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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Reuniting American Spirit | Allen Jackson Now | June 20, 2025

Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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I want to begin tonight with some advice
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For the chattering class around washington.
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The changes being proposed throughout government.
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It's not a threat.
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It's a rare opportunity
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To transform a system that needs updating.
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America is a wonderful, successful experiment.
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It's admired around the globe.
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But for years now, we've only been surviving.
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And america can't just survive.
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It has to thrive.
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Some of us have been around long enough
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To have seen the great years and the tough ones.
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It's all been the result of hard work and god's blessings.
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So with us tonight is a veteran of america's success.
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George c, the chairman of annandale capital,
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Coming to us from his office in dallas.
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Welcome back, george.
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Thank you alan.
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Always great to be here.
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It's always there's always some fun to talk about.
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We live in an interesting world these days for sure.
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That is true.
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Let's start where i left off on the opportunity for change
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That we have in front of us.
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I don't dramatize the news on this show,
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But do you agree that this could be a once
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In a lifetime opportunity to reignite the american spirit?
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I do, actually, i think that it's it's
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The biggest opportunity in my lifetime,
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Or at least since the reagan,
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The start of the first reagan administration in 1981,
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After the malaise of the car years
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And everyone thinking america had seen its best days.
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So that's 45 years ago.
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So yes, this is a very rare opportunity
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To recharge the country
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And also
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To reset the federal government because we're going to go
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Bankrupt someday if we keep spending 2 trillion
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A year more than we than than we have in revenues.
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And that's got that's got to take place very soon as well.
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You know,
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Obviously congress doesn't have a final bill yet,
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But they've come up with
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Some significant cuts in the usual
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Bloated spending, $1.6 trillion worth of cuts.
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They're also keeping
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Tax cuts in place, cuts that cross all income levels.
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It's truly a historic piece of legislation.
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But whatever happens with the big beautiful bill,
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The senate republican leader says it won't happen
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With any help from the other side.
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Listen to his comment.
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Democrats are going to use every resource at their disposal
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To fight against extending tax relief for american families.
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They're going to fight against funding to secure our border.
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You're going to fight against funding to equip our military.
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We're going to fight against unleashing american energy.
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We're going to fight against all our efforts
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To make america safer, stronger and more prosperous.
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No surprise there.
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Their only instinct is to fight
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Everything that has trump's name on it,
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Even when it's going to help their constituents.
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George, is this another example of political ego
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And not enough about the american people?
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Well, i completely agree with that comment
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And that question and my good friend john thune
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To remarks on it.
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I think that we've come a long way
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From an era where we thought that the bill clinton
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And al gore were the liberals on the democratic side,
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But they actually oversaw a government that had a surplus
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In it.
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And we've come a long way since then.
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There's no amount of spending
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That any democrat in the senate or the house doesn't like.
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They want it more spending,
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Than than the human mind can, can wrap itself around.
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And, they're going to bankrupt just before too long.
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And i,
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You know,
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I used to give, give the benefit of the doubt
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To people on why they vote what they're doing,
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Although obviously politics plays a large role.
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But at this point, i really have to question
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The patriots ism
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And judgment and intellect of of the democrats in congress,
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Voting against something that's going to cut spending
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And cut the, annual deficit we have in, in, in government
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Spending, because we really are going
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Into fiscal ruin and decline if we don't do that.
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And the fact that they just oppose
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Everything does not speak well to their patriotism
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In their honor. and their sense of duty and their intellect.
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Well, those got off to a fast start.
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But even without elon musk, i believe
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Washington's bureaucrats got the message that wasting
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Taxpayer money will no longer be tolerated.
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Musk is now apologized to the president
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For some of what he said in their recent social media spat.
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But do you agree that doge mission should continue?
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Well, i think it's it's horribly incomplete.
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Honestly.
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I think they've cut spending somewhat,
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But they've got to cut it by more than ten x going forward
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To really make a dent in the, in the annual deficit.
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And people have wiser minds than mine have said.
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We've really got to get, the deficit as a percentage
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Of annual gdp from 6%, where it is now to under 3%.
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We're on a one way, track to bankruptcy.
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And i love warren buffett's comment.
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He's no conservative, but he's very, no nonsense.
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And he said, you know, i know way to make sure
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We keep that deficit under 3% every year.
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Just put in a, a, a bill that says that every member
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Of congress is, is not, capable of running for reelection
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Unless that deficit goes below
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3% and you'd have a 100% voting for a bill of that nature.
