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Trump says he’s not thinking about your finances. Here’s why that’s good news · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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You're listening to the Hidden Likeness on America
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I'm your host Jimmy Hinton.
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Before President Trump left for China, he made
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a startling uh statement.
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And this really caught my attention.
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And he kind of said it in passing,
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but I think it's really a huge deal.
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And it's got a lot of implications for
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all of us.
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He told reporters on Tuesday of last week
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that he's not weighing the economic burden of
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the Iran war on everyday Americans, according to
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NBC News.
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Now his direct quote is he's not thinking
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about Americans' finances even a little bit.
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And he repeated it not once, but twice.
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He means what he says.
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I don't think he is concerned with Americans'
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finances, with our finances.
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Not even a little bit.
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He went on to say, quote, the only
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thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran,
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that they can't have a nuclear weapon.
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I don't think about Americans' financial situation.
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I don't think about anybody.
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I think about one thing.
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We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
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That's all.
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Now this is intriguing to me.
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This is fascinating because I've been saying this
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from the mountaintops for a very, very long
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time now.
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That the government doesn't care about you.
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And this is not this is not for
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us to hit the panic button, be like,
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oh my goodness, you know, get our feelings
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hurt.
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Oh, the government doesn't care about us.
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No, it's quite the opposite.
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I think it's actually empowering.
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I think it's empowering for us because we
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have the freedom in this nation.
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We have the freedom and the ability to
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be able to figure our own finances out.
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We've been given that God given freedom.
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Actually, our forefathers, the founders of this nation,
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established a nation to give radical independence to
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the American people.
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For us to be able to live on
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capitalism.
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We're a capitalistic society where we have the
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freedom to be able to produce, to barter,
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to trade, to exchange services with one another.
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The sky's the limit.
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And so many people put limitations on themselves.
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And this is not, this is not going
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to be a show where I'm all depressed
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and angry that President Trump, you know, how
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dare could he say something like that?
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I think he's just confirming what I already
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know, and a lot of Americans already knew.
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And that's that the president doesn't care about
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your finances.
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People are like, oh, we should tell President
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Trump how much pain we have at the
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pump.
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That this is hurting us.
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You don't think he knows that?
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Yeah, he's very clearly not doing anything.
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Now that he's in office, he's not doing
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anything to appease his base.
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Which is really interesting.
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Over 70% of Americans right now disapprove of
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Trump's economy.
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Over 70%.
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People are losing patience with him.
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They're getting fed up, even his own base
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is starting to get upset because of the
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pain that they're feeling.
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Now it's really interesting to me.
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It's very interesting to me.
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That people get upset with the president.
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Now, do you remember President Obama?
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Do you remember what happened to the economy
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under him?
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I mean, this is nothing, in my opinion.
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You remember the whole housing bubble?
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It just imploded on itself.
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And people didn't like President Obama's economy during
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that period either, but they re-elected him.
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He got re-elected.
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The whole cash for clunkers thing, the housing
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bubble, uh interest rates were just absolutely bottomed
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out.
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Like all kinds of crazy stuff.
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You know, that was the irony.
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Interest rates were bottomed out, but people couldn't
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buy homes.
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They couldn't, or they I guess they couldn't
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sell their homes was the problem.
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It was a buyer's market, not a seller's
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market.
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People couldn't sell their homes, and the people
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who could afford to buy homes, they were
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getting pretty good deals.
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Uh, I happened to be one of those
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homeowners, the very first home and only home
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that my wife and I bought.
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We bought in 2009.
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It was a great time to buy.
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And that's what I talk about.
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I mean, it's this is a time of
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opportunity.
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We're living in such a time of opportunity,
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and so many people don't see it.
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They're only looking at the gas prices, and
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they're just absolutely distraught.
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And unfortunately, a lot of families are living
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so stretched.
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They're living so above their means that higher
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gas prices means that they can't afford to
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pay their electric bill.
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It means that they can't afford to pay
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their gas bill.
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It means that they can't uh afford a
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car payment.
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It means that they can't afford their car
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insurance.
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And on and on it goes.
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And that's just because gas prices went up.
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Yeah, we should expect these kinds of things.
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Inflation did rise.
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The new inflation numbers came out, which strengthened
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the dollar.
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The inflation numbers came out that uh it
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was 3.6% overall, year over year.
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I mean, that's high.
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That's very persistent inflation.
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Month over month it's up, year over year
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it's up.
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Now, President Trump, and you know he's full
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of garbage.
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Uh, when he's like, oh yeah, the inflation,
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it's the best it's ever been.
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No, it's not.
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You know, there are a lot of times
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where he's just he's full of it.
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But this time I think he's really telling
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the truth.
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I don't think he's thinking about Americans' personal
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Think he's thinking about Americans' personal finances.
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finances.
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And quite frankly, I hate to put it
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And quite frankly, I hate to put it
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this way, but it's not the president's job
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this way, but it's not the president's job
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to worry about when he's talking about national
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to worry about when he's talking about national
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defense.
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defense.
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Now, that's what it was in the context
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Now, that's what it was in the context
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of.
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of.
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But when a president's thinking about national defense,
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But when a president's thinking about national defense,
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they're not thinking about, oh, well, this is
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they're not thinking about, oh, well, this is
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going to put a strain on the American
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going to put a strain on the American
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people.
