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  Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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  This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
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  If everyone thinks that someone will do something, then no one does anything.
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  That I believe is how so many of our current issues have come about by everyone expecting someone else to do something.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans.
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  Pulling up here with a constitution study, where we read instead of the Constitution, teacherizing generation be free.
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  Glad you could join me today.
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  It's this expectation that somebody will do something.
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  And well, frequently that somebody is some government official.
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  I believe that's why John Jay, our first chief justice, told us that every member of the state ought diligently to read and study the constitution of his country, teacherizing generation be free.
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  It's not simply so that we would all know, but that so there'd be enough of us to do something for those who just think that someone will take care of it, that it would be at least be somebody that actually would take care of the problem.
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  So that we could be prepared, we could recognize when our rights are being violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.
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  Let's take a look at some recent events.
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  So again, this past weekend, two National Guardsmen in Washington, DC were shot by a gunman.
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  This gunman apparently is an Afghan national who entered the United States back in 2021 as part of the Biden administration's operations allies welcome after the disastrous uh withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
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  Not the fact that they withdrew, but the way it was handled is terrible.
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  And I believe in an attempt to mitigate some of that disaster, we have the this this admin, this operation, which apparently um hasn't done a really good job.
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  You see, the the this person's um visa, their permission to be in the United States expired back in September, which means he's an illegal immigrant.
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  And that's not that uncommon, people overstaying their visas and whatnot.
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  But according to uh a report from the the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, um this, by the way, goes back to 2021.
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  The agency did not screen, vet, and inspect all Afghan evacuees arriving as part of Operation Allied Refuge operations or operations allies welcome.
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  That's right, they didn't actually vet them.
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  They didn't screen them properly.
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  Questions did they even uh uh screen, how much do they screen them at all?
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  And in fact, if you questioned whether or not that uh the people were being vetted, well, you were labeled a xenophobe.
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  But is that are we finding out that that lack of action that that fear of name calling actually led to the death of one guardsman and the serious injury of another?
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  I mean, I'm sure that wasn't the intent of the Biden administration.
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  I can guess at what might have been the intent, but they didn't expect them to the people to come in and become murderers, but they didn't do all they had to do to verify it.
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  It was that they kind of got the trust, but they forgot to verify part of it.
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  And again, this is just the the latest event that comes out of that unwillingness to do something when an administration was rushing through this uh this refugee program without uh we used to call doting the eyes and crossing the teams, without making sure that we were vetting the people that were coming into this country.
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  Because as a country, under a constitution formed and created, we have the right to control who enters our our country and why they're allowed to enter our country.
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  Now, on the one hand, I understand that the humanitarian desire.
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  We, in the way we left Afghanistan, we really stuck it to a lot of people.
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  And the desire to protect them from the disastrous situation of is strong, and I agree with that, but that doesn't mean you simply open the doors and let everybody in.
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  I think that's part of the point that uh Donald Trump was making uh when he offered his remarks on the situation.
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  This attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation.
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  The last administration let in 20 million unknown and unvetted foreigners from all over the world from places that you don't want to even know about.
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  No country can tolerate such a risk to our very survival.
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  Now, okay, President Trump is uh, well, let's say prone to hyperbole and uh grandiose statements, but he does make a bit of a point.
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  If we, I mean, I'm how many remember 9-11.
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  9-11 happened when 19 foreign nationals entered into this country um and were allowed were to fly an airliner without any reason why.
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  And there were plenty of issues that were raised concerns.
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  Now, I'm not saying that everybody that wants to come to this country should be treated as a terrorist, but it's a come to a question of vetting.
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  You know, I we we think of the country, but think of your home, right?
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  Now, I don't know about you, but when someone pulls up, say in a delivery truck in a uniform, and they drop a package at my front door.
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  I figure I assume, hey, it's you know, it's UPS, it's FedEx, it's Amazon, it's something that we've ordered.
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  When someone who's not in a delivery truck, which by the way recently happened, they showed up at night, they were not in a delivery truck, they drove past my lighted front door to my darkened back door.
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  Guess what?
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  Alarm spells went off.
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  I didn't know who this person was.
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  Turns out they were doing some extra deliveries, they were doing using their private vehicles, but it was a warning sign, and I needed some vetting before I was going to let this person near my house.
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  I think maybe we need to consider something like that when we're talking about the nation.
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  I'm not saying again, that everybody that's that uh it's let's not make it an all or nothing decision.
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  And let's not make it everybody gets in or nobody gets in.
