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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: February 17, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | February 17, 2025
- Good evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome back to nashville.
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- We're going to begin tonight with one of the three big issues
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- Before the country
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- Our safety, our health and the health of our great nation.
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- Of course, our faith guides us through all of it.
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- The issue i want to tackle is the heavy debt load
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- We have built,
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- And it will be leaving to our children if we don't fix it.
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- $104,000 for each individual.
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- If you have a family of four,
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- That's $416,000 owed for your family.
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- The collective amount of federal debt is over $36 trillion,
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- Right down 36.
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- And then add 12 zeros.
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- That'll show you 36 trillion.
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- Well, in 2005, our debt to gdp was 35%.
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- Last year, that ratio was 98%.
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- That means
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- We're unable to pay off the national credit card at all.
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- We can't afford to look the other way any longer,
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- Because that debt will be 20% above the gdp
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- In another ten years if we don't do anything.
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- Both parties have contributed to the debt,
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- So both parties are going to be needed to solve it
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- Whether they like it or not.
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- But there is finally some very encouraging news.
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- Finally, someone is
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- Doing something about this debt a successful businessman.
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- President trump
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- Knows what too much debt can do to suck the life
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- Out of any business, and certainly our national economy.
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- And he seems determined to fix it.
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- Well, fortunately for us, we have one of the experts
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- Who has advised him for years.
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- The heritage foundation economist steve moore.
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- Welcome back steve.
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- Alan, great to be with you.
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- Thanks so much for having me.
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- Well, let's start with the higher level view.
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- Most of us hope
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- To leave our children with some type of an inheritance,
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- But i certainly don't know anyone who goes around boasting
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- That i left my kids $100,000 credit card debt.
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- But right now, only one party's tackling the debt,
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- And only one party is trying to stop that.
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- What do you think's going on?
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- Well, i'm not so sure.
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- Either party is really trying to stop the debt, frankly.
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- I mean, as you said earlier, it's said
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- This is a result of overspending by both parties.
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- Politicians love to play santa claus,
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- And they love to spend as much money
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- As they can get their hands on.
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- When i arrived in washington in 1983 84,
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- Our national debt was 1 trillion.
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- And as you just said, it's not 36 trillion.
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- This is a disgrace. it's a national emergency.
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- It's going to bankrupt our country,
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- And we need to turn it around.
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- And we need to turn it around by doing two things.
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- First, we have to.
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- Most importantly, we have to grow our economy
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- Faster to produce more tax revenues.
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- When more people are working
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- And businesses are more profitable.
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- That's very good for lowering the debt.
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- The other thing we have to do
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- Is a full scale audit of our agencies and government.
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- You know, we have thousands of agencies.
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- Most people have no idea what they do.
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- We're learning from doh that they waste
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- Credible amounts of money and that can't stand.
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- We have to have a lean and efficient government.
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- We don't have that either of those right now.
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- Well, for a long time we've heard it's the economy, stupid.
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- But i don't know if people just vote on cheaper gas and eggs.
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- Or do they take into account the out of control
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- National debt?
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- Well, that's right.
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- And, you know, one of the big problems
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- Is that the fastest growing area of our budget right now is,
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- Interest payments on the debt.
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- So that is you were paying taxes,
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- Not for government services, but for or past,
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- You know, borrowing.
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- And, we're paying roughly.
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- Are you ready for this
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- $1 trillion a year or just in interest payments?
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- So, you know, that's about,
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- You know, 121 order of the country
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- Is just paying their taxes to pay for the interest.
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- Well, that's like a dog chasing its tail.
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- You're never going to get out of debt
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- When your debt service payments
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- Keep growing and growing and growing.
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- And every household knows that. every business knows that.
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- Unfortunately, the politicians in washington haven't.
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- Now, i will give donald trump a lot of credit.
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- He's out of the gate
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- Saying we're going to get rid of a lot of this
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- Waste, the inefficiency,
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- The duplication, the fraud, which is abundant in washington.
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- And, you know,
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- But of course, the swamp is fighting back against trump.
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- They don't want they don't want to see these cuts.
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- Well, the national debt seems like a distant problem.
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- It's not something that touches
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- An individual family or any specific day.
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- Tell us what you say to individuals
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- About how it genuinely can and does affect their lives.
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- Well, first of all, no great nation,
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- That cares about its kids and grandkids as we all do.
