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higher side chatters welcome to the show

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drinking a little drink smokin a little

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smoke in sunny San Diego I'm Greg Carl

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wood and today we're going to look at

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what's really going on in government

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what shady bills are passing what

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corporate favors are getting tacked on

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who's in whose pocket and all the not so

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good stuff with a great guest jen briny

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who runs the Congressional dish podcast

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where for two years she read every bill

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that passed the house and as you can

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imagine one learns a lot during that

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process I think this is a great show

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that gets back to the fundamentals these

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are the things we can see the evidence

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is right there tough to argue against

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and I just really wanted to throw gin on

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the THC stage because she is so good at

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what she does and deserve some credit

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but before we dive into all that today

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is the fifth show of the month so we do

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have another money bomb winner I don't

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talk about it all that much unless it's

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coming up but for the people who don't

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know I take half the donations I get in

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a month and I gift half of that back to

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a random listener on the fifth show the

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last show of every month this time

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around the winner got three hundred and

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eighty-four dollars not a bad chunk of

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change thanks to everyone who donates it

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makes this possible for me and

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contributes to the happiness of a fellow

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THC fan every month so think about that

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and here's a word from this month's

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winner they had a pretty hot mic

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apologies for that but it's only about a

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minute and then we're going to get that

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congressional dish with Jen briny on the

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hi this is sarah and anthony collins and

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our five kids and we're coming thank you

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so much for the Money bomb and was so

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happy that we found higher side chats it

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was so hard to pick which favorites we

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love so we all have our personal

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favorites but anthony loves the magic

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and false flag attacks outing and I love

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belladonna and rebuke elbow conspiracy

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with David bloom over Phoenix to see

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timing everything about the Hollow Earth

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everything we love it thank you so much

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for being a place where we can go for

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refuge and for inspiration and we're

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trying to raise five kids and influence

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the world with normal things like

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telling the truth and living each other

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and you'd be surprised that that isn't

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everything that comes into the life of a

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family so thanks for being there for us

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and for keeping things interesting our

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five kids are so happy thank you well I

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kind of a green Christmas and you're

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that with a Furby for each of our girls

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and some snowboarding boots and um daddy

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is gonna get a new conspiracy t-shirt

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and our total girl's gonna get his

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second thank you so much we love it

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you're such a great part of a shirt our

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existence and um helping us get through

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this trouble times as you said thank you

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all right people we have looked at UFO

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secret underground bases ritual magic

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occult secrets hidden history mind

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control and a ton of other aspects of

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the puppet masters plan all while trying

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to get a handle on what our government

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people who actually has jennifer briny

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is the host of the Congressional dish

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podcast where she undertakes the

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daunting task of reading and summarizing

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every bill that passes through the House

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of Representatives and as a result has

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become one of the most informed

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newspaper in the country should be doing

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own time I for one can't wait to get

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schooled in the areas we should all be a

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little bit embarrassed we don't know

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more about Jen welcome to THC thank you

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very much for having me I'm excited to

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to talk to you yeah I'm super psyched to

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I think that we're going to educate the

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people on some real practical

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information it's going to be a show

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anyone can feel comfortable sharing

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which isn't always true around here but

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you know they'll have that preconceived

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notion but I think that is so wrong

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because this is where you find the scams

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and the schemes and the corruption and

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best of all it is all documented mm-hmm

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well that's why I kind of chose this

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topic it's because it's all in the

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public domain all of this stuff is now

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of this work with a laptop and an ipad

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how I started as I just started reading

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what was actually going on in Congress

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didn't think that they I didn't think

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that they were focusing on the right

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things it was always about the horse

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race you know who's beating who where I

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wanted to know how are you spending my

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money really all came from that question

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and and now that I know I'm horrified I

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guess is the best word to describe it

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but it's it's all fascinating it's it's

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different from what you hear when you

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turn on the television it's so different

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we have more political tabloids than we

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have political news and I kind of did

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the people a little bit about that

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journey before we got really into the

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the meat of this thing so what can you

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this point well I've been doing this

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podcast for a little over two years so I

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covered 113 Congress which is each

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hundred and thirteenth congress and the

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reason that became my goal is quite

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frankly because I didn't know what I was

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learning what I was actually looking at

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Congress the Republicans controlled the

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House of Representatives and the

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Congress works I don't think I have to

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read every single bill anymore like I

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to be able to cover the house and the

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Senate and tell people what's really

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Congress are absolutely fascinating and

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congressional hearing but that's where

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they call in all these witnesses that

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are experts in all these different

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fields whether it's science or financing

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under oath you know and all of this

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nobody's watching it it's absolutely

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fascinating so I want to get the

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hearings into the podcast too so it's

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shifting a little bit but congressional

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dish the main point of it is that this

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bills you're not going to hear very much

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about Democrats versus Republicans I

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um it's more about what they're doing

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with our dollars once their governing

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see that people pay attention to

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politics only a couple times I mean

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really in this country we pay attention

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every four years for the presidential

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election which is baffling to me because

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we have no control over who becomes

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president where we get to vote in an

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entirely new house of representatives

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every two years they're all available to

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be fired and yet we're not paying

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attention to what they're doing with our

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money during the two years in between

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the elections and that's if we're paying

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attention to the house of

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representatives in the Senate at all

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know how it works they don't know who

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represents them and I think a lot if not

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all of the problems in our country stem

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from the fact that we have surrendered

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our representation to basically corrupt

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people people that are corrupted by

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corporations and by money and because of

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our negligence by not going to vote

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they're getting rehired time after time

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and and so I'm focusing on what they're

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actually doing while they're in there so

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that we can we can approach voting as

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the the job evaluation that it really is

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because there are employees and we don't

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look at it that way so that's that's

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kind of how I'm trying to change the

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conversation and well said I mean you're

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totally right we have a job in

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government as the watchdog I mean we

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know that lobbyists are buying our

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government but they don't it's because

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they don't have to make a choice between

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getting reelected and being bought

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because they're going to get a reelected

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anyway because people just choose the

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names they know or whoever's got the

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most money behind them but they'd

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probably be a little more cautious when

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choosing lobbyist money if they knew

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their constituency actually cared

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actually paid attention so what you're

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doing is is really key to changing the

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way some of this stuff is happening I

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hope so and it's you know the podcasts

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enough of them you know people paying

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attention just yet but this the reaction

