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Having One Leg Up On The Default Clock · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  All right, I know that I've kind of gone off the theme for this
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  podcast which I started um January February, but but on the Alex Garrett podcast
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  network that Sam is dire, I didn't know this. We are nine days
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  away from a default of our economic system, five days away before, nine
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  days away before if that sealing negotiations fall apart, there is a default a
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  foot. And I'll tell you the saddest image I saw yesterday was this Joe
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  Biden sitting there and Kevin McCarthy. And I'm sorry to say this about the
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  President of the United States, but it looked like McCarthy was visiting the senior
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  home at a very crucial moment. Biden looked and sat there, doing very
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  little of anything. Kevin McCarthy was saying, well, we're not at a
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  at an agreement yet we have disagreement. We cannot come to an agreement,
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  and all Biden does is joke about it. Yesterday was ten, today's nine,
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  So ten days away from our country defaulting, our president's making jokes.
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  Isn't that fantastic? Isn't it so sad that President Biden looked like he was
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  being visited by a relative, not the speaker, but by a relative that
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  want to check in on their older relative. They're elder parents, grandparent went.
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  It looked like that. It didn't look like a speaker president meeting.
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  It looked really awful. And in twenty twenty four, that's not the image
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  we need to strive for. Okay, you could blame Speaker McCarthy for holding
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  the negotiations. You could say Biden shouldn't have been a G seven while his
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  country is in a default mode, default alert. But overall, yesterday's image
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  of President Biden and Speaker McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy in the Oval Office, you
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  know, in one of the big rooms in the Oval Office, looked pretty
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  sad. And I was thinking to myself, what image did I want to
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  talk about today? And that's the one that our country is nine days away
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  from defaulting and we have what looks like relatives visiting their elder in a senior
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  center or a senior home. Because there's very little life coming out of Joe
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  Biden, only jokes and you know, oh, good old Joe. But
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  it's it's a tired act. It's a tired act because our country is that
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  it is that a tipping point. Now you might say, what does default
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  mean on debt? While it can mean non social security and if we default
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  on the debt, the interest rate on the debt would go up, and
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  that probably would lead to a crash. Coined the NPR, the interest rate
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  on the debt that we have has gone up, would go up. I
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  know we want a lower spending, but at this point, just raise the
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  damn ceiling even more because we are facing a calamity of proportions maybe even seen,
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  not even seen in two thousand and eight. And here we have a
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  president joking around, laughing about things, and a speaker that says, we
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  have many disagreements. We can't come to the table. Mister President, help
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  us please, oh waha ha ha. It's like, no, that's not
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  the image America should be having to the world, especially when they see us
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  giving billions of dollars to you create. We can't even get our own economy
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  together nine days. The clock is ticking. The clock is ticking, Washington.
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  Other consequences, according to the NPR, which you know, when it
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  comes to this, I kind of and it would affect cuts in other spending,
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  even an education spending. At a time when student loan forgiveness is already
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  a thing, or they're trying to make it a thing. It's in the
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  courts. I still believe. I believe still Look, I've I've never been
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  a fan of can continually raising the ceiling because just because we can. But
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  this is crucial that something get done, that they not be worlds apart just
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  nine days away, that we don't have the image of a speaker pleading to
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  the present of the United States. Here's exactly what McCarthy and Biden talked about
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  yesterday. We do have disagreements, have a fifty year average, we're having
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  more revenue than any time coming in. But I think we both agree that
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  we need to change the directory, that our debt is too large. I
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  think at the end of the day, we can find common ground, make
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  our economy strong, take care of this debt. But more importantly, this
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  government moving again to curb inflation, make us less dependent upon China, and
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  make our appropriation system work. We'll be done right. I mean to me,
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  why even crack jokes in such a serious time present Biden, that's the
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  frustrating thing. That's the frustrating thing. But we will see, we will
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  see. But the imagery of Biden and McCarthy side by side. McCarthy looks
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  like he's visiting his elderly grandfather or if you know, grandfather in the in
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  the senior Center. I'm sorry to say it like that, but this is
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  what it looks like. And it doesn't look good for the nation, and
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  it doesn't look good for us on the global stage. It doesn't look good
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  for us if our economy is on the verge and all we get our jokes
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  from the President of the United State and even gaffs and stumbles, that's not
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  good. You can say you're you're being so anti Biden right now. No,
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  I'm being I'm being a couple couple of years into the Biden presidency's tired.
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  Biden years tired. It's Biden fatigue, isn't that Well, guess what
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  we'll be back in just a little bit on a nail on the Sports Spotlight
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  side with lou Terminello on Terminalo's take. But I had to get this done.
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  I had event because our nation's at default and Biden's they're joking with McCarthy,
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  come on, come on man, As Joe Biden would say, Hey,
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