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Trusting government is a fool’s errand · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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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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  So many people today blindly trust government for everything from health care to education.
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  However, with their track record, have government actors earned that trust.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read instead of the Constitution, teacher acting generation be so glad you could join me today.
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  You know, it's this interesting thing that I've seen more even over my lifetime in this idea that government goes from the man, the one never to be trusted, to well, putting blind faith that government will do everything right, and simply because you get a government paycheck, you're pure as a wind-driven snow and and never need to be any sort of oversight.
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  No, one of the ways I see this, you may be surprised, maybe find it interesting is that the role of government has changed.
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  You see, you ask most people today, and it appears they say that, well, the purpose of government is to protect the American people.
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  But you go back to the Declaration of Independence.
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  Is that why governments are created?
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  No.
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  That's to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.
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  The purpose of government is to protect our rights so that we can protect ourselves.
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  And uh, as we become dependent on government actors for our own protection, as we literally delegate our own safety into the hands of government actors.
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  Well, what's the old saying?
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  You know, when when uh seconds matter, police are minutes away, that's kind of what we end up with.
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  And the latest example is a Detroit suburb known as West Bloomfield Township, where uh just a few days ago there was an attack on a synagogue.
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  Now, according to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, the armed suspect drove into the building down the hall before he engaged in gunfire with the synagogue security team.
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  Uh the vehicle sent a large cloud of black smoke into the air, visible to neighbors in the area.
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  Now, the suspects in front of vehicle died, but at the time of the reporting, uh, Mr.
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  Bashar could not confirm if it was from the gunfire or the fire that actually engulfed the vehicle after the crash.
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  No, thankfully, no children or staff were injured during the incident.
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  But uh again, I want you to notice you uh it's an attack on the synagogue.
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  And let's face it, the Jewish people have been attacked enough that they tend to take their own security pretty seriously.
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  So when this person, who by the way started out using a car, not a gun to kill people.
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  Right?
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  Everyone says we get rid of guns, all the violence goes away.
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  Well, this kind of proves it's that that's a lie.
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  He used a car to breach into the into the compound into the building when he then started using the gun.
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  But uh he he was stopped by security guards.
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  Now, the lead security guard was hit by the car and he was taken to the hospital, but thankfully his injuries don't appear to be life threatening.
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  And in another example of, well, while you can't trust the media, uh, I see two different stories on this.
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  One claims that the the uh uh the murderer, right?
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  The person that made the attack was filled in a his a gun laden truck through the front door uh of the synagogue.
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  Um they're claiming that the reports of that the gun was loaded with improvised explosive devices, while another one says, listen, we brought in dogs, but they they they they brought in explosive sniffing dogs, but they don't say anything about finding them.
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  So I'm not sure if there were explosives in the vehicle or not.
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  My point is think of it this way.
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  The when when this guy smashed his car into the front door of the synagogue, there were people, which I'm I believe was actually hosting a Hebrew school, right?
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  When they talk about focusing on children, um there were security guards that were ready to defend the children.
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  And the important thing was, yeah, police showed up, and that's that's good.
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  I'm glad police showed up.
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  But just think of what could have happened in those minutes that it took for police to show up.
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  So I I'm I you know, these are a group of people who decided we will defend ourselves, and we expect the police to come help us.
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  And another perfect example.
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  So the FBI now has gotten involved here.
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  Why has the FBI got in investigating this?
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  Well, it involved Jews.
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  Now, I take a look at the Constitution, and I don't see federal jurisdiction over any uh uh criminal event that happens to involve a religious minority.
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  Was this a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community?
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  Most likely, right?
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  I say I only say most likely because, well, these haven't been proved yet in court.
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  We were dealing with evidence, it's still fairly early days.
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  Um, I would say the odds are very high, but uh, you know, I'm I'm not certain yet because, well, this guy could have just had some uh uh, you know uh a beef with the the children in the school.
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  Maybe his ex-wife was uh had a child in the school, and I don't know.
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  This could be other things, it's why I say it's most likely.
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  But I want you to notice this is a community designed to be prepare to defend themselves.
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  And they're not the only one.
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  I remember uh a couple of years ago when they were having the the the uh church shootings, including one right here in Tennessee.
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  Um our church, obviously, they people were concerned about uh this because it gets a lot of attention, and uh we formed our own security team, and I was asked to lead the team, and the first thing I did I told them is we're not gonna focus on a church shooting because the odds of a church shooting are very, very low.
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  Let's start by focusing on the things we're more likely to encounter, and then those will fold into uh an incident, whether it be a church shooting or some other scenario.