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  Again, I understand the humanitarian desire to help people that we really host in another country.
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  That doesn't mean we don't protect our own or our home.
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  The United States is our home.
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  Granted, it's at a grander scale.
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  And uh, well, this person, I have yet to see any uh reasoning as to why this person decided to shoot up um a couple of national guards.
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  I heard some people claim, well, they shouldn't have been there in the first place.
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  Well, that's a pretty piss poor reason to commit murder, you know.
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  Well, they shouldn't have been there.
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  You know what?
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  That wouldn't work anywhere else.
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  If someone trespasses into my house, I'm not allowed to simply shoot them.
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  Not less they should that I can show they're an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.
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  So uh there's a again, there's a lot we don't know, but I want us to consider what did we get to this position in part because of how lax we become over the years when it comes to immigration.
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  I remember when uh Ronald Reagan uh signed the the uh the amnesty for illegal aliens, and we were told it would never happen again.
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  We would never let such a large number of illegal people and people entering the we would never, and it didn't take what, 10 years, 15 years before we were at it again.
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  Again, uh, you know, it it's this to me, I think it's this all or nothing mentality.
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  You know, we have to let everybody in or we let nobody in.
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  But really, shouldn't we be looking at individuals, not simply at entire populations?
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  I also want to, you know, that there's a lot of things that to consider when you're talking about immigration, especially the question of illegal immigration.
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  But if all the American people are going to sit back and say, ah, we'll let somebody else, Congress will deal with it, somebody in Congress will one day figure, some president one day will figure this out.
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  Somebody someday will figure this out.
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  Which means that nobody does anything to figure it out, because they have no real consequences when they're wrong, even when the consequences hit we the people.
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  We have to consider the cost.
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  See, deciding not to do something is still a decision.
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  And simply shuffling off the responsibility to somebody else, well, doesn't really absolve you of the responsibility because you've simply said, I'll let somebody else decide for me.
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  Now, these are just a few of the examples of in my mind what happens when we let something fester.
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  This instance is the festering of our unwillingness to, well.
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  To deal with our borders.
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  To recognize that the rest of the people, people who are not citizens of the United States don't have a right to come here.
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  I know there are people that say they do, but just because someone says it doesn't make it true.
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  Granted, I would love to have uh people come to this country.
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  If they've been vetted, if they have if they're coming here to make our lives better, as opposed to those who come here simply to make their own lives better.
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  Think of it this way.
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  How would you feel about a friend that only showed up when they wanted to borrow something?
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  Borrow money, borrow your lawnmower, borrow your pickup truck.
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  If that's the only time you saw people, would you consider them a friend?
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  I wouldn't.
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  But you're we're told that uh well, we have to let all these people in.
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  They're not illegal, they're undocumented.
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  Because well, we've just had such a great time.
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  We owe it to them to take care of them.
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  Or we owe it to them to give them an extra opportunity.
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  So the world doesn't work that way.
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  And sure, when we're not paying attention to the nice people, the friendly people that want to come here.
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  Well, if we're not careful, we're also going to invite the person that wishes us harm, the person that wishes us evil.
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  And I know a lot of people, I see this a lot around election times.
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  Well, it's not my fault.
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  I didn't vote for I didn't vote.
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  Well, if you don't vote, you're still responsible for what happens.
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  Because your vote could have made a difference.
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  Either individually or collectively.
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  It could have made a difference.
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  So uh yeah, I urge the American people to learn from this.
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  That uh while you may not be the person, the family that is suffering because of apparently the actions of the previous administration.
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  Maybe next time you are.
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  Or maybe the the damage is more than just a couple of National Guardsmen and a couple of families.
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  One of them dealing with the death, one dealing with an injury.
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  Maybe one day the issue will be strike closer to home.
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  Like those on 9-11 who's who suffered, not just the families of those who died, but the families face all America's lives were changed by the actions of these people who came here with bad intent.
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  These people who are not properly vetted.
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  I'd hate to see something like that happen at that scale again, simply because, well, somebody will deal with that problem someday.
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  I don't have to worry about it.
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  Let's someone else worry about it.
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  And you think of the number of things we keep kicking down the road.
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  Immigration, uh, our national debt, uh, even the fact that no, most of what Congress does is unconstitutional.
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  We keep waiting for somebody else to fix our problems.
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  We we we lose the fight, not just the fight for what is right, but we lose the fight for being free.
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  You know, at the risk of uh setting a comic book.
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  With great power comes great responsibility.
