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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Venezuela Energy | Allen Jackson Now | January 14, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Now, we didn't all get a pay raise on january the 1st,
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But most people are starting to have a little more cash
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In their pockets this winter,
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Filling up the cars less expensive,
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And it's likely to go down even more next month.
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Some grocery prices
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Have come down and the majority have at least leveled off.
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Drive thru restaurants will.
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They're offering five and $6 meal deals.
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Car and truck prices remain pretty high,
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But some automakers are offering 0% interest on the loans.
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And for vehicles made in america,
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There's a tax deduction of up to $10,000.
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If you work for tips, there's no more tax on that income.
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If you get social
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Security taxes on those payments have been reduced as well.
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And the big savings will come to a lot of homeowners
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When they do their taxes this spring, because the cap on
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State and local property taxes has been raised significantly.
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Well, financial pressures have begun to ease.
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Good news, most of it not reported in the national media.
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We brought back our expert on the economy, george seib.
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He's the chairman of annandale capital in dallas.
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Welcome back, sir, and happy new year.
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Happy new year.
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Always great to be back on this great show.
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Well, the latest figures show that the consumer price index,
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Which measures inflation, it held steady at 2.7% in december.
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50,000 jobs were also added that month.
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Is this part of the slow and steady comeback?
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It is.
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And actually the economy has never stopped growing.
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So it's it's really been incredibly resilient
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For four years of very anti-business
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Democratic policies.
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And i think the new trump administration,
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That's one big success
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They've had in
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Putting these taxes, these new tariffs on the economy,
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Which is a friction cost, the economy.
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But still the economy continues to grow really, really well.
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And the pro-business policies of the administration
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Have overwhelmed the tariffs and other negatives.
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I will say, though, when you're talking
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About the price at the pump and that going down,
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We texans are a little bitter about that because we like hog
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High gas prices,
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Because it's good for the oil and gas industry.
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And i think i can make
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A compelling argument that it's really not
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That better for the country.
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If oil is home for 20 to $25 a barrel higher than it is
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Right now, because we have hundreds
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And hundreds of thousands of jobs
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That depend on the oil and gas industry
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And several million that are ancillary related to it.
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So we're a little bitter about that down here,
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But everything else is great. yeah, i had a feeling
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The gas price is going to get a reaction.
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You're right.
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There's more help on the way in this case
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For the housing market.
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The white house has ordered fannie mae and freddie
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Mac to buy billions of dollars
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Worth of securities in the mortgage market,
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And that already help get mortgage rates below 6%.
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They've also banned investment firms from buying single
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Family homes
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To keep them available for buyers
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Who are actually going to live in them.
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In addition, they're looking into ways
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To allow buyers to take over existing low rate mortgages,
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As well as allow first time buyers
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To use their 401 k or college savings accounts
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For down payments without those usual penalties.
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Can we assume that will all help to light up the spring market?
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I think the biggest positive for the spring housing market
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In in the future going forward, as well as the federal reserve,
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Not not the government, i think that the fed
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Just got a green light to cut rates even further
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Because that inflation number, although it's above the
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The the federal reserve's target inflation
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Number of 2% is not much above it.
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And it's way down from the 9.1%
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Inflation rate where it peaked under the biden administration.
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So that's really, really good news for the housing market.
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And mortgage rates should continue to come down.
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And i love that they're having fannie and freddie buy back
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$200 billion of, of mortgages that that will reduce mortgage.
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It costs even further.
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And that's a great piece of policy.
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I'm not super excited about the president ordering
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Private interest to not buy single family residences.
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That's a constraint against trade, and it's very populist,
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And i'm sure it is positive among people that that are
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Maybe anti business and all that.
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But that's, that's a, that's
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A negative policy against business.
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I'm not a big fan of that. but the rest of it's great.
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Well president trump is moving fast in venezuela
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To try to help people there big and small businesses here.
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He called the oil company ceos in to discuss
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How to get oil drilling started again,
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To pump some money into the venezuelan economy.
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Listen to what he said.
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The departure of maduro makes possible
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An incredible future for both nations, venezuela
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And the united states, in which we will more closely
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Integrate the economies of two major energy powers
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In the western hemisphere.
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Energy coming out of venezuela was very small.
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One of the things the united states gets out of
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This will be even lower energy prices.
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We have people now getting,
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Gasoline for $1.90 $9,
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96, a dollar, $95, 92.
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Yesterday, somebody
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And it used to be three and a half, $4, $5 a gallon.
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Well, as part of the deal, venezuela will have to spend
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Some of that money exclusively on american made products.
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Do you think that's a good way to help the venezuelan people,
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As well as u.s. manufacturers?