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  So that's what we did.
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  We developed uh um plans to deal with everything from medical emergencies to uh tornado or other weather event to a fire, and it was all about in our case, finding it, getting people to a safe place and having people who had thought about it ahead of time, so that when the emergency happened, they weren't trying to figure it out on the spot.
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  We have plans.
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  We have rally points, we have uh roles that different people play, and it's all about um that proper preparation.
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  Now, should an active shooter come into our whether they they're pissed at us for being Christians or they've got an incident, they've got an issue with somebody in the the church itself, our basic policies still provide, right?
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  Where's a safe place?
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  There are people who have their their job is to find what the safe place is in that specific situation and help guide people to that place, while others uh may or may not engage a threat somewhere else.
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  All right, that's that's the basic.
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  I don't want to go into too much because well, basic security, right?
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  I don't want anybody that says, ooh, we'll go after Paul's church because we know how these things go.
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  That's that's what the point is we prepared.
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  The synagogue in Michigan had prepared, and we expect government to support us, not to do it for us.
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  In other words, we're not going to sit there waiting for the police to show up.
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  If something like this terrible, God forbid, but if something like this were to happen, we're not sitting around waiting for government to show up.
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  We will deal, we will protect ourselves and expect government to come support us as quickly as possible.
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  So that that's part of it, right?
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  It's just your your plain physical safety.
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  If you're depending on government to keep you safe, God help you.
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  Because you're never really sure.
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  Are you going to get the police in Nashville, Tennessee when there was a shooter, a murderer in a school, they quickly got together, figured something out, and went into the school to stop the threat.
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  Or is it going to be the Texas school where the police actually created a perimeter, did not go in to try and save children.
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  And in fact, prevented parents from trying to go in to save children.
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  Which government attitude will show up when you need them most?
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  Don't get me wrong.
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  I I fully support police and fire and EMTs that run towards the threat.
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  But, you know, I also tend not to call them first responders, because hopefully they're not the first people responding to the threat.
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  You respond to the threat, and then the police come in and the and the fire come in and the ambulance comes in.
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  They do.
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  Great work.
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  And I don't, I don't denigrate them when they do their job properly.
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  But if you're sitting around waiting for someone else to respond, you're in a very dangerous situation.
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  And now here's another reason why.
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  And we're going to stay in education while another reason why I don't trust government.
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  What did Ronald Reagan say?
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  The nine most dangerous worlds in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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  Um there are now 17 states that have filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Education because they have a policy requiring colleges and universities to collect data that shows that they're not considering the race in a student's admissions.
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  Now there's a little bit to this, so let me explain.
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  Back in 2023, the Supreme Court filed an opinion that was supposed to end affirmative action in higher education.
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  In other words, colleges and universities were not to use race as a predominating factor in admissions, right?
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  If you have two students that uh are applying the per the students' race should not impact who who gets the slot.
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  Um this, by the way, uh was supported by Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a policy that raised concerns that colleges and universities were still using um basically uh personal statements and other proxies to race.
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  In other words, they didn't come in and mark the race of the student, but they would use these these other tools to kind of uh okay, you didn't say you're black, but it certainly sounds like you're black, so we're gonna consider that uh as we consider in uh incomes.
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  And in response to that, the federal department of education um said, listen, schools and universities, you have to show us that you're complying with this uh um I want to call it race neutral admissions.
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  Now, the memorandum demanded that these schools uh provide information, including the acceptance rates, enrollment figures, incomes, average applicant, grade point averages, and standardized test or SAT scores by race and gender.
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  So, yeah, uh, we want you to call by race and gender.
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  Now, uh uh, I I agree with part of what President Trump wrote when he said race-based admission practices are not only unfair, but also threaten our national security and well-being.
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  Um, national security may be a bit of a stretch, but yeah, well-being.
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  However, he went on to say, and I disagree with this, it is therefore the policy of my administration to ensure institutions of higher education receiving federal financial assistance are transparent in their admissions practices.
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  Well, there's a basic fundamental problem here.
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  The federal government is not authorized to provide federal assistance to higher education.
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  Look throughout the Constitution of the United States.
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  That power is not delegated to the United States.
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  Therefore, under the 10th Amendment, it's reserved to the states or to the people.
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  And no, don't give me the general welfare clause because it says Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1.
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  Congress shall have the right to lay and collect taxes, incomes, duties, ex post and imposts, and excises to pay the debts, provide the common defense, and the general welfare of the United States.
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  Not of individuals, not of individual states.
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  So it's the general welfare of the union.
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  But that's not what we're doing here.