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  Well, we live in arguably the greatest nation in the world, greatest nation the world has ever seen.
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  Where we as individual citizens have more freedom and more power than was conceived of by some of our ancestors.
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  I would say that's a great power.
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  And I would say that comes with great responsibility.
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  So I think um, I don't know.
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  Let's consider that.
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  Instead of expecting someone else to do for us, do for ourselves.
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  Or maybe better.
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  Instead of expecting someone else to prepare the world our children will live in.
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  Let's take that responsibility ourselves.
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  Let's shoulder that burden.
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  Let's look to that future, and not let them inherit what we couldn't be bothered to defend for ourselves.
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  Let them inherit something we intentionally made better for them.
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  Yeah, I think that's a better way of looking at it than just don't worry about it.
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  Somebody will take care of it, somebody will do something.
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  At least then it won't be my problem.
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  So I don't know.
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  What do you think?
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  I mean, am I crazy to think that we the people as the sovereign of this country actually should be involved in what's going on?
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  We should be doing something.
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  We should be paying attention to who we hire to represent us to make sure that something gets done.
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  Maybe, I mean, maybe I'm not.
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  Maybe I don't know.
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  What I do know is that the decades of my life where I've watched most people sit back and complain and not do anything.
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  Uh a situation, by the way, that seems to have been exacerbated by the dependence on antisocial media.
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  Well, I don't I see where it's gotten us so far, and I'll tell you what, I'm not thrilled.
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  I don't think we're in we're on the right track and based on polling, I think others aren't.
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  And yeah, I get it.
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  It's scary to actually step up and do something.
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  It's easier to sit back and fiddle while room burns.
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  It's not hard to get up and grab a bucket and some water and go running toward the fire.
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  Maybe that's why we uh we honor firefighters so much, is their willingness to run towards the fire that we're running from.
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  But what if the fire isn't an actual fire, but a metaphorical one?
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  Well, then if we're if if there's nobody that's going to run towards a fire, then it's only gonna burn and we're gonna burn along with it.
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  Today, we're talking about the consequences of an action.
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  Because if you think about it, somebody's always doing something.
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  There's always a push one way or the other.
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  And well, if you're not doing something, then something what someone else is deciding what the future will look like.
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  Hurricane's important.
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  Now, of course, New York City's getting a lot of attention, partially because it's currently, I guess, the largest city in the union.
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  It's not alone, though, in electing a socialist mayor.
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  Now, the thing I find utterly fascinating is the inability to remember even the briefest amounts of history.
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  According to a student newspaper, our college newspaper, uh, one student wrote, let's give socialism a chance.
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  Apparently, history is not a part of college anymore, because we could look at um the Soviet Union, Communist China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and on, and on uh, you know, socialism has had plenty of chances, and they've all failed.
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  And in fact, you look at uh was it the communist China, and well, communism only stopped didn't work until they start acting like capitalists, at least when it comes to their foreign interaction.
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  So why should we give socialism a chance when it's been proven a failure over and over again?
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  Well, in my mind, part of the reason is no one's telling the other side.
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  You have students say, let's give socialism a chance, and no one's pointing out it's been given a chance many, many, many times, and it's failed miserably, often leading to massive death, poverty, malnutrition, all that type of stuff.
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  See, no one's challenging that assumption simply because somebody said it.
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  Now, again, this is college students, and you know, okay, you know, they don't have the experience of us older folk.
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  Um, they've been taught not to listen to us by our school system, and you know, they've been shown all the beautiful promises of socialism and never the actual facts.
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  And in fact, you can even go back to our own history.
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  Now, we just passed Thanksgiving, and of course, you know, we all talk about the pilgrims.
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  How many realize that when the pilgrims ended up in in what's now Massachusetts, that they're required by their charter to set up a socialist system?
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  That's right.
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  The very, you know, one of the very first colonies in the United States was set socialist.
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  Everybody had everything in common, you know, everybody, everybody consumed whether they worked or not.
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  And uh that was a large part, or at least a significant part of what led to them almost most of them dying, the vast majority of them dying, because socialism wasn't working working.
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  And in fact, they had an example.
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  Jamestown started the same way.
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  They they lost half their population due to this work.
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  Now, what changed?
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  Well, Bradford said, listen, here's what we're gonna do.
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  Every family gets a parcel of land, and uh those who were willing to work their land could eat of their produce.
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  Those who didn't work, they didn't eat.
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  And surprise, surprise, surprise.
