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Day 13,478 - Teaching Hunger & Lazyness Contagion.mp3
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One here, life 22 and it is a beautiful Thursday morning.
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Welcome to the Great City of Holyo, New York.
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So I had a litany of topics I wanted to talk about, but I'm still doing some research on some.
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Before I come to you with.
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Incomplete information we are holding off on those, but because we do a morning podcast, you guys, I get to hear this beautiful, this beautiful bouquet of my voice every morning from wherever you like to listen to podcasts.
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I I was hunting for something to talk to you guys about today and I was thinking about something that I learned earlier in the week.
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So Oro, I heard AI heard another podcast or talk about this that you can't teach hunger, right?
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People that people that go to work and they don't, you know, give it their all.
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Which is.
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Which has always been kind of like, I don't know if it's been my philosophy, but it's always been my mode of acting right.
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Like when I have a job, when I do my small business. When I do this podcast.
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I have a tendency to.
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Be very hungry like I'll do above and beyond what I'm asked to do. I'll make it the best job that I can.
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And obviously like I can.
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So like, you know, like a person can't give you more than their ability to do a job because you know it's outside of their capabilities, right?
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But I've always been one to learn and expand my knowledge base so that I can do a better job.
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Whether it's now or in the future, or both.
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And so that's always been, you know, just how I've kind of lived my life. And when I heard this podcaster talking about, you know, like federal layoffs and and a bunch of other.
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Bunch of other different.
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It's like, man, it's like, oh, no, you know what it was? Somebody wrote into a show and was talking about, like, looking for advice on, like.
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What was?
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Oh, it was like a, you know, I'm fresh out of high school.
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I work real.
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I'm planning on going to college.
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My my boyfriend, my high school sweetheart, likes to just play video games all day and doesn't want to get a job and lives with his parents.
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I'm ready to move out on my own and his advice was just leave him.
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Leave him like that's you can't teach hunger.
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You can't teach hungry, and I thought that was phenomenal. Phenomenal advice because most people will get stuck in those ruts and so. Well, I married my high school sweetheart and they're miserable in 20 years because that person's never changed and they've never gotten the, you know, the.
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Kick in the *** to change and.
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So I guess this morning we're starting with a the moral fabric of our society again.
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Conversation. But it's one of those.
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What do?
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What do you?
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What do you tell people like you should?
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Should.
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You should have that kick in your ***.
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Should have.
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My girlfriend just broke up with me. 'cause, I'm lazy and I just play video games all day and I don't want to get a job and I don't want to do this and I don't want to do that.
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And then maybe that sparks them to do something.
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You can't truly teach hungry like I guess.
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There's no, there's no.
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You can't send somebody to school to learn hungry, right?
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I guess they have.
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Kind of learn it on their own. If they're going to learn it at all.
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It should be something that's naturally ingrained in you.
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Which gets me to the next point. Like I'm I'm blessed to have the people that work for me both in my my private sector and and you know well.
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I.
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I surround myself with, I would say so. Like people that work for me in the private sector, people that I I spend time with that I consider close friends, people that I deal with on a daily basis. Those people are typically hungry. I want to say.
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I you know, it might be familial.
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I know a lot of my family members are typically hungry.
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They they go out, they do the best job they can. They strive for for the best and greatness, things like that.
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So.
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Yeah, it's it's just, it's just something to get your to wrap your head.
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So like when you're hearing about people not keeping their job, losing their job, having to, you know, having to survive and feed their family and and like, you know, it is what it is.
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I'm I'm kind of.
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I'm reading some articles here so.
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Here's a here's an editorial to the only in Star.
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Kind of caught my interest this morning.
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I got to reach out to them. They need.
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They need to better form their. Their website needs a little bit of work. Some of their like some of their sports stuff, is popping up in the news stuff. Some of the new stuff is popping up in the sports stuff.
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So a little critique there from them, but it has to do with like, let's see here the the the Joe Sembolinski.
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Town hall meeting. Somebody wrote an editorial in saying, well, the paper wrote this and the tap wrote this and it's not exactly like that.
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And the woman goes into detail about.
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How the crowd didn't want Medicaid being cut.
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Start with that one.
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Guess so.
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Here's the issue with cutting Medicaid or Medicare or any of these third rail politic political issues, right? Raising taxes, things like that.
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The issue is nobody wants their.
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Raised right.
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But then nobody.
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But everybody wants everything from the government and that that is a mentality that is not a hungry mentality.
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Is a the the antithesis of the hungry man?
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I don't want things from the government.
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I want my government to do very little.
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I want my government to, you know that I'm a small government guy and I think most Americans should be and I.