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  This is looking at saying, well, we're trying to give better.
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  So this whole thing, if you're dependent on government for this, well then think of it this way.
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  So let's say uh, yeah, you believe race-based admission practice, they're unfair.
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  The court has said they're unconstitutional.
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  Did they stop?
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  No.
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  They kind of went underground.
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  Well, Donald Trump's doing something.
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  Yeah, and what happens when Donald Trump's not in office?
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  Biden didn't do anything about this.
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  Biden promoted uh racial discrimination.
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  Why should we not expect somebody in the future to do that?
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  Now let me ask you another one.
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  So if it's not the government's going to do it, what can you do?
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  Well, gee, it's real simple.
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  You look at the at the data from the student from the schools and say, hey, are they basing it on race?
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  Yes, I'm not sending my child there and funding these illegal practices.
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  If you're not going to follow the law, if you're not going to follow the constitution, I don't want to support you.
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  It's a responsibility that as citizens we should be taking on.
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  Just like our own safety.
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  Our education is something that we should be controlling.
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  We control our student, our children's education.
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  The government, if it's constitutionally allowed, may be there to help.
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  Meaning your state may provide public schools.
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  Your county may collect taxes to help fund those public schools.
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  Those are constitutionally authorized by the state constitution.
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  Then they're there to help you.
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  They're not authorized by the federal government because they don't want the government in Washington controlling all the education.
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  So that's not legal, but it's also they spend less time singing trying to help you and more time trying to tell you what things are going to be like.
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  So uh yeah, you're trusting government.
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  I believe you're on a fool's errand.
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  And I've got more examples of that coming up.
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  But before I go there, I have to take a break.
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  Now, I talked before about the declaration of independence, and it says that that governments are instituted to secure our rights, not to keep us safe.
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  They're there to secure our rights so that we can keep us safe.
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  Welcome back, everyday American Jeffrey.
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  Join the Constitution study.
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  We're pointing out that trusting government is really a fool's errand.
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  That uh we forget, you know, we treat government like it's something special.
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  It's an entity created by people that that's made up of people.
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  And those people are human, they're flawed, they make mistakes.
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  Sometimes they make mistakes by accident, sometimes they do it on purpose.
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  Sometimes they just think that they know better and get to tell us how to live our lives.
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  And if there's one place where that happens, oh, so often, it's California or Camifornia as I like to call it.
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  In the latest example, the the California had a policy.
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  There was a California school that had a policy that prohibited school personnel from informing parents when the students requested a change to their gender, their quote unquote gender identity at school.
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  If a student came in, a girl came in and says, Hey, uh, I want you to call, I want to be a boy, I want you to put me down as as a boy, uh, I want to attend boys' classes, I'm a boys' gym class, uh, you know, I and whatever you the school was prohibited from telling the parents.
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  This to me is a very important foundational question because it's really who owns the children, who is responsible for raising the children, who gets to make the decisions about the children.
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  And in California, they say, well, it's the state.
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  We get to decide.
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  We're concerned that you know, you might discourage a child from change pret pretending to change their gender.
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  So we can't dare tell you that that will well, you might disagree with the child.
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  Well, that case went to Supreme Court.
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  Case called Mirabelli versus Bonton.
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  I'm writing an article on it.
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  But the short version is um, yeah, guess what?
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  Uh no, you you you you the state doesn't have the authority to hide that information from parents.
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  Um, reading from the opinion, plaintiffs allege that California's policy permitted disclosure of a student's gender transitioning at school only if the student consented.
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  Plaintiffs claim that these policies violated their rights under the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
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  Okay, let's start with it with a couple things here.
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  Because first of all, it's this is not a First Amendment issue.
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  Congress did not make this law, it's not a First Amendment issue.
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  However, it is a due process clause of the 14th Amendment because children are raised by parents.
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  This the court has recognized this for decades.
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  And to say that the parents are not at liberty to raise their children as they see fit, that denying them this critical information denies them that liberty is a violation of the 14th Amendment's due process clause.
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  Clear and simple.
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  Now, justices on the court did say, well, you know, uh the parents are likely to uh uh succeed in their free exercise clause, their First Amendment uh uh clause, their first amendment claim, uh, because judges apparently can't read the constitution anymore.
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  They're more interested in what other judges say than actually the document they claim to they took an oath to support to uphold and defend.
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  But you know, I come back to this question.
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  So we we hand our children over at so many of us hand our children at five years old to a government actor and say you raise them, and then we're shocked, shocked when they actually not only raise them, but claim that they raise them, not the parents, that their decisions overrule those of the parents.
