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AFP - Calls Out Hypocrisy in Democrats’ Affordability Rhetoric · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Krc the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: Seven nine. It's Wednesday, and a happy one to you.
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  Speaker 2: Mornings from America from Americans for Prosperity. Donovan O'Neil, it's
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  Speaker 2: always a pleasure to have in you on the show,
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  Speaker 2: Donovan Brian, Happy Wednesday to you. I'm happy you bringing
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  Speaker 2: up the topic today that you want to bring about,
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  Speaker 2: the affordability argument. Democrats have just a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: to hang their hat on as we move toward election.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the anti Ice and their immigration policy standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if that's going to benefit them or not.
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  Speaker 2: I know the anti Ice rhetoric is getting hotter and
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  Speaker 2: every day, but it seems to me based on prior pulling.
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  Speaker 2: The vast majority of Americans are happy to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of murderers, rapists, child molesters, drug dealers, illegal immigrants, most
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  Speaker 2: notably with criminal records representing a danger to society. Most
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  Speaker 2: people want them out. So will the Democrats be able
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  Speaker 2: to win on that anti Ice strategy remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 2: The other one, of course, subsidies for Obamacare, which doesn't
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  Speaker 2: fix the problem of the expense of healthcare. Will that
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  Speaker 2: work for him? Don't know. But the third one that
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  Speaker 2: I can come up with, other than just Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: evil orange man, the affordability argument. Everything's unaffordable. You know
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  Speaker 2: this overlooks at least the initial argument is disingenuous because well,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Joe Biden's responsible for a large portion of
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  Speaker 2: the massive increase in prices of goods and services we face,
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  Speaker 2: because he's the one that threw an initial eight or
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  Speaker 2: so trillion dollars into the world, which of course waters
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  Speaker 2: down the value of the currency. So moving aside from that,
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  Speaker 2: they're the ones that put in all kinds of rules
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  Speaker 2: and regulations, forcing the price of gasoline to go through
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  Speaker 2: the roof environmental regulations which increase the cost of electricity,
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  Speaker 2: housing restrictions, water flow restrictions, Lord Almighty, I could go
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  Speaker 2: on for hours and hours about things that politicians due
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  Speaker 2: to us, Donovan, which increase the cost of living in
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  Speaker 2: our world, which would not have happened in normal economic
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  Speaker 2: factor situations. I used the price of eggs earlier. Sorry
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  Speaker 2: for the rant, Donovan, but I'm a little hot into
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  Speaker 2: the collar on this one. You can't control the price
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  Speaker 2: of eggs unless you somehow get involved with environmental regulations
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  Speaker 2: or rules about egg production, et cetera, et cetera. If
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  Speaker 2: you got bird flu and the chickens die, the price
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  Speaker 2: of eggs is going to go up. So there's no
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  Speaker 2: legislative solution for that. But most everything else people are
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  Speaker 2: complaining about, it's a self inflicted wound from overly zealous regulators,
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  Speaker 2: people who want to get rid of plant food from
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  Speaker 2: the environment. I could go on and on, Donovan, how
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  Speaker 2: come this isn't you know resonating with the American people
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  Speaker 2: that these are self inflicted wounds, And well, our politicians
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  Speaker 2: and elected officials could easily relieve the burden of all
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  Speaker 2: of this stuff just by removing the regulatory burdens they
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  Speaker 2: threw in our way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I share the UH. I share the sentiment on
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  Speaker 1: a Wednesday morning. It is rantworthy because you just kind
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  Speaker 1: of slap your face and wonder, how the heck are
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  Speaker 1: we in this situation? You know, Chuck Schumer, Center Schumer,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi Democrats. We've noticed they've started an uptick in
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  Speaker 1: talking about things to the lens of affordability. And you
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  Speaker 1: look at that and you say, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You are the fools.