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And and the reason that most Americans aren't.
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Because of.
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Like it's ingrained in them in an early age that like they should feel.
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They should feel that the government should do everything and there's been a mentality in the United States for many decades.
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That and then it's been being almost like kind of not taught in schools, but it it the mentality is wrapping around them with the fact that the school is, you know, the Department of Education is a government run entity.
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So well, if you didn't have the government, if the government wasn't providing stuff, you would not be.
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It's like, well, yes, but I'm sure we'll find our education somewhere else, but nobody ever poses the the anti argument to the government should should.
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Should cover everything for you.
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And it's it's one of those mentalities.
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Like the government shouldn't.
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The government should provide me with they should provide me with like collective.
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Protections, if you will.
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So these collective protections include like, I don't want crack heads to break into my house, kill my wife and my family, steal my stuff, and then, like, have no form of justice to bring them to, right.
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So if a crackhead breaks in my house, I want the police to come.
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Want the police to come and shoot them if they arrive on time?
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And for for attempting to to to murder me.
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I want, you know, just so they can go sell my stuff to get my fix, and they don't care.
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About human life.
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So like people like that, like I'm big capital punishment.
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Like, if you're going to break in someone's house and kill them, like, guess what?
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Your life is worth what you think their life is worth. If you think somebody else's life is worth nothing, then your life should be worth nothing.
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So where the rest of us we we appreciate the value of human life and we're not outgoing killing people.
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And because we don't do that, we have value in human life, at which point our lives should be respected as valuable.
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That's that's.
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Pretty much it. It's it's an easy concept, right? So.
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So but anyways, I went up the cops to prevent people from breaking into my house, stealing my stuff, killing me and my family most importantly.
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I want.
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I want.
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I want level roads.
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I want level roads for commerce. I want potholes free level roads for commerce.
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Understand that you can never have all roads 100% pot free.
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Time and I will take the give and take. Like everybody's blowing up right now about the 86 having horrible potholes.
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You can't fix them, right?
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You're going to fix them, and a week later they're going to pop out and the state's only going to come once.
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If you want to call them right now, they will come and call patch your your potholes and they will pop out.
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Three months and you can see them next year.
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After this time, because they're only going to come once a year like it, they're they're like Santa Claus in how that they they operate at the state level and they have a lot of places to hit.
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I understand why they only come once a year so.
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I would say, hey, listen, I want to be on your.
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So this spring the problem is the state doesn't listen to your demands in terms of like your.
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So like if you say I want you to hear now or I want you here in three months as soon as you start complaining, they may come as soon as you start complaining. They may.
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Come six months later, you would hope they come six months later. So they.
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Actually.
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The potholes when it's going to last for one to three years.
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But you're you're not gonna get, you know.
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They could come tomorrow and then they're gonna pop them, and they're gonna last for three months.
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And then they're not gonna come back for at least a year, at least. At least a year.
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So that's the one downside to a lot of these different topics when you're when you're talking about potholes, for example.
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I want the idea is.
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I want police to protect me.
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To provide me with some protections to safeguard me from other people infringing on my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I want, and I want very basic need on that right, like the egregious ones. If my neighbor like estopples my freedom of speech or my.
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Right to religion or?
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To hang a sign up in front of my house like I don't want the cops to go over and shoot them, right?
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I I.
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I don't need any jurisdiction on that.
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The same way freedom the the 1st Amendment gives you freedom of expression.
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I don't care what color my neighbor paints his house.
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That's.
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That's covered under his First Amendment.
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Wants to paint.
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House purple.
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That is his.
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I am a big anti zoning.
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Zoning, but HOA all that stuff like your only houses can be yellow or blue in this neighborhood.
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Go screw yourself like nobody.
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Nobody only likes yellow or blue.
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But it's their house.
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Their.
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It's their constitutional.
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It's their their inalienable rights given to them by God to own their property, do whatever the hell they want with it.
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I mean within reason.
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And within Reason is a very strict category.
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Not not like well.
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Within reason, it doesn't look good.
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No, no.
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No, and that'll get us into tomorrow's topic, which is going to be code issues with tiny homes and things that aren't tiny homes, but they still qualify under.
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Safety. But you know that said I want so.
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I want my government to provide me with those those basic protections to just prevent people from doing the most egregious infringements on my my rights, and then, you know, if somebody does infringe on my rights like, you know, take my life or my life of my loved ones.
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I would like at least the cops to show up.
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The.
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Find out who did it and and serve justice on swift wings.
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So those are, you know, those are the.
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Those, those are the two main things.
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Then it's.