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- Or at least we supposedly do,
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- But leave this kind of debt to their kids.
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- You know, we want to.
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- We've always this our nation.
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- The american dream is to leave your country better off.
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- And this we're now in a situation
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- With, well, this debt and all this overspending,
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- We may leave the nation worse off.
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- Now, look, we have a lot of assets, too.
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- We have a 100 and, you know, $40 trillion of assets.
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- So the debt is still a fairly small,
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- You know, percentage of our assets.
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- But it's what i see how the money is being spent.
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- The millions and billions that are going for things like,
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- You see, there was an article the other day, $9 million
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- A year ago,
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- That newspaper subscriptions, the left wing magazines.
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- I mean, come on,
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- I know it's only $9 million, but that's a lot of money.
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- Yeah, some democrats are protesting
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- And storming some of the departments that are being cut.
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- Witness this scene.
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- It's a gang up for the cameras.
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- We are not allowed in the building to talk to them.
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- We are not allowed to advocate on behalf of america's children.
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- America, we have a problem now.
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- Everybody stand back and let the cameras say.
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- They're calling all of these gun loading people out on that
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- Right here.
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- They're calling them out on us.
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- Look at look behind this door.
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- Who do you say back there?
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- The doors will open.
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- Do they have guns on them? yes.
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- Yes they do.
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- Yes. are they prepared to shoot us?
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- Why are the democrats so unhinged?
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- Because they are.
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- They are terrified that we're going to find out
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- How the money is actually being spent.
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- And that's why what elon musk is doing is so valuable.
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- He is looking under the hood.
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- And you know, when you when you threaten to look at
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- How the government
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- Is being spending money, it's like putting up,
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- You know, cross in front of a vampire.
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- They hate that idea.
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- And you're seeing the swamp creatures
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- Of washington complaining that for the first time in 40 years,
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- We actually have people looking at where your tax
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- Dollars are spent.
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- And i hope people are angry about it because it's it's
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- Absolutely disgusting how much money is being wasted
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- In washington for projects that have no bearing
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- On the lives of american people?
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- The fact that, you know, you only have 20% of federal workers
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- Showing up for work on time and, you know, 40 hours a week,
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- And we're paying them 150 to $200,000 a year.
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- That's a pretty sweet deal.
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- And now they're complaining they have to go back to work.
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- When we
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- Come back, there's much more to talk about with steve moore.
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- You can jump in on this conversation
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- With an email for his next visit.
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- Send them to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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- Send them to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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- We're back now with steve moore, longtime adviser
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- To the president and the chief economist at heritage
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- And the author of the trump economic miracle.
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- Well, you know him really well, steve.
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- Why do you think president
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- Trump is so passionate about cutting waste?
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- Oh, because he's a great businessman.
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- You know, that's what's unique about donald trump as president,
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- That he understands how business works.
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- He knows that no business would ever operate
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- The way our government does in terms of spending
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- Massive amounts of money we don't have
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- And throwing it down.
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- You know,
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- Look at the
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- To the
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- Tens of billions of dollars we're spending on foreign aid.
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- And none of the money actually gets to the people
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- Who it's supposed to help.
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- You know, you look at these agencies.
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- Department of education is another good example.
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- We've since jimmy carter
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- Created this agency,
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- We spent $1 trillion at the federal level on our schools
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- And on the department of education.
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- And over that period, alan, the test scores keep dropping.
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- So somebody show me how that money
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- Is having any positive effect.
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- If anything, it's having a negative effect.
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- I could go on and on with these programs
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- That simply do not deliver what they're supposed to.
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- And we either ought to reform
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- Them, shrink them, or better yet, just cancel them
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- And get rid of things that don't work.
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- And that's something that very rarely happens in washington.
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- You know, as reagan used to say,
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- The the closest thing to immortality on this earth
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- Is a federal government program.
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- And that certainly is true
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- With respect to what's going on now in washington.
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- Well, one of the president's more controversial ideas
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- Has been a plan to integrate greenland in our orbit.
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- Now, there's a national security interest in that,
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- And there's some serious
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- Economic benefits that could help the u.s.
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- In greenland. listen to his argument.
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- We need this for national security.
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- We need greenland very badly.
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- You look over the russian ships.
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- The giant ships,
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- They're all over the place there,
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- You know, surrounding that for a long time.
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- That's a lame.
