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10,000 beds built in one day for kids who don’t have their own · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You are listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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  What if I told you that hundreds of thousands of kids are without beds right here in America, that they sleep on the floor, and that there's one organization that's striving to change that.
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  They're working very, very hard.
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  In fact, they're working overtime, triple time, quadruple time to ensure that every single kid in America has a bed to sleep on.
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  Now, I've seen houses like this, and it's hard for us to imagine.
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  Those of us who've grown up in uh really blessed homes, it's hard for us to imagine what it's like that a child doesn't have a bed to sleep in.
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  I mean, after all, this is America.
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  But sure enough, it happens more often than you think.
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  According to one organization, the organization that's ensuring that every kid in America has a bed.
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  They say right now, 140,000 118 kids in the US are waiting on you to help them sleep tonight.
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  This is really incredible, and uh again, it's something that we probably don't think about very often because we get to lay our heads down every single night.
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  And you've heard stories from people back in the day, back in the 50s and 60s, and they were like, well, we we crammed together and we would sleep three people to a bed.
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  Yeah, but you had a bed.
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  These are kids who have no bed whatsoever.
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  They literally sleep on the floor.
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  And so what does an organization do to help fix that problem?
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  Well, first of all, it takes a tremendous amount of coordination, it takes a tremendous amount of money, it takes a massive amount of uh volunteerism.
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  And on their website, they say that currently 353,847 beds have been delivered.
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  They've been delivered all across America.
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  These are brand new beds, all donated.
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  There have been 1,194,712 hours that have been volunteered, and there are still 140,118 beds that are needed.
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  Now, there are local chapters all across America.
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  I think it said in 36 states.
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  And they're actually uh local chapters.
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  There's one near Pittsburgh in Mars.
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  That'd be the closest one to me.
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  There's another one to Loch Haven, that's a little bit farther than Pittsburgh.
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  Uh, but this is really cool.
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  It's really inspiring.
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  But just recently, there was something that was even more powerful.
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  And I always like when you get a massive amount of volunteers together, because it's a it's a show of a demonstration of togetherness.
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  And it's something that you'll hear the narrative all the time.
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  Well, that's really rare in America.
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  But is it?
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  Is it rare for hundreds or even thousands of volunteers to come together?
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  My opinion, at least anymore, is that it's not that incredibly rare.
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  I've demonstrated this time and time and time again.
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  And yeah, maybe they're not in person.
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  The volunteers aren't necessarily in person, but there are thousands of people, thousands of Americans who come together every single day in very powerful ways.
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  There are people who donate their money.
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  There are people who donate their time.
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  There are people who give to GoFundMe's.
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  Where over a million dollars is raised in a matter of 24 hours or 48 hours.
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  I mean, it's really, really incredible.
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  It's absolutely incredible.
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  So here's an event that happened in Charlotte.
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  6500 volunteers worked around the clock to build over 10,000 beds in just 24 hours for kids who don't have a bed of their own.
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  This was inside of the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina.
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  Now, here's what I love about North Carolina.
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  North Carolina, as you know, was the epicenter of uh of Hurricane Helene and all the flood damage that happened there.
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  I uh with my family went on vacation just recently, and we visited Chimney Rock, North Carolina, and my goodness, it really was incredible to see number one, just the power from all that water.
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  Uh the landscape literally is permanently changed.
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  It'll never be the same.
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  It permanently changed after Hurricane Helene settled over top of it, and they got all the rainfall.
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  They got feet of rain.
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  And it devastated, there are still plenty of roads that are closed.
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  The roads that we traveled were temporary bridges, and we had uh one-way streets where it used to be a regular road, and the road got eroded, it got washed away, and they would uh they would have one lane open as they were working on rebuilding, and this was everywhere.
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  This was all over the place.
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  So I love that North Carolina is the center for this activity because it shows their power, it shows their might, it shows their determination.
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  And North Carolinas are uh they're incredibly uh what's what's the proper word for it?
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  They're resilient, they're incredibly resilient.
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  And I witnessed this just last week when I visited North Carolina.
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  When I visited North Carolina, they're absolutely resilient.
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  They're absolutely resilient, and they're always thinking about other people, and that's really cool too.
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  And they're always thinking about other people.
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  And that's really cool, too.
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  You know, this is not each out for his own.
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  You know, this is not each out for his own.
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  This is North Carolina's helping other people, people in need.
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  This is North Carolina is helping other people, people in need.
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  So 6,500 volunteers came together, worked around the clock in 24 hours to build over 10,000 beds.
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  So 6,500 volunteers came together, worked around the clock in 24 hours to build over 10,000 beds.
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  This was in
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  This was inside the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina, where Lowe's store employees worked alongside of thousands of others to reach a really big goal.
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  And this was to support the charity sleep and heavenly peace.
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  I love uh everything about that organization.
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  It's the more I learn about it, the more I realize it's just it's a really powerful good, well-run organization.
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  Right on their website, it says, no kids, no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.
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  Amen.
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  It's really cool.