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  How safe is your are your rights then?
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  Because now you have you have the government raising your children, determining molding the next generation.
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  And um, well, the court says no, but who's going to enforce it?
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  Okay, let's stay in California because the Trump administration has sued the state of California, specifically the uh the transportation department, the US Transportation Department sued the California Air Resource Board in District Court in California, claiming that the CARB rules um violate federal law.
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  All right, that they are illegal and preempted by federal law.
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  Now, listen, again, Camiforney.
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  This, as far as I'm concerned, this is cuckoo.
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  La la land is not just uh you know Los Angeles.
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  But let's point something out here.
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  First of all, the Federal Department of Transportation doesn't legally exist.
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  I know that sounds crazy, but listen to me for a second.
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  The Constitution does not delegate to the United States the authority to regulate transportation, only interstate commerce.
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  So this law that created the problem of transportation was not made pursuant to the Constitution.
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  And the Supreme Court has decided on at least three occasions, right?
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  Marbury versus Madison, ex parte Siebel, Norton V Shelby County, that an unconstitutional law is void.
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  Therefore, the transportation department doesn't legally exist.
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  But they go on, right?
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  So this let's Paul, we've got the federal law, the supremacy clause.
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  Right, read the stupid supremacy clause.
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  Article 6, clause 2.
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  This Constitution and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof and treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land.
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  So tell me, what if the federal government is not authorized to regulate transportation if they're not authorized to regulate emissions or environmental issues, then that federal law was not made pursuant of the Constitution, therefore it is not the Supreme Law of the land and does not preempt state law.
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  Again, I think California and their resource board, I mean, I think it's absolutely cuckoo, but I don't live in California.
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  I don't have a say in California laws and rules.
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  I don't.
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  But that doesn't mean that because I dislike it, I'm going to expect the federal government to illegally go in and fight all this.
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  I'm kind of curious.
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  Like I said, did they've sued in district court, we're kind of have to see how this goes.
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  Because if there's one thing I've observed over the years, is lawyers' ability to twist simple logical truths into theoretical pretzels to try and get the outcome that they want.
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  Well, though, you know, the the vehicles that are regulated by CARP, they passed through interstate commerce.
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  Therefore, Congress can regulate them.
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  No, Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate everything that passes through Interstate Commerce, only the Interstate Commerce itself.
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  So will we get judges that actually know what the Constitution says?
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  Not likely.
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  Will we get judges that actually follow their oath to support the Constitution?
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  I'm not holding my breath.
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  But this shows what happens when you trust government actors when you aren't aware of what the Supreme Law of the Land says to begin with, and you simply follow along with government actors.
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  Because remember, courts are the third branch of government.
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  They are government actors.
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  And I can't tell you how often I hear people say, well, well, we'll just sue.
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  We'll just, you know, put our future in the hands of a court.
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  Often, uh, two, I should say too often, based on uh a lack of understanding of the constitution or laws or decisions, you know, just kind of a a um oh this idea that, you know, well, I heard it on the I read it on the internet or I heard it on a program, and therefore it must be true, not actually following through.
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  And again, you're putting your trust in in government.
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  I another perfect example, and and uh this one I'd love to see explored a little more deeply.
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  In criminal cases, you have a right to uh assistance of counsel, right?
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  Sixth amendment.
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  It says nothing about that a council being approved by the state.
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  So when we have you know laws that say, well, in order to actually be a counsel in the state, you must uh you know take this law class and you must pass this test and be accepted by this this private organization.
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  That's all governments creating barriers to entry for someone that may be able to give great counsel, but they haven't been brow beaten into the the mold that government actors want them to be.
• 29:32
  But I want you to remember, well, the First Amendment protects you from Congress, um, prohibiting you from seeking a redress of grievance, petition the government for a reader's grievance.
• 29:42
  Uh, by the way, something they did in the uh national vaccine in for uh injury compensation program in the uh the PrEP Act, they did it, and we keep following, you know, people follow on.
• 29:55
  I I can't tell you how many times I hear attorneys saying, Well, you know, we can't sue because of this law.
• 30:00
  And I'm like, read the Constitution.
• 30:02
  It violates the First Amendment.
• 30:04
  Why won't anybody argue that?
• 30:07
  That's what happens when you put your trust, your dependence on government actors.
• 30:12
  Too often they're more interested in their own agenda than anywhere else.
• 30:18
  Now that doesn't mean that courts always get it wrong.
• 30:22
  For example, uh, West Virginia, uh, the legislator put a ban on covering using their Medicaid dollars to cover uh the so-called uh transgender surgical procedures, right?