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  The next autumn, they had an abundance of food.
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  So much they decided to invite their Indian friends over to have a great big feast.
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  And this was not created by seven, some government program to run grocery stores or manipulate the supply chain or or dictate prices and quality.
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  No, it came from people having to work if they wanted to if they wanted to eat.
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  There was an incentive behind it.
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  So when we look at what's in store for New York City, at least the plans of Mayor Lekman Nami.
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  Uh let's see, government-run grocery stores.
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  We didn't see that work in the past.
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  Why do we think it should work now?
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  Uh, let's see, more rent control.
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  Yeah, you know, rent control works out really well for the renters for a while.
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  Uh until guess what?
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  Uh the there are no grocery stores because they can't afford living there because the rent's too high.
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  Because a bodega doesn't have doesn't exist under rent control.
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  And of course, there's other examples, you know, with people talk about the the cost of health care, not realizing that as we tried to socialize it through uh the Affordable Care Act, the cost went up.
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  And I would state that the quality in many cases went down.
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  And so what else?
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  Oh, yeah, he wants Montami wants to give free bus passes.
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  Except they're not free.
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  Everybody people pay for them, meaning the taxpayer pays for them.
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  Meaning, if you live in New York City and you pay taxes for just rent, guess what?
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  You're paying for the quote unquote free buses.
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  And how well does that work?
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  Now, to me, this is a uh consequence of an action.
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  What do you mean, Paul?
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  Well, you know, the people voted for Mondami.
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  That's right.
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  They voted for their own greedy little best interest.
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  They voted to get somebody else's money.
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  They voted to be greedy.
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  You can't say that.
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  Why not?
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  It's true.
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  Everybody that's sitting there complaining about, you know, oh, the price is too high, and and they want the government to fix their problem.
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  They want the government to steal somebody else's money to pay for their stuff.
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  That, ladies and gentlemen, is my definition of greed.
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  And I'm not along with with the guy from the movie that said greed is good.
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  No, greed is evil.
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  But greed drives a lot of what's of I believe a lot of people are voting for for Mondami.
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  Let's give socialism a chance.
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  Let's get other people to pay for my stuff.
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  Just hoping that it works this time because it's never worked any other time.
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  In fact, you know what it's led to?
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  It's led to scarcity, it's led to poverty, it's led to want.
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  And then people try, and this is the funny part.
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  I love people that blame capitalism for that.
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  The only problem is it's the government running.
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  Think of it this way.
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  Who knows best what works for you?
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  You or some government bureaucrat.
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  Maybe as many as 3,000 miles away.
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  What's the line?
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  You know, what's worse at one tower that's 3,000 miles away or 3,000 tyrants one mile away.
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  We forget that when government controls, government dictates.
• 28:19
  Perfect example.
• 28:20
  So over the decades, LASIKs eye surgery, right?
• 28:26
  And cheaper, but it doesn't have as many government regulations.
• 28:30
  Whereas other healthcare services, they've gotten slower and more expensive.
• 28:38
  The ones, in fact, if you look at it, the entities that are the most government regulated are the most effective, generally the most effective and le or say least effective and most expensive.
• 28:50
  Education, health care.
• 28:52
  These are a couple of examples.
• 28:55
  When was the last time you saw a uh Department of Motor Vehicles office that actually ran efficiently?
• 29:01
  I worked decades covering uh state and local governments as my customers.
• 29:05
  And not a year went by when I didn't get a phone call that went something like this.
• 29:10
  Hello, Paul.
• 29:11
  It's cut you, it is our budget season, and we haven't spent all of our money, so we need to spend X amount of dollars so that we don't lose it in our budget next year.
• 29:21
  What do you need?
• 29:21
  Well, we don't really need anything, but we got to spend the money or our budget's going down.
• 29:27
  Are those the people you want controlling your health care?
• 29:30
  Controlling your rent, your groceries.
• 29:35
  And really the fact that so many people listen to this nonsense and never question, never challenge, never stand up and say, wait a second, is that is that really true?
• 29:46
  And of course, it's not just the donkeys.
• 29:49
  My own senator, Marsha Blackburn, along with a New Mexico Senator Ray Lujaan, they introduced a bill uh last week to um.
• 30:00
  Basically bribe rural voters to vote for them.
• 30:03
  It's called the broadband and telecommunication communication rail act.
• 30:07
  And it would amend the communications act of 1934 to they say accelerate the process of to implement telecommunications and broadband equipment in public and railroad rights of way.
