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8.15.26 Seth Grossman WPG Radio. We Remember Richard Somers on September 4, While Others Forget. Regarding “Moderate” Muslims. $2.98 Wawa Coffee 60% More Than a Few Weeks Ago. · Seth Grossman – Liberty and Prosperity

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  - Our second major event of the year is
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  - less than three weeks away,
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  - and that is when we remember the Somers
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  - Point local hero, Richard Summers,
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  - on Friday,
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  - September 4,
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  - which is two hundred and twenty two years
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  - after
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  - this, young man,
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  - 26 years old who was born and raised
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  - in Somers Point
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  - died in Tripoli,
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  - fighting a war,
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  - against basically the same people we're fighting a
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  - war against in Iran right now.
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  - Now this Richard Summer story, it's a remarkable
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  - story.
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  - It was once well known by every American
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  - with an eighth grade
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  - education.
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  - Yet today, hardly anyone knows that story except
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  - us.
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  - And even if you go
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  - locally, we have an Atlantic County Historical Society.
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  - They have nothing planned. We have an Ocean
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  - City,
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  - Historical Society, Egg Harbor Township Historical Society.
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  - We have libraries in Atlanta County, Cape May
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  - County, Ocean City,
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  - Stockton University.
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  - Not one major local institution
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  - has any event
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  - to remember
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  - this remarkable local hero of Richard Summers, who
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  - was, probably of all
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  - South Jersey, he's probably
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  - the
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  - only
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  - national
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  - hero. We don't have any businesses doing Richard
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  - Summers' promotions. No Richard Summers' t
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  - shirts. Community
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  - celebration. Nothing done by the
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  - city. And I know tourist areas where they
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  - have more
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  - honor and respect for the local pirate,
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  - you know, of some of these tourist towns
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  - than we have in Atlantic City. So so
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  - why is it that we, liberty and prosperity,
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  - this little breakfast discussion group of a few
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  - dozen dozen aging aging, boomers,
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  - why. Because
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  - Richard Summers fought and died in Tripoli,
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  - North Africa
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  - two hundred and twenty two years ago fighting
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  - the same enemy we're fighting in Iran today,
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  - the same enemy who murdered 3,000 Americans in
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  - New York on 09/11/2001,
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  - The same enemy that captured and took more
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  - than a million white Christians
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  - as slaves from Europe and made them slaves
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  - in Africa
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  - for more than a thousand years. And the
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  - same people who captured more than 5,000,000 blacks
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  - from Africa
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  - and sold them as slaves,
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  - through
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  - the entire Arab world.
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  - And by the way, that entire backstory
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  - of the Richard Summer story is described in
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  - detail in my book, the 1676
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  - project.
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  - And you could get that from us at
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  - Liberty and Prosperity for $20 or at several
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  - local stores.
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  - You could buy it on Amazon for $25
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  - and you could buy it on Kindle for
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  - $10,
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  - through through Amazon.
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  - But but to go the question of your
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  - your young conservative
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  - Muslim friend who was concerned about,
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  - you know, why we we don't talk about
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  - the great majority of Muslims.
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  - I think there's a very simple reason why.
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  - Because when every
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  - act of violence that we've been dealing with
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  - was not just, you know,
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  - a Pakistani,
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  - you know, killing an American or
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  - a Tunisian
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  - killing a, you know, someone in France or
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  - or someone from Gaza killing a a Jew
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  - in in Israel.
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  - It was always done
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  - by people who called themselves Muslim
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  - doing it in the name of their religion.
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  - Now whenever we had
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  - Jews commit horrible crimes,
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  - blaming they were doing it,
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  - in the name of their religion, they were
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  - denounced.
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  - You had,
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  - I guess, maybe thirty or forty years ago,
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  - you had a a a Jew murdered 22
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  - Arabs in in Hebron.
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  - And, you know, he was so denounced by
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  - the Jewish community, they would not even let
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  - him
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  - be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
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  - You had a,
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  - you know, I I guess,
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  - someone was murdering abortion doctors in Georgia
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  - in the name of the Catholic church.
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  - He was denounced by every Christian leader in
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  - America and the Catholic church.
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  - They made it clear that he was, you
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  - know, he said he was speaking for the
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  - religion, but every religious leader denounced him.
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  - What happens to the people who are committing
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  - these horrible crimes
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  - against Christians and Jews and other non Muslims?
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  - You know, the people murdering,
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  - the Hindus in Bangladesh.
