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"Counting Chickens or Playing Chicken?" (Tuesday November 11, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The long making out.
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  Speaker 2: At the beginning of the year, on your.
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  Speaker 3: To do list, putting the radio on is the first thing? Today?
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  Speaker 4: Really was a shutdown about nothing, Jewort.
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  Speaker 5: Said, steal me.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's about nothing, at least for work.
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  Speaker 5: When the sun comes up, drops a pet to school.
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  Speaker 7: Joe has everything, a Jane do all the Jasu said,
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  Speaker 7: it needs no one that Joe's has smiled.
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  Speaker 8: He on the s.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, I'd be Veterans Day to all those who serve.
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  Speaker 9: You.
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  Speaker 10: Well, maybe in philosophy, but even nothing is something.
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  Speaker 11: And this was the biggie, the hardest thing for them
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  Speaker 11: to agree to. No mass layoffs, no riffs into the future.
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  Speaker 11: Two million federal employees been waking up since January twenty
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  Speaker 11: expecting you to get a five three am email from
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  Speaker 11: the Doge Brothers or somebody telling them that their jobs
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  Speaker 11: are gone.
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  Speaker 8: We're now providing them that protection.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the shutdown was about. For those who were
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  Speaker 2: wondering if the shutdown was about healthcare or immigration or
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  Speaker 2: any number of those things, No, it was about protecting
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  Speaker 2: the bureaucracy class. And that's fair. I mean, they're humans.
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  Speaker 2: And if anyone wonders why this took place, right here
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  Speaker 2: at the very end of Virginia's election cycle. This is why,
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  Speaker 2: because you saw the results of Virginia's election cycle, and
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  Speaker 2: that's how they did the math. Donald Trump said it
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  Speaker 2: himself at the end of the shutdown. He said, this
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  Speaker 2: is about shutdown, but it was about shutdown and the
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  Speaker 2: federal bureaucracy losing their jobs. Raymond, always a great contributor
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  Speaker 2: to the program, sent me this email. Do we have
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  Speaker 2: time for it before our first things? And yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: have time real quick before our first things. This morning.
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  Speaker 2: Raise email said it all, he says, furiously looking for
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  Speaker 2: a piece of paper. It's on. Remember the primary function
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  Speaker 2: of any bureaucracy, as Senator Kane illustrates us, to prefer
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  Speaker 2: preserve and enhance itself Pornell's iron law of bureaucracy. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll get into that coming up. But now we really
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  Speaker 2: are at that point where we have to give everyone
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  Speaker 2: the first things, because you know the rules. I tell
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  Speaker 2: you what went on, We examine and give you our
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  Speaker 2: opinion of the debris field. Mostly we want to hear
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  Speaker 2: how it's impacting you where you are three four eight
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  Speaker 2: A two four two one seven. So our first things
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  Speaker 2: the shutdown at least in the Senate, as they're concerned,
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  Speaker 2: is done. Sixty forty was the vote, just like it
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  Speaker 2: was in the test session. Now it goes back to
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  Speaker 2: the House because there have been some amendments, like the
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  Speaker 2: deal to protect and rehire all the members of the
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  Speaker 2: federal bureaucracy that had been let go in reduction in
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  Speaker 2: force cuts. They also have kept some departments fully funded
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  Speaker 2: through September thirtieth of twenty twenty six, like agriculture see
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  Speaker 2: snap Benefits, and the legislative branch. So it's good to
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  Speaker 2: know that the congressional staff will keep getting paid if
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  Speaker 2: there's a partial government shut down again. On January thirtieth,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump said he would support the Senate agreement to
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  Speaker 2: end the government shut down, calling it a very good
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  Speaker 2: deal that he would abide by. Meanwhile, one of the
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  Speaker 2: key the parts of the deal to end the shutdown
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  Speaker 2: was that the Senate would debate the extension of the
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  Speaker 2: subsidies for premiums under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
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  Speaker 2: Act known as Obamacare. Meanwhile, Senator Roger Marshall says they
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  Speaker 2: have found and dusted off and perhaps tweaked one of
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  Speaker 2: those repeal and replace plans. According to Roger Marshall of Kentucky.
