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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Economic Optimism | Allen Jackson Now | August 6, 2025

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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When president trump took office this year,
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Some of his sharpest advisors were saying that
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There might be some very strong economic growth this year,
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Perhaps even as much as 3% by the end of the year.
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But when the new figures on the gross
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Domestic product came out, the 3% had already been hit.
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Six months into the new administration.
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One of those very wise presidential economic
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Advisers is with us again tonight.
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Steve moore, welcome back to our show.
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Thanks, alan, for having me.
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You know, i'm all for positive thinking,
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But when you said 3% by the end of the year,
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Was that something you were hoping for,
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Or did you actually think we'd get to 3%
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By the end of the year, or even this much earlier?
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Oh, i believe you can do it if you deregulate the economy,
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If you cut taxes
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And get better trade deals, if you promote american energy,
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All the kinds of things trump is talking about doing.
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Absolutely. 3 to 3.5% growth.
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You know, that's our historical average.
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So, certainly we can at least do as well
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As we've done in the past.
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It is it is not a moonshot to get to 3% growth.
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And once you do,
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You start bending the debt and deficit curve down.
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Well, the white house says we might even get to 4%
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By the end of the year.
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Is that possible?
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And what would have to happen to get there?
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It's possible, given how, lousy the economy was under biden.
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We've got a lot of catching up to do.
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So i think it's, it's, you know, a
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Bit of a stretch, but i think we can do it.
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And by the way,
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If that happens, we're going to see huge
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Increases in jobs,
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Huge increases in tax revenues and huge increases
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In the productivity of the american economy.
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And i'd love to see it.
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You know,
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We're moving into a new era of robotic,
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Our official intelligence, things
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That are going to supercharge
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The economy with productivity and, and, wage gains.
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So i think it is possible.
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Well, there's a widespread belief
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That the high interest rates
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Are holding this country back, especially the housing industry.
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You know, i realize that the fed is a sort of secret society,
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But what can they possibly cite
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To keep our rates so much higher than the rest of the world?
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Well, the most important thing the fed has to do is maintain,
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Low inflation and, create a stable and strong dollar.
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That's why you have a monetary system.
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That's why you have a currency
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Is said it has to retain its value
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And has to be a means of exchange.
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And so, i don't want to see any more runaway
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Inflation like we had under biden.
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I think we could probably do 1 or 2 rate cuts right now.
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I wouldn't go too far.
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Because remember when, the fed lowered,
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The federal funds rate back,
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Before the election, the mortgage rate went up
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Because of inflationary expectations.
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So i think we've got to be very careful about this.
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We want to make sure we don't see
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We want to keep inflation that 1 to 2% range, not five
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Six 7 or 8 9% as we had under joe biden.
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I mean, my wife is still complaining
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Every time i come home about the cost of groceries.
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So we want to make sure that prices remain stable.
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And, you know, hopefully
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Gas prices and grocery prices will fall.
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The prices seem to go up with inflation,
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But they don't ever seem to come down when it cools off.
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Yeah that's true.
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That's why you get this permanent
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Ratcheting up effect of inflation.
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Because, you know, once the is you said it very well.
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Once you hit a high inflation rate like we did under biden.
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And you're starting at a new plateau.
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And that's why, you know, things.
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You know, when i was growing up in
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The 70s, things are 8 to 10 times
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More expensive than they were back then.
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But you've moved from tariff
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Skeptic to tariff believer and you're in good company.
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Now listen to the ceo of jp morgan's comments.
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We started tariffs.
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We didn't know what they're going to be.
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And now we kind of know.
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And they're
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They're more moderate and thoughtful and you know
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More carefully done.
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And hopefully they'll help some companies export,
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You know, maybe some people move manufacturing back here.
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So, you know, so far so good.
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With the tariffs being implemented
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Now, shouldn't that begin to help the u.s.
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Job market, especially after the latest unemployment report?
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It was more weak than anybody thought it would be.
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Well, here's my view of this, that, you know, we had a lot of,
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You know, tariff turmoil back in the first
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3 or 4 months of the trump presidency.
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And that did that did hurt the economy, no question.
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Remember, tariffs, our taxes.
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And they, money out of the economy.
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And so,
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I talked to a lot of manufacturers
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And so on who said,
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You know, because of the supply chain
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Problems of not being able to get,
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You know, the, the imports and that they needed
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To, you know, for their production processes.
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There was there were layoffs and things of that nature.
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But what so the tariffs i don't like what i do like
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Is the trade deals because once you get those trade deals,
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Signed into law,
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Then you've got these countries that are actually going to
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Open up their markets to u.s.