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  - Horrible murders, but yet have you heard,
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  - anybody,
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  - you know, any imam, any leader of that
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  - religion say, oh, oh, no. That Mohammed never
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  - said to do that. These people are, violating
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  - our religion.
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  - You don't hear that.
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  - And what happens is very often just the
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  - opposite happens.
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  - You'll have these,
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  - you know, good, you know, Muslim neighbors, people
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  - I work with, and I I deal with
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  - this myself.
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  - You know, who,
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  - who who think the way I do. And
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  - then they send their kids
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  - to
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  - the Muslim schools because they want their kids
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  - to know their heritage where their kids will
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  - look at these videos on their own. And
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  - then the kids,
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  - reach the conclusion
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  - that their parents have betrayed their religion
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  - and to make up for that sin, the
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  - kids will commit this horrible violence.
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  - So I think we have to keep talking
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  - about,
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  - what makes, you know, Jewish and Christian values
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  - which are based on the Christian golden rule.
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  - Do unto others as you would have them
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  - do unto you.
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  - Love your neighbor as yourselves, the 10 commandments.
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  - You don't have any of that in Islam
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  - and we have to talk about that and
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  - many Muslims,
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  - you know, grow up as adults not knowing
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  - the differences between
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  - Judaism and Christianity and really, Buddhism and Hinduism
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  - on one hand and Islam on the other.
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  - There's just a,
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  - you know, a different way of looking at
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  - the world,
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  - a different way of looking at nonbelievers.
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  - Well,
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  - you explained it much better than I did.
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  - That's for sure.
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  - Alright. Well, now let's let's I have a
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  - few minutes to talk about politics.
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  - And, of course, all this stuff is posted
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  - at libertyandprosperity.com.
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  - But I think the biggest political issue that
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  - I had to deal with this morning
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  - was buying my morning coffee, 20 ounce cup
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  - of coffee at Wawa
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  - for $2.79
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  - plus 19¢
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  - state sales tax for a total of $2.98.
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  - So, of course, the, state government is making
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  - a bigger profit from that cup of coffee
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  - than Wawa is.
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  - And just a few months ago,
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  - that same cup of coffee was a dollar
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  - 75 plus 12¢ tax, a dollar 87.
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  - So not only did I get a 60%
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  - hike in the price of my coffee this
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  - morning,
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  - the state, New Jersey got a 60 state
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  - sales tax hike. Because whenever the prices go
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  - up, of course, the sales tax goes up.
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  - And of course,
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  - you know, everything that I went through with
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  - that cup of coffee this morning,
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  - I see when I buy groceries at the
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  - supermarket, whenever I buy anything at any,
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  - door, when I get my car fixed, when
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  - I get a new car, new house, rent
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  - college tuition,
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  - your doctor or hospital visit.
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  - So so why is it
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  - that Wawa coffee and
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  - everything else is so expensive?
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  - And I think there are three, you know,
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  - four main reasons.
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  - Number one, of course, we have the higher
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  - gas prices from the war in Iran.
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  - And we only normally think about gas prices
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  - when we saw for tanks,
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  - but, of course, you need gas and oil
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  - to grow the coffee beans. You need, gas
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  - and oil to roast them, put them on
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  - ships and trucks to bring it here. So
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  - basically, the higher gas prices are causing everything
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  - to
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  - be more expensive. Second thing, of course, is
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  - the federal,
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  - debt or deficit.
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  - I believe this year,
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  - the federal government spent $1,800,000,000,000
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  - more than it took in. So that's
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  - one what what is what is that? 1,000,
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  - $800,000,000,000
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  - more than it took in, and and that's
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  - even bigger deficit than last year. So basically,
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  - the federal debt that was $20,000,000,000,000
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  - ten years ago is now $40,000,000,000,000.
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  - So, you know, every time the government spends
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  - a dollar
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  - more
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  - than it takes
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  - in, it just has to print up dollar
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  - bills
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  - back on nothing, and that is a big
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  - reason why we have this inflation.
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  - But yet, you look at the national news,
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  - I don't think anyone is talking about it.
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  - Certainly, nobody's talking about,
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  - doing anything to stop it. I don't hear
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  - the Republicans. I don't hear Trump. I don't
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  - hear Democrats. It's like
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  - nobody cares.
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  - But we are playing this national game, I
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  - think you call it pick up sticks, where
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  - you take, you know, little sticks and you
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  - make a big pile
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  - and and somehow the person who loses is
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  - the person who puts the that last stick
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  - that makes the whole pile collapse.