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people, therefore, I'm not going to defend our
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Therefore, I'm not going to defend our nation.
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nation.
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That's
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That's not how they're thinking.
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And so I'm not saying it's right, wrong
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or indifferent.
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I'm just saying this is his stance.
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He he said it twice.
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He doubled down on it.
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He genuinely does not care about people's personal
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finances right now.
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Now, whether he ever did, I don't know.
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That's not really for me to determine.
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I know he has done some pretty incredible
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things, open up some pretty incredible opportunities for
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Americans.
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I mean, if you look at the big
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picture, and sometimes that's hard to do because
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people they get so focused on the here
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and the now, and they're not looking for
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opportunities.
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What President Trump is doing, he's providing opportunities
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constantly.
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He's providing opportunities for you and I.
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He's providing opportunities for uh for people to
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find employment.
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He's providing opportunities for people to invest better.
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He signed legislation that opens up all kinds
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of opportunities for people to invest in a
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wider range of uh of options.
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You know, he he didn't do that because
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he could care less.
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He did that because it's the right thing
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to do.
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It's Americans need more opportunity to invest.
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So if you look at the big picture
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and look at the context of everything, and
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I'm not defending him here.
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I'm not defending him.
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I actually happen to believe that he believes
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what he says, that he means it.
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That right now he he has not taken
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into consideration, not one little bit how much
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pain you and I are feeling.
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He's he's just not.
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I want to read a little bit of
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um his statements here in part of this
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article.
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Again, he said, not even a little bit.
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The only thing that matters when I'm talking
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about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon.
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I don't think about Americans' financial situation.
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I don't think about anybody.
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I think about one thing.
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We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
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That's all.
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So a reporter followed up on whether he
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really wasn't thinking about the economic impact of
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the war.
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And here's what he said.
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Here's what the president said.
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The most important thing by far, including whether
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our stock market, which by the way, is
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at an all-time high, but including whether our
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stock market goes up or down a little,
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a little bit.
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The most important thing by far is Iran
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cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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He said every American understands.
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Well, I think that's where he's wrong.
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I don't think every American understands because clearly
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Americans are really upset.
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The majority of Americans are upset with his
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economic policy.
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They don't understand that Iran can't have a
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nuclear weapon.
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Or at least they don't understand that there's
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a cost associated with that.
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And I did look into a little bit
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the you know, this whole nuclear weapons idea,
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and I found an excellent article.
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I mean, it's really long.
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Uh I'm certainly not going to read it,
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and it's very technical, but I will post
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it in the show notes here.
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You can read it yourself.
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But it is Congress.gov, and the title of
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it is Iran and Nuclear Weapons Production.
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And it's a really good detailed insight into
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whether they actually have the capability to be
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able to build nuclear weapons.
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Now, I'll tell you, because this is a
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big source of debate, right?
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A lot of people on the left are
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saying there's no evidence whatsoever.
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President Trump's that when we bombed with the
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bunker busters, we bombed their nuclear facility.
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That that completely wiped out, supposedly wiped out
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any capability or any ability for Iran to
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build nuclear weapons.
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And then what, months later, not even a
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year later, he starts a war with Iran.
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And supposedly it was based on intel from
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spies that were in the country that they
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had capability and were possibly planning on building
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a nuclear weapon.
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Now, here's what we know.
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We know that they've not allowed inspectors inside
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of Iran since we bombed the bunker buster.
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That the Iran has not had nuclear inspectors
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on the ground.
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They do this all the time.
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They kick the inspectors out, or they disallow,
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they don't allow the inspectors to come into
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their country.
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Everything is super top secret.
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They have uranium enriched to 60%.
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I believe it needs to be 90% to
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be able to reach weapons capability.
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It's not that hard to do.
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Iran does have the capability to do it.
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And there are different estimates for how long
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they actually could pull this off.
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And the longest estimate that I saw was
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one year, up to one year.
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That's not a lot of time.
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Now, for somebody to secretly build atomic weapons,
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and they did just say Iran just released
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a statement last week.
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And they said we have so much uranium
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that's buried underground.
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Tehran can't even get to it.
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Now, they've been bluffing a lot.
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They were saying that, oh, we have plenty
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of firepower, and uh the U.S.
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didn't do anything to damage our military, like
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they said.
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You know, the state-run media has been working
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in overtime.
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So it's really difficult to tell the truth.
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But what we do know is that they
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do hate America.
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We do know for a fact that though
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they stopped their weapons program for building atomic
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bombs, they do have 60% enriched uranium that
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we know of, and that it wouldn't take
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Have 60% enriched uranium that we know of
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much.
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and that it wouldn't take much.
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It wouldn't take a whole lot.
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It wouldn't take a whole lot.
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There were some estimates instead they could build
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There were some estimates instead they could build
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an atomic bomb in about a week's time.
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an atomic bomb in about a week's time.
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That's frightening.
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That's frightening.
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And that would start a world war.
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And that would start a world war.
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And it would, it would, I mean, once
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And it would, it would I mean, once
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somebody detonates an atomic bomb, it's you're getting
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somebody detonates an atomic bomb, it's you're getting
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into
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into very scary territory.
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Very scary.
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And especially if Iran is the one pulling
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the trigger on that bomb.
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So this is this is a big deal.
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It it should be taken very seriously.