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  I had never heard of this organization before.
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  Uh I'm sure there are a lot of people who have not.
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  And so it's time definitely to shine a light on this organization.
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  This organization is partnered with Lowe's, DeWalt, Flex, uh, Flex Power Tools, Jockey, Foundation Support Works, Ashley Furniture, and Certa Simmons Betting.
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  Really really cool.
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  And they obviously have some big sponsors behind them, which means there's some big money behind that, which goes exactly back to what I talk about all the time.
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  Yeah, we hear all this stuff.
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  These greedy organizations, they're so terrible and tax them, tax them, tax them.
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  I guarantee you start taxing these companies.
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  You start taxing them into oblivion, they're not going to be able to afford to do things like this.
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  And that's why I really lean towards a conservative view of taxation on the American people, including businesses.
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  Look at what's happening in in New York right now.
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  I mean, not to get sidetracked, but I think it's really relevant.
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  I think it's relevant to talk about the contrast of companies that have freedom to be able to operate.
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  And Lowe's does really well.
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  Uh they were definitely recession proof.
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  I remember during COVID, Lowe's was one of the few businesses in my town that was thriving.
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  They were doing really well.
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  And I think a lot of that was people were they were doing home projects because we all got bored.
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  We were kind of stir-crazy.
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  And I know that we started up a whole bunch of projects and millions of other Americans were doing house projects because we were all locked in our homes and didn't really have anything to do.
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  And so why not take that time to improve your home?
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  Do a little bit of remodeling, fix up the room that you always dreamed of fixing up, and you just have never had the time.
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  So millions of Americans did that.
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  And the company has done exceptionally well.
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  Exceptionally well.
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  Now, if you look at what's happening in New York, Mam Duny is uh taxing the living daylights, or at least supposedly is, he's bragging about taxing the living daylights out of rich people.
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  And defining rich in New York City is uh kind of an interesting process because it's kind of subjective.
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  The cost of living is absolutely outrageous.
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  So, what is wealth?
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  How do you how do you define wealth?
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  Somebody who's worth $2 million is considered wealthy.
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  Well, in New York City, $2 million, no offense, doesn't go very far.
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  Here's an article from the free press.
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  Mam Donnie, scapegoating the rich won't fill a $5.4 billion budget hole.
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  New York City's wealthy pay 40% of its bills.
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  The mayor just declared war on them.
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  That's kind of this is really interesting.
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  And that's a good point.
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  This is a very recent article.
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  It was just published on April 18th.
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  I'll link to it in the show notes.
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  But 40% of the wealthy people, or uh the sorry, the wealthy people pay 40% of New York's bills.
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  So it's a handful of wealthy people paying 40% of the bills, and now Mamdani just waged war on them.
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  He said, Oh, you're not paying nearly enough.
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  Tax the rich, tax the rich, right?
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  It's that uh they're they're the devil, and we need to tax them.
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  New Yorkers boast about their city's resilience, and with good reason, they've had plenty of comebacks.
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  September 11th, the financial crisis, and the nation's most severe COVID lockdowns all disrupted residents and businesses, but the economy resurrected swiftly each time.
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  It's enough to make a young socialist take the city for granted.
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  I love this article.
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  It's so great.
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  Yet the real risk for New York City and other big cities doesn't come from catastrophes.
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  Economies stagnate when they're layered with policies that slowly slap or sap, rather, their productivity and orderliness.
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  Some red tape on businesses here, budget cuts to policing there.
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  That's a New York City mayor.
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  Zoran Mamdanny is risking with his latest tax proposal.
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  He announced the scheme to coincide with Tax Day.
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  When I ran for mayor, he said, I was going to tax the rich.
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  Well, today we're taxing the rich.
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  And he's proud of it.
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  He's incredibly proud of this.
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  But I've got news for Mam Dunny.
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  Uh taxing the rich is going to stifle growth.
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  You're not going to have companies like Lowe's and DeWalt and Flex Power Tools and Jockey and Foundation Support Works and Ashley Furniture.
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  If they're being taxed into oblivion, that's millions of dollars that you're taking from these companies that they're not able to put back into helping other people.
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  Philanthropy.
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  And I happen to love philanthropy.
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  I think that we all benefit.
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  I don't think I know that we all benefit from it.
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  I drive around Pittsburgh, and there's the which I'm kind of upset about this.
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  I drive around Pittsburgh, and there's the, which I'm kind of upset about.
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  This they just changed the name of it, but there was the Carnegie Science Center.
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  They just changed the name of it, but there was the Carnegie Science Center.
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  The Carnegies built a lot of things in Pittsburgh.
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  The Carnegies built a lot of things in Pittsburgh.
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  I mean, half half the city was money donated by the Carnegies.
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  I mean, half half the city was money donated by the Carnegies.
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  They built museums and science centers and uh all kinds of things in the city.
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  They built museums and science centers and uh all kinds of things in the city.
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  And this happens in cities all across America, and this is exactly what was happening with these beds being beds and workers being volunteered for the organization sleep in heavenly peace.
