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[00:00:21] Speaker B: Recent international events have caused, some people.
[00:00:24] Speaker C: Think that it's about time to have some changes to the rates.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: And of course, the rates affect you. They affect your wallet, they affect your.
[00:00:33] Speaker C: Purse, they affect your retirement. They affect everything. Most importantly, though, they affect spending, because.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: When there's this chatter about rates, it.
[00:00:44] Speaker C: Usually means that we're not in the.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: Situation that we should be in.
[00:00:47] Speaker C: Of course, if anybody's been listening to me, you've already heard me say something to that effect. Right? I've been saying for a long time that we're not out of the woods and we have a long way to go and the economy's jacked up. Well, this is the evidence that I was trying to talk about. What, what's happening, right.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: Internationally.
[00:01:07] Speaker C: We have a lot of stuff happening. There's wars and also, you know, and it's not getting any easier. It's certainly getting worse. But what people don't realize is that the United States economy impacts international economies. So you have a stacked effect. You have sentiment because of war, because of, you know, things you see in the media and all that nonsense.
And then you have our economy, which has been jacked up, arguably since the pandemic, has been jacked up and has not fully recovered. Despite what everybody tells you in the media, it is not fully recovered. Then that was going to have a downstream impact. The problem is the way our government works. They don't want to just act and make a change in anticipation of further problems. They want to wait for it to become a problem and then they act.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Which is why there's so many emergency.
[00:01:58] Speaker C: Meetings and these shut down the government chats and everything, is because they wait for an actual crisis and then they, they work. They're reactive instead of proactive. When you can foresee the obvious, the.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Rushing on the climate side was going to cause problems because our whole system was never built to support that.
[00:02:18] Speaker C: I would argue our system right now, our street system is not built to support automated driving because you have to have somebody looking out for road hazards as an example. You have to have, you have to.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: You'Re assuming that people are not going to run stop signs and not going.
[00:02:33] Speaker C: To run stop lights and you're assuming that cars don't get stolen. You're making all these assumptions that are not based in any reliable data. They're going off of statistics that are.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: Skewed in their favor to try to sell the narrative.
[00:02:46] Speaker C: Because in certain places, yes, it's true.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: That carjackings are higher than other places.
[00:02:52] Speaker C: However, to me, you, you go forward based on the assumption of a problem.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: And then you build around the problem.
[00:03:00] Speaker C: So that you can accommodate the 80%. Well, doing that means you cannot go full automation. You cannot do.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: And the whole Tesla business, there's a.
[00:03:08] Speaker C: Guy out there right now making adult films where he's driving an auto Tesla while doing the filming, right? So these are things that the industry then is doing to try to get some money out of people because they see people are just reacting to the cool stuff during these tumultuous times.
Meanwhile, the government doesn't want to lock.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: Any of that down at all.
[00:03:32] Speaker C: They don't want to block it, they don't want to stop it. They're just focusing on theirs, which is, yeah, let's go to EV's, let's do the climate, and all this other stuff happens. Cars crash, trains go derailed, and all the planes doors flying off the stuff. And they ignore all that. But they're focused over here.
The downstream of all the tumultuous stuff.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: That happens with all these vehicles on.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: The right hand side, there's a, there's a cost. We just don't appreciate the cost upfront. We appreciate it later when it's too late, when the cost starts to trickle down to the government, they get in reactive mode of saying, oh, well, I guess we need more money.
Same with the wars. That's why I gave the analogy. It's the same with the wars. We funnel money like crazy to the military. We spend more money on the military than anybody else for what? Ostensibly it's to defend us, but it's actually to defend our allies internationally. This goes to something that former President Donald Trump was talking about in terms of how much money is actually being given. The percentage, right, compared to the allies.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Given for defending the partners, is basically.
[00:04:39] Speaker C: The United States is funding the whole damn thing and nobody else is putting.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: In their fair share, which is why.