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Now everybody else is, you know, people on
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the left, they're saying, well, President Trump, he
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he's he just has no self-control, and he's
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he's just uh he's coming up with these
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ideas, and there's no evidence whatsoever that there
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are any bombs.
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While technically that's true, there is plenty of
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evidence according to this article, and it's not
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a partisan article.
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They they have the capability.
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Uh I'll read just the last sentence.
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John Wolfstall, a National Security Council official during
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the Obama administration, wrote in February 2022 that
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the one year breakout goal was meant to
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provide enough time, quote, to generate an international
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response to any Iranian move to build weapons.
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All right, so they they know that they
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have the capability and that maximum we would
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have about a year.
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We would have about a year, and so
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we would have to respond very quickly within
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that year window.
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Well, President Trump determined we don't have that
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kind of time.
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You know, based on intelligence, he says we
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don't have that kind of time.
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We can't buy time with Iran.
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We have to put them in their place,
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and we have to eliminate all their needs.
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Here's the other thing that we know.
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We know that they were building a massive
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stockpile of drones.
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The uh the cheap kamikaze drones, they had
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tens of thousands of these things, and what
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they were doing was they were positioning themselves
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with the help of China, they were positioning
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themselves to be able to attack every single
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neighboring country, just relentlessly.
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We knew this.
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President Trump knew this, and we eliminated that
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threat very quickly, by the way.
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So very interesting stuff that's happening, but uh,
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we are coming up on a break.
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Uh personal finances.
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In fact, he doubled down on that and
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said, not even a little bit.
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I think he's telling the truth.
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I think he is not thinking about our
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personal finances.
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So what does that mean for us?
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And that's what I want to talk about.
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What does that really mean for us?
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Uh do we need the president to care
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about our finances?
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Do we need the president to control gas
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prices?
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Do we need the president to control inflation?
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Well, I can tell you, it's really interesting
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to me.
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If you look at who was on Air
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Force One, who went to China?
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Who was the delegation from America?
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This should tell us everything that we need
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to know.
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We had Elon Musk.
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That's right.
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He was on Air Force One.
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He went to China.
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Jensen Hang from Nav NVIDIA.
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Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, Larry Fink,
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the CEO of BlackRock, Steven Schwartzman, CEO of
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Steven Schwartzmann, CEO of Blackstone, Kelly Ortberg, president
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Blackstone, Kelly Ortberg, president and CEO of Boeing.
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and CEO of Boeing, Christiano Amon, CEO of
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Qualcomm.
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Christiano Ahman, CEO of Qualcomm.
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We had the CEO of Micron Technology, CEO
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We had the CEO of Micron Technology, CEO
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of Citigroup, CEO of Goldman Sachs, CEO of
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of Citigroup, CEO of Goldman Sachs, CEO of
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Cargill, CEO of GE Aerospace, CEO of
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Cargill, CEO of GE Aerospace, CEO of MasterCard,
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CEO of Visa, CEO or president and vice
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chair, rather, of Meta, CEO of Coherent, CEO
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of Illumina.
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This was his delegation.
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Now that ought to tell us every single
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thing that we need to know.
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That he's not there to bring politicians to
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to kind of rub elbows with uh with
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the Chinese delegation.
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They're there to strike deals.
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They're there to negotiate with China.
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And by the way, uh, really fascinating.
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I I think it's really interesting.
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These people, I don't think care about your
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personal finances.
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They care about building their business, allowing their
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business to grow.
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I forget what NVIDIA's worth.
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Uh it's in the trillions, like five, five
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or six trillion dollars.
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I mean, this is this is wild.
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Absolutely wild to me.
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So, yeah, we need to look at these
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things.
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What is President Trump positioning himself and America
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for?
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He's positioning our economy to become a superpower
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in the world.
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And so, what does that mean for you
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and I?
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If we look at the bigger picture, again,
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everybody's waiting for gas prices to come down.
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That's their focus.
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Gas prices, gas prices.
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We need gas prices to come down.
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We're feeling pain at the pump.
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It's 70% disapproval rate of President Trump.
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Meanwhile, President Trump, he's like, Yeah, literally, right
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before all of these people that I just
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mentioned boarded Air Force One, President Trump was
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being interviewed, and he said, Yeah, I'm not
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really taking into consideration Americans uh financials, uh,
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not one little bit.
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What really matters is that Iran doesn't have
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a nuclear weapon.
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All right, well, at the same time, what
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he is focusing on is striking a deal,
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and he talks economy all the time, economy,
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economy, economy.
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He's looking at the big picture.
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He's looking at the big picture, he's looking
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long term.
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If if America really does strike a good
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deal with China, which those two things, I'm
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really uh kind of barfing in my mouth
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a little bit with those two things being
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in the same sentence.
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But if we strike a good deal with
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China, you're gonna see the economy really, really,
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really strengthen.
24:30
And it's already very strong, it's already doing
24:32
quite well.
24:34
And China, quite frankly, needs the United States
24:36
of America.
24:39
The war in Iran, I think was more
24:42
strategic than just weapons.
24:44
I think that President Trump did that strategically
24:47
to position China to kind of be in
24:49
our back pocket.
24:52
President Trump is the one who's calling the
24:55
strings here, and not the other way around.
24:59
And so again, what does that mean for
25:00
you and I?
25:02
Because at the end of the day, that's
25:03
what's important.