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to this podcast has been so positive to

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going on and they just don't know where

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the information you know because that's

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what made me want to do this I wanted to

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find out this information and had

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nowhere to turn there wasn't you know

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the hill is probably the best source for

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finding out news about Congress but even

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the hill it focuses on the things that

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Washington DC but even they get bogged

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down stupid campaign stuff I'm

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interested in government I'm not

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interested in Democrats versus

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Republicans in fact I think those two

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sides when it comes to actual you know

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people US population I don't know anyone

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that fits in either of those two

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categories perfectly right you know yeah

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and also on all the important stuff they

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both are on the same side anyway it's

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really more corporations verse the

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people rather than left versus right or

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at least that's the way I see it

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absolutely absolutely in fact I think

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I've used that phrase on the show before

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and I think that's what's beautiful is

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that we are starting to have this

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awakening at least in my experience that

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had you said that ten years ago people

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wouldn't really know what you're talking

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about and now that narrative is just so

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clear and that's what I discovered by

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reading the bills I started reading the

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bills going ok I just want to see what's

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in these things and over the course of

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the last two years I've discovered that

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what's in every single bill is corporate

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favors that's what they're doing and

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when it comes to the two parties the

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Republican Party is almost completely

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owned by big business and they work for

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business and it's very crystal clear

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when you watch what they do and what

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they say that that's who they're working

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for and then the Democrats are all over

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the place it seems like each Democrat

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has a couple of issues that they are

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bought and sold on and then there's

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other issues where they'll actually vote

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their conscience and I call the

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Democrats the party of no principles

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because you can't count on them for

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anything some of them are in the bag for

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Wall Street and some of them are for the

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Keystone XL pipeline and some of them

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you know are just fine with dismantling

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pieces of Obamacare that are all over

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the place so in my head when I think

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about Congress i'm going to say about

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75% of them are working for corporations

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and maybe 25 and that's that's an

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optimistic number but maybe a quarter of

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them are working for the people although

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I can't say a quarter because I can

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actually name them on my ten fingers oh

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no it's not even close to a quarter

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but but that's what we need to start

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understanding and what we need to start

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fighting is the the corporate influence

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in our government totally agreed so let

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me ask you and were there some crimes

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and scams that you caught early on in

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your process that just really shocked

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you and stuck in your in your mind and

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kind of fueled you to continue uh yeah

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um early on in the process there was a

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bill and I can't remember which one it

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was but it was you know some kind of

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government funding bill and attached to

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that was something that got nicknamed

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the Monsanto Protection Act and that's

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when I kind of learned that the process

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of taking something that needs to be

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signed or you know or the government

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will shut down or the debt ceiling will

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crash our economy you know there's these

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very important bills that need to be

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signed and then they'll attach things to

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him that had they been put up separately

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would never become law and the Monsanto

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Protection Act was a perfect example of

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this and what this did is it basically

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said that if you have a plant that's

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never existed before so let's say you

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merge green beans with rat poison and so

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you have this plant and someone says hey

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FDA this doesn't look normal to me can

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you evaluate it for its safety well the

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Monsanto Protection Act said while it's

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being evaluated for its safety for human

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consumption these companies could grow

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it they could sell it they could put it

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in the food supply they could do

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whatever they wanted while it was being

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evaluated and that one actually caught

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enough fire that it was repealed six

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months later because people noticed and

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cared and so that's the good news I have

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for you is that it's now repealed the

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bad news I have for you is that for six

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months god only knows what was in your

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food but um that was one of the

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eye-opening things for me and then last

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year you know that what Monsanto

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Protection Act was a Republican thing

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you know was put on there by senator roy

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Blunt of missouri that was one party

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then i saw the two parties get together

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and i don't know if you remember a

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couple years ago 60 minutes ran a a

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special about insider trading in

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Congress do you remember this

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I do remember that yeah yeah they

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highlighted Nancy Pelosi Democrat and

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John Boehner Republican arguably the two

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most powerful ones and showed how

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through the information they get in

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there their jobs they can then go to the

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stock market and make money off of the

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information that they get and so this

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caused a big out war and so what they

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did is they passed something called the

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stock Act and the stock act was

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supposedly going to prevent insider

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trading by Congress and it really didn't

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do that but the one thing that did have

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teeth is it was going to require that

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members of Congress and their staffs and

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you know the president vice president

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all those people they would have to

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report their financial holdings and then

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there would be a publicly available

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searchable website where we people like

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you and me can go and search through

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them and try and figure out conflicts of

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interest and so it wasn't so much that

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they couldn't insider trade but we were

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supposed to be given the information

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that would allow us to find out when

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they were doing it and then hold them

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accountable so on a Thursday afternoon

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Harry Reid who was the Democrat charge

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of the Senate got up in front of an

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empty room and passed a gutting of the

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stock act it basically took that website

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and made it disappear when no longer

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exists he passed it through unanimous

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consent which means that no one says no

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but the room was empty it was no one

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there to say no and then the next day on

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Friday Eric Cantor who was in charge of

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the Republicans in the House he did the

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same exact thing and then a couple days

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later on Monday April fifteenth

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President Obama Democrat and the

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president signs it into law and then no

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one found out about it because two hours

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later two bombs went off at the Boston

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Marathon and there was no chance of this

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ever making the news in fact I didn't

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even find out about it until a week

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later because they had been so sneaky in

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Congress in the way that they passed it

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you know um you know I was paying

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attention to the house at the time and

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they have very predictable patterns

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about how they do things and there's

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these two guys they get up and they

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squabble every Friday afternoon but when

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you see that squabbling happen you know

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that the day is done and they passed

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this after

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the squabbling so I know for a fact that

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there was no one there because every

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reasonable person would have assumed

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that the day was done an hour ago you

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know and so to see the two parties get

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together not just the two parties but

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the leadership of the two parties with

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the help of the president in under four

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days gut this stock Act which they had

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signed with a signing ceremony and

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cameras and journalists and they made

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such a big deal out of it and then it

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just disappeared a year later in that

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manner um that's that was probably the

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biggest moment where I said okay and I

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can't stop doing this you know someone

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needs to know about this someone needs

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to be talking about it and the fact that

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I never saw anything about it on the

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news that was when I decided that I I

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wanted to give this a real her real go

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that is awesome you know I'm glad you

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brought up that particular stock act

