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California Is Killing Small Business - Bruce de Torres - #6363 · Financial Survival Network

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  Speaker 1: The federal contracts that should go to small businesses. So
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  Speaker 1: that's our primary. But California, where we are based and
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  Speaker 1: where I live, is you know, suffering from these kind
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  Speaker 1: of policies, and it's just a head scratcher, right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how do you begin to re educate a population that
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  Speaker 1: could appreciate positions that could help them and long term
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  Speaker 1: and who's got patients? If you need that kind of
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  Speaker 1: a job right now, or you need that you think
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  Speaker 1: you need that kind of a minimum wage. So now
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  Speaker 1: it's an animal chasing its own tail and a bad cycle.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome you are listening to and watching the Financial
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  Speaker 2: Survival Network. I'm your host, Carry Lutz. Well today, Bruce
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  Speaker 2: Detres is with US now and he is director of
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  Speaker 2: communications the American Small Business League, and we're talking pre
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  Speaker 2: call Bruce. We got a few issues to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: But what's been on my attention lately is the boondoggle,
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  Speaker 2: the disaster of the state that used to epitomize American
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  Speaker 2: ingenuity and entrepreneurism. I'm talking about California and their twenty
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  Speaker 2: dollars minimum wage rate that they've implemented. Actually it's like
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  Speaker 2: twenty dollars and thirty five cents, and it's leading fast
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  Speaker 2: food places, Starbucks, all sorts of small businesses to shut
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  Speaker 2: down in the fast foods now RFK. Junior might be
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  Speaker 2: happy about it because then people will be eating less junk.
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  Speaker 2: But the people who are losing their jobs here, Bruce,
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  Speaker 2: no one ever thought about them. And yet we have
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  Speaker 2: so much research that proves exactly what's happening now is
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  Speaker 2: so predictable that when you raise the minimum wage, you
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  Speaker 2: hurt the most, the least paid, poorest workers. Nothing changes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a symptom of decades of terrible economic
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  Speaker 1: policies and also bad education, so that this is what
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  Speaker 1: young people could support, which ultimately, you know, a policy
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like short term, quick cash in their pocket,
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  Speaker 1: but long term it's destructive of businesses. And we've got
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  Speaker 1: a mile high view from the about the federal contracts
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  Speaker 1: that should go to small businesses. That's our primary. But California,
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  Speaker 1: where we are based and where I live, is you know,
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  Speaker 1: suffering from these kind of policies, and it's just a
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  Speaker 1: head scratcher, right, you know, how do you begin to
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  Speaker 1: re educate a population that could appreciate positions that could
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  Speaker 1: help them in long term and who's got patients?
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  Speaker 2: If you need that kind of a.
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  Speaker 1: Job right now, or you need that you think you
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  Speaker 1: need that kind of a minimum wage. So now it's
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  Speaker 1: an animal chasing its own tail and a bad cycle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So obviously you talk about re education and not
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  Speaker 2: in the North Korea or the Soviet Union China sense
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  Speaker 2: of the word, but actually re educating people to understand
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  Speaker 2: economic truths, because nobody should be surprised about the fallout
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  Speaker 2: from that policy in California. There has been so much
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  Speaker 2: research done post World War Two about the minimum wage
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  Speaker 2: and that it's a job killer. And you know, to
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  Speaker 2: see you Starbucks close three hundred stores in California, it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm surprised they're not closing more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And you know, forgive me for you know,
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  Speaker 1: cutting to not cutting to the chase. But maybe extrapolating
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  Speaker 1: to the end of the line, which is again I
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  Speaker 1: accuse this of being a symptom of decades, maybe a century,
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  Speaker 1: of policies that have squeezed small businesses, that are squeezing
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  Speaker 1: small businesses that the person who can work for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: This used to be a nation of individuals working on
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  Speaker 1: the farm, small businesses.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe one.
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  Speaker 1: Could argue, well, it's just industrialization. It's been modernization, Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about, you know, the Industrial Revolution. It's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years of development. Hasn't it been natural?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it as being very very natural, And
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  Speaker 1: I certainly see it as a betrayal of the American
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  Speaker 1: people because we are a small business nation. Ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: percent of all businesses or small businesses by the government's
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  Speaker 1: definition about the five hundred employees. Ninety eight percent of
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  Speaker 1: all businesses in America have less than one hundred employees,
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  Speaker 1: and the vast majority of federal contracts go to support
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  Speaker 1: the big businesses. It's a complete betrayal of who and
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  Speaker 1: what we are. And the education's part of it. And
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  Speaker 1: these are the macro things that we're obsessed about talking
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  Speaker 1: about obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so and obviously the country's policies, the government's policies
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  Speaker 2: towards small business it seems to be not even in
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  Speaker 2: the dialogue here. I mean, I heard what's her name,
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Loffler talking about fraud in Minnesota. That's the only
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  Speaker 2: thing I've heard her say since since she became secretary
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  Speaker 2: or whatever of the head of the Small Businesses SBA.