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  This cannot happen if we're taxing people into oblivion.
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  It just can't.
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  So when you when you tax people less and you encourage them to give, this is the kind of thing that happens.
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  But these socialists are trying so hard to put it in our brains that uh big corporations, bad, evil, CEOs make money, bad, tax, tax them, tax the organization, tax the business.
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  Yeah, they've been after the the trucking industry forever.
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  There are so many taxes related to to hauling freight.
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  The American people would flip if they knew just how much the trucking industry was taxed.
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  So it's tax, tax, tax, tax them, tax them, tax them, fuel tax, if to tax, uh tax on the business.
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  There's so many different taxes coming at people, and this is what President Trump talks about.
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  He's like, we need to open up our economy, we need to make America great again.
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  And when that happens, people naturally, and businesses naturally start to take care of mankind.
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  They take care of their neighbors.
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  And don't you want that?
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  Don't we all want that?
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  So at any rate, this is what these companies are doing.
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  They've partnered with the organization, and they built 10,000 beds just a few days ago, 10,000 beds in 24 hours.
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  I read a little bit of this article here.
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  This is a good news network.
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  I absolutely love Good News Network.
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  Uh, they really have some very good stories that are not carried in the mainline media, the mainstream media, or the lame stream media.
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  Uh, but at any rate, we'll talk more about that after the break.
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  There's a company that is wonderful.
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  And it built 10,000 beds in 24 hours in North Carolina just a few days ago.
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  The organization is uh sleep in heavenly peace.
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  And their goal is to ensure that no American child is sleeping on the floor.
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  I absolutely love this because beds are not cheap, as you know, mattresses are not cheap, as you know, and a lot of families just can't afford it.
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  It's not that they don't care about their kids, it's that beds are very expensive for people.
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  For people living in poverty, they're really expensive.
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  And the age-old wisdom is well, let's just let's just donate and give them like some ragged out bed, and uh this organization says, no, no, no.
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  These kids are they're our neighbors.
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  They deserve to sleep on a brand new bed, just like the rest of us.
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  Which I'm all for.
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  I am 100% for.
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  I think it's fantastic, I think it's great.
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  I think it's wonderful, it's noble, all of those things.
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  I completely agree that every living breathing child here in America deserves to sleep on their own brand new bed.
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  And uh I I really get heartbroken when I see living conditions of kids that are less than um less than great.
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  And I've been in a lot of homes right here in America, been in a lot of homes where the sleeping conditions absolutely break my heart.
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  And there are hundreds of thousands of kids that don't have a bed right here in America.
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  Right here in America.
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  These are the kinds of things, and it's uh it really bothers me when I hear people protesting, and they're like, Yeah, tax the rich, tax the rich, and that's what they're protesting.
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  These are the kinds of things, and it's it really bothers me when I hear people protesting, and they're like, yeah, tax the rich, tax the rich, and that's what they're protesting.
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  They're out in the streets, they take the time, they take the time to make their signs, they take the time to travel, they take the time and the energy and the effort to stand out in the streets and to shout and to yell and to scream and to make scenes and to shout obscenities.
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  They're out in the streets, they take the time, they take the time to make their signs, they take the time to travel, they take the time and the energy and the effort to stand out in the streets and to shout and to yell and to scream and to make scenes and to shout obscenities.
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  They take the time to do that.
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  And a lot of protesters are professional protesters.
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  Hate to use that term, but it's true.
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  They uh they protest professionally.
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  They they love to agitate.
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  And uh they just kind of go around going from place to place to place, and they protest the rich.
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  It's a socialist movement that villainizes wealthy people, it villainizes wealth in general.
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  And of course, they'll misquote scriptures because that reminds me of J.D.
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  Vance.
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  J.D.
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  Vance quoting a uh I guess he thought he was quoting scripture and was quoting a scene from one of Quentin Tarantino's movies.
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  Uh just that's it's so embarrassing.
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  These kinds of things are just so embarrassing, and I don't know.
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  I guess that's the American way where people claim to be Christians and they don't know their Bibles.
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  So, yeah, I'm I'm not the biggest fan of J.D.
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  Vance, but whatever.
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  That's neither here nor there.
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  Um it wasn't JD Vance.
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  I I was wrong in that.
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  It was um it was Pete Hag Seth.
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  That's right.
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  My brain's not functioning today, folks.
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  You gotta bear with me.
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  My allergies have been absolutely killing me.
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  And I'm I'm trying to have clear thoughts, and my brain fog is like in full control today.
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  So uh the pollen is like absolutely filling my brain, and I didn't sleep, I slept about two hours last night, so my brain is not catching up.
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  So you'll have to forgive me here.
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  But yeah, it was Pete Hageth that he quoted a scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie, as if that was scripture.
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  But anyway, I digress.
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  So people use the scriptures, the socialists use the scriptures, and they're like, well, see, um, money is the root of all evil.
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  That scripture appears nowhere in the Bible.
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  The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
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  It's the pursuit of money, it's the pursuit of money at the expense of other people.