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OK, you can get down a rabbit hole and the one other rabbit hole I would I would say is like, you know, we come together for a communal good, right?
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So in addition to the, the communal good would be like paved roads, right?
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And the next one is also like a public safety thing, which?
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Similar to what the police do and similar to the collective value of putting roads together.
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If a building catches on fire, I would like to have some sort of organization that will put the fire out, whether that's the paid fire department in your city, whether it's a volunteer and you collect money from me for taxes to pay for their equipment. What what have.
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I grew up in a small town in Connecticut.
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We had a violent tier fire department.
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Those guys did.
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Every single one of them worked full time.
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They were very passionate about it and they had a great knock down rate.
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The city of Olean, I have no qualms with those guys. Those guys take a lot of trainings.
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Their full time job.
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They are probably.
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More trained than those volunteers are because that's all they do, all.
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They're not like out working as a Carpenter and then getting a beep, beep, beep, beep and then run and go to a fire call and so like on nights and weekends, they're taking continuing education and continuing training.
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So, but those are like the three main things that I want my government to come together to do.
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That's it.
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That's it, I.
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I don't need them to like. Well, here's a slight injustice on from from one person's perspective, and then the government needs to get involved because the more the government gets involved, the more we want over this yesterday, the more the government gets involved, the more they break.
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The government likes to get involved.
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It's a horrible thing because what happens is the government gets involved in something and it's like taking aspirin.
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Sprint or taking some drug.
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Oh, it's going to solve this problem you're having, but it's going to give you 3 more, and So what you can do is we can let the government handle those three more problems that they just caused, which usually going to the cause of the issue.
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For asking the cause for the solution versus curbing the cause. So you can either deal with those three things caused by the one issue you want to handle, or you can have the government go and fix it. But every time the government.
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Because it it creates three more problems now all of a sudden it's this hydra effect and you're never going to solve that 'cause the government, by design, is inefficient.
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The government, by design, is a problem causing.
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It's like, hey, you want to solve one major problem? We can do that.
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Going to cause three small problems.
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And then in order to solve 3 small problems, we're going to and everything is inefficient.
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We solve this big problem.
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At a 20% efficiency.
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Or 25% down at a good day, 50%. A good day, right?
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And then you're going to go down the line and every one of those little problems, you'll have a little solution that'll kind of solve the problem.
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And it cost you a ton of money because there's only 25% efficient. And then and then it causes three more problems amongst each one of them.
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All of a sudden you have this snowball.
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The government do everything.
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It's like.
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Well, then everything is going to have problems.
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Everything is going to be very inefficient.
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Everything is going to cost lots of money and everybody's going to have so many problems. You're going to feel like you are going through chemotherapy because you're just like, Oh my God, this is ridiculous.
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Is happening to me.
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But those are the things I want my government to do.
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I was raised in a society that that has a a small form of socialism in it, right? These social programs that were put in in place.
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So like Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, things like that, things that are designed to be temporary and pick people by the roof.
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Not so much.
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So Medicare is people's during the Great Depression, they were like, Oh my God.
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Thereafter, they were like, Oh my God, we need to.
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Well, during that time period they they were like, wow, people can't save for their.
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We have to the government has to save for them and the problem is we're asking the government to do something efficient.
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We and the government's not efficient at.
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They're very inefficient, both from a monetary standpoint and how they enact things.
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Governments are very inefficient.
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So if you want efficiency, you have.
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How about you teach people how to be sufficient self-sufficient, as Theodore Roosevelt once said, the rugged individualist should be able to handle a lot of things.
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And that's where that hunger comes back in. If you were hungry, you don't need the government to to save for your future, or if you taught people how to save for the future. Well, if you take the same amount of money, you would have put into.
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Medicare.
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Then, and there's a great there's a great Prager U video on that.
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I will look it up and include it in the description below on the YouTube or on the transistor description.
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It is phenomenal and it's a 5 minute video and it just explains to you how you invest your money and how. By the time you retire, you're actually.
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You don't have to worry about increases in your in your monthly payments because.
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You have well, more than the government ever gave you.
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It's not the government's to.
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It's yours.
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The issue is that people won't do it well if people won't do it. If people are too stupid to take care of themselves, well, I don't have the money.
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Don't want.
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I want to spend it on this video game.
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Want to spend it on?
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I want to spend it on cigarettes and booze.
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Well, guess what?
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That's your own damn fault.
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That's your own damn fault.
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Shouldn't.
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You shouldn't put that on.
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You shouldn't put that on me to take care of you because you did something stupid.
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So like, oh, I didn't say for the future, somebody has to come help me like nobody has to come help you.