• 30:35
  From using surgery to assist people with gender dysphoria.
• 30:40
  And of course, they got sued.
• 30:42
  How dare you not use government stolen dollars that were illegally appropriated, embezzled from the American people, and then use them for this politically protected idea that men can become women just because of some cosmetic surgery.
• 30:59
  But once again, the twisted and convoluted method of coming to this answer really shows how dangerous it is to let governments go without any oversight.
• 31:11
  See, the Fourth Circuit uh uh panel, the Fourth Circuit judge I heard this, um, didn't say that.
• 31:18
  Well, let's say, you know, the didn't say that Medicare was unconstitutional.
• 31:22
  They didn't say that, listen, states have the right to control their dollars.
• 31:26
  Literally, what they said in their decision was that a 2025 Supreme Court case means that uh that the ban does not violate the Constitution's equal protection clause or the affordable care act.
• 31:43
  Um, okay, let's stop and think of that for a second.
• 31:46
  Uh, the Supreme Court doesn't make law, they offer opinions.
• 31:51
  So just because the court decided that doesn't mean something is true.
• 31:55
  Um, the Equal Protection Clause, again, it may be a valid argument under the 14th Amendment, but the Affordable Care Act is an unconstitutional uh uh piece of legislation.
• 32:07
  It's the only, it's the only court case where a single justice wrote both the opinion and a dissent in the same case.
• 32:15
  It's that twisted and convoluted.
• 32:17
  But again, you don't have the appeals courts not saying, well, the constitution says this is okay.
• 32:22
  They said, well, a court said that the constitution said that's okay.
• 32:26
  And a court said that the law says this is constitution.
• 32:30
  You're dealing with judges that aren't thinking for themselves, they're simply consuming and regurgitating what some other judge said in some other case with some other set of facts.
• 32:42
  Now, the fact that I agree with the ultimate decision doesn't mean I agree with the way they got there.
• 32:48
  In other words, the the conclusion, the holding that West Virginia's ban on Medicare funding for these the surgery is constitutional.
• 32:58
  I don't have a problem with that.
• 32:59
  I think that's the right answer.
• 33:01
  But the convoluted twisted nonsense to get there is how so often we end up with bad opinions, bad decisions based not in the law, but based on some twisted logic that some judge came with, came up with at some time.
• 33:15
  And that goes all the way back to, again, early in the republic.
• 33:20
  Remember, the Supreme Court once said that a black man had no rights, a white man had to honor.
• 33:26
  That uh uh illegally detaining people simply because of their nationality, Japanese was perfectly constitutional, even though it violated the very the most sacred premises of that document.
• 33:41
  When you put your trust in government, you're not always going to get the answer you want.
• 33:45
  And when the answer you want is based on a truly evil and twisted uh look at how the the judiciary is structured, how can you trust that you're gonna get the right answer in the future?
• 34:00
  Is it not a fool's errand?
• 34:03
  Because the very same panel of circuit judges that that said, yep, this is okay here, could turn around under the same circumstances, under the same set of facts, find a completely different answer if they really, really wanted to.
• 34:17
  And how are your rights protected then?
• 34:19
  How are your rights protected if they are based on nothing more than uh, well, then the uh the whim of a bunch of high priests in black robes?
• 34:30
  See, that's why we have a constitutional.
• 34:33
  It's why courts have no power, as as uh uh Alexander Hamill put up put it.
• 34:39
  They have neither force nor will, but merely judgment.
• 34:43
  And sometimes that judgment is really evil and twisted.
• 34:48
  And you think about it, you know, so many of these court cases are brought by or supported by organizations that are really they're trying to destroy our rights, they're trying to strip you of these most fundamental God-given rights, and they're often supported by large corporations.
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• 36:53
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• 36:58
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  But Paul, you've got the radio program and the website.
• 37:04
  That's right.
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• 39:33
  Welcome back, everyday American Jewry joined the Constitution study.
• 39:36
  Today we're talking about trusting government, the fact that it's a fool's errand.
• 39:40
  Because if there's one thing government has shown it is absolutely incapable of doing well, it's managing money.
• 39:48
  It seems like anything involves money, government just they have a black thumb.
• 39:54
  It just destroys absolutely everything.
• 39:57
  How else do you explain a 39 trend?
• 40:00
  Trillion dollar deficit.
• 40:02
  You know, the idea that again, numbers beyond most of our expectations.
• 40:07
  So I hear a lot of people that have a lot of suggestions of how we could deal with the deficit.
• 40:12
  And I saw this interesting article.
