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Good evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome back to nashville.
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We're going to begin tonight
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With government waste on a grand scale.
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Well, the dodge team of elon musk and company is making
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All the headlines.
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There was an important hearing on capitol hill
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That didn't get the same attention.
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It was a hearing for a change with democrats and republicans.
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And they were in agreement that, well, government
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Spending is out of control.
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The waste in fraudulent
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Spending is far greater than anyone thought.
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The 2024 budget was $6.7 trillion.
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That was $1.8 trillion more than the tax revenue that came in.
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But as much as $1 trillion worth was fraud.
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So if you can stop the fraud,
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Half of the annual deficit problem just goes away.
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Well, that's the situation we're in right now.
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But as i said at the beginning, there is a glimmer of hope.
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The two parties are talking.
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And so we're going to start talking
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To the man who's covered washington for years.
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Doug mckelvey. welcome back doug.
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Good to see you, alan.
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Thanks for having me.
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With all the reporters in washington,
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They missed the big headline
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That there was a consensus between the two parties
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That the fraud and government spending is so big
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And so damaging
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That they'll need to work together to get it fixed.
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It's a rare and important meeting of the minds, isn't it?
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It really is.
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And it's a wonderful thing to see for a change
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In the division of washington, which is washington these days,
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Whether or not the democrats will go along with the cutting
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That will be necessary is a different question.
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But that's certainly one small sign of progress.
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Well, what's different this time is that two successful
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Businessmen are looking at the budget
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The same way they would look at their own company.
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And why are they better at it?
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Because fraud in the private sector is less than 3%,
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And fraud and government spending is 20%,
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Which means that for every $100,000 spent
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By the government, 20,000 of it is fraudulent spending.
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Any idea why this hasn't been addressed before?
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I think that there's just reticence on the part of
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Politicians to make these difficult choices
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That private sector business leaders have to make virtually
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Every day.
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You know,
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I've never wanted
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To be a company president
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Because i didn't want to have to
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Call people into my office and say, you know,
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I'm sorry we're struggling right now.
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We're going to have to let you go.
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I hate. i would hate to be that person.
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It's a tough a tough choice to have to make.
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And i and i think because
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The government has, in effect, an unlimited supply of money,
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They don't have to make those kinds of decisions.
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We are the piggy bank as taxpayers are the piggy bank.
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And we've been giving lots of our earnings
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To the federal government to do what it needs to do.
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But, that's where the waste happens.
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So just not any kind of a, competitive, drive
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That would cause people
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To make these tough choices in government.
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You know, alan, i,
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I don't think i've told you this,
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But my first real job after college was was working,
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For the government, or at least for one of these
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Government contractors.
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What what they used to call derisively beltway bandits
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That circled i-495 around washington, d.c.,
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And who thrive off of government contracts.
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Well, i literally looked up.
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I was needing a job.
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I'd been playing
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Bluegrass, matt joke and making about $50 a week,
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So i said, i better get a real job.
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I moved back in with my parents right out of college, and,
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Looked through the one ads in the washington post,
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And i found a was an ad for, beltway contractor that was,
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Enlisting young people for their new contract
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With the federal government.
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That was the department of energy to conserve energy
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In the the federal government under the carter administration.
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It was the last year of the
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Carter administration during the the gasoline lines
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And all that sort of stuff and energy prices going up.
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So they were trying to conserve
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Energy in the federal government.
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So i got that job
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And i worked there for pretty close to a year.
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And, you know what i did there?
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Nothing. i mean, i mean that
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Literally out i did absolutely nothing.
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Yeah. i occasionally got coffee.
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I flirted with the pretty girls, but i did nothing.
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I can think maybe one thing i
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Did, i would collect reports, government reports.
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And i remember one in particular that i corrected
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And i changed the word.
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We must have been a ties energy consumption
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In the federal government to.
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We must define energy in,
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Consumption in the federal government.
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I changed it because definitive is just not a word.
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And i gave it back to my boss
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And he scratched out my correction, put definitive
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Eyes back in, and i said, you know, that's not a word.
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He goes, i know, but we like it that way this year
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In the federal government.
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And then i also
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Recall the one other thing i did was occasionally deliver,
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Envelopes to the department of energy
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From our offices on capitol hill.