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  Speaker 1: Who, you know, over the Biden Economy Eras era enacted
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  Speaker 1: five point five trillion in new spending that pushed us
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  Speaker 1: up to forty year record high inflation. You're the same
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  Speaker 1: folks who believe that top down government policies on emission
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  Speaker 1: standards and the kinds of vehicles we can buy, and
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  Speaker 1: the tax credits for evs and the desire to like
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  Speaker 1: over the next decade or two eliminate, you know, affordable
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  Speaker 1: gas powered vehicles. You're the folks who did this. The
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  Speaker 1: affordability crisis that Americans have been feeling for the last
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  Speaker 1: several years that were beginning to find our way out of,
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  Speaker 1: was caused by the policy, the very policies that folks
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  Speaker 1: like Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jefferies, Greg Landsman, sher Brown and
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  Speaker 1: others want to see brought back to this country. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's why we're in the situation we're in,
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  Speaker 1: these top down policies, mandates pushed from Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: Or Columbus, Ohio, that make life less affordable for so
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  Speaker 1: many people.
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  Speaker 2: Well and in the economic reality of all this is
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  Speaker 2: revealed in the well the most recent statements from the
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  Speaker 2: Governor of California, Gavin Newsom. Last week he did the
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  Speaker 2: State of the State address, and among the other comments
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  Speaker 2: he made, we California are approving that out of the
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  Speaker 2: mouse in his pocket, are proving that a progressive tax
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  Speaker 2: structure works, and that in the following week he is
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  Speaker 2: advocating against voting for the five percent tax on the
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  Speaker 2: wealth of residence with a network of the worth of
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  Speaker 2: a billiona Moore. Why because they all the billionaires started
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  Speaker 2: leaving the state of California last December. Because this would
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  Speaker 2: be a retroactive tax to anybody who is still residing
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  Speaker 2: in California. It's been reported. I saw the Washington Times
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  Speaker 2: report on this that one bill a trillion dollars of
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  Speaker 2: the two trillion dollars in billionaire wealth that existed in
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  Speaker 2: California has left, So those folks have gone to Texas
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  Speaker 2: and Florida, among other places. They're running away from outrageous regulation,
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  Speaker 2: outrageous taxation, all these things that the government did to them.
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  Speaker 2: And now they've got this bounty on their heads taking
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  Speaker 2: five percent of their gross ownings or everything of their
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  Speaker 2: material wealth, which means a lot of them would have
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  Speaker 2: to liquidate things they own. We've talked about this in
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  Speaker 2: the past. They don't have cash on hand to pay
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  Speaker 2: billions of dollars in this tax. No, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to sell stuff they own to do it. It's
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  Speaker 2: a recipe for disaster. As Governor Newsom is finding out,
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  Speaker 2: this is what they did to themselves. Can we not
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  Speaker 2: learn a lesson from the cautionary tale that is the
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  Speaker 2: state of California and it's colossally screwed up budget deficits
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  Speaker 2: in spite of how much they exact from their citizens.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and just look at the Obamacare debacle in this
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  Speaker 1: current debate around the ACA subsidies, right, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: look at the election in twenty twenty four is where Ohioans,
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  Speaker 1: you know, had been told for a decade by by
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  Speaker 1: some by people like Shared Brown that Obamacare, the affordable
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  Speaker 1: so called affordable character is going to lower costs in
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  Speaker 1: their healthcare. We knew that wasn't going to be the case.
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  Speaker 1: We called that those of us who know that that
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  Speaker 1: when you force mandates down on people, and you you
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  Speaker 1: constrain systems, and you you don't let the free market operate,
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  Speaker 1: costs go up, pain ensues. But they rejected those ideas, right.
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  Speaker 1: They had finally said enough is enough, there's no more
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  Speaker 1: making a bad system work. We need to change course.
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  Speaker 1: And they did that right least so by electing Senator
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Moreno. I think these same policies though, are you know,
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  Speaker 1: around affordability or a challenge in that it's the to
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  Speaker 1: say to to the voter, to the citizen, just give
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  Speaker 1: me a little more control, right, let me pass some
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  Speaker 1: more laws, some more rules, some more regulations. I can
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  Speaker 1: I can fix your problem. That's the politician at large, right,
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  Speaker 1: the Washington d C.
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  Speaker 2: Environment.
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  Speaker 1: What we really want though, and I think what voters
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  Speaker 1: will reward come November isn't polishing all their problems, or
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  Speaker 1: pass a law, or spend more of their harder and
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  Speaker 1: tax dollars, you know, robbing Peter to pay.
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  Speaker 2: Paul.