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- But, we need that for national security.
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- So i don't know that denmark has any right
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- To island interests, and we're going to find it.
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- But i can tell you, you saw the clips that were released.
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- The people of greenland would love to become a state
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- Of the united states of america.
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- Is the largest island in the world.
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- But only 56,000 people live there.
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- How do you suggest the president could pull this off?
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- Well, listen, you know, people forget that the whole effort
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- For the first hundred and 20 years of our country,
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- All we did was acquire land we acquired.
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- You remember
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- The louisiana purchase
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- Where we purchased so many of the southwestern states?
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- We acquired florida.
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- The state i'm in right now.
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- From spain, we acquired alaska, we acquired hawaii,
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- We acquired oregon. all of these,
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- States, were through purchases and acquisitions.
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- And, you know, greenland, as you said, only has 60,000 people.
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- But it has bountiful resources.
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- It's important for our national security.
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- So i think it's a great idea,
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- And i hope president trump can can pull it off.
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- And that would be good for our economy.
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- They probably have to think about,
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- By the way, alaska when it was purchased,
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- You know what the price tag was for alaska.
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- No. we paid $8 million last year.
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- We we probably get $8 million of oil from alaska every day.
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- So, it was i think, you know,
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- These purchases have turned out
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- To be good for the people in these lands,
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- But also for the american people.
- 00:10:22.178 --> 00:10:24.213
- Well, for the record,
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- I don't personally remember the louisiana purchase.
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- I got one more question.
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- There's another idea, mr. trump, that's come out.
- 00:10:30.586 --> 00:10:32.655
- It seems to come out of nowhere.
- 00:10:32.655 --> 00:10:33.923
- That was getting back control of the panama canal.
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- We built it.
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- But the ports on each end are run by a hong kong company
- 00:10:37.793 --> 00:10:40.196
- That's entirely in the hands of xi jinping.
- 00:10:40.196 --> 00:10:43.432
- Now he's in his 12th year, the chinese ruler there.
- 00:10:43.432 --> 00:10:46.702
- Tell me what the potential is with the canal.
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- If we don't get back some control over it.
- 00:10:48.838 --> 00:10:51.841
- Well, i don't know if we have to take back control of it,
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- But we certainly have to make
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- Sure that china and our enemies don't have,
- 00:10:55.711 --> 00:10:58.180
- You know, better access to a canal that we built.
- 00:10:58.180 --> 00:11:00.349
- We financed. it was american knowhow.
- 00:11:00.349 --> 00:11:03.219
- Then countries like china, that that, you know,
- 00:11:03.219 --> 00:11:06.422
- Had nothing to do with the canal.
- 00:11:06.422 --> 00:11:07.890
- So i think trump is going
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- I don't think we're going to take over control of the canal,
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- But i think we're going
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- To force panama to to treat us as we should be,
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- As the original agreement was there.
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- They're out of the agreement.
- 00:11:18.467 --> 00:11:20.136
- They're the ones who have, who have, reneged on that agreement.
- 00:11:20.136 --> 00:11:23.773
- And i think trump is going to make it right,
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- So that american ships have first access to that canal
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- That we built.
- 00:11:28.110 --> 00:11:29.078
- Alan, it's always so great to be with you.
- 00:11:29.078 --> 00:11:31.013
- I always learn so much from your show, and i hope,
- 00:11:31.013 --> 00:11:34.750
- I hope i can come out again sometime soon.
- 00:11:34.750 --> 00:11:36.852
- We'll look forward to that.
- 00:11:36.852 --> 00:11:38.320
- You're in a key role,
- 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:39.522
- And we want to have you back to keep us up to speed.
- 00:11:39.522 --> 00:11:42.658
- Thank you.
- 00:11:42.658 --> 00:11:43.692
- Well, in a moment, some thoughts of my own.
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- What we can do collectively.
- 00:11:46.495 --> 00:11:48.664
- I'll be right back.
- 00:11:48.664 --> 00:11:55.001
- I'll be right back.
- 00:11:55.001 --> 00:11:57.504
- A lot of change is happening.
- 00:11:58.138 --> 00:11:59.973
- Positive change, in my opinion, under our new administration.
- 00:11:59.973 --> 00:12:03.443
- Simultaneously in this season of change.