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  - So I think that's what we're, going through
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  - right now.
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  - So so how do you fix a problem
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  - like that?
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  - I guess, the the the way to start
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  - is you gotta tell people,
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  - you know, that the federal government was never
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  - designed
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  - to give every American
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  - everything they want.
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  - You know, basically,
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  - we had the founders made a constitution
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  - that said, look, the federal government
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  - is so big
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  - that, you know, you can't keep track of
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  - every dollar it spends.
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  - And we will never stop waste. We will
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  - never stop corruption,
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  - but we will limit the federal government
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  - to a few limited things that nobody else
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  - can do. We'll use the federal government to
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  - have an army, a navy, and air force,
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  - pulling money, make immigration laws, deliver the mail,
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  - make sure that inventors and artists get paid
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  - for their work, enforce the laws to keep
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  - artists
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  - get
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  - paid for their work, enforce the laws to
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  - keep people and their property safe.
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  - But what do people expect from the federal
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  - government today?
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  - Well, you know, I I went to the
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  - beach and the the beach washed away. I
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  - I want the federal government to move sand,
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  - you know, from one place to the to
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  - the other.
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  - The streets are bumpy.
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  - I'm gonna go see, congressman Jeff Andrew and
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  - tell him to pay my pay Atlantic City
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  - streets, pay mortgage streets, pay Longfoot Street.
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  - Why? Because if my local government paid it,
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  - my taxes would go up and I wanna
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  - pay taxes, I want somebody else to pay.
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  - You know, Marty Small,
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  - using
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  - coronavirus
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  - release money,
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  - for, you know, $10,000
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  - scholarship
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  - for,
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  - what what is it?
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  - I think 10 or 20 or a 100
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  - people,
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  - who support Marty Small. Oh, and by the
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  - way, I just found out about the food
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  - bank
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  - racket. All these years, I used to think
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  - that the food banks were paid by people
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  - donating
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  - food so it wouldn't spoil when they put
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  - it so people could pick it up. But
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  - the federal government is spending millions of dollars
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  - on these food banks,
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  - and I've heard a lot of stories about
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  - people
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  - going into these food banks on a regular
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  - basis,
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  - taking the food, and then selling them in
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  - stores
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  - in Atlantic City and Pleasantville.
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  - So, of course, nobody cares
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  - if any of this money is wasted
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  - because,
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  - you you know, if you work for the
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  - government, the more money you give away, you
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  - know, the more important your position is, the
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  - more people you hire, the bigger budget you
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  - get next year.
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  - So we we've completely lost sight of the
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  - federal government.
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  - And then, of course,
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  - what else is making things expensive?
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  - Well, I think the, property taxes.
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  - You know, every time you hear the politicians
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  - say, oh, we reduced your property tax. We
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  - gave you an
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  - anchor,
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  - rebate. We give you a senior citizen freeze.
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  - We're giving you, you know, this discount.
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  - We keep forgetting
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  - that, you know, those don't apply to Wawa.
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  - When you shop at Wawa, they pay the
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  - full property tax, and they raise the prices,
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  - to do that.
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  - And and so why are property taxes so
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  - high?
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  - Well, I mean, we all know why.
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  - Everybody who works for the government I'd well,
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  - I don't say everybody, but when you say
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  - maybe 95%
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  - of people
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  - a
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  - 10 or 20 people apply for every single
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  - opening.
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  - So it it's crazy. But as long as
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  - we say,
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  - well, you know, I don't care how much
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  - my local government waste. They could waste as
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  - much money as they
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  - want as long as we could get federal
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  - grants,
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  - to give them, you know, to pay for
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  - the stuff we need. Well, that's how things
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  - are are going to get worse.
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  - So, we we have that problem. And I
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  - guess the
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  - the the other, I'm trying to think of
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  - the other
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  - thing that makes things so expensive, and that
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  - is the cost of permits.
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  - And the fact that,
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  - you know, if Wawa is too expensive, there
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  - was a day
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  - when, you know, somebody else would open up
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  - a shop across the street from Wawa
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  - and offer, you know, better sandwiches and lower
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  - prices.
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  - But we can't get that anymore because you
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  - can't get a permit to build anything new
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  - unless you, you get a special law.
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  - You know, basically, our zoning laws say you
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  - can't build anything,
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  - unless it meets requirements that put everybody in
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  - violation.