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And i would
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Go for a walk a quarter mile or so to the department of energy.
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And i remember walking down these long, long corridors
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Late in the afternoon, like 4:00 in the afternoon.
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And i would just
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Purposefully look in every office
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Door as i walked down
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The hallway, doors would be open.
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Oh, there's a person filing their nails.
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There's there's a person to make their nails.
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There is a person reading the funny comics in the newspaper.
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There's a person reading a book.
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Oh, there's a person eating a banana.
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I would go, steve, you know,
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Hundreds of yards of corridors and see nobody working.
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Nobody.
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And somebody putting on their code,
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Getting ready to take the bus home
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Because it was 5:00.
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Closing out was a project,
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But it was it was an eye opening experience for me.
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But you could have legions upon legions of workers
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Who were, for all i could see, doing nothing.
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At the, at the political level, the political appointees
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Who are appointed by presidents and have the administrations,
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They tend to work really hard and they filter down to be,
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You know, undersecretary areas and, and their staffs.
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But beyond that
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Nothing really happens.
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Nothing really happens.
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I have a friend
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Who works for the federal government as an editor
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And for every,
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Person for every report she writes,
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It has to be approved by 50 senior people. 50.
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You heard that right?
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50 senior people.
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So it just goes to show
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How much waste there is to cut in the federal government.
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And i just i can't wait for elon to get his hands on
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The department of defense because what is it?
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3 million people?
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The budget of $800 billion,
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Probably more than 3 million people.
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When you consider, contractors and ancillary employees.
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So, there is no shortage of ways to be cut there.
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Well, president trump and elon musk already have a big group
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Of republicans
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Making the case for fixing the entire deficit mess, trying
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To make this an american issue, not a single party issue.
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Listen to this example.
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This is not a democrat problem.
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This is not a republican problem.
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This is an american problem.
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To make it clear for everyone, not only are we $36
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Trillion in debt, but the the compounding interest
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On our debt is also growing out of control.
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Even if we decided to defund the entire federal government,
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We cannot escape our debt.
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And we both know this is all been tried before.
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But do you sense this time it may be different?
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I do sense it may be different.
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And the key thing here is that $36 trillion of debt
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That marjorie taylor greene just mentioned.
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You know,
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I remember when i worked at fox news, i'm guessing
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This is probably about ten years or so.
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I did
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Several reports on waste in the federal government
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And where our tax dollars go.
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And i remember a barometer.
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This is this is really important.
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I remember a barometer of about ten years ago
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Speaking to some expert.
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And i can't recall who it was, but i remember his words,
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Which were when we reach a certain level of interest rate,
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The debt that we pay on
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Or excuse me, the interest that we pay on the federal debt
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When it reaches as much as we're paying
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For our defense, our national defense.
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That's a real danger sign.
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Well, it was just this year that interest on the federal debt
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Became larger than the budget for the defense department.
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That is a real that is a real danger zone.
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And we have got to start reining in our federal spending.
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There's two ways to do it.
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Traditionally, one is to raise taxes or reduce spending.
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Now donald trump has come up
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With a third idea, which is these tariffs,
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Which he hopes to make a lot of money to, that that is,
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Tabula rasa. really.
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We don't know where that's going to go if other countries,
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Fight back against it by raising more tariffs,
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Then our costs go up and that's trouble down the line.
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If it works
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Great for donald trump and great for us as americans,
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We can start to get a hold of this debt.
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But, but, you know, i think the way is, is donald
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Trump's way out of new tariffs along with cutting spending.
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But but i don't think he wants to cut the defense budget.
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I know he sees that lagging right now.
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So it's going to be a real thorny issue
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For him going forward. and,
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That that chapter has yet to be written.
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Well, we'll continue this conversation
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With doug mcelroy in just a moment.
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Chime in, if you like, by sending an
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Email to me at comments at alan jackson now.com.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now
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With a veteran of the ways of washington, doug mcelroy.
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The house oversight
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Subcommittee hearing we listened to did
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Unearth some memorable news on the fraud and waste.
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Do you remember
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The ppe loans that went out during the covid years?