- 00:12:03.443 --> 00:12:05.712
- There's also a lot of competing voices, unrelenting and loud,
- 00:12:05.712 --> 00:12:10.317
- And their opposition hostile towards
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- Financial accountability within our government.
- 00:12:12.786 --> 00:12:15.722
- Well, i want to remind you,
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- The government doesn't actually have money.
- 00:12:16.757 --> 00:12:19.459
- They just have our money.
- 00:12:19.459 --> 00:12:21.028
- We the taxpayers money.
- 00:12:21.028 --> 00:12:23.697
- What are the arenas
- 00:12:23.697 --> 00:12:24.698
- That has been under scrutiny lately
- 00:12:24.698 --> 00:12:26.366
- Has been the department of education.
- 00:12:26.366 --> 00:12:29.036
- I think a bit of history can help us.
- 00:12:29.036 --> 00:12:31.171
- The department of education is a cabinet level department
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- Founded by president jimmy carter in 1980.
- 00:12:34.107 --> 00:12:37.811
- I suspect the average american thinks it started in 1776.
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- It didn't.
- 00:12:42.382 --> 00:12:43.016
- It's a relatively new arrival.
- 00:12:43.016 --> 00:12:45.219
- The expressed goal was to close the gap
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- In the education of our children,
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- So that the gap between the lower performing students
- 00:12:49.556 --> 00:12:51.925
- And the higher performing students could be eliminated.
- 00:12:51.925 --> 00:12:55.095
- Well, they've been crazy successful.
- 00:12:55.095 --> 00:12:57.698
- Now everybody's performing at a lower standard.
- 00:12:57.698 --> 00:13:00.500
- I suspect you heard the president of one of the teachers
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- Unions arguing recently, without shame, in a public
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- Very forcefully,
- 00:13:08.041 --> 00:13:09.576
- That the teachers union should have more authority over
- 00:13:09.576 --> 00:13:12.312
- The education of our children than their parents do.
- 00:13:12.312 --> 00:13:15.415
- Well, the awkward reality is that education
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- Must be reimagined.
- 00:13:18.385 --> 00:13:20.187
- It's not working.
- 00:13:20.187 --> 00:13:21.655
- Our schools are less safe.
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- They're less effective.
- 00:13:23.023 --> 00:13:24.458
- Our universities have become fertile grounds for a worldview
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- That's opposed
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- To the judeo-christian values that have shaped our nation
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- And our homes.
- 00:13:31.732 --> 00:13:33.166
- I encourage you today to be a voice of truth.
- 00:13:33.166 --> 00:13:36.670
- Start in your homes with your family systems.
- 00:13:36.670 --> 00:13:40.474
- Remind you a verse of scripture, deuteronomy six and verse six.
- 00:13:40.474 --> 00:13:43.677
- These words that i command you today shall be on your heart.
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- Teach them diligently to your children.
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- So talk to them when you sit in your house,
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- When you walk by the way,
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- And when you lie down, when you rise up, speak up.
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- Talk to your kids.
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- Don't leave it up to the education system
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- To shape the minds of our children
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- With a worldview that's opposed to
- 00:14:01.595 --> 00:14:03.463
- Our biblical perspectives.
- 00:14:03.463 --> 00:14:05.632
- Speak the truth at your workplac
- 00:14:05.632 --> 00:14:09.069
- The solution to society's ills.
- 00:14:09.703 --> 00:14:12.472
- It's not fundamentally political.
- 00:14:12.472 --> 00:14:14.541
- It's a spiritual challenge.
- 00:14:14.541 --> 00:14:16.376
- And we as the people of god
- 00:14:16.376 --> 00:14:18.145
- Must find the courage to speak the truth.
- 00:14:18.145 --> 00:14:21.014
- If we will do that outside the walls of our churches,
- 00:14:21.014 --> 00:14:24.985
- It's not so difficult
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- In a sunday school class or a small group.
- 00:14:26.186 --> 00:14:28.689
- It's more challenging when we're at dinner with friends,
- 00:14:28.689 --> 00:14:31.491
- Or in some public setting, or sitting in the bleachers
- 00:14:31.491 --> 00:14:33.760
- Watching our children, or maybe our grandchildren
- 00:14:33.760 --> 00:14:36.196
- Play a ballgame.
- 00:14:36.196 --> 00:14:37.597
- But it's in those places
- 00:14:37.597 --> 00:14:38.966
- Where we have to use our voice and our opinions.