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Goods, and that means more jobs
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For americans, more profits for american companies,
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More capital flowing into the united states.
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So it's one of the reasons i'm so bullish on the u.s.
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Economy right now.
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Trump is getting very good trade deals
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That are forcing other countries to stop,
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Discriminating against american products.
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Well, most of the world has cut trade deals with the president,
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But china is predictably dragging things out.
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Do you think we should play hardball with them this time,
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Or just to make a deal to get it behind us?
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Oh, i definitely think we should play hardball with china.
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China's the new soviet union.
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They're the new evil empire.
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They are, they don't play by the rules.
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They are incredibly aggressive and dangerous. and their
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Military buildup.
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I think we
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Have to recognize that this is, this is a real adversary.
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And so i think trump strategy is to try to trade
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With other countries and then isolate china,
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Because we don't want to see the united states lose.
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We're not going to but i, i don't want, china to
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Overtake our status as the world economic superpower.
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You know, that's what china wants.
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They want to replace the united states.
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They want to replace the dollar,
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As the world's reserve currency.
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We cannot allow that to happen.
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Do you have any concern about the us debt that china holds?
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Well, we have too much debt, that's for sure.
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You know what?
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You were borrowing $35 trillion.
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That's, that's a big problem.
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Foreigners buy up some of that, that they buy a lot of it up.
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The best way to foil china right now.
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You know, you asked me about cutting interest rates.
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I, you know, i think cutting interest rates might help.
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But, you know, what would help even more
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To improve the american economy is cut.
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Unnecessary government spending,
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Which is in the trillions of dollars.
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And every time we reduce that,
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Those government outlays and expenditures, it's less money.
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We have to borrow from countries like china.
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Well, one more tariff question before we take a break.
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The president floated the idea of giving everyone
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A tariff rebate check.
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Is that still in the works?
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I hope not.
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I think it's a terrible idea.
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The worst thing to do is have the government
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Pass out free money to people.
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It becomes like a welfare payment.
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And that's not a
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That's a terrible way to get the economy moving.
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Much better to cut tax rates, reduce the taxes on our
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Businesses and our workers so they don't have incentive tax
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Or about incentives.
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If you cut people's taxes,
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You're going to give them more incentives
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To work, more incentives to start businesses,
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More invent, incentives to invest, giving people money.
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I mean,
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It'd be a wonderful thing
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If we could just write checks to people
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And the economy would be improved.
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But we know that doesn't work.
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Well, steve moore, please stay with us for another segment.
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There's a lot more to discuss.
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And if you want to get
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In on this with your thoughts you can go to aj now.com.
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Send me an email and we'll try to answer in our next show.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with steve moore, an economist at the heritage
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Foundation and former advisor to the president.
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You're working on a project called vote with your feet.
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Well, living here in nashville,
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We've seen the evidence of that already.
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Can you explain what it's about on a national level?
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Yeah.
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So i run
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A group called unleash prosperity
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With arthur laffer and steve forbes and other prominent,
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Free market economists.
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And so people can go to our website
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At unleash prosperity and see the work
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We do, trying to spread, good economic policy.
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But one of our new projects is called vote with your feet
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Dot net. that's vote with your feet, not.
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And what we've done is we've compiled all the data on
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Where americans are moving to and where they're moving from,
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And also how much money they're taking with them
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When they, you know, in terms of their income
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And their assets, when they leave,
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You know, let's say in new york and go to a state like texas.
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And so what we find in this report, and by the way,
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Go to vote with your feet.
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Not and it's fun to play with you
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Can you can click on two states and show you a big map.
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You could click on say illinois.
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And then you can click on florida
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And i'll show you the moving bands
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That are which direction the moving vans are moving into.
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And you,
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Probably know that when,
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When it comes to a blue state like illinois
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And a red state like florida,
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Those moving vans are going south.
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They're going,
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The most of them are going into florida, not out of florida.
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And so you can click on any combination of states
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And see which states are winning the sweepstakes
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And which states are losing them.
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The two big winner states, are florida and texas,
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Because they have no income tax in those states.
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And the loser states are illinois and california
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And new york and new jersey and massachusetts
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That have raised taxes through the roof
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And have a very progressive governing philosophy.
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So, and incidentally, the southeast is just booming
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Now. it's not just texas and florida.
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It's also states like alabama, states like the carolinas.
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It states like,
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You know,
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Even states like arkansas and,
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Georgia are growing very quickly.
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And they're
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Sucking the capital, out and sort of
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Almost sucking the blood out of the,
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Out of the old northeastern states that have have really
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Lost their greatest asset, which is their people.