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That's it's. It's like mind boggling.
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No, there's no agency anymore.
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Is no self.
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There is no. Like there's there's no self.
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There's no responsibility for anybody like it's. Well, the government's gonna take care of me. Like. No, no, no, no.
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Government has, like I just named.
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Those are the three things the government's really supposed to be doing, supposed to be collabing on those three things.
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And those things cost.
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So they have to have a little tax division so they can come collect property taxes. But then for us to be like, well collectively we want to save money for Ukraine.
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No, you want to save money for Ukraine.
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Start a go fund me.
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Give money to your local church that wants to, you know, that's sending missions over to go help out Ukraine.
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You know there's different.
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There's all this stuff. Private sector is great because private sector allows you for those communal. It makes me feel good to put my money here.
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Right now you're making it so that I have to give my I have to give money to taxes for your charity.
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That's that's the that's the.
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Like if you want to put money into that charity, you put your money into that charity.
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We won't have enough for that.
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Well, that's not our problem. If it's something that you want to sponsor, then you better go drum up some more donations.
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Not.
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You're not going to forcibly take it out of my pocket. And then I become a criminal if I don't pay those taxes to go to yours.
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That's the ridiculous part.
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That's the part where you're using my government and weaponizing it against me for your little pet projects.
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That's the issue.
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That is a big issue and that doesn't teach hunger.
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It doesn't teach hunger.
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It's another thing like you're not.
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It's.
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It's not being.
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That's you making the government do something that you should be doing if it's, if it's a problem for you, it's it's your problem. If you want to do it, it's your problem.
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Like.
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You can't make other people do it by making other people do it.
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Going to be sick and tired of it.
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Going to be.
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There's going to be.
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That's why the nation is split right now, because there's all these people using the government as one way or another for ideology and views, and it's like, no, the government supposed to be like non partisan and just right here. And it's supposed to handle these 3 minor things.
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If you want to do something, then you go do it.
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You go do.
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You start a non for profit for whatever little 'cause you have or whatever.
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The same with so, so here's where it comes into.
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So this woman talking about Medicaid and what about the cuts for Medicaid and and and some bolinski?
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His first let's see.
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Let's he explained that you know, our area shouldn't be reliant on Medicaid and food stamps like we should not be relying on it.
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Lose your job and you're you're struggling to make ends meet while you find a new job.
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Right, let's say it was for non just.
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You know your boss. You you know you. The company went under.
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You know, it wasn't anything you did.
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You weren't, like, caught stealing. And you know what I mean.
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Just you're you're OK regular dude.
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You just you lost your job, you got to pay for your family, whatever. And you're like you're on unemployment for like couple weeks while you're trying to.
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Job and because you don't have you know, the same income source you have to and you don't have the insurance from your previous employer, you go on Medicaid and you go on food stamps and you're on it for like 6 months most right. As you find a new.
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And and you and you get on it you like and then you get you get off of it. You like the, you're on it and then you find a new job and you new employer's insurance. If they have it or. And that's where the other issue.
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Like everyone call, your employer has to include insurance like no, they don't.
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Shouldn't have.
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They shouldn't have to, and we'll get into a medical insurance thing later date because I can go on for two hours on medical insurance.
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The issue with the employer is that like you can't like, you shouldn't have to force them to do anything if they're going to pay you more money. They don't include your insurance. If they pay you less money, but they're employing you.
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With, you know, and giving you a good a good, you know, like a a decent wage, but they've subtracted what other employers are paying because they're giving you, you know, insurance or better insurance or whatever.
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Then that's part of the happy medium. People can't just sit there and be like, well, my wage has to be this, and I have to have free insurance like, OK.
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You, being greedy, your greed has nothing to do with.
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With the fair and economic capitalistic processes here. Like that's that's.
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Like if if this is what things are going for, that's what they're going for.
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Like you just have to eat it.
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But anyways, in the meantime.
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Our area is relying on a majority of the people in this area are on those and it's like, OK.
00:22:05 Kevin
Either you're, you know, like.
00:22:09 Kevin
Well, people don't often like whose fault is that? Like 'cause, I have a lot I have.
00:22:14 Kevin
I have tenants I have friends with tenants.
00:22:16 Kevin
I have.
00:22:18 Kevin
I.
00:22:18 Kevin
There are people I know that they just.
00:22:23 Kevin
Well, I, you know, I can't go to work because of this.
00:22:26 Kevin
So now they're like this. Temporary assistance is permanent.
00:22:30 Kevin
And it's like, listen, you've got restless leg syndrome and you do surprise like, that's I can I can.
00:22:38 Kevin
If there wasn't like this, it's not.