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saga because that was definitely on my

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list of things to talk to you about when

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I first heard that punch line that Obama

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signed it just hours before the Boston

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bombing as a conspiracy guy I definitely

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perked up a lot of people would say that

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was just coincidence but I don't know I

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don't believe in coincidence as much as

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I used to and something so convenient is

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always going to seem a little suspicious

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to me well the reason that that didn't

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seem as suspicious to me is that April

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fifteenth was also tax day and April

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fifteenth was the day that all of the

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staffers and congressmen and the

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President and all them were supposed to

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report their financial data and so the

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fact that it was signed on april eight

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on april fifteenth made perfect sense to

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me because otherwise the people that

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didn't turn in their financial data

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which they knew the whole time i guess

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that they weren't going to know one how

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to prepare it they would have been

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breaking the law had the president not

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signed it that day so i really don't

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think that there's a connection between

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the Boston bombings I think it was

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amazing for them in so far as the media

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was distracted so express that it would

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have received was gone but I honestly

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don't think that they were worried about

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us finding out enough to you know put

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out two bombs on a I don't know it

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that's making a little far for I I do

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agree with you that I

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seemed like a big enough deal but then I

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also don't think they care about human

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life all that much I don't know it is

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just one of those weird things they got

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incredibly lucky the time is amazing

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yeah so I really love your show I think

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it should be required for all Americans

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if they listen just to that they would

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have a lot of information about what's

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going on in Congress but it was one of

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the listeners who introduced me to you

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and your work not long ago and we set

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this up in a pretty interesting time

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because it is a new year with a new

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Congress and you have been undertaking

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the massive challenge of analyzing the

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new 1600 page budget which is obviously

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an important piece of legislation and

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gives us a lot of insight into what

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they're doing full of scandals I'm sure

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so uh tell us a little bit about the

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budget what should people know well um

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there actually was quite a few things

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attached to the budget and the budget is

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a perfect example of how horrible things

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are able to become law by being attached

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to must sign legislation the

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repercussions for the president not

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signing this into law would have been

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another government shutdown and nobody

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wanted that so what congressman did is

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they just took all the things that they

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wanted to become law that couldn't have

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been become law otherwise and attached

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into the budget and the two the two

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biggest scandals without a doubt is that

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there was a bill which I dubbed the

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worst bill of 113 Congress I was furious

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about it and that was HR 992 and what

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this bill would have well does do now

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that it's law is it rolls back part of

545
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the dodd-frank wall street reform bill

546
00:20:35,820 --> 00:20:33,879
that basically said that if you're going

547
00:20:38,460 --> 00:20:35,830
to if you're a giant bank and you're

548
00:20:41,310 --> 00:20:38,470
going to gamble you need to do it with

549
00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:41,320
funds which are separate from the

550
00:20:46,409 --> 00:20:44,289
banking that you and I put our deposits

551
00:20:48,869 --> 00:20:46,419
into right so essentially they couldn't

552
00:20:51,029 --> 00:20:48,879
take my money that I'm just putting

553
00:20:54,060 --> 00:20:51,039
there for safekeeping and then go play

554
00:20:55,469 --> 00:20:54,070
with it on the stock market so this was

555
00:20:58,379 --> 00:20:55,479
supposed to go into effect I believe

556
00:21:01,049 --> 00:20:58,389
this year and so attached to the budget

557
00:21:03,419 --> 00:21:01,059
was a bill that made that go away so now

558
00:21:06,089 --> 00:21:03,429
the banks which crashed the financial

559
00:21:08,039 --> 00:21:06,099
you know world in 2008 by gambling with

560
00:21:10,980 --> 00:21:08,049
our deposits are now allowed to do that

561
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:10,990
again and this this is now law this is

562
00:21:18,450 --> 00:21:13,050
legally allowed and then the other

563
00:21:20,669 --> 00:21:18,460
scandal is that um now so since citizens

564
00:21:23,190 --> 00:21:20,679
united that that case that allows

565
00:21:27,570 --> 00:21:23,200
unlimited corporate spending on you know

566
00:21:29,310 --> 00:21:27,580
TV ads and things like that um the

567
00:21:32,610 --> 00:21:29,320
political parties are feeling a little

568
00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:32,620
left out of the game so the Democrats

569
00:21:36,270 --> 00:21:35,110
and Republicans got together and slipped

570
00:21:39,450 --> 00:21:36,280
something into the budget that now

571
00:21:41,970 --> 00:21:39,460
allows a couple to donate approximately

572
00:21:44,010 --> 00:21:41,980
a million dollars for every election now

573
00:21:46,770 --> 00:21:44,020
the the actual amount of what they're

574
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:46,780
allowed to donate is very unclear in all

575
00:21:49,710 --> 00:21:48,250
of the different sources that I looked

576
00:21:53,460 --> 00:21:49,720
at to try and figure out that number

577
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:53,470
they all had different numbers so i

578
00:21:57,390 --> 00:21:56,050
spent about four hours yesterday really

579
00:22:00,419 --> 00:21:57,400
looking at it and from what i can tell

580
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:00,429
an individual can contribute about half

581
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:03,010
a million dollars are a quarter of a

582
00:22:08,250 --> 00:22:05,410
million dollars at least every single

583
00:22:10,110 --> 00:22:08,260
year to a political party and and that

584
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:10,120
was up from i think the old limit was

585
00:22:13,890 --> 00:22:12,250
like 37,000 which is still I mean thirty

586
00:22:15,990 --> 00:22:13,900
seven thousand dollars that's more than

587
00:22:18,750 --> 00:22:16,000
then a lot of my friends make right now

588
00:22:20,790 --> 00:22:18,760
yearly salary yeah that's a lot of money

589
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:20,800
and now it's up to a quarter of a

590
00:22:24,690 --> 00:22:23,050
million so what we're just seeing is

591
00:22:27,299 --> 00:22:24,700
that these moneyed interests are doing

592
00:22:28,799 --> 00:22:27,309
things that only benefit each other I

593
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:28,809
don't know anyone the United States

594
00:22:34,410 --> 00:22:30,970
who's been clamoring and saying please

595
00:22:36,750 --> 00:22:34,420
let these banks gamble with my money no

596
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:36,760
one's written that letter but on the

597
00:22:40,950 --> 00:22:38,770
banks we're definitely pushing for it

598
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:40,960
and the the heads of the political