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  There's nothing inherently wrong with wealth or wealth building at all.
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  Nothing in the world wrong with holding wealth.
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  In fact, I talk about it.
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  I wrote a book about it, about building wealth.
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  We're teaching our children to build wealth.
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  There's nothing in the world wrong with that.
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  And in fact, I would argue without wealth, if everybody's on this equal playing field, which is what the socialists want.
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  They want everybody to be on equal ground, redistribution of wealth.
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  If we do that, then charity stops.
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  It just does.
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  So I am all for people building wealth.
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  I think that's one of the things that makes America so great, is that we have the ability and the opportunity to grow and build wealth.
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  Yeah, there are other countries that are not so fortunate.
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  In fact, there are a lot of countries that are not so fortunate.
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  And I think it's sad.
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  I think it's heartbreaking when countries are so corrupt.
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  And I, you know, I look at third world nations.
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  I look at Haiti as an example.
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  I just got an email from a good friend of mine who lives in Haiti.
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  He's lived in Haiti his whole life.
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  And he was just begging for help.
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  He had a dollar amount.
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  It was like, hey, we need it's thousands of dollars.
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  And I get these messages from them just constantly.
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  And I love them.
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  I I trust them.
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  He's not mismanaging money, but it's just my point is the needs are endless.
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  They never stop.
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  Because there is no wealth in the country of Haiti.
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  It's all taken by the government.
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  The government's very corrupt.
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  The gangs are completely taken over the country.
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  And when you can't build wealth, there's poverty.
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  Yeah, I would say virtually everybody in Haiti is on equal playing field.
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  That's an example of redistribution of wealth.
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  Yeah, everybody's poor.
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  So what I what I really like, what I encourage, what I love about America, what's fantastic, what makes America great, what makes it such a beautiful and unique country is that we are capitalists to our core.
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  That when we encourage people to build and grow wealth, they can bless other people and bless them abundantly.
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  And that's our goal.
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  My family, that's our goal for building wealth.
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  We pray it all the time.
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  We pray it every single night.
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  God bless us more so that we can bless other people more.
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  It's not we're like, yeah, we want to get rich.
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  That's the American dream to get filthy, stinking rich.
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  No, the American dream is to be able to grow wealth and for businesses to be able to thrive so that they can bless other people.
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  So that they can build beds for people who are in need, so that they can contribute to organizations like sleep and heavenly peace.
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  So here's a little bit of a uh the backstory for this.
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  Uh, by the end of her shift, Jenna Restropo had lost count of the boards she'd sanded, hauled or stamped, but it wasn't the numbers that stayed with her.
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  But it wasn't the numbers that stayed with her.
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  I'm thinking about my own kids, said the product manager at Lowe's.
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  I'm thinking about my own kids, said the product manager at Lowe's.
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  I'm so fortunate to put them in their own beds.
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  I'm so fortunate to put them in their own beds.
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  I hope every child feels as safe and comfortable as mine.
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  I hope every child feels as safe and comfortable as mine.
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  More than 140,000 children across the United States currently are currently waiting for a bed, according to sleep in heavenly peace.
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  More than 140,000 children across the United States currently are currently waiting for a bed according to sleep and heavenly peace, which is why partners like Bank of America, Honeywell.
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  Which is why partners like Bank of America, Honeywell, Rebuilding Together, and the Charlotte Hornets, NBA basketball uh organization all came together three days ago.
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  Do you hear this?
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  Listen who's fronting the money.
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  Listen who's sponsoring these brand new beds.
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  Bank of America, Honeywell, Rebuilding Together, the Charlotte Hornets.
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  Don't tell me that Americans can't work together.
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  Don't tell me that we're divided as a nation.
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  Look how bad a shape we're in.
• 29:09
  It's awful.
• 29:09
  It's terrible.
• 29:10
  It's horrible.
• 29:11
  It's the worst.
• 29:12
  It's uh Americans are screwed.
• 29:17
  Right?
• 29:18
  This is what we hear all the time.
• 29:20
  And I just don't, I don't see it.
• 29:22
  I don't believe it.
• 29:23
  I don't think that's who we are.
• 29:25
  I don't think that defines us.
• 29:27
  I see Americans working together.
• 29:29
  I see companies and NBA teams and Lowe's employees and Lowe's managers.
• 29:35
  And I see all of these people, Bank of America.
• 29:38
  I see them all working together and their hearts beat together as one.
• 29:43
  And that's what makes this such a great nation.
• 29:48
  That's why it really bothers me.
• 29:52
  Socialism really bothers me.
• 29:54
  Ma'am dummy really bothers me because his language is all about villainizing the American people.
• 30:03
  Villainizing the wealthy.
• 30:07
  As if they're a bunch of scumbags who've been ripping all of us poor people off.
• 30:12
  You know, that's how he frames it.
• 30:16
  Oh, all of the all the poor people are getting scammed by the rich companies, these rich CEOs.
• 30:23
  You'll hear that language.
• 30:25
  Yeah, they have their little catchphrases.