00:22:40 Kevin
But I was going to say it's like this this thing inside of Maine. Like, I could drive to their house right now and on like camera and show you like this person, that person, this person.
00:22:47 Kevin
Can come up with four like, right on the top of my head that have restless leg syndrome and they can't go to work. They get, they get a government check.
00:22:56 Kevin
They're always fighting to, you know, get a government disability check, which is also subsidized by Medicare or Medicaid. And then it's also subsidized.
00:23:04 Kevin
They also get a subsidy from.
00:23:07 Kevin
Food.
00:23:07 Kevin
Sometimes they get housing assistance, and it's one of those.
00:23:10 Kevin
It's like that's not just like 4% of our population, like this woman is right. Our area is relying on it. Like there's a lot of.
00:23:19 Kevin
The problem is going back to our hunger issue. Like if you had to survive like that's the issue is like we as a society, we become civilized enough or like, hey, you know this guy needs a leg up. You know, we'll have a big pool of money where.
00:23:32 Kevin
Guy can.
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Into if he loses his job once every 10.
00:23:34 Kevin
Somebody loses their job, you know, and and they just need, like, a leg up.
00:23:40 Kevin
Or six and like that's.
00:23:42 Kevin
Like after that, like you're done. And I I think that a lot of people don't seem to.
00:23:46 Kevin
How?
00:23:47 Kevin
People live on this stuff, live on it.
00:23:50 Kevin
It is one of the biggest social programs, are one of the biggest expenditures both at the federal and state level.
00:23:59 Kevin
Biggest programs it's it is. It's sick.
00:24:02 Kevin
Sickening. It's sickening because it's all these people that are now satiated by it.
00:24:06 Kevin
So they're already kind of not hungry to begin with.
00:24:08 Kevin
Now all of a sudden we fed them.
00:24:09 Kevin
We're overfeating them.
00:24:10 Kevin
They're becoming fat on their inability to be.
00:24:14 Kevin
They're not going to be hungry for a very long.
00:24:16 Kevin
You pull it off of you. The only way you're going to try to attempt to teach hunger here is you pull the program.
00:24:23 Kevin
Because humans are resilient and most people don't seem to get this, humans are more resilient than cockroaches like nuclear bombs could go off and people will survive.
00:24:34 Kevin
You take all their free food away. People will figure out how to.
00:24:37 Kevin
How many?
00:24:39 Kevin
People are going to starve to death because you took food stamps away, just eliminated across the country.
00:24:43 Kevin
One family, one family. You know how many families lose their business, their life savings, everything.
00:24:51 Kevin
And like, they don't qualify for this because they once had certain programs or whatever.
00:24:54 Kevin
Like they just there's people that will.
00:24:56 Kevin
It'll just like do you just ruined like their entire like, you know, they were trying to. They were making their way in the world. And all these taxes that just keep going up and up and up and you're destroying their livelihood and their American dream because you're const.
00:25:11 Kevin
Taxing, especially the small business owners you're taxing in.
00:25:13 Kevin
York state.
00:25:15 Kevin
You're taxing and taxing and taxing and taxing the small business owners. And just so you can help satiate these people that don't want to work.
00:25:23 Kevin
That are coming up with an excuse to be.
00:25:24 Kevin
Laziness is contagious and hunger is a hard thing to teach.
00:25:30 Kevin
And that's the issue.
00:25:33 Kevin
That's that's a huge.
00:25:34 Kevin
You have all these people that just they don't want to work and you're like now all of a sudden you're bankrupting small businesses to try to satisfy these people that don't want to work, to have to put more money into that pool.
00:25:47 Kevin
For those people that are temporarily on it, and that's the.
00:25:50 Kevin
That's and then you you if you pull, if you just eliminated food stamps, you might have one family starved to death. And I don't even think you'd have that.
00:26:00 Kevin
You know why?
00:26:00 Kevin
Because what you would see is you would see a spike in people coming together as a community.
00:26:08 Kevin
There's a.
00:26:09 Kevin
There's a lot of people that are secular nowadays, but you'll see people come together and even just pull their money. But back then, back in the day, I say back then, back in the day, like 19 fifties, 1960s before. Prior to that, you always had churches and.
00:26:23 Kevin
Doing food pantries, loaves and fishes.
00:26:25 Kevin
Had all this Christian.
00:26:27 Kevin
You have all these things that are in place to do this.
00:26:30 Kevin
It's no place for the government.
00:26:33 Kevin
The government shouldn't have done it.
00:26:34 Kevin
So if somebody is going to starve to death, they can go down to the local church and I'm sure they'll find it. I'm sure that.
