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"Unionized Government" (Saturday, May 16, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it making mornings great again. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: today on the Tunk Media age Thomas, We'll do.
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  Speaker 2: It, Lin Jord said, steal me have a day at
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  Speaker 2: least for work.
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  Speaker 3: When the sun comes up, drops a pet school. Joe
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  Speaker 3: has everything, end all the jos.
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  Speaker 4: Saturday needs.
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  Speaker 5: No one that Joe's as smiled he all the eggs.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, thank you for letting me be of service to
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  Speaker 4: you this Saturday morning. Don't poke the radio. Just oh geez,
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know most of it. You're like, is
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  Speaker 4: it live or is it memorycs? Are you old enough
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  Speaker 4: to remember that ad campaign? Uh? But we are here
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  Speaker 4: to break down all the stuff they tried to sneak
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  Speaker 4: through the alley on a Friday afternoon. They still believe
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  Speaker 4: because you know, they look at newspapers like the La
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  Speaker 4: Times in the Washington Post, or the Amazon Times as
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  Speaker 4: I like to call it, or the old Gray Lady
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  Speaker 4: of the New York Times. Even the Boston Globe doesn't
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  Speaker 4: do this that much anymore. But uh, they all look
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  Speaker 4: at you know, Oh, when's when do they go to print?
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  Speaker 4: When do they go to print? Can we put this
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  Speaker 4: out before their print deadline? Get it out just after
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  Speaker 4: just when it's too late for any cub reporter to
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  Speaker 4: say stop the presses because they think that matters anymore.
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  Speaker 4: And this day of YouTube and sub stack, they're still
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  Speaker 4: dealing with TV and newspaper. And so we we come
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  Speaker 4: here to what's the eleventh commandment, Remo Williams. Fans will
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  Speaker 4: remember the eleventh commandment is thou shalt not get away
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  Speaker 4: with it, And so we will lay it out for
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  Speaker 4: you here at four three, four eight eight two four
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  Speaker 4: to two one seven. That's how you tell us how
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  Speaker 4: the news of the day is impacting you in your world.
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  Speaker 4: And I and damn well tell you that our friends
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  Speaker 4: on Long Island News Radio are not happy this morning
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  Speaker 4: tuning into a Long Island Railroad strike. Is there anyone
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  Speaker 4: at the Long Island Railroad that isn't on strike? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we might as well just start the news now, because
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  Speaker 4: I mean this is seminal and it's an economic example
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  Speaker 4: as well. The busiest mass transit operation, certainly light rail
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  Speaker 4: operation in the country and they can't make money, constantly
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  Speaker 4: in the red trying desperately to rein in some costs,
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  Speaker 4: and the unions apparently got everything according to the MTA,
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  Speaker 4: they got everything. They wanted in terms of money. There
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  Speaker 4: are other things that they didn't get. That's where the
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  Speaker 4: devil is always in the detail. So Long Island wakes
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  Speaker 4: up this morning with no train service, and by the way,
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  Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty thousand people ride the Long Island
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  Speaker 4: Railroad every day and the highways are still parking lots.
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  Speaker 4: Film AD eleven details workers for the unions in including
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  Speaker 4: the seven thousand workers represented by the locomotive Engineers, machinists
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  Speaker 4: and signalmen, weren't legally allowed to go on strike until
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  Speaker 4: twelve oh one this morning. Kevin Sexton, national vice president
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  Speaker 4: of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said no
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  Speaker 4: new negotiations were even scheduled. Quote, we're far apart at
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  Speaker 4: this point. We're truly sorry that we are in this situation.
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  Speaker 4: Yano Leeber, the MTA chair, said the agency quote gave
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  Speaker 4: the union everything they wanted in terms of pay. That's
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  Speaker 4: where the devil finds itself in the details. They averted
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  Speaker 4: a strike in septemb when the Trump administration weighed in
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  Speaker 4: United States Supreme Court one sentence rebuff of Virginia's Democratic
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  Speaker 4: Party in the Commonwealth leadership that wanted to overturn a
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  Speaker 4: Virginia Supreme Court decision determining that their process to come
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  Speaker 4: to a redistricting referendum was done illegally. Ken Coochinelli, head
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  Speaker 4: of the nonprofit watchdog group Election Transparency Initiative and former
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  Speaker 4: Virginia Attorney General, said what a current Attorney General J.