25:04
We have to worry about ourselves.
25:06
President Trump is not concerned about your personal
25:08
finances.
25:11
That's crystal clear.
25:15
So you need to be worried about your
25:17
personal finances.
25:20
Now it's interesting looking at looking at the
25:22
data here.
25:25
Americans are they're just not getting the bigger
25:27
picture.
25:30
This is this is an article here.
25:32
Nearly half of American households have no retirement
25:35
savings.
25:39
People are living well above their means.
25:43
We have uh car car loan debt hit
25:45
an all-time high.
25:49
Just what last month hit an all-time high.
25:53
It's never been so high.
25:54
1.6 trillion dollars or 1.68, something like that,
25:59
just in car loans, car loan debt.
26:04
Half of American households have no savings in
26:07
their retirement accounts, according to the Federal Reserve
26:10
Survey of Consumer Finances.
26:14
Those include employer-sponsored accounts, 401ks, 403Bs, thrift savings
26:18
accounts, and pensions.
26:24
Personal saving has grown more important as employees
26:27
have shifted away from defined benefits plans or
26:30
pensions, putting more of the responsibility on workers
26:33
to plan for retirement.
26:36
Now, I look at this as great news.
26:39
I look at this as I want to
26:40
be in control.
26:43
I look at how many people had pensions,
26:46
and they got absolutely screwed over.
26:48
Look at what GM did to people.
26:51
They had these pensions and people worked, they
26:54
did everything right, and then all of a
26:57
sudden, the pensions, oh, nope, we filed for
27:01
bankruptcy, and pensions are no longer available.
27:04
Literally gone.
27:06
I don't want a company in charge of
27:08
my finances.
27:11
I want to have control.
27:14
I want to determine what I invest in,
27:16
when I pull my money out, who I
27:18
give my money to.
27:21
I want to have control of that.
27:24
So I think this is a really good
27:25
thing.
27:26
But people have to be responsible.
27:31
They have to look for opportunity.
27:34
They have to invest, they have to be
27:36
disciplined.
27:39
I was just looking at my children's investments,
27:43
and they're doing quite well.
27:49
Yeah, and and I show my kids this.
27:51
And I'm like, you guys have to be
27:53
disciplined.
27:55
When you get paid, whether it's allowance or
27:59
whatever it is, we don't do allowance.
28:01
We don't do allowance.
28:03
We we pay for doing chores, certain chores.
28:03
We we pay for doing chores, certain chores.
28:09
Obviously, like doing dishes and things like that.
28:09
Obviously, like doing dishes and things like that.
28:12
We we don't, but we give them, we
28:12
We we don't, but we give them, we
28:15
give them money for doing certain chores with
28:15
give them money for doing certain chores with
28:18
the understanding that they invest 50%.
28:18
the understanding that they invest 50%.
28:22
That's the rule.
28:22
That's the rule.
28:24
They can invest it in whatever they want
28:24
They can invest it in whatever they want
28:25
to invest it in.
28:25
to invest it in, they get to choose,
28:26
They get to choose, they get to decide.
28:27
they get to decide.
28:30
But the rule is we will pay you
28:31
as long as you put 50% of that
28:33
away.
28:35
You invest it.
28:36
The rest of the fifth of the other
28:37
50%, you can do whatever you want with
28:39
it.
28:42
And they're watching the dollar signs come in.
28:48
And they don't get excited about it.
28:50
We don't make a big deal about it.
28:51
Like we don't put this emotional attachment to
28:53
money.
28:56
We don't teach our kids to chase money.
28:59
We don't teach our kids to fall in
29:00
love with money.
29:01
We don't teach our kids that you got
29:03
to chase the next big paycheck.
29:06
What we teach them is that discipline pays
29:07
off.
29:10
That if you put your money to work,
29:12
there are always opportunities out there.
29:14
No matter what the market's doing, no matter
29:17
what the economy is doing, no matter what
29:20
fuel prices are, it does not matter.
29:23
That should not affect your day-to-day life to
29:27
the best of your ability.
29:31
Now I know there are exceptions to every
29:33
rule, but generally, we're not teaching this kind
29:35
of stuff.
29:38
We're not parents aren't teaching this.
29:40
And I know that because I'm looking at
29:41
the numbers here.
29:43
That half of Americans have nothing for retirement.
29:49
Zero.
29:58
Wait till you listen to these numbers.
30:02
There's a cool little chart here that I'm
30:03
playing around with.
30:06
But it says show the percentage of households
30:09
that saved more than, and then you get
30:12
to select on the little slider here.
30:15
You select a dollar amount.
30:17
So I have zero, zero dollars selected.
30:21
People aged 30 to 34, 58% of people
30:25
have zero.
30:44
Have zero, have nothing.
30:47
Then we go get into age 70 to
30:48
74.
30:50
You know, the time of life where you
30:52
really need your retirement money.
30:54
49% have zero, have nothing.
30:59
All right, then we'll go up to, I'm
31:01
just going to skip to 10K.
31:03
$10,000, not that much money.
31:10
Have saved a little bit more than 10K.
31:15
Uh age 30, let's see, 35 to 39,
31:20
47% have 10,000 roughly.
31:25
Uh this is this is wild to me.
31:28
This is absolutely wild to me.
31:32
So I I run these numbers all the
31:34
time.
