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After Davos, MSC Group moves to Florida: $300 million a year in economic impact · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You're 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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  We'll end the week by talking about some good economic news.
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  There's a lot of economic news right now.
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  I mean lots.
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  And I just saw a post that a very famous economist is predicting that there's going to be a bigger crash than 2008.
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  And maybe that's going to happen, maybe not.
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  People have been sounding this alarm for several years now.
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  And certainly since the beginning of President Trump's term, a year ago, people have been predicting a major crash, saying that he's the one driving the economy into the ground.
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  But I'm looking at other stories here.
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  And they're telling a little bit of a different story.
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  Now I know the economy is very, very complex.
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  It's got a lot of ups and downs.
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  And certainly everybody's keeping their eye on inflation right now.
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  And utility costs are up from last year overall.
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  They're up.
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  I forgot what the percentage is.
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  I just saw an article about that.
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  Maybe I'll circle back to that later.
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  But people's utilities are up, and part of that is driven by a very, very hard winter.
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  You know, the whole global warming.
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  And it's been very unseasonably cold across most of America.
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  It's uh it's cold.
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  Folks, this is a cold, cold winter that's been on tap, and not much signs of letting up.
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  So, of course, that's going to increase increase utility costs.
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  But here's an article that caught my attention, and that is that the cruise industry is taking up residence in Florida.
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  We're seeing a lot of businesses, a lot of businesses migrate to Florida.
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  And this one just put a big investment.
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  It's the third largest cruise industry or cruise line, and it's going to generate 300 million dollars annually in economic impact for Miami Dade County.
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  More good news for Florida, and people can say what they want about DeSantis.
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  They can trash him all day long, but the guy knows how to bring businesses to Florida.
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  I mean, he really knows how to make Florida boom.
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  And of course, President Trump, being from Florida, I think he's probably smiling all the way to the bank.
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  This is really good news for Florida.
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  More good news for Florida.
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  And it continues to just get better and better.
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  Now, this goes back to one of those things.
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  Now, people say this about people personally, but it's very true for businesses as well, just in general.
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  And they typically use this as an insult, where they say, well, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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  They actually do.
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  And the reason they get richer is because they migrate to areas of least resistance.
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  They migrate to states that actually treat them with decency and respect.
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  They migrate to places that don't bombard them and burden them with taxes.
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  So, yeah, the rich get richer because they look for opportunity.
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  They look for places where they're going to thrive, where their businesses are going to thrive.
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  And look at what this is doing for the state of Florida.
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  Look at the amount of revenue that is coming into the state, the amount of jobs that are being produced in Florida.
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  And it's actually a really brilliant move because what these states are doing, like Florida, Texas, what they're doing is they're making their entire state recession proof.
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  It's a very brilliant move because these jobs aren't going anywhere.
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  And the more revenue that they bring into the states, the more they can benefit the residents.
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  And I've talked about this before.
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  Florida is one of the states that's talking about eliminating the property tax.
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  And uh the reason that they're eliminating the property tax is because they have so much revenue coming in from different areas that they don't need to tax people the property tax.
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  Now they still need that revenue, they still need that money, and there is no such thing as free money.
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  That money has to come from somewhere.
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  But this is the brilliance in being a state that doesn't overtax businesses, that doesn't overburden wealthy people.
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  And this is something that it's very interesting because the politicians gripe and gripe about this.
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  Are the Nancy Pelosi's, the people who are worth half a billion dollars.
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  You know, Nancy Pelosi, the queen of insider trading, she went on all those soapboxes constantly.
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  Wow, tax the rich, the wealthy are terrible, they're immoral.
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  Well, she's laughing all the way to the bank.
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  That the rich people are they're greedy, they're terrible, they're a uh a sap on society, they drain the middle class dry.
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  That's how they get their wealth, right?
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  The only way that you can get wealth, according to them, is by ripping other people off.
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  You take advantage of the poor people, you take advantage of the middle class, and then you get wealthy off the backs of them.
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  And I hate to break it to those people, but that's not how economics works.
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  Yeah, there are some people out there who rip off good, decent people, but those are the businesses that fail, and they should fail.