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: We've been working on this for years, he said. They
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  Speaker 2: planned to introduce a healthcare replacement bill side by side
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  Speaker 2: with Obamacare in December when they begin discussing the renewal
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  Speaker 2: of the subsidies for Republican senators are demanding information as
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  Speaker 2: to how the Biden administration's Department of Justice was able
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  Speaker 2: to go in and listen in and investigate their letters
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  Speaker 2: and their phone calls. Pam Bondi has been asked by
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  Speaker 2: Senators Marshall, Blackburn, Head Cruise, Josh Holly, and Rick Scott
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  Speaker 2: to unseal the DOJ application behind the non disclosure order
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  Speaker 2: that allowed for their surveillance under the January sixth ONUS.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: The International Olympic Committee appears to be moving towards declaring
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  Speaker 2: a complete ban on male born athletes competing in female
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  Speaker 2: categories across all sports. It's a policy likely to take
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  Speaker 2: effect in the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics, according to
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  Speaker 2: the Daily Mail. And the Supreme Court continues to weigh
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  Speaker 2: challenges to President's executive emergency authority to invoke tariffs on
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  Speaker 2: trading partners. Meanwhile, the President says there's two thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: checks coming to Americans as a dividend plus the reduction
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  Speaker 2: of the debts should be enough reason. Christmas season is
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  Speaker 2: upon us. And I know I'm not breaking any rules
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  Speaker 2: because we're giving away ticket. It's to the Trans Siberian Orchestra.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't rail about being into the Christmas spirit
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  Speaker 2: before Thanksgiving. And Janet Navarro is on with us. She's
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  Speaker 2: at the Academy Sports. Is sporting goods a big thing?
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  Speaker 12: and footwear.
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  Speaker 2: So what is it? Is it you know, running gear again?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it football? Is it fanware? Is what is
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  Speaker 2: moving the needle at Academy Sports.
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  Speaker 12: Well, the hottest of the gifts right now is going
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  Speaker 12: to tap for all the special moments throughout the entire
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  Speaker 12: holiday season. We also have a speaker that's louder than
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  Speaker 12: Christmas music. They're going to be able to hear from
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  Speaker 12: your house.
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  Speaker 6: Couldn't you at.
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  Speaker 8: Least tell her about the shrinkage?
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  Speaker 22: Friend, No, I'm not gonna tell her about your shrink
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 11: Senator kiss was the biggie The hardest thing for them
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  Speaker 11: to agree to.
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  Speaker 8: No mass layoffs, no rifts into the future.
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  Speaker 11: Two million federal employees have been waking up since January
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  Speaker 11: twenty expecting you to get a five to three am
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  Speaker 11: email from the Doge Brothers or somebody telling them that
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  Speaker 11: their jobs are gone. We're now providing them that protection.
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  Speaker 5: Going back into long wig.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, sir, the biggest many thanks, a growing thanks.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks on the ground.
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  Speaker 23: And the shot.
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  Speaker 2: Is it too trite to say you knew they were
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  Speaker 2: lying to you because their lips were moving? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what happened we were told? Let's go down the list
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  Speaker 2: of all the things that we were told. This shutdown
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  Speaker 2: was over healthcare for your neighbors, stopping your neighbors from
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  Speaker 2: being rounded up and taken to concentration camps, standing up
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  Speaker 2: to tyrants, making sure that grandma wasn't going to lose
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  Speaker 2: her healthcare. And those are just some of the hot hits.
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  Speaker 2: Those were the Billboard top five. I'm Casey Caseum today
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  Speaker 2: in the countdown. But apparently the shutdown was to get
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  Speaker 2: the bureaucracy their jobs back. People making six figure salaries,
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  Speaker 2: it's not easy to replace that. I understand. I have
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  Speaker 2: empathy for people who were right sized in the reduction
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  Speaker 2: of government, the reduction in force I've had to replace.
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  Speaker 2: I had to replace a seven figure salary. You know, now,
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  Speaker 2: what am I saying? Five figure salary? It went the
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  Speaker 2: wrong way? Pardon me, New York City School's math. I
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  Speaker 2: had to replace a five figure salary when I bought
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  Speaker 2: my own radio station. Still haven't completely done it, but
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: we're making ends meet. Of course, the leftists in Virginia
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  Speaker 2: call me an oligarch because I own a business and
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: don't treat my employees fairly. I guess I don't know,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: but I'm one of those rich guys they point at
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  Speaker 2: because I haven't taken a paycheck home in almost two years.