[00:04:43] Speaker C: He was saying, no, you're, you're going to put in your fair share. We're going to leave this. That's where that came from. Because he knew we can't afford to keep putting ourselves out at the expense of everybody else. What you're seeing and what happened in.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: The last couple days is a downstream.
[00:04:58] Speaker C: Impact, is what it's called because of decisions where it's like, no, we got a we got to give all our money to everybody else. And then things start to get a.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: Fear pitch, and then it's like, oh, crap, we better get in here and figure out what to do.
[00:05:09] Speaker C: And then they focus on rates instead of dropping spend.
So now back to the rates.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: I gave the full circle because I.
[00:05:15] Speaker C: Wanted to connect the dots. The connect the dots is, at the end of the day, the government is.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: So focused in the wrong direction, and.
[00:05:22] Speaker C: They don't focus on the right things when the wrong things are going off half cocked. And then they come back as costs on us, cost burden, you know, essentially they'll just print more money. They're still ignoring the root causes of.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: These problems so that they are corralled.
[00:05:39] Speaker C: And meanwhile they're funneling money to other things. And in some cases too much money. And those other things, it's not, they shouldn't spend money at all, but it's too much money. And then when there's a crisis and they understand that largely we're to blame for it, then they start talking about rates. So now with rates, there was an emergency session to try to figure out, okay, what do we need to do with the rates? Because the jobs numbers came in, they.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Didn'T look good at all.
[00:06:06] Speaker C: It's obvious why they didn't look good. It has nothing to do with the amount of industries out there. It has nothing to do with the cost of goods and services. The reason that the jobs numbers came in crap is because of a rush to automation. When you have a rush to this is, everybody was saying this. When you have a rush to automation, you need less jobs. The jobs that you do need are highly skilled jobs.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: The highly skilled jobs require, unfortunately, college.
[00:06:30] Speaker C: Because of buying bias, because those recruiters.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Are not going to hire you unless you came from some college that gave you a piece of paper that said.
[00:06:36] Speaker C: That you know this stuff whether you.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: Know it or not.
[00:06:39] Speaker C: So then what does the government do? The government says, well, then we need to start waiving all this money, all.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: These loans that they owe, you know.
[00:06:46] Speaker C: That we should just make the money go away. And, you know, so then what happens? The states react and say, well, wait a minute, we need that money because some of that money comes back to them and they understand they can't just lose the money. That was agreed. Because when you do these, this is.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: Why it's all a big house of cards. It all connects together.
[00:07:04] Speaker C: And when they, the government is just.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: Reacting in each circle, right? They react in the whole student loans thing saying, well, people are settled with debt.
[00:07:11] Speaker C: We should do something. They react in the whole military business, the whole don't ask, don't tell, that was a reactive thing despite them knowing it was always there. They're just reacting when the media starts covering it.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Finally, after so many years of being.
[00:07:24] Speaker C: Suppressed, when we had the whole Covid and soldiers are being discharged, I believe, dishonorably discharged because they refused to let.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: Their body be violated.
[00:07:33] Speaker C: Then they finally react on that one. And then those soldiers are finally getting their deal years after the fact. The government keeps just going and reacting.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Only when there's a few raised that.
[00:07:43] Speaker C: Has to come from the media. The media has been told not to cover a lot of these things, which.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Is why the government hasn't been covering.
[00:07:50] Speaker C: These things with the economy. Then the media finally started talking about.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: How bad it is after so long.
[00:07:57] Speaker C: Talking about, oh, we're fine, jobs are.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Fine, da da da.
[00:08:00] Speaker C: They're finally talking about how bad it is and they're finally connecting the dots to a lot of the aggressive spin and aggressive policies and everything else to the point that Joe Biden finally started talking about, we need to fix this, we need to fix this. We need to fix this.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: Things that he should have been talking.
[00:08:14] Speaker C: About when he first got in office and wasn't because he was listening to the Greta tunbergs of the world. And so now it's gotten to a fever pitch where it's so bad, they're talking about, we got to drop the interest rates.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Finally, after years and years and years.