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  But the average businesses, they do things like this where they they invest millions of dollars or even billions of dollars, and this is generating a 300 million dollar annual economic impact for Miami-Dade County.
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  I mean, it's bringing in a massive pile of money to Miami-Dade County.
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  Think of the thousands of people every single time that cruise ship comes in, one of their ships.
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  I don't know how many ships they have, but every single time one of these ships docks, which is what, every couple days on rotation, it's probably really more like every day.
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  It brings in a massive amount of people.
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  You have visitors who come in, that means the hotel and Airbnb and uh those kinds of businesses do very well.
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  Restaurants do very well.
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  You think they're not loving having thousands of people come in every single day.
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  How about the airlines?
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  I just did a show about Delta.
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  Delta's dishing out uh, you know, what one and a half or more billion dollars to to its employees, profit dividends.
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  Oh, and on it goes.
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  I mean, it affects so many different industries.
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  How about uh your local gas stations?
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  You think they don't like how about rental companies, car rental companies?
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  On and on it goes, even hospitals.
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  Yeah, people get sick, they're from out of town.
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  Uh so many different people are benefiting.
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  And this is really good news for Florida.
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  So here's the article here.
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  One cruise and travel group is charging full speed ahead in the U.S.
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  market, unveiling a 100 million dollar headquarters in Miami as it expands operations and bets big on Florida's economy.
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  Well, you don't stay.
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  MSC group held its ribbon cutting ceremony for the new North American cruise division headquarters in downtown Miami on Monday, reinforcing a long term commitment to business friendly Florida.
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  MSC is a privately owned global transportation and cruise giant headquartered in Switzerland and is continuing to expand its U.S.
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  footprint.
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  Really interesting to me because people griped about the America first, people on the left.
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  They gripe about the America of the America first agenda.
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  That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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  Dump Trump.
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  Orange Man bad.
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  Orange Man Nazi.
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  Now he he talked about putting tariffs on other countries for the purpose of driving businesses back to America.
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  He said, I'm I'm tired of America getting ripped off.
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  Yeah, all these other all these other countries, our businesses flee to other countries because our taxes are so insane.
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  It's far more affordable for people to do business, American businesses to do business in other countries like Mexico.
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  So Trump said, I'll fix that.
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  Look what he did with John Deere.
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  He said, we're gonna incentivize you.
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  We're gonna both penalize and incentivize.
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  We're gonna penalize if you if you take your business to other countries.
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  That's fine.
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  We'll just put a tariff on everything coming back into the U.S.
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  But if you build here in the U.S., he basically is saying, I promise we're gonna make it worth your time.
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  And then all of a sudden, all these companies start investing billions of dollars over the next five years, right here in the U.S.
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  Apple did it.
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  Um what other company?
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  Amazon, I think, Prime did it.
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  Uh, there were a bunch of companies that started investing billions of dollars.
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  And interestingly, now you have companies from overseas that are investing where?
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  Right here in America.
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  So this company's headquartered out of Switzerland.
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  And it's also expanding, obviously, here in the United States.
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  So this 100 million dollar investment relocates more than 400 employees, with an additional 1,500 jobs expected to be created over the next three years.
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  Orange man bad.
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  Right?
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  We hear this narrative non-stop.
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  It just never stops, but look at the actual numbers.
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  Look at where people are migrating.
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  Look at where the jobs are popping up.
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  I mean, lots of jobs.
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  I say this all the time.
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  There is no shortage of jobs.
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  And good jobs.
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  Now I know they're uh, you know, we can't be naive.
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  Amazon is laying off, I don't even know how many people I just saw that they announced they're gonna be helping people to transition in certain divisions are gonna be laying off several people.
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  But the unemployment numbers, the the last report that just came out was actually pretty positive.
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  We have less unemployed uh people than than what was expected, less unemployment claims, and it just shows that the the economy is really resilient.
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  But it also shows that there's ample opportunity out there.
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  And I talk about this all the time because I I just I don't think that people believe it.