599
00:22:47,190 --> 00:22:42,730
parties were pushing for that stuff so

600
00:22:49,260 --> 00:22:47,200
that's you know there's that's the the

601
00:22:51,630 --> 00:22:49,270
great thing about my show is that I'm

602
00:22:53,430 --> 00:22:51,640
able to find out this stuff but the hard

603
00:22:56,430 --> 00:22:53,440
part is finding out about the stuff and

604
00:22:59,070 --> 00:22:56,440
having no way to do anything about it

605
00:23:01,380 --> 00:22:59,080
you know right I definitely get that

606
00:23:03,780 --> 00:23:01,390
frustration but just those two things

607
00:23:05,250 --> 00:23:03,790
alone are huge because banking

608
00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:05,260
regulation and getting the money out of

609
00:23:09,540 --> 00:23:08,110
politics are you know really high on

610
00:23:12,419 --> 00:23:09,550
people's bullet points on what we need

611
00:23:14,910 --> 00:23:12,429
to do to fix the system and we're seeing

612
00:23:16,650 --> 00:23:14,920
a complete opposite of that you things

613
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:16,660
are not getting better at all they're

614
00:23:20,159 --> 00:23:18,730
getting you know ten times the amount of

615
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:20,169
money thrown into politics and the

616
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:22,570
banking regulations are back to almost

617
00:23:25,530 --> 00:23:23,650
nothing

618
00:23:27,270 --> 00:23:25,540
and we expect them to do different

619
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:27,280
things this time around I don't know oh

620
00:23:31,950 --> 00:23:29,890
no they're in the thing about this

621
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:31,960
Congress which I'm trying to prepare

622
00:23:35,100 --> 00:23:33,730
myself for as much as possible as all

623
00:23:37,470 --> 00:23:35,110
the things that I saw passed in the

624
00:23:39,690 --> 00:23:37,480
House of Representatives last year I was

625
00:23:41,310 --> 00:23:39,700
able to say in a lot of cases that this

626
00:23:42,780 --> 00:23:41,320
is dead on arrival in the Senate well

627
00:23:44,130 --> 00:23:42,790
that's not true anymore a lot of the

628
00:23:47,130 --> 00:23:44,140
stuff is going to the President's desk

629
00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:47,140
and so a lot of it now has a chance of

630
00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:49,270
becoming law in 114th Congress because

631
00:23:54,630 --> 00:23:51,310
this strategy of attaching it to my sign

632
00:23:56,850 --> 00:23:54,640
legislation it works it just does and

633
00:23:58,710 --> 00:23:56,860
you know the president is not about to

634
00:24:01,620 --> 00:23:58,720
start shutting down the government he's

635
00:24:03,060 --> 00:24:01,630
not going to let our country default on

636
00:24:05,670 --> 00:24:03,070
our debt the debt ceiling is going to be

637
00:24:07,170 --> 00:24:05,680
coming up the estimates are about this

638
00:24:09,510 --> 00:24:07,180
summer we're going to hit the debt

639
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:09,520
ceiling again and so this strategy has

640
00:24:16,620 --> 00:24:13,450
been proven effective so many times now

641
00:24:18,060 --> 00:24:16,630
that um I just think we need to prepare

642
00:24:20,730 --> 00:24:18,070
ourselves in the next two years at the

643
00:24:22,470 --> 00:24:20,740
corporations they really right now the

644
00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:22,480
corporations are control of our Congress

645
00:24:28,530 --> 00:24:24,910
which means they control the laws and

646
00:24:30,750 --> 00:24:28,540
they control all our money which is it's

647
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:30,760
concerning so since you have been

648
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:33,850
looking at this for two years I'm sure

649
00:24:37,650 --> 00:24:35,410
you get a ton of insight into which

650
00:24:39,390 --> 00:24:37,660
industries and corporations are most

651
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:39,400
active in pushing Congress around I mean

652
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:41,170
of course Monsanto is going to be a huge

653
00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:43,210
one but are there other any that

654
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:44,470
surprised you were one of some of the

655
00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:46,330
other big corporations who really do

656
00:24:50,460 --> 00:24:48,130
have their tentacles deep inside

657
00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:50,470
Congress well I have to say that wall

658
00:24:54,330 --> 00:24:51,910
street in the bank's their number one

659
00:24:56,460 --> 00:24:54,340
they get whatever they want in this new

660
00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:56,470
Congress has proven already that it's

661
00:24:59,580 --> 00:24:58,450
going to do the bank's bidding the very

662
00:25:01,260 --> 00:24:59,590
first thing that they did was

663
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:01,270
reauthorize this terrorism insurance

664
00:25:04,350 --> 00:25:02,770
program I really don't know much about

665
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:04,360
that but I know that they attach

666
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:07,690
something to it which deregulated wall

667
00:25:12,330 --> 00:25:09,970
street again so that the first thing

668
00:25:14,550 --> 00:25:12,340
that became law in 114th Congress had a

669
00:25:17,130 --> 00:25:14,560
nugget attached that helped Wall Street

670
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:17,140
and then there is a package of 11 bills

671
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:20,170
that deregulates wall street again that

672
00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:22,330
just passed the house and so that's the

673
00:25:26,490 --> 00:25:23,710
first thing they're going for wall

674
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:26,500
street number one what surprised me is

675
00:25:32,550 --> 00:25:29,410
the extent to which fossil fuels

676
00:25:33,690 --> 00:25:32,560
controls this Congress it that's

677
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:33,700
probably the thing that's blown me away

678
00:25:37,460 --> 00:25:36,250
the most is the number of pro fossil

679
00:25:40,370 --> 00:25:37,470
fuel bills I saw

680
00:25:43,490 --> 00:25:40,380
and how easily they passed how many

681
00:25:45,590 --> 00:25:43,500
democrats are on board with this um you

682
00:25:49,370 --> 00:25:45,600
know it seems like such a no-brainer to

683
00:25:51,230 --> 00:25:49,380
so many of us that first of all if you

684
00:25:53,419 --> 00:25:51,240
have noticed that the weather's gotten

685
00:25:54,890 --> 00:25:53,429
wacky if you're at all concerned about

686
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:54,900
rising sea levels or anything like that

