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Mark interviews Fox News contributor Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Where you York comes for common sense? Mark Simone on
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  Speaker 1: sevent ten.
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  Speaker 2: Wr Well, Liz Peak, the brilliant columnist. Course you see
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  Speaker 2: her all over television, and make sure you go to
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  Speaker 2: her website where you get the best news and analysis.
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  Speaker 2: It's lizpeak dot com and you can sign up. They'll
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  Speaker 2: email you every day with all the latest great news, analysis,
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of interesting stuff. Lizpeak dot com. Liz Peak.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I am terrific. I'm recovering from Thanksgiving? How about you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad it's over because I don't want one
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  Speaker 2: more person. What do you do on Thanksgiving? Everybody has
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  Speaker 2: the same stupid story. You know. I went to my sister,
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  Speaker 2: we went to my uncle's, we went to my daughter.
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  Speaker 2: It's all the same. It's like saying, what do you have?
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  Speaker 2: Still the same?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? What did you have for Thanksgiving dinner?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Turkey?
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  Speaker 2: So Hey, New York where we're talking about this. Apparently
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  Speaker 2: you cannot get a hotel room in New York City
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  Speaker 2: in the coming weeks. Real estate agents said they got
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  Speaker 2: tons of clients. So I guess people a't afraid of mom? Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: Should we just figure things will be like de Blasio
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  Speaker 2: we'll get through it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: People are downplaying the radical team he is assembling. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it is radical, Mark, You've got to say. I
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  Speaker 3: mean he's got someone a newly appointed person to watch
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  Speaker 3: to head up the transportation Department, who I guess is
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  Speaker 3: anti car so that's a useful kind of credential for
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  Speaker 3: figuring out how to improve our traffic. He's got an
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  Speaker 3: education head who is viciously anti Charter, so that's not
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  Speaker 3: very wonderful. I mean, if you just kind of look
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  Speaker 3: at all the various things he's done, other than keeping
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  Speaker 3: Jessica Tish the police commissioner, in place, I'd say pretty
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  Speaker 3: much everything he's done is right out of the most
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  Speaker 3: left wing handbook you could possibly write, and not very encouraging.
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  Speaker 3: Are people basically looking past it? I don't think they
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  Speaker 3: know what to expect, Bark. I mean, we had a
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  Speaker 3: horrible mayor, build a Blasio for eight years, despised by
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  Speaker 3: everybody I know and that you know, who had horrible policies,
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  Speaker 3: wrecked a prosperous safe.
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  Speaker 1: City, and he really did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he came in after twelve years twelve years
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  Speaker 3: of Mike Bloomberg, who whether you love Mike Bloomberg or not.
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  Speaker 3: He promoted a safe city, prosperous city, attracted new industries
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  Speaker 3: to our town, et cetera, and build a Blasio basically
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  Speaker 3: set out to undermine all of that, which was just
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  Speaker 3: an astonishing decision. So you know, I think they're sort
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  Speaker 3: of thinking, well, if we could survive Deblasio, we could
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  Speaker 3: survive this guy. But you know, I think this guy's worse.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Deblasio was so kind of all over the place. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: ideologically left wing, but really really lazy and inefficient and incompetent.
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  Speaker 3: This guy, who knows maybe turns out to be more competent,
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  Speaker 3: and that'd be really a disaster for us.
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  Speaker 2: Although everything we've just said is identical to de Blasio.
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  Speaker 2: He had a transportation guy, he hated cars, he had
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  Speaker 2: a yeah it was anti charter, and he brought in
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  Speaker 2: a top police commissionerybody respected Bill Braddon. So most of
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  Speaker 2: these people with Mam Donnie are ex de Blasio administration people.
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  Speaker 1: But that's true, That is true.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, really other than Harvard hiring Deblasio to teach
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  Speaker 3: courses there, which really just makes your head explode when
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  Speaker 3: you realize that he was truly one of the worst
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  Speaker 3: mayor for the city history. It's hard to find anyone
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  Speaker 3: who could really imagine that hiring the people left over
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  Speaker 3: from his dreadful and by the way, somewhat.
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  Speaker 1: Corrupt regime would be people you want to hire. But
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  Speaker 1: there you are. And it's not just Deblasio people.
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  Speaker 3: I mean also, Mam Donnie's hiring this has hired this person,
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  Speaker 3: Lena Khan. Lena Khan is someone who has made a
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  Speaker 3: reputation as being basically anti big business. She was part
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  Speaker 3: of the Biden administration and worked very hard to undermine
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  Speaker 3: any kind of mergers and combinations that would work for business,
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  Speaker 3: arguing that anything big was bad. So you know, that's
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  Speaker 3: not a great sign, right in terms of his interest
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  Speaker 3: in fomenting successful businesses in New York. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: there's much you can sort of hang on to here.
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  Speaker 1: In the way of good news.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, we all we always look forward to
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  Speaker 3: something getting better.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope it does.
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  Speaker 3: I hope, I hope the cold water of reality washes
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  Speaker 3: over this guy and his group and they realize that
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  Speaker 3: they actually have to promote progress here and not just ideology.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, you were talking of this before the big
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  Speaker 2: beautiful bill had the biggest tax cuts ever. But people say, well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel it, whereas it well, it doesn't kick
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  Speaker 2: in until January, so once you get past the new year,
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  Speaker 2: these tax cuts and other things kick in. So it
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  Speaker 2: could be a very very good year for the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it will be, certainly Kevin Hasset, who's head
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  Speaker 3: of the Council of Economic Advisors, Scott Besson, the Treasury
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  Speaker 3: Secretary of all but they've both talked about it being
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  Speaker 3: a gangbuster twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, some of it is.