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  I think they pick up the news that's so biased and and so against everything Trump and his administration and anybody related to him whatsoever, including Ron DeSantis.
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  I mean, Florida gets absolutely bashed.
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  And you look at this and you're like, okay, 1,500 new jobs, and these will be most likely really good paying jobs.
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  1,500 new jobs, 400 people relocated who are already employees, and think of all the other businesses that'll be affected.
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  It's gonna be a new 130,000 square foot office.
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  It'll take up the entire seventh floor of block 55 at Sawyer's Walk.
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  And again, it's gonna generate 300 million dollars annually in recurring direct economic impact for Miami Dade County.
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  And yet, people will, you know, they'll find some way, some way to complain about this or talk about how it's fake news or you know, like uh these ships are ruining the ozone layer, they're they're increasing global warming.
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  Like, right, they're gonna find some way to complain about this.
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  And meanwhile, we're getting snow as far as far south as Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, they're they're getting hammered this coming weekend, absolutely hammered with the with a big snowstorm.
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  People still haven't dug out from the last one.
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  Now we're getting another two feet on top of that, plus.
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  So, yeah, it's just it's so wild.
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  And I think that's one of the things, and one of the reasons I wanted to talk about this is because we have to look for opportunity.
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  Right?
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  Because opportunity doesn't just knock on your door and say, here I am.
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  And so a lot of people feel like they're victims, and partially because they've become victims of the media.
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  They've been victims, they've become victims of this narrative that talks about how bad things are.
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  We're we're in this perpetual state of everything being on the brink of uh right uh total collapse and destruction.
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  I keep hearing hearing more about this whole civil war idea.
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  Like, oh my goodness, we're there's so much unrest in the streets.
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  There's not really.
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  MSC Group, the third largest cruise ship organization in the world.
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  MSC Group.
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  They are re uh not rey are establishing.
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  I almost said re-establishing, but they're establishing.
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  A North American cruise division headquarters in Florida, specifically in Miami.
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  The company is out of Switzerland, and they decided that they really liked what's going on in America.
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  Remember how Trump has this big pamphlet.
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  I love this.
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  He had this big three-ring binder.
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  And he spoke at the summit in uh Davos, Switzerland, right?
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  Ironically, Switzerland.
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  Wasn't this just like a week ago that President Trump was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland?
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  And don't you find it interesting that a week later, a Swiss company, one of the largest in the world, made an announcement.
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  Hey, we're uh we're coming to America.
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  Don't you find that a little bit, the timing is just a little bit ironic to me.
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  Listen to what they said.
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  This is not my words.
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  It's uh this is from Miami mayor Eileen Higgins.
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  Listen to the messaging, and I want to do a little bit of a contrast here, because I think that's important for us.
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  She said the message is clear.
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  We welcome global companies.
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  Encourage relocation and expansion, and foster an environment where innovation, collaboration, and prosperity can flourish.
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  Now, I'm so confused here.
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  I am totally confused because I thought that President Trump was making enemies of all these nations, that they didn't want to do business with us, that they hate us.
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  They hate America because of Orange Man, Orange Man bad, orange man Nazi, and so all these countries who are allies of ours, they hate us.
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  They don't want anything to do with this.
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  They stomp their feet.
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  They um they walk away from us.
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  Well, we shouldn't look to Canada as the example of how other allies think of America.
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  Didn't Canada just uh try to strike some deal with China?
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  They're getting in bed with China, you know.
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  All Canada had to do was come to the table and say, all right, Mr.
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  Trump, let's make a deal.
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  And I think we would have uh we still do have a good relationship with Canada, but I think that our our our leaders would have a much better relationship if they didn't throw a temper tantrum and talk about how bad America is and how you know they're being mistreated.
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  They would come to the table, and hopefully that'll happen soon.
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  I I was listening to Kevin O'Leary, and he actually is pretty pretty hopeful that that's gonna happen.
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  And I am too.
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  I think it will eventually.
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  But this is the message.
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  Listen, people want to do business with America.
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  Trump is right.
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  When he was there, I think this was at the World Economic Forum.
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  He had this big three ring binder, and he kind of slams it down on on you know, on the podium as he's speaking.