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Well, a lot of fake businesses here
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And around the world put in loans and got approved.
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The biden team was in a rush to spend,
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But if the check writers had simply cross-checked
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The people who put in for money with irs records,
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They would have seen the fraudulent request.
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It's a simple fix that didn't happen.
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Doug, do you think washington will ever learn this lesson?
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Well, it's learning that lesson right now.
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And we're seeing we're seeing the chaos that is causing
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Because it's
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Just not the typical way of doing business in washington.
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We've gotten, so used to it through the decades.
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So i applaud elon musk for diving into this.
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I applaud is, young employees, the people who are tech
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Savvy can dive into some of these computer systems,
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These outdated computer systems
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Of the federal government has understand them to find out
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Where the money is really going and, try to rein it in.
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It is ruffling a lot of feathers in washington.
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You know, i it's amazing to me,
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How much the city of washington
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And its surrounding environments profits,
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From the taxes we pay and the money that they spend on
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Our behalf.
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I don't know what the latest figure is, but it's probably 5
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Or 6 of the nation's wealthiest counties.
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Our surrounding washington, d.c..
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It's almost as if
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The federal government is is a great parasite.
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It's sucking the lifeblood out of the rest of the country
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And and feeding off of it at and
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So these cuts are going to be painful
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If they do, in fact, happen in washington.
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But i do believe,
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They need to be done.
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You know, and i was having a discussion on, on facebook.
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Discussion is a nice way to put it.
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With a friend of mine who
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Works for the federal government and just lost her job,
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And, you know, i said, yeah, i understand it's tough.
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You know,
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I've worked in the private sector
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My whole life, and i've worked in a very,
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Unpredictable field of television news
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Where your future is often dependent upon ratings and, and,
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You know,
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How many people are watching and what the company revenue is.
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And and i've been fired lots of times.
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The person was the only one that really, really hurt the rest.
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I, i stomach with ease, and it's not easy.
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You know, when you're
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When you're paying a mortgage,
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When you're putting food on the table
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And when you put kids through college.
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But i never got fired from a job where a better job
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Did not come down the line
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Immediately afterwards or soon there afterwards.
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And that my life got better.
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So that's that would be my word to federal employees
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Who are facing this kind of thing.
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Life, in all likelihood, will be better for you.
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So hold on.
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It's going to be a rocky road,
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But you'll survive and you'll probably be a
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Stronger person for it.
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Well, one of the arguments that's made about how to fix
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This would be to come up with a government
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Id verification system for all government spending.
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I want to ask
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If that's possible, given that the national id proposals
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Always seem to get shot down by the democrats.
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Do you think there's
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Any willingness to go that far this time?
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I sure hope so.
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I don't know what the status of that
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Legislation is, or executive order
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Or even what form it's taking right now.
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But but it seems like the way to go.
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We have to get a handle
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On this kind of stuff because as we know from an audit
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Of the defense department, they don't know
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We're literally millions, tens of millions, hundreds of
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Millions of dollars are going they can't account for it.
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So we need to start,
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Attaching the same criteria
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To the federal government that businesses attach.
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Day in and day out.
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It just has to happen.
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It has to become more efficient because.
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So much money is wasted in the federal government.
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And as i say, i think first and foremost among them
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Is the department of defense, which is incredibly wasteful.
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You know, there's a there's a situation here
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Not far from where i live in jacksonville, florida,
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Where there's,
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Several businesses that are involved in repairing,
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Littoral combat ships.
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They're called littoral combat ships.
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This is a ship that nobody wants
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That the military doesn't want to be.
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They were from the very get-go after they were designed
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And and bid for and construction is under way.
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Never works properly.
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They found that hulls were cracking,
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That they couldn't
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Achieve full speed, that they they served no real mission.
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But because they don't work, there's a huge market
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To repair them.
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And, a
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Couple of local congressmen and my neck of the woods here
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Bid to,
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To set up a repair operations for these littoral combat ships
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So that that repair work employs a lot of people.
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But it's a ship that nobody wants.
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And we see this across the defense industry, right and left
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With planes
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That nobody wants, with ships that serve no purpose.
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And it's our taxpayer money that's going out there.
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For no purpose.
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No purpose other than to employ people.