31:35
I talk about these numbers all the time.
31:37
We've got to do better, America.
31:40
We've got to do better.
31:42
President Trump is literally telling us, I'm not
31:44
here to coddle you.
31:47
I'm not here.
31:48
I'm not the president.
31:50
I'm not there.
31:51
You did not make me the president to
31:53
sit here and wring my hands about how
31:56
your personal finances are doing.
32:00
I believe that's what he's saying.
32:02
It's not his job to coddle us and
32:05
to be concerned about our personal finances.
32:08
At the same time, literally within minutes of
32:11
that or hours, he loaded up all of
32:14
these CEOs of some of the world's biggest
32:16
companies, some of the richest, wealthiest people on
32:19
planet Earth.
32:22
He brought them to China as his delegation
32:24
because he's making deals to get the economy
32:27
moving.
32:29
What does that mean for us?
32:31
That means there is ample opportunity.
32:34
Ample opportunity.
32:35
There's ample opportunity to do well.
32:38
There's ample opportunity.
32:39
If if you don't want to start a
32:41
business, which personally, I just I don't have
32:43
any interest in that.
32:45
My daughter is doing it.
32:47
My daughter is starting a business.
32:48
She's 16 years old, she's young.
32:50
That's the time to do it.
32:52
I don't have an interest at my age
32:54
in starting a business.
32:55
So what do I do?
32:57
I buy pieces of other businesses in the
33:00
form of investments.
33:04
I have no problem doing that.
33:06
I enjoy doing that.
33:07
I like doing my research.
33:10
So there is plenty of opportunity here.
33:14
But we've got to live within our means.
33:16
And Mike Rowe, by the way, he's been
33:19
saying this for the longest time.
33:21
This is a recent article.
33:22
This is Yahoo News, April 1st.
33:25
Very recent article.
33:27
You know, all these data centers are going
33:29
up.
33:31
People are wringing their hands about that.
33:32
Oh my goodness, it's it's terrible, it's awful.
33:36
This is just gonna it's gonna hurt communities
33:38
and this and that.
33:40
And people can debate about the health concerns
33:41
and all that.
33:43
I think that's valid.
33:44
That's fair.
33:46
But here's the opportunity.
33:48
And how many people are taking advantage of
33:50
this while we complain about President Trump and
33:52
gas prices.
33:54
Mike Rowe says data center electricians earning 260,000
33:58
are getting poached like pro athletes without college
34:02
degrees.
34:08
260,000 income, and they're scooping these kids up
34:12
right out of high school.
34:17
They're actually being sought out like pro-athletes.
34:21
They're being scouted.
34:24
For years, kids have been encouraged to get
34:26
a college education.
34:27
Learning a trade, on the other hand, was
34:31
often viewed as a vocational consolation prize.
34:35
Mike Rowe, best known for hosting TV show
34:38
Dirty Jobs, said during BlackRock's 2026 infrastructure summit
34:42
on March 1st.
34:47
But that's changing.
34:48
With a trades experiencing something of a renaissance.
34:58
As has student loan debt.
35:01
Then this article talks about debt and all
35:01
Then this article talks about debt and all
35:03
that stuff.
35:03
that stuff.
35:05
People are racking up all this debt and
35:05
People are racking up all this debt and
35:06
they didn't and they're learning how to how
35:06
they and they're learning how to how to
35:08
to study dance.
35:08
study dance.
35:10
You know, like they're getting these useless degrees.
35:10
You know, like they're getting these useless degrees.
35:14
But then it says, on the other hand,
35:14
But then it says, on the other hand,
35:17
data center electricians are earning around 260,000 a
35:17
data center electricians are earning around 260,000 a
35:20
year, Roe told Fox Business, studying a recent
35:20
year, Roe told Fox Business, studying a recent
35:23
visit to a Texas based data center.
35:23
visit to a Texas based data center.
35:27
There he met three electricians, each under the
35:27
There he met three electricians, each understanding.
35:29
age of 30.
35:32
While they had no student debt, the most
35:35
consequential component of that meeting was the fact
35:38
that all three of them had been poached
35:41
three times in the prior 18 months.
35:44
Roe said.
35:50
I mean, they are beating doors down to
35:53
get these kids to get them to learn
35:57
the trades, and they're paying them handsomely.
36:02
There are plenty, plenty, plenty of jobs available.
36:05
There are opportunities.
36:07
I'm telling you, we are living in we're
36:09
living in a time of opportunity, I think
36:12
like we've never seen before.
36:15
There is opportunity all around us.
36:17
If people want to work actual trades jobs,
36:21
that's where the money is.
36:24
I was just talking to a very good
36:27
friend of mine who retired very early.
36:31
He was the president of a very big
36:32
business.
36:34
He knows businesses really, really well.
36:38
And he said, you know, it's really interesting.
36:42
He said there are all these trades jobs,
36:44
and nobody wants to go into them.
36:47
He's like, if people knew the opportunity that
36:49
was right in front of their face, he
36:51
said it'd be a wake-up call like they've
36:52
never seen before.
36:54
He's like, there's so much money to be
36:57
made, and people don't even realize it.
37:01
70% of Americans disapprove of the way President
37:03
Trump is handling the economy because of gas
37:06
prices.
37:08
That's the number one driver for people's views
37:12
on how President Trump is handling the economy.
