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Vote Red to Fight Fraud · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red. Turning the blue dot red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. One of the books I promote via
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  Speaker 1: this podcast is Fix It Now, Rediscover the Constitution and
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  Speaker 1: Get America Out of its Fiscal Death Spiral. It has
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  Speaker 1: an image of the Constitution on the front cover. Pardon
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  Speaker 1: me for saying so, but the core argument of that
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  Speaker 1: book has aged even better than I imagined. I started
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  Speaker 1: writing it in 2012 when the debt was growing exponentially
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  Speaker 1: under President Obama. The core argument is that we must
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  Speaker 1: go back to limited government as established in the Constitution,
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  Speaker 1: which means dismantling huge chunks of the federal bureaucracy, including
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  Speaker 1: all of the social service bureaucracy. It is amazing to
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  Speaker 1: me that people who say they care about the struggling
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  Speaker 1: underdog are so adamant about using the federal government to
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  Speaker 1: provide social services. We have decades of proof that the
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  Speaker 1: federal government has been a terrible vehicle for delivering social services.
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  Speaker 1: It's too big. It's too expensive. There are too many
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  Speaker 1: moving parts. It's too easy to defraud. There's no accountability
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  Speaker 1: to the people. There's no financial risk to spur bureaucrats
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  Speaker 1: to be as efficient as possible. In fact, the federal
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  Speaker 1: government has an advocacy program urging people to sign up
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  Speaker 1: for food stamps. Several years ago, a successful entrepreneur who
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  Speaker 1: was inducted into the Business Hall of Fame in Omaha
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  Speaker 1: chided the audience a bit. He said there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of griping in business circles about big government and
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  Speaker 1: the welfare state and a lot of bold talk about
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  Speaker 1: individualism and freedom and making your own way in the
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  Speaker 1: world without interference from government. This man who made a
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  Speaker 1: fortune managing capital, working at the highest levels of capitalism,
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  Speaker 1: spoke a word in defense of government programs. He said
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  Speaker 1: that when he was growing up, his family never would
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  Speaker 1: have made it through the crises they faced without help
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  Speaker 1: from the government. He said he would not be standing
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  Speaker 1: there accepting accolades as a successful free market capitalist had
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  Speaker 1: his family not received government aid. The question isn't whether
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  Speaker 1: American society should provide help for those in need. It should.
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  Speaker 1: The question is whether the federal government should be a provider.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is no. It's not authorized by the Constitution.
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  Speaker 1: It's a proven failure as a public policy. And we
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  Speaker 1: can't afford it. Over the last year, the news has
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  Speaker 1: exploded with story after story. about millions and billions of
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars for social services stolen by fraudsters. The left
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  Speaker 1: proposes more layers of bureaucracy to correct the problem. No,
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  Speaker 1: the answer is to get rid of the government social
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  Speaker 1: service bureaucracy. We have religious and secular social service organizations
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  Speaker 1: that are better than government at providing services, and do
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  Speaker 1: it in more cost-efficient ways. Listen to this clip featuring
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  Speaker 1: a spokesman for the National Fraud Enforcement Division of the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 2: The sad truth confronting the United States is that criminals
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  Speaker 2: steal hundreds of billions of dollars every year from the taxpayer.
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  Speaker 2: To put this crisis into perspective, more taxpayer dollars go
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  Speaker 2: to fraudsters every year than to most federal departments and agencies,
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  Speaker 2: including the combined budgets of the Departments of Energy, Justice
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  Speaker 2: and Interior. Hundreds of billions of dollars every single year
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  Speaker 2: taken by criminal actors. And there is no end to
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  Speaker 2: what the fraudsters will take. No program is too noble
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  Speaker 2: or too compassionate for a fraudster. No program is off
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  Speaker 2: limits for a fraudster. They will take from all of
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  Speaker 2: us until there is nothing left.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump administration is pursuing more than a thousand welfare
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  Speaker 1: fraud cases, including people and organizations who exploited pandemic programs
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  Speaker 1: to rip off the American taxpayer. Who is more likely
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  Speaker 1: to support This war on fraud. Republican Brinker Harding or
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  Speaker 1: Democrat Denise Powell? Who is more likely to support the
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  Speaker 1: status quo and even grow the government to provide more
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  Speaker 1: social services? Republican Brinker Harding or Democrat Denise Powell? Vote wisely,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, and encourage others to do likewise. That's Check
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  Speaker 1: with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.