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But there are better ways to employ people, and i hope,
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I hope, people in washington to see the light of day.
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Well, doug mcelroy, thank you for joining us tonight.
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I hope to see you in nashville soon.
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I hope so.
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In a moment, some thoughts about our role in all of this.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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I'm encouraged to see some of the steps
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Taken by this new administration
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To reduce government excess and reckless spending.
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Fraud is being exposed.
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Waste is being exposed.
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Unfortunately, we've not been paying
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Enough attention to all the foolish things
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That our taxpayer money was being allocated toward.
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While people have consistently shouted us, told us to shut up
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And stay in the shadows,
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Our government was spending billions of dollars
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On an ideology that opposed our worldview.
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You know, they say that the separation of church and state.
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Yet if you review the expenditures of dollars
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By the united states in recent years,
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You'd be quite convinced that we had a religion
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And that religion wouldn't be christianity.
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Our government has been
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A very powerful advocate for a worldview.
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It's been defined by the lgbtq plus
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Community, by die, by crt.
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Those are worldview issues.
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It's been institutionalized
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In our government and academia, in the corporate world,
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With all the
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Zeal of a tent revivalist in the south in the summertime.
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I was in jerusalem last summer.
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And as i approached the consulate,
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I noticed that the largest banner
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Over the building wasn't the u.s. flag.
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It was a pride banner.
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Our government.
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That was the message we were taking
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To the nations of the world.
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Well, i'm grateful that these ungodly
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Biblical expenditures are being reviewed and exposed.
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The further we as a nation separate ourselves
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From a biblical worldview,
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The further we will separate ourselves
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From justice, liberty, and true freedom for all people.
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As christ followers.
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I don't believe we can afford to stay silent.
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We're called to speak up for the truth.
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Now, i know sometimes that's uncomfortable.
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We don't have to be angry. we don't need to be belligerent.
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And we certainly don't need to be violent.
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We've got to have the courage
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To tell the truth at our kitchen table, at our holiday table.
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And when we gather with our friends,
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If we will do that.
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I promise you, there are more reasons for hope than despair.
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We'll be back in just a moment to read some of your emails.
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We'll be back in just a moment to read some of your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to share your emails.
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Your thoughts and ideas are important to us.
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Nancy commented on youtube.
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Well, we fight, fight, fight.
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We need to pray, pray, pray.
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What we're seeing and hearing about our government
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Is just so upsetting to the point of sickening.
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God, please give president trump and his people
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The strength, wisdom, and the power to remove this
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Evil from our government in our country.
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Strengthen the hearts of your people
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To overcome the lies.
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Our world is shaking and we need you more than ever.
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Nancy, i couldn't agree with you more.
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Completely.
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I don't believe
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The change in washington will ever be maintained
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Or sustained unless we take the time to pray.
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It's not just for when we're in church on the weekends.
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We've got to pray every day that opens the door
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For the possibilities of god.
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Jerry emailed.
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I turned to baptist church in harlingen, texas.
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Our pastor is definitely a bible believer.
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My wish
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Is to have the full bible preach to apply to our daily lives.
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Explaining the words in hebrew
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In greek is good, but it's not as helpful
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And discouraging as just loving and correcting words.
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I watch all of your tv programs.
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The more the better.
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Well, jerry, i have learned
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I am grateful for every church that speaks the truth.
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For too long we've had churches stepping away
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From the authority of scripture, the redemptive work of jesus
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With a compromised message.
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If you're a pastor is giving you the truth biblically.
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Give him a hug. tell him, and thank you.
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Together, we're making progress.
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Cathy watching on youtube made this comment.
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Thank you, pastor jackson and kirk cameron
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For a fantastic show sharing the latest news
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And happenings in the lives of others.
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We are all looking forward to kirk's latest endeavor
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To provide families with a healthy
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And wholesome television program.
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Adventures with iggy.
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Kirk is done a masterful job of speaking to our culture
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And helping us to understand the truth.
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I'm looking forward to his new program
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For our families and young people as well.
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Again, i want to thank you for watching our program.
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If you happen to miss a live broadcast,
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A great deal.
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Allen Jackson: February 25, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

February 25, 2025 | S25:E225

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