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  Speaker 4: Jones never wanted to admit is that the referendum was
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  Speaker 4: doa because it was unconstitutional. From the beginning, Energy Secretary
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  Speaker 4: Chris Wright projected that the strait of horror moves will
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  Speaker 4: be reopened by sometime this summer at the latest, predicting
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  Speaker 4: a deal with Iran could come within days, while warning
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  Speaker 4: the US military stands ready to use force to open
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  Speaker 4: the water away. Texas Court, Friday refused to declare that
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  Speaker 4: Democratic lawmakers who fled the state in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 4: to block a vote on new congressional maps pushed by
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  Speaker 4: President Trump had vacated their office. This was the case
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  Speaker 4: made by Governor Greg Abbott the Trump administration. Friday moved
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  Speaker 4: to strip the Department of Health and Human Service workers
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  Speaker 4: of civil service job protections. According to an email leaked
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  Speaker 1: QUI First thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you have to understand something. Even growing
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  Speaker 4: up in New York City, the concept of trying to
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  Speaker 4: get around and having grown up in New York City,
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  Speaker 4: it baffles me to this day why people would drive
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  Speaker 4: into the city of New York. I've done it. I've
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  Speaker 4: done it plenty of times from Roosevelt Field, from the
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  Speaker 4: from Riverhead, all the way in from river I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I've done it. You do a long drive from Greenwich,
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  Speaker 4: Connecticut into New York City and you're sitting there Lacrosse
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  Speaker 4: Bronx trying to it just works your last good nerve.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand. I mean I would prefer and I'm weird.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you're different than me. As the New York the
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  Speaker 4: Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Long Island Railroad branch is facing
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  Speaker 4: a massive strike right now, dumping two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: thousand more cars onto highways that are already parking lots.
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  Speaker 4: Even on a Saturday morning at six point twenty eastern,
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  Speaker 4: how much earlier do you have to get up to
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  Speaker 4: go to work. How many of you show of hands
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  Speaker 4: have had your company start to roll back telecommuting rules,
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  Speaker 4: the COVID era, you know, work from home stuff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was a boom on Long Island. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: people were buying up townhouses in Selden and Rocky Point
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  Speaker 4: like they were brownstones on the Upper West Side. This
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  Speaker 4: is like, oh, well, I can I can work from home.
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  Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden companies starts saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we probably need you to come back. But even to
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  Speaker 4: this day, Manhattan office space is still way down in populations,
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  Speaker 4: especially after Zayfod mad Money took over. But how are
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  Speaker 4: you going to get to the city run grocery store
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  Speaker 4: if the MTA isn't running the Long Island Railroad and
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  Speaker 4: more importantly, if you're counting on people coming out from
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  Speaker 4: the city for weekends in Southampton And yeah they do it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I've watched the disgorgement of packed full trains
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  Speaker 4: to my amazement when I was working at WRCN, which
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  Speaker 4: is now, of course, as you know, at Long Island
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  Speaker 4: News Radio. But back in the day we were out
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  Speaker 4: there cpis as we used to call it, or kids
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  Speaker 4: from Brooklyn used to call it the Canoe Place in
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  Speaker 4: the Bardy, Barney, you name it. We were there and
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  Speaker 4: we would watch the trains just unload hundreds and hundreds
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  Speaker 4: of people. To our amazement. Why would you take a
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  Speaker 4: four hour train ride from New York because it beat
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  Speaker 4: the twenty hour car drive it would take to get
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  Speaker 4: out of New York to get the Hampton's. The very
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  Speaker 4: economic concept of a station vehicle came about. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it was a beater, it was probably ten year old car,
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  Speaker 4: not very fancy AMFM radio. Maybe you had a cassette
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  Speaker 4: player in it, but it was safe to park at
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  Speaker 4: the train station for ten hours while you took the
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  Speaker 4: commuter line into town. All of this is because of
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  Speaker 4: this one light rail system. And don't be confused, because
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  Speaker 4: there are subway systems like Boston, Chicago that have subway
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  Speaker 4: systems l's what they call them. Chicago, that's different. New
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  Speaker 4: York City has that too. New York City has a
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  Speaker 4: subway system and a light rail system. Most people are
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  Speaker 4: like trying to conceptualize the difference because a lot of
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  Speaker 4: cities their subway system looks like what the Long Island
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  Speaker 4: Railroad looks like, and the light rail system is you know,
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  Speaker 4: painted like trolley's and they run you know, to the
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  Speaker 4: suburbs and back and again once every hour and a half.
