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No government program goes unpunished · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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  This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
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  No matter how often they fail, it seems people are still looking for a government program to save the day.
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  They may have good intentions, but we know what road is paved with those.
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  It seems no matter what government programs we come up with, eventually we the people will be punished for them.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul English here with the Constitution Study, where we read instead of the Constitution, teacher action generation be free.
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  Glad you could join me today.
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  You know, I of course I'm always reminded of uh Ronald Reagan statement the closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.
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  Even when these programs fail, even when they make a mess things, even when they make things worse, it seems the answer is never how about we try something else?
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  It's always seems to be throw more money at the failed program.
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  And I've got some examples today.
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  We're going to start off with health care.
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  And we're going to start a health care discussion with monopolies.
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  Now again, monopolies.
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  That's the big boogeyman.
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  We always say, oh, monopolies, monopolies are evil, monopolies destroy competition, the monopolies do lead to price increases.
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  We kind of forget that the only entity actually able to create a true monopoly is government.
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  If you look at all the other monopolies or any entity where there's a large market share, it's not really a monopoly.
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  Well, unless, of course, you've got government.
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  And you know, of course, the most the example I deal with a lot is well power utilities or utilities in general.
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  You know, the the usually the state and local governments give one electric provider a monopoly on the power lines or the phone lines or the internet service.
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  And um you have a choice deal with them or don't deal with anyone at all.
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  When I moved down here, I didn't have a choice of electrical providers.
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  There was one company that comes that came down my street.
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  I either buy electricity from them or I make it myself.
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  Same with the telephone, same with internet.
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  Well, internet at least there are some other options, but until recently, they've been well, just call them sucky.
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  But what happens when you're not talking about things like power and and internet?
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  What happens when you're talking about your health?
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  Now, I'm looking at some reporting from the Epoch Times, and it's interesting.
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  Uh, according to this report, uh, nearly half of U.S.
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  metropolitan areas in 2024 are controlled by only one or two health care systems.
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  Now, I'm here in Middle Tennessee, and uh, well, that's true.
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  The the big the big gorilla in healthcare is Vanderbilt.
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  It's kind of hard to find a place to go that isn't part of the Vanderbilt system.
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  Now, if you're part of a of a unified system, there are certain advantages to that, right?
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  You go from doctor to doctor, they have your records, they have uh they've invested in things for you know, patient portals and other things, but you don't have a much of a choice.
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  You can go to Dr.
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  A or Dr.
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  B, but if they're working under the same rules, well, that may be a problem.
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  But Epoch Times also noted that that this number is a is a um, well, it's been looking for more than a decade of this consolidations.
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  They say nearly 80% of hospitals in metropolitan areas have become less competitive between 2015 and 2024, where they were controlled generally by by one healthcare system.
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  And again, it's a question of uh uh of uh it's a question of competition.
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  In other words, if if it does, if you you you can choose anything you want, but you're gonna get the same thing every place, doesn't much matter, right?
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  By the way, this was analysis done by uh a group called KF.
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  Um, there's some sort of health care analysis group, and there's some other interesting thing.
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  They say 40 in 2024, 47% of U.S.
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  cities had only one or two hospital systems.
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  69% of hospitals were affiliated with a a with um uh a larger system.
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  Um this is up for 56% back in 2010.
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  And the number of independent hospitals have plummeted in 1970, 90% of hospitals were independent.
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  In 2019, that was down to a third, 33%.
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  So, what is the impact of all of this?
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  Now, let me, I'll use my myself and my family as an example.
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  There's a couple places near me where they're just doctors everywhere.
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  There's like whole almost a whole road seems to be dedicated to doctors.
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  You got doctors' offices everywhere.
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  Now, if all of those doctors are part of the same system, and I'm only picking on Vanderbilt because it's the one that's local to me.
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  Where's the competition?
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  Again, according to the KFF analysis, between 2005 and 2024, overall hospital prices have increased by 61%.
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  Um inpatient prices have sold 35% in 2024, uh, exceeding the inflation rate uh over the same period.
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  Additionally, uh people with private insurance, well, they've seen their prices grow 42%.
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  Now, some people blame the hospitals or the hospital systems.
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  In fact, of March of this year, the Justice Department sued New York Presbyterian Hospital, claiming that the they use their their market power to um uh engage in unanticompetitive practices, that they use contract restrictions to prevent insurance companies from offering budget conscious plans, which would otherwise steer patients to more affordable competitors.
