12/26/17 - Tax Reform Has Come to America (Mike Broomhead in for Glenn)

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My name is Mike Broomhead, Phoenix, Arizona.

In for Glenn, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.

Hope you had a great Christmas day.

A lot to talk about in the news.

Let's get started with the tax code.

The tax reform has come to America.

We now know that most Americans are going to get a tax cut.

Bernie Sanders himself talking about it.

We're going to get to that in a moment.

I want you to hear Bernie Sanders finally making the admission that middle-class Americans are going to get a tax cut.

This tax reform bill, whether you like it, love it, or hate it, there are some things about it that are not great.

There are some things about it that are not perfect.

But there are also some places we need to fill in the blank that you need to know about.

Hearing what Bernie Sanders had to say, finally making the admission that middle class Americans are getting a tax cut, I want you to realize the biggest issue for Democrats in all of this is that it is now going to be an election year.

January 1 starts the midterm elections.

They had high hopes.

The Democratic Party had high hopes or have high hopes that they are going to be able to retake the House.

Now, there's only a two-seat majority in the Senate, so a lot of people think that's the more likely House to flip, except there are 25 Democrats up in that house, in the Senate race, so they would have to win two seats.

Arizona's got one that's up for grabs with Jeff Flake's seat, and I know Senator Flake fairly well, but Jeff Flake not running again means there is not an incumbent there to beat.

So they're hoping to win that seat in Arizona.

There is also going to be a seat.

They're hoping to win New Mexico.

So they would have to win all 25 Democrat seats, plus the two in the Arizona and a New Mexico seat, in order to flip the United States Senate.

The likelihood of that happening is very, very slim.

The wild card in all of that, of course, is John McCain.

Is John McCain going to return?

Now, everything I've heard and the people that I've talked to, I've been in contact from the very beginning of the diagnosis of Senator McCain's illness with the family.

And

I'm friends with Megan McCain, and she has kept me informed largely of what's been going on since the initial diagnosis was announced publicly by Senator McCain.

And for those of you in the audience,

I have a good relationship with the senator.

I know there's a lot of political disagreements.

I have some myself, but I have the utmost respect for him as a person.

And so he's on my show quite a bit.

The first interview he did after the treatment began for his illness, after the two or three controversial votes on health care reform or health insurance reform.

His first interview in the country after he began treatment was in my studio in Phoenix, Arizona.

So I have a good rapport and relationship with the family.

I have not spoken to the family at all since he went to Walter Reed.

Then he returned to Arizona when he did not take part in the tax reform vote.

I have not had any contact with the family whatsoever.

And that doesn't.

mean anything either way.

Our governor in the state of Arizona has talked to the McCain family.

So is Senator Flake, both of them saying that Senator McCain intends to return back to his job in January.

So the question remains, will there be two seats in the state of Arizona that may be up for grabs?

Arizona is going to be very,

it's going to be, the spotlight will be on the state of Arizona in the next election year, especially if something were to happen and John McCain were not able to continue.

All indicators are from his family to everybody in the public and privately that I know that he's planning on returning.

The chances of the Democrats flipping the Senate are very slim.

They believe they've got a shot at flipping the House.

Well, that diminishes greatly when they can no longer say that this is a do-nothing Republican Congress, when they can point the finger at Paul Ryan and say, you're getting nothing done.

Mitch McConnell in the Senate, a lot of that is getting blocked.

But the difference is this.

Now we've got a tax reform bill that's passed.

A tax reform bill is passed.

And even the Democrats have to admit now that the middle-class Americans are going to get a tax break.

I want you to hear Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders, who's on CNN talking about this tax reform bill, was asked about the fact that the middle class is getting a tax cut.

Here's what Bernie Sanders had to say.

According to the Tax Policy Center, next year, 91% of middle-income Americans will receive a tax cut.

Isn't that a good thing?

Yeah, it is a very good thing.

And that's why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent.

But what the Republicans did is made the tax breaks for corporations permanent, the tax breaks for the middle class temporary, and according to the Tax Policy Center, that same organization, at the end of 10 years, 83 percent of the benefits go to the top 1 percent, 60 percent of the benefits go to the top 1 tenth of 1 percent.

Meanwhile, at the end of 10 years, well over 80 million Americans will be paying more in taxes.

13 million Americans as a result of this legislation are going to lose their health insurance.

Health care premiums are going up.

We got a $1.4 trillion deficit as a result of this bill.

And Paul Ryan is going around saying, oh, we have to offset that deficit by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

To answer your questions, should we have focused on the needs of the middle class?

We should have.

Okay.

Now, Bernie Sanders, there's a lot there, and we're going to cover this as quickly as we can.

First of all, the dirty little secret they don't want you to know is the Senate rules preclude them from being able to cut any more than they did.

Why?

Because in order for them to get a simple majority and not the 60 votes necessary in the Senate, there was a threshold of cuts they were allowed to make.

To make that, they made the choice to make the business tax cuts permanent.

Now, when he says that, and he's right, that these tax cuts are going to sunset or go away in 10 years.

Well, there's a lot of time between now and 10 years.

They can go back at any point and they can change the tax code.

They can make them permanent

on another vote.

They could have made all of this permanent and made deeper tax cuts to the taxpayer if the Senate had helped them and given them 60 votes, which they refuse to do.

So they can lay this at the feet of the Republicans if they want to, but the fact of the matter is they are now in defensive mode.

So a couple of other things that Bernie Sanders is saying.

Number one, he's talking about all of these cuts and he's talking $1.5 or $1.47 trillion in deficits.

That is over a 10-year period.

Now, I don't believe those numbers are accurate.

There are many that don't believe those numbers are accurate.

There's going to be the repatriation of almost a trillion dollars into the country from businesses overseas that they're not counting in their numbers.

I also think that business growth and expansion and wage increases, you're going to see more money into the tax coffers.

I may be wrong, but let's go with their numbers.

Let's just take Bernie Sanders' numbers at face value.

Let's say over the next 10 years, this adds $1.5 trillion to the budget.

That is $150 billion a year added to the deficits.

We have had in the first three quarters of the year over 3% growth growth for the first time in a decade.

Never in the Obama administration did you have growth like this ever.

The fourth quarter of this year predicted to be even higher.

The fourth quarter of this year predicted to be at 4% growth.

Take a look at the Christmas spending, the holiday spending and travel setting records.

Consumer confidence is way up.

So for $150 billion added to the deficit, worst case scenario using their numbers,

$150 billion added to the deficit, 3% to 4% growth

the four quarters of the first year of the presidency.

You then mirror that against the eight years of the Obama presidency.

They're going to tell you, well, they had to fix the Bush economy.

The stimulus had to happen.

They added over a trillion dollars, sometimes a trillion and a half dollars every single year.

10 times the deficit spending that Bernie Sanders is complaining about.

10 times that spending was done every single year of the Obama presidency with nothing over, what, 2% growth, a little over 2%?

The most sluggish recovery in the history of our country since the Great Depression.

The numbers don't lie.

The nice thing about this is we all know you can skew numbers to look at them any way you want.

I am a pragmatic person.

I look at the bottom line.

I look at my wallet.

I'm not getting much of a tax cut, but you take a look at the families.

CBS over the weekend did exactly the same thing.

They had an accountant come on, three different families across America, and the accountant found out that all three families were going to have their taxes cut.

They were going to pay less.

CBS tried to dance around it.

CBS tried to do the same thing Bernie Sanders did.

They are throwing a bunch of shade on this for one reason.

It is an election year in 2018.

The Democrats want the House back.

In order to do that, they have got to try to pound this class warfare thing into the heads of the people that somehow the big tax cuts go to the rich.

The dollars are higher for the rich people because they pay much more in taxes.

Percentage-wise, you take a look at where the tax cuts are.

Families making a family of four, filing jointly, making $200,000 a year as a family.

That's not a wealthy family.

That is a strong middle-class family.

They're not getting rich.

And depending on where you live in the country, $200,000 a year for a family of four is not big money at all.

Live in a city like LA or New York for a family of four making $200,000 a year.

It's not exactly getting wealthy.

They are going to get a 7% tax cut.

That is $14,000.

That is more than $1,000 a month.

When the American people see their bottom line change, they vote with their wallets.

That is the fear of the Democrats.

That's what Bernie Sanders is afraid of with this tax cut.

Now, yeah, they are getting a tax cut, but they should be permanent.

Make them permanent, Bernie.

You have the power.

Walk across the aisle.

Tell Mitch McConnell you want to vote on making them permanent next time around.

Let's see how that goes over.

We'll talk about this year, this year of the presidency.

Is President Trump given a fair shake in accomplishments?

Has he accomplished anything, or is it like America says?

We'll do all of that coming up in the next portion of the show.

My name is Mike Broomhead.

I'm in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Bottom of the hour, want to talk about

giving at Christmas.

It is the time of year that most people, this is at Christmastime, New Year, we are a lot, we take inventory and a lot of us do a lot more giving.

I spent Christmas Day at the local St.

Vincent dePaul here in Phoenix, Arizona, and at 7.35, a discussion about programs where private citizens and private organizations do things in their community versus when the government handles them and the good and the bad of both of those, because there's a story out of Atlanta that had me kind of shaking my head about feeding homeless people.

So 7.35, a little after 7.30, we'll talk about that.

There is a CNN had a story on their website about the President Trump thinks he doesn't get enough credit for his accomplishments.

And we'll get to that in a moment.

This tax reform conversation, though,

if the premise is we're going to put more money in the pockets of the taxpayers, I don't understand why that's ever a bad thing.

There are two different ideologies at at work right now.

And the one from the from the left, and I'm not just going to say Democrats, because I also think there are some Democrats that see the benefit in this.

I believe that it was the working-class Democrat families that actually elected President Trump.

I don't believe it was white nationalists.

And I'll explain why in a moment.