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  Speaker 2: She's a business association.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, administration exactly. Yeah, we accuse the federal government of
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  Speaker 1: doing next to nothing for small businesses. For all the
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  Speaker 1: balloons and confettis and press releases at the SBA under
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  Speaker 1: every administration for decades now, they pretend and pose as
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  Speaker 1: if they're doing anything for small businesses, but they're not.
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  Speaker 1: And I could go into kind of you know, specific
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  Speaker 1: accusations along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, tell us like, you know, not only
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  Speaker 2: not doing anything to help, but going out of their
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  Speaker 2: way to harm at times too, right, I agree. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, like I said, ninety eight ninety nine percent
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  Speaker 1: of all businesses in America or small businesses, we see
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of small businesses with that
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  Speaker 1: five hundred employee definition, okay, Yeah, and they're represented by
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  Speaker 1: the SBA. Is protecting their interests. Well, the SBA is
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  Speaker 1: always under attack by every administration. It's got one of
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  Speaker 1: the smallest budgets. Hmm, shouldn't it have one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest budgets, representing as it does, such almost the totality
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  Speaker 1: of American businesses. Whereas the Department of Commerce has a
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  Speaker 1: ten billion dollar budget, I believe her an eight billion
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  Speaker 1: dollar budget, and the SBA has a budget of less
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  Speaker 1: than a billion and it's been cut in half I
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  Speaker 1: think by Trump last year, down to something like six
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. So right there, whoa wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: what's the disconnect?
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  Speaker 2: Right there?
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  Speaker 1: But then folks can go to our site asbo dot
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  Speaker 1: com and see our documentation that the twenty three percent
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  Speaker 1: of federal contracts that are supposed to go to small
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  Speaker 1: businesses every year don't don't even though the ESBA announces
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  Speaker 1: every year we met that goal, we surpassed that goal.
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  Speaker 1: How about alone. They really don't want you to know
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  Speaker 1: that our small businesses could and should be applying for
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  Speaker 1: federal contracts. That's our that's the elephant in the room
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  Speaker 1: that we're in the business of exposing.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So it's education for the small businesses too.
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  Speaker 1: Right, well, for all America, because well just especially for
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  Speaker 1: small businesses, because most don't know, huh, there's billions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars in business I could be applying. For those that
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  Speaker 1: do attempt to do that typically give up because it's labyrinthine.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's very hard to qualify to see exactly what
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  Speaker 1: to do. In other words, the giant corporations that have
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  Speaker 1: a lock on those federal contracts carry then they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to make it easy, and the ESBA doesn't help
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  Speaker 1: myke it easy. You click ity click into how to
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  Speaker 1: get started and things like that, and then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you're pretty much in the weeds. But it's
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  Speaker 1: the best that's out there, and we're just trying to
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  Speaker 1: call attention to it because maybe one brave Congressman or
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  Speaker 1: senator could introduce legislation or squeeze a plank into some
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  Speaker 1: bill that's advancing that could declare and show how the
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  Speaker 1: emperor has no clothes. The big businesses that get these
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  Speaker 1: contracts a year after year, carry they're already big. They
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  Speaker 1: don't create any new jobs to do this work, whereas
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  Speaker 1: real small businesses would create right now with the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't change the numbers. If they really got
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  Speaker 1: their contract you know, the contracts that they're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: small businesses would create more than likely around two million
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  Speaker 1: extra new jobs each year on top of the new
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  Speaker 1: jobs in America creates every year. It would be an
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  Speaker 1: economic boom as intended by the nineteen fifty three Small
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  Speaker 1: Business Act that created the SBA to steer a fair
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  Speaker 1: portion that's what it said in a federal contracts. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's twenty three percent, and also provide loans and other
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, assistance. But it's part of the
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  Speaker 1: corporate capture of the federal government across the board.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, like I said, always having been in
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  Speaker 2: small business myself, some larger, some smaller small business. Now
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  Speaker 2: the capabilities of small businesses with technology have never been greater.