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  Now, New York Presbyterian is the largest hospital system in New York City.
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  It operates eight general hospitals, and four of them are in Manhattan alone.
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  In 2023, the hospital blocked insurance companies from moving outpatient colonoscopies to a different provider.
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  Noted that uh keeping those procedures in the system was worth 250,000 to the hospital system.
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  This is according to the lawsuit.
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  So, okay, there are there are I'm sure there are hospital systems that are benefiting them.
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  They're raking in money.
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  And uh, you know, well, that may be true, but it's not just the hospitals that are doing this.
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  There is a federal law that's referred to as section 340B, and it was created as part of the so-called Affordable Care Act.
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  Remember the Affordable Care Act that's supposed to make health care prices and healthcare coverage cheaper.
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  Well, they said, listen, one of the problems we have is if you live in a rural area or a low-income area, you know what?
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  Um we want to give you a break.
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  Back in 1992, when the the section 340B, the drug pricing program was first created, it was designed as that safety net.
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  So that if you like me, if you're in a rural area and you don't have big hospitals, you've got small community health clinics and whatnot.
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  Um, there was they they said it was kind of I guess it's kind of a convoluted system to allow uh people, uh these these clinics to buy drugs and then offer them at discounts to low-income patients.
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  And for a while, it it did what it claimed to do.
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  There was originally, I think uh 1,200, 1,000 participants, it grew a little bit, but then came the Affordable Care Act, which expanded the number of entities that could participate in this.
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  And guess what happened?
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  Suddenly, hospitals that uh uh, you know, and and providers that that serve these these low-income these Medicaid patients, well, they joined a 340B program, meaning now the biggest participants in this program are not the small rural clinics, it's these big conglomerate hospitals.
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  You see, if you look at the at the rate of growth, the the back in 2010 when the Affordable Care Act passed, there was roughly 12,000 entities.
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  That includes both uh participating entities and their child sites, right?
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  So if you have a clinic with multiple sites that counted as child sites, it was about 10 to 12,000 entities that participated in this program.
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  Now it's well over 60,000.
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  And that inflection point, yep.
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  It was the Affordable Care Act.
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  And again, the uh uh if you look at the just at the numbers, look at the amount of purchases.
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  Again, in 2010, it was roughly 6.6 billion dollars.
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  These were the the purchases uh of um uh running at the discounted purchases.
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  In 2024, it was over 80 billion.
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  It's been a huge
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  Huge increase because it's you know they they've moved from hey, let's help these little rural markets into these again large conglomerates.
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  Now is giving discounts to rural entities the best way of of helping uh pharmacy or drugs, pharmaceutical drugs be more affordable.
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  That's a debate that could be had.
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  All right.
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  I I what I am seeing though is once again we had a a simple, a couple of simple programs.
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  One that was meant to uh um uh I was meant to make um drugs more affordable for rural and low-income uh people in low-income areas, especially in rural areas.
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  And uh one that was meant to make uh hospitalization more affordable by consolidation driven a large part the and both of these have been manipulated, right?
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  Yeah, manipulated.
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  They they've the outcome of the Affordable Care Act has driven all of these entities to consolidate.
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  And I want you to remember the consolidation isn't just about cost, it's about treatment.
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  How many of you remember during during COVID-19?
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  The number of doctors that said, I know how to treat this patient, but the hospital I work for, the medical group I work for won't let me.
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  I reported them here.
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  We report about doctors who actually had their licenses pulled because they they didn't follow the corporate mantra, and they actually treated a patient as a patient, a human being.
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  And when they saw something that worked, they tried it because, well, it worked there, maybe it'll work here, but it didn't meet the corporate mantra of this is our policy.
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  You know, I talked about it then.
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  I talked about we no longer have doctors that practice medicine, they practice bureaucracy.
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  You show up, they say, okay, uh, we do the blood test, you get this number, we put you on this drug.
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  They never talk to you.
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  I shouldn't say they never, they don't talk to you.
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  I've found few doctors that will really sit down and understand your situation, your needs, your concerns.
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  And I'll tell you what, when I found one, we kept her.
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  We we kept her because again, she sits down and understands and uh talks to us as a as a human being, as a patient, not simply a file that's you know, you you stamp it and move along.
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  Now, maybe people like that that uh, you know, cafeteria style uh uh medicine.
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  You know, you go in, everything's the same, everything's uniform.
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  Me, I still like a mom and pop restaurant.