But

there's a lot of Democrats that see the value in a tax cut for American people.

They would be considered moderate Democrats.

But from the left, Rosie O'Donnell says that Paul Ryan's going straight to hell because of the tax plan.

Bernie Sanders hates it.

Nancy Pelosi called it the worst piece of legislation ever.

And this is the woman that gave you Obamacare.

Keep that in mind when she says that.

But when you look at the American people and putting more money in their pockets, the left ideology is it's our money.

My ideology, the ideology of a conservative or someone that is more of an individual thinker, is it's your money, whether you're rich or you're poor, whether you are benevolent or you're greedy, and there's both in both categories, or you're middle class.

It's your money.

I think everybody should pay something to live in this great country.

I think most people agree they should pay their fair share, whatever they believe their fair share is.

Nobody should get a free ride.

But when you look at what's happened in America on the left, they treat this pile of money that we have in our economy as our money.

Well, it's not our money.

It's your money.

The government's not giving you anything.

What they're doing is allowing you, which sounds like a silly thing, to keep more of your own money.

When businesses and when entrepreneurs especially have an opportunity to turn over a profit, they will get involved.

I've been blessed to know many people that have a lot of money.

I don't myself.

I wish to.

Someday I hope I do.

But everything I ever learned, I learned from someone else.

As a tradesman, I grew up as an electrician in the trade, starting as a helper that knew nothing, an apprentice, a journeyman, a master electrician, and a business owner, I learned from someone else.

Every one of my employers was wealthier than I was, a lot wealthier than I was.

We all want to work for a wealthy company.

We all want our paychecks to clear.

We all want to make sure we work somewhere that's solvent.

So when your boss gets a tax cut, and I believe that it was a working-class Democrat families, there were over 200 counties in the United States that twice voted for Barack Obama for president.

These were in swing states, over 200 counties.

Those 200 plus counties, and I believe the exact number was 206, those counties flipped and voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

And the message in those neighborhoods and the message in those counties was, I'm going to cut taxes and I'm going to cut regulation on your bosses.

So they repatriate dollars to this country, they expand their factories here, and those jobs you've been working that are paying $25 and $30 an hour will stay and you're not fighting for a $12 or $13 an hour job.

They believed him and they elected him.

This tax reform bill, when it comes permanent, as it's become permanent for business owners, is going to allow them to free up capital.

You look at where the stock market is going.

I have a story in front of me that said it's going to be the best year for stocks since 2013 as far as jump in numbers.

It's the first time ever that the Dow has increased 5,000 points in one year.

That's because it is a nonpartisan organization, the Dow, or the S ⁇ P or the NASDAQ.

They don't care who the president is.

They don't care who the Congress is.

They're looking at an environment where it's possible for economic growth.

And they see the future being bright.

Why?

Business owners are keeping more of their profits.

Taxpayers are paying less in taxes.

Business owners have turned around in these major corporations and raised their standard of their minimum wage at their company to $15 an hour, trying to attract good employees and retain good employees.

Some are giving out bonuses.

That's what they tend to do.

So when you look at this past year, has it been a great year for the president?

I don't know.

It hasn't been on a number of levels but there are a number of accomplishments that this president has made that i think are remarkable in the sense that they should be talked about his first foreign policy trip for instance the first time this president left the united states as president of the united states first place he went to was riyad and he talked with the saudis that's where they jumped into qatter and they tried to stop them from the terrorist activities He flew from Riyadh to Tel Aviv.

He met there with the Israelis, the first sitting president ever to pray at the Western Wall.

From there, he flew to the Vatican and he met with the Pope.

From there, he went to a NATO summit to reestablish the relationship with NATO, not get us out of NATO, but reestablish the rules on who's going to pay their fair share and how it's going to work.

But he met with the three major world religions in his very first trip.

You mirror that against President Obama and what President Obama did in his apology tour.

He flew to Cairo and he apologized for American arrogance and American greatness.

He went on a tour of the world apologizing for the things we had done during the Bush presidency.

The president then, our president, goes to South Korea and he addresses the North Korean problem.

He got the Chinese in a matter of six months to change their position.

Nobody believes the Chinese think differently about the U.S.

We're still their adversary.

But the Chinese went from saying we will stay out of it with North Korea to putting out a joint statement with the United States saying that the North Koreans must stop and dismantle their nuclear program, not freeze it.

They must cease and desist.

It's It's a big shift in policy.

He

went to the Pacific Economic Summit and told them, America first is my job.

Your country first is your job.

Reestablishing trade deals with those Asian nations saying that it's got to be on a more level playing field.

Now, how this all plays out, we don't know.

We'll see the long-term effects of these things.

But there are some accomplishments.

I was on the stage many times with Glenn and others as a Ted Cruz supporter during the primary.

I endorse Ted Cruz.

Donald Trump was not my first choice for president.

But Donald Trump is my president.

Good, bad, and indifferent.

I want him to be successful.

And I do believe the traditional media, the CNN, the MSNBCs of the world will never give him a fair shake.

They will not talk about any accomplishment he's ever made.

And I think that

they've turned me into a defender of the president because there are some accomplishments that have been made during this administration, especially when it comes to foreign policy.

I thought foreign policy was going to be a big shortcoming of this president, and he's turned out to be fairly strong.

They've kept the North Koreans at bay for the most part.

We've not gotten into a war with them.

You look at the tomahawk missiles in Syria to stop the chemical weapons there.

There have been some things that have been done, decisions that have been made by the people he's put in place that have done some great things.

That doesn't mean he's the next Ronald Reagan or he's not George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, but he's not Hitler and he's not Satan either.

Coming up, bottom of the next hour, citizens versus cities, helping the homeless and the people in need.

I'll give you a first-hand account of what I did this weekend and a story out of Atlanta that's going to leave you shaking your head.

All that coming up on the next segment, it's the Glenn Beck Program.

I'm Mike Broomhead.

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You know, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us here at the Glenn Beck program.

My name is Mike Broomhead in Phoenix, Arizona, in for Glenn today and tomorrow.

I believe it's Doc Thompson a few days after that.

I spent Christmas Day at St.

Vincent de Paul and was helping to feed homeless people there.

And I have a great relationship with St.

Vincent de Paul here.

And so I love what they do and the way they do it here in Arizona, but wherever you are, whatever organizations you happen to work with, private organizations you happen to work with,

they do amazing amazing things.

You know, Glenn in Mercury One, what they've done there is amazing work, and it is the charitable arm of what they do.

And I try to align myself with organizations, and there are many of them here locally in Arizona that I believe in.

These are great organizations that do work in whatever field they're in.

There's a military assistance mission, it's one of them here in Arizona.

It was started by a woman named Margie Bonds, whose son was killed.

was a Haditha Marine.

And so she started this organization to help military families.

Nobody in their organization gets paid.

Everybody volunteers.

All the money goes back.

And what they do is they're a clearinghouse.

They verify a need for a military family, whatever that need might be, and then they take care of that need.

If it's an appliance that needs to be fixed or replaced, a car, a rent paid, electric bills, those kinds of things,

whatever those military families might need.

The benevolence of people

blows me away over and over and over again.

And I love that feeling of watching the benevolence of people.

And so I spent Christmas Day at St.

Vincent de Paul.

We fed over almost 700 people at lunchtime in this dining hall.

There was a breakfast.

There's a lunch.

And here in Arizona, 3,000 meals every single day are given out at dining halls across where I am by St.

Vincent de Paul.

And the reason why I'm talking about my experience is because I believe that's the experience of most people.

Story out of Atlanta, Georgia, a woman named Adele McClain was at Thanksgiving, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, at a park in Atlanta feeding the homeless.

She was given a citation for serving food without a permit.

Now, she was giving the food away.

She wasn't selling it.

And she was giving it to people that had no food.

And they were happy to have the food.

She was happy to provide it.

Now, she showed up in court.

They dropped the charges.

It was an embarrassment to the city of Atlanta, as these things normally are when the cities step in with these kinds of nonsense requirements and restrictions.

And so the concern is, and I want you to hear somebody making a quote about what they're concerned about.

We don't want anybody to stop feeding people.

We just want it done in a way that's connected to social

service providers and not on the street corner because we can't make sure those connections are being made in these street corner feedings.

Everything goes back to a government program.

Now, I've got to tell you, I'm not a militia member.

I'm not an anti-government person.

I'm not that person at all.

But I am practical.

There are two things at work.

First is a sense of giving.

There is something

inside us

that is so filled when we give.

And for those of us that don't feel it often enough, it's because we aren't seeking out a place where we can give.

There is a great feeling when you give to others.

One of the programs I witnessed here is with St.

Vincent dePaul.

There is a place called Palomino Elementary School in the north part of Phoenix, Arizona.

And it is a

very, it's a needy neighborhood.

It's a poor working class neighborhood.

And the kids in this elementary school largely are

more on the need list.

And what they do every year is in one of their St.

Vincent dePaul stores, they have a program.

And this happens all over the place, but this is what I'm connected to.

They bring these elementary school kids on buses, and for a dollar, they can take anything out of any two things out of the store that they can carry.

If they can carry it, they can buy it for a dollar.

And they buy two gifts.

And so to watch these kids and the joy on their face when you ask them, there was a little girl that carried a, was carrying out a flashlight that she got for her father.

And she was so happy to be able to buy her dad a flashlight.

I don't even know if her dad needed a flashlight, but I guarantee you her dad's going to love getting that gift from his daughter.

But for kids in a poor neighborhood who largely have Christmases provided for them, to give these elementary school children the feeling of being the giver is something I'm sure that they'll never forget.

And it's a feeling, hopefully, that will, you know, burn in them that they'll grow up wanting to be able to give to someone else.

And I think that burns in all of us.

So when we turn over the benevolence and the giving to the government, What we're doing is giving up our right

and our responsibility to give to others.