• 40:14
  It was actually on the federalist.
• 40:16
  And it made me think about certain things.
• 40:19
  Let's start with a look at the Congressional Budget Office projections.
• 40:25
  They're anticipating a 1.85 trillion dollar deficit this year alone.
• 40:32
  Now you have to understand.
• 40:38
  So the best description I had is if you were to take a hundred dollar bill, and you were to stack 100 bills on top of each other.
• 40:46
  You know, just laying them down flat, stack them up.
• 40:49
  If you were to stack a trillion dollars worth of 100 bills, they would be taller than the orbit of the International Space Station.
• 40:59
  1.8 of those is how much money the federal government spent that it didn't have this year alone.
• 41:05
  That was after Doge, after all of these things, we're going to get rid of waste.
• 41:09
  There's still 1.8 trillion dollars spending more than they take in.
• 41:16
  And that's number, that number is expected to cumulate to be over 23 trillion dollars in deficits over the coming decade.
• 41:25
  Now, decades, 10 years.
• 41:27
  So if you got 23 trillion in a decade, that means they're averaging 2.3 trillion dollars a decade, meaning the deficit's gonna get higher.
• 41:35
  So how could we fix?
• 41:37
  I mean, no family I know could survive long running deficits at that level.
• 41:41
  What could we do?
• 41:43
  Well, first you have to recognize that the federal government has certain things it's got to spend money on.
• 41:47
  Now not all of them is what Congress thinks they are, but they do have what they call discretionary spending, the things that the government not legally obligated to spend.
• 41:58
  That's 1.88 trillion dollars this fiscal year.
• 42:01
  Meaning, yep, we could wipe out our deficit.
• 42:03
  We just have to get rid of all discretionary spending.
• 42:08
  Unfortunately, that includes funding our military, uh, which I think would really be a bad idea while we're at war with Iran.
• 42:15
  It would include defunding uh border security, which would make the progressives very, very happy.
• 42:21
  Uh, education, transportation, interstate highways, federal prisons, national parks, national institute of health, and much more.
• 42:27
  That would all be gone, and we could balance this nonsense out.
• 42:31
  What about the health care programs, right?
• 42:34
  Uh, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare exchanges, the children's health insurance program, all illegal unconstitutional programs.
• 42:42
  But they also consume 1.9 trillion dollars this fiscal year.
• 42:46
  So that could take care of our deficit.
• 42:49
  But the big bugaboo what most people think about is Social Security.
• 42:53
  Now, again, Social Security is a Ponzi scheme established by the federal government back in the 19th century, I think it was 30s, 20s or 30s.
• 43:00
  Um, and it was the idea of you give us money to uh invest to uh so you'd have a retirement account, money which the federal government never invested, that they just spent somewhere else and require more and more people to pay in to pay out their social security.
• 43:15
  This costs 1.66 trillion dollars this fiscal year.
• 43:19
  That means even if we got rid of Social Security, we would still run a deficit.
• 43:26
  But I want you to think about that.
• 43:27
  So you've got major medical programs, you've got retirement programs, Social Security, things the federal government's not legally authorized to do, and they're wasting two and a half trillion dollars a year on these illegal programs.
• 43:43
  That's not including the the illegal programs in the discretionary spending.
• 43:47
  Yeah, um uh Houston, I think we have a problem.
• 43:52
  Now, of course, when it comes to dealing with money, you know, Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes.
• 43:57
  Congress has spent, you know, authorizes the spending of money.
• 44:01
  And the problem we run into is Congress is often more worried about uh political partisanship than they are in their actual jobs.
• 44:10
  That's why we we have this quote unquote DHS shutdown.
• 44:15
  I say quote unquote, because DHS isn't really shut down.
• 44:19
  Uh, but this whole thing is ridiculous.
• 44:22
  So you have the Democratic Party that's pissed with ICE and border patrol.
• 44:26
  They're angry because, well, they're actually enforcing uh federal immigration law, and sometimes I believe they're doing it badly, but they're that's their job.
• 44:36
  So, in order to punish the Trump administration for actually enforcing federal law, they decided they're not going to fund the Department of Homeland Security, even though ICE and border patrol have already been funded through the big beautiful bill act.
• 44:54
  So, yeah, you're not you're not harming uh ICE and border patrol, the ones you claim to be upset with, but you are harming other things like the the Transportation Security Association administration, that you know, those people that like to grope you at airports.
• 45:12
  Uh, by the way, another illegal unconstitutional entity, right?
• 45:15
  Created by Congress.