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  I still like somebody that can come up with an interesting recipe.
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  And that's true, whether I'm talking about a place to eat, or I'm talking about my health care.
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  Don't come in and and and say, well, you know, here's the number, you have to do this.
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  You need to understand this depersonalization of medicine.
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  I think has ruined a lot of medicine.
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  Now it may have led to some great uh uh advancements, maybe some savings, maybe these groups have made more money.
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  I don't know.
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  But what I'm seeing is stressed out doctors, stressed out patients, and uh really unhappy medical services.
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  And much of this, again, being driven by a government program whose alleged goal, I say alleged, was to make health care more affordable.
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  And it's done the exact opposite.
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  And in fact, I find I say alleged because everything that program has done seems to be driving people toward government provided health care.
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  They call it a one-payer system, it's government provided health care, it's bureaucratic health care.
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  It's you know, why you know you're paying all that?
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  We should we should just tax people and and do it just like they do in other nations like Canada and Europe and and in Europe.
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  Yet how many people in Canada come down here to get certain procedures because they can't get them in Canada.
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  How many people from Europe fly to America for certain procedures because well, the weights in those in those countries are just outrageously long.
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  Do you know that uh I I've heard report that if you need uh, say an X-ray, it's easier to get an X-ray for your dog than it is to get an X-ray for your child in many of these countries.
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  That's what I've heard.
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  But it makes you wonder.
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  Why do we want to consolidate this?
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  Why, you know, consolidation may make efficiencies of scale, but I think it also makes deficiencies in personality.
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  And I think we're seeing the consequences of some of that.
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  And uh again, it's not just the hospitals, it's not just the pharmacies.
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  There are so many things where um these government programs are turning into an absolute mess.
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  We're talking about no government program goes unpunished.
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  We've talked a little bit about some health care.
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  I want to move gears a little bit.
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  We're going to look at some of the state programs and and we're still starting off with some Medicare fraud.
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  It's um the California uh attorney general uh has well he's apparently fairly proud of himself because they caught 14 instances of actually 14 hospice companies that uh build their Medicaid and Medical for 267 million dollars for services don't actually exist.
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  Not that different from what we saw out in Minnesota.
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  Now, why do I bring this up for the government program?
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  Well, you've got Medicaid and Medical, California's Medicare program.
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  And the problem you have, it it goes, I I think it was said by uh Willie Sutton when he was asked why he robbed back banks.
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  He said, because that's where the money is.
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  Why do you think uh there are people who target uh government programs for fraud?
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  Well, part of it is that's where the money is.
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  The other part is well, who gets who who uh actually ever gets punished for um being defrauded?
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  I mean, you know, if you if you get defrauded personally, you lose money.
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  If a government program gets defrauded, you don't lose a dime.
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  Well, sure, as a taxpayer, you you pay the price, but individually, directly, you don't see the problem, you don't see the pain because all you do is take it out of your taxes.
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  And if they need to raise taxes to cover this fraud, well, they just say they needed to provide these programs for the poor, even though, yes, they're they're being defrauded.
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  Now, in a press conference, the AG said, this is a brazen and calculated criminal scheme that exploits the medical system, stole from the state of California and Medicaid and prevented services and care from going to sick individuals who actually need it.
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  Duh.
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  I mean, uh, again, you really shouldn't be surprised.
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  You kind of make yourself a target.
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  A government program is a target for fraud, because a lot of people think of it as a victimless crime.
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  Like I said, no one individual lost money, it was a government lost money, and they got plenty of money, that's where the money is, that's why they target them.
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  And that's part of the problem we run into is this idea of you know, you create a government program, and uh, like I said, who was who is on top of this?
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  Who in California's Medicaid program, who in the federal Medicaid program was actually looking at these hospice companies to see if they were actually legitimate.
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  Now, I'm sure there were some people that were dedicated, but really, has it ever been a priority in in government to actually detect fraud and and waste and abuse?
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  I mean, they talk about a lot, but to actually do it, to actually, you know, put your money where your mouth is.
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  I mean, look at what happened when they came up with the was it the department of government efficiency, doge.
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  People railed against the idea of going in and looking for waste that could be cleaned up.
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  Oh my god, you're gonna take money, you're you it's the way it works.
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  I I covered uh state and local governments for years when I was in corporate America, and the one pretty much thing I could I was guaranteed to see is every year, right around budget time, as people contacted me going, I have money left over in my budget, I need to spend it, or I won't get the same budget next year.
