Latest / Brian Thomas / Tom Zawistowski - WeThePeopleConvention.org

Transcript

Tom Zawistowski - WeThePeopleConvention.org · Brian Thomas

0:07
Speaker 1: It's seven o six, it is Tuesday, and we are
0:12
Speaker 1: going to be hearing from the inside scoop right for
0:13
Speaker 1: our news. Calib Caruzos joining us in an hour. He
0:17
Speaker 1: used to live in Venezuela. He got out and with
0:20
Speaker 1: good reason. He's going to give us an up date
0:21
Speaker 1: in his impressions and thoughts out for what happened the
0:23
Speaker 1: other day in Venezuela. Daniel Davis, Steve Dive volume two
0:25
Speaker 1: from yesterday's special edition. We'll hear for him on the
0:28
Speaker 1: latest in Venezuela at eight thirty and right now, the
0:32
Speaker 1: return of Tom z Awastowski. You can find Tom and
0:34
Speaker 1: his organization We the People Convention dot Org right there
0:37
Speaker 1: at We the People Convention dot Org. Tom, it's been
0:39
Speaker 1: a while since we talked. I think the last time
0:41
Speaker 1: you and I talked was with regard to an empower
0:42
Speaker 1: youth summinar. Welcome back, man, and happy new year to you.
0:45
Speaker 2: Well, good morning, Brian. It's so good to be with
0:48
Speaker 2: you and your audience this morning. And happy new year
0:52
Speaker 2: to everyone, and happy turn and fiftieth birthday to America.
0:55
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a hell of a year.
0:57
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, and you know it's really the passage
0:59
Speaker 1: of time, and of course I feel old. I remember
1:02
Speaker 1: when we celebrated the two hundredth and the one thing
1:04
Speaker 1: I do remember is everyone had bells out Whenever the
1:07
Speaker 1: declarator or the Declaration of Independence was signed, everyone had
1:11
Speaker 1: bells and rang it. I think it was like two
1:13
Speaker 1: o'clock or something. But that's about all I can remember
1:16
Speaker 1: about the bisentennial. But this would be a big celebration.
1:18
Speaker 1: I know Donald Trump's planning on pulling out all stops
1:21
Speaker 1: and making a real big issue of it, and I
1:23
Speaker 1: hope maybe this is something that can unite the American people.
1:26
Speaker 1: We certainly are in need of something to unify us.
1:29
Speaker 2: Well, Brian, I talked on my podcast this week about
1:32
Speaker 2: the facts that you know, a representative Republic is not
1:36
Speaker 2: a spectator sport now participatory. And this idea that you know,
1:40
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is going to celebrate our turn and fiftieth anniversary,
1:44
Speaker 2: that's just not enough. It's ours. And so I called
1:48
Speaker 2: for everybody to start planning to celebrate in their community,
1:52
Speaker 2: in their little town and their city, in their township
1:55
Speaker 2: and their county, because over two and fifty years, Brian,
1:58
Speaker 2: we have done amazing things, and I think this is
2:03
Speaker 2: going to be a real turning point for our country,
2:05
Speaker 2: because for the last twenty five years, thanks to the
2:08
Speaker 2: Marxist last starting with Barack Obama, our nation has been
2:11
Speaker 2: subject to what's called negative self talk. You stink, you're this,
2:15
Speaker 2: You're that, it's horrible. America is the worst of everything.
2:18
Speaker 2: If we can have a year where we're all talking
2:21
Speaker 2: about all the great things we've done, I think it
2:24
Speaker 2: will bring us together and I think it's going to
2:26
Speaker 2: make our country go off in a different direction. So
2:29
Speaker 2: this is fortuitous, but it's participatory. So don't sit back
2:34
Speaker 2: and just watch Donald Trump. What are you going to
2:36
Speaker 2: do to celebrate our two and fifth birthday?