00:26:42 Kevin
So when I say maybe one family, maybe that's like.
00:26:48 Kevin
They were driving and they got hit by another car, right?
00:26:52 Kevin
And they died on their way to go get.
00:26:54 Kevin
So yes, they were, you know, if you did the autopsy be like a COVID thing, right? Oh, they're starving.
00:26:58 Kevin
Well, they starve to death. Like no, he had a migraine because.
00:27:03 Kevin
He hadn't eaten in like 4 hours like we have third world countries in this in this on this planet that like they haven't eaten in weeks and they might not eat it again for two more weeks if they do. What I mean from like it's it's mind blow.
00:27:15 Kevin
Like, oh, people are gonna start to death because they haven't had five meals today like.
00:27:20 Kevin
Bro, really, this is what we're talking about. Like.
00:27:24 Kevin
So my biggest concern is like Joe Sabolinski's right here like oh, his response was we shouldn't be reliant on it.
00:27:31 Kevin
Screw you. The government has to take care of everything like.
00:27:35 Kevin
You're.
00:27:37 Kevin
Your disdain for him to think that you should, that people should be on food stamps and Medicaid and all that other stuff.
00:27:42 Kevin
No, the government is not supposed to take care of you. That is the rule. Like like if we let's let's have a rule. Let's have a word that takes for something that, like, takes care of like 3 basic things that people need.
00:27:53 Kevin
And nothing else.
00:27:54 Kevin
Nothing else and should never be expanded.
00:27:57 Kevin
What would the founding fathers call it?
00:28:02 Kevin
The government.
00:28:03 Kevin
The government it's almost like that's the definition of the word.
00:28:08 Kevin
Like, I'm sorry that the founding fathers in when they were like writing to Sir Webster.
00:28:14 Kevin
When they were like, we're having this thing called the government, and we're gonna only cover.
00:28:19 Kevin
Police and some community things like, you know, fire will take some of our tax dollars and buy, you know, a fire wagon at the time, right?
00:28:26 Kevin
A horse drawn fire, wagon and and.
00:28:29 Kevin
Just we're going to fix some of the roads, but I'm going to do it at local levels only and have a little bit of federal money so that we can maintain the courthouse where we all meet, you know, once every once every 4th of July to, you know.
00:28:42 Kevin
To modify some documents here and there.
00:28:47 Kevin
Yeah. So I'm sorry in there, they said.
00:28:51 Kevin
We will not cover stamps.
00:28:52 Kevin
Will not cover.
00:28:53 Kevin
We will not be your religion, you know.
00:28:58 Kevin
Anyway, sorry that that irks me.
00:29:00 Kevin
And then.
00:29:02 Kevin
So let's see here the deficit.
00:29:05 Kevin
Crowd.
00:29:05 Kevin
Responded cutting national debt, taxing the rich.
00:29:10 Kevin
I'm going to kind of button this so like I said, I didn't have a lot to talk about, but I guess as soon as I start talking it happens.
00:29:18 Kevin
They quit back at like we want to cut federal spending.
00:29:22 Kevin
Then you need to get more.
00:29:24 Kevin
Like what? Your article is not making sense to me.
00:29:28 Kevin
Well, they need to cut.
00:29:29 Kevin
They need to cut the your first response should be taxing billionaires and the crowd roared like the crowd roared.
00:29:36 Kevin
This is like an.
00:29:37 Kevin
I saw that or a post on Facebook the other.
00:29:39 Kevin
I saw from The Olympian star that said dozens of people showed up to to to protest Nick Langworthy's office for dodges for his support of Trump and Doge.
00:29:51 Kevin
And it's like this like.
00:29:53 Kevin
10:50.
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It's not even a dozen.
00:29:55 Kevin
It's a dozens like plural, it was like.
00:30:00 Kevin
It's.
00:30:01 Kevin
It was, you know, it's one of those things and it's like, I don't know, but their response is like, you should to cut to fix the government, you need to tax the billionaires.
00:30:11 Kevin
So I pulled this up.
00:30:14 Kevin
So and this is something that is like that nobody wants to ever talk about. And then you talk about it and people like, oh, it's it's not real really so.
00:30:27 Kevin
Umm, you know how games like Monopoly work like it's a 0 sum game like the longer you play the game, eventually you just have one winner and the issue is with our economy.
00:30:42 Kevin
And then in capitalism, is that you?
00:30:44 Kevin
You don't live long enough to ever have the game of monopolies, just like when you're playing monopoly and you're just tired of.