• 30:27
  The rich CEOs.
• 30:30
  President Obama, he was one of the worst offenders.
• 30:36
  Who, by the way, is a multi-millionaire.
• 30:41
  President Obama, I really want to point these out because sometimes our memory is very short.
• 30:50
  You'll remember when I quote these lines from him.
• 30:53
  Now I looked them up so that I wouldn't misquote him.
• 30:57
  But President Obama, who, by the way, his net worth is 70 million, 70, 70 million dollars.
• 31:09
  His entire presidency was about villainizing the rich.
• 31:13
  And this is what I'm talking about.
• 31:15
  The socialist Boiney Sanders, the oligarch, I'm going on my oligarchy tour.
• 31:22
  They villainize the rich, ma'am Donnie, villainizing the rich while they're all wealthy.
• 31:29
  And if anybody's conning people for money, it's them.
• 31:35
  But they but they uh they point the finger at businesses and they're like, oh, they're ripping, they're ripping the rich, uh, they're they're ripping the poor off.
• 31:46
  So Obama, you remember?
• 31:48
  You didn't build that in a 2012 campaign speech in Roanoke, Virginia.
• 31:54
  Obama said, quote, if you've got a business, you didn't build that.
• 31:58
  Somebody else made that happen.
• 32:01
  You remember that?
• 32:04
  Then he had the class warfare rhetoric.
• 32:08
  His 2012 election against Mitt Romney.
• 32:13
  Obama's campaign was accused of using Romney's wealth and his career at Bain Capitol to paint him in a negative light.
• 32:23
  Yeah, Mitt Romney is this rich, you know, the uh rich uh has been.
• 32:31
  He's all about ripping people off.
• 32:35
  And then, of course, Obama criticized Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis, he used sharp language towards the financial sector.
• 32:46
  He called them fat cat bankers.
• 32:51
  It's thinking wealth is from Wall Street, which I'm okay with.
• 32:57
  I mean, as long as you're not doing insider trading, uh I use Wall Street to build wealth.
• 33:03
  Heck yeah, I'm all for it.
• 33:07
  Put those dollars to work.
• 33:11
  But this is crazy.
• 33:15
  Crazy.
• 33:16
  And then, of course, is tax policy.
• 33:20
  You know, the proposals to raise the top marginal tax rate, close the loopholes, uh, on and on, promoted equal opportunity, fairness, and progressive taxation.
• 33:35
  Uh, on and on and on.
• 33:37
  And then, of course, his famous quote that uh we need to have redistribution of wealth.
• 33:44
  Well, when you do those things, we can't help fellow Americans out.
• 33:56
  Right?
• 33:57
  I would rather take a positive approach and say, man, wealth building is fantastic.
• 34:02
  It's great.
• 34:04
  And let people spend money however they want to spend their own money.
• 34:07
  They worked for it, they earned it.
• 34:10
  If they're multi-million, even Obama, heck, he's worth 70 million dollars.
• 34:15
  Let him spend his money how he wants to spend it.
• 34:19
  It's not for us to judge or decide.
• 34:23
  He's the one who has to answer to God one day.
• 34:26
  But what we find is that when people are incredibly wealthy, for the most part, they're incredibly generous.
• 34:35
  Philanthropy goes through the roof.
• 34:37
  There's study after study after study that demonstrates this, that people with wealth, businesses with extra wealth, they turn it into philanthropy.
• 34:50
  They help, they want to help.
• 34:53
  They're not saying, how do we get even richer?
• 34:55
  How do we rip off the American people?
• 34:57
  Let's let's price gouge, and uh, we'll really gouge the American people.
• 35:00
  And uh we'll really gouged the American people.
• 35:02
  We're really going to take it from them now.
• 35:02
  We're really gonna take it from them now.
• 35:05
  Very few companies do that.
• 35:05
  Very few companies do that.
• 35:08
  If they if they all did it, they wouldn't survive.
• 35:08
  If they if they all did it, they wouldn't survive.
• 35:13
  So this is a fantastic story of businesses, wealthy businesses, Bank of America, uh, you even have banks coming together.
• 35:13
  So this is a fantastic story of businesses, wealthy businesses, Bank of America, uh, you even have banks coming together.
• 35:22
  They're all given a massive amount of money to put together 10,000 beds.
• 35:22
  They're all given a massive amount of money to put together 10,000 beds.
• 35:28
  So it took teamwork to court and
• 35:28
  So it took teamwork to coordinate and coordination on a scale most volunteer projects never reach to turn 200 miles worth of raw lumber into 10,027 beds, using 2,000 gallons of stain, over 730,000 wood screws, and nearly 18,000 sanding discs.
• 35:53
  How cool is that?
• 35:56
  This is absolutely fantastic.
• 36:00
  So this is a picture.
• 36:02
  I want people to see the visual picture of this.
• 36:07
  I want you to see the picture of this sea of people in this convention center working together.
• 36:12
  I mean, thousands of people working together.
• 36:15
  6500 volunteers working together under the same roof.