• 30:21
  Now, okay, uh, you know, I look at this every time you see the federal government trying to bribe the people with things like, oh, better broadband.
• 30:30
  Well, I understand they're they're they're bribing us, trying to get us to do this.
• 30:35
  Now, when you talk about equipment in public and railroad right-of-ways, well, public right-aways are public.
• 30:42
  And I imagine most of them are not owned by the federal government, although the federal government does own a vast amount of land in the western United States.
• 30:50
  And those railroads, those are private right-of-ways.
• 30:54
  Those are private.
• 30:55
  So why does the federal government think they have the ability to do to uh um basically demand that uh railroads do this at a discount?
• 31:05
  I I haven't read the act.
• 31:07
  I don't know the details.
• 31:09
  But unless the government is saying we're gonna accelerate this by getting out of the way, well, then they're saying that we as the government know better than everybody else, it's a socialist type system.
• 31:22
  And here's the interesting part.
• 31:24
  So they're effectively saying, as I understand it, um when the broadband providers say they need the use these right-of-ways.
• 31:33
  Um, further, the they they got what they call public right-of-ways, which I find interesting since to my knowledge of railroad tracks are actually owned by a private company, but they will require these companies to allow access once uh when once the the requirement is the demand is is made and they come to some sort of of agreement.
• 31:56
  Um isn't that effectively taking private property for public use without just compensation, a violation of the Fifth Amendment.
• 32:06
  Again, you know, okay, they get the if it's a railroad, apparently they must get the company's permission before installing the equipment, but um the railroads can only deny the them using their land if they mean if there are certain conditions.
• 32:24
  That's ladies and gentlemen, the deprivation of private property.
• 32:28
  That's a violation of property rights.
• 32:30
  That, ladies and gentlemen, is part of the socialist mantra.
• 32:34
  So we have a quote unquote Republican senator and a Democrat senator, pushing the federal government to basically tell uh public other public entities and railroads what they must do with their land.
• 32:49
  I wonder what's the other part of this, because that's the stick.
• 32:52
  There's got to be a character on there somewhere.
• 32:55
  And my guess it's just another bribe.
• 33:00
  And you see, it's it's not a partisan issue.
• 33:03
  Both sides do it.
• 33:04
  Now, I'm not saying both sides are pushing for the same thing, but they use similar techniques.
• 33:09
  It's bribery on one side or bribery on the other, whether it's Mandami promising free stuff that of course you actually pay for and pay more for because well, let's face it, the government's gotta take their slice.
• 33:21
  Or it's uh Blackburn saying, here we'll give you, you know, free access to right-of-ways that we don't own.
• 33:27
  We'll steal it from somebody for you so that you can deploy your broadband.
• 33:31
  But it's great because more rural broadband.
• 33:34
  Now, listen, I've lived in rural areas for most of my life, the vast majority of my life.
• 33:40
  And you know what?
• 33:41
  When I bought my house here in Tennessee, I knew my broadband was not going to be as good as in the city or in the suburbs because it's a rural area.
• 33:49
  That was a decision.
• 33:50
  And if I wanted better broadband, I'd have to pay for it.
• 33:54
  But that's the problem.
• 33:55
  See, we get used to other people paying for our stuff, not realizing that means we're paying for other people's stuff.
• 34:03
  And our inaction when we see the bribe because we're betting uh uh benefiting from it, doesn't change the fact that it's still a bribe.
• 34:14
  It still allows governments to grow far beyond their legal boundaries, and it turns us less and less of a republic and more and more into some weird twisted oligarchy.
• 34:28
  It's the consequence of a relativistic mentality that says, well, I'll put I'll I'll hold my nose and do the wrong thing because I get to benefit from it.
• 34:41
  We hear that a lot.
• 34:42
  Don't hold your nose and voting for the wrong person because well, at least they're the right color.
• 34:47
  By color, I mean you know, red or blue, not black, white, or red.
• 34:52
  But it's a it's the consequence of not acting when we see something wrong because we think we're going to benefit from it.
• 35:01
  It's the consequence we see of allowing evil to exist because well, we don't see another choice.
• 35:11
  But too often do we even investigate if there's another choice.
• 35:15
  These are all consequences of our acts.
• 35:17
  We love to point the finger and blame somebody else, but really they're the consequences of our own inaction, not simply individually.
• 35:24
  It's not like it's all one person's fault.
• 35:27
  But it's the collective that's the problem.
• 35:30
  Because everybody thinks somebody will do something, and nobody ends up doing anything.