00:30:50 Kevin
You're just like I just like or you're you're playing hands of poker one after another and you're just like, I just want to be done. And you'd have, like, both sides. Just, like, just making bad decisions just so they can get out.
00:31:00 Kevin
That's that's kind of human beings in that, like sometimes you play the game and that's that's always our game. Like you're never going to have it where somebody is just like has all the money, right?
00:31:11 Kevin
That person will either be a dead.
00:31:15 Kevin
Because.
00:31:17 Kevin
The life expectancy of them.
00:31:20 Kevin
Having all the money and nobody else having any money would be.
00:31:25 Kevin
There'd be a series of circumstances that would make that.
00:31:28 Kevin
But then, even if you could, even if that was plausible over statistically that the life expectancy of the average human being could never achieve that, right? So and then, so it would have to be like familial wealth, right?
00:31:41 Kevin
The wealth of your family, but even then.
00:31:44 Kevin
There are different things, different modalities, different different like mentalities that come from first generation, second generation business owners, investors, whatever.
00:31:56 Kevin
So you you usually don't ever really have.
00:31:59 Kevin
So that's so like the first topic was always inequality and how how you know there's an inequality of wealth, yes.
00:32:08 Kevin
In that people keep using this term inequality like it's a bad thing, like inequality just means things aren't equal, right?
00:32:14 Kevin
Equal doesn't always have to be a good thing like.
00:32:18 Kevin
There's an inequality between.
00:32:21 Kevin
Crim.
00:32:24 Kevin
And law enforcement like.
00:32:28 Kevin
Yeah, there's a lot more criminals out there than than that's that's a bad thing.
00:32:31 Kevin
But then if you switched, it was like, wow, there's, there's just a bad guys.
00:32:35 Kevin
You would be like, oh, that's still not a good thing. And it's like, well, what if?
00:32:40 Kevin
What if there was, like, you know, more good guys than bad guys, right, like.
00:32:44 Kevin
That's better. You know? So like, inequality is just a term.
00:32:47 Kevin
Just means that things aren't.
00:32:48 Kevin
So there's and it's true that there is an inequality of wealth at the top.
00:32:53 Kevin
You wouldn't have rich people if there was.
00:32:56 Kevin
Equality means that everybody has the same amount of money, and then if money's not moving.
00:33:01 Kevin
The economy falls apart, so you can't have equality because absolute equality means everybody has the same exact money at every moment of the day, and so, like money, is never changing hands.
00:33:10 Kevin
And then it's like, well, they just get rid of money, get rid of money. But then you also have no incentive program either to make people do things like you have to have incentives.
00:33:18 Kevin
There's always incentives. Biologically, biologically, people have incentives built into them.
00:33:24 Kevin
But yeah, so I mean it talks about let's see here.
00:33:31 Kevin
Low earners might pay 10 to 15% of income taxes, 10 to 15% of income taxes.
00:33:39 Kevin
So that's their tax percentage rate.
00:33:41 Kevin
Earners.
00:33:43 Kevin
So it's it's talking about our progressive tax.
00:33:45 Kevin
So you know, if you're making, you know you're making a, you know, minimal threshold, you're going to pay 20 to 25%. If you're in the top 1%, you're paying 35 to 40.
00:33:55 Kevin
Percent of your stuff, your your money into the government.
00:34:00 Kevin
So the math and how the 1% pay the majority is if your population here's, this is a hypothetical situation.
00:34:08 Kevin
So if you're paying, if you have a million people.
00:34:12 Kevin
The population of a million and total tax revenue is $2 trillion.
00:34:16 Kevin
The top.
00:34:17 Kevin
The top 1%.
00:34:19 Kevin
So 1,000,000 people earn 1.5 trillion, so they're making they're earning majority of the money. That's because of good decisions and investments and education.
00:34:31 Kevin
So if you had a better education system, you'd have more people that are educated. You wouldn't have New York State at 72%.
00:34:37 Kevin
Rate like, which is phenomenally low.
00:34:42 Kevin
We should have like a 95% literacy rate, like it's not unachievable.
00:34:48 Kevin
They pay 37% tax at that, which is $555 billion, the bottom 99%.
00:34:58 Kevin
Would earn.
00:35:04 Kevin
I think the math. Let's see here.
00:35:12 Kevin
1.5 OK.
00:35:21 Kevin
Oh, tax revenue was too is $2 trillion.
00:35:37 Kevin
OK.
00:35:45 Kevin
Anyways, sorry. All right, there's.
00:35:48 Kevin
There's just so much jargon in here.
00:35:49 Kevin
I thought I had it consolidated so that I could give it to you. Present it to you nicely, but alright, so the top 1% per the IRS in 2001.