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Gosh, it's such a complex issue.
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I think that most americans really aren't
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Very familiar with venezuela,
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Because it used to be
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Among the top ten or so most affluent countries
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In the world because of their oil reserves
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And the socialist communist dictatorships of maduro
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And chavez
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Before him, have been so horrible
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That 8 million venezuelans have left the left the country,
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And there's only 28 million
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People left there, and its economy is in such a shambles,
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I don't think people understand is going to take probably
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Two decades, if not ever, for it to come back.
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It is really in bad shape.
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And all this talk about them getting millions
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Of barrels of oil back on the ma
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Fiction.
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It's it's going to take at least a decade
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To get in the millions of barrels
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From venezuela and well over $100 billion.
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And that's why the exxon ceo, after the meeting
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With the president, said venezuela's
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Is basically un investable by oil and gas companies,
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And he was speaking the hard truth, which it is.
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So that's going to be a very long project.
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And quite frankly, i was a little bit alarmed
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That they're they're
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Putting this number two official in the place of maduro
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And maduro.
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Leaving is a great, great piece of news for the world.
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And so let's celebrate that.
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But he's number two is every bit
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As authoritarian and awful as he was.
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So to have the nobel prize winner, who who was the from
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The opposition party that won the last election, ostracized.
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And the man who won the election,
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Her place not going in there.
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It's not it's not super hot for democracy.
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So i'd love to see a move towards democracy in time
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In that country.
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Not a a tinpot dictator still around the country,
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Because that lady, that's what she is.
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She's a tinpot dictator.
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But you alluded to what communism has done to venezuela.
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We have almost 100 years of evidence of the destructive
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Outcomes of communism on peoples and countries.
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How is it that significant portions of americans
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Would still embrace communism?
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Do you have any idea?
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I do, i'm i'm so glad you asked that question.
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It's because they don't really understand it
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And they haven't they haven't been around when a
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A widespread amount of communist dictatorships were in place
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That we read about all the time.
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There's a great book by a friend of mine
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Named rodri or called live not by lies, where he interviews
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A lot of people in the
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In the warsaw pact eastern bloc countries
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That that the soviet union dominated for several decades.
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And they talk about how horrible
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Communism is and how it ruined their families
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And their lives and everything else.
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And we just need a refresher course
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In this country
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About how fortunate and blessed we are to live
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In the greatest country the world's ever seen.
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And how precious democracy and freedom are.
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You wouldn't take you long to
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To learn from north koreans
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Or venezuelans or cubans how awful the system can be and
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How dreadful it is for for the for the common man and woman.
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So the populist sentiment in this country
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Should be most directed against communism and socialism,
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Because they ruin lives and ruin families and ruin countries.
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You know, this year is our 250th anniversary.
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We want to celebrate all year long.
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George.
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We've got a whole lot more to discuss.
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Can you stay for another segment?
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You betcha.
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Thank you.
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During the break you can log on to aj now.com.
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You can send me an email about your thoughts on the economy.
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Maybe a question you'd like to ask george on his next visit.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back
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Now with the chairman of annandale capital in dallas.
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George c,
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I'd like to ask a few questions about our national debt.
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We had president reagan's economic advisor on the show
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Recently, art laffer, being a supply side guy.
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He's convinced that we can turn
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The debt cycle in the right direction.
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With just a several years of positive growth
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And some lower taxes.
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Do you agree? that's enough?
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No i don't.
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I think the federal government is is a
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Completely addictive spending and they can't ever spend
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Enough. there's never enough.
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So you got to slash spending and reform entitlements as well.
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I normally agree with mr.
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Laffer and his viewpoint on economic policy.
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And unlike george h.w.
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Bush you called reaganomics voodoo economics.
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I i'm a big supply side.
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Advocate and advocate of cutting taxes.
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But we got to cut federal spending, too.
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You're never going to get anywhere.
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Well, let's stay on the debt issue for a moment.
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The treasury secretary is going full steam ahead
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On doing whatever possible about putting an absolute
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Stop to the fraud that's been uncovered.
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He says that 10% of the us budget is stolen by fraudsters,
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And he's launched a program to find out who
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They are by offering rewards to whistleblowers.
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Here's one example of what he's seen.
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One of the people who has been convicted of fraud,
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She was given $200,000 to bribe a juror,
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And she was so corrupt, she skimmed 80,000 of it
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And only tried to give $120,000 bribe.
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So we are going to offer whistleblower
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Payments to anyone who wants to tell us
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The who, what, when, where and how this fraud has been done.
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Well, given what we've learned about minnesota,
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I can only imagine what else they might uncover.