• 35:38
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• 40:19
  And uh, well, let's see, today we're talking about the consequences of inaction.
• 40:24
  You know, I use the example of say a cut, right?
• 40:27
  You get a cut on your hand.
• 40:28
  Let's say you ignore it and it turns red and it gets infected.
• 40:31
  You still ignore it.
• 40:32
  It eventually can get septic and it can actually be life threatening.
• 40:36
  It's you know, you deal with something when it's small, then you don't have to deal with it when it's big.
• 40:40
  Well, let's start with federal department of education.
• 40:44
  See, the federal department of education uh embezzles billions of dollars every year from the American people to bribe different colleges and universities and and uh public schools with their money to to get them to come to heel.
• 41:00
  Now, I bring this up because there's a recent case out of the dealing with the University of California, where a judge said that the Trump administration had unlawfully and unconstitutionally attempted to enforce Title VI and Title IX of the uh um uh federal education act.
• 41:18
  Now, reading from the decision, uh the order giving up a preliminary injunction, uh we read the plaintiffs have submitted overwhelming evidence across 74 declarations and more than 700 pages of supporting documents.
• 41:31
  Plaintiffs show that the administration and its executive agencies are engaged in concerned, uh a concerted campaign to purge woke left and socialist viewpoints from our country's leading universities.
• 41:44
  Now, I want to stop and ponder a couple couple things here.
• 41:47
  So um uh has the the current administration tried to purge woke left and socialist viewpoints.
• 41:56
  Uh yeah, uh I would I would say so.
• 41:58
  Um, again, in violation of the Constitution.
• 42:01
  Federal government doesn't have any say over education.
• 42:04
  Then again, that was true with the dear colleague letter from Obama.
• 42:08
  That was true with uh with Biden's uh push uh of the woke agenda into college.
• 42:15
  In other words, this is nothing new.
• 42:18
  This has been happening for multiple administrations because the federal government is illegally embezzling money from the American people to spend on their bribes for well, colleges, universities, and schools.
• 42:32
  But here's the interesting thing.
• 42:34
  Uh so they're trying to purge these things from uh the viewpoint from the university.
• 42:41
  Well, this is federal money.
• 42:43
  This is your my tax money.
• 42:45
  What if the American people don't want to pay for woke left and socialist viewpoints being uh uh being promoted?
• 42:53
  There's a reason why the federal government is prohibited by the 10th Amendment and by the necessary and proper clause from being involved in education.
• 43:04
  You see, the problem to me isn't that the administration is uh uh using federal funds to purge woke left and and socialist viewpoints from our country's leading universities.
• 43:18
  It's that the federal government has been spending, has been using federal tax dollars to bribe these universities in any form, especially to promote a woke leftist and socialist viewpoint.
• 43:31
  If you are a private university, then you can do whatever you want.
• 43:35
  And it's interesting.
• 43:36
  The universities point to uh again, University of California, and they also talk about Harvard.
• 43:41
  These are allegedly, well, University of California is a state university, so that should be a state problem.
• 43:48
  Harvard allegedly a private university, but they keep taking federal dollars.
• 43:53
  So are they truly uh uh pri is Harvard truly a private entity if they're taking federal dollars for their operations?
• 44:03
  But we're here because Trump is trying to change the viewpoint of the universities that was in many ways promoted as I point out by both Obama and Biden, but they only got away with it because way back in 1970, was it 74, I think, 75, when Carter uh when Congress passed a legislation to create a department of education, people said, okay, you're gonna hand out money.
• 44:31
  We say, okay.
• 44:33
  See, the problem didn't start with this with the current Trump administration.
• 44:37
  The problem started with Congress back under the Carter administration when they violated their oath to the Constitution.
• 44:47
  They exercise a power not vested in the government of the United States, which is a violation of the necessary and proper clause.
• 44:53
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18.
• 44:56
  It says Congress has the power to make all laws necessary and proper to putting into execution the powers vested in the government of the United States by the Constitution.
• 45:07
  Well, since the Constitution didn't vinding education in the federal government, Congress had no legal authority.
• 45:14
  But Paul, the general welfare clause, yes, read the stupid general welfare clause.
• 45:19
  It says Congress can collect taxes and do three things to pay the debts of the United States to uh the common defense of the United States and the paper the general welfare of the United States, capital U capital S, proper noun.
• 45:31
  That same proper noun we find in the 10th Amendment that says if a power is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, it belongs either to the states or to the people.