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  Speaker 2: And with AI now you could bang out an RFP
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  Speaker 2: in minutes on any of these contracts. How are we
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  Speaker 2: using AI to help educate or re educate small business people?
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot more couldn't should be done. We don't
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  Speaker 1: particularly use it a lot because of our efforts are
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  Speaker 1: focused on the way that we're trying to get the
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  Speaker 1: word out there. But I'm glad you appreciate the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: in the palm of our hands. There are thirty six
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  Speaker 1: million small businesses in America. Thirty two million are in
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  Speaker 1: the nai CS codes of the things that the government buys.
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  Speaker 1: The federal government is the world's largest.
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  Speaker 2: Purchaser of gun services.
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  Speaker 1: They buy everything on the planet. And thirty two million
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  Speaker 1: of them could and should know, like I could apply
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  Speaker 1: for these contracts, and it should be a lot easier
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  Speaker 1: to do that. There's only a small fraction of our
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  Speaker 1: thirty six million small businesses that ever get a federal
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  Speaker 1: contract every single year. And to the small business who
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  Speaker 1: hear this and say, I'm a hair salon, I clean gutters,
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  Speaker 1: I repair garage doors, I'm never going to apply for
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  Speaker 1: a federal contract. I don't care about this stuff. Wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, you do, because the small businesses in your
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  Speaker 1: community that would get those or could get those contracts
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  Speaker 1: and hire all those new hires. They need haircuts, they
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  Speaker 1: need their garage there's fixed, they need their gutters clean
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  Speaker 1: and bloom and raise, you know, the whole economy.
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  Speaker 2: Across the board. Yeah. So, you know, when I think
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  Speaker 2: of this, where's that movie comes back to me? War Dogs?
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  Speaker 2: If you remember they were they were bidding on contracts
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  Speaker 2: in Afghanistan and other places, and there was a small
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  Speaker 2: business set aside, and these guys got like super wealthy
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  Speaker 2: and they were cutting corners and everything. How how do
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  Speaker 2: we protect because, like I said before, Kelly Loffler, the
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  Speaker 2: head of the SBA, said, there was like millions and
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars worth of fraud in Minneapolis. We've got
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  Speaker 2: to be able to make sure that only the people
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  Speaker 2: who deserve to get these contracts, who will faithfully perform
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  Speaker 2: them are are awarded them.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yes, and to that extent, the light needs to
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  Speaker 1: be shine on that malfeasance. The caution is do not
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  Speaker 1: let that be used as an excuse to say and
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  Speaker 1: we're ready to hear this any day. Uh, the SBA
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  Speaker 1: is so bad at doing that, we're going to push
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  Speaker 1: all of its functions into the Department of Commerce or
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  Speaker 1: the Department of the.
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  Speaker 2: Treasury where it's better.
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  Speaker 1: Managed, and it'll be lost in the fog of bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, please find and clean up and prevent that
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  Speaker 1: kind of fraud. But it's almost a joke because last
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  Speaker 1: year around March, I think we learn it was announced
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  Speaker 1: that the SBA had mismanaged about six hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in loans, and we're going to phase out the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Education, and we're probably going to give the one
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  Speaker 1: point seven I think trillion dollar student loan portfolio to
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  Speaker 1: the SBA to manage. Wait a minute, you just said
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't manage six hundred million dollars in loans. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna give them almost two trillion in loans to manage.
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  Speaker 1: While at the same time last year, same time, they
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  Speaker 1: announced we're cutting they budget in half, which presumably will
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  Speaker 1: shrink the SBA staff in half. And we have seen
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  Speaker 1: that happening over the last year plus. We're closing offices
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  Speaker 1: because of they're resisting, you know, federal federal policies. So
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  Speaker 1: it's this assault on the SBA, which fine, if they
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  Speaker 1: eliminate it, and they eliminate these programs, then no one
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  Speaker 1: will ever talk about one hundred percent of the federal
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  Speaker 1: contracts going to big businesses while there's a law on
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  Speaker 1: the books that says twenty three percent ought to go
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  Speaker 1: to legitimate small businesses. So we need to know about
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  Speaker 1: another scandal in Washington, like we need a hole in
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  Speaker 1: the head. But here's something that speaks right to our
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  Speaker 1: hearts and into our wallets. And it's not a Republican
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  Speaker 1: or Democrat thing. It's a main street thing that absolutely
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  Speaker 1: if we're very you know, we're outraged about it. We've
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  Speaker 1: got the you know, the facts and figures, and we
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  Speaker 1: just need some brave people and bless you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for facilitating this kind of a conversation about it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, so what can you do about it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, besides writing your congressman, which we know how
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  Speaker 2: good that's going to be. Well, that's that's.