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  Speaker 1: I think what voters are going to reward are bold
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  Speaker 1: lawmakers who charted different course. It's why folks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: even when they're upset with Trump, still love them, right,
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  Speaker 1: because he's doing something and he's moving he's moving the
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  Speaker 1: country in a in a in a in a different
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  Speaker 1: way than that that sort of status quo. Right. And
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  Speaker 1: but what it also takes isn't just bold leaders who
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  Speaker 1: are going to chart a different course. Uh, We've got
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  Speaker 1: to go out there and we've got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: these things. We have to actually communicate with voters that hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, putting a subsidy on one thing isn't the
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  Speaker 1: best course. Russian need to unravel that system and free
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  Speaker 1: let the free market lead.
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  Speaker 2: Well at free market lead, but also don't mask the
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  Speaker 2: reality of what's going on here. They promised to lower
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  Speaker 2: health care costs. They're not lowering health care costs. The
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  Speaker 2: reason the premiums have gone through the rules because the
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  Speaker 2: cost of healthcare hasn't come down. That's what happens. They
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  Speaker 2: are masking the cost. Masking by giving you a subsidy
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  Speaker 2: to cover the premium does not eradicate the underlying problem
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  Speaker 2: with the outrageous increase in the cost of medicine. Why
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  Speaker 2: is the cost of medicine so damn expensive, Donovan, That's
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  Speaker 2: the root of the problem. That's what needs to be
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  Speaker 2: a deealt with Donald Trump reacts by saying, Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: want Most Favored Nation status for pharmaceuticals. If X country
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  Speaker 2: gets to buy a pharmaceutical for ten bucks and we're
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  Speaker 2: paying one hundred in the state or in the states, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to become ten. That's a solution. Agree with
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  Speaker 2: it or not from a market force perspective. However, the
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  Speaker 2: pharmaceuticals run, We're never going to have any new pharmaceuticals.
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  Speaker 2: If you do that, it's still a solution that goes
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  Speaker 2: directly to the cost of the good getting rid of
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  Speaker 2: pharmacy benefit managers, pointless stupid middlemen who are making the
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  Speaker 2: price of pharmatacles pharmaceuticals go through the roof. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: heard a whole lot of talk about that. That would
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  Speaker 2: is what I would think. It would be an easy
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  Speaker 2: legislative solution to part of the healthcare cost problem. But
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  Speaker 2: then you got this whole affordability thing, resulting in Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump doing things that Democrats might typically do, like mandating
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  Speaker 2: ten percent cap on credit card fees. Now, I know
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  Speaker 2: it's not an executive order, it's just an ask. But
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  Speaker 2: that's government telling business how to run itself. Telling institutional
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  Speaker 2: investors that they can't buy real estate sounds like a
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  Speaker 2: Democrat idea. Might it cause a little relief in home
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  Speaker 2: ownership issues maybe down the road, but you know, desperate
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  Speaker 2: times call for desperate actions. But you know, this affordability
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  Speaker 2: argument they've got has sort of sent Donald Trump over
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  Speaker 2: into the realm of Democrat proposals. Donovan O'Neil pause, answer
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  Speaker 2: that or address that we come back, As Joe's screaming
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  Speaker 2: at me, I have gone way over seven thirty nine
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  Speaker 2: right now. Fifty five krc DE talk station Zimmer Heating
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  Speaker 2: talk station Bryan Thomas with Americans for Prosperities, Donald Reneo.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry to rant and unload on you at the end
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  Speaker 2: of their bran a Donovan, but this is one that
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  Speaker 2: just irks me to know when if people paid attention
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  Speaker 2: and had some basic economic understanding, they would fully appreciate
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  Speaker 2: that most of this affordability crisis, if they want to
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  Speaker 2: call it, that is self inflected and I rambled on
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  Speaker 2: a little bit toward the end there. But your reaction
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  Speaker 2: to the extent you can manage one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, No, I think what you're pointing out there, right is,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a problem that is unique to one political party.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's natural human nature right to say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling some pain and if somebody can come along
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  Speaker 1: and make those promises to alleviate that pain, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to yield some of my freedom, some of my autonomy
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  Speaker 1: to them. Right. And the problem here is is as
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, I think the thing the
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  Speaker 1: illustrate here right is is Chuck Schumer Democrats in this
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  Speaker 1: election year start making that authoritability argument and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: give us back that power, give us that ability. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to pass some laws. We're going to tax the rich,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to regulate and secure the economy, and it's
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  Speaker 1: all going to get better. That's the playbook. We know
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  Speaker 1: that put us in the situation that we're in today,
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  Speaker 1: right And so you know, challenging that, pushing back against that,
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  Speaker 1: and pointing out that the way you actually solve this
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  Speaker 1: supportability crisis isn't a quicksilver bullet of an executive action
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  Speaker 1: or a new bill being passed. It's actually unwinding the
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  Speaker 1: disastrous effects of Bidenomics right by unleashing permitting reform, by
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  Speaker 1: eliminating subsidies to Obamacare that are masking the true costs
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  Speaker 1: of health care, by unleashing our economy, and allowing people
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  Speaker 1: to innovate and grow and create wealth once again in
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  Speaker 1: this country. Those are the things you got to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's really getting the government out of your life rather
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  Speaker 1: than inviting it further and deeper into our pocketbooks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, looking at the environ mental
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  Speaker 2: nonsense that I keep referring to the religion that we've
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  Speaker 2: all apparently following with the exception me heretic, I am blasphemer.