Now, I'm not saying social services are wrong.

I'm not saying that those programs aren't viable.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't be there.

But for someone in the government to be of the mindset that you as a private citizen shouldn't be out there on the street feeding the homeless because you can't connect those people with the social services that really do something about it is such a false narrative.

Homelessness is real to me.

One of my heroes growing up,

and it kind of, it chokes me up to talk about him.

One of my heroes growing up was my cousin, and he was a year older than me.

I'm the oldest of three boys, so I didn't have an older brother.

And I looked up to my older cousin.

He was just a little bit older than me, but he was a superstar athlete when he was a kid.

He played football and baseball, and he was just a great athlete.

Girls all over, you know, as a young man, you know, a young teenager.

He had girls everywhere.

And he was just somebody I admired greatly.

He lost his mother early in his life.

My aunt had cancer, throat cancer.

And my cousin Kenny was devastated.

And he turned to drugs and alcohol.

He made very poor choices and ended up homeless and ended up in Vegas where his older sister lived and was on the streets in Vegas and was an addict.

And I would go and visit my cousins and he would come and visit with me.

And he looked like every other homeless person you ever saw, disheveled, dirty clothes.

But when I saw him, I just saw my cousin.

It was just being back with my cousin.

And it had to be odd to see him and I walking on the Vegas trip together because walking with him just felt like I was walking with my cousin again.

My cousin died in the desert in Las Vegas.

Complications to his drug use and his alcohol abuse.

All choices he made.

I'm not blaming anybody else for the choices he made.

But homelessness has a face for me.

And I have a desire to help people like everybody else does.

And when you read stories of where people in the government want to say, we don't want you going into the parks and interacting with homeless people because you're not directing them to shelters and you're making the problem worse, I don't believe that for a moment.

Should we be trying to help people get mainstream again?

Do organizations out there do a fantastic job?

Are there social services available?

Sure, there are.

Absolutely.

But you're you mean to tell me that the government is saying you should not take your children on Thanksgiving weekend and provide a plate of food for some homeless people and sit with them for a few minutes and hear their story and talk with them about their life and treat them with human dignity.

We shouldn't do that.

Do you think that we just stood around yesterday just handing people plates of food and then sending them out the door?

They sat in a dining hall.

They had lunch.

Larry Fitzgerald, if you're a football fan, Larry Fitzgerald in Arizona is an icon.

He is one of the best players in the NFL, but he's one of the best human beings also.

He was there for over an hour taking pictures and interacting.

He brought a bunch of kids with him, all of those kids serving food and interacting.

This was about human dignity and kindness.

This was about showing the Christmas spirit that whether you're living on the streets or you're living in a multi-million dollar home, you're a human being.

And all of us on Christmas Day celebrate the same thing.

If you're a faith-based person like I am, Christmas Day has the meaning of the birth of what what would be our redemption.

It is a very significant holy day in the Christian faith.

But here in America, whether you are somebody that is a devout Christian or you're of another faith and just celebrate the holiday, this is a time of year where all of us are a lot more mindful of the blessings we've been given.

So I'm not one to diminish or denounce government programs.

But when people involved in government programs, say you as a private citizen or a private organization or a group of people that decide to go and help help people shouldn't do it because A, you're making the problem worse or B, you're not directing people to the solution, which is the government.

That scares me a little bit.

That scares me more than a little bit.

You want something that I promise you will give you back 10 times more than you've ever given.

And it's not just writing a check.

Find an organization near you, whether it's St.

Vincent dePaul or the food bank near you or whatever charitable organization is near you that you believe in, go and volunteer for one day.

Just volunteer for a few hours.

Provide a meal, provide some kind of a service, interact, whatever it is.

Here in Arizona, there was a story a few, a couple of years ago.

There was a young man whose mother was homeless and he had gone through school to be a hairstylist.

So he was in the park giving free haircuts to people in the park.

Now, nobody would think about that, but think about someone who's trying to get a job and they can't because they're homeless.

Giving free haircuts to people in the park.

They tried to lock this guy up.

You want to know why?

He hadn't finished school yet.

So he was not a hairstylist by license yet.

So he was cutting hair without a lice.

They laughed that city out of the courtroom.

They actually changed the laws in Arizona to make sure that never happened again because some bureaucrat decided this guy didn't have a license, so he wasn't allowed to provide free haircuts to the homeless.

Do you see the mentality

of that?

You don't have a food handler's license.

You can't provide free food.

How far can we possibly go with this nonsense?

Speaking of nonsense, before we close out this hour, if you haven't heard the story about United Airlines and the big apology, oh, it involves my favorite congresswoman, the gift that keeps on giving, Sheila Jackson Lee, and United Airlines, and what they had to say to a poor passenger who was forced out of her first-class seat.

We'll get to that coming up before we close it out.

Again, my name is Mike Broomhead.

I'm in one more day, today and tomorrow, and this is the Glenn Beck program.

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Hey, it's the Glenn Beck Program.

I'm Mike Broomhead in Phoenix, Arizona, in for Glenn today and tomorrow.

Thanks for making us a part of your morning or part of your day.

We appreciate a little bit of time.

If you missed the discussion, we started off the show with discussing the tax reform that's in America.

We're going to do that again, top of the next hour, talk a little bit more about it, a little more detail of what it's doing for people specifically, who it's helping and why, what's happening, and then again, why people are against it, who would be against it and why, that coming up just after the top of the hour.

And the discussion about homelessness and helping people in need.

And again, I can only give you a perspective that's unique to me.

I only have my own perspective.

And I've had the pleasure of being on this network for quite a few times for Glenn over the last few years.

So some of you have heard me on the air before.

I'm not a silver spoon guy.

I barely graduated from high school.

I do not have a college education.

I've went to work.

I've had my first job at 12 years old.

And I'm very proud of the way I grew up.

My mother is successful in my mind, and she's not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but she is retired, and and she maintains herself.

She has a medical insurance.

She owns her car.

She owns a small home that she, and she's retired.

She's able to travel between my brother and his kids in Southwest Florida and her home where she was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

And she's able to travel back and forth and enjoy her latter years of her life.

And if you had asked her 20 years ago, 25 years ago, if she ever would have imagined she would be able to retire, she would have told you she will work until the day she dies.

So she is the model of success for me.

Growing up as I did, I'm not ashamed to say that we grew up poor.

We didn't take government assistance.

My mother never took government assistance, but we got help.

Neighbors helped us.

We had a friend of my mom show up at her house, one at our house one day during the summer vacation when we were out of school with a trunk full of groceries for our family.

And this woman didn't realize I knew who she was and told my mother later who it was.

And we did receive help when we were kids.

But it surely wasn't because my mother didn't work hard she did we were never homeless thank god you know but that was by the grace of god too

to

talk about a need people in need i have a very different perspective to talk about homelessness i have a unique very personal experience with homelessness

and For you and for me to give, whether you're everybody has three things to offer this world, money, talent, and time.

And we all have it to varying degrees at different points in our life.

Whether you donate your money, your talent, your time, or a little bit of all three, that's what we have to offer this world.

And to turn that responsibility and that right over to the government is a shame because they're not going to manage it very well.

That's just the nature of government in general.

But it also takes away from your ability to feel the joy of giving.

to feel the fulfillment that comes from saying, I've got my own issues, I've got my own troubles, I've got my own needs, but if I'm able to provide a little bit of assistance to someone else, it fills you up in a way that's indescribable.

And so

I hope that you won't turn that over to someone else's responsibility through your taxation, that someone else has that covered.

We should never give up that right to help others.

Before we close it out, An angry passenger, United Airlines, Jean Marie Simon, 63 years old, works as an attorney in D.C., purchased a first-class ticket

from Guatemala.

She was told while boarding that her seat had been taken.

She claims to have purchased the ticket on December 3rd using her frequent flyer miles and her flight on December 20th.

United compensated her with $500,

but in their released statement, the airline said Simon canceled her flight.

In response, the airline booked someone else.

No.

Sheila Jackson Lee, Congresswoman, making demands that she get a seat.

This woman got on the plane with a $500 voucher and a coach seat and saw the congresswoman sitting in her seat.

United Airlines has since apologized, and Sheila Jackson Lee said the response was racist.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

There you have it.

Top of the hour.

We talk more about tax cuts.

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We do appreciate it.

First hour

talked about tax reform.

Bernie Sanders comments this weekend, what they are trying to do.

And when I say they, I mean Democrats.

Now, we know Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat.

He is a socialist, and that's self-proclaimed socialist, an independent, and he caucuses with the Democrats, had a very good chance if it had not been for the collusion in the Democratic Party of being the Democrat nominee, which shows you, you know, they accuse Republicans, and it's a fair accusation, of sprinting right in a primary, because the people that vote in the primary election are the diehards, and so they sprint right.

We know the left sprints left.

But look how far left they've sprinted.

The tax reform bill has passed.

It passed in the House, passed in the Senate.

There were some big differences.

And so we're going to, I want to talk for a few minutes about tax reform.

And

it is,

it's different to me on a number of levels.

Let's pick apart some of the things that did not happen before you hear Bernie Sanders, because what he says is kind of extended and there's a lot to pick apart in this.

But one of the things that he talks about is making the tax cuts for the middle class permanent, which should have been done.

Well, jump on board, Bernie.

I mean, you got to understand, if the Democrats would have helped them get to 60 votes, they would have been permanent.

Bernie Sanders has also made statements in the last few days that if the Democrats take over the Congress,

taxes are going up on businesses.

They believe that businesses should be taxed at the 35 and 40% range, 39.6% for LLCs, what they call pass-through corporations.

And I look at every small business owner, I look at entrepreneurs and I see a difference.

You know, an entrepreneur, someone that's made a nice living, has put away a nest egg of a lot of money, and they don't need to work again a day in their life, or lives.