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  In other words, you could do the job for less money, but you don't want to do the job for less money.
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  You want more money.
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  So, yeah, I let me spend this somehow so I can get the same or more next year.
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  It's the mentality of government services.
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  So, yeah, they are not only targets because of their size and money available, but they're targets because they're an relatively easy mark.
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  You know, even you have groups, the groups that are looking to detect this, they're a small fraction of the people actually working in these programs.
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  So, you know what?
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  Uh again, they're a they're a target.
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  Another example, there are two people in Georgia who uh I guess they uh they're being alleged to have uh committed fraud in the infamous COVID unemployment insurance scam.
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  So you remember during COVID, right?
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  You had all these government entities shutting down businesses, shutting down offices.
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  Of course, when you shut these down, people were out of work.
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  So they came up with these these stimulus payments and loans to help people you know keep getting paid because the government put them out of work and then paid them for not being in work, and oh my god, my head's starting to hurt.
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  Because anyone who's surprised that people were were defrauding this, I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
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  Now, these two actors uh are alleged to have conspired to steal more to use more than a thousand stolen identities to uh look to steal these IRS stimulus payments, as well as taking large loans out in the names of the victims.
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  Now, again, these stimulus payments wouldn't have been available if the government hadn't taken your stolen your money or embezzled your money to pay people to not work that they had told companies illegally to put them uh out of work.
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  Is that confusing and convoluted enough?
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  See, these programs said, Well, you have to shut down.
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  There was no scientific basis for it.
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  There was no actual science.
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  You had you had scientists, but no actually scientific basis for it.
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  You had fear and control, and they said, shut everything down.
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  Well, that's gonna cause a problem.
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  We don't care, shut everything down.
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  Well, you do that and people are to work.
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  Well, that's okay, we'll just throw money at them.
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  Well, you throw money at them, you know, you don't have the proper controls, they'll more likely be fraud.
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  We don't care.
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  We need to do something.
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  And yeah, these two people uh apparently they rake in a boatload of money with their fraud.
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  I mean, they they're they applied for more than 90 million dollars in government benefits.
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  They store more than $7 million in uh uh in pay uh benefits from the the payroll protection plan, the economic injury disaster loan program, and others.
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  Now, again, these are not good people.
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  What they did was evil, but they had an easier opportunity because you had illegal government programs doing things the government's not illegally allowed, not legally allowed to do, spending money they're not illegally allowed, not legally allowed to spend, and then people are shocked, shocked to find out that there are people that will take advantage.
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  Uh apparently you haven't met much of the human race.
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  Okay, let's look at this one is not so much a program as a policy.
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  This is a policy of the of the city of Seattle, Washington, established by their mayor, Katie Wilson, that requires the Seattle Seattle Police Department to look into and document any report of immigration enforcement in the area.
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  Uh according to the mayor, she said, my message to our immigrant neighbors, this is your city, you should be safe here, and I'm determined to make it that way.
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  There's a consequence for that, though.
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  You see, the police uh uh the president of the police officers guild, uh, an officer Kent Liu said, uh, well, they're kind of fed up with the federal with with this feud between Ms.
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  Wilson and the federal government, and specifically ICE, and this is we are worried about immigration.
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  What about the actual legal residents of um of Seattle?
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  Now, don't get me wrong.
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  If there are allegations of criminality in these enforcements, in other words, um, was there no warrant?
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  Um, was there uh other rights violated as part of this?
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  Well, then the city police has a duty to investigate.
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  But that isn't what it sounds like going to happen.
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  It looks like Ms.
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  Lugis wants to, or sorry, that Ms.
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  Wilson simply wants every act of ICE, you know, kept an eye on and and focused on, which, well, if an officer is following ice around to see what they're doing, you know what that officer's not doing enforcing Seattle law, like uh the 80-year-old professional dog walker who was murdered in a carjacking back in August of 2024 by a gentleman allegedly a repeat convicted felon who has served time in prison for vehicular homicide robbery and assault.
• 28:59
  You see, law enforcement officers are a finite resource.
• 29:04
  Now, I I don't think you're ever going to get to a situation where there are enough officers to do all the work.
• 29:10
  There's always going to be, you know, some priorities made.
• 29:14
  It appears to, well, at least to the police officers, or at least the police officers guild, that the um the mayor is more interested in protecting immigrants, especially possibly illegal immigrants, than she is the other law-abiding people of the city she claims to represent.