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- Not in anger, not in malice.
- 00:14:41.034 --> 00:14:43.003
- Certainly not violent.
- 00:14:43.003 --> 00:14:44.938
- But we've got to have the courage to tell the truth.
- 00:14:44.938 --> 00:14:48.041
- Well, that's my message for tonight.
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- And after a short break, we'll start looking at your messages.
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- We've got emails.
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- We've got emails.
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- Thank you for taking the time to send
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- Your emails, your thoughts, opinions and perspectives.
- 00:15:04.923 --> 00:15:07.993
- They're an important part of the program.
- 00:15:07.993 --> 00:15:10.395
- Terry in california emailed dear pastor jackson, it's great
- 00:15:10.395 --> 00:15:13.498
- That trump has declared
- 00:15:13.498 --> 00:15:14.499
- War on the anti-christian bias in this country.
- 00:15:14.499 --> 00:15:17.535
- Why don't we take advantage of this
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- And ask trump to see what he can do about getting the u.s.
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- Senate to declare the month of november as persecuted?
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- Church history month?
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- It's an interesting idea, terry.
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- You know,
- 00:15:29.114 --> 00:15:29.714
- Christianity is the most
- 00:15:29.714 --> 00:15:30.615
- Persecuted religion in the world today,
- 00:15:30.615 --> 00:15:33.752
- And one of the groups i find
- 00:15:33.752 --> 00:15:35.020
- Most reluctant to acknowledge that is the christian community.
- 00:15:35.020 --> 00:15:38.623
- I was doing an interview and i pointed out that fact,
- 00:15:38.623 --> 00:15:41.393
- And the interviewer said, well, it's
- 00:15:41.393 --> 00:15:42.560
- Because there's more christians than anyone else.
- 00:15:42.560 --> 00:15:44.529
- We shouldn't pay any attention to it.
- 00:15:44.529 --> 00:15:46.331
- I think we need to use our voices
- 00:15:47.065 --> 00:15:48.500
- To stand on behalf of those people
- 00:15:48.500 --> 00:15:49.901
- Around the world who are hunted,
- 00:15:49.901 --> 00:15:51.703
- Because they identify as followers of jesus of nazareth.
- 00:15:51.703 --> 00:15:54.906
- It's up to us.
- 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:55.874
- We have the freedom.
- 00:15:55.874 --> 00:15:58.243
- Mini hawkins email.
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- Thank you for all you're doing
- 00:15:59.911 --> 00:16:01.079
- To keep us informed on many levels.
- 00:16:01.079 --> 00:16:03.782
- I pray that each person who voted for our president
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- Will dedicated equal amount of energy and commitment
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- To praying for him and his entire staff every day,
- 00:16:08.553 --> 00:16:12.791
- Because satan will be on the job every day.
- 00:16:12.791 --> 00:16:15.326
- Our prayers will be the tool that shows the father god
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- That we really want this country to be one nation under god.
- 00:16:18.296 --> 00:16:21.966
- I pray for president trump to have the wisdom of solomon,
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- The tenacity of moses, the passion of paul,
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- And the heart after god of king david.
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- Many.
- 00:16:30.942 --> 00:16:32.210
- I really like the way you think, and i am especially impressed
- 00:16:32.210 --> 00:16:35.280
- With the way you craft your prayers.
- 00:16:35.280 --> 00:16:37.315
- I couldn't agree more if we spent as much time
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- Praying for those who are leading us
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- As we do complaining about what's happening.
- 00:16:41.052 --> 00:16:43.755
- I believe it'll change
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- Our lives, our hearts, and ultimately our nation.
- 00:16:44.789 --> 00:16:49.661
- And then we
- 00:16:49.994 --> 00:16:51.196
- From mckinney, texas lived there one summer back in the day
- 00:16:51.196 --> 00:16:54.432
- Said, i listen to you every morning, twice to be exact.
- 00:16:54.432 --> 00:16:57.702
- I ordered five of the good news notebooks one for my daughter,
- 00:16:57.702 --> 00:17:01.039
- Granddaughter, two for friends, and of course, myself.
- 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:04.542
- We've decided to share our gratitude,
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- Blessings and prayers answered on new year's eve.
- 00:17:06.277 --> 00:17:09.781
- Thank you so much for this wonderful thought tool.
- 00:17:09.781 --> 00:17:12.917
- Well, i like your creativity.