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  He's like, Yeah, I just wanted to bring just a portion of of all the accomplishments that we've made since I've been in office.
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  And uh it's it's this binder just full of facts and deals that he's closed with other nations and other businesses, American businesses, and it's this massive three-ring binder, and he's not wrong to brag about it.
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  I mean, these are major accomplishments, and his point was you're not going to hear about this in in the media.
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  They're gonna talk about how all these countries hate us and they want nothing to do with America.
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  Meanwhile, you have the the CFO or CEO of Toyota wearing a make America great again hat.
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  And he's just he's grinning from ear to ear.
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  And Toyota's happy to do business.
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  They want to do tons of business with America.
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  They've made that abundantly clear that they're investing billions of dollars here in America.
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  You have all these companies from overseas, and they're like, wait, our own taxes kind of stink.
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  We want to go to America where we feel welcomed, and we can collaborate.
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  You know, it's this environment of innovation, according to the uh mayor, Eileen Higgins, mayor of Miami, and she's exactly right.
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  I don't disagree with her here.
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  When you foster an environment where innovation, collaboration, and prosperity can flourish.
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  Guess what happens?
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  Guess where businesses are gonna want to do business.
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  You don't you don't see these companies moving into California?
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  You don't see any of these businesses moving to uh uh New York, right?
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  That it's it's a hostile environment in New York and California.
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  What did Mamdanny campaign on?
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  What was his entire campaign?
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  He's still saying it.
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  We're gonna tax, we're gonna tax those billionaires into oblivion.
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  They're not even gonna basically they're not even gonna know what's hit hitting them.
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  We're gonna tax them so heavily, they're gonna pay their fair share.
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  Can you imagine?
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  Can you imagine as a private individual going on vacation?
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  And that's the message, right?
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  You go to book, you go to book an Airbnb, and then all of a sudden, this big red flashing banner comes up on the screen, and it says, we detected that because you're planning a vacation, you have money, and we're gonna make you pay your fair share.
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  Mark my words, you're gonna pay your fair share.
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  Do you think you're gonna click the uh checkout button?
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  Yeah, this is the one that I I want to go through with this transaction.
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  Think about any business that did that to you.
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  You would run, you would run as fast as you could run.
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  Right?
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  You're you're about to close a deal on a house.
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  You've been you've been negotiating back and forth with a realtor.
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  And you give an offer, and all of a sudden the realtor comes back and says, you know what?
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  This is a pretty expensive house.
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  You must have a lot of money.
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  I'm gonna get my fair share out of you.
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  I'm gonna charge you double fee.
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  And and by the way, the people selling the house, the sellers also notice that you must have a good bit of money because you put a pretty decent offer down, and they want their fair share.
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  They're actually gonna counter and they're increasing your offer by 10%.
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  They're gonna up the you you need to give 10% more.
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  And then you need to, I'm gonna double my fees as the realtor.
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  Um, sign, sign on the dotted line.
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  Not anybody in their right mind would sign on that dotted line.
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  You would run, wouldn't you?
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  You'd be like, I'm not gonna pay.
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  And then, and then the mayor of the town at the same time, you turn the TV on that night, and the mayor's saying, yeah, we're gonna put a wealth tax on anybody who's buying houses in this town, we're gonna put an additional 5% wealth tax.
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  Because after all, the the wealthy should pay their fair share.
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  You would leave that town so quick.
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  Every one of us, if we're being honest, we would leave that town so quick, it wouldn't know it hit it.
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  Nobody in their right mind would put up with that.
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  Now, flip that around.
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  Let's say that you show up, show up to a car dealership, and you find a car, and you, you know, it's it's the car of your dreams, and you're like, man, I really, really hope that somebody doesn't buy this out from under me.
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  This is this is exactly what I'm looking for.
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  Right color, it's the right trim, uh leather interior, like it's exactly what I wanted.
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  Exactly.
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  And I want this so bad I can I can almost taste it.
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  And the salesman comes out and he's like, okay, this is the price on the car, and you say, well, can you know, can you take this offer?