[00:08:28] Speaker C: Of damage, now we got to drop the interest rates.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: If they drop the interest rates, that's going to do what?
[00:08:33] Speaker C: It's going to increase the deficit because now you're not collecting as much money as you would hope to collect for the deficit situation. But what that's going to do, that's.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: Going to cause them later to threaten.
[00:08:44] Speaker C: Another shutdown because they're trying to fund.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: The government and they're adding all these other bills into it that have nothing.
[00:08:49] Speaker C: To do with funding the government and then threaten to shut down as a means of coercion because they're playing chicken with your money. This is the state of our government. So I challenge the reason I told that story, and then I'll get back to this whole interest business. I challenge anybody who swears that we're better under the Biden administration to step up and say
[email protected]. and explain exactly how that's the case.
[00:09:10] Speaker B: You feel better because you don't have.
[00:09:12] Speaker C: Mean tweets, but that's about it.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: You feel better because there's a female.
[00:09:17] Speaker C: In the vice president's seat and you.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: Feel better because there's a vice president running for office and you feel better.
[00:09:22] Speaker C: Everything's about you feeling better because of these visual things that make you feel better.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: We're not. We're still in this dei mentality.
[00:09:30] Speaker C: We're not focused on the best person for the job.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Regardless of whether we like that person.
[00:09:34] Speaker C: Or not, we have to understand that.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: That person is suited for the job.
[00:09:38] Speaker C: Joe Biden was not suited for the job. He wasn't suited for the job when he took office. He has not been suited for the.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: Job all this time and has not.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: Done anything to benefit you. When I say you, I'm referring to.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Any citizen of the country.
[00:09:50] Speaker C: He has not done anything to benefit you. He's done things to make you feel good about not having mean tweets, about not having biased media telling you about a person and talking about locker room chat and talking about porn stars and all this nonsense that had nothing to do with you. It made you feel good. They said things to make you feel good.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Do you feel good now when you.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: See that the jobs numbers are only 100,000, when normally we get like 200,000, 300,000, does that feel good to you?
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Knowing that significantly less jobs are made available? Does it feel good to you when so many businesses are closing their doors.
[00:10:25] Speaker C: For good businesses that were around for.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: 50, 60, 70 years? Does it feel good to you when all these vehicles, the amount of recalls.
[00:10:33] Speaker C: Is skyrocketing because they're rushing to EV's and they're not ready for it, so they can't manufacture it properly because they.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: Can'T find the right skill sets in.
[00:10:40] Speaker C: Order to manufacture them properly and then safety goes out the window?
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Does it feel good when you see.
[00:10:45] Speaker C: The news talking about boeings and doors flying off the freaking windows and weird.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: Biohazards, that for all of a sudden.
[00:10:51] Speaker C: They'Re happening, they weren't happening before?
[00:10:53] Speaker B: Does it feel good when you see trains derailing? Does it feel good when you see.
[00:10:58] Speaker C: The cost of goods and services skyrocket?
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Does it feel good to you when.
[00:11:01] Speaker C: You see stores and malls shut down.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: In favor of some park or some biking something?
[00:11:07] Speaker C: Maybe that does and it shouldn't. Does it feel good when Amazon says they're struggling now, the place where everybody's going apparently to get their stuff and even they are not sustaining? Do you know why? Because at the end of the day.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Everybody'S just reacting to what makes them.
[00:11:22] Speaker C: Feel good and not the right answers and they're, and they're going to feel it. And hopefully the election will get people to understand you need the person best suited for the job, irrespective of whether you like them or not. It's not about whether I like a person. It doesn't matter about being liked for the presidency. It doesn't even really matter about being respected. It matters that they're effective at the job. Joe Biden was not effective at the job. Kamala Harris as a vice president was.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Not effective at her job. So I don't know why people think.
[00:11:51] Speaker C: That she's going to be effective at a president's job. They don't, they just don't want Donald Trump.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: They hate Donald Trump.