00:36:01 Kevin
2021 sorry, the top 1% pays 42.3% of the federal taxes.
00:36:06 Kevin
Top 10% pay 74.3%.
00:36:11 Kevin
The bottom 50% pay just two point 3% and then that's often offset by earned income taxes.
00:36:22 Kevin
So.
00:36:24 Kevin
People that make out of all the people making money in the United States, the people.
00:36:28 Kevin
Are making.
00:36:29 Kevin
50% like 50% of America. The bottom 50% are paying 2.3%.
00:36:38 Kevin
And so everybody and then so.
00:36:40 Kevin
And then there's a gap in between, right?
00:36:43 Kevin
So which is 10 point?
00:36:50 Kevin
So 100% -, 2.3.
00:36:55 Kevin
You have 97.7 percent is generated by everybody making 50. The higher 50% mark of money bringing it in. So the top 10% is 74.3% and 42.3% of that is the top 1%.
00:37:16 Kevin
So if we subtract.
00:37:21 Kevin
42.3.
00:37:28 Kevin
42.3 from that 97.7 taking the 1% out the part between.
00:37:37 Kevin
51 and up, 50 and up to 99 is 55% of the taxes, OK.
00:37:46 Kevin
So 3230.
00:37:50 Kevin
So it's 32% in that last 9.
00:37:52 Kevin
So to bring it to the margin between 50 and 90, so -32% is 23 percent, 23 and a quarter and then everybody below that is 2.3.
00:38:06 Kevin
When you have people in Olean, majority of which are in the lower 50.
00:38:11 Kevin
50 they pay 23 and then.
00:38:13 Kevin
Also offset.
00:38:15 Kevin
So whatever they pay in is really offset by earned income taxes.
00:38:19 Kevin
That's not like it's 2.3% already offset.
00:38:22 Kevin
It's 2.3%.
00:38:23 Kevin
It gets offset.
00:38:24 Kevin
So they're paying even less than that.
00:38:26 Kevin
Because they're taking other tax money to give the money back in earned income credits and things like that. So.
00:38:32 Kevin
Trip. It's already at a 2.3% income ratio for our average household, and only in New York.
00:38:41 Kevin
And you're the argument to these people is well, they should have Medicaid. And in order to pay for Medicaid, instead of doing these government cuts, you need to tax billionaires more.
00:38:49 Kevin
Like they're already paying 42% like they could just go to another country.
00:38:55 Kevin
Don't have to.
00:38:55 Kevin
They don't have to be here.
00:38:57 Kevin
They could just make all their money in other countries where they're not being taxed, you know or whatever to that degree. Like they can just go somewhere else or they can shut down their business if if they're not, you know, they can just take their riches and just.
00:39:10 Kevin
Everything paid tax on it.
00:39:11 Kevin
You can't charge me tax year after year on.
00:39:13 Kevin
So I'm just going to live off of this until I die and then all of a sudden you just watch all the top presenters right off and now guess what now.
00:39:21 Kevin
The poor have to pay more. Either that or the poor will start attacking. You know, the people in the 80th percentile, because they'll actually be the new one percenters and and then those people will be like, I can barely make ends meet and they'll do the same thing.
00:39:32 Kevin
The economy collapses. So yeah, let's keep let's keep taxing the rich.
00:39:36 Kevin
The rich are already being taxed above.
00:39:38 Kevin
Will they get tax breaks and after their tax breaks?
00:39:40 Kevin
After their tax breaks, they're still paying 42.3%.
00:39:44 Kevin
That's.
00:39:45 Kevin
Just trying to like cling on to a half a percent.
00:39:50 Kevin
It's their money. They earned it.
00:39:51 Kevin
Work.
00:39:52 Kevin
They like they they made the decisions necessary to get where they are.
00:39:57 Kevin
And everybody pretends like, oh, oh, you're born poor.
00:40:00 Kevin
Poor. It's like, no, you're born poor. And by the time you die, most people die.
00:40:07 Kevin
Like in a in a well above the poverty line, you know, so even if you were born at the lowest and lowest in the poverty line and you, you work your way up and you earn money, you you still end up like you still like there's.
00:40:19 Kevin
Based on age, the people and like not everybody is just this little old lady who can't afford to fix her roof and and lives in some little, you know, town like city, like Olean. And it's just, I don't know, I'd go down a rabbit hole for days on.
00:40:35 Kevin
But we're already 40 minutes into this podcast.
00:40:37 Kevin
Sure, most of you.
00:40:39
Are.
00:40:40 Kevin
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00:40:44 Kevin
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00:40:57 Kevin
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