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  Speaker 2: But the bureaucrats, the bureaucrats that I have to beg
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  Speaker 2: for small business administration loans to move transmitter towers because
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  Speaker 2: that happens every day to radio stations or whatever challenge
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  Speaker 2: faces your business. Those those are the people that they
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  Speaker 2: are protecting. So Ray wrote in in a wonderful email,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't want to short shrift it by rushing
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  Speaker 2: through it before we headed to the news. Ray wrote in,
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  Speaker 2: remember Pornell's iron law of bureaucracy. You know we need
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  Speaker 2: the appropriate, the appropriate accompaniment to this. And this is
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite Eagles songs, but mostly because it's
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  Speaker 2: the soundtrack to a show called The Hitchhiker's Guide to
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  Speaker 2: the Galaxy. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a farcical
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  Speaker 2: piece of science fiction in which the great galactic villains,
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  Speaker 2: or a race called the Vogons, the Vogon's job to
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  Speaker 2: be the great galactic bureaucracy. I could go through the
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  Speaker 2: whole litany of what a vogon is, but I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: read it nearly as eloquently as Stephen Fry did in
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  Speaker 2: the film adaptation of the series. But if you've never
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  Speaker 2: seen it stars some big names like Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschannel,
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  Speaker 2: most Deaf Alan Rickman before he passed, some great names
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  Speaker 2: in there, and it's a funny story, But the most
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  Speaker 2: important part of the bureaucrats are the intergalactic enemy. No
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  Speaker 2: Darth Vader here, the Vogons. So with the appropriated company,
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  Speaker 2: let me read raise email Pornell's Iron Law of bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 2: The primary function of any bureaucracy, as Senator Kane illustrates
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  Speaker 2: or a Rights, is to preserve and enhance itself. Pornell's
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  Speaker 2: Iron Law of bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization,
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  Speaker 2: there will be two kinds of people. First, there will
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  Speaker 2: be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization.
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  Speaker 2: Examples are dedicated classroom teachers and an educational bureaucracy many
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  Speaker 2: of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA,
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  Speaker 2: even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet
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  Speaker 2: Union collective farming and administration. Second, there will be those
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  Speaker 2: dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many if the
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  Speaker 2: administrators in the educational system, many of the professors of education,
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  Speaker 2: many teachers, union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
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  Speaker 2: The Iron law states that in every case, the second
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  Speaker 2: group will gain and keep control of the organization. It
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  Speaker 2: will right the rules and control promotions within the organization.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go. Playa. We have discussed Fabian Trotsky, Pornell,
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  Speaker 2: and Douglas Adams all in the same radio program, all
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  Speaker 2: while hopefully having a few yucks along the way. Because
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  Speaker 2: all of these people, Ray I imagine you would agree,
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  Speaker 2: can't take sarcasm, can't take satire, but we must satirize
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  Speaker 2: them for our protection. But the danger is this is
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  Speaker 2: why our dollars are worth bupkiss, because we continue to
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  Speaker 2: send dollars to Vogsfear also known as Washington DC, and
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  Speaker 2: the promise that they will send this money back, that
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  Speaker 2: the money will be sent back in the largesse of
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  Speaker 2: a generous and giving government who cares for those who
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  Speaker 2: cannot care for themselves, aside from the dehumanizing, soul crushing
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: idea that you couldn't care for yourself if it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: for Uncle Sam paying the bill, which isn't true, by
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  Speaker 2: the way. It's why each year you need more money,
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  Speaker 2: because the one dollar you may send to Richmond or
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  Speaker 2: Sacramento or Albany or Hartford is only going to come
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  Speaker 2: back at about a rate of thirty to forty cents.
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  Speaker 2: If you're lucky, forty cents. Mostly it's more like thirty sense.
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  Speaker 2: The only organization I've come across in all my travels
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  Speaker 2: with a worse pass through rate than the US federal
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  Speaker 2: bureaucratic government giving system is the Billard Hillary Clinton Foundation.
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  Speaker 2: This is why when Haiti was devastated by a hurricane,
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  Speaker 2: they said no, no, no, no, We're going to rebuild it ourselves
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  Speaker 2: this time. Now, the question is did this admission by
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  Speaker 2: tim Kin come early enough or too early to be
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  Speaker 2: used against the reelection campaigns of all those who will
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  Speaker 2: try to redistrict their way into a majority in the House.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I have an interesting piece which
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  Speaker 2: I just discovered has been backed up by somebody else
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  Speaker 2: who calls it dummy mandering. But I just wrote this
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  Speaker 2: piece for the Daily Show.
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  Speaker 2: percentages are based on election results, not voter registrations because
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  Speaker 2: to forty eight. And there are several and I detailed
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  Speaker 2: Democrats usually have an eighteen percentage point advantage, Jennifer McLellan
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth seventeen percentage points, Don Bayer in the
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  Speaker 2: eighth congressional district twenty six points. Average electoral advantage for Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: So what they're doing in Virginia's redistricting, and I've compared
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  Speaker 2: percent Democrat majorities based on previous electoral results, still fairly
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  Speaker 2: of the way these districts are drawn in the areas
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  Speaker 2: of them, and any one of these folks can overcome
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  Speaker 2: Act that doesn't do well. So in order to get
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  Speaker 2: it passed, Nancy using a parliamentary procedure called deem and pass.