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  Speaker 1: Still a We apply the eighty twenty rule off the
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  Speaker 1: top of my head to that. That's the primary thing
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  Speaker 1: we educate folks about, and then to find more to do.
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  Speaker 1: We have a project called Don't Cheat Women. I recommend
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  Speaker 1: folks go to the site don't Cheat Women dot com.
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  Speaker 1: The major goal we're asking for is raised from five
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  Speaker 1: percent to fifteen percent the federal contracts that must go
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  Speaker 1: to women owned small businesses, the extra you know, the
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  Speaker 1: extra revenue and jobs that would get created, the political
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  Speaker 1: benefits to women so they can compete for office more
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  Speaker 1: effectively when they are worth as much as men. That's
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  Speaker 1: all listed there. But to your point, the page called
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  Speaker 1: what you can do it does start Kerry, we say,
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  Speaker 1: with swipe the letter we have there that explains this problem,
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  Speaker 1: and click the links that we show right there, how
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  Speaker 1: to find your senators, how to find you congress person,
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  Speaker 1: how to reach to the White House, and Kelly Loffler
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  Speaker 1: at the SBA and say, we've you know, we're aware
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  Speaker 1: of this, this is the problem, please fix it. And
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  Speaker 1: so many Americans never do anything to fight city Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's another symptom of the last hundred years making life
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  Speaker 1: harder and harder. Are scrambled just to survive. And the
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  Speaker 1: mush that generations have in their heads now about how
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  Speaker 1: or to participate in civics, to you know, to do anything,
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  Speaker 1: to lobby for a position, to you tug on the
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  Speaker 1: sleeve of your representative, let alone run for office. There's
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  Speaker 1: not nearly enough Americans engaged in doing that that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. So that's you know, the shotgun answer to well,
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  Speaker 1: what can we do about it besides writing them? Well, first,
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  Speaker 1: let's write them and harass them on a regular basis,
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  Speaker 1: and then brainstorm about how because until until there's an
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  Speaker 1: Act of Congress, it doesn't get fixed. So how do
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  Speaker 1: you influence Congress with every advocacy group under the sun.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, So let me ask you who is
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  Speaker 2: the leading proponent for small business in the in the
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  Speaker 2: House and in the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the leading targets would be the chair people of
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  Speaker 1: the Senate Small Business Committee, on the House Small Business Committee,
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  Speaker 1: because how can they avoid an appeal to this issue.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's the you know, the dozens or so
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  Speaker 1: that are on each committee. And then it's your candidate
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  Speaker 1: in your district. Confront them with this, with these claims,
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  Speaker 1: Confront them with what's on asbo dot com and see
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  Speaker 1: if one can pry an acknowledgment of it at it
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  Speaker 1: because if you google search of things I just told
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  Speaker 1: you carry, you're going to think, well, Bruce is wrong,
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's gleaning from the official pronouncements of this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, corporate captured government we have the pleasure of
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  Speaker 1: living under these days.
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  Speaker 2: If I didn't know better here, Bruce, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: you sound a little cynical here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm more curious. Tell me about this War Dogs movie.
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  Speaker 1: When did it come out? And who's in it?
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  Speaker 2: Jonah Hill and I can't remember the other guy and
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  Speaker 2: there he's like they're both kind of down and out,
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  Speaker 2: and the one guy starts getting rich doing military contracts
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  Speaker 2: for Afghanistan the Middle East, and it's all about their
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  Speaker 2: wacky antics of the doing this and then wind up
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  Speaker 2: going to jail. And you see them often quoted about
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  Speaker 2: procurement fraud. You know they were He just went through
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  Speaker 2: there's lists and lists and list of contracts and just
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  Speaker 2: bid on them. He knew how to bid. It's just
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  Speaker 2: preparing the bid packet. And now with AI, I meant
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  Speaker 2: anybody could do this. I mean, what should I do
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  Speaker 2: if I want to go get some government contracts just
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  Speaker 2: for fun and profit? What what could I do here? Bruce?