• 29:34
  Because again, as the well, not representing she's a she's the executive of the city, which means her job is to execute the law.
• 29:41
  And when she picks and chooses, actually, specifically, when she decides not to enforce city law in an attempt to oversee federal agents without an allegation of a crime, well, she's not just she's wasting public resources, and there are actually.
• 30:00
  Real consequences for the people of that city.
• 30:03
  Now, the problem is the people of Seattle hired this woman to be the chief executive.
• 30:10
  I don't know if she if they were thinking about this when they did so, but being this is Seattle, Washington, wouldn't surprise me one little bit that this is exactly what the people of Seattle want.
• 30:22
  They don't want their laws enforced.
• 30:24
  They want the they want politics played with their police.
• 30:29
  And well, now some people are suffering the consequences.
• 30:35
  And in Fairfax County, Virginia, those consequences have become pretty severe.
• 30:41
  A reporter, a Bill Meludian has uh outlined four murder cases in Fairfax County uh Virginia that have all apparently involve illegal immigrants.
• 30:53
  All this aspect have been identified as illegal immigrants, and uh the reaction's been interesting.
• 31:00
  Uh, according to the reporter, out of the four murders in Fairfax County, Virginia so far this year, have been alleged at the hands of illegal immigrants, including a stabbing at a bus stop, a machete hacking of a man in his own home, and a beating murder of a three-month-old infant.
• 31:18
  Now, does that mean only mergers only can uh uh performed by illegal immigrants?
• 31:24
  No.
• 31:26
  Does it mean that uh, you know, you know, maybe if we enforced our laws, those people wouldn't have been there, nothing bad would happen?
• 31:33
  Well, not necessarily, but it does kind of show if we're not going to enforce some laws, some people are gonna break other laws.
• 31:41
  And the consequences can be quite devastating.
• 31:45
  According to, again, according to Mr.
• 31:47
  Malugan, um, and just last week, a Haitian illegal alien caught and released at the border, then granted uh temporary protected status by the Biden administration was arrested after he was caught on video using a hammer to brutally bludgeon a gas station clerk to death in a seemingly random attack.
• 32:10
  Now, uh again, does this mean that all violent attacks and all murders are uh performed by illegal alien illegal immigrants?
• 32:17
  No.
• 32:18
  But it does show it's it's the broken windows theory, right?
• 32:22
  Back in New York City when crime was so bad and Giuliani came in and said, okay, we're going to enforce the small laws, figuring that if we catch the people and they do the small, they're not going to escalate to the larger laws.
• 32:34
  And it again makes me wonder as we look at these things.
• 32:38
  Is this a problem writ large?
• 32:40
  In other words, policies by uh city and state actors that simply place a political position above their job to enforce the law, and what are the long-term consequences for the people of those cities and states.
• 32:59
  I mean, the the the sanctuary city policies, the sanctuary state policies, this placing politics.
• 33:06
  Now, again, you may dislike uh uh immigration.
• 33:09
  You may think the border should be open to everybody, but there's a problem.
• 33:12
  See, we're supposed to be a la land of laws, not of feelings.
• 33:18
  And that you get to to pick and choose which laws you're going to enforce based on I don't know, your emotions that day.
• 33:27
  These are important.
• 33:29
  These programs, these policies that are implemented have consequences.
• 33:36
  And it is we the people who end up punished by these consequences.
• 33:42
  I'm sorry, Mayor Wilson is not going to pay a price.
• 33:46
  I don't expect her to pay a price.
• 33:48
  I inspect her to face a serious challenge in her next election based on these reports.
• 33:56
  I don't expect anybody in the in the Fairfax County law enforcement, uh, you know, in their district attorney, I don't expect them to face any any pushback.
• 34:06
  But we're suffering, we the people are suffering the consequences of the actions of these government actors.
• 34:13
  Now I got a couple more I want to take a look at, but before I do, I do have another break coming up.
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  But I want to remind you, you know, many times these policies are supported and promoted by different organizations, different uh uh advocacy groups.
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• 38:49
  Today we've been talking about no government program goes unpunished.
• 38:53
  I want to take a couple of a look at a couple of other um things that are well adjacent, shall we say.
• 39:04
  They call it artificial intelligence.
• 39:06
  It's really II, it's imitation intelligence.
• 39:09
  And there is a new report out of ABC 7 Los Angeles saying that they've apparently been using AI to say tweak statements from the Department of Homeland Security.