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So i don't know what draconian measures
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We've got to take to get these people
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To sober up and wise up and get that done.
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But we've got to get that done.
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More, more cutting is is definitely necessary.
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Well, your emphasis has always been to make america
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Energy independent again for all the right reasons.
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Well, gas prices are down, but you've also made the point
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That they shouldn't drop too far.
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We could get hurt.
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Are we about in the right balance now?
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Not quite.
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That's a really good question.
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And that's a really important,
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Matter for the country, because i think that
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Too many people outside of the energy producing states,
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They remember the 70s and stagflation
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And really, really high energy prices
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And instantly
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Think that low energy prices are good all the time.
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And that's not really the case
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That the country has such a humongous energy industry.
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And it's not just oil and gas, it's solar.
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It's it's hydro, it's wind power.
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It's everything.
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And when fossil fuel prices are too low,
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We won't have an adequate supply.
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And hundreds and hundreds of thousands of americans,
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Maybe millions of americans that work in the industry,
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Get hurt by that because they get their jobs cut.
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So the range we need on oil and gas is roughly $65
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A barrel, up to about $95 a barrel.
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And we're on the low end of that right now.
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And we're not going to stay independent
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And have adequate energy supply unless the price goes up a bit.
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But we're close. we're about at the right point.
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President trump has put
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Together the framework for an economic deal with china,
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But he and the chinese leader have not signed off on it yet.
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Recently, we had a member of congress
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On the show
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Who put forth a bill
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That would prevent selling american oil to china.
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I didn't even know we were doing that.
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But some middleman operators apparently were reselling
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Oil of ours from our strategic petroleum reserve.
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Is there any good reason for us to sell oil to china?
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Oh, i think so.
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They're going to get it from someplace,
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And i'd rather them pay us than pay somebody else.
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And that's a big trade deficit reducer.
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So yes, i'm full throated also.
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All for that.
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I would say though that a little hedge on that.
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They do buy some oil from us,
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But most of what they buy
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From us from an energy standpoint is liquefied
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Natural gas.
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We send a lot of that over to them by tanker and also,
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Ethane gas, which they use in their petrochemical
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And plastics industries, where we supply roughly 80%
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Of of their, ethane that they use over there.
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And it's a huge boondoggle for american oil and gas companies.
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And we try to use that as leverage
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In this recent trade war that we've had going on with china.
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And i'm not sure that's a really good weapon to use.
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I think we ought to more emphasize
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Technology and semiconductors and things they're desperate for
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On that end versus energy, because,
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I don't think
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I think that hurts american companies and american workers,
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And i don't i don't think that's a that's a good idea.
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But yes, i'm all for selling them energy.
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They're going to get it from someplace.
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One up.
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Just pay us instead
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Of paying the venezuelans or somebody like that.
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Works for me.
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George, stay with us for another segment.
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We got a lot more to talk about
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We're back now with
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The chairman of annandale capital, george c.
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There's good news on the horizon.
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President trump brought back
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Trillions of dollars of investment
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Commitments from our mideast allies.
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The media didn't talk about it.
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But looking ahead, this could reignite
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Parts of the country that have had to shut down
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After other countries copied the same products
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We produce here with cheaper imitations.
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Remember how pumped up
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The president was when he announced these deals?
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So it's been an amazing period of time.
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People have said very, very,
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I mean,
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I don't know what developed a lot of fans,
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But people have said they've never seen anything
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Like taking place over the last four days
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In terms of investment, in terms of
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The kind of money coming back into the united states
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And all that money.
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The money's a nice word, but it's really jobs.
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Well, new jobs mean better opportunities,
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But it's going to be years
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Before these investments start to bear fruit.
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How do you see this playing out in the years ahead?
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George?
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Well, i'm all for near shoring and on shoring, where
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We're bringing back american manufacturing
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And american jobs to america
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Or nearby countries that are our allies and friends,
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And pulling those away from china.
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Actually, we talked about the chinese trade war
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In the in the last segment.
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And i think that
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That's one way to really hurt
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The chinese is getting getting production out of there
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And moving it back home or near to home.
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I think this going to be a very long process.
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And i do think that some,
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Of the maybe constructive critics of, of some
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Of the trade and investment policy, like to bring up that
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Not all jobs are equal.
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I mean, we don't really want somebody, coming in
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And building widgets at minimum wage jobs.
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We don't need more of those.
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What we need is more high tech, service oriented and
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Higher paying jobs because we want americans
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To have the higher paying jobs
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And have other countries doing doing the more rote,
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Mundane things that don't pay very well.