2:39
Speaker 1: Amen to that. I couldn't agree with you more. And
2:41
Speaker 1: I'm hoping we see a lot of maybe veterans organizations
2:43
Speaker 1: getting together planning events, and I just I embrace your
2:47
Speaker 1: optimism for a collective celebration as opposed to a collective condemnation.
2:53
Speaker 1: Going back to viv Ramasami's article about online social media posts,
2:56
Speaker 1: you get the impression that there's not a single human
2:58
Speaker 1: being in the world beyond you, Tom and me that
3:02
Speaker 1: believes the United States should be proud of its heritage
3:04
Speaker 1: and what we've done in spite of our wards. There
3:06
Speaker 1: isn't a country out there that doesn't have some warts,
3:08
Speaker 1: of course, but you know, we move past those, We
3:10
Speaker 1: grew out of them. We've become better and better and
3:13
Speaker 1: better every year of our existence, and we, through our
3:16
Speaker 1: capitalism and our amazing wealth, have been able to transform
3:20
Speaker 1: so many impoverished worlds and provided them with the benefits
3:23
Speaker 1: of what capitalism can bring. And that's a crazy thing
3:25
Speaker 1: about socialism, Tom. They keep wanting to take the money
3:28
Speaker 1: that's earned by capitalists, and it ends up ruining everything.
3:31
Speaker 1: People quit working. What's the point of work if I
3:34
Speaker 1: can enjoy the benefit of my labor without capitalist money.
3:38
Speaker 1: You don't clean up pollution sites, you can't afford windmills,
3:41
Speaker 1: if that's what you want to buy. It's all built
3:43
Speaker 1: on the money created and earned by capitalism.
3:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, And this is going to be part
3:49
Speaker 2: of the discussion, particularly with all the things that are
3:52
Speaker 2: in the big beautiful bill that are going to come
3:54
Speaker 2: to fruition this year. You're gonna see capitalism at work
4:00
Speaker 2: to see you know, what's going to happen with these
4:02
Speaker 2: reshoring of these manufacturing plants, even the Trump you know,
4:06
Speaker 2: the things for the kids that are being born to
4:08
Speaker 2: get the thousand number of Trump funds where they go
4:11
Speaker 2: into the stock market. Why didn't we do that like
4:14
Speaker 2: fifty years ago. I mean, you know, it's just we
4:18
Speaker 2: talked about capitalism, but we've got to teach it. And
4:21
Speaker 2: instead of teaching it, we've got schools to teach anti capitalism.
4:25
Speaker 2: Yet we've got to turn this around, Brian. Yeah.
4:27
Speaker 1: And they also teach the Wok religion that carbon dioxide
4:30
Speaker 1: plant food is killing us all which has ruined our
4:33
Speaker 1: ability to generate electricity in the name of pursuing this religion.
4:36
Speaker 1: Zero carbon, zero carbon one another thing Trump's been able
4:39
Speaker 1: to accomplish. And check out the price of gasoline. Energy
4:42
Speaker 1: prices have fallen. He's all the above on energy policy.
4:45
Speaker 1: We have no longer subsidies for windmills that apparently don't
4:48
Speaker 1: provide sufficient electricity. I mean, we're just moving in the
4:51
Speaker 1: right direction. Maybe this is the year we rid ourselves
4:54
Speaker 1: of that religion and move on to something saner and
4:56
Speaker 1: in lo and behold, Tom, I got to observe. I've
4:59
Speaker 1: been a big fan of the concept of small modular reactors.
5:02
Speaker 1: Look what it took artificial intelligence operations to get us
5:06
Speaker 1: moving in that very sane direction, zero carbon output in
5:10
Speaker 1: spite of the fact that the green people hated it,
5:13
Speaker 1: but yet it produces an abundance of electricity in a
5:15
Speaker 1: very tiny space. Look, Bill Gates wants it, so I
5:17
Speaker 1: guess we now are in a position and may be
5:19
Speaker 1: able to get it.
5:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, and way too late. I mean again, this is
5:25
Speaker 2: the sabotaging of America. This is what we're fighting. All
5:29
Speaker 2: of your listeners know this. It's not like, you know,
5:32
Speaker 2: America just can't get it right. It's that literally, people
5:36
Speaker 2: we elect to represent us, and many of those are
5:39
Speaker 2: stolen elections sabotage us. And it's just like you were
5:43
Speaker 2: talking about with the fraud, And it's not just Somali
5:46
Speaker 2: as you said, it's this. The fraud is way bigger
5:49
Speaker 2: than anyone can even imagine. It's an all of government problem.
5:53
Speaker 2: But why do we have that problem, Well, it's because
5:56
Speaker 2: there's people in our government who hate America, who who
5:59
Speaker 2: hate capitalism, who believe in Marxism because they didn't get
6:03
Speaker 2: an education, they went to college to get indoctrinated. We
6:06
Speaker 2: the common sense people of America this year are fighting
6:11
Speaker 2: to turn that around and get those people out. And
6:15
Speaker 2: you know, it's going to be a hell of a fight.
6:17
Speaker 2: But I think this year is the tipping point. I
6:19
Speaker 2: think this is the year when we finally win the
6:22
Speaker 2: war and drive the Marxist out of our government and
6:24
Speaker 2: then out of our country. And let's hope that's the case.
6:27
Speaker 1: I certainly hope that. You know, but even if somebody
6:29
Speaker 1: in government doesn't hate America, and I understand that's a
6:32
Speaker 1: sinister and real concept that he just brought up. But
6:36
Speaker 1: you know, government's almost like an illustration of how socialism
6:39
Speaker 1: or communism works. You don't have to earn or make money.
6:43
Speaker 1: You merely take it, and by taking it and have
6:46
Speaker 1: the lea having the legal authority to take it pretty
6:48
Speaker 1: much as much as they want. Considering the varying tax
6:51
Speaker 1: rates we face in our country over the years, do
6:53
Speaker 1: you want a seventy five percent tax rate used to be?
6:56
Speaker 1: That way, they can take as much as they want.
6:58
Speaker 1: They don't have to be accountable. They're not subject to shareholders,
7:01
Speaker 1: they're not subject to boards of directors who are looking for,
7:04
Speaker 1: you know, to improve the bottom line and to increase
7:07
Speaker 1: efficiency and effectively manage the taxpayer dollars. We need to
7:10
Speaker 1: rise up as taxpayers of all political stripes and demand
7:14
Speaker 1: the end of for example, the fraud illustrated better than
7:17
Speaker 1: anything else I think I've encountered by what's going on
7:20
Speaker 1: in Minnesota.
7:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's even worse than you just described because
7:26
Speaker 2: think about it. Who works in government, whether it's your township,
7:30
Speaker 2: your county, you know, our state government. I'm not talking
7:33
Speaker 2: about the elected officials. I'm talking about the people who
7:36
Speaker 2: are there shuffling the papers. Most of them came out
7:40
Speaker 2: of college, never worked for a business. Do not understand that?
7:44
Speaker 2: You know the money you're handling is got to be
7:47
Speaker 2: protected because you depend on it. They work in government
7:51
Speaker 2: where the money just shows up. Should the am, here's
7:54
Speaker 2: another pile of money, and what's your job? Well, shoveled
7:57
Speaker 2: out the door as quick as you can and don't
7:59
Speaker 2: ask any questions, and they get rewarded for that. We
8:03
Speaker 2: have to start to talk to literally to the smaller
8:07
Speaker 2: people in government and say, hey, do you understand your
8:11
Speaker 2: job is to protect our money? Right? It's your grandparents' money,
8:15
Speaker 2: it's your parents' money, it's your brother's money, it's your
8:17
Speaker 2: friend's money, and you're not doing that. You've got to
8:21
Speaker 2: ask the hard questions and don't give our money away
8:24
Speaker 2: to people who don't deserve it. But that's a cultural thing, Brian,
8:28
Speaker 2: and we've got to start to change that culture. I
8:31
Speaker 2: think that's what the vek Ramaswami's talking about. I think
8:34
Speaker 2: that you know, he understands it's a cultural problem, truly.