37:16
Really interesting, folks.
37:17
Um, man, there's so much opportunity.
37:20
I wish people would get this.
37:21
I really do.
37:23
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President Trump, right before he left for China
38:56
said, I do not, I am not thinking
38:58
about Americans' personal finances.
39:02
Not even one bit.
39:03
Not a little bit.
39:05
He doubled down on this statement.
39:07
I don't think about Americans' financial situation in
39:10
Iran negotiations.
39:14
That's his stance.
39:21
Well, not right as in uh correct and
39:23
not thinking about it.
39:26
But he's right in the fact that he's
39:28
being truthful.
39:30
And I don't think that it's the president's
39:33
job to meddle in people's personal finances.
39:38
And there is a cost to the war.
39:40
And President Trump knew that going into the
39:41
war.
39:43
He knew that was going to drive up
39:44
gas prices.
39:47
He also said when the war ends, now
39:49
when is uh the big question?
39:51
It's a question of the century.
39:54
If you want my personal opinion for what
39:55
it's worth, I think it's going to drag
39:57
out for a long time.
39:59
It's going to be a back and forth.
40:01
Well, the war, the war is done.
40:03
You know, we've already seen it.
40:04
President Trump, the war's done.
40:05
We are, we're we struck a deal.
40:08
And then the Iranians come back and they're
40:11
like, we never said we struck a deal.
40:14
And it's going to be this back and
40:15
forth, the war is done.
40:16
No, it's not.
40:17
We're done.
40:18
No, it's not.
40:18
We're done.
40:19
No, it's not.
40:19
We're going to see this, I think, for
40:21
quite a while.
40:22
I think there's going to be people may
40:24
as well hunker down.
40:26
I think there's going to be high fuel
40:28
prices for quite a while.
40:31
And it's unfortunate because it does create inflation.
40:36
There's no doubt about it.
40:38
Not even a little bit of a question
40:39
about it.
40:40
This is driving inflation.
40:44
Uh I think it's it's difficult generally on
40:47
the economy.
40:50
It is challenging for all of us.
40:53
We have to adjust to the high gas
40:54
prices.
40:57
People who drive big vehicles, farmers, farmers are
40:59
getting hit really hard.
41:02
I've talked about that recently.
41:04
Yeah, there's no question that it's it's hurting
41:06
Americans.
41:10
It's affecting Americans.
41:13
So we we have to be aware of
41:14
that.
41:15
We have to be sensitive to that.
41:16
But President Trump is saying, well, it's not
41:18
really not really what I'm thinking about right
41:19
now.
41:21
I'm thinking about we've got to shut down
41:22
Iran.
41:24
We can't allow them to have nuclear weapons.
41:28
So at the same time, the question is,
41:30
well, what do we do?
41:31
How do we manage?
41:32
How do we move forward in a world
41:34
where inflation is what it is?
41:37
Inflation is super high.
41:41
Or moderately high, I should say.
41:44
How do we move forward?
41:45
What do we do?
41:48
Do we wring our hands?
41:50
Do we skip payments?
41:51
Do we uh what do we do?
41:55
Well, I think the solution is in finding
41:58
opportunities and living within our means.
42:00
Within our means.
42:01
I can not ever overemphasize or overstate the
42:01
I can not ever overemphasize or overstate the
42:05
importance of living within our means.
42:05
importance of living within our means.
42:10
And that's just that it's a philosophy that
42:10
And that's just that it's a philosophy that
42:12
I've adhered to my entire life.
42:12
I've adhered to my entire life.
42:15
And I I've read so many books from
42:15
And I I've read so many books from
42:18
so many financial experts that all say the
42:18
so many financial experts that all say the
42:21
same thing.
42:21
same thing.
42:24
You've got to live within your means.
42:24
You've got to live within your means.
42:26
If you overspend, if you overextend yourself, if
42:26
If you overspend, if you overextend yourself, if
42:28
you over.
42:29
you over-leverage, you're going to get burned.
42:33
And millions of Americans right now are getting
42:35
burned.
42:37
It's there, there are a lot of Americans
42:40
who are way, way, way, way, way over
42:43
leveraged on their houses, on their cars, on
42:46
their phones, even their cell phones.
42:49
They're paying like $1,500 for a cell phone.
42:52
And I'm like, what in the world?
42:53
It's literally just a phone.
42:57
Well, I got to have the best.
42:58
I got to have the newest.
42:59
I have to have, you know, all the
43:01
bells and whistles.
43:02
No, you don't.
43:03
Vacations, people maxing out credit cards on their
43:05
vacations.
43:08
Meanwhile, the CEO of Visa and MasterCard, they're
43:11
in China.
43:14
They went to China with President Trump.
43:16
They rode on Air Force One.
43:20
So Americans need to wise up a little
43:22
bit and realize we've got to live within
43:24
our means.
43:26
Because anything can happen at any time.
43:29
And we need to be prepared for it.
43:30
We need to be financially prepared for it.
43:32
We need to be prepared for emergencies.
43:34
We need to have an emergency fund.
43:37
They recommend at least three to six months'
43:38
worth of pay.
43:40
If you lost your job or got hurt
43:42
or whatever it was, could you could you
43:44
live comfortably for the next three to six
43:46
months?
43:50
Most Americans have no emergency fund whatsoever.