[00:11:57] Speaker C: They don't like mean tweets and they don't want that error back.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: That's all it is.
[00:12:00] Speaker C: It's not about the best for the job for a lot of folks. So here we are with the feds having an emergency meeting, talking about interest rates, rumors they're going to drop the rates. A rate cut is going to do what? Increase the deficit? If it increases the deficit, we're going.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: To be right back into this chicken.
[00:12:19] Speaker C: Situation where they're not going to pass a budget bill and there's going to be shutdown of services and shutdown of the government and loss will be more jobs at some point. I'm imploring people to really understand the decisions you made. When I say you, I'm talking the.
[00:12:33] Speaker B: People you vote in office.
[00:12:34] Speaker C: The decisions you made got us to this point. You're not voting the right people in office. You're voting people that make you feel good and not the right people for the jobs.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: Let's hope you get it right this time.
[00:12:44] Speaker C: And I'm not even touch talking about presidency. I'm talking about Senate, too, because the Senate's jacked up. Supreme Court's arguably jacked up. We don't vote them. So that means you need the right people in the Senate and you need the right person at the presidency in order to get the good blend of Supreme Court because the Supreme Court's really jacked up. You got half and half split at this point and there just happens to be one additional one to be able to sway it.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: And that's not the way it really should be.
[00:13:08] Speaker C: Now, I do think there should be some equivalency in the views and then some dissenting views to have a fairness to it.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: But right now, this, even 50 50.
[00:13:17] Speaker C: On every case, is not sustainable. You can't, you can't have this contention every single time. It's got to be literally 90% of the judges feel this way.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: Okay?
[00:13:28] Speaker C: And there may be a couple that dissent, and that's okay because we have some different voices, but when it's a logical something, it's black letter. There should be no disagreements about black letter. If it's written in the law, it's.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: Written in the law.
[00:13:39] Speaker C: If it's not written in law, you.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Send it back to Congress and say.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: If you want that, you need to write a law. But right now, you cannot do this. It should be that simple. And it's nothing. That's a failure. And that goes back decades, by the way. But that's a failure of our system. It should be easy. We should not have the president resorting to executive orders because he can't get stuff done. And that goes back decades.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: We should not have a Congress where they literally refuse to do anything the.
[00:14:05] Speaker C: President wants to do simply because of their internal bias. But they're happy to do stemmies and all this crap which are just pittances while they send billions overseas. We shouldn't have that. Everything's jacked up.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: The focus needs to be on the.
[00:14:19] Speaker C: Country, the country proper.
Now, there was another article, and I'm slipping this in here because it's somewhat related, there was another article about the United States army, and they're pissed off, or I should say military, to be fair, the military.
And they're pissed off at Dwayne the Rock Johnson because apparently, I don't know why we got this is how bad this is. Apparently they aligned with somebody to align with some football something.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: And I don't know why our military.
[00:14:47] Speaker C: Is spending taxpayer dollars aligning on some military something and then spending taxpayer money paying Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Forbes highest paid frickin actor, and you're paying taxpayer money on this guy to market and recruit people into the military.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: So it's Yvonne et Niage all over again.
[00:15:06] Speaker C: But he was supposed to do like.
[00:15:08] Speaker B: Ten videos and he only did two.
[00:15:09] Speaker C: Of them, so basically ripped off the government. Nothing's going to happen to him.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: But why is the military even focused in that direction?
[00:15:15] Speaker C: This is what I'm saying. The military is all about, no, we.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: Need to violate your body.
[00:15:20] Speaker C: You need to get up out here. The military is all about, we should.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Put women in situations where they're in extreme danger.
[00:15:27] Speaker C: The irony that it's okay to put women in these extreme, dangerous situations in the quest for equality in the military situation that's perfectly fine, is to put.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: Them at that risk.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: But then having a female go and work this other type of job is unacceptable. The military is all screwed up too. So I'm not isolating it to the core government. I'm talking the military. They're screwed up too.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: And we're funneling money to the military.