8:38
Speaker 1: A cultural problem. Tom's Awastowski, we will continue find his website,
8:42
Speaker 1: We the People Convention dot org. Some great stuff there
8:45
Speaker 1: from Tom. We got more to talk about it. N
8:47
Speaker 1: if you've have KCD talk station, you can find him
8:50
Speaker 1: at we the People Convention dot org. Following issues important
8:54
Speaker 1: to well folks like you and me. Tom z Awastowski
8:56
Speaker 1: joined the program back from a long hiatus. Since you've
8:59
Speaker 1: been a program, Tom, and I appreciate what you're doing
9:01
Speaker 1: day to day. Let's move over to Ohio issue specifically.
9:04
Speaker 1: Now we can talk about the state of fraud in Ohio.
9:07
Speaker 1: Governor Dewines seems to suggest that they do everything humanly
9:10
Speaker 1: possible to prevent fraud and abuse in Ohio. I've heard
9:13
Speaker 1: reports to the contrary. Tom. I guess my dream in
9:16
Speaker 1: life is that going back to this sort of concept
9:19
Speaker 1: of a fiduciary obligation of our politicians owed it to
9:22
Speaker 1: us with respect to our taxpayer dollars. Maybe there could
9:25
Speaker 1: be better accountability, we just have to wait around for
9:27
Speaker 1: an election. But all those people behind the scenes that
9:29
Speaker 1: are responsible for day to day accounting for the dollars
9:31
Speaker 1: really don't seem to care either. So I'm not quite
9:33
Speaker 1: sure where we are on that. But isn't there a
9:36
Speaker 1: mechanism that we can put in place, Like within the legislation,
9:40
Speaker 1: fraud avoidance and prevention needs to bring priority number one.
9:44
Speaker 1: In order to get any single dollar issue to a
9:47
Speaker 1: human being or organization, you must fill in and do
9:50
Speaker 1: all of the following. Information needs to be shared between
9:53
Speaker 1: Social Security and other agencies that have the information so
9:56
Speaker 1: we can determine citizenship. But the proprietary of Social Security,
10:00
Speaker 1: remember whatever, but all the frontwork could be done to
10:03
Speaker 1: stop it from going out in a fraudulent way. Or
10:05
Speaker 1: am I living a pipe dream?
10:08
Speaker 2: No? I mean, come on, we do this every day
10:11
Speaker 2: in our businesses. You know, this is how America works,
10:15
Speaker 2: So why doesn't our government work that way? Particularly Brian
10:18
Speaker 2: with the you know, upcoming AI revolution? How much could
10:22
Speaker 2: that help us with all this stuff? Right? And and
10:25
Speaker 2: the question is having a will to do it? I mean,
10:28
Speaker 2: I go back to things like remember Josh Bendel had
10:31
Speaker 2: introduced the checkbook program where everybody could report, you know,
10:36
Speaker 2: they're spending and you could see it online dot com. Right,
10:39
Speaker 2: remember that, And guess what happened to that, folks. When
10:42
Speaker 2: Josh left office. He tried to get it put into legislation,
10:46
Speaker 2: and they wouldn't do it. They wouldn't do it. It's
10:49
Speaker 2: not the law that they have to. You've got to
10:51
Speaker 2: put your finances on you know, the Internet, so that
10:55
Speaker 2: any citizen can see what your township is spending or
10:57
Speaker 2: your city is spending. That's the problem. We haven't built
11:01
Speaker 2: these tools that can really make a difference. And so
11:05
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see some effort to do that,
11:08
Speaker 2: you know, now that this fraud thing is coming up.
11:11
Speaker 2: I mean, Bob Sprague and Favor and those guys certainly
11:14
Speaker 2: have a lot of explaining to do because it's really
11:17
Speaker 2: under them. You know. The treasurer signs the checks for
11:21
Speaker 2: these things, and it's responsible for making sure these people
11:24
Speaker 2: are eligible, and the auditor is the one who audits it.