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Is it as bad as it seems to be?
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Oh, it's a national disgrace.
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And i think the president the other day said
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California is worse than minnesota.
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It may be.
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I mean, there's got to be unbelievably
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Rampant fraud out in california in some of these big blue
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Welfare states.
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And i would tip my hat to the treasury secretary.
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I think he's
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One of the real stars of the president's cabinet.
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I think he's done a whale of a great job.
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And i'm really pleased that he's in that job.
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And i'm also pleased he didn't want to be fed chairman
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Because i, i like him right where he is at treasury.
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But you look at the scope of the fraud in minnesota
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That we've already found out about,
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And it's just, frankly, un-american.
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And i think that you can get into some
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A bad rabbit trail in terms of focusing on the fact
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That these are somalis
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Who really
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Somali americans or somali illegals or both,
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That we're doing this up in minnesota.
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The ethnicity really doesn't matter.
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It's just the fact that we have such dishonest people out there
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Gaming the system and we got to crack down
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Hard on this, no matter whether somebody is
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Somali or venezuelan or anglo or whoever, who cares.
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It's fraud is bad.
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It's bad for the country.
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And, you know, one of the worst
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Areas of fraud is in the defense department.
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I mean, the government is overcharged
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So badly for the weapons we source.
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We got to really get hard, hard and tough on that as well. do
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You think the ddos group that elon musk
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Put together should be reactivated?
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I think it depends on the leadership.
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That's a great question.
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And in theory it's terrific.
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In practice, they weren't wildly successful.
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They said they were going to cut
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A whole lot more spending than they actually did.
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But we need something like that.
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But i think
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Unlike musk, who kind of came out with a meat cleaver,
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You've got to go in there with a scalpel
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And you've got to have the patience to do it
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Very slowly, very carefully.
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And that's the way you trim the most fat.
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Not by running in there
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With a meat cleaver and carving everything up.
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That's, that's that's less than effective.
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So we need somebody who's got more patience
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Because he ran out of patience pretty quick, which anybody
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Dealing with the federal government would eventually.
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What was so much abuse of the taxes we pay?
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You know, the stolen money
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That was sent to al-shabab terrorists in somalia?
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I wonder if some taxpayers will stop
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Sending payments to the treasury department
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Until this gets fixed, that there's any real risk of that?
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That's a great way to go to jail.
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If you do that, i wouldn't recommend this.
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You got to give the devil is due, so to speak,
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And give uncle sam his money,
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But give him as little as possible legally.
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That's that's the that's the best effort for that.
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But i could understand the disgust.
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You know,
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There was a polish immigrant years ago who made $4 million
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In a lifetime of basically, entry level work.
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And he loved this country so much and thought so
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Highly of it.
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He gave all his money to the federal government
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As will and uncle sam ran through that
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In about three seconds.
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So i'd call that very patriotic, but very tragic too,
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That he gave the money to
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The government because they just blew it in
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A couple of seconds.
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Well, i pray they can orchestrate some changes.
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I'd like to end
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With one more good sign that we saw was a reported.
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But it was small businesses in america
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Reporting record profitability and producing more per worker
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Than at any point in the past ten years.
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Do you think that collectively, this good news will help
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The president's party in the midterms
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So he can keep moving his agenda forward?
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I hope so.
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I don't
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I don't feel like the president and his team
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Are getting their message out very well.
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And i think all this constant rancor and fighting and,
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And public squabbling is, is not healthy.
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And most americans don't like it.
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But, you know, if you really get down to it,
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Small business is the anchor of the american economy.
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And one of the greatest things
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About our country over the years,
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Actually, net job growth all comes from small businesses.
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The fortune 500 is actually a net smasher of jobs.
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So we really owe it to mom and pop, barbershop and
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And nail salon and and and swimming pool, public
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Swimming pool
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And all these kind of things where people run
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These small businesses that mini golf
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That create jobs and create prosperity
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For ordinary, ordinary americans.
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And i wish they talk about that more and talk less about,
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The next person needs to be taken out
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And things of this sort, we need to
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We need more positivity if we're going to win the senate
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And the house again, i think, i think
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And by the way, i'm a republican to be to be straightforward.
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But i think the house is looking pretty pretty weak.
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The senate looks stronger.
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Yeah. it's a serious time.
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We've got to stay. we got to pay attention.
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George c, thank you for sharing your insights with us again.
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Here's to a strong year ahead.
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We'll be back in touch with you soon.
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Thank you alan.
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And in a moment, the hope that carries us all through.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know,
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I pray you are putting
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Money aside and investing it towards your future.
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But even the most carefully tended investments are subject
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To some things that you and i have no control over.