687
00:25:57,860 --> 00:25:56,730
and you listen to scientists and you

688
00:26:00,770 --> 00:25:57,870
think that the climate is actually

689
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:00,780
changing the they're doing the exact

690
00:26:04,490 --> 00:26:02,490
opposite of what you want to do to solve

691
00:26:05,870 --> 00:26:04,500
that problem even if you think the

692
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:05,880
climate isn't changing and that's all

693
00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:08,490
bunk you're still a human being who

694
00:26:11,630 --> 00:26:10,080
needs to breathe clean air and drink

695
00:26:13,310 --> 00:26:11,640
clean water and then you look at

696
00:26:15,890 --> 00:26:13,320
something like fracking which is quite

697
00:26:19,340 --> 00:26:15,900
literally poisoning the underground

698
00:26:21,260 --> 00:26:19,350
water tables and instead of regulating

699
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:21,270
that they keep trying to pass things

700
00:26:25,490 --> 00:26:24,090
that make it impossible to regulate that

701
00:26:27,980 --> 00:26:25,500
because I don't know if people know this

702
00:26:29,630 --> 00:26:27,990
fracking is exempted from all the laws

703
00:26:31,909 --> 00:26:29,640
that protect your water it's exempted

704
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:31,919
from the Clean Water Act from the safe

705
00:26:35,060 --> 00:26:33,450
drinking water act from the Clean Air

706
00:26:37,789 --> 00:26:35,070
Act it's exempted from all of that which

707
00:26:39,649 --> 00:26:37,799
is how fracking is possible because it

708
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:39,659
does all those things it pollutes so

709
00:26:44,630 --> 00:26:42,090
much and instead of trying to fix that

710
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:44,640
problem for our health and our safety

711
00:26:49,850 --> 00:26:46,650
they want to make sure that it's never

712
00:26:51,789 --> 00:26:49,860
ever regulated and it's that's the stuff

713
00:26:56,690 --> 00:26:51,799
that's really upset me the most and also

714
00:26:59,180 --> 00:26:56,700
the BP spill was so horrific yeah and I

715
00:27:00,740 --> 00:26:59,190
took a road trip about eight months

716
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:00,750
after that through the South I took

717
00:27:05,390 --> 00:27:02,730
three months got in my car with my

718
00:27:06,919 --> 00:27:05,400
husband and we just drove and I remember

719
00:27:09,020 --> 00:27:06,929
driving eight months after the spill and

720
00:27:10,820 --> 00:27:09,030
just seeing dead dolphins all over the

721
00:27:12,140 --> 00:27:10,830
beach and they were picking him up as

722
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:12,150
fast as they could but they couldn't

723
00:27:15,010 --> 00:27:13,770
pick him up fast enough because there

724
00:27:19,610 --> 00:27:15,020
were so many of them dying it was

725
00:27:21,590 --> 00:27:19,620
horrifying and then attached to must

726
00:27:24,169 --> 00:27:21,600
sign legislation there's this treaty

727
00:27:26,090 --> 00:27:24,179
with Mexico that we've now signed that's

728
00:27:28,310 --> 00:27:26,100
going to pave the way for deepwater

729
00:27:30,830 --> 00:27:28,320
drilling even deeper in the Gulf of

730
00:27:33,710 --> 00:27:30,840
Mexico than the Deepwater Horizon was so

731
00:27:36,490 --> 00:27:33,720
these decisions that we're making they

732
00:27:40,310 --> 00:27:36,500
go against everything that makes sense

733
00:27:42,860 --> 00:27:40,320
except for these policies are great for

734
00:27:44,870 --> 00:27:42,870
the multinational corporations for their

735
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:44,880
stock price for their stockholders for

736
00:27:51,350 --> 00:27:48,210
their profits and that is all that seems

737
00:27:53,750 --> 00:27:51,360
to matter to so many people the

738
00:27:56,380 --> 00:27:53,760
are making these decisions in our

739
00:28:00,280 --> 00:27:56,390
Congress but yeah those two industries

740
00:28:03,110 --> 00:28:00,290
yeah Wall Street in oil and gas I mean

741
00:28:07,130 --> 00:28:03,120
it's amazing the power that those two

742
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:07,140
alone have Wow yeah they seem to get

743
00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:09,450
everything they want it's it's just

744
00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:11,370
ridiculous but getting back to the

745
00:28:15,650 --> 00:28:13,110
budget a little bit obviously we always

746
00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:15,660
see a huge portion of that as military

747
00:28:19,870 --> 00:28:18,030
spending any noteworthy changes here or

748
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:19,880
is it pretty much stay the course

749
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:22,890
changes no but now that I'm kind of

750
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:24,330
understanding the numbers a little bit

751
00:28:30,020 --> 00:28:26,850
better we're spending well over half our

752
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:30,030
discretionary funding on the military

753
00:28:35,390 --> 00:28:32,850
and I just want people to like think

754
00:28:38,870 --> 00:28:35,400
about that for just a second because we

755
00:28:43,010 --> 00:28:38,880
spend 1.1 trillion dollars in this

756
00:28:46,580 --> 00:28:43,020
budget and over half of that is going to

757
00:28:48,590 --> 00:28:46,590
war so you know we spend 40 billion

758
00:28:50,210 --> 00:28:48,600
dollars on the entire department of

759
00:28:51,799 --> 00:28:50,220
homeland security every year and that

760
00:28:54,770 --> 00:28:51,809
includes the Coast Guard and Border

761
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:54,780
Patrol and customs and all these

762
00:28:58,460 --> 00:28:56,130
different things with Homeland Security

763
00:29:00,530 --> 00:28:58,470
the Secret Service and the FBI FBI's

764
00:29:04,340 --> 00:29:00,540
justice but whatever 40 billion dollars

765
00:29:06,620 --> 00:29:04,350
but it costs us well over 150 billion

766
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:06,630
dollars every year just to take care of

767
00:29:11,810 --> 00:29:08,490
our veterans from all these different

768
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:11,820
Wars you know and I look at how much

769
00:29:17,180 --> 00:29:14,010
these new Warships cost is just a

770
00:29:19,820 --> 00:29:17,190
billion here a billion there where

771
00:29:23,270 --> 00:29:19,830
you'll see the same congressman then

772
00:29:25,940 --> 00:29:23,280
nitpick things like food stamps which

773
00:29:27,710 --> 00:29:25,950
yeah feeding people costs a lot of money

774
00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:27,720
but it's not even close to how much