• 36:21
  Do not tell me that America's divided.
• 36:24
  Don't tell me that Americans hate Americans and that we're all each other, and we're we've never been more divided.
• 36:32
  Don't listen to that rhetoric.
• 36:34
  It's simply not true.
• 36:37
  This is more a picture of who we are as America than the politicians who are saying that we're divided.
• 36:43
  I think they're just uh I think they don't know how to have fun, the people who are saying that, and they clearly have not stepped foot outside of their offices.
• 36:52
  Because when you walk in the streets, what you'll find in America is beautiful unity.
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  That's the organization that is making it the kids' dream.
• 39:11
  No pun intended here.
• 39:12
  It's making kids' dreams by uh by giving them beds, by giving them brand new beds to sleep in.
• 39:20
  Here in America, we have a big problem.
• 39:22
  We have a lot of children who sleep on the floor.
• 39:26
  Now, that's not the only problem facing kids.
• 39:29
  We know, of course, there's really bad food insecurity that affects millions of kids.
• 39:37
  Poverty affects a lot of Americans.
• 39:40
  And the kids, unfortunately, are some of the worst affected by poverty.
• 39:46
  There, of course, is disease.
• 39:49
  Children who are not taken to the doctor because parents can't afford it, or whatever.
• 39:56
  Whatever the reason, there are a lot of other reasons, but uh affordability is a big issue.
• 40:02
  And so kids don't go to the dentist, they they uh don't get proper care, they don't see the physicians, and it really affects them.
• 40:13
  It affects them in a lot of negative ways.
• 40:16
  We know that uh there are a lot of chronic issues, chronic health issues that are facing the youth in America.
• 40:22
  That's something an RFK Jr.
• 40:24
  has been pretty transparent about, pretty open about, definitely very vocal about.
• 40:32
  And uh now we have kids sleeping on floors because their parents can't afford a bed.
• 40:40
  You know, I I think of this uh very popular, it really was a uh wildly popular video, and you may have seen this.
• 40:51
  But it was a police officer, a white police officer who pulled over a black man.
• 40:56
  And he noticed immediately that the toddler uh was not in a car seat.
• 41:05
  And the officer said, Well, why is your child not in a car seat?
• 41:11
  You know, it's illegal, and it's incredibly dangerous.
• 41:16
  And the man who was pulled over, he said, Well, sir, I can't, I can't afford it.
• 41:21
  And he kind of hung his head down.
• 41:24
  And the officer said, follow me.
• 41:28
  He said, Do you have anywhere to be right now?
• 41:31
  Uh in a hurry.
• 41:32
  He said, No, sir.
• 41:34
  Follow me.
• 41:36
  And he brought him, I think it was to a Walmart.
• 41:39
  The police officer brought him inside and he said, I want you to pick whatever the best top-of-the-line car seat is, you choose what car seat you want.
• 41:50
  And the man said, Are you are you sure, sir?
• 41:53
  Absolutely 100%.
• 41:56
  And so the gentleman picked out a car seat for his toddler, and the police officer pulls his personal credit card out, and he pays for the car seat.
• 42:00
  His toddler, and the police officer pulls his personal credit card out, and he pays for the car seat.
• 42:08
  And they're not cheap, by the way.
• 42:08
  And they're not cheap, by the way.
• 42:10
  They're really not cheap.
• 42:10
  They're really not cheap.
• 42:13
  And they ended up being on uh national news, and the police officer didn't want any attention.
• 42:13
  And they ended up being on uh national news, and the police officer didn't want any attention.
• 42:20
  He, in fact, he didn't tell the person who his name was, and he he just didn't really want that information out there.
• 42:20
  He, in fact, he didn't tell the person who his name was, and he he just didn't really want that information out there.
• 42:27
  He just did it because he's a good dude.
• 42:27
  He just did it because he's a good dude.
• 42:31
  He didn't want any fame, he didn't want recognition, he just wanted to help a guy out.
• 42:37
  And so, of course, being a white cop and uh a black man who got pulled over, this story went incredibly viral.
• 42:47
  Because there's and that's the other thing too.
• 42:49
  I think that things like this happen more often than we realize.
• 42:53
  But because the media is so focused on the racism and the George Floyd and you know, the like the bad situations that do happen, the bad encounters that happen with with white cops and black people.
• 43:14
  It gets put on the news on endless loops.
• 43:19
  And so things like this, when when you have somebody doing something kind and generous and compassionate, it goes wildly viral because people are like, oh my goodness, it's like this is such a rare thing.
• 43:32
  I really don't think it is.
• 43:35
  I really don't.
• 43:37
  I think the media tends to spin things that are negative, the negative stories, and they make it sound like those are the norm.
• 43:46
  Like and and I have plenty of friends who are terrified to get pulled over because they're like, well, if I get pulled over because of the color of my skin, um, I'm probably chances are pretty good I'm I'm gonna be beat and uh you know, tased and whatever, falsely accused, on and on and on.
• 44:06
  And I'm like, that is not the vast majority of encounters with police officers.