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So i think we've got to be,
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Have good, discrimination in terms of what we,
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Want to aggregate in the job community and what we don't.
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And there's a real differential there.
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And i think it's important to emphasize that.
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Well, you're in dallas.
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We see so many companies moving their businesses there.
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What is it that makes texas
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Such a great hub for business and good paying jobs?
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I've got several days to talk about that.
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I'm a i'm a completely, biased homie for texas.
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I'm a seventh generation texan.
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I've lived here all my life, and it's very similar.
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Allen is, you know, to nashville and to tennessee.
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There's just a can-do spirit and a friendliness and a
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An open business climate and culture and a pro-family culture
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That just really attracts
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Families who want to pay low taxes and be left alone
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And have freedom of enterprise and freedom of religion
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And freedom of speech and everything else.
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And those classic all american values
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That derive from the constitution,
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The bill of rights and our spirit as a country,
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They just really resonate in texas
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These days, where one of the best examples of that and,
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The housing costs and the cost of living
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Are still very low
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And quality of life is still very high,
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Except in july and august when it's unbearably hot.
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So i expect that trend to continue.
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The demographers say
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That by the end of the century, it's a little bit scary
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That texas will have roughly 100 million people,
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And dallas-fort worth will be the largest metropolitan
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In the country at 34 million.
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So that scares me a little bit
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From a quality of life standpoint.
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But these trends are going to continue, and tennessee
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Is going to see a lot of the same as well.
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The wall street journal reports that there's a shortage
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Of skilled workers here,
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But the government index tracks the number of working people,
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Shows that only about 60% of people who could be working
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Are working.
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Do you have any idea why so many people have decided
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Just to sit home, when they could be out making a living?
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Yeah, i
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Think that
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They are affluent enough to be able to afford their lives
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And they don't want to go back to work.
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And i think that is a serious problem.
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And i also think that from an immigration standpoint,
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It's very, very important for us to just to distinguish
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Between illegal immigration from unqualified,
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Unproductive people who who really don't have a skill set.
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We need to keep all those people out.
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But basically from a law
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Standpoint and from a talent standpoint,
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But the one visa type immigrants, people
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Who come here legitimately, who have significant skill sets,
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Whether they're engineers
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Or scientists or doctors and all that,
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We should be attracting more and more of those kind of people.
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That's classic immigration
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That built this country from the beginning.
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I mean, my people were immigrants
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Three, 400 years ago as well. my first,
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Relatives who came over here were on the mayflower in 1620,
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And they came to see a better life
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And to establish a new life for their families, away
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From the oppression of europe and the oppression of,
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Totalitarian governments and stuff like that.
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And there's people still coming
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Here like that today, and we need to encourage that
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And put up a big old wall against people
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Who try to come here illegally,
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Who don't have anything to contribute.
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Well, last time we talked, you had some concerns
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About trump and his tariff policies.
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Is that narrative is unfolding a bit more.
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Do you have any updates on your thoughts on that?
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I really don't, i i'm a free trader.
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I like free trade. now.
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At the same time,
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You have to have fair trade
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In countries like china that cheat, lie and steal
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And countries like russia that are clearly an adversary
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And an enemy,
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And countries like venezuela and cuba and places like that.
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We do need trade barriers for that.
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And i'm all for tariffs against hostile countries
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That won't play ball with us.
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But at the end of the day, i'm a free trader
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And i think you get the optimal outcome
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By lowering trade barriers as much as possible
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That i respect the president and what he's doing,
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And i understand
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Why he's doing it, and i hope he carries
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On his very successful world cheering foreign.
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Well, finally, i'd like to ask about prices.
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You know,
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Inflation has certainly slowed, but prices have remained high
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Except for your specialty domestic oil.
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So we just assume that the prices
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That went up during the biden years
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Will just stay where they are.
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It will the market tolerate that?
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You know, alan, i'm very encouraged
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Because back in the 70s,
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Prices went up roughly 10% a year for many, many years.
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And we only had one year like that
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During this phase, post pandemic and price hit
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Price increases going back to roughly 2 to 3%,
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Kind of in that range, which is kind of
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In the historical average.
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We tolerate that.
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And once price increases go through, it's
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You almost never see them go back down again.
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And as opposed to inflation, that's deflation.
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And deflation
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Is death to an economy that that killed your growth
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And eventually send you into recession
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And potentially a very deep recession.