775
00:29:32,870 --> 00:29:31,049
we're spending for killing people across

776
00:29:36,530 --> 00:29:32,880
the world for reasons that I don't think

777
00:29:38,330 --> 00:29:36,540
any of us are really clear or supportive

778
00:29:40,549 --> 00:29:38,340
of you know just like oh you have to get

779
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:40,559
the terrorists will what's a terrorist

780
00:29:48,919 --> 00:29:45,330
you know um so that that number that

781
00:29:51,950 --> 00:29:48,929
just makes me insane to realize that

782
00:29:55,580 --> 00:29:51,960
when I'm paying my taxes such a giant

783
00:29:57,919 --> 00:29:55,590
chunk of it is going to that and the

784
00:29:59,930 --> 00:29:57,929
things that we're not building with that

785
00:30:03,320 --> 00:29:59,940
money we're not you know when I think of

786
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:03,330
when I think of my safety I want to know

787
00:30:06,950 --> 00:30:04,710
that the bridge

788
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:06,960
tween where I am in Oakland and San

789
00:30:10,519 --> 00:30:08,730
Francisco I want to know that that

790
00:30:15,710 --> 00:30:10,529
thing's not about to fall down because

791
00:30:18,350 --> 00:30:15,720
20 years ago it did no I'm living here

792
00:30:19,970 --> 00:30:18,360
now in these bridges fell down and we

793
00:30:21,649 --> 00:30:19,980
have report after report after report

794
00:30:24,409 --> 00:30:21,659
telling us that the majority of our

795
00:30:27,169 --> 00:30:24,419
bridges are structurally deficient and

796
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:27,179
we have one of the worst passenger rail

797
00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:29,610
networks in the world because we've

798
00:30:35,029 --> 00:30:32,240
allowed the rails to be privatized we

799
00:30:39,289 --> 00:30:35,039
there are so many things at home that

800
00:30:42,529 --> 00:30:39,299
are in dire need of repair you know like

801
00:30:44,330 --> 00:30:42,539
just cars alone like forget the bridge

802
00:30:46,220 --> 00:30:44,340
is falling down but we lose thirty three

803
00:30:49,370 --> 00:30:46,230
thousand people every single year it's

804
00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:49,380
11 911s every single year two car

805
00:30:55,310 --> 00:30:53,070
accidents which could be eliminated by

806
00:30:58,730 --> 00:30:55,320
giving people options other than cars

807
00:31:02,389 --> 00:30:58,740
for travel right maglev trains all that

808
00:31:05,269 --> 00:31:02,399
good stuff yeah trains and numb or even

809
00:31:08,269 --> 00:31:05,279
boats you know there's there's so many

810
00:31:09,590 --> 00:31:08,279
different ways for us to move groups of

811
00:31:11,659 --> 00:31:09,600
people that don't have to be in

812
00:31:13,070 --> 00:31:11,669
individual cars but there's entire

813
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:13,080
cities that guy was raised in Southern

814
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:15,090
California there's entire cities like

815
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:18,210
Los Angeles where that's really the only

816
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:21,450
option to get around right now is in a

817
00:31:24,620 --> 00:31:23,010
vehicle and there's so many cities like

818
00:31:27,110 --> 00:31:24,630
that and it doesn't have to be that way

819
00:31:29,299 --> 00:31:27,120
but instead of giving ourselves these

820
00:31:33,139 --> 00:31:29,309
other options which are cleaner and

821
00:31:35,510 --> 00:31:33,149
safer we're killing people on the other

822
00:31:40,460 --> 00:31:35,520
side of the world and that is supposedly

823
00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:40,470
our our safety measure yeah it is funny

824
00:31:45,289 --> 00:31:42,529
a collapsing bridge is so much more

825
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:45,299
security threat to us than a terrorist

826
00:31:49,460 --> 00:31:47,370
in Afghanistan but yet it just doesn't

827
00:31:52,220 --> 00:31:49,470
strike fear into the hearts of Americans

828
00:31:54,019 --> 00:31:52,230
the same way yeah and where I'm sitting

829
00:31:57,019 --> 00:31:54,029
right now there's two threats to me

830
00:31:59,720 --> 00:31:57,029
really and a big earthquake we could be

831
00:32:01,940 --> 00:31:59,730
spending a lot of money on earthquake

832
00:32:03,769 --> 00:32:01,950
warning systems because we now do know

833
00:32:05,930 --> 00:32:03,779
that you know the pressure of an

834
00:32:07,940 --> 00:32:05,940
earthquake it moves after an earthquake

835
00:32:10,370 --> 00:32:07,950
and it tends to move in certain

836
00:32:12,740 --> 00:32:10,380
directions so you can actually set up

837
00:32:14,930 --> 00:32:12,750
sensors and get warnings and you can

838
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:14,940
kind of figure out where the next where

839
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:16,770
the most pressure is and try and figure

840
00:32:18,710 --> 00:32:18,210
out where the next epicenter is going to

841
00:32:21,260 --> 00:32:18,720
be

842
00:32:24,470 --> 00:32:21,270
week if we funded that type of research

843
00:32:27,049 --> 00:32:24,480
the way we fund research into robots for

844
00:32:28,730 --> 00:32:27,059
killing people we could actually warn

845
00:32:31,490 --> 00:32:28,740
people that an earthquake is happening

846
00:32:33,350 --> 00:32:31,500
give them 10 or 20 seconds which is more

847
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:33,360
than enough to get under a table or in

848
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:35,730
our doorway and you could save literally

849
00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:38,250
thousands of people from these threats

850
00:32:41,630 --> 00:32:40,110
that we know one hundred percent are

851
00:32:43,340 --> 00:32:41,640
coming we don't know one hundred percent

852
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:43,350
that a terrorist is coming for you but I

853
00:32:46,789 --> 00:32:45,210
know one hundred percent and earthquakes

854
00:32:48,890 --> 00:32:46,799
going to get me if I sit here long

855
00:32:51,860 --> 00:32:48,900
enough and then the other one is

856
00:32:54,860 --> 00:32:51,870
tsunamis you know I'm this entire area

857
00:32:56,750 --> 00:32:54,870
is along the coast there's not a single

858
00:32:59,149 --> 00:32:56,760
tsunami warning sign there's no

859
00:33:01,190 --> 00:32:59,159
evacuation routes none of this stuff

860
00:33:05,090 --> 00:33:01,200
even though we saw exactly what happens

861
00:33:07,130 --> 00:33:05,100
in Japan and there are threats to each

862
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:07,140
and every one of us most of them related