Why would they risk under the past climate any money at all?

You're sitting on a bunch of cash.

You make a nice living.

You don't need to do anything.

Why would they risk the money they've put away in a startup with somebody else's idea when compliance, when the regulations, whether it's EPA or other government requirements, are so strict and so expensive, it makes a startup almost impossible unless you've got a lot of money?

But secondly, if they're going to tax you at between 35 and 40%, 39.6%,

why would you take that kind of a risk?

to give away 40% of your profits

and that was the climate they were in.

You reduced the tax rate to 21%.

You've greatly reduced regulations on companies.

And you're going to see entrepreneurs come forward and say, I will join with somebody that's got a great idea.

I will use the mistakes I've made.

I will show somebody else how to navigate the business world and hopefully avoid some of the mistakes I made coming up.

And we'll use my capital, their idea, and their sweat equity, and let's go build something.

I believe those people are coming out of the woodwork.

But one of the areas we've not talked about is where it's not been made permanent and

a complete repeal of is the estate tax.

Now, it's been doubled the threshold, so it's only going to affect the very, very wealthy in this country.

Well, let me defend wealthy people since it seems like, and again, I just, for disclosures purposes, I'm not a wealthy person.

Now, I make a very nice living.

I'm very happy with the living I make.

I'm not anywhere close to being anywhere near the estate tax level or anything like that.

I'm not a millionaire.

But the estate tax is stealing from the dead.

Are we really so broke in this country that on any level, we've got to steal from the dead?

The unique perspective I have, farmers and ranchers here in the state that I live in, with the urban sprawl that's been happening over the last 23 years since I've been in Arizona, I've watched very odd things happen, which is kind of, it's fun to watch happen, but very strange.

When you drive in the west part of what we call the valley, you will see neighborhoods pop up, and then there will be huge swaths of cotton fields or hay fields where they're growing alfalfa, and then another neighborhood.

So you go from

suburbs to farm to suburbs to farm.

Well, it drives the value of that farmland up.

Now, these are families that have been farming or ranching that land for generations, not just decades, generations.

And when the grandparents pass away, who are the owners of the property, of the land, and the land is then passed on to the next generation, who have been working that land their entire lives as well, and making a living, but not getting wealthy,

they are assessed taxes on the value of that property.

And the only way to pay their tax bill is to sell off part of or most of their birthright, their inheritance, to pay the taxes.

So they, in essence, become sharecroppers because

they sell their land to someone else so that they can work the land that's now owned by someone else and make the same living they were always making.

Oh, and by the way, if you're someone that's inherited something and you have to pay the estate tax,

And in that portfolio that you've been in you've inherited is property, when you sell that property, you pay capital gains tax first, and then you pay the estate tax.

Welcome to America.

Let me defend the wealthy for a moment.

These are people that work just as hard as you work.

They love their families just as much as you love yours, and they have accumulated whatever it is they've accumulated to pass on to who they leave behind.

You do realize that whatever it is that you pass on, whether it's the remnant of your 401k, the house that you own, cars, whatever it is that you own that you're going to pass on to your loved ones, you're not paying taxes on that, and neither are your loved ones.

But wealthy people are.

They are stealing from the dead.

Are we broke as a nation to the point that we have to grave rob?

We have become grave robbers.

I think it is the most despicable tax in our country.

And it should have been completely repealed.

And the next bite at the apple and tax cuts they should repeal it

so this is about reforming the tax system not just repealing or reducing taxes for people it's about real reform but did we get real reform I don't know yet I guess we'll see when it comes time to do our taxes

I'm going to wait a few moments I'll let you in the next part of the show I'll let you hear Bernie Sanders in his entirety where he launches into tax cuts for individuals should have been made permanent, business tax cuts were instead health insurance and people going without benefits anymore.

I'll tell you the real story behind the rhetoric.

The problem I have with traditional media is that they're not going to continue and ask the questions and push anybody on anything on that side of the aisle.

Once in a while, and there are a few people that will, but for the most part, Bernie Sanders will get a pass for the things he says.

Why?

A, either they don't have the, they don't dig enough to know where what they're saying is rhetoric and easily,

easily dispelled,

or they're complicit

and they don't like this.

Of course, somebody did a video I saw it on one of the websites this morning where they went out and they took the Trump tax reform plan and they went out to college campuses and man on the street interviews and told them it was Bernie Sanders idea.

All of it.

Man, did they love it.

They loved what Bernie had to offer.

When they found out it was from President Trump, shocked.

Couldn't believe it.

So instead of looking at policy for what policy's value is, it's got to be attached to an individual.

We have become such a cult of personality society that we love what somebody does that we like and we hate what somebody does that we don't like and that's just the way it is

So I'll let you hear Bernie Sanders.

We'll do that in a few minutes.

When I get back here, we'll do that.

If you are a social media user, I'm a big social media user.

My name is Mike Broomhead.

You can find me on Facebook, The Mike Broomhead Show on Facebook, or at Broomhead Show is my Twitter handle.

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I would love to hear from you this morning and interact with you a little bit.

I'll do that during the breaks.

Coming up in a few moments, we'll talk about this.

We'll let you hear Bernie Sanders in his entirety and what he has to say about why this tax bill is so bad.

And then we'll pick it apart piece by piece, and I'll tell you the truth behind all of it.

That's coming up in the the next segment.

My name is Mike Broomhead.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck.

So let's do this.

I want you to hear Bernie Sanders talking on CNN, finally admitting that the middle class in America are going to get a tax cut.

So middle class Americans, just like Bernie Sanders says he's a champion for, all of them will be getting a tax cut.

We'll lay some of this out for you kind of piece by by piece and pick apart what Bernie says where he should be questioned on this and pushed a little further and made to answer for some of the claims he makes.

Not all of them, but some of them.

So I want you to hear it a little bit lengthy, but some of the things that Bernie says, and then I'll kind of fill in the blanks for you.

So here's Bernie Sanders.

According to the Tax Policy Center, next year, 91% of middle-income Americans will receive a tax cut.

Isn't that a good thing?

Yeah, it is a very good thing.

And that's why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent.

But what the Republicans did is made the tax breaks for corporations permanent the tax breaks for the middle class temporary and according to the tax policy center that same organization at the end of 10 years 83 percent of the benefits go to the top one percent 60 percent of the benefits go to the top one tenth of one percent meanwhile at the end of ten years Well over 80 million Americans will be paying more in taxes.

13 million Americans as a result of this legislation are going to lose their health insurance.

Health care premiums are going up.

We got a $1.4 trillion deficit as a result of this bill.

And Paul Ryan is going around saying, oh, we have to offset that deficit by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

To answer your questions, should we have focused on the needs of the middle class?

We should have.

Okay.

Let's go a little bit.

First of all, let's start with the permanency of this.

Should have made them permanent for the taxpayer.

Could have if we'd had 60 votes in the Senate.

Democrats didn't want to get on board, so we had to limit where those tax cuts were going to be made permanent.

The president decided that this time around, because of the Republican-led Congress, that they would make those permanent because they never make tax cuts for businesses permanent with the Democrats, all the business owners out there that are Democrats.

I feel your pain.

I know you must be torn.

because you understand the difficulty in running a business, even though you agree with the Democrats policy-wise and ideologically, with the involvement of government in social programs and how they should lead the way ahead of military programs and some of the others, where the Republicans think it's the other way around.

I understand the policy differences, I get it.

But I also understand that as you run a small business or a big business as a Democrat and you hear a fellow Democrat belittling businesses and saying that you should be paying more in taxes and that a 35% corporate tax rate doesn't hurt us around the world, it's got to be a little bit,

it's got to be, it's got to be tough for you to wrestle with those two things.

But tax cuts can be made permanent.

That leads us into the 10 years from now thing.

All of that is based on the idea of Congress doing absolutely nothing down the road with taxes.

They can take up another tax bill.

And keep that in mind because Bernie Sanders says if the Democrats take over the Congress, they will raise taxes back on businesses.

They're not going to give anybody else a tax cut.

They will raise taxes on businesses again.

He made that promise already that that is going to happen.

But the 10-year idea is because of the way this was structured, the way it had to be structured, because of Senate rules and the limitations that were there.

Talked about the estate tax and how horrible the estate tax is.

It was doubled.

The threshold was doubled, but it was not eliminated.

Second time around, I think it gets eliminated.

We'll see.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Now let's go to the insurance premiums part of this.

If remember in this plan, the personal, the individual and business mandates on Obamacare were removed.

So when he said people are going to lose their insurance, no, they're not.

They're going to give up their insurance.

They don't want it.

People see the damage that Obamacare has done to health insurance.

Now remember, we were told, if you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.

That was a lie.

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

That was a lie.

It's going to drive up competition.

it's going to drive down costs lie and lie

what we've seen is the healthcare exchanges

have nothing in them in the state of Arizona there's one many states in the country there's one or two there were a lot of states that weren't going to have any

We had those co-ops that were established, which were non-profit health insurance companies.

They were propped up with billions of dollars in government loans.

Those health insurance co-ops were supposed to be in the exchanges so that they would drive down costs because if you're a non if you're a non-profit obviously you're going to be able to compete a lot better than the for-profit companies therefore costs will be driven down right well billions and dollar billions of dollars in loans were made to these companies that started up as co-ops and non-profit health insurers guess what

very quietly the co-ops locked their doors they shut down and billions of your tax dollars were squandered because they could not compete.

So there is no competition.

Costs have skyrocketed.

We're talking about premiums and deductibles through the roof.

And when the mandate has been repealed, people will not buy the insurance.

And numbers don't lie either.

This is a statistic that they cannot run from.

Last year, the fines that were paid

by individuals who did not have health insurance and paid the fine.

57% of those fines were paid by people and families with a combined income and adjusted gross income of $50,000 a year or less.

The very people that Obamacare intended to help are getting hurt by the rules.

