government? 15%

Speaker 2 of

Speaker 2 all of them being bosses. 15%.

Speaker 2 I don't know. You're killing it at work.

Speaker 2 Why is your tax bill propping up paper pushers? Why?

Speaker 2 Privatize all of the airport security.

Speaker 2 Kansas City and San Francisco, they do it better, faster, safer, cheaper. Repeal the 2001 Aviation Security Act.
Congress can do it. Let the airports and the airlines compete.

Speaker 2 You'd rather breeze through than beg some Fed to hurry up, right? You'd rather have it done right,

Speaker 2 competently, and somebody that you can hold responsible.

Speaker 2 You know, Coolidge was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century. He crushed a police strike in 1919.
He said, no, there's no striking against the public. Can't do it.

Speaker 2 Reagan fired 11,000 controllers. Airplanes are going to fall out of the sky.
You know what? You know what didn't happen? That.

Speaker 2 This isn't anti-worker. This is pro

Speaker 2 you.

Speaker 2 Help your friends keep that in perspective. We don't mind the workers.
We're going after efficiency, competence, security.

Speaker 2 This is not against the worker. It's about you.

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