• 44:13
  It's just not.
• 44:16
  And it's sad that the media puts it in people's minds that the world is such a dark, terrible place, and that it's full of dark, terrible people, and that simply by driving black, yeah.
• 44:30
  I've I've heard people use that expression.
• 44:33
  I was accused of driving black.
• 44:37
  You know, in other words, if if if you're if you're a black person, you're automatically targeted.
• 44:44
  Well, the vast majority of police officers don't do that.
• 44:47
  Now, do they exist?
• 44:48
  Are they out there?
• 44:49
  Absolutely.
• 44:50
  Uh, do we need to call do we need to call attention to it as an injustice?
• 44:54
  100%.
• 44:57
  100% any time that there's racism, it should be on the news.
• 45:02
  Now I'm not picking on the media for covering these stories.
• 45:05
  They need to be covered.
• 45:08
  But it's the way that they cover them, as if to make it sound like this is the norm.
• 45:14
  And so people get this jaded view of society, and they think that America sucks.
• 45:21
  I'm just gonna move out of this country.
• 45:22
  How many times have we heard people say that?
• 45:26
  Now I'm gonna move out of this country.
• 45:28
  America sucks.
• 45:29
  It's it's just full of bigots and haters, and what's your alternative?
• 45:34
  Where are you gonna go to?
• 45:37
  Name a better country.
• 45:39
  Name a more free country than America.
• 45:42
  But it's this narrative that everybody's a boogeyman, everybody's out to get you, everybody's everybody's gonna you know, screw you over in some capacity, and people tend to believe that.
• 45:54
  But then I see stories like this, where you have this incredible organization, you have the sleep in heavenly peace, and it's just amazing.
• 46:05
  Thousands of people coming together under the same roof, putting together 200 miles worth of raw lumber into 10,000 27 beds.
• 46:21
  They used 2,000 gallons of stain, 730,000 wood screws, and 18,000 sanding discs in 24 hours.
• 46:35
  I mean, this was incredible.
• 46:37
  Rolls were doled out in 16 lines with hundreds of people moved in sync, cutting, standing, assembling, finishing each step building on the last.
• 46:50
  By the end, all those hands and hours added up to something huge.
• 46:55
  When the noise of the tools had stopped, thousands of finished beds were stacked and ready to head out to families across 36 states via the 110 chapters of sleep and heavenly peace.
• 47:11
  This is amazing.
• 47:14
  Uh, here's another article.
• 47:17
  This, you know, one of the great things about finding uh news sources that cover positive stories is buried within those stories are hyperlinks to other positive stories.
• 47:26
  Here's one that I haven't even read yet.
• 47:29
  Lowe's donates 100 tiny homes to to Carolina families waiting for rebuilt housing after hurricane flooding.
• 47:37
  Yeah, here we go again, these big evil corporations, right?
• 47:42
  That's what we're supposed to believe.
• 47:45
  Always out for themselves, always out for the big buck.
• 47:48
  Tax them, tax them, tax them.
• 47:52
  But you would rather, you would seriously rather have the government dole out this money.
• 48:00
  You'd rather have the government hand this money out and distribute.
• 48:04
  Let's let's say that they tax Lowe's, uh, let's just pick a number.
• 48:08
  Let's say they tax them a billion extra dollars.
• 48:12
  All right, that's a billion dollars off of their off of their revenue off of their top end that Lowe's cannot contribute to charitable organizations.
• 48:22
  A billion dollars, a billion dollars will go a long way if managed properly.
• 48:28
  And so now Uncle Sam has that one billion dollars.
• 48:34
  And they now have countless special interest groups.
• 48:41
  They have 50 different states that everybody's everybody's wanting more money from the federal government.
• 48:50
  They have tons of government organizations that are starved for money.
• 48:58
  They have all kinds of pork, so many different pet projects, and on and on and on it goes.
• 49:01
  So many different pet projects and on and on and on it goes.
• 49:06
  Where do you think that one billion dollars?
• 49:06
  Where do you think that one billion dollars, how far do you think that one billion dollars is gonna go now that Uncle Sam, now that the government has a hold of it, how far do you think that'll stretch?
• 49:08
  How far do you think that one billion dollars is going to go?
• 49:12
  Now that Uncle Sam, now that the government has a hold of it, how far do you think that'll stretch?
• 49:17
  They'll sneeze a billion dollars out in three seconds through 10 different scandals.
• 49:17
  They'll sneeze a billion dollars out in three seconds through 10 different scandals.
• 49:27
  Look at the railway in California.
• 49:27
  Look at the railway in California, that's just.
• 49:29
  That's just one example.
• 49:32
  I mean, let's just talk about that.
• 49:34
  As of early early 2026, the California high-speed rail project, the train to nowhere, literally the train to nowhere, has spent already 13.8 to 15.7 billion dollars.
• 49:53
  And they've literally done nothing with projected costs for the phase one, just phase one, soaring to over 126 billion dollars.
• 50:06
  The project has faced years of delays and cost increases from an initial 2008.