They're not going to say that to you.

Because then they have to admit that their plan backfired.

So while Bernie Sanders rants and raves about the permanency of tax cuts, they could do it.

They won't.

Not while the Republicans are in charge, and they're not going to do it once they're in charge.

What they're going to do is back to the fairness thing.

Let me ask everybody else a question about what the Democrat, the liberals in Congress want to do.

Isn't their plan always about hammering the rich?

We're going to get the corporate, you know, we're going to hammer the big corporations.

We're going to close the loopholes.

They're going to pay their fair share.

So, A, they don't just eat the taxes.

They pass it on.

It's the cost of doing business, oil companies or otherwise.

But how many of you out there that are working-class conservatives?

I mean, you're not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but you just believe the government screws up everything it touches, so you'd rather have a small government.

You have a 401k?

You're looking to retire someday?

You have some kind of an IRA?

Where you think someday I might be able to retire.

You check it once a month or so to see how you're doing, what your trajectory is like, what your path to retirement looks like.

When you weaken corporate America, when you weaken the oil companies, when you, you know, the S ⁇ P and the NASDAQ and the Dow, when you weaken those major corporations and their value drops, so does every 401k in the country because we're all invested in them.

We're invested in the oil companies.

We're invested in big corporate America.

Our 401ks and the success of those businesses go hand in hand.

Your ability to retire and the quality of life you're going to have is directly tied to the strength of those companies.

So why in the world would you want to go to, why would you elect and re-elect people whose goal it is to damage the value and the power of those companies?

The class warfare in America is destroying Americans.

I know I've mentioned on this show before, and I talk about it until I'm blue in the face on my show in Phoenix, Arizona.

Read the Communist Manifesto.

Read the part about the immiseration of the proletariat.

You know, the two groups of people, the bourgeoisie who are the haves and the proletariat, the haves-nots.

Those are the two groups of people.

And in the Communist Manifesto, they call it the immiseration of the proletariat.

And the principle is this.

If the people don't know how bad they have it, we will go and explain to them just how bad they have it.

You are too dumb to realize how bad you have it under corporate America and under the corporate thumb.

That corporate America and the big old, good old boys club of the Republican Party where the rich get richer and you get held down.

That's the principle.

This class warfare is destroying America.

835.

A new angle on giving.

This time of year, we are a lot more mindful of giving.

I talked in the first hour about benevolence and giving, whether it's individually with a group of people through a private organization or social services.

a story out of Atlanta.

So we'll talk about that at 835 one more time.

And then the Chicago Police Department and their taser policy.

Stick around for that.

It's the Glenn Beck program.

Glenn Beck.

This is the Glenn Beck Program.

Hey, thanks for joining me this morning.

My name is Mike Brewhead, Phoenix, Arizona.

In for Glenn today and tomorrow after that, I believe it's Doc Doc Thompson.

So thanks for making us a part of your day.

Hope you're having a great New Year's time.

Hope you had a great Christmas.

And I spent my day on Christmas Day, a portion of my Christmas Day.

I was with my grandkids for a big part of it as well.

But I spent a big part of my day with homeless people, feeding the homeless.

And it's a different experience where I did it.

And the reason why I'm bringing this up is

we tend to, there's some ideologies at work in our country.

And if we just understand the differences we have without throwing rocks at each other, a lot of times we can agree on so many different things.

I learned a long time ago that people on the right don't have the corner on patriotism and people on the left don't have the corner on crazy.

I learned this years ago.

And there is somewhere in the middle.

I have a very close friend who's very, well, a few close friends who are very, very liberal.

And fortunately for me, there are people that I genuinely care about.

And I know them as good human beings

because politically we are so diametrically opposite that if I didn't already know them, I maybe I wouldn't want to.

And I think that's that's more of a confession than anything else.

But I have a very close friend that I grew up with and another one that I've made here.

And we are from two different worlds and we see the world from two different spectrums.

One of them I grew up with, and I'm amazed.

We literally rode the same school bus together beginning in sixth grade.

and we grew up in the same neighborhood playing football with the same friends and we did the same things and listened to the same music and had the same teachers the same upbringing How could we

you would believe politically from different planets

He's a good man and a good father And when my brother, those of you that know my story, I had a brother who was killed in Iraq way back in 03 at the beginning of the war.

When my brother was killed, he was one of the first people at my family's side.

And we are so opposite politically.

But in the end, what we do agree on is we would like to leave this world better for our children than we found it.

We may have different visions of better, maybe.

But he loves his children as much as I love mine.

Now, he doesn't have grandchildren.

I do.

And that's where I see the future is with my grandchildren.

Because now I'm a generation removed from my kids, and now I see how fast 20 years goes by.

That my oldest grandson, who is six, in 20 years will either be in the military or the workforce.

Hopefully, not still in college.

I guess, although, you know, my gene pool, possibility.

Heck, you might still be in high school with my gene pool.

But

six and a half,

almost five,

one and a half, and a newborn.

All boys.

I see the future there

and the ideologies that are different than what we want in this world and what we see in this world

I have a unique view on things from my upbringing just like you do we all bring a different perspective to the table and the three things I said last hour and I'll say it again there are three things we have to offer this world all of us do money talent and time

And we all have it to differing degrees.

There was a time in my life where I didn't have a lot of money, but I had time.

and I would donate my time and it made me feel good.

I was an electrician, so I was able to go on work projects, whether it was through a church group or privately, and be able to do things and help people.

I still do, you know, when I can for people with my expertise.

Now, usually, it's if somebody will call me, which I like a lot better than putting on tools and actually doing anything.

If you want to call me and ask me an electrical question, I'm happy to help over the phone.

If I got to show up with my tools, it's a little bit different now.

But then I had time.

Now I've got more money

and a lot less time.

So I choose where I give my time very, very carefully because I have so little of it to give.

But we all have money, talent, and time to give to differing degrees.

The story I mentioned last hour was out of Atlanta, Georgia, where people, a woman was in the park the Sunday before Thanksgiving feeding homeless people, and she got a citation to appear in court for serving food without a permit.

Here in Tucson, Arizona, there was a young man going through hairstylist school, which I think is one of the most absurd things in the entire planet is hairstylist school.

But don't, please don't email me on this, but I just think it's absurd.

But a thousand hours to become a hairstylist.

I was an electrician working in non-union states.

I never had to pass a test.

I just showed up on a job said, if I could do the job, the boss would hire me.

If I couldn't do the job, the boss would fire me.

But you got to go a thousand hours to get a license to cut hair.

Okay.

And don't tell me about the chemicals and hair coloring.

I get all that.

Trust me, a hairstylist in my family.

But

this young man was going through school to be a hairstylist, and his mother was homeless, and I guess his mother had passed away.

And in memorial to his mother, he was going into the parks in Tucson, Arizona and giving free haircuts to homeless people.

Not only did they, were they going to arrest this guy, but they were going to make him drive all the way up, which is about a two-hour drive to Phoenix, Arizona to the state capitol, capitol, and appear before the cosmetology board, whatever power that group has, to answer for him cutting hair without a license.

Do you realize the absurdity in that?

Do you realize how much of the power we have?

That would be a First Amendment issue to me.

But the absurdity that the government dropped all these charges.

Arizona changed the rules.

Atlanta dropped the charges against this woman.

Because when you point out the absurdity to people, they get it.

They don't want to be embarrassed.

so they go away but the fact that somebody wrote the citation to begin with shocks me

one person in Atlanta talking about individuals helping the homeless said this we don't want anybody to stop feeding people we just want it done in a way that can that is connected to social service providers and not on the street corner because we can't make sure those connections are being made in these street corner feedings.

You understand in the mind of some, it all goes back to government assistance.

I'm not diminishing government assistance.

I'm not diminishing social services.

What I'm saying is, as an individual, you have money, talent, and time to give.

Mercury One is an organization set up by Glenn and the power of the Blaze

and his network.

And it's an organization of benevolence through the listeners.

It's a cohesive group where it's somebody you trust that that organization is going to squeeze every penny out of every dollar.

I went down to the border.

I was in McAllen, Texas with Mercury $1.

We went down there and we watched that in action.

We watched the toys and the food and the benevolence of the listeners to this program and the power of unity in all of that.

But as an individual, like I was just an individual yesterday, the ability to go down to, for me, it was St.

Vincent dePaul in Phoenix and donate my time.

But I was there with about 100 other people.

We fed about 700 homeless people yesterday for lunch.

In an hour and a half, about 700 meals fed.

Superstar athletes were there, past and present.

Local television personalities there.

And to watch everybody come as an individual on Christmas Day to make a difference in the lives of people they've never met and may never see again.

For me, it's one day a year.

I mean, it's not.

I mean, I do it more often, but it's not every day for me.

For groups like St.

Vincent DePaul and other very worthwhile groups across the country, it's every single day.

But you have the ability, but it's not responsibility, although I believe it is, but you have a right.

You have a right to be a giver.

You have a right to do these things.

And for a government agent to say, you know what, we don't want to stop you from feeding people.

We want you to do it through the proper channel so it all comes back to us and it connects to social services.

And

that to me is such a scary way to think.

Should people be connected to services that may mainstream them and get them off of addictions and get them off the street and get them mainstreamed?

Absolutely.

Are there private organizations that do a great job of that?

Oh, you bet there are all over the country.

Are there government agencies that can assist?

Yes, there are.

But there are people in our society who have the belief that you should only give in a way that pushes people back to social services or you're doing harm.

I want you to think about that.

That if you don't have a food handler's license, you can't give out food in a park.

That's one way for them to shut you down because what you're doing is

you are enhancing the problem because now that homeless person is not going to get up and seek out a shelter or

seek out social services because you fed him or her in a park.