• 45:17
  And uh in the recent reports of course, they've been going without, they've had partial pay, they've been going without pay, some of them.
• 45:24
  And um at this point, uh more than 300 TSA agents have um quit.
• 45:32
  They quit because of this quote-unquote partial shutdown.
• 45:36
  Um, according to a post from DHS on on X, our hardworking TAA officers are again being forced by the Democrats to work without pay for the third time in nearly six months.
• 45:50
  Um, yeah, that's because governments are really bad at handling money.
• 45:55
  Uh, they're really bad at handling security, they're really bad at handling uh just about everything they put their hands to.
• 46:02
  But again, this partial shutdown, whatever you want to call it, is not a fight over um TSA, it's a it's a pissing match over ice and um uh things like well, they don't want ice to wear military-style uniforms.
• 46:20
  They're okay with every other law enforcement wearing military, not ice.
• 46:25
  Um, they don't like the fact that they wear masks, even though ICE agents have been doxxed repeatedly, which is why they're trying to keep their their identity secret, because their families are being attacked uh both physically and uh electronically because the uh a family member happens to work for ICE.
• 46:47
  Now, listen, if we had reasonable, uh, we had intelligent people that were actually in Congress.
• 46:54
  They would look at this and say, listen, if we don't like the way ICE is operating, we need to pass a law to stop ICE from doing the things we don't think they should do.
• 47:05
  You don't think ICE should be wearing masks, pass a law.
• 47:08
  You can't pass a law.
• 47:09
  Well, then it's up to you to find enough support to pass this law to make it palatable to enough people to make enough of a compromise that people will go along with you.
• 47:21
  No, in this case, we're just gonna uh have a temper tantrum.
• 47:24
  And no, it's not just Democrats, Republicans have done this in the past as well.
• 47:29
  It's literally uh, I don't know if if it's somewhere between brinksmanship and uh extortion to get a political outcome.
• 47:38
  And sadly, that's pretty much how the government works nowadays.
• 47:41
  It works by bribery, it works by extortion.
• 47:44
  So this is really nothing new.
• 47:46
  Now, I got one more I want to look at, and this is a Senate bill uh recently passed.
• 47:51
  It was, of course, bipartisan support.
• 47:54
  It passed 89 to 10, which means reach for your wallets, ladies and gentlemen, the government's coming for your money.
• 48:00
  What are they how are they doing this time?
• 48:02
  It's called the the Road to Housing Act, and it's supposed to, well, they'd say make housing more affordable.
• 48:11
  Now, I want you to remember, each and every time Congress has passed a law trying to make housing more affordable, we end up in a housing crash.
• 48:20
  Right?
• 48:21
  The 2008 housing crash was created by Congress forcing banks to issue, basically paying them to issue bad loans and then reprimanding them when they didn't issue these bad loans.
• 48:33
  So how is Congress supposed to make housing more for since Congress doesn't regulate the cost of housing?
• 48:40
  How are they gonna make it more affordable?
• 48:42
  Of course, you read the articles.
• 48:44
  Oh, it's it's gonna boost the housing supply, it's gonna bring down costs, it's gonna rain in uh bad guys.
• 48:50
  It's it's supposed to be, it's gonna ensure that families can buy homes.
• 48:54
  It's got a lot of rhetoric, it's mostly BS, Barnyard Substance is a friend of mine likes to call it.
• 49:00
  So, what is this thing actually supposed to do?
• 49:03
  Well, at one point, it claims to cut red tape for environmental reviews.
• 49:09
  Well, that actually would be a good thing.
• 49:11
  That would be a way to lower housing costs is to get rid of some of the ridiculous red tape.
• 49:16
  But that's not all it does.
• 49:19
  See, they want to offer money, they want to offer grants to assist state, local, and tribal governments to create regional housing planning.
• 49:28
  Oh, central planning has never been a bad idea in any of the things that we do.
• 49:33
  Um, they they want to require the federal housing administration, another illegal unconstitutional federal agency to increase loan limits for multifamily properties.
• 49:45
  So we want to increase the loans that we didn't we try that once before, and we ended up again with the housing crisis.
• 49:53
  There's a um a movie out where they went through that the um the big short, I think it was.
• 50:00
  And they they actually showed the crazy stupid uh programs put in place by the federal government that led to the the housing crisis, the housing meltdown.
• 50:10
  They also claim to ban large institutional investors from buying single family homes.
• 50:15
  The federal government has no legal authority to do that.
• 50:18
  Doesn't not gonna stop them from passing a law.
• 50:21
  And the idea is interesting because though they assume that when in when big companies buy tracts of land.
