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Mark interviews Steve Forbes, Chairman of Forbes Media. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister New York Mark Simone war Well. Steve Forbes, the
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  Speaker 1: chairman of Forbes Media and author of many great books.
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  Speaker 1: You should get his latest book, Inflation. You will really
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  Speaker 1: learn a lot. Highly recommended Steve Forbes's latest book, Inflation.
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  Speaker 1: You can get it on Amazon course read Forbes Media.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Forbes, How.
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  Speaker 2: You doing doing fine? Thanks? I'm in Arkansas today, Sonny, Arkansas?
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  Speaker 2: So I think they have warm weather here. You have
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  Speaker 2: warm weather there. And the Yankees won a game last night,
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  Speaker 2: so a little close eleven to ten. Judge had two
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  Speaker 2: home runs, so life could be worse.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to ask, but what are you doing in Arkansas?
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  Speaker 2: Speaking at Harding University? Are young Americans for Freedom and
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  Speaker 2: great great conservative group, right thinking groups? So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: nice to be in company of enlightened people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And Steve Forbes, by the way, one of the
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  Speaker 1: great speakers in America. If you need somebody to make
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  Speaker 1: a great speech for you, for whatever organization. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: the blockade of the Straits of Hormuz is so brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't we think of that three weeks ago?
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  Speaker 2: It should have been done at the beginning and things
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  Speaker 2: thinking things through, They should have planned what would be
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  Speaker 2: the reaction of China. Deal with that, reaction of Russia.
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  Speaker 2: Deal with that. But if Iran was going to close
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  Speaker 2: the straight, then they'll say, Okay, it's closed, everybody, and
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get through, we'll let come through.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to control that. So better late than never,
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  Speaker 2: And I hope there's going to be some consistency now.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll be blunt, I think we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to resume hostilities before we get a resolution of this conflict.
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  Speaker 1: Sadly, Yeah, you know what was leaking out from those negotiations.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really like that Iran wanted five years of
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  Speaker 1: no nuclear activity. We wanted twenty years. Why would we
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  Speaker 1: want twenty years? Why wouldn't we want permanent? Isn't this
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  Speaker 1: just more kicking the camdown?
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  Speaker 2: Permanent like two thousand years? Yeah, and regime change in between.
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  Speaker 2: Get a government that had the aspirations of the people
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  Speaker 2: in mind, not they're crazy, crazed, id murderous ideology. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, no five year, no twenty year thing. They
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  Speaker 2: made those promises kind of promises before and they're not
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  Speaker 2: even worth the paper they're written on.
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  Speaker 1: But if we were to walk away with a deal,
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  Speaker 1: like that, twenty years with a timeline. That's a very
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  Speaker 1: Obama is sort of a Ran deal, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It's embarrassing, Yes, it is Obama of two. John Kerry
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  Speaker 2: would be in his mind vindicated. Worse though, it would
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  Speaker 2: be seen mark as a victory for the extremists in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: They faced all of this firepower from the United States
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  Speaker 2: and from Israel. They survived and they didn't have to
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  Speaker 2: give up the nuclear program. Everyone knows as soon as
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  Speaker 2: the world's attention goes elsewhere, they're going to start doing
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  Speaker 2: stuff they shouldn't do, and they're encouragible. They are dedicated revolutionaries.
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  Speaker 2: They may be corrupt, but they are dedicated revolutionaries. So
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  Speaker 2: doing letting that regime survive and having a timeline on
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons is a victory for them. They've lost militarily,
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  Speaker 2: but they're going to win politically, and we cannot let
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  Speaker 2: that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, things will change, things change very fast in this situation.
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  Speaker 1: But again, that blockade is brilliant. It's even forcing some
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  Speaker 1: other countries now to buy oil from US.
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  Speaker 2: So well, we've got some oil coming from a place
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  Speaker 2: called the Last they look Venezuela. It's coming on the
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  Speaker 2: market now and they're being able to rev that up.
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  Speaker 2: But I just think and the President has to keep
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  Speaker 2: making clear and there's people have to keep making things clear.
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  Speaker 2: This thing may take two weeks, two days, two months,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it takes. Given the danger that Iran posed
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  Speaker 2: to our security, This is ultimately about our security. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want a fanatical regime with missiles they were capable
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  Speaker 2: of reaching the US, which they are making huge progress
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  Speaker 2: on being able to make nuclear weapons very quickly. That
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  Speaker 2: is an intolerable threat. And we know they'd use it
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  Speaker 2: for blackmail, and we know they'd probably use it against
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  Speaker 2: Israel and say, what are you going to do about it?
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  Speaker 2: So we got to get that regime out. And the
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  Speaker 2: sacrifices we make now are a fraction of what would
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  Speaker 2: happen if that regime got nuclear weapons and the missiles
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  Speaker 2: to reach the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nasty forbes China, if they're secretly helping Iran or
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  Speaker 1: working against us by aiding, or if we could figure
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  Speaker 1: out then I'm sure President Trump ken at some point
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  Speaker 1: figured something that would be beneficial to China. That would
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  Speaker 1: end that, wouldn't it. They don't have any real loyalty
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  Speaker 1: to Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Do they, Hey, what.