• 39:24
  Well, why?
• 39:27
  Well, to promote their biased agenda.
• 39:31
  What do I mean?
• 39:33
  Well, there's a link, there's a post on X.
• 39:35
  I put a link in the in the show notes, um, where you can see they that uh apparently, again, this is ABC News 7, ABC 7 News out of Los Angeles.
• 39:45
  They've tweaked the uh the this this the um press reports.
• 39:50
  Uh for example, in the original Homeland Security press release, uh, we see uh was it uh God Fredo, Chiquita Lopez.
• 40:00
  Is a criminal illegal alien from Mexico.
• 40:03
  Enter his arrest with a for assault with a deadly weapon and hit and run.
• 40:07
  ICE requested San Bernardino sanctuary politicians, not released this violent criminal from jail.
• 40:13
  But the sanctuary politicians refused to cooperate.
• 40:16
  Now, this is what ABC News 7 apparently published.
• 40:20
  They say, according to DHS, Gofredo Chiquita Lopez, a Mexican national, was previously arrested by local authorities in San Bernardino on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and hit and run.
• 40:31
  ICE officials said they issued a request to local authorities to retain custody of Lopez for transfer to federal immigration, but their request was not honored.
• 40:40
  You notice a change here.
• 40:42
  See, the DHS says we arrested a criminal illegal alien.
• 40:47
  And those words are important.
• 40:48
  They're not just, you know, fluff.
• 40:50
  He's an illegal alien.
• 40:52
  He's been found guilty of being illegal alien.
• 40:54
  He's committed the crime of still being here as a legal alien.
• 40:57
  But ABC News has tweak this.
• 40:58
  Now this gets to a point around AI, and that is when you think of AI, simply think of an alleged expert, right?
• 41:09
  Because you know, a lot of people are focused.
• 41:11
  Look at what AI is doing.
• 41:12
  No, AI isn't coming up with this all on their own.
• 41:15
  They're being told, the AI is being told we need to tune this down.
• 41:19
  We need to soften this language, and AI is just degenerate.
• 41:23
  It'd be no different than if a human being came along and started editing this work because they're promoting an agenda.
• 41:30
  It goes back to what I've been saying for oh God, years now, is that corporate media has been lying to us for decades, and here is more proof.
• 41:41
  They've been lying.
• 41:42
  ABC 7's been caught lying.
• 41:44
  Actually, they I believe they admitted lying to the people that watch them by manipulating the story to promote their own agenda.
• 41:55
  That's not a criminal legal alien, it's a it's a Mexican national.
• 41:59
  Well, you know what?
• 42:00
  There are millions of Mexican nationals, not all of them are criminal legal aliens.
• 42:05
  So while they may be true, it may be technically true that this Mr.
• 42:09
  Lopez is a Mexican national, it kind of misses the point.
• 42:15
  Now, the other thing you notice is uh Homeland Security said he was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.
• 42:23
  ABC 7 says, well, he was previously arrested by authorities on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
• 42:31
  Well, which is it?
• 42:32
  Was he a because again, suspicion, uh suspicion is not a crime.
• 42:38
  All right, he wasn't arrested for suspicion, he was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.
• 42:43
  And it's why I keep saying we need to find places of news we can trust and verify, because the media's lying to us, and they have been lying to us for decades.
• 42:56
  And now this, you know, people complain about uh uh the internet and social media and all that.
• 43:01
  You know what's happened with all of that?
• 43:03
  Yeah, there's a lot of garbage out there, but there's also a lot of sources of information otherwise were unheard of.
• 43:09
  People didn't know, people didn't hear, people didn't see.
• 43:12
  We have access to a lot of information.
• 43:14
  That's the good news because we can get contrary points of view.
• 43:18
  The bad news is it's now up to us to weed through that to find the truth.
• 43:23
  Not the story that confirms our bias, but to find the truth that takes work, that takes effort, but like anything else of real importance, it's worth it.
• 43:35
  Now, this last story, again, it kind of shows that how often just because Congress does something doesn't mean it's legal, doesn't mean it's lawful, doesn't mean you can it's actually valid.
• 43:48
  And just because the courts uphold it for forever, doesn't mean it's true.
• 43:52
  I mean, we saw it with uh Roe v.
• 43:54
  Wade, we've seen it with the lemon test.
• 43:56
  In the latest, on April 10th, um, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a hundred and fifty-eight-year-old ban on home distilling.