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  Let me go talk to my manager.
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  And he comes back and he says, I can do you one better.
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  We're actually doing a first time car buyer, car purchaser sale, and it's
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  A deal since you've not bought from us before, we're actually going to tack on a five percent bonus.
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  We're gonna reduce the the total cost by five percent.
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  And you're like, what's the catch?
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  Now the catch is here.
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  Let me shake your hand.
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  We appreciate your business.
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  That's the catch.
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  There is no catch.
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  It's not trickery.
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  It's you know, we're not messing with you.
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  We appreciate your business.
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  And we would love to have you come back, but we're not gonna pressure you.
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  But we just wanted to say thank you.
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  Thank you for choosing us.
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  You could have picked any other dealership, but you chose us.
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  So we're gonna give a 5%, a 5% discount.
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  Simply because you chose us.
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  Now let me tell you, which place would you want to do business with?
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  Where are you gonna do business?
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  Are you gonna go to the place where they treat you with respect and they say thank you for your business?
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  Like we want to honor you by choosing us.
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  We actually feel honored that you chose our place.
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  You chose us.
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  We didn't choose you, you chose us.
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  Well, folks, that's exactly what Florida's doing, and that's really what President Trump is doing with America.
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  See, he's a deal maker.
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  He's not eloquent.
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  He's very clearly not traditional.
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  Heck, he's not even presidential.
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  You hear him talk, and it's it's literally like fingernails going across the chalkboard.
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  He just he rambles on, and you never know what he's gonna say, and he says so many inappropriate things, and you're like, what?
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  What is wrong with this guy?
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  But then you look at the deals that he's making and the companies that he's drawn to America and the amount of money, just loads and loads and loads and loads and loads of money being poured into the U.S.
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  economy.
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  That's not because he's charming.
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  He is not.
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  It's because he knows how to get deals done.
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  He knows how to make deals that make businesses worth their while.
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  It makes them feel honored.
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  And he gets this stuff in writing.
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  It's not just a handshake.
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  It's not how this works.
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  He's actively writing policies that make it attractive for businesses to come to America.
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  And so this is what's happening with our allies.
• 33:08
  This is the reality of what's happening with allies all across the globe.
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  They're like, hey, we better get in line because if if we don't strike while the iron's hot, we might miss the boat.
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  We might not be able to do business in America.
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  Who knows what president we're gonna get after Trump?
• 33:32
  You know, we have three years, and that's why all these businesses are lining up to do these deals.
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  It's really incredible.
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  I mean, it's something to see.
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  I've never seen anything like this before.
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  I think it's really incredible.
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  So the the move to Florida, it builds on MSC's other recent investments in the area, including opening of what the company is described as North America's largest cruise terminal and the launch of MSC World America from Miami.
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  They even named it World America.
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  These people love America.
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  You know why?
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  Because they're welcomed.
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  They're a hundred percent welcomed.
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  Here's that their CEO, the USA CEO of MSC group, Ruben Rodriguez.
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  Here's what he said in a press release.
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  Our new North American cruise division headquarters reflects the scale of our ambitions.
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  By bringing our teams together under one roof, we're creating an environment that fosters collaboration, innovation, and shared purpose.
• 34:55
  That sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it?
• 34:57
  Oh, yeah, that's the exact phraseology that the mayor of Miami said.
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  Fascinating how that works, isn't it?
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  You welcome people, and they feel welcomed.
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  They're like, yeah, we we we want to create this environment that fosters collaboration, innovation, and shared purpose as we continue expanding our footprint, deploying more ships, welcoming more guests, and strengthening our presence across U.S.
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  home ports.
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  I don't know.
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  I'm I'm not prophetic, but I can imagine a company like this is gonna have the money to start building ships.
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  You want to take any guesses as to where they're gonna start building ships.
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  Listen to these numbers.
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  Last year, Port Miami saw a record-breaking eight million five hundred and sixty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-five passengers, more than a four percent year-over-year increase with a record single-day high of more than seventy thousand passengers on November 30.
• 36:25
  Crazy.
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  Absolutely crazy.
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  When Trump says America's hot, this is what he's talking about.