863
00:33:12,049 --> 00:33:09,210
to nature right now which we are not

864
00:33:13,130 --> 00:33:12,059
paying attention to we're not fixing you

865
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:13,140
know one of the things that makes me

866
00:33:17,180 --> 00:33:15,210
crazy moving up here to the the Bay

867
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:17,190
Area's that we know certain apartment

868
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:18,570
buildings the ones that are kind of on

869
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:20,970
stilts in the front those are the ones

870
00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:22,770
that fall down when there's an

871
00:33:26,450 --> 00:33:25,110
earthquake and we're not reinforcing

872
00:33:28,850 --> 00:33:26,460
these buildings I don't know if we're

873
00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:28,860
just waiting for them to fall down but I

874
00:33:34,490 --> 00:33:31,710
suspect it's because the money is not

875
00:33:37,460 --> 00:33:34,500
there it's not a priority but we are

876
00:33:39,710 --> 00:33:37,470
building new ships and new drones I

877
00:33:41,870 --> 00:33:39,720
tweeted something the other day where we

878
00:33:46,490 --> 00:33:41,880
are spending our military money making

879
00:33:49,490 --> 00:33:46,500
robot jellyfish the spy on god only

880
00:33:51,740 --> 00:33:49,500
knows under the ocean so it's we have

881
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:51,750
money and we're buying things but it's

882
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:54,090
going towards really silly things while

883
00:33:59,120 --> 00:33:56,010
we neglect things that could actually

884
00:34:02,870 --> 00:33:59,130
keep us safe in a real sense of like you

885
00:34:04,730 --> 00:34:02,880
don't die you know when the bridge stays

886
00:34:06,830 --> 00:34:04,740
up and when you're your house that

887
00:34:10,270 --> 00:34:06,840
you're in is structurally sound it's

888
00:34:13,909 --> 00:34:10,280
it's hard to to deal with that every day

889
00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:13,919
that reality I hear ya well said if only

890
00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:16,020
they saw more profit in saving lives but

891
00:34:19,700 --> 00:34:18,089
obviously we have a lot of money and if

892
00:34:21,379 --> 00:34:19,710
people really don't think about it

893
00:34:22,879 --> 00:34:21,389
because they get propagandized and

894
00:34:25,220 --> 00:34:22,889
they're told that we have to make all

895
00:34:26,869 --> 00:34:25,230
these cuts and yeah we have to make cuts

896
00:34:28,730 --> 00:34:26,879
because the corporations are demanding

897
00:34:31,430 --> 00:34:28,740
more of our of our tax dollars but we're

898
00:34:32,450 --> 00:34:31,440
told the problem is welfare queens food

899
00:34:35,270 --> 00:34:32,460
stamp abuse

900
00:34:36,710 --> 00:34:35,280
illegal immigrants and not the billions

901
00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:36,720
that are going to corporations it's that

902
00:34:39,859 --> 00:34:38,820
guy who uses food stamps to buy beer

903
00:34:42,050 --> 00:34:39,869
when he should have only been able to

904
00:34:44,030 --> 00:34:42,060
buy milk yeah well one of the things

905
00:34:48,020 --> 00:34:44,040
that they put in the farm bill that

906
00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:48,030
really got under my skin is now if you

907
00:34:54,020 --> 00:34:50,730
if you buy let's say you buy a six-pack

908
00:34:57,650 --> 00:34:54,030
of soda with food stamps you can't

909
00:35:00,050 --> 00:34:57,660
recycle those cans for the cash that's

910
00:35:02,450 --> 00:35:00,060
technically illegal now although I think

911
00:35:06,050 --> 00:35:02,460
it's completely unenforceable but it's

912
00:35:07,910 --> 00:35:06,060
such a horrible thing to do to pick on

913
00:35:10,849 --> 00:35:07,920
the homeless yeah kick a guy when he's

914
00:35:13,370 --> 00:35:10,859
down yeah we've made it so hard for them

915
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:13,380
and it's all about funneling money to

916
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:14,730
big business and it makes sense because

917
00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:16,530
these people that were elected they are

918
00:35:20,630 --> 00:35:18,660
big business and they brag about it

919
00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:20,640
every day on the House floor I can't

920
00:35:23,870 --> 00:35:22,260
tell you at least once or twice a day

921
00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:23,880
someone gets up there and well I've been

922
00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:26,730
in the private sector for 45 years I

923
00:35:31,670 --> 00:35:29,220
never took a day off and I'm here cuz

924
00:35:34,670 --> 00:35:31,680
I'm a businessman and so they think

925
00:35:36,710 --> 00:35:34,680
they're doing the right thing because

926
00:35:39,530 --> 00:35:36,720
their group of friends the people that

927
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:39,540
they know are other rich business owners

928
00:35:44,839 --> 00:35:42,450
and when they go on vacation they go to

929
00:35:46,099 --> 00:35:44,849
where rich people go they don't hang out

930
00:35:48,140 --> 00:35:46,109
with us they don't see this in the

931
00:35:50,839 --> 00:35:48,150
grocery store these are not people that

932
00:35:53,750 --> 00:35:50,849
we interact with on a day-to-day basis

933
00:35:56,150 --> 00:35:53,760
they are taking care of their own the

934
00:35:59,420 --> 00:35:56,160
way that we solve that is we put our own

935
00:36:04,070 --> 00:35:59,430
into Congress instead of them and it's

936
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:04,080
it's so simple how it can be fixed and I

937
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:05,250
think that's part of the frustrating

938
00:36:13,010 --> 00:36:09,570
part for me too is that the answer is

939
00:36:15,829 --> 00:36:13,020
right there and it's it's already set up

940
00:36:17,780 --> 00:36:15,839
for us the voting system we are all

941
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:17,790
guaranteed the right to vote or at least

942
00:36:21,890 --> 00:36:19,290
they're trying to take that away too

943
00:36:24,079 --> 00:36:21,900
from from a good chunk of us but if you

944
00:36:25,790 --> 00:36:24,089
put the effort in you can go and vote

945
00:36:28,339 --> 00:36:25,800
and if we all did that this would be a

946
00:36:29,930 --> 00:36:28,349
very different country but eighty-seven

947
00:36:31,609 --> 00:36:29,940
percent this is a real stat I've looked

948
00:36:34,070 --> 00:36:31,619
this up I'm not just flinging out a

949
00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:34,080
random one eighty-seven percent of