43:55
They couldn't even scrape together together a thousand
43:58
dollars if an emergency came up.
44:02
A thousand dollars is nothing now.
44:05
So easy.
44:06
You can rack that up in gas over
44:09
the course of a couple months.
44:13
The way gas prices are thousand dollars is
44:15
nothing.
44:18
So we we've got to get control.
44:20
We've got to get control of our finances.
44:23
We've got to get control of our debt.
44:24
We've got to live within our means.
44:27
But we also need to look for opportunity.
44:30
And there is plenty, plenty, plenty of opportunity
44:32
out there.
44:35
And again, Mike Rowe, he's talking about the
44:37
trades and talking about how electricians, that's just
44:40
one example.
44:43
But data center electricians are earning 260,000 a
44:46
year.
44:48
And these these recruiters are hunting these people
44:50
down.
44:53
They're poaching them.
44:54
And they're young, the young people.
44:58
They've never gone to college, they don't have
44:59
any debt.
45:01
They're starting off making 260k a year.
45:05
That's incredible.
45:06
Do you realize the kind of opportunity?
45:10
And it's not just this job, it's there
45:11
are millions of jobs out there.
45:13
I want to play for you a little
45:14
bit of a clip.
45:16
This is a clip of Mike Rowe, and
45:18
he's talking about this very thing.
45:20
Listen to what he says.
45:33
Meanwhile, we have 7.6 million open jobs according
45:36
to the BLS.
45:38
Two-thirds of which don't require a four-year degree,
45:41
and many of which offer a six-figure salary.
45:44
Now, in a perfect world, we'd connect those
45:46
7.2 million men currently sitting on their ass
45:48
with these 7.6 million open positions, but the
45:50
world isn't perfect.
45:53
So what we do at MicroWorks instead is
45:55
offer work ethics scholarships to men and women
45:57
who want to work.
45:59
Specifically men and women who want to learn
46:01
a skill that's in demand.
46:03
If that sounds like you, go get some.
46:07
Interesting.
46:09
7.6 million jobs that are open right now.
46:14
They're vacant.
46:16
Those are walk-in ready jobs.
46:19
Two-thirds of which don't require a college education.
46:25
And yet, people drives me crazy.
46:28
They complain about, oh well, there's nothing out
46:30
there.
46:31
There are no jobs.
46:32
I can't find work anywhere.
46:34
Have you looked?
46:39
These are not phantom jobs.
46:41
These are not mystery jobs that you have
46:44
to look under rocks and and uh you
46:47
know come up with a treasure map and
46:49
figure out where they're at.
46:52
They're out there, they're available.
46:55
There are literally people hunting people down, looking
46:59
for people to work in these positions.
47:04
I know in my own town, it's really
47:05
interesting.
47:06
We have such a shortage of dentists.
47:10
We have a major shortage of dentists.
47:14
There are headhunter agencies that they they literally
47:18
hire headhunters to find dentists, and we still
47:23
can't find any.
47:34
Anybody, anybody with a pulse, I think, would
47:38
probably fit right in.
47:42
They'd be like, yep, join, join.
47:44
I mean, that's how desperate they are.
47:46
They cannot find dentists, doctors, nurses, same thing.
47:54
They're desperate.
47:56
Electricians, plumbers, butchers, the list goes on and
48:00
on and on.
48:04
We are absolutely desperate, desperate to find people.
48:11
And we can't do it.
48:14
These jobs have vacancies like you wouldn't believe.
48:17
That's just in my area.
48:19
I know for 100% fact that this is
48:21
the case, and this is being replicated all
48:23
across America.
48:27
And yet people are complaining because the gas
48:29
price jumped up $2 a gallon.
48:34
And I'm I'm telling you, if we really
48:38
understood the opportunity that's out there, and that's
48:41
just employment, the opportunity to invest is unlimited.
48:46
There are so many different ways to invest.
48:49
And I think that's what makes this country
48:51
so great.
48:52
Again, that's the uniqueness of America.
48:56
Name another country where there are literally 7.6
48:59
million jobs just waiting for people to walk
49:00
7.6 million jobs just waiting for people to
49:01
into.
49:02
walk into.
49:04
And at the same time, you have over
49:04
And at the same time, you have over
49:06
7 million able bodied men who are parked
49:07
7 million able bodied men who are parked
49:09
who are not working.
49:09
who are not working.
49:12
You make that make sense for me.
49:12
You make that make sense for me.
49:15
What other country do you have people who
49:15
What other country do you have people who
49:17
turn their noses up at jobs?
49:17
turn their noses up at jobs?
49:20
They'd rather stay at home and complain about
49:20
They'd rather stay at home and complain about
49:22
the the price of things and how the
49:22
the price of things and how the government's
49:24
government's not doing anything and the government's not
49:24
not doing anything and the government's not really
49:27
really helping me out.
49:27
helping me out.
49:30
In what other country do you have that
49:32
kind of opportunity?
49:34
Where they're literally begging people.
49:38
They're begging people to work these jobs.
49:41
And people are sitting home, an equal number
49:43
of people are sitting at home saying, eh,
49:45
no thanks.
49:48
Not really anything out there.
49:50
You know, to be able to have that
49:51
kind of freedom, it's it is it is
49:53
wild.
49:55
We should never take that for granted.
49:58
That this is our economy.