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  The amount of people, the amount of money, the amount of of money being spent.
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  You want to talk about stimulating the economy.
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  This is this is doing it.
• 36:52
  But this is happening because Florida opens up their, they open up their arms.
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  And now these numbers are gonna shoot way up, even more.
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  And now, if we can get them to start building ships, I guarantee right now, already companies are lining up, and they're gonna be like, all right, how do we make this happen?
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  We have all this increased traffic.
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  Believe me, people have their eye on on these numbers.
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  And they're looking for their next move.
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  This is why the wealthy get wealthier, they see opportunity.
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  You see, this was the big, this was the narrative from the racist left.
• 40:27
  It's so funny because everybody's a racist, and these immigration policies are racist.
• 40:34
  And then you get you get replies like, well, who's going to do the farming?
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  Right?
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  You're getting rid of the illegals.
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  Who's going to pick, who's going to pick fruit out in the field?
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  Do you realize how racist that is?
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  I mean, uh, it's so unbelievable.
• 40:58
  And I wanted to do a little bit of a contrast because I think it's really important.
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  You see, we America, America right now, is opening up its arms to businesses.
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  It's saying, hey, we want to welcome you, we want to bring you in, uh, we want to employ more people.
• 41:19
  We want to make it friendly in America for people to do business.
• 41:24
  And then you have certain states, Florida being one of them, Texas, definitely one of them.
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  And they're opening up their arms, and they're saying, hey, we want uh, we want to be friendly towards businesses in our states.
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  You know, we're glad that you're coming to America, but we we want you to come to our state, and we're gonna do everything that we can to make you feel warm and welcome.
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  Meanwhile, people on the left are saying, well, we need to welcome people into our country.
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  Open borders, open borders, open borders.
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  You know, and and then the question is, and Greg Abbott was was the one who really pushed this.
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  All right, who takes care of them?
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  You have millions of people under Joseph Biden who poured over the border, if fentanyl out of control, you have human trafficking, sex trafficking, out of control, absolutely out of control, people literally taking over in the south part of Texas, farmers that are having to arm themselves, crops being utterly destroyed, their livelihoods down the down the tubes, and Abbott says, all right, who's gonna take care of them?
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  Well, it's the Christian thing to do.
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  You open up your arms and that no, no, no, no.
• 43:06
  Who specifically is gonna house them?
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  Where are they gonna live?
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  How are they gonna eat?
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  How are they gonna get jobs?
• 43:18
  How are they gonna survive?
• 43:22
  Well, the Christian thing to do is to open up your arms, and you know, all of a sudden now they're Christians.
• 43:27
  You know, what open up your arms, and that's what would Jesus do.
• 43:33
  Meanwhile, it just created a disaster.
• 43:36
  And Abbott started shipping and busting um shipping metaphorically, but he was busting illegals up to uh the sanctuary cities in the Northeast, New York City, Boston.
• 43:57
  All of a sudden, they didn't want them.
• 44:02
  Well, this is a problem.
• 44:05
  We can't take care of them, we don't have the resources.
• 44:10
  And Abbott was like, yeah, that's the point.
• 44:15
  You want to have a wide open border.
• 44:19
  You point the finger at your constantly pointing the finger at other people, telling other people what they need to be doing.
• 44:30
  Meanwhile, I'm giving you the opportunity to take care of illegals, right?
• 44:34
  That's what you say.
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  They're migrants.
• 44:37
  We need to take care of them, okay, then take care of them.
• 44:43
  Here, I'm literally giving you the opportunity to take care of them.
• 44:49
  And what did the sanctuary cities do?
• 44:52
  They sued, they sued the state of Texas.
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  Like, we we can't, we can't take care of them.
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  We can't do that.
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  And I think Abbott was the one who said, well, then open up your homes.
• 45:10
  You say you want to take care of them, you say it's the right thing to do, it's the Christian thing to do, then do it.
• 45:15
  Nobody's stopping you.
• 45:17
  Take care of them.
• 45:20
  And it puts such a strain on the on the economy.
• 45:27
  And it's not the fault of the people who poured across the border.