You gave a homeless person a bag of groceries

and something to drink, some water.

therefore they're not going to seek out government services so you're belaboring and lengthening the problem

it's a dangerous mindset

it is an absolute dangerous mindset

and I don't think we should ever give up our responsibility We should never lose that sense of responsibility to give to others, nor should we ever give up our right to do it.

As an individual or a group, we want to get together.

I was with a church group.

We used to go get together on the weekends.

Everybody would bring a six-pack or a 12-pack of soft drinks or water.

We'd put it on ice and we'd walk around the parking lots in Arizona where it's 115 degrees in the summer.

And we would just hand out free drinks to people.

They always thought it was a catch.

What do we got to do?

Nothing.

Here's what you want something to drink.

We got diet.

We got regular.

We got water.

We got whatever you want.

Just an act of kindness.

We just felt like doing something nice for people.

Gonna shut us down because we didn't have a food handler's license.

We didn't have a permit.

Don't ever give up your ability, your desire, or your right

to perform acts of kindness for other people.

Corporately, you can make a big difference, whether it's Mercury One or somebody you believe in.

But individually, we can make a dent in our society.

Money, talent, and time.

And don't let anybody tell you that giving of any one of those things to anyone ever diminishes or is hurtful.

And the people that are of that mindset are just dead wrong.

Chicago Police Department has changed their taser policy, you know, their less than lethal use of force policy.

What some members of the police union are shaking their head about.

And if you're a police officer, you're going to want to hear this.

Now, I'm not a police officer, but I call many of them friends.

And my youngest brother is a police officer in my hometown and truly is the hero of my life.

The men and women that put on that uniform do an amazing service in their community every single day.

And restricting their ability to do their jobs and protect themselves is hurtful all the way around.

Chicago, one of the most dangerous places to live.

Never mind, be a police officer.

And what they're now doing to the police there and restricting them has got police unions just shaking their head.

We'll get to that coming up here in just a few moments.

Once again, my name is Mike Broomhead from Phoenix, Arizona, and this is the Glenn Beck program.

Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck.

Use of force.

It's always a question about police departments all over the country.

When is the right amount of force to be used?

When is it excessive force?

Let me start with a couple of things.

Number one, I am unashamedly pro-law enforcement.

I believe that the vast majority of police officers, first responders in general, but specifically in this case, police officers, do the job they do from the goodness of their heart because they legitimately want to serve their country and their community.

They don't want to violate people's constitutional rights.

They want to protect their constitutional rights.

That's my belief, and it comes from experience.

I know many police officers, I call them friends here in Phoenix, Arizona, where I call home, across the cities around what we call the valley, and at home.

I grew up in a law enforcement family, cousins, uncles, and most importantly, my youngest brother.

My youngest brother is a sheriff's lieutenant in my hometown of Fort Myers, Florida, the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

And I've said many times on this show and on my show, he is absolutely, without a doubt, my hero.

He serves his community honorably.

He is a good cop.

He's always been a good, fair cop.

He's always done his job.

He's had the respect of the people that work with him and now the people that work for him.

He took the job because they were safe where we lived growing up and he wanted it to remain safe for his children.

He's got three kids who I absolutely adore.

I've got two nieces and a nephew.

His wife is

incredible.

She is absolutely one of my favorite human beings in the entire planet.

He is a great family man.

He serves his community.

He is a doting father.

And that, for me, is the vast majority of police officers in this country.

Nobody, nobody hates a bad cop more than a good cop because it makes their lives dangerous, it makes their lives miserable, and it tarnishes the image of the agency.

So, out in front of it, that's where I am on this story.

I'm coming at you with a very big bias.

The other thing you need to know about police officers is the scenario is a split-second decision.

Shoot or don't shoot.

Shoot the wrong person or pull the trigger at the wrong time.

Lose your job, go to prison.

Don't pull the trigger.

They go home and tell your family, you're never coming home, and you're buried.

That's a legitimate scenario that most police officers face at least once in their career, some multiple times.

It's a dangerous job.

They know it's dangerous and they take it.

They're not complaining about the danger.

But when you, in the interest of community relations, do things like Chicago, police are now deterred from using stun guns or more known as tasers on people who are running away, intoxicated, or vulnerable to injury.

What about the cop that's vulnerable to injury?

What about them?

So critics say the policy has been too permissive while the union representing rank and file cops argued the department did not have the right to change rules without its input.

Again,

if you're a doctor, you know what they do?

As a doctor, you go before a review board of your peers, of other doctors, not the cops.

Citizen review board.

Silly, right?

A citizen review board, never put a badge on, never put on the uniform, have no idea what that scenario is like.

Thank a cop.

You see him working today?

Thank them for what they've done in your community.

Coming up, we'll talk about accomplishments of the administration.

Stick around.

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Truth.

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Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas from the Glenn Beck program.

My name is Mike Broomhead, Phoenix, Arizona, In for Glenn.

Today and tomorrow.

Thanks.

And by the way, social media users, I appreciate the outreach.

A lot of people following me on Twitter.

I'm at Broomhead Show on Twitter.

If you're an Instagram user, Mike Broomhead, all one word, no dots, no dashes.

My last name is spelled just like it sounds.

You can find me there.

The Mike Broomhead Show fan page on Facebook is where you can find me as well.

I do a show Monday through Friday, 6 to 10 a.m.

at KFYI in Phoenix, Arizona.

So I love the outreach.

I'm going to start interacting with more people on social media during the commercial breaks.

But I do appreciate that's a great tool for me.

I don't use Snapchat.

I'm too old.

I'm 50.

And no one my age should use Snapchat.

But I love the social media world.

So if you want to join me there, I'd love to interact there.

One of the big stories, one of the story lines I have been following for the better part of this year, And the word I've been using more often than not is narrative.

Because the narrative is being painted by people in what I call traditional media people would say the mainstream media but traditional media and the narrative is the whatever they want it to be not exactly a lie but not exactly the whole truth either we know that some very prominent names in the media have been called out caught lying lying to you very recently Brian Ross for one of them at ABC we know that CNN carries a narrative all their own

and

many Americans still upset about the tax plan.

Okay, wait until there were many Americans upset about Obamacare, too.

You said that was a great thing.

And then it turns out the people that hated it were right.

Well, now many people upset about the tax reform plan.

Well, let's see if you're right or wrong because now CBS,

three different networks, I mean, three different families.

assessed by an accountant on CBS News.

All three families paying less.

CBS didn't like that very much.

Tried to downplay it.

Bernie Sanders trying to downplay it.

My point is there is always going to be a narrative shared by someone.

You tune into this program or you tune into my program in Phoenix, Arizona, you're going to get a certain narrative, a point of view.

The difference being I've never told anyone that I'm not giving you my opinion.

I'm an opinion-based show.

I am taking news stories.

I'm not telling you what to think.

I'm telling you how I think.

Here's my unique perspective,

my unique conservatism coming from where I have to where I am now.

Realizing that if I were in the Democratic Party, I'd be a hero.

You realize if I came to you with a liberal perspective of punish the rich, they'd love me.

Barely a high school diploma, clawed out of the the gutter, you know, raised poor, but now has been successful, spreading the liberal message.

Not anymore,

because I don't spread the liberal message.

But there is a narrative to be told.

There is a narrative being put forth.

CNN headline.

Why Trump isn't getting the credit he thinks he deserves.

It's always self-serving.

Remember CNN headline that said, Trump gets two scoops of ice cream.

Everybody else just gets one.

That was an actual CNN headline.

Don't believe me?

Look it up.

Even late night talk shows made fun of them for that.

There is a narrative,

for whatever reason,

that has turned me into a defender of this president on many levels, not on every level.

I have disagreements with everyone, and I am not going to be a part of any cult of personality.

I

have the utmost respect for George W.

Bush.

I've met him on a number of occasions.

He was the president when my brother was killed in Iraq.

His outreach to my family, his connection to my family was

sincere.

My interactions with him have been sincere.

I find him to be a good human being.

I don't agree with George W.

Bush on everything.

Never did.

Disappointed in what happened to the economy the last couple of years of his presidency.

Thought there should have been spending cuts to go with the tax cuts.

By the way, we could talk about that in this tax reform bill.

I will say this to you about tax reform.

The United States of America does not have

an income problem.

Bernie Sanders laments that we didn't make tax cuts permanent and

the addition to the debt that may be happening because of the Republicans' tax reform plan.

Let me remind everyone that in every quarter of every year of the Obama presidency and including every quarter of every year of the Trump presidency, the United States Treasury has set records for income.

Year over year, the Treasury has taken in more money than it ever has before.

Every single year.

And yet, we have created deficits every single year everyone's right now getting ready to do their taxes for the year if you're an employer you're getting them ready for your employees if you're an employee you're waiting on your w-2 so you can file your taxes if you sit down with your husband or your wife your significant other whatever and you do your taxes for the year and you look at the w-2 and you say wow we have made more money this year than we have ever made in our lives

It's not even close.

More money this year than last.

And yet, we're still living in debt.

Is that an income problem or is that a spending problem?

America does not have an income problem.

The United States government has a spending problem.

You can't lay that at the feet of Barack Obama only.

There has been Republican-controlled Congress for a long time while Obama was president.

This is a governmental problem.

This is a nobody wants to be told no problem.

Don't let them give you the narrative that this is an income problem and we need to raise taxes on rich Americans or raise taxes on business owners.

There's plenty of money in the United States Treasury.

They just don't spend it well.

As a matter of fact, one of the stories that I have is, whoa, it's one of my favorite things to talk about, is government waste.

You know that we spent over $300,000 on a clown school in Argentina.

Not making it up.

It was fact-checked.

We give $40 through USAID or other organizations to foreign governments and NGOs, non-governmental organizations, to help foster whatever it is we're trying to foster in other nations.

And we as a government, as the people of this country,

we gave

over $300,000

to a clown school in Argentina.

I want you to let that sink in the next time somebody tells you that we have a problem with the way the government works here and the things that we do.