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  Speaker 1: If if we could, if the present cauld figure out
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  Speaker 1: some way something really beneficial for China and all of this,
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  Speaker 1: they would drop their secret support of Iran, wouldn't they.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not so sure that China does. Is not. China's
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  Speaker 2: out to will become the dominant power in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things we've allowed to happen is
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  Speaker 2: they're continuing to build these man made islands in the
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  Speaker 2: critical South China Sea. They want to control that the
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  Speaker 2: way the Ranians want to croach control the Straight of
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  Speaker 2: hor Moves, and we have to make it very clear
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  Speaker 2: that's not going to happen. And that's why, again it's
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  Speaker 2: very important we're doing what we're doing in the straight
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  Speaker 2: or Hormoves. No one's going to control that. Bad guys
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  Speaker 2: are not going to control that freedom of the seas.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a bedrock of American policy for over two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty years and that's going to continue. And
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  Speaker 2: so in terms of China, I think we have to
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  Speaker 2: make it clear we have there our interests and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to defend those interest They're not going to become
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  Speaker 2: a global dominant power and they're not going to take
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  Speaker 2: over the South China Sea. And again people may say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's a warlike, No, it isn't. They're the aggressors, not us.
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  Speaker 2: Americans would like nothing better than a peaceful world. We
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  Speaker 2: can go to powder doing our business, creating great things
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  Speaker 2: moving ahead. But we've got bad guys in the world. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Steve Forbes, the Moon mission the really inspiring. It's
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  Speaker 1: fascinating to what is it really necessary right now? What
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  Speaker 1: are the real benefits of us going back to the moon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, in terms of the technological feed it's fantastic, as
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  Speaker 2: we all know, people have never traveled as far as
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  Speaker 2: those four astronauts did six hundred and ninety five thousand miles.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately, the hell of war is coming to the heavens.
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  Speaker 2: The weapons are being developed, the Chinese are doing it.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have to do it where they can
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  Speaker 2: actually store weapons in space and aim them at the
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  Speaker 2: United States, aim them at the specific targeting. This is
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  Speaker 2: what's so frightening, only specifically targeting infrastructure projects, roads, electricity plants,
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  Speaker 2: every sensitive thing from space. You don't even need nuclear
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  Speaker 2: weapons to have a real disaster. So we have. It's
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  Speaker 2: the new frontier. Sadly, of warfare, and so we have
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  Speaker 2: to stay ahead of the Chinese on that. And it's sad,
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  Speaker 2: but that's where we are. The heavens are going to
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  Speaker 2: be a place of a warfare. Sadly, we got to
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  Speaker 2: stay ahead of the Chinese.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent point. Yeah, hey, you got a lot of too
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  Speaker 1: far to the left sort of leaders from Momdani to
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  Speaker 1: Virginia is a good example of the Spamburger And this
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  Speaker 1: could affect the midterms of people getting a little dose
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  Speaker 1: of real left wing leadership. And there's a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit of a yeah, the Republicans should hammer that
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit of it in New Jersey. These people,
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  Speaker 2: Donnie didn't run as a moderate, but those two, those
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  Speaker 2: two governors Spenburger and Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey ran
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  Speaker 2: a promise to ran as moderates, and as soon as
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  Speaker 2: they get in they run far left. Spenburger in Virginia
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  Speaker 2: thinks she's going to be the next vice president of
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States, but you know, her numbers
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  Speaker 2: are cratering. And in April twenty first, they have a
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  Speaker 2: referendum for this crazy thing where they're going to obliterate
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  Speaker 2: GOP representation in Congress. Right now, Virginia, six Democrats, five Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: They've rejiggered it so it would be ten Democrats one Republican.
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  Speaker 2: But they have to do it by referendum, and it
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  Speaker 2: looks like giving her unpopularity, that referendum may go down
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  Speaker 2: to defeat. And in terms of Mom Donnie, he announced
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  Speaker 2: the other day a thirty million dollar grocery store next
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  Speaker 2: year in East Harlem. Grocery store costs most in New
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  Speaker 2: York are one million dollars to set up. Where's that
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  Speaker 2: out of twenty nine million going? And another question for
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  Speaker 2: this neo communist mayor when people come into his grocery
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  Speaker 2: store and start stealing the food, is he going to
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  Speaker 2: arrest them? Well, what's he going to do? When people
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  Speaker 2: start taking that food? They're going to say it's free.
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  Speaker 2: You know he's giving it away. What's he going to
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  Speaker 2: do about it? That's going to be quite something to see.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, the other thing said it'll be it won't be
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  Speaker 1: till open till twenty twenty nine. You know, if you
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  Speaker 1: went to our friend John Katsumatisa, could you build a
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  Speaker 1: supermarket there? I guarantee you'd be there in three months,
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  Speaker 1: not twenty twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Sure, so everyone's you know, as you know, mont
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  Speaker 2: Donnie's hiring all these people doing god knows what, but
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  Speaker 2: being paid six figure salaries. So the waste is going
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  Speaker 2: in high gear, going on steroids again. Grocery store he
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  Speaker 2: could do for two hundred and fifty thousand million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, that grocery store that he's proposing
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  Speaker 2: pays no rent, pays no taxes, and free land. And
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  Speaker 2: they're going to lose a time of money. What's that
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  Speaker 2: out of the twenty nine million going for That's what
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  Speaker 2: I want to know.
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  Speaker 1: Very good point. Well, Steve Forbes always great talking you everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Get his latest book, Inflation. It's a wonderful book. You'll
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  Speaker 1: really learn a lot from that book. Of course, read
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  Speaker 1: Forbes every day and watching Steve Forbes all over television.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll talk again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Look forward to it. Mark.
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