[00:15:49] Speaker C: At a greater proportion than anything else out there.
We're in a bad situation.
I don't like it.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: I don't like what I see, I.
[00:15:57] Speaker C: Don'T like what I hear, and I don't follow it even close, but I don't like it.
[00:16:00] Speaker B: Hardly any of it.
[00:16:01] Speaker C: It's bad. So I'm gonna say again, I sincerely hope that people will vote with your brain, not with your heart this election season.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Because it's important for your future, it's.
[00:16:13] Speaker C: Important for your kids future if you have kids.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: It's important for the future of society.
[00:16:17] Speaker C: It's important for us to get back to some stability. It's important to get back to individual wealth. It's important to get back to family wealth. It's important to give back what we had and what we've lost, which is the ability to own right, to own, to have value, to have wealth, to have worth. It's so important if something happens to you and you got nothing to be able to pay that right. It could be your car, it could be your physical, it could be a family member, a pet.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: If something happens.
[00:16:47] Speaker C: These are major expenses.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: It's not acceptable anymore to simply ask you to take a portion of your.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: Salary and toss it at a bank. And that's supposed to be sufficient.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: We should have sufficient wealth around us.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: To where we don't have to put ourselves out like that.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: We should have sufficient wealth around us.
[00:17:02] Speaker C: To where a single person can work a job and be able to buy.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: A house and still be comfortable to.
[00:17:08] Speaker C: Buy the things they want to buy as discretionary, and we're not. And until we get back to that world, everything, these economy things, everything is going to keep crashing over and over the frick again.
Because individual wealth is the key. If individual wealth increases, it means you're contributing back to the economy. If we contribute back to the economy, and I'm, I am talking about a consumption tax over income tax, by the way. If we contribute back to the economy, and assuming our tax system is corrected such that it collects more from people, which is really consumption based, not income based, then we can chip away. And thus we don't need to have these standstills that we do on the budget. And ideally we think about when we allocate more money to the military versus less. Because in some cases, the military shouldn't have as much money as they do, and we should be funneling that money back down to resolve things like homelessness and the drug crisis. That's how I feel about it. And you're like, where all this come from? This came from the fact that it's a game of chicken. It's always a game of chicken. And it keeps repeating the cycle. It's a vicious cycle now. Like, seeing it, this back and forth where we keep fighting against the american people while sending money overseas bothers me. It bothers me greatly. As somebody makes a really good amount of money, I don't like seeing that money is wasted. Ultimately, my money is right now going and investing in myself because I can't.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Trust the future state.
[00:18:29] Speaker C: So I'm getting it to the point where I don't have to worry. If there is another situation where they.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: Decide to shut down off a pandemic.
[00:18:35] Speaker C: Or try to force a thing, I don't have to worry about it. And I could do my own stuff because that's what I've got to do. It's the only right answer in this situation. And I got a plan, right? My endeavor may not last forever. Who knows? I think it's a good thing. And I think they really depend on me, right, to where they want to hang me around. But who knows? Something might happen. I have to plan for that now more than I would have done otherwise.
And I think about other people, right, that don't make anywhere close to what I do. I just gave a tip, five dollar tip, to the gal at the fast food, and she acted like it was the greatest gift in sliced bread. Now, I argue that people not paying.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: Cash is the reason tips have declined. Regardless.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: I understand that there's people out there. They're not in anywhere near the situation I am, and I know why they are not. It's because the money has been devalued and our focus is wrong. And we now, we as Americans now need to start voting the right people in office who are going to take care of the economy. Because if we don't do that, it's just going to get worse before it gets better. And I don't want to see damage. Even when I'm not here to witness it, I don't want to see damage that it's obvious that it's happening and we're just allowing it to happen because we're so triggered about the way we.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: Feel about a person.
[00:19:44] Speaker C: We just don't like a person that we're willing to blockade, the people that can actually help get this thing back on track.