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  Speaker 3: Because of not only pro business tax deductions and write
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  Speaker 3: offs and so forth that will encourage investment by businesses,
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  Speaker 3: but also for people. I mean, you're getting a bigger
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  Speaker 3: standard deduction, you're getting no taxes on tips at a
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  Speaker 3: certain level. You know, there's a lot of good news
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  Speaker 3: to come out of this tax bill. It is really
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  Speaker 3: amazing to me Mark how bad Republicans are at promoting
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  Speaker 3: policies that have been in place, like the big Beautiful Bill,
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  Speaker 3: when it was last time you ever heard of Republican
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  Speaker 3: in Congress actually extolling the benefits of this. They're in
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  Speaker 3: a defensive crouch because Democrats have been hammering away on
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  Speaker 3: how it's only a handout for the rich. Mind you,
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  Speaker 3: any tax cuts are a handout to people who pay taxes,
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  Speaker 3: and yes, that's probably not the bottom forty percent of
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  Speaker 3: the country who pay no taxes.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a bill that will help.
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  Speaker 3: I also think that twenty twenty six, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: actually see the incoming money from companies and countries that
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  Speaker 3: A vowed to spend a lot of money in new
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  Speaker 3: investments in the United States. This is not a fiction.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats totally dismissed this. But you've had many pharmaceutical companies
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  Speaker 3: saying they're going to build new facilities in America. Many
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  Speaker 3: countries are coming here to build data centers and other operations.
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  Speaker 3: Factories are expanding. If you look on the website, the
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  Speaker 3: White House website has a list of it, and it
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  Speaker 3: is hundreds of billions of dollars. It's really impressive. Now
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  Speaker 3: are we seeing it right now? We are seeing I
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  Speaker 3: think I did a search recently of new factories that
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  Speaker 3: are shovel in the ground.
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  Speaker 1: There are maybe twenty of them underway now. Mark.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to accelerate next year, and you're going to
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  Speaker 3: see the benefits of that in terms of hiring, construction hiring,
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  Speaker 3: eventually factory hiring, and also production here in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Will it all be as labor intensive as factories in
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  Speaker 3: the past. No, We're going to have more AI, more robotics,
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  Speaker 3: but better here producing value added than overseas. And I
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  Speaker 3: think I think, you know, coming into the midterms, Republicans
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  Speaker 3: are going to need to have a good economic story.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a very good chance they will have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, years ago, we decided to outsource all
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  Speaker 2: our manufacturing, and people argued, it's a nightmare as far
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  Speaker 2: as defense. You know, we can't have all our weapons,
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  Speaker 2: our medicines, everything made of It's got all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think we ever realized in the end,
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  Speaker 2: as much as it might save money on manufacturing, it
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  Speaker 2: would economically damage the country. So God for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: right bringing it back.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, and you know, Joe Biden talked about on
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  Speaker 3: shore and bringing stuff back to the United States, but
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  Speaker 3: really didn't do anything to promote that, because what do
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  Speaker 3: you need to do.
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  Speaker 1: You need to lower taxes, what did Biden do? He
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  Speaker 1: raise taxes? You need to reduce regulations, what did Biden do?
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  Speaker 1: He increase regulation. So yes, the Trump story is a
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  Speaker 1: very good story.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of country companies in Europe and Asia are
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  Speaker 3: looking at the United States and saying, hey, here's a
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  Speaker 3: pro business administration. If we can come in there and
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  Speaker 3: take advantage of again copious energy, low taxes, and regulation,
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  Speaker 3: we want to be there. You know, talk to any
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  Speaker 3: business manager in Europe. Operating in Europe is a disaster,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, more and more the head of the
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  Speaker 3: EU is talking about how they have to get in
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  Speaker 3: line with the kinds of policies that we're adopting, because
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  Speaker 3: otherwise they are dead.
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  Speaker 1: They are just basically dead in the water. They're not growing.
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  Speaker 3: The United States is growing, and that is the difference
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  Speaker 3: between poverty and productivity and profitability. And Americans really can
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  Speaker 3: look forward to that. These aren't just talking points. This
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  Speaker 3: is actually how the world works. And if you look,
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  Speaker 3: there's been a fifteen year period up through twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: three where I think the United States grew eighty seven
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  Speaker 3: percent and Europe grew about ten percent. That is literally true,
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  Speaker 3: and boyd the difference in terms of people's income, people
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  Speaker 3: quality of life is vast, and Americans really kind of
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  Speaker 3: need to take stock of that and count their blessings
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  Speaker 3: and say, yeah, you know, we want to grow. We
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  Speaker 3: want to add jobs for people, we want to add
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  Speaker 3: wealth to people. That's what makes our country special. So
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think this is all going to work.
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  Speaker 3: It's just right now. You know, you have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of obstructionist judges slowing up the works in terms of
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  Speaker 3: getting rid of regulation, and not all the states are
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  Speaker 3: on board to this. But I think honestly, the long
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  Speaker 3: term picture here is still very very clear and very positive.
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  Speaker 2: Very well said Liz Peak. Brilliant as always. If you
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  Speaker 2: want that kind of great news analysis, make sure you
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  Speaker 2: to lizpeak dot com, P E E. Klizpeak dot com. Lizpeak,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Mark, thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Take care, Take care, Hey, We got a lot to
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