• 45:31
  Biden made it very clear that he was welcoming them.
• 45:37
  Right?
• 45:37
  We we want you, and so look at the people who are welcomed by the left policies.
• 45:49
  It's the there's no plan, there's no plan of action, there's there's no absolutely zero direction whatsoever.
• 45:57
  None.
• 46:01
  I mean, none.
• 46:02
  And it put a lot of vulnerable people into very vulnerable positions, and it's heartbreaking.
• 46:10
  I mean, when when you see what actually happens, that's what uh Holman talks about that too.
• 46:15
  And he's like, yeah, like if you would see the condition that these people are in, it's absolutely horrible.
• 46:23
  People in the back of these containers, 130 degrees inside, and they're they're packed in like sardines.
• 46:32
  He's like, this is the kind of stuff that we see on the border by the people who say we need to be more humane to to the migrants.
• 46:40
  We need to open open up our arms and be welcoming.
• 46:47
  See, the conditions of these people are often very, very, very, very bad.
• 46:55
  But the left doesn't, they don't want you to hear that.
• 46:59
  They show the pictures, you remember that they went to the they went to the border back under President Trump's first term, and they were shown how bad the conditions were, and it's just so it's so inhumane, and it's so horrible.
• 47:12
  These detention centers, they're the worst, and orange man's the worst, and they're separating parents from kids, and meanwhile, we have literally 300,000 missing kids that the Trump administration, they're actively looking for these kids that are unaccounted for.
• 47:55
  We want productivity, we want everybody to succeed, we want jobs that are available, we want so many jobs available that you can literally turn your head and just pick one, and you'll be all right, you'll be able to provide for your family.
• 48:11
  We want to get rid of the fentanyl because we we're tired of losing people, not just to death, but mentally.
• 48:23
  I mean, it's when when you're addicted to drugs, when that's your lifestyle, look at the strain that it puts on everybody, everybody and and and everything.
• 48:39
  It just taxes everybody.
• 48:45
  The amount of money that it takes.
• 48:50
  The cost is massive, it's colossal.
• 48:55
  When you have people addicted to drugs and and they're committing crimes and the homelessness crisis, like it's so costly, so so costly.
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  The cost on the medical system.
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  I mean, literally, it strains every part of our economy.
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  And Trump is saying, no, we want we want to welcome businesses.
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  We want people to be clean, we want them to not be addicted to drugs and alcohol.
• 49:25
  He just kind of joked the other day, and of course, everybody lost their minds, but he joked about bringing back the prohibition act, which didn't work.
• 49:34
  It actually made things much worse.
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  People started bootlegging liquor, then you had your gangs and all that stuff.
• 49:44
  You know, it didn't work.
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  He knows that.
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  He's not dumb.
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  But he was making a point.
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  Like it doesn't benefit people to be addicted to alcohol.
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  And we've got a real problem.
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  It's creating a lot of problems.
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  In a lot of sectors, and we got a cleaner act up.
• 50:05
  That's the message.
• 50:08
  So you look at who and what is being invited under the Trump administration.
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  Trump is saying, hey, we need to build.
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  We need to build America back.
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  We need to bring industries back.
• 50:22
  They've been oppressed for far too long.
• 50:25
  And it's it's always like tax the rich.
• 50:27
  Okay, tax them for what?
• 50:32
  We need some way to fund, you know, fill in the blank.
• 50:35
  We need the subsidies.
• 50:39
  Speaking of subsidies, this is kind of interesting.
• 50:41
  I saw another article that General Motors took a $7 billion hit after they shifted their EV strategy because of get this, slowing demand.
• 50:59
  Trump lifted all these restrictions on companies.
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  Remember the whole forcing them to go electric.
• 51:09
  Well, he lifted those restrictions.
• 51:11
  He rolled back the federal emissions rules.
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  And now companies are like, all right, full Throttle, let's go.
• 51:21
  So GM expects to save up to $750 million from throwback of federal emissions rules under the Trump administration.
• 51:30
  They're also investing in non-EV cars.