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  Speaker 4: This is this is a service. This is an organization
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  Speaker 4: that commutes two hundred and fifty thousand people a day.
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  Speaker 4: By John Adams's first amendment to his proposed Bill of Rights,
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  Speaker 4: that's five congressional districts full of people. In nineteen twenty nine,
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  Speaker 4: when they froze the size of the US House of Representatives,
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  Speaker 4: that was one entire congressional district a day on the
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  Speaker 4: trains back and forth from New York. Now, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: add one car for each one of those people, and
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  Speaker 4: you know what the city is facing. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: they're wrong, but this is an operation that is just
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  Speaker 4: a master's class in how you can take what appears
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  Speaker 4: to be a busy operation a store. Imagine for a second,
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  Speaker 4: so you have a store, pick something, pick a consumer product. Electronics. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so you have a busy electronics store. Computers, flat screen TVs,
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  Speaker 4: car stereos. They're all going out the door like crazy.
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  Speaker 4: There's hundreds of people in the store every day buying
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  Speaker 4: up stuff. You've got delivery trucks coming in every few
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  Speaker 4: hours with more stuff. It's just crazy. It's like Crazy Eddy.
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  Speaker 4: And it's very much like crazy Eddy. And if you're
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  Speaker 4: old enough in the New York metropolitan area, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean when I talk about crazy Eddy. Crazy
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  Speaker 4: Eddie Antar was one of the biggest scam artists who
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  Speaker 4: was using his well known electronics chain to your launder money.
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  Speaker 4: And you go this way, that way the tax for
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  Speaker 4: We can get into it if you're interested. But this
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  Speaker 4: electronics store you're running is just busy. Yet somehow you
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  Speaker 4: cannot make money. You lose money every day. You've got
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  Speaker 4: hundreds of commuter computers and flat screens, heater and your
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  Speaker 4: store is overrun with customers. And yet every day you
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  Speaker 4: close the store and you've lost more money than you've made.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do that? How is that even something
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  Speaker 4: that is conceivable? It is when the government runs something.
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  Speaker 4: And I've long been an advocate because not to blow
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  Speaker 4: smoke into New York City, but the whole New York
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  Speaker 4: City transit system was built by private companies and taken
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  Speaker 4: over by the government. And here we are drowning in
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  Speaker 4: red ink, incapable of paying the guys who make the
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  Speaker 4: chu chu go. As Mango once said in Blazing Saddles
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  Speaker 4: that wonderful documentary on everything that's wrong in government. And
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  Speaker 4: you are the hostages. If you're listening to us on
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  Speaker 4: Long Island News Radio, you are amongst the hostages being
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  Speaker 4: held in the basement of the railway station. We'll get
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  Speaker 4: into you know, where the differences are and everything else.
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  Speaker 4: But just can septualize a company, a business that had
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  Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty thousand customers a day and they
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  Speaker 4: can't afford to make ends meet. They can't squeeze out
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  Speaker 4: any black ink. They can't charge enough, they can't cut enough,
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  Speaker 4: they can't restrict or rescind enough, they can't lay off enough.