And that we need to tax people more, that they are not paying their fair share.

Does anybody

not understand the absurdity

of this?

We as a government spend money on the most

ridiculous things.

$324,015 to pay for a clown school in Argentina.

That was the accusations tweeted as part of his annual airing of the grievances.

It was tweeted by Rand Paul.

The U.S.

agency provided foreign aid to a circus school in Argentina for their youth.

Paul released a waste report each year, draws attention to the federal dollars spent around the globe.

In 2017, a tongue-in-cheek example ranging from $100,000 to teach farmers how to use Facebook, $1.8 million to remind Cambodian motorcycles to wear helmets.

And he also tweeted out $300,000 for a clown school in Argentina.

Well, listen, that's going to pay huge dividends as soon as the Argentinian circus comes to America.

You and I will be entertained for years to come.

The school funding comes from the Inter-American Foundation.

A U.S.

agency provides an unorthodox alternative to traditional foreign aid.

It has awarded 5,100 grants worth more than $720 million since 1972.

The most creative ideas for self-help for

Latin America and the Caribbean.

There you have it.

So you want to know what the problem is?

Well, there's the problem.

Rosie O'Donnell said

Paul Ryan's going to hell because of the tax cuts.

Trump says this is bad.

Nancy Pelosi says it's the worst piece of legislation ever.

And in the meantime, we are sending hundreds of millions of dollars overseas for clown schools.

What is it exactly that's being done now this year?

By the way, we're going to talk a little bit about Israel in the next segment.

The president deciding that we're going to make good on a promise America made years ago to move the U.S.

Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Another nation, albeit not a big nation, joining us in that.

And what happened to all that violence that was going to happen in the streets?

If you remember, if we do this, there's going to be mass chaos around the world and violence everywhere.

Even the New York Times had to admit it never quite happened.

So a little discussion about Israel and our plans there.

And then coming up a little after the bottom of the hour, immigration and what illegal immigrants are now doing to circumvent federal law.

All that coming up, my name is Mike Broomhead.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Glenn Beck.

Glenn back.

All right, let's talk immigration.

Big across the country, we know about the Dreamers.

And this is, again, the narrative you're going to hear going into an election year.

And this is already the straw man that's being propped up by people on the left.

And listen, politics happens on both sides of the aisle.

I'm being critical of the Democrats right now.

I can be critical of the Republicans at times, too.

But right now, we've got to look at what's happening.

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and and the White House.

The Democrats are desperately trying to stop right now in the midterms what they believe to be the Trump agenda that is ruining America.

I absolutely love this, and I'll tell you why.

I spent eight years feeling like the Democrats have felt for the last 12 months.

I didn't understand how he elected Barack Obama the first time.

I was shocked.

I was god-smacked that he was elected a second time.

Didn't think he would be.

And I've got to tell you, I think it was damaging to America.

I thought his foreign policy was abysmal, and it's going to take a decade to fix.

And I can defend that with

just a few things.

Let me point out just a couple of things.

He promised in the first three months of his presidency to get us out of Iraq.

It took him a lot longer than that, but he did it.

He was warned by people on both sides of the political aisle, from the military to national defense experts, that said, don't do it.

You're going to create a vacuum.

And he did.

Why?

Because he was getting heat from the liberal left the vacuum was created and it was filled by what he called the JV squad they're called ISIS

this that president of the United States traveled the country or traveled the world on an apology tour he was going to be nice to our enemies they were going to respect us instead of fear us how'd that work out

the JV squad eventually took over a big chunk of Iraq.

They controlled the entire border between Syria and the U.S.

They not only slaughtered Christians, they didn't just slaughter the infidel, they slaughtered fellow Muslims.

They shot people, they hung people, they destroyed historical religious relics all across the globe.

But

if you insult the Quran, we're going to blow up a train.

That's just one example of the foreign policy mess that that president created.

How about the story we now know

about Hezbollah dealing drugs in the United States and high-ranking members of Hezbollah being blocked from arrest that the DEA worked on for years

so that John Kerry could complete the nuclear deal with the Iranians?

Look at North Korea, 1994.

Bill Clinton

stands at a podium and says, this landmark deal we've cut with the North Koreans will ensure that they never proliferate a nuclear weapon.

And it's going to be that way that they're going to keep their centrifuges for nuclear power, but they will never enrich to weapons grade.

And we are going to ensure this because we are going to have inspectors there.

They are going to have strict oversight.

We will have

24-hour day, seven-day-a-week access.

Therefore, the North Koreans will never have a nuclear weapon.

23 years later, look where we are.

So what happened two years ago?

Two and a half years ago now?

Barack Obama stands at a podium with his vice president over his right shoulder and says to the world, we've got a deal with the Iranians, that they're going to be able to keep their centrifuges, they'll be able to create nuclear power, but they will never, ever enrich to weapons grade.

How do we know this?

We're going to have inspectors there.

We're going to have access 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to ensure that the Iranians never proliferate a nuclear weapon.

The entire world lost its mind, including the nations in the Middle East.

When that deal was being made, our president stopped Hezbollah from being arrested for dealing drugs in the U.S.

in order to make that deal go through.

Foreign policy of that president was abysmal.

So for all of you on the left, I feel your pain.

I felt it for eight years.

Welcome to my party.

So, and you know what I never did that you're doing is I never threatened to move to another country and I never said he wasn't my president.

Barack Obama was my president.

You know why?

I believe in the process.

I believe in the United States form of government.

I didn't complain about the Electoral College.

I didn't complain about popular vote.

I didn't complain about anything.

I was shocked that the Americans elected that man twice.

Time for you to grow up, put your big boy and your big girl pants on, and deal with the fact that Donald Trump's the president.

But the foreign policy was a nightmare.

One of the things that's being dealt with is immigration.

Now, if you remember,

this was a federal problem.

Local governments should not be involved.

The sheriff of the county I live in, Joe Arpaio, convicted of a crime, lost the election for re-election

because

local jurisdiction have no place here.

Federal issue.

Well, now, of course, Donald Trump's president.

Now they're sanctuary cities.

That's necessary.

Harboring fugitives.

How about the Kate Steinley case?

How about those parents?

Parents on a pier walking with their daughter

and a whacked-out illegal immigrant.

And it wouldn't matter if he was illegal.

She's just as dead.

He just happened to be in the country illegally multiple times, sneaking across the border, convicted felon, high out of his mind and carrying a gun,

shoots this girl in front of her parents.

Her dying words were, help me, dad.

Every parent out there just had a shiver go down their spine.

The only thing they could pray for was justice.

They get it?

Nope, not guilty.

So now, what was a federal issue, local jurisdictions and local governments, stay out of it.

This is Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and then Loretta Lynch.

Their problem, not yours.

Their job, not yours.

Immigration is a federal issue.

Stay out of it, local law enforcement.

Stay out of it, local jurisdictions.

None of your business.

Two Cambodian refugees living in Northern California have been convicted of crimes years ago.

Under the Trump administration, more aggressive immigration enforcement policies, those offenses place them on a path toward deportation.

In comes Governor Jerry Brown and pardons them of their crimes.

They are now allowed to stay in America.

And the left goes crazy.

What happened to local jurisdictions staying out of a federal issue?

What happened with local governments staying out of with immigration?

I thought that was a federal issue, people on the left.

I thought immigration was to be left to the federal enforcement agents.

Local jurisdictions had no business here, remember?

Now, local law enforcement can help the DEA.

Local law enforcement can help the ATF.

Local law enforcement can help the federal marshals.

Local law enforcement can help end drug crimes, bank robberies, fugitive task forces.

Hands off immigration, remember?

We live in an end-justify-the-mean society.

The left hates Donald Trump, and any way to circumvent that authority, they're happy with it.

They are all for it.

All for it.

Isn't that hysterical?

So here you got these Cambodian refugees, and it's going to happen all over the country.

What do we need to know?

What do we need to know about what's happened in this country in the past 12 months?

That's accurate information where we should be satisfied with the work that our Congress has done and our President has done, and where is some room for improvement?

The popularity of the Congress is in the low teens,

and yet the vast majority of members of Congress will be re-elected.

Glenn Beck.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Hope you had a Merry Christmas.

Hope you're going to have a happy new year from the Glenn Beck program.

My name is Mike Broomhead, Phoenix, Arizona, in for the rest of the show, obviously today, and then tomorrow I'll be in for Glenn as well.

Doc Thompson, a couple of days after that.

As we move along,

the questions of this administration, legitimate questions about performance, and not just from the Trump administration, from Congress.

We all have questions.

Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, are they effective leaders?

And it always strikes me as odd that the approval rating for Congress is in the low teens and yet almost every representative gets re-elected.

It seems as if most representatives are liked by their constituents, but as a body, they don't seem to get much done.

I am much happier now that I am an observer of American politics.

I'm not as immersed in the decisions that are made anymore.

And I've kind of gotten away from the cult of personality.

There are a few people that I've gotten to know in

our state legislature, local legislators, and in the federal government.

And I've gotten to know and respect some people.

But for the most part, what I've stayed away from is getting emotionally involved anymore.

I'm much happier for it as an observer.

So watching it like I do anything else, professional sports or otherwise, it does shock me because when it comes to leadership, it isn't about good guy, bad guy, good girl, bad girl.

It is about

performance.

I could give you many, many examples, but the best example I can give you when it comes to professional sports is Andy Reid.

He is the coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, was the coach of, for years and years and years, of the Philadelphia Eagles.

And Philadelphia, I imagine we'll name streets after him someday.

He's a legend in that city.

But when the team wasn't performing up to the fan standards, and it's a very, very tough city to play professional sports in,

he was let go.

went on to different things, bigger and better things for him and bigger and better things for the Philadelphia Eagles and that organization because it's a performance-based business.