• 51:36
  You know, the traditional gas-powered cars that President Obama said nobody wants.
• 51:44
  Biden said the same thing.
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  Nobody wants to drive those.
• 51:49
  Turns out.
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  No, they don't.
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  There was a $7500 subsidy.
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  Tax you and I were paying for this.
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  $0,500 EV tax credit for consumers.
• 52:07
  Trump removed that at the end of September.
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  Which I think needed to happen.
• 52:13
  That's a good thing.
• 52:15
  If you have to subsidize something just for it to be affordable, it's not affordable.
• 52:23
  I don't want my taxes.
• 52:25
  Increase taxes, more taxes, more taxes.
• 52:29
  For what?
• 52:32
  So that I can help pay somebody else's car payment?
• 52:35
  No, thanks.
• 52:38
  Take from take from everybody, make them pay their fair share so that we can give subsidies for people to buy a vehicle that nobody wanted in the first place.
• 52:48
  Okay.
• 52:50
  It makes no sense.
• 52:53
  So at least we have common sense policies now.
• 52:58
  And that's that's exactly what these are.
• 53:02
  They're common sense policies that are increasing our economy.
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  They're making the economy better.
• 53:09
  I think it's good for America.
• 53:11
  I think it's good for you and I, it's good for taxpayers.
• 53:15
  And we're going to see the economy continue to boom.
• 53:17
  So what GM's doing, they're they're willing to take a $7.2 billion hit so that they can restructure their company and actually make cars that people want.
• 53:32
  Now, if they can step up their engineering a little bit and actually build something that lasts, then we'll be doing all right.
• 53:45
  But uh, yeah, really interesting stuff.
• 53:48
  And the other thing is GM expects that its tariff cost will be between three and four billion dollars this year.
• 53:58
  And then it's gonna partially offset that through mitigation measures.
• 54:05
  In 2025, it offset 40% of its gross tariff costs through shifting factory work and cutting other costs.
• 54:15
  So that's what I mean.
• 54:16
  It's it's the adaptability, and again, keep in mind the tariffs were meant to drive businesses to bring production back here to the United States.
• 54:28
  And it's gonna kind of naturally work out where these companies are bringing, they're bringing business back to the U.S.
• 54:38
  GM was buying a lot of parts overseas, a lot of car companies were doing that, putting production plants overseas in Mexico and so forth.
• 54:50
  So it's about time that we come back.
• 54:53
  But this happens by being friendly.
• 54:56
  It happens by shaking hands with people, making deals with people.
• 54:59
  Nobody does that better than President Trump.
• 55:01
  I don't care what anybody says, nobody does it better than him.
• 55:07
  I mean, he is the negotiator in chief.
• 55:12
  And this is what's happening.
• 55:13
  The economy is hot.
• 55:14
  It really is.
• 55:17
  So again, there will be a correction at some point, I'm sure of that.
• 55:22
  But meanwhile, I don't know if you looked.
• 55:25
  Stock market just keeps grinding and grinding and grinding little by little.
• 55:31
  Keeps hitting new high after new high.
• 55:35
  And it's because people are investing.
• 55:37
  They're investing in America.
• 55:42
  Made America.
• 55:44
  Uh, it's really interesting to see this all unfold.
• 55:47
  And uh I'm so thankful that there are so many jobs that are available.
• 55:53
  And if people don't take advantage of this soon, uh you just can't sleep at the wheel.
• 56:01
  People got to wake up and start taking advantage of these opportunities.
• 56:07
  The companies are sure doing it.
• 56:09
  Left and right, these companies, I mean, these are huge companies.
• 56:15
  They're investing billions and billions and even trillions in the U.S.
• 56:20
  economy over the next five to ten years.
• 56:23
  What does that tell you?
• 56:25
  You know, we have to look at the big picture here.
• 56:29
  You have to say maybe this actually is a good thing for America.
• 56:35
  I happen to think it is, and uh just proud to be an American.
• 56:41
  It's uh just such a blessing.
• 56:45
  A lot of good things going on.
• 56:47
  So I wanted to share this.
• 56:48
  I thought it was really cool.
• 56:50
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