• 45:39
  The very same proper noun in the necessary and proper clause.
• 45:42
  It says Congress can only make laws that are necessary and proper to putting into effect the powers vested in the United States.
• 45:50
  So they don't get to do just you want to follow up, read the James Madison's debate uh in the Cod Fisheries debate.
• 45:58
  And he points out guess what?
• 45:59
  If we let Congress do whatever it wants to do, well, they may take up the funding of education.
• 46:04
  Ta-da.
• 46:07
  See, this is what happens when nobody said anything back in 1972.
• 46:13
  50 more 50 or 74, whatever it was, somewhere 50 plus years.
• 46:18
  People said nothing.
• 46:19
  Well, people said something, they didn't do anything.
• 46:23
  They never pushed back.
• 46:24
  They never said, hey, you don't have the legal right to do it.
• 46:26
  None of the states push back.
• 46:28
  The states just sat there and said, give me money, give me money, give me money.
• 46:32
  And this is where this mess comes up.
• 46:34
  Now, whether you like socialism or you hate socialism, this mess came up because 50 years ago, our predecessors, or at least my predecessors, did nothing when Congress went well beyond their limited and enumerated powers.
• 46:52
  And we let that infection fester to the point now where we have not just uh administrations that are trying to control the education system, but we have courts now that have decided what is and is not appropriate for this bribe.
• 47:12
  That's right.
• 47:12
  That's what we have is we have a district judge that says, yep, this is uh um, we get to decide what isn't isn't appropriate.
• 47:22
  Because I don't remember a single court saying, wait a second, the federal government's not authorized to spend money on education.
• 47:30
  That means this is embezzlement.
• 47:32
  No one said anything.
• 47:34
  And of course, we want to point the finger at somebody, well, it was Carter's fault because he signed it, or it's it was that Congress's fault.
• 47:40
  But that Congress works for us.
• 47:42
  We hire the representatives, we hire the senators, they work for us, and they are exercising our power in our name.
• 47:52
  And when they go far beyond that power and we do nothing, you want to know where the problem looks?
• 47:58
  It's just look going to the mirror and look right in the eye.
• 48:01
  That's where the problem starts.
• 48:04
  It's a problem that we don't do anything.
• 48:06
  We don't say, or we want all it's not right, it's wrong.
• 48:09
  Boo hoo hoo-hoo.
• 48:10
  What do you do about it?
• 48:13
  What do you do about the quality of our education as a whole?
• 48:18
  We've decided as a nation that everybody should have access to an education.
• 48:22
  We've also decided that that education should be crap.
• 48:25
  It's perfectly fine for you to have uh students in the eighth grade that that doesn't read at grade level.
• 48:31
  They can't do math at grade level.
• 48:33
  With that, we're okay with that.
• 48:35
  No, we're not, Paul.
• 48:36
  Well, we certainly seems to be, because that is the way the people are acting.
• 48:40
  They're not prioritizing the education of their children.
• 48:46
  They're they're prioritizing the rhetoric that it all they're not uh prioritizing the quality of the education for our young people.
• 48:56
  Here's another thing.
• 48:56
  We didn't actually was we talked for for four years, people talked about Biden and uh, you know, his importing of illegal immigrants and trying to put the cloak of legality around them.
• 49:09
  Um and just basically ignoring the standards.
• 49:13
  And people talked a lot, but the states didn't do anything really.
• 49:17
  Well, Texas did a bit.
• 49:18
  I give them, I'll give a Texas pointer than that, but Illinois had no problem with that.
• 49:23
  I I bring that up because uh according to a recent report, this came actually saw it from Patriot TV.
• 49:29
  Um, the number of uh citations given to commercial drivers for not having English proficient proficiency is going way up in Illinois.
• 49:42
  Nearly one in five, nearly 20% of CDLs issued by the state of Illinois, apparently are the people who are not proficient in English.
• 49:53
  Now, I can make a great argument about the the problems with the federal CDL laws and all that, but if they're a
• 50:00
  Requirement is listen, if you want a commercial license in this country, you must be able to read English so you can read the signs.
• 50:06
  You must be proficient in English.
• 50:09
  Um and you can't.
• 50:13
  Why are they issuing the license?
• 50:16
  So far to date, 550 drivers were cited for not understanding English.
• 50:24
  Now, to me, the interesting thing is because they finally started checking.
• 50:28
  See, apparently, um there's been a change in the law back in June.