• 44:10
  Now, here's the interesting thing.
• 44:11
  So the the law, which is actually passed during Reconstruction, uh, imposed an excise tax on uh distilled beverages, but it also prohibited um primitives uh in-home distilling.
• 44:27
  It made it illegal for a person to use any still boiler or other vessel for the purpose of distilling when it was located in and among other places in any dwelling or house, in any shed, yard, or enclosure connected with any dwelling or house.
• 44:41
  Now, this is interesting to me for so many reasons.
• 44:44
  You think of our history with with you know prohibition and bootleggers, and because I live in Middle Tennessee, moonshine, and uh, of course, I grew up around auto racing in NASCAR's roots were in bootleg liquor.
• 44:59
  NASCAR started when a bunch of bootleggers had decided to have some races to figure out who had the best car.
• 45:05
  You know, so that this is all comes down to now the problem with bootlegging is they were selling the liquor, but this law said you couldn't even make it for your own purposes.
• 45:15
  Now, reading from the decision, um, for more than 150 years, Congress has prohibited home distilleries as an adjunct of the law establishing a federal excise tax on distilled spirits.
• 45:27
  Um, I disagree with it because they create a law, but that law is that law is not valid.
• 45:34
  Congress couldn't prohibit anything.
• 45:35
  They go on.
• 45:36
  In December of 2023, a nonprofit organization and several of its members challenged the law as unconstitutional.
• 45:43
  The district court agreed with them, we concur that while venerable, the statute violates the constitution's taxation and necessary and proper clauses.
• 45:51
  Uh Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18.
• 45:54
  The district court's judgment and injunction are affirmed in part and reversed in part.
• 45:58
  And then it goes into all the details about what's inferred.
• 46:01
  Here's the other thing I find interesting.
• 46:03
  They actually came to this decision based on the language of the Constitution.
• 46:10
  Now, that's rare enough to get my attention.
• 46:14
  This three-judge panel, which the decision was written by a judge Edith Holland Jones, said, wait a second.
• 46:23
  The taxing clause.
• 46:24
  Now, um, I what I guess what they're saying is is because the law was involving federal excise tax, which is allowable on the sale of liquor, um, you know, under, I forget which amendment it is off the top of my head.
• 46:42
  The taxing clause, the general taxing clause, does not include the ability to prohibit, right?
• 46:48
  You can collect taxes.
• 46:49
  Article 1, Section 8, uh clause one says Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, uh, impost excises and whatnot.
• 46:57
  Says nothing about prohibiting, so it went beyond that power.
• 47:01
  And of course, the necessary and proper clause, uh, clause 18, Article 1 section 8, clause 18, says Congress shall have the power, the power to make all laws necessary and proper to put into execution the powers vested in the government of the United States.
• 47:16
  Since telling people you cannot distill liquor in your own home is not a power vested, regulating liquor is not a power vested in the United States by the Constitution.
• 47:26
  Uh, Congress can regulate interstate commerce, but only the commerce, not what passes through commerce.
• 47:34
  They cannot do uh simply say, well, we don't like this, so we're going to impose it.
• 47:39
  Now, while the 18th Amendment was still in force, they could have, but the 18th Amendment had been repealed.
• 47:46
  Right?
• 47:46
  So the 20, I guess it's a 21st amendment repealed the 18th Amendment.
• 47:51
  So Congress had no power.
• 47:52
  And a court actually found it, and again, to my utter joy, they found it not based in the decision of a previous court, but on the actual language of the Constitution, which you know what?
• 48:06
  Great, I love it.
• 48:07
  This is you know, uh, and again, not because I'm a distiller.
• 48:10
  I don't, I almost never drink.
• 48:13
  If I do, it's generally wine, uh, maybe a good beer, but yeah, I don't just drink distilled liquid distilled liquor.
• 48:19
  So, but this is a court, a pre uh both a district and appellate court that recognized the Constitution of the United States.
• 48:27
  So I just thought that was worth bringing up because it happens so rarely, it really catches my attention.
• 48:34
  So let's go back to the original question, the original premise of this episode, that no government program goes unpunished.
• 48:42
  As Reagan said, the closest thing to eternal life on this earth is a government program.
• 48:48
  And too often we create these programs with the best of intentions, but we rarely seem to follow them up to make sure they mean they live up to those intentions.