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Well, congressman mike lawler, a new york
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Native, is genuinely worried that voting with your feet,
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Combined
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With the
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Possible election of a socialist,
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Will mean the end of the big apple.
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Listen to what he said.
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We've had enough.
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And these policies that we saw under bill de blasio,
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And andrew cuomo and kathy hochul
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That have really destroyed the state.
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They've run the state into the ground.
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New york leads the nation in outmigration.
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We have the highest tax burden, the worst business climate.
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And now you add an avowed socialist into the mix.
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Who's talking about seizing the means of production?
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That is against capitalism.
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What do you think might happen?
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So that place and that that is losing
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The most people in the united states?
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The state is that's losing
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The most people, has lost 2.5 million people
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On that over the last ten years has been new york.
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And it's, the it's the sad, rapid decline of
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What was once our empire state.
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And, of course, new york city was the empire city for america.
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And yet,
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What you're seeing is, you know, millions of people
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Move out there taking their money with them.
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They're taking their businesses with them.
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And, in new york city, by the way,
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Which is supposed to be the financial capital
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Of the world with wall
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Street has the highest taxes on financial investment.
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It makes no sense.
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It would be like if tim braska put a big tax on growing corn.
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That doesn't make any sense at all.
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And so i do believe that if new york were to,
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Elect this socialist mayor,
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I think that wall street will be gone from,
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From new york all together, and the new wall street
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Will be in dallas, or it will be in tampa, or will
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Be in miami or some other city that's much more conducive
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To economic growth and friendly to capital.
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But la laffer is a tennessee.
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And now the next time you visit,
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You're both invited to be on set.
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Well, you know that
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I mentioned the top two states, which were,
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You know,
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Florida and texas in terms of getting people to come in.
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And by the way, florida's imported $200
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Billion of capital,
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Mostly from states like new york and california.
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But, tennessee is in the top four.
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Tennessee, of course, has no income tax
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Either, as you know, and that that is a magnet.
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And so instead of raising taxes,
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New york should be talking about cutting that.
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We had a guest on recently who made the point
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That eventually we're going to have to do something
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About the entitlement programs,
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But almost everyone in congress is afraid to say so.
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Can any party
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Address the entitlement bloat and still get reelected?
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Oh, i think so.
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I think americans are fed up
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With the amount of borrowing that we're doing.
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And, you know, social security needs to be completely revamped.
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It is a rip off for young workers.
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I, by the way, i'm not a young worker anymore.
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I'm an old worker. but, you know, i'm 65.
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And what i favor
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Is letting young people be able to take 10% of their paycheck.
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And instead of sending that 10%
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Into the social security system,
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They would be able to put that money into a 401 k plan.
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And in the index fund of all the stocks,
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And really build up real wealth over time.
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If i had been able to do that
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When i was young and over the last 40 years,
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But i my social security benefit will be $3,200 a month,
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I just looked up the numbers, but if i had put it into a,
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Into an ira account and, and let the money grow,
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I'd be able to get a benefit of about $13,000 a month.
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So social security is a terrible deal.
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We're really punishing our kids by forcing them
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To put their money into this ponzi scheme of social security.
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And if we could do that, just think we're not in 1
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Or 2 generations, we'd eliminate the entire social security,
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And it would be a fully funded program. wow.
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Well, when even the legitimate cuts were made in
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Medicare and the recent budget bill was a good start.
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But is that nearly enough?
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No, no, it's not it's not nearly enough.
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And you know that there's a, you know, a cartoon
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That's going around with a big, big, huge oak tree,
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You know, with giant branches and huge, you know,
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Base of the tree.
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And, and somebody comes, you know, it's a republican.
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He cuts off a little twig from the tree
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And all the liberals say, oh, my god, it's going to die.
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It's going to die. no.
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And that's
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What republicans have done, you know, with the medicaid,
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They've cut a little bit of the program.
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And and the democrats are running around
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Saying that everybody's going to die.
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Of course, we have to make very significant
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Reforms in those programs.
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And that should start by getting people who aren't
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Eligible for the program to stop getting the benefits.
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How about work requirements so that someone who
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Is capable of working
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And they want to go on the government dol
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They should have to work in exchange for those benefits.
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I think about 80 to 90% of americans agree with that.
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Well, just one more question.
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These mega deals
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That the president is making with japan and the eu
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And some of the middle eastern countries.
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When will we see the benefit of those?
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And it will be in time
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To keep the republican party in the majority going forward.
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Are you talking about the trade deals?
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Yes, sir.
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Yeah.
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I think,
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You know, we'll see how quickly those can be implemented.