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  Speaker 2: But windmill and solar farm subsidies the only reason those
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  Speaker 2: things were even economically viable, it's that government manipulation. For
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  Speaker 2: whatever reason, they want to get rid of carbon based fuels,
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  Speaker 2: or you want to get rid of gasoline, the natural
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  Speaker 2: gas and all the things that work. They won't allow nuclear,
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  Speaker 2: even though we all know that that doesn't produce carbon dioxide.
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  Speaker 2: So we go to windmills and solar panels and they
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  Speaker 2: sell the idea that it's affordable and it will work
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  Speaker 2: because you and I are subsidizing the building and creation
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  Speaker 2: and acquisition of these windmill farms and solar plants. If
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  Speaker 2: real market forces were at work, and if government didn't
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  Speaker 2: subsidize them with our ever growing deficit dollars, then they
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be there as an option because they can't compete
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  Speaker 2: and they are unreliable.
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  Speaker 1: Well in, subsidies drive up the costs. You know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that Santa Marino had mentioned to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd looked into it, and that it appears to
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  Speaker 1: be true is not that I have any reason not
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  Speaker 1: to believe among this prime but the EV subsidies, seventy
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  Speaker 1: EV subsidies. Guess what happened when they eliminated those EV subsidies.
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  Speaker 1: Did the price day seventy five dollars higher? The price dropped.
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  Speaker 1: Subsidies artificially increased the price of goods and services. Right,
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  Speaker 1: because if if you're company and you're looking at that
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  Speaker 1: and you're saying, well, hey, look it's not gonna hurt
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  Speaker 1: my customers, they're gonna get it on the back end
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  Speaker 1: through these you know, through the taxpayer subsidies funded subsidies
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  Speaker 1: we'll just jack the prices up a little more and
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  Speaker 1: push our profits up.
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  Speaker 2: You know the funny part about that, DATAVA is, in
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  Speaker 2: spite of the subsidies, all the automobile manufacturers were losing money,
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  Speaker 2: losing money. They couldn't make money with a subsidy. Billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars written off by all these major automobile manufacturers
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  Speaker 2: because they chase this elusive zero carbon world that the
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  Speaker 2: government forced them to chase. A Cafe standards make it
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  Speaker 2: so much so that you can't have an internal combustion
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  Speaker 2: engine that could ever, because physics comes into equation. You
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  Speaker 2: can't change the law of physics. I'm sadly for some
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  Speaker 2: congressmen that don't understand that. But physics prevents you from
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  Speaker 2: getting whatever the CAFE standard is, so you got to
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  Speaker 2: default to EV. So you manufacture a bunch of evs
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  Speaker 2: to make your overall fleet look like it's compliant, but
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  Speaker 2: nobody's buying the damn evs, which means you end up
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  Speaker 2: making a loss on the production of EV's. Great yep, yep.
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  Speaker 1: It's the lunacy of top down control right with folks
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, bureaucrats in the you know, the deep state,
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  Speaker 1: say just trust me, right, you know the people don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: It's the trust the experts. Brian, Where have we been
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  Speaker 1: with that?
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  Speaker 2: We've heard that before. Trust the yea have ye for
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  Speaker 2: those who want to look back at the hockey stick
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  Speaker 2: when that was the religion and gospel for global warming. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they don't use that anymore. Dot of It or Neil
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