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Wars.
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Whether even the wisdom of fund managers.
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And now we're finding out about the level of waste, fraud
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And abuse that's taking place
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Using our hard earned tax dollars.
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Minnesota has been in the spotlight billions of dollars,
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But nobody imagines that it's limited to minnesota.
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We've had lawmakers pushing to use our money to expand
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Health care coverage
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For people who are here in this nation illegally.
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Some lawmakers recently pushed almost 4 million for lgbtq
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Plus democracy grants in the western balkans.
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$2 million
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On organizing for feminist democratic principles in africa.
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Over 24 million for climate
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Resilience in honduras.
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It's just absurd.
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It's unfortunate
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We can't even trust our elected officials to do
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What's in the interest of its citizens.
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Well, as christ followers,
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I want to admonish you to always remember there is one
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Completely trustworthy place where you can invest.
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It'll never give you a diminishing return.
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And that's what we invest toward the purposes of god
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As we enter this new year.
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I want to suggest that we take a step back
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From being consumed
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By short term thinking and focus more on our spiritual legacy.
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You may have a robust bank account.
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You may have generational wealth.
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That's a wonderful thing.
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I'm not condemning it, but i'm asking you to imagine
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That you have a generational, spiritual impact with your life.
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Live in such a way that a few hundred years after you're gone.
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Your great, great, great
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Whatever are enjoying the blessings of god
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Because of your spiritual life and choices.
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You know, i assure you that your spiritual legacy will exceed
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Whatever legacy you leave in physical assets.
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Nothing you invest in god's
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Kingdom could ever be lost or even lose its value.
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It's the perfect time
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To look at our priorities in life and ask,
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How could i pursue god more fully?
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More completely?
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Let's begin the habit of meditating
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On the things of god and opening our hearts
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And our minds to the holy spirit.
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If we'll do that, our spiritual heritage will exceed
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Any resources we leave to the generations who follow us.
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And that's a reason for hope.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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If you ever miss a live episode of the program,
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Remember you can go to aj now.com.
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There's a full archive there.
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You can watch the programs at your leisure.
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Your emails are always a highlight.
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Linda from ohio wrote in.
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In 2015 i founded a reenactment history camp to teach children
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The true story of america's founding days.
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Campers come as time travelers and learn everything
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From the constitution to cursive writing,
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Plus the critical virtues of good citizenship.
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In the 1700s,
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There were pastors known as the black girl brigade,
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Who played a major role in winning america's independence.
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You're an example of pastoral, patriotic leadership.
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Thank you, and may god continue to bless you and bless america.
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Well, i agree, linda.
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May god bless america again.
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And you are right.
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The church has played a pivotal role
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In the unfolding story of our nation.
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And i believe if we're to have a strong future will because the
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Because the church regains its strength and its influence
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In our culture. thank you for teaching the children the truth.
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Ruth from apple valley emailed
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Pastor allen, thank you for having someone speak about
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What has happened in venezuela when maduro was taken out.
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We get such false information from the news media.
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It's so good
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To hear the truth about what's going on in that country.
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But watching maduro
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Be removed and venezuela began to be restored is a clear
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Reminder of the destructive nature of communism.
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We shouldn't be fooled.
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Someone shared a video with me a day or two ago.
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It was of pastors and faith leaders being released
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From venezuelan prisons,
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And they were meeting their families
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As they were being released.
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It was such a time of joy and celebration.
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It's encouraging. god is moving in the earth.
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Keep praying all over the earth.
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We need god's freedom in nigeria, in iran.
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There's no shortage of places.
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China, ukraine, russia. god is moving.
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Randy emailed in.
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We have always stood by israel
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And that they are god's chosen people.
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My question is
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Why did the jewish people vote with the democrats?
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No one's been able to answer that question to me.
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The democrats, as a group, support anti-semitism.
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It makes no sense.
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Well, there's not a simple answer,
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Randy, but i'll give you a perspective.
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Perhaps the jewish people, as a race of people, have suffered
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Horrific persecution across many centuries,
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And they tend to have a bias in favor of oppressed people.
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Groups
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And the democratic party until recently has managed
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To at least give the presentation
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That they were aligned with the oppressed.
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I think the other thing to remember
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Is jewish refers to a race of people,
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And there's a great deal of diversity
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In the jewish community
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Around their beliefs and what they believe in.
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It's not a homogenous group of thought.
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Great questions.
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Thank you for your time today.
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I pray you have a wonderful evening.
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I'm alan jackson.
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And god bless you.
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Allen Jackson: Venezuela Energy | Allen Jackson Now

January 14, 2026 | 22:31

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