• 48:59
  We forget that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
• 49:04
  We forget that, you know, like any other system, it will tend to core, it's it'll tend toward corruption unless it is overseen and kept under control.
• 49:16
  So um, what do we do?
• 49:19
  You see, these government programs are all created eventually by people we elect, right?
• 49:24
  We choose representatives in our cities, our counties, our states, and yes, in Congress.
• 49:32
  Representatives of us in the House, representatives of our states in the Senate.
• 49:36
  We choose them.
• 49:38
  And ultimately, we're responsible.
• 49:40
  We're accountable for what they do because they're acting in my in our name.
• 49:46
  And it's our job to hold them accountable, whether that be through uh elections, which is the most common way, or sometimes through uh other investigations, um, other maybe ethics.
• 50:00
  Processes within the legislative system, but it's our responsibility.
• 50:06
  They set up the agencies and departments that are full of appointees appointed by people we elect to exercise our power in our name.
• 50:16
  Are we overseeing them?
• 50:18
  Are we making sure they're following the rule of law?
• 50:21
  Not following our opinions.
• 50:23
  I want you to make this point.
• 50:24
  It's not that they want them to follow our opinion.
• 50:26
  Are they following the rule of law?
• 50:29
  Because that really needs to be the standard.
• 50:30
  Because we all have our own, we're entitled to our own opinions.
• 50:34
  We're not entitled to our own laws.
• 50:37
  And as much as we like to whine and complain about Washington and our state houses and all this, they're all our employees.
• 50:45
  They all work for us.
• 50:48
  Well, all right, and the we get to fire a boatload of them.
• 50:52
  We get to fire the people in charge.
• 50:54
  The people that create these these laws and these departments and these agencies.
• 51:00
  What are we doing about it?
• 51:02
  I know I say this frequently because it is that important.
• 51:06
  We hire them, they're our employees, they work for us, they're our responsibility.
• 51:11
  What are we doing to hold them accountable?
• 51:15
  I mean, if you walked into uh, say a restaurant and you had a really bad waiter, a really bad cook, wouldn't you complain to the management?
• 51:26
  If you were getting ripped off by that, if you found out, you know, you hand your credit card and then they use that information to make a bunch of charges that you didn't authorize.
• 51:35
  Wouldn't you want that person arrested?
• 51:38
  Why is it any different if it's a member of Congress or your state legislature, your county commission, or your city council?
• 51:44
  It's not.
• 51:46
  A government job is not a get out of jail free card.
• 51:49
  At least it shouldn't be.
• 51:52
  But if we don't stand up, if we don't push, if we don't hold them accountable, if we don't call for their for the them to receive the consequence of their actions, who's going to do it?
• 52:05
  If we keep waiting for somebody to do something, nobody's going to do anything.
• 52:09
  The time is today.
• 52:11
  You know, it we I see it in so many places where people look to sue.
• 52:15
  And okay, a lawsuit is an attempt to redress a grievance.
• 52:20
  I think more often than not, we need not simply to sue, we need to file criminal complaints.
• 52:26
  We need to hold them accountable.
• 52:28
  Now you can't file, you know, Congress, you cannot hold you cannot question what they've done in Congress, right?
• 52:34
  Depending on your state legislation, your state legislators may have similar immunity for what they do while in on the floor of their houses.
• 52:44
  But we can certainly decide, you know what?
• 52:47
  That's the type of behavior that that it's not what I want in my representative.
• 52:52
  And I'm not going to stand for it.
• 52:54
  And not only am I not going to vote for this person, I'm going to work with everybody I can to let them know why I'm not going to work with this person.
• 53:02
  Why they shouldn't vote for this person either.
• 53:06
  Why this is so important.
• 53:09
  To let them know that, you know, you don't have, you have a say.
• 53:15
  Exercise it.
• 53:16
  Not just in the ballot box, on a campaign.
• 53:20
  During the day, you're going out with friends, and uh, you know, a subject comes up and you point out hey, look what this bozo did.
• 53:29
  It's up to us that these programs continue to exist because we capitulate, because we've not been taught that the government is there to serve us, not the other way around.
• 53:41
  We are not their servants, they are our servants.
• 53:44
  We oversee them.
• 53:45
  We rule over them.
• 53:48
  And until we start acting that way, we're going to continue to not only act but be perceived as serfs, subjects, slaves to the whim of these government programs that we keep paying for and that keep ruining our lives.
• 54:05
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• 54:10
  I think everybody, like John Jay said, should read and study the constitution.
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