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  Speaker 2: And keep in mind she was Speaker of the House,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: which means the House of Representatives was majority Democrat. But
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: even then she couldn't get the Patient Protection and Affordable
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  Speaker 2: Care Act passed, so she used a procedure called deem
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: and pass, in which the Patient Protection an Affordable Care
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Act was stapled onto the back page of another bill
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: that had already passed. It was called an amendment. A
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  Speaker 2: committee that was heavily leveled to Nancy's supporters and Obama's supporters,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: deemed that it had already passed, so therefore it had passed,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: and it becomes law by the thinnest of margins. And
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: yet we act as if this was one of the
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  Speaker 2: damn things Moses came down from the mountain, witch Is
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  Speaker 2: uled into stone. And Republicans, who for four years made
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: a brave noise. Once they had regained majority in the
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: House in the midterms, Paul Ryan at al kept passing
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  Speaker 2: bills called Repeal and Replace one, repeal and Replace two,
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  Speaker 2: Son of Repeal and Replace, Son and daughter of Repeal
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: and Replace, Repeal and Replace two, Electric Boogaloo, Repeal and Replace,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: the reboot, the Kelvin timeline. It was all there. They
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: must have done a dozen versions of repeal and replace,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: none of them getting anywhere. Senate obstructionism, and even President
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Obama's interest in veto yams himself doa Then twenty sixteen happens,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: and there's Donald J. Trump in the Oval office. I
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: saw him. He was really there, with a majority in
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: the House and the Senate, and he said, send me
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: one of your repeal and replace bills. I'll sign it,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: and they wouldn't do it. It got so bad that
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: a dear personal friend of mine began his demise in
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Republican politics, which he's resurrecting to a degree out of
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: the strength of his own will, I believe. But a
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: congressman from Virginia tried to do what in congressional parlance
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: is another parliamentary procedure called a discharge petition. A discharge
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: petition is where congressman circumvinced the speaker to bring a
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: bill to the floor without the speaker's permission. Oh, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't realize the speaker has that kind of authority. Yes
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: they do. A bill can pass every committee with unanimous acclamation,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: and if the Speaker says nope, not going to the
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: floor for a vote, it never comes to the floor
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: for a vote unless a discharge petition is passed. He
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: wound up on the wrong end of that, wound up
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: actually getting yelled at by the President for making Paul
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Ryan look bad. And here we are today, So, of
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: course we get four years of the Biden administration using
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to bail out
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: more businesses. As a matter of fact, coming up, I
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: will talk about these bailouts of the insurance companies with
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: a terrific a researcher from the Competitive Enterprise No, from
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the Cato Institute, Romina Bacia coming up tomorrow. I hope
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I supposed to have her today and I screwed up. Hey,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I confess this stuff to you. Confestion is truly good
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: for your soul. So here we are. So now Biden
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: uses four years of COVID and the existence of the
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to bail out more
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: and more insurance companies and give more and more federal
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: dollars to private corporations, which I'm told Democrats are against.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: And now we're here today. Supposedly there is a bill
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: that will be presented in the beginning of December. Roger
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Marshall of Kentucky says they've been working on it for years.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe it was one of those hey, what's this thing?
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: It says, repeal and replace on it? Well, the dust
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: off like a scene from an Indiana Jones and the
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Raiders of the Lost Social Security Trust Fund movie. So
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Roger Marshall, Senator from Kentucky, the other one says that
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: there is a repeal and replace bill that they're going
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: to present side by side with the extension of the
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Obamacare subsidies in December. President Trump may have tipped some hands.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: He was talking yesterday in the Oval Office about trump
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Care and how it was going to involve Americans bringing
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: the free market back to healthcare by using their own money. Now,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: politicians and Trumps, now, he's been around them long enough.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: When they say that they mean moneies that may have
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: gone into the Affordable Care Act might be coming to
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: you in the ways of health savings accounts, in the
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: same way Medicare money gets moved around. We'll see, not
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: necessarily thrilled. That's a better answer, but since we haven't
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: seen one since Donald Trump was elected president, this will
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: be interesting to see. This is the other part of
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: the shutdown, So I guess, in exchange for repeal and
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: replace of Obamacare, which is what the Republicans wanted, the
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Democrats got a permanent bureaucrat protection plan out of the
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: shutdown deal. And we go to the hardware store see
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: if we can find a nice, big, heaping section of
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: sheet metal screws. But it seems like they are trying
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: to get rid of this Abordable Care Act mess that,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: as I said, certainly was not unanimously passed in the House.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: They had to use all sorts of bells and whistles
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: to try to get them in any event, these are
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: the things that make it hard for veterans when they
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: come back and they say, hold it. What kind of
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: country am I going off to fight for? So let's
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: make this the country that these veterans volunteer to go
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: stand a post for. At eleven am on this the
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: eleventh day of the eleventh month, and we celebrate all
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: veterans here for their voluntary service to our nation. We're grateful.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: I am Joe Thomas in the morning. Thank you veterans
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: until tomorrow, so long and thanks for all the fish.
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  Speaker 8: Hi.
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  Speaker 22: I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have you
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