• 50:14
  This has been going on since 2008, folks.
• 50:18
  Their original estimate was 40 to 45 billion dollars.
• 50:23
  Now it's projected 126 billion just for phase one.
• 50:30
  This is unreal.
• 50:34
  It's a failed railroad.
• 50:37
  There's literally nothing built.
• 50:39
  It's a railroad to nowhere.
• 50:40
  There's nothing to show for it.
• 50:43
  16 years.
• 50:50
  15 billion dollars spent, already gone.
• 50:55
  That money's gone.
• 50:56
  They sneeze this money out in scandals all the time.
• 50:59
  Look at the big scandal in Minneapolis.
• 51:05
  I guess it's the whole state.
• 51:07
  The whole state of Minnesota, but look at look at the alleged billions of dollars that was wasted in fraud.
• 51:15
  So over and over and over, I mean, this this is being replicated every single second within the federal government.
• 51:21
  So this whole thing, tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich for what?
• 51:28
  They can do much more good if you tax them less.
• 51:32
  Let them generate lots of revenue and let them use that revenue for good.
• 51:37
  Let them donate.
• 51:39
  I don't know about you, but I don't have money to donate a hundred houses to hurricane victims.
• 51:49
  Maybe one day that'd be nice if I had enough money to do that, but I don't have that kind of money.
• 51:53
  I'm I'm sure probably most of us, if not all of us.
• 51:59
  Individually, we don't have money to buy a hundred houses and to fund something like this, and to give up the workers to create these assembly lines for all the beds.
• 52:10
  And to pay for the shipping.
• 52:12
  Transportation is not cheap.
• 52:14
  Trust me, it's not cheap.
• 52:19
  So they have to transport all the raw materials to Charlotte, North Carolina, and then they assemble the beds.
• 52:26
  Well, now you have you have lumber that's that's not compacted anymore.
• 52:33
  Takes a whole lot more trailers to move assembled beds than to move raw material, and now they have to disseminate the get them out across 36 states.
• 52:45
  It's not cheap.
• 52:49
  But these organizations are able to do it.
• 52:51
  Why?
• 52:52
  Because companies are philanthropic.
• 52:57
  Because they want to give.
• 53:29
  Those evil rich people tax them.
• 53:31
  You don't hear people, not very often anyway.
• 53:34
  People on the right don't say that.
• 53:38
  Most people on the right are fiscally conservative.
• 53:43
  Yeah, do budgetary cuts.
• 53:47
  Go on a diet.
• 53:49
  Cut back.
• 53:52
  Allow us to keep more of our tax dollars.
• 53:54
  Why?
• 53:56
  So that we can do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
• 54:01
  So that we can bless people.
• 54:05
  I mean, that's what it's about.
• 54:06
  Sure, if you want to buy the boat and you know, blow it on whatever it is that you blow money on for for your own good, then whatever.
• 54:15
  It's I guess it's your money.
• 54:16
  You can do with it what you want.
• 54:21
  But so many people millions upon millions upon tens of millions of people in America.
• 54:31
  Are incredibly generous.
• 54:34
  That's how I'm able to do stories day after day after day.
• 54:40
  Somebody delivers food, a door dasher delivers food, uh, trips going up the steps, somebody starts to go fund me, and within 24 hours, they can retire.
• 54:52
  Name another country where people do that.
• 54:57
  I mean, isn't that incredible?
• 55:01
  We have hundreds of thousands of kids sleeping on the floor.
• 55:05
  Oh, I know.
• 55:06
  I'll start a nonprofit organization, partner with big companies, and uh we'll just give them beds.
• 55:12
  There is no problem in America that's not solvable.
• 55:19
  I just noticed on their website.
• 55:22
  Um, they have a Canadian flag.
• 55:26
  So I have to wonder if this organization, that'd be even cooler.
• 55:32
  If they're organized, if if they're located in Canada, but they're definitely doing this here in America, it's 36 states wide.
• 55:42
  So that's really cool.
• 55:47
  They have a federal ID number that looks like an American federal ID number.
• 55:51
  I don't know why.
• 55:52
  They have a Canadian flag at the bottom, just a tiny little Canadian flag.
• 55:58
  I should click on it.
• 55:59
  Now I'm gonna get a virus.
• 56:00
  Get a virus.
• 56:02
  Alright, now that I guess they're in a bunch of countries.
• 56:02
  All right, now that I guess they're in a bunch of countries, one, two, three, four different countries.
• 56:06
  One, two, three, four different countries.
• 56:08
  That is really cool.
• 56:08
  That is really cool.
• 56:12
  They're having a global impact.
• 56:12
  They're having a global impact.
• 56:16
  And that's what I'm talking about.
• 56:16
  And that's what I'm talking about.
• 56:18
  It starts with one person with one idea.
• 56:18
  It starts with one person with one idea.
• 56:21
  And that's how the hidden lightness spreads.
• 56:21
  And that's how the hidden lightness spreads.
• 56:25
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• 56:25
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