- 00:17:13.551 --> 00:17:15.787
- I have come to the realization that if we will spend more time
- 00:17:15.787 --> 00:17:19.090
- Being grateful, thankful
- 00:17:19.090 --> 00:17:20.625
- And expressing appreciation for the blessings in our lives
- 00:17:20.625 --> 00:17:24.963
- Than we do, giving voice to our fears
- 00:17:24.963 --> 00:17:27.265
- And our concerns and our anxieties, not only will
- 00:17:27.265 --> 00:17:30.368
- We will be, we be healthier physically and emotionally.
- 00:17:30.368 --> 00:17:34.439
- I believe we're far more available
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- For the purposes of god to come forth in our lives.
- 00:17:36.341 --> 00:17:39.744
- We really have things that can be celebrated,
- 00:17:39.744 --> 00:17:42.013
- And i like your intentionality with it.
- 00:17:42.013 --> 00:17:44.616
- I may start sharing some noteboo
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- Debbie from virginia writes
- 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.022
- I've been watching your sermons
- 00:17:51.022 --> 00:17:52.290
- On tv and for several years now, and i've been deeply impacted
- 00:17:52.290 --> 00:17:56.161
- By them.
- 00:17:56.161 --> 00:17:57.095
- So when your news program began to air,
- 00:17:57.095 --> 00:17:58.897
- I decided to give it a try.
- 00:17:58.897 --> 00:18:00.999
- I'd sworn off the mainstream media
- 00:18:00.999 --> 00:18:02.667
- Several years ago because of its leftist leaning.
- 00:18:02.667 --> 00:18:05.737
- So your program, along with the news programs
- 00:18:05.737 --> 00:18:08.139
- That precede and follow yours,
- 00:18:08.139 --> 00:18:09.974
- Have been like a breath of fresh air.
- 00:18:09.974 --> 00:18:12.510
- I feel like i'm being kept informed
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- That i'm finally hearing the truth.
- 00:18:14.078 --> 00:18:16.114
- I was so impressed with how you called upon christians
- 00:18:16.114 --> 00:18:18.583
- To get more involved with the election process.
- 00:18:18.583 --> 00:18:21.252
- I truly believe
- 00:18:21.252 --> 00:18:22.353
- Your efforts played a part in the election outcome.
- 00:18:22.353 --> 00:18:25.557
- Well, outcomes are beyond my pay grade.
- 00:18:26.357 --> 00:18:28.793
- In encouraging christians to watch, listen, think and act.
- 00:18:28.793 --> 00:18:32.697
- That's the lane i'm living in.
- 00:18:32.697 --> 00:18:34.632
- We've got to pay attention
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- To what's happening in our world, use our voices
- 00:18:35.700 --> 00:18:38.570
- And the beginning and ending of that.
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- We have
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- To choose to yield ourselves to the authority of scripture.
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- If we will do that and honor god in our lives, in our homes,
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- And in our families.
- 00:18:47.779 --> 00:18:49.180
- I trust god to direct the outcomes in the world around
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- Us. for far too long, i think we've wanted
- 00:18:52.584 --> 00:18:54.919
- To pursue our own objectives and our own agendas,
- 00:18:54.919 --> 00:18:57.488
- And we would send people to washington, d.c.
- 00:18:57.488 --> 00:18:59.490
- Or state capitals and expect them to deal with the problems.
- 00:18:59.490 --> 00:19:03.027
- We've got to leave that idea behind.
- 00:19:03.795 --> 00:19:05.330
- We're going to have to pay attention,
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- Be engaged, use our voices, and seek the lord.
- 00:19:06.464 --> 00:19:10.068
- If we do that, i truly believe
- 00:19:10.068 --> 00:19:12.103
- We can change our nation and through that, our world.
- 00:19:12.103 --> 00:19:15.240
- I want to thank you for taking the time
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- To watch the program and use your voice
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- To be an advocate for it.
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- If you missed the live broadcast every evening,
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- Now we're posting the program on our youtube channel.
- 00:19:23.248 --> 00:19:26.451
- You can find it at the address that's on the screen there.
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- It's easy to share with a friend.
- 00:19:29.787 --> 00:19:31.889
- The more you watch, like, and subscribe,
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- The greater the opportunity
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- We have to stay on the air and to keep telling the truth
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- And encouraging
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- The people of faith to put god first in their lives.
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