• 50:27
  Now, where I live, there's a lot of old farmland and not a lot of farm families anymore.
• 50:32
  So developers come in, these institutional investors, and they buy up that land and they make houses.
• 50:39
  They build houses on it, which they then sell to people.
• 50:42
  Oh no, we don't want to do that.
• 50:43
  We want the we we want the uh uh supposedly you're gonna make housing more cheaper, cheaper by making it harder for companies to build houses in land in with less area of land.
• 50:55
  Um yeah.
• 50:58
  This allegation that this program is going to make uh housing more affordable, I predict, just like with everything else the government touches, it'll make housing less affordable.
• 51:08
  Remember the Affordable Care Act?
• 51:10
  It was supposed to make your your health care more affordable, and now health care permits are what triple what they were when the act was passed.
• 51:18
  I expect something very similar with this.
• 51:21
  Remember when the government said, hey, you know, we'll we'll guarantee loans with ridiculous people have no income, but will guarantee a mortgage for them.
• 51:29
  And the prouse, you know, first housing prices crashed, and now then housing prices exploded.
• 51:36
  It's funny.
• 51:37
  You know, the the house, the farm that we bought, my wife and I bought 10 years ago.
• 51:42
  Now I got people offering three times what I paid for it.
• 51:46
  Now, I don't know if they'd actually settle for that, you know, but I'm I'm giving people telling me that it's worth more than three times what we paid for it.
• 51:54
  Does that sound like making housing more affordable?
• 51:57
  No, I I put I I predict that these programs by adding more red tape, by continuing to distort the market, are actually going to lead to more expensive housing.
• 52:10
  Why?
• 52:11
  Well, just take this one example of institutional.
• 52:14
  So um, somebody come out here, they buy an old farm, and they chop it up into say two, three acre lots, and they build a modest home on it and they sell it for a modest price, and now you have more homes in inventory.
• 52:28
  Hey, isn't that great?
• 52:30
  But Congress wants to prevent that.
• 52:33
  They don't want the institution to come in, which means they want somebody to come in and buy the whole farm.
• 52:38
  But that costs a lot of money.
• 52:40
  And if you're gonna buy a if you're gonna own a whole farm, well, um, for you're gonna put a single family home on it.
• 52:47
  Now you have a hundred acres of land that could have had 15, 20 homes on it.
• 52:53
  Now it has one.
• 52:54
  How does that make inventory greater?
• 52:57
  You got a bunch of idiots that think they know how markets work, they think they know how real estate works, they have no clue.
• 53:03
  It's political nonsensory.
• 53:05
  But that's what happens when you trust government to do the right thing.
• 53:10
  Government's made up of people, those people have their own agenda, and often that agenda leads to our pain.
• 53:19
  It's a fool's errand.
• 53:21
  And it's one that we've seen so many times.
• 53:24
  We're like, you know, we'll we're like Charlie Brown, right?
• 53:26
  We still believe that government Lucy is gonna hold that football for us so we can kick it.
• 53:32
  No matter how many times they yank the football away, we keep believing they're gonna do it.
• 53:37
  It's insanity, according to Einstein, doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome.
• 53:43
  So will we recognize the fool's errand?
• 53:46
  I doubt it.
• 53:47
  History says it's quite unlikely.
• 53:50
  And I think until the American people get a little of their own education, we're gonna keep doing this.
• 53:57
  It's one of the reasons why I wrote my book, The Constitution Study, returning the Constitution to We the People.
• 54:03
  I want you to understand, I want you to get that understanding from John Jay that every member of the state ought diligently to read and study the constitution of this country, teacherizing generation be free.
• 54:12
  That by knowing our rights, we'll sooner perceive when they're violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.
• 54:18
  That's not gonna come from a government-run school.
• 54:20
  They don't want you to know that they are public servants, they want you to think that they're your public master.
• 54:27
  So find the book as at our the constitution study store, go to constitutionstudy.com/slash shop.
• 54:33
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• 54:34
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• 54:38
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• 54:41
  But the whole idea behind the constitution study is for people to read and study the constitution to know what their rights are, to be prepared to defend and assert them, especially when you have government actors that say, trust us, we'll do it right, and you know they're gonna make a mess of it each and every time.
• 55:00
  So that the next time some government actor metaphorically comes to your door and says, Hi, I'm from the government.
• 55:07
  I'm here to help.
• 55:08
  You slam the door in their face.
• 55:10
  That'd be nice.
• 55:11
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• 55:17
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• 55:32
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• 55:34
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• 55:37
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• 55:46
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