49:59
And President Trump, I happen to agree with
50:01
him.
50:05
In the fact that it's not his primary
50:07
concern.
50:08
Maybe he could have worded that a little
50:10
bit more eloquently.
50:13
But man, it's not the president's job to
50:16
worry about Jimmy Hinton and whether he's making
50:19
his house payments or not.
50:23
Or whatever it is.
50:25
It's up to you and I.
50:50
If you talk to any successful person in
50:52
any field whatsoever, they'll all tell you the
50:54
same thing.
50:56
Failure was part of the plan.
50:59
We learn to fail and to pick ourselves
51:01
back up and to dust ourselves off and
51:03
to try again.
51:06
Most people, most entrepreneurs who own businesses have
51:11
failed multiple times, many times.
51:16
And they've they've collected themselves and dusted themselves
51:20
off, tried something different, tried a different avenue.
51:24
Some people have tried a different profession altogether.
51:29
Where in the world, where else do you
51:31
have that kind of freedom?
51:33
You want to try that in China?
51:35
You want to move to Russia and try
51:37
that out.
51:39
You want to move to Cuba, give that
51:41
a whirl.
51:45
You want to move to Canada, even.
51:54
But not like America.
51:56
There's not the kind of economic freedom and
51:59
availability for the types of jobs and the
52:02
and the pay for the jobs that we
52:05
have right here in this great nation.
52:09
And so as we celebrate our 250 years,
52:12
I think we really need to celebrate the
52:15
fact that there's so much opportunity.
52:18
This is the year of opportunity.
52:21
And it's not like it's only going to
52:22
be this year.
52:23
I think for the foreseeable future, that door
52:26
has been kicked wide open.
52:29
And we can either sit around and complain,
52:32
talk about how bad things are and how
52:35
high gas prices are, or we can find
52:37
opportunities.
52:41
Opportunities to invest, opportunities to grow, opportunities to
52:45
expand, opportunities to learn new trades.
52:52
Yeah, if I wasn't the agent I'm at,
52:54
and if I didn't like my job in
52:56
a heartbeat, I'd go out, I'd learn to
52:58
be an electrician.
53:02
I have a basic knowledge, but I'd I'd
53:04
go to a trade school, I'd learn to
53:06
be an electrician, and I'd start hammering out
53:08
some of these.
53:11
Yeah, I'd I'd settle for 260 grand a
53:12
year.
53:15
Heck yeah.
53:16
Sign me up.
53:19
But I'm at a place in life where
53:20
I don't need it.
53:22
I don't need that kind of income.
53:23
I don't uh I don't want to move
53:25
around.
53:26
I I like being at home with my
53:27
family.
53:28
I I like being local, I like working
53:30
with the church.
53:32
I I'm perfectly happy.
53:34
But for people who are stuck, what I'm
53:36
saying is there is a way out.
53:37
There's always a way out.
53:39
There's always a way to expand and to
53:42
grow and to mature and uh to become
53:45
financially stable, to learn to budget.
53:48
If if if budgeting's not your thing, there
53:51
are so many tools out there.
53:53
So many tools at your fingertips.
53:56
Free, all free, 100% free.
54:01
There's no excuse, not in this great nation.
54:06
There's no excuse if you're healthy and you're
54:08
able to work, there's no excuse to say
54:10
that you're stuck and that there's nothing out
54:12
there.
54:15
I love that we have this kind of
54:17
opportunity, and I think I really do.
54:19
I think that great things are going to
54:21
come out of this trip from China.
54:23
I think a lot of doors are going
54:25
to open up.
54:27
Clearly, people who own these companies and are
54:30
the CEOs of some of the wealthiest companies,
54:33
clearly they believe in the vision.
54:37
Or they would have never gone on that
54:40
plane with President Trump.
54:42
You know, it's really interesting.
54:44
I'll bet you, I'll bet you there's a
54:46
good mix of Democrats and Republicans who are
54:48
on that airplane.
54:51
You can't tell me that all the CEOs
54:53
of all the top companies are all Republicans
54:56
and they're all MAGA.
55:00
Not a chance.
55:03
And so this is an opportunity that they
55:05
see.
55:07
They don't care about politics.
55:08
They don't care about whether you're a Democrat
55:10
or Republican.
55:13
They saw this as an opportunity, and they
55:15
know that the companies that are big are
55:17
going to get bigger.
55:20
President Trump is wheeling and dealing as we
55:23
speak.
55:25
He's always wheeling and dealing.
55:27
But he's wheeling and dealing.
55:29
And he's thinking about the economy generally.
55:32
It's up to us individually to step into
55:35
that opportunity and to take advantage of it.
55:38
And I promise, when you do that, it
55:39
really is.
55:41
I can't express to you how free you
55:44
feel when you're debt-free, when when you're growing
55:47
wealth, you don't have to have this massive,
55:50
you don't have to make 260 grand a
55:54
year to be able to do that.
55:58
We all have the opportunity.
55:59
We just have to live within our means.
56:00
We just have to live within our means.
56:02
We have to look for those opportunities and
56:02
We have to look for those opportunities and
56:04
take them.
56:04
take them.
56:06
Thank God that we live in an nation
56:06
Thank God that we live in an nation
56:09
where those opportunities abound.
56:09
where those opportunities abound.
56:14
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56:14
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56:16
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56:29
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