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  Speaker 4: So beyond just the abstract of what are all the
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  Speaker 4: Long Islanders going to do come Monday morning when they
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  Speaker 4: have to find a space on the Long Island Expressway
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  Speaker 4: or the Southern State the Belt Parkway to get them
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  Speaker 4: into Manhattan? Good luck with that. Even beyond that for
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  Speaker 4: all of us, how much more of a master's class
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  Speaker 4: in why government doing things is a bad idea?
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  Speaker 15: He says he's got a deadline.
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  Speaker 3: He says it's no overtime.
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  Speaker 1: I got he said to something important then he needs
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 4: That's on specify. I got the part.
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  Speaker 16: He says he knows a bud in a long week,
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  Speaker 16: but he's gotta.
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  Speaker 2: Be inn pc me.
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  Speaker 4: So it needs me. So QUI reds new next week?
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  Speaker 4: So oh yes, you do so understand something. The sticking
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  Speaker 4: point in the reason you don't have a train ride
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  Speaker 4: on Monday morning. Is not anything that's in the next
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  Speaker 4: three years of offings. It's wages, benefits, et cetera. In
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  Speaker 4: the four year of this contract. They can't just say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we've got three years, let's do this. You you're going
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  Speaker 4: to have to face as you listen to us on
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  Speaker 4: Long Island News radio. Bus shuttles be that's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: fun to subway junction points like Queensboro Village in New
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  Speaker 4: York City, Flushing, a town that I was so dearly
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  Speaker 4: encompassed with. I understood when they said, what do you
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  Speaker 4: think of Flushing, New York? I said, well, that might
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  Speaker 4: be a good idea. So that's the MTA's planned. The
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  Speaker 4: Long Island Railroads plan is to get buses and load
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  Speaker 4: people into those buses as frequently as they can and
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  Speaker 4: shuttle them in. Although they're begging people to telecommute to
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  Speaker 4: work from home, and this is less acute than it
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  Speaker 4: would have been pre COVID, where we really learned how
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  Speaker 4: to VPN. Everyone's favorite three initials or VPN. Zoom is
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  Speaker 4: gonna be burned up. A good luck getting a zoom
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  Speaker 4: meeting room on Monday in the New York metropolitan area.
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  Speaker 4: That's all you need now is Comcast to go on strikes.
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  Speaker 23: And yeah, we're showing solidarity there with the transit. You
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  Speaker 23: think you can tell a commute we're gonna shut down
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  Speaker 23: you internet too. Oh you don't think, Oh yeah, you
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  Speaker 23: laugh and in Virginia you're snickering. But remember this is
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  Speaker 23: what everyone wants, commuter rail. This is the big cash cow.
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  Speaker 23: This is the new cool kids idea of capital budgets,
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  Speaker 23: the grand slush fund. Nobody's gonna say no to more
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  Speaker 23: money for transportation. And because well, people got to get around.
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  Speaker 23: We want to get cars off the road.
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  Speaker 4: You say to greenies, we want to help business get
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  Speaker 4: their employees to the job site. You tell Republicans, and
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  Speaker 4: you just keep pouring money into the capital budget, and
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  Speaker 4: just every city council meeting you say.
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  Speaker 24: Well, sir, we'd like to bring to your attention item
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  Speaker 24: number twelve, which is an allegation of one hundred and
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  Speaker 24: fifty thousand dollars from the Capitol Project budget to the
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  Speaker 24: Dewey screw them and how firm that yes, a city
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  Speaker 24: councilor a menette is going to have to recuse himself
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  Speaker 24: from this boat because it's his law firm.
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  Speaker 4: But other than that that's what happens. It's all about, oh, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you need a couple of hundred thousand dollars, let me
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  Speaker 4: put something into the capital budget. Just put a proposal
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  Speaker 4: in saying you know, your RFID needs to be foo
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  Speaker 4: bar asap, and we'll sign off on it. It is
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  Speaker 4: the slush fund of American government. It's the capital budget,
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  Speaker 4: and now even more so, it's the transportation budget. Washington DC.