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  Speaker 1: Don't Youat women dot com we have another page called
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  Speaker 1: resources where we've got the best of the most publicly available,
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  Speaker 1: you know, first doors of how to learn how to
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  Speaker 1: apply for a contract. You know, like I warn you,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's cumbersome, but at least we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: put it in one place. So okay, that's where you
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  Speaker 1: start with the basics, and then you dig into it
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  Speaker 1: harder and hardy. You try to hold your personal represent
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  Speaker 1: you know, your district's representatives, feet to the fire, your
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  Speaker 1: senator if you're lucky enough to catch their ear and
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  Speaker 1: push push push.
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  Speaker 2: Although I might.
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  Speaker 1: Sound cynical, I'm very, very uh convinced about good things
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  Speaker 1: will happen when enough of us know, because our strength
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  Speaker 1: is in our numbers, and we are under bombardment for
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  Speaker 1: decades from propaganda and psychological operations to make us fear
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  Speaker 1: and hate each other for thousands of reason.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what you're so spot on that you're so
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  Speaker 2: spot on. It's a psyop, right, Yes, it's all a psyop.
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  Speaker 1: And when you dig into the you know the true
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  Speaker 1: history behind things. I'll mention I looked into nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 1: for example, and wrote a book about that and many
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: other things that uninformed people call conspiracy theories. Whereas when
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  Speaker 1: someone really sees you know the history behind things, you
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  Speaker 1: become an adult and you realize there's a dragon to sleigh,
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  Speaker 1: and it's ever been to us. This is what happens
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  Speaker 1: with power, and this is what happens with republics, and
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  Speaker 1: is we are in late stage dissolution.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, mind, the ideals of.
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  Speaker 1: The Founding could still save us if enough of us
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  Speaker 1: knew and cared and got inflamed about it as protectors.
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  Speaker 1: Not only about our own life, the children and the grandchildren,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and all the generations that are relying on us to
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  Speaker 1: create conditions that allow them to come.
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  Speaker 2: You're like you're preaching to the choir here, my friend,
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to expose a major scandal. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: book coming out myself. It's called, and it's hopefully going
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  Speaker 2: to be this week, called America's Great Parking Scam, You've
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: been Robbed, and it deals exactly with what you're talking about.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Parking is like the fundamental syop in America that millions
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: of you deal with every single day. I don't want
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: to give anything else away, suffice it to say the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: book is going to be a killer. It's combined with
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: a lawsuit in US District Court for the Southern District
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  Speaker 2: of Florida, and I'm expecting it to explode literally all
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  Speaker 2: over the pages and websites on the web and YouTube
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and everywhere else. So wait, it's the title again. It's
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: called America's Great Parking Scam, You've Been Robbed? And I
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  Speaker 2: will shoot you a copy of the cover. The cover
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  Speaker 2: is Yeah, I love the cover. It's like one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite creations I have ever made. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: shoot it to your right. Now, check the chats.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: What's the main website where people can find that and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: any other.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they just go to my site, to Financial Survival
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  Speaker 2: network dot com. Okay, thank you. You see the cover,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: that's the book cover there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to first just quickly click on all these links,
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  Speaker 1: so my tabs are open. Oppositions over.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: We're the same situation that's called being a power user.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, hoping that my system hopefully won't crash. But
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: Good. Oh, I liked.
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  Speaker 1: As a guy from New Jersey. Your cover speaks.
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  Speaker 2: To me, speaks to everyone. Nobody is happy. But I've
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I got involved. I got a ticket wrongly in a
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: little beachfront community here in Palm Beach County, and it
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: didn't look right, and I just started researching, and I
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: kind of tell you I was a guess because it
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: was so there's so many layers of illegality. I'm not
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: going to get into it. You have to get the
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: book to find out, but we will shoot you an
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: announcement when we got it. I appreciate you coming on.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Just tell us again, how do we find your organation?
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  Speaker 2: How do we connect with you?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you asb l dot com. Also Don't Cheat Women
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  Speaker 1: dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Love it and you know, the parking industrial complex has
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  Speaker 2: been one of the most injury injurious entities for small retailers,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: for local retailers because the more difficult, the more extractive
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  Speaker 2: parking becomes, the less people want to go into towns.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Originally they go to the mall to avoid having to
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: go through the parking and getting tickets and all that.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Now they just they just buy online and avoid it all.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: So anyway, the book will be out soon. Appreciate you
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: coming on. Any questions and comments for Bruce myself email
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  Speaker 2: k L at Carrie lets dot com. Also, I'd love
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: to know where you're from, what city state you're listening from.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: It's just out of curiosity and Bruce, we will talk
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: to you again. Appreciate thank you for coming on. I
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 25:01
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