11:27
Speaker 2: So two Republicans are right there in the middle of it.
11:31
Speaker 2: Let's see what they got. But they've got to, you know,
11:33
Speaker 2: show us.
11:34
Speaker 1: The goods well, as I've observed quite often, you republican.
11:37
Speaker 1: Ohio is a very republican state. You think that it
11:40
Speaker 1: wouldn't be like hurting cats and Columbus to get people
11:43
Speaker 1: on the right path, and yet there seems to be
11:45
Speaker 1: a whole lot of infighting and turf battles going on.
11:47
Speaker 1: More it seems to be more important to elected officials
11:50
Speaker 1: than actually doing right by the Ohio tax payer. Speaking
11:54
Speaker 1: of taxes, what's your thoughts on property taxes. They've been
11:57
Speaker 1: trying to get some relief for the Ohioans in terms
11:59
Speaker 1: of property tax There's a lot of seniors out there
12:01
Speaker 1: that can't even stay in their own home even though
12:03
Speaker 1: they own it. We got any progress on that one
12:06
Speaker 1: of late time.
12:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been We've got to get this done, Brian,
12:10
Speaker 2: we just have to. It was egregious what happened. You know,
12:14
Speaker 2: this reappraisal of all your properties and then you know
12:17
Speaker 2: you don't have any more money, but I'm going to
12:18
Speaker 2: charge you thirty percent more in taxes. That's just wrong.
12:22
Speaker 2: We've got to fix that. I've been working with the
12:25
Speaker 2: AX Ohio tax people to try to help them. I
12:28
Speaker 2: spent probably six months trying to raise money to help them.
12:32
Speaker 2: The problem is the polling shows that people are afraid
12:36
Speaker 2: of a total repeal, and so we're working now on
12:39
Speaker 2: maybe a more modified idea of like a roll back
12:43
Speaker 2: and then you know something, how about this, Brian, how
12:46
Speaker 2: about at some point you actually own your home and
12:48
Speaker 2: the government have a lean on it, like whether that's
12:51
Speaker 2: if you pay taxes for twenty years, you don't have
12:53
Speaker 2: to pay anymore, or something like that. We're working on it.
12:56
Speaker 2: I've been talking to the Vake about it because I
12:58
Speaker 2: think we've got to get know, hopefully the next governor
13:02
Speaker 2: to buy in on property taxes. And he hasn't been
13:04
Speaker 2: on that totally. He's not kind of an income tax guy.
13:07
Speaker 2: He wants to get rid of the income tax. But
13:09
Speaker 2: we're raking progress. I'm hoping to have some information on this,
13:13
Speaker 2: you know, in the next couple of weeks, because we
13:15
Speaker 2: have to get it done. And Brian, let me just
13:18
Speaker 2: take one more second to say, why do we have
13:20
Speaker 2: to get it done. It's not just about the cost
13:22
Speaker 2: of your property taxes. The problem for us in Ohio
13:26
Speaker 2: is our government at every level is out of control.
13:31
Speaker 2: They they're the money money they're spending is just beyond
13:35
Speaker 2: what the taxpayer can afford. And how do you roll
13:39
Speaker 2: it back. You can't roll it back by talking to him.
13:42
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't say, geez, can you can you
13:44
Speaker 2: cut spending? I think we have to have a reset
13:48
Speaker 2: by taking some money from them to send the message. Listen,
13:52
Speaker 2: you guys got to get more efficient. You're going to
13:54
Speaker 2: have to implement AI to save us money. It can't
13:58
Speaker 2: just be more and more and more and more. And
14:00
Speaker 2: I think the property tax issue is the way we
14:03
Speaker 2: can do that.
14:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree completely, you know, and I have to
14:07
Speaker 1: observe and most people have known this, I've said it
14:09
Speaker 1: a million times, and that the school funding mechanism has
14:12
Speaker 1: been ruled unconstitutional like twenty plus years ago by the
14:16
Speaker 1: Ohio Supreme Court, and yet it still remains the same
14:18
Speaker 1: and in play. So I struggle with that concept. And also,
14:22
Speaker 1: since you mentioned about the finite number of dollars, how
14:25
Speaker 1: is it that their elected officials approved six hundred million
14:29
Speaker 1: dollars for the Cleveland Browns. I mean, if you want
14:31
Speaker 1: to talk about an insult to the taxpayer in the
14:33
Speaker 1: state of Ohio, that kind of thing really irks me
14:36
Speaker 1: and my listening audience.
14:39
Speaker 2: Well, it should I mean again, they're billionaires. Yeah, I
14:43
Speaker 2: mean they can afford their own bloody stadium. What are
14:46
Speaker 2: we doing? And then and then it's hilarious because what
14:49
Speaker 2: does the community really get out of it? Will they
14:51
Speaker 2: claim all this stuff about you know, your restaurants and
14:55
Speaker 2: other activities shut up? Wouldn't you love right to be
14:58
Speaker 2: able to start a business and to have the state
15:00
Speaker 2: of Ohio pay for your building and all your equipment.
15:04
Speaker 2: That'd be great. Let's do that. Let's not called capitalism
15:07
Speaker 2: the folks, now, that's some form of socialism.
15:09
Speaker 1: I think it is. And that's how green energy companies
15:11
Speaker 1: stay in business. The taxpayers support them.
15:13
Speaker 2: Right, huh ah, No chance. We got to stop all
15:18
Speaker 2: of this. We're going to We're on the right path.
15:20
Speaker 2: I want people to have hope in this year. I
15:23
Speaker 2: want you to really people are kind of confused, and
15:27
Speaker 2: this is why, Brian, you play such a role. You
15:30
Speaker 2: talked about the whole thing about social media. It is
15:33
Speaker 2: so important that people have a place to come for truth.
15:38
Speaker 2: Your show is more important than ever because we live
15:42
Speaker 2: in a society that's based on lies and propaganda. That
15:46
Speaker 2: social media, that's all it is. You come to listen
15:50
Speaker 2: to Brian Thomas, because he's going to give you the truth.
15:54
Speaker 2: And that's what we all have to do. Don't lie
15:56
Speaker 2: to yourself, don't lie to your spouse, don't lie to
15:59
Speaker 2: your family, don't lie to your fellow citizens. We must
16:03
Speaker 2: get back to truth and merit, and if we do that,
16:06
Speaker 2: America will be great again.
16:08
Speaker 1: God bless you, sir for saying that. As high praise
16:10
Speaker 1: from you, Sir, I truly respect your opinion. It's a
16:13
Speaker 1: very kind thing of you to say, and I am
16:15
Speaker 1: blessed to be in a position to try to do
16:17
Speaker 1: my part along those lines, and I can only encourage
16:19
Speaker 1: others to get engaged and do the same thing. You
16:21
Speaker 1: gotta have conversations. You have to elevate these issues to
16:25
Speaker 1: something where people start paying attention to it. Because Tom,
16:27
Speaker 1: as I pointed out before, and you know it as
16:29
Speaker 1: well as I, we all have a lot going on
16:31
Speaker 1: in our lives and quite often politics is the last
16:34
Speaker 1: thing on our list that we want to pay attention to.
16:36
Speaker 1: And that shouldn't be that way. But you got to
16:38
Speaker 1: talk get to people talking before they start paying attention
16:40
Speaker 1: and really maybe do the right thing at the ballot box.
16:43
Speaker 1: Tom's Awastowski find him at we the People Convention dot org.
16:47
Speaker 1: Appreciate the work you're doing. Tom. It's been a pleasure
16:49
Speaker 1: having you back on all the best of health for
16:50
Speaker 1: you and your family in a happy New Year to you.
16:53
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, looking forward to talk with you again.
16:55
Speaker 1: Oh you'll be around, Tom, you can count on that
16:57
Speaker 1: You're always welcome here coming up Hamilton County. I'm a
17:00
Speaker 1: police judge. Christopher McDowell speaking,