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  - So if you have money, if you have
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  - connections,
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  - then you can get the permits you need
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  - to build what you want. But people who
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  - don't have money, who don't have connections,
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  - can't, compete. So we really do not have
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  - capitalism. We do not have free market enterprise.
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  - We really already have socialism in America, so
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  - you could see why young people are so
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  - fed up. And I guess I guess I'll
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  - close with this.
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  - You know, there there was a time in
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  - America, and I I see that clearly in
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  - that book I wrote, the 1676
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  - project,
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  - how New Jersey shaped America.
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  - It used to be we had boundless opportunity.
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  - So if you,
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  - you know, came over,
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  - to America with nothing,
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  - you could always work on a farm,
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  - make enough money to buy a few acres,
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  - and then you could have your own farm.
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  - You could work on a fishing boat till
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  - you had enough money to buy your own
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  - fishing boat. You could be a carpenter, a
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  - blacksmith, a wagon driver.
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  - And then once you had your farm, you
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  - could dig up clay and make bricks.
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  - You could dig up bog iron and make
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  - iron. All these boundless opportunities.
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  - You didn't need a license. You didn't need
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  - a permit.
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  - And the interesting thing is when the British
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  - saw how rich Americans were getting
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  - and the British decided, well, we're gonna start
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  - collecting oh, by the way, in in back
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  - then, America had the lowest taxes in any,
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  - civilized society
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  - because people
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  - educated their own children.
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  - They took care of the poor. They, you
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  - know, we we didn't pay for,
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  - charity,
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  - through the government, but
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  - everybody was well fed. Everybody was well housed,
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  - and we had a good life. And when
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  - the British wanted to take that way of
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  - life away from us
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  - by giving us their taxes
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  - and their permits and their regulations and all
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  - their laws,
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  - Americans rebelled. And what's interesting is
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  - the richest you know, that rebellion was led
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  - by the people who got rich. Your George
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  - Washingtons,
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  - your,
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  - Richard Summers, your Richard Stocktons, your Ben Franklin.
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  - They were rich. They could have afforded the
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  - British taxes.
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  - They had political influence. They could have had
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  - the the British permits.
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  - But,
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  - what they did is they wanted to preserve
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  - the system
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  - that let them succeed
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  - so everybody else could succeed.
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  - And if you look at the rich folks
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  - we have in America today,
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  - you know, they got rich because they were
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  - free to use our system.
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  - But instead of saying, okay. We have to
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  - make the laws simple
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  - so everybody could go into the businesses we
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  - succeeded at, They're just saying,
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  - and I don't wanna use
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  - the name names, but think of that fellow
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  - in Ocean City. He's not saying that the
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  - zoning lords of Ocean City are so screwed
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  - up that nobody could open up a store,
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  - or nobody could build a hotel. Nobody could
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  - do anything
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  - without all these ridiculous permits.
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  - Let's change the laws and make them fair
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  - for everybody.
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  - He's saying, well, give me my permit. You
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  - know, change the law for me. Give me
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  - an exception.
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  - Give me a redevelopment plan.
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  - So, of course, people are angry and young
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  - people have every right to be angry.
• 17:26
  - And, the only way we're gonna fix this
• 17:28
  - is if we go back to the roots,
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  - that made America great in the first place.
• 17:33
  - Because again, you can't make America great again
• 17:36
  - if you have no idea what made America
• 17:39
  - great before. That's what we'll be talking about,
• 17:42
  - 09/30 to 10:30 this Saturday,
• 17:44
  - and every Saturday at
• 17:47
  - at Sal's Cafe. And again, Richard Summers Day,
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  - September 4.
• 17:51
  - It's the Friday before Labor Day this year.
• 17:54
  - Because of that, we'll be having ceremony
• 17:57
  - at 10:00.
• 17:59
  - The,
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  - the lunch, to to help defray expenses for
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  - 20
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  - afterwards.
• 18:04
  - Everybody's welcome.
• 18:05
  - Please, you know, make, a reservation.
• 18:08
  - And if you haven't paid your $30 dues
• 18:10
  - yet this year, please, make a nice $50
• 18:13
  - payment. $20 for the Richard Summers breakfast,
• 18:16
  - $30 for the dues. We'd love to see
• 18:18
  - you.
• 18:20
  - Alright, Seth. Thank you very much. Seth Grossman,
• 18:22
  - Liberty and Prosperity, and the website, libertyandprosperity.com.