It's why the NFL prints its own money, with the exception of what's happening with the kneeling, which I'm in full

support of the people that leave the stadiums for a multitude of reasons.

I don't believe it's the time or the place.

Unintended consequences are always.

It's funny how, to some people, unintended consequences are all that matter unless it's something that they're passionate about.

I don't believe that NFL players that take a knee intended to insult veterans or intended to insult first responders, veterans.

But they did.

And

so when looking at the unintended consequences, why not change the behavior?

Because it doesn't help your message, number one.

But number two,

most of us see sports as an escape.

When I go to a sporting event and I see somebody wearing a Cardinals jersey, I want that to be a fellow Cardinal fan.

I don't want to worry about

if they donate money to Planned Parenthood.

You know what I mean?

You're there for an escape from the everyday world that you're in.

And

so dragging something like that into it seems odd.

And I don't understand why the NFL doesn't do something because the NFL, they call the NFL the No Fun League.

And they call it the No Fun League because of the rules they've created.

The Dallas Cowboys wanted to wear something on their helmet to commemorate all those police officers that were killed in that terrorist attack.

And the NFL told them, no, that it wasn't a league-wide thing.

And as a team, you can't do anything individually.

Nobody thought that the NFL was being anti-cop,

anti-fun, anti-individual, of course, but not anti-cop.

So when this happens and they don't stop it, it makes you scratch your head and wonder why it's such a uniformed league.

They are so concerned about

the way the uniform looks and everybody being the same.

But I'm all for the boycotts.

I think it's great.

I think

that the players do have a right to kneel, no doubt.

I don't think they don't have that right.

I mean, unless an owner says stand up, and then the owner has a right to say, you work for me as long as you're wearing my uniform.

And there's been a precedent set for that.

But the fans have a right to protest as well, and they are across the country.

But by and large, the NFL has been able to print money.

When you look at baseball, you see a manager wins a World Series.

Year or two later, gone.

A man named Ken Wisenhunt took the Arizona Cardinals one play away from beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl.

Cardinals went to the Super Bowl one play away from winning the Super Bowl.

A couple years later, out.

Team wasn't performing.

It's a results-oriented world, except when it comes to our government.

Then it's a, he's a very good guy.

Mitch McConnell's a good man.

He might be a good man, but is he an effective leader?

Even if he is an effective leader, is there somebody more effective?

We had a president that was apologizing for America.

Now we've got a president that says America first.

If you owned a company, a big company, and your board of directors said, we need a CEO, we need someone to steer this ship,

and your company makes,

let's think of a product.

Your company makes radios.

And you bring in a guy that says, you know what?

I hate loud music.

I just do.

I don't listen to much music.

I'm more of a reader.

I don't listen to the radio very much.

I'm more of a reader.

Is that the guy you're going to pick for your CEO?

No.

We did.

We picked a guy to be our CEO twice that went around the world and apologized for American excellence and American exceptionalism and arrogance is what he called it.

So Donald Trump now says America first.

Oh, look at this nationalism.

This is Hitler.

Hitler all over again.

Donald Trump went to the Asia-Pacific summit and said, my job is America first.

Your job is your country first.

We need you.

You need us.

Let's get something.

on the table that's fair for all of us and we all are going to grow stronger together.

My job is to look out for my country first.

Your job is to look out for your country first.

No one applauded.

I didn't hear applause.

I'll give you another example of where I think it's kind of gone unnoticed, but I think it's a very big deal in this presidency.

And again, I will tell you

wholeheartedly, unashamedly, I've been a critic.

I was a Ted Cruz guy.

I traveled across Arizona with Glenn and with a lot of other people people in favor of Ted Cruz.

But when Trump won the nomination, he was far and above a better candidate than Hillary.

And, as we're seeing, a much better president than she would have been.

But one of the things that recently what the president did was he traveled to Utah, and they have reduced, drastically reduced the size of two national monuments.

And he said to the people of that state, we're doing this because you've bonded with this land.

You are much better equipped to manage this land than some bureaucrat thousands of miles away.

I was by myself and gave him a standing ovation.

I live in a state.

There are a couple of places in this country, and I'm not trying to insult anywhere else in the country, but there are a couple of places, and I've traveled around the country quite a bit.

where there is a pride in being from that state.

If you are born and raised in that state, Arizona is one of them.

Texas is the other.

You could have moved to Texas when you were two days old.

You're not a Texan, unless you were born there.

You're not a Texan.

People of Arizona aren't so strict.

We are a transient state.

But the people that have been here for generations are proud of the fact that they've been in Arizona for generations.

Who is better equipped to manage our forests?

Some bureaucrat thousands of miles away?

Or the families that have been hunting and fishing in these forests and hiking in these forests for generations.

Who wants to preserve the wildlife, the game, the forest themselves?

The people of that state.

That's who.

According to the bureaucrats, if you turn Arizona over to the people of Arizona, we're going to clear-cut the forest and build soccer fields or something.

So we don't manage the forest.

We don't thin.

We don't cut the underbrush.

We don't cut in fire trails, so we can't get to the fires when they start.

We got to wait till they burn or fight them from above.

And it's a poor way to manage the land.

So for all the environmentalists that think they're helping, they're hurting.

And it should be managed by reasonable people that live and are invested in that state, not some bureaucratical nightmare.

So when the president went to Utah and said, we're reducing the size of these national monuments because you're better equipped to manage that land, I thought, there you have it.

I am a state's rights advocate.

Let the people of that state manage their land.

We should be doing the same here.

We should be managing our own land here and across the western United States where there's huge portions of land that are still managed by the federal government.

These are just a couple of examples of things that I think where the president has done some of the right things, and he's never gotten any credit for it, recognition for it.

He laid out his national security plan.

Guess what was left out?

Climate change.

Climate change is not a national security issue for the president.

Does that mean the president wants dirty air and dirty water?

Of course it does.

He's a corporate baron.

You know, we want dirty water.

I'm one of those evil people, too.

I want, you know, my grandkids, you know, I've had enough clean water my whole life.

My grandkids will toughen up.

It'll make them tough.

Let them drink dirty, polluted water.

It'll make them tough in the end.

Are you kidding me?

It's an insane way to look at the world.

And yet they look at it this way every single day.

Managed by a big big nanny state is better off than the people in those states.

We are 50 individual states that has a federal government, not the other way around.

And the sooner we emphasize that, the better off we are.

Local control of tax dollars, local control of schools, local control of land, local control.

And if you don't like the way that state operates, go somewhere else.

Go to California.

If you don't like the way Arizona operates, go to California.

If you don't like the way New Mexico operates, go to Colorado.

You don't like the way Massachusetts operates?

Well, nobody does.

I'm kidding.

Kind of.

50 individual states who have a federal government, not the other way around.

Before I close it out for today, one more story about Congress, this time a candidate, this one from Virginia, and why I think she fits right in.

That's coming up.

My name is Mike Broomhead and this is the Glenn Beck program.

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And thanks for being here.

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My name is Mike Broomhead.

In the rest of the day, and then tomorrow, in for Glenn, once again, talking about Congress, some of the things that are happening, this may a lot of people feel about it.

You know, the power of the vote still exists.

I've never been a term limits person because I think it's a lazy way to vote.

I got to tell you, it's making me change my mind the more behavior I see because of how entrenched everyone gets.

I'm not there yet.

I still think we still have the power of the vote.

We all do.

We could wipe out, I mean by vote, not literally wipe out, we could change the entire House of Representatives every two years and a third of the Senate every two years.

If they're not doing their jobs, send a message.

But then who are we sending?

You know, the House of Representatives is supposed to be

that way.

The House of Representatives is supposed to be what it is.

And it's small groups, small districts.

But if you look the way even that's done now,

it's crazy, the gerrymandering that goes on.

There's a district in Arizona where I live that literally goes from northern Arizona to southern Arizona, and it's like a skinny little snake that makes its way down.

How is one member of Congress going to cover that many hundreds of miles and the diversity from northern Arizona up in the mountains to southern Arizona down in the desert and still be able to serve those constituents?

Instead of just small groups of people in a small area, sending a representative from that neighborhood, whoever they believe that right person is, to what's called the people's house.

It's the way it's supposed to be.

That's not even accurate anymore.

But I give you this.

Her name is Sean Brown.

She's a Democrat from the state of Virginia, candidate for Congress.

And I believe she is absolutely fit to be a member of the United States Congress.

And I'll tell you why.

And she's a Democrat.

She's been charged with fraud, theft, and embezzlement even before she's in Congress.

I mean, she's overqualified to start with, don't you think?

She's already been charged with those crimes.

They allegedly took place back in 2012.

If convicted, she faces 20 years in prison.

Now, it usually takes a member of Congress two, three terms to rack up those kind of charges.

She's got it going in.

This woman's overqualified the day she walks in the door.

According to the indictment, she filed fraudulent claims with the Summer Food Services Program of part of the Jobs Community Outreach Development Corporation by inflating the number of children from low-income families in their records in order to receive more money.

Her organization received roughly $803,000.

So she's already toying with numbers in federally funded programs to inflate the dollars that she gets.

If that isn't proof that she is legitimately ready to be a member of Congress, I don't know what is.

You know, usually as a freshman, you're just kind of wide-eyed and you go in kind of watching what everybody else does so that you can see how it works.

She could be training people the day she walks in.

She denies the wrongdoing and she says she'll vigorously defend.

She maintains her innocence.

This is according to her attorney.

She's scheduled to be in court January 12th.

So Sean Brown, I think, is already overqualified for a job in the Congress.

Want to thank you for being a part of the show today.

My name is Mike Broomhead at Broomhead Show on Twitter, the Mike Broomhead Show fan page on Facebook, or Mike Broomhead, all one word on Instagram if you want to follow me.

Have a great day, everyone.

We'll be back again, of course.

I'll be back tomorrow morning.

God bless.