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So price increases are fine as long as is they're palatable
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And small and right now they are.
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And a lot of that has to do
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With the president and his administration.
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Jawboning.
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Against the fed and and inflation and price increases.
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They've been very successful at that, especially at oil prices.
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Like you indicated,
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They have really talked about oil,
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And they've gotten the saudis
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To flood the market to increase that.
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And i think that'll continue.
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I think it'll be hard for oil to rise
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Outside of a attack on iran or banning russian and iranian oil.
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We may see that.
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But for right now, it's wonderful to see lower prices.
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Well, george c, thank you for your time again today.
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I hope we'll see you again later this summer.
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You betcha. thanks, alan.
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Well, in a moment, some of my thoughts on the go forward plan.
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Hope remains, i promise.
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And later your emails
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And send delightful questions for me to answer.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know, on
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Friday mornings, i bribe my way into the office.
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I bring donuts.
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Well, i stopped in to get my usual order on a friday morning.
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And who should walk into the donut shop?
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But a man that i often see in the gym.
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Now, if we're both in the donut shop,
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You might think, as i did,
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Who's going to throw the first stone?
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But then came that awkward moment
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When i sheepishly had to admit i'd skipped my workout
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That morning.
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Well, he replied that he hadn't skipped his.
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And then he looked at me and he said,
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Everyone has to make their own decisions.
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Well, he was right, of course.
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And the same is true
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For our faith and how we respond in seasons of uncertainty.
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You know, when it comes to tariffs
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And the legacy media was quick to push fear
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Inducing headlines and prognoses.
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It was only after a few weeks ago
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When they said that
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Tariffs will wipe out billions in retirement savings overnight,
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And that your retirement nest eggs,
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They were under tremendous threat.
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Well, i believe what was initiated by this administration
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Through tariffs
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Was truly an expression of support for the american people.
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The administration is standing up for u.s.
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Citizens saying to foreign governments,
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You won't take unfair advantage of us.
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Well, hoping to motivate american corporations
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To bring manufacturing back into the us.
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Well, now, as corporations adjust to the changes,
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The repercussions may feel uncomfortable in the moment.
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We may get frightened.
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We may see fearful headlines, but we don't have to lead lives
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That are dominated by fear in this time of uncertainty.
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Let's meditate on a scripture.
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It'll change your perspective if you'll do it.
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It's proverbs
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Three says, trust in the lord with all your heart.
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Lean on the lord, not with your own understanding,
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But submit your ways to him. he'll make your paths straight.
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That'll change everything. it'll give you real hope.
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When we come back, we're going to read your emails.
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When we come back, we're going to read your emails.
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Yeah.
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I want to give you a personal invitation.
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Well, jim from ithaca, new york, said this email.
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I appreciate your biblical perspective
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Applied to current issues and events.
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It's refreshing to enjoy your program
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With a word of hope based in scripture.
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Thank you for your service and sacrifice
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For our lord and savior jesus christ.
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Well, jim, if we'll each one take our place,
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We got to do more than sit in
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Church and applaud sermons or complain about them.
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We got to live our faith out in the world.
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If we'll do that, all of our lives will get better.
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From a lady in tullahoma, she said she's 80 years old.
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Dear tbn, you are my newshour for the day, every day.
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You're the sole source of informative world news for us.
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Please look into extending the time slots for charlie
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Kirk, pastor alan jackson and steckel back.
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We need them badly.
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Wow. well, matt crouch, you heard the order.
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Now let's work together.
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We'll see very much from mississippi.
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Thank you for the good shows.
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It's good when someone sees and reports on the world as it is.
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I watch all of your a.j. now shows.
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Well, mary is an honor to serve you.
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You know,
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The privilege of our lives is taking the word of god
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And trying to understand the world
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Through that biblical worldview. filter.
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That's more than sitting in church
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And enjoying the music or in surviving sermons.
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It's actually taking our faith and living it out in the world
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Where we are in the corridors of the hospitals
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And the courtroom
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And the classrooms and our university settings.
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I think for far too long,
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We've compartmentalized our lives
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And imagined that we could sit in church
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And talk about our faith
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And live the rest of our lives as if his god weren't watching.
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We're going to have to change that process
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And integrate all of our lives with that biblical worldview
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That will bring the blessings of god to all of us.
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Thank you for the reminder.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us this evening.
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I'm alan jackson.
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I pray you have a wonderful night.
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Allen Jackson: Reuniting American Spirit | Allen Jackson Now

June 20, 2025 | 21:47

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