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Just a week or two ago, we got the europe
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A deal with the european union.
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That's an excellent deal.
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It brings hundreds of billions of dollars
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Of new investment into the united states.
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It forces the europeans to stop discriminating
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Against american products, our dairy products,
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Our agricultural products,
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Our technology services, and our,
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Great manufacturing in this country.
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So that's going to, i think, pay big dividends.
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I think you'll start to see those dividends being paid by
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The end of the year.
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Well, steve moore, thank you for your time again today.
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It's always great to see you.
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Let the president know we'd like to have him on our show.
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When you see him next. i'll get. him.
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I'll get him, my friend. thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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In a moment, a good dose of hope.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know, we are living in a turbulent world.
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Just about any place to put your finger on the globe.
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There's a conflict.
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We've been just a hair's breath
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Away from being engaged in multiple conflicts recently.
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It's not an easy time to be peaceful.
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There are loud voices saying the economy is going to crater.
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All sorts of dire predictions.
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Fear broadcasted over the airwaves.
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And too often
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Preachers ministers are adding to the clutter of the noise.
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When president trump first
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Unveiled a reciprocal tariff plan back in april,
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The ceo of the largest financial institution in the us
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Said on fox the recession was the likely outcome.
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Famous commentators on cnbc were saying the market
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Would crash, retirement savings would significant diminish.
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Now fast forward a few months and those same experts
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Are singing a different tune.
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The messages are conflicting.
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Now. just because we see fearful headlines doesn't
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Mean we have to lead our lives dominated by fear.
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Some of us are world class worriers.
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Some of us have actually allowed our personalities
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To be formed around the habit of worry.
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It quite literally defines us.
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But here's the reality.
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Worrying doesn't help.
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In matthew six, jesus had a comment.
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He said, don't worry about tomorrow.
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Tomorrow worry about itself.
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The old english word for worry literally means to choke
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In the way a wolf would worry a lamb
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When he'd grabbed the lamb by the throat.
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Worry will choke you.
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And jesus said, worrying about tomorrow is unfruitful.
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We forfeit our peace. here's the good news.
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If jesus said, we don't have to do it, we can stop.
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Let's make that our determination if we'll do it.
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Let's focus on the hopeful.
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It'll bring better things to our lives.
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I'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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I'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us today.
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Just a reminder, if you ever miss
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An episode live, you can always go to aj now.com.
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They're all archived there.
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Makes it easy to see them even share them with a friend.
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Thanks for taking the time to send your emails.
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Mark from crossville, tennessee wrote thank you
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For being a beacon of truth and light in this fallen world.
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I think it's amazing how the lord is exposing
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The deception of the enemy,
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The lies against president trump, and bringing vindication.
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I thought of ecclesiastes ten eight,
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The pit, the enemy's dog has fallen into it.
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And galatians six eight.
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Be very sure whatsoever a man sows, he will also reap.
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Keep up the great fight.
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Well, mark,
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I think it is remarkable to see the truth
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That's being told in the public square.
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You know, i complain frequently, sometimes, about god's timing.
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He doesn't bring the truth in the timeline, i imagine.
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But there's truth being told.
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It holds the potential to bring new freedom to all of us.
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Keep praying.
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Then rick emailed.
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God is moving.
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How about a segment
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On how three states louisiana, arkansas, and texas have passed
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Laws in the last year that if someone supplies them,
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The ten commandments are to be posted in classrooms.
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Your friend mr.
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Barton is spearheading
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It is spearheading a project to supply them.
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Other states have bills in their legislative bodies.
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A few good news stories would be worth the time.
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Amen to that, rick. and that is good news.
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Free speech is being restored, one brick at a time.
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We've been a bit like the frog in the kettle.
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They've been limiting our free speech
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And our free expression of our faith for far too long.
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And there are some permissions being restored now.
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It's going to take a courageous church
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To walk into this new future.
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Finally, timothy commented on youtube.
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The body of christ hasn't done a good job in standing firm
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On god's truth, and satan is plotting our demise.
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We argue with one another.
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Is there being a light in this dark world?
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But like you say,
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I think god is waking us up and moving the frauds out.
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Well, timothy, i agree.
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There's no question god is moving in the earth.
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It's unfortunate that we have argued about secondary issues,
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The style of worship music,
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Or the color of the fabric on the pews in our churches.
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And we've failed to stand up
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For those fundamental biblical principles
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That principles that come to us from scripture.
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Fortunately, we're changing, and that is a reason for hope.
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I'm alan jackson, and you have a wonderful evening.
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August 6, 2025 | 22:0

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