• 50:37
  Um, and and the Illinois State Police are basically every time they do a commercial motor vehicle inspection, they are also checking to see if the driver, the licensed driver, can actually be is actually proficient in English.
• 50:52
  Now, I find this really interesting that we seem to be issuing these licenses.
• 50:56
  Um, how many of you realize that to be an international airline pilot, you must be proficient in English?
• 51:05
  See, English is the international language of flight.
• 51:08
  Now, if you only fly within your country, you can use whatever language your country uses.
• 51:13
  But when you fly internationally, when you cross uh international boundaries, you have to be fluent in English.
• 51:20
  You have to be, I should say proficient in English, not fluent, but proficient.
• 51:25
  And in fact, there was a, I think there's an airline crash back in the maybe late 70s.
• 51:31
  And try uh where part of the problem was the captain was not proficient in English.
• 51:36
  The first officer was doing all the radio calls because he was proficient in English, but he was um, let's just say fudging it a bit to not piss off as captain.
• 51:46
  But let's get back to the CDL.
• 51:48
  So, okay, what are people going to do about this?
• 51:51
  If you live in Illinois, do you really want your commercial drivers not being able to be proficient in what in Illinois?
• 52:00
  What are you gonna do?
• 52:01
  Now you have the information.
• 52:03
  What are you going to do?
• 52:06
  I'm not talking about what you're going to complain about.
• 52:08
  You can complain all you want, but what are you going to do?
• 52:13
  What are you going to do in your own legislature to make sure that your Department of Motor Vehicles or whatever you call it is actually making sure that CDL drivers are proficient in English?
• 52:26
  Why is there why is that not part of the test for a CDL?
• 52:30
  Good question as far as I'm concerned.
• 52:33
  And I'm sure it's not just Illinois.
• 52:35
  Uh California has been having a problem with illegal immigrants.
• 52:38
  And I believe also people not proficient in English getting CDLs.
• 52:43
  Of course, well, the federal government's gonna do something about it.
• 52:45
  It's not the federal government's problem.
• 52:47
  In fact, the federal government, because you're not dealing with interstate commerce necessarily.
• 52:52
  So a state CDL, you can do commerce intra state.
• 52:57
  You don't need an interstate.
• 52:58
  So what are you gonna do about it?
• 53:01
  You see, when we're looking at uh uh to point the fingers about inaction, we're always trying to point the finger.
• 53:07
  Oh, somebody else did this.
• 53:08
  It's somebody else's fault.
• 53:10
  Somebody else has to do something.
• 53:11
  But again, when we expect somebody to do something, nobody does anything.
• 53:17
  Starts with you.
• 53:18
  We the people, we hire our representatives at the state level.
• 53:23
  What are we doing to hire them?
• 53:25
  So waiting, why is the law not say that you have to pass an English proficiency set test to get your CDL?
• 53:30
  Why?
• 53:31
  Explain to me why.
• 53:32
  What why is this not happening?
• 53:34
  Now, sure, if one person shows up to their rep, their state rep, is anything gonna happen?
• 53:40
  Probably not.
• 53:42
  But what happens if a few thousand Illinois citizens start reaching out to their aldermen or whatever, whatever they the assembly men or whatever they call their legislators, and say, wait a second, you're telling me that as many as one in five traffic stops, the state police uh uh file issue violations for uh English proficiency lacking?
• 54:08
  Why aren't we testing?
• 54:10
  How are we giving out licenses in the United States to people commercial licenses to people who cannot speak?
• 54:17
  And why?
• 54:18
  Explain this to me, and then listen to their answer.
• 54:21
  And you know what?
• 54:22
  If their answer doesn't hold water, call them on it.
• 54:28
  Because you are responsible, you the citizen, we are the sovereign.
• 54:33
  We get to decide.
• 54:35
  We need to hold our elected representatives responsible, and we need to do something.
• 54:41
  And until we demand better, we are not going to get any change anything, and we're not gonna fix any of these things.
• 54:50
  Now, again, individually, no, nothing's gonna change.
• 54:53
  But you know what?
• 54:54
  If you're all expecting someone else individually to get involved, why don't you get involved first?
• 54:59
  Why don't you start by being that initial individual?
• 55:02
  Why don't you start by learning the supreme law of the land and then acting more like a citizen, a co-sovereign, rather than a subject waiting for somebody in government to do it for you.
• 55:16
  Now, I want to remind you, next year is the semi-quincentennial of the release of the Declaration of Independence.
• 55:23
  There's a lot of news going on around that.
• 55:25
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