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  Speaker 4: The Metro is an example of just the opposite. This
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  Speaker 4: is a subway system built and engineered by platypuses. If
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  Speaker 4: you're unfamiliar with why I would refer to the poor
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  Speaker 4: Woodland creature is that there's a common expression amongst libertarians
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  Speaker 4: that platypus is just a beaver designed by government committee.
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  Speaker 4: And if you like that, by all means use it.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see that expression continue on for many years.
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  Speaker 4: Platypus is just a beaver designed by government committee. So
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  Speaker 4: understand you're these three hundred just reading another estimate, it
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  Speaker 4: could be as high as three hundred thousand commuters are
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  Speaker 4: going to be stranded without a ride to work because
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  Speaker 4: of a strike not involving this year's contract or next
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  Speaker 4: year's contract or the contract the year after that, but
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  Speaker 4: four years from now, and if that makes you less
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  Speaker 4: likely to take the side of the labor union workers,
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  Speaker 4: that's fine. It's just it is what it is. But
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  Speaker 4: it also is, like I said, a master's class of
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  Speaker 4: what happens when somebody says, hey, the government can do that,
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  Speaker 4: and they, you know, usually pay off private enterprises. Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 4: Railroad was thee that built the Long Island railroad system.
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  Speaker 4: So somewhere Anderson Cooper is looking at his trust fund saying,
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  Speaker 4: h doing good. Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt just saying
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  Speaker 4: glorious kid. By the way, have you ever seen him
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  Speaker 4: in designer jeans? Probably not, although I understand he has
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  Speaker 4: a never mind. So I want to pivot back to
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  Speaker 4: the other big story of the day. Virginia is redistricting
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  Speaker 4: the Supreme Court. I love the sweetness of this rule
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  Speaker 4: is so this is the entirety of the statement Friday,
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  Speaker 4: May fifteenth, twenty twenty six order in pending Case twenty
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  Speaker 4: to the Chief Justice and by him referred to the
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  Speaker 4: Court is denied. Got the veto is what you got,
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  Speaker 4: and to be fair, most people. I was talking to
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  Speaker 4: Ken Kochinelli about it from the Election Transparency Initiative that
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  Speaker 4: it's a feedtic County. Even Governor Spanberger was on the
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  Speaker 4: radio on Wednesday saying, yeah, we're gonna be using the
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  Speaker 4: old maps. Now that's done, mostly because she didn't want
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  Speaker 4: them to do it in the first place, but she
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  Speaker 4: was being a team player because the team is more important.
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  Speaker 13: Me.
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  Speaker 4: Even a governor of a state who can't run for
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  Speaker 4: reelection but probably wants to run for election for something
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  Speaker 4: in the future, cannot step out against the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if this is just the ghosts of
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  Speaker 4: Lyndon Johnson or if Lyndon Johnson left them a book
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  Speaker 4: of you know, how to put people's skeletons in the closet.
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  Speaker 4: After the first season of House of Cards aired, I
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  Speaker 4: asked a friend of mine in Congress which was closer
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  Speaker 4: to Washington, d C. Reality West Wing or House of Cards?
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  Speaker 4: He said, without question, A House of Cards, he said,
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  Speaker 4: including the fact that the lovey feely, touchy squeezy Democrat
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  Speaker 4: are the ones with the sharp elbows and closets full
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  Speaker 4: of skeletons. That they use to manipulate people. But a
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  Speaker 4: lot of Conservatives were watching the Supreme Court ruling with
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  Speaker 4: baited breath, because it's not like you haven't had Chief
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  Speaker 4: Justice Roberts invent law out of whole cloth. It's not
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  Speaker 4: like he's turned around and said, well, Congress doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: the authority to invoge a fine, but if they change
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  Speaker 4: it to a tax, they'd be fine. So he changed
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  Speaker 4: Obamacare to attacks and not a fine, without Congress ever
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  Speaker 4: having to do it themselves. So Chief Justice Roberts has
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