950
00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:35,609
people under the age of 30 who are

951
00:36:42,470 --> 00:36:38,040
eligible to vote in the last election

952
00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:42,480
did not do so they just SAT it out man

953
00:36:46,190 --> 00:36:44,430
you know I gotta say I am guilty of that

954
00:36:48,079 --> 00:36:46,200
because diebold being

955
00:36:49,490 --> 00:36:48,089
charge the voting machines and it being

956
00:36:51,260 --> 00:36:49,500
held by a private company i'm very

957
00:36:53,990 --> 00:36:51,270
skeptical about the voting process

958
00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:54,000
itself but yet if that said we don't

959
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:55,710
have to make it easy for them if it is

960
00:36:58,579 --> 00:36:57,210
rigged we don't need to make it easy for

961
00:37:00,140 --> 00:36:58,589
him by eighty-seven percent of us

962
00:37:01,849 --> 00:37:00,150
staying at home if everyone got out

963
00:37:04,609 --> 00:37:01,859
there and they had a couple hundred

964
00:37:06,980 --> 00:37:04,619
million extra votes to count i mean we

965
00:37:08,569 --> 00:37:06,990
might get our way sometimes well we

966
00:37:10,490 --> 00:37:08,579
would absolutely get our way here's the

967
00:37:12,530 --> 00:37:10,500
thing that stat pissed me off royally

968
00:37:14,089 --> 00:37:12,540
when I found out about it and now it's

969
00:37:15,470 --> 00:37:14,099
my greatest source of hope it's what's

970
00:37:17,210 --> 00:37:15,480
keeping me going every single day

971
00:37:19,460 --> 00:37:17,220
dealing with all this depressing stuff

972
00:37:21,890 --> 00:37:19,470
it's because the young people the people

973
00:37:23,630 --> 00:37:21,900
that are under 30 that's a bigger

974
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:23,640
generation than the baby boomers because

975
00:37:26,930 --> 00:37:25,170
we're their kids so take every baby

976
00:37:30,140 --> 00:37:26,940
boomer well they had two to three kids

977
00:37:31,819 --> 00:37:30,150
we're a bigger group than they are born

978
00:37:33,410 --> 00:37:31,829
and so that means that eighty-seven

979
00:37:36,589 --> 00:37:33,420
percent of people under 30 is an

980
00:37:39,740 --> 00:37:36,599
untapped voting bloc and one thing I do

981
00:37:43,250 --> 00:37:39,750
know about the younger people is they

982
00:37:45,650 --> 00:37:43,260
they know what's wrong you know it

983
00:37:47,660 --> 00:37:45,660
convincing a baby boomer that the real

984
00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:47,670
sides in this country are corporations

985
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:49,710
versing the rest of us that can be a

986
00:37:53,750 --> 00:37:51,810
difficult conversation explain that to

987
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:53,760
someone who's 19 years old and they

988
00:37:57,620 --> 00:37:56,250
already know you know you had them at

989
00:37:59,690 --> 00:37:57,630
that first sentence they're on the same

990
00:38:01,760 --> 00:37:59,700
page where we run into problems is what

991
00:38:04,339 --> 00:38:01,770
do we do about it an Occupy Wall Street

992
00:38:06,470 --> 00:38:04,349
was a beautiful thing and it proved to

993
00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:06,480
me that people actually care i'm in

994
00:38:09,710 --> 00:38:07,710
oakland right now i've seen people

995
00:38:11,150 --> 00:38:09,720
marching in the street day after day

996
00:38:14,359 --> 00:38:11,160
after day that i just walked through a

997
00:38:16,370 --> 00:38:14,369
protest two hours ago um people want to

998
00:38:18,890 --> 00:38:16,380
do something I just don't think they've

999
00:38:22,490 --> 00:38:18,900
been given the answer yet this is how we

1000
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:22,500
do it specifically and I am giving that

1001
00:38:30,319 --> 00:38:26,910
answer we vote and it sounds so well I

1002
00:38:34,359 --> 00:38:30,329
know that we're supposed to vote but you

1003
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:34,369
know but it truly I didn't understand

1004
00:38:39,620 --> 00:38:37,290
how possible it was for us to change

1005
00:38:42,109 --> 00:38:39,630
things until I realized how many people

1006
00:38:44,809 --> 00:38:42,119
are sitting out for their own misguided

1007
00:38:47,540 --> 00:38:44,819
reasons I I understand that people feel

1008
00:38:49,609 --> 00:38:47,550
burned by the government and they they

1009
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:49,619
have been taught especially for the last

1010
00:38:53,329 --> 00:38:52,050
30 years that the government is the

1011
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:53,339
problem you had the president in the

1012
00:38:57,230 --> 00:38:54,810
United States saying that through my

1013
00:38:59,450 --> 00:38:57,240
entire childhood you know hmm but it's

1014
00:38:59,870 --> 00:38:59,460
not the government the government is

1015
00:39:03,140 --> 00:38:59,880
just

1016
00:39:04,999 --> 00:39:03,150
a thing that human beings control and if

1017
00:39:07,099 --> 00:39:05,009
we had better human beings controlled

1018
00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:07,109
controlling it they wouldn't be

1019
00:39:11,660 --> 00:39:08,910
controlling it in this way they wouldn't

1020
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:11,670
be spending all of the money on the

1021
00:39:15,410 --> 00:39:13,890
military and they wouldn't be trying to

1022
00:39:16,579 --> 00:39:15,420
rig the system in their own favors

1023
00:39:19,549 --> 00:39:16,589
because they wouldn't have the power to

1024
00:39:22,069 --> 00:39:19,559
do so if they weren't in office you're

1025
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:22,079
right so that's the thing that makes me

1026
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:24,690
so happy about that horrible stat is

1027
00:39:29,690 --> 00:39:27,210
that you have all these people who care

1028
00:39:32,499 --> 00:39:29,700
very deeply and it's such an easy answer

1029
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:32,509
and if you can just convince more people

1030
00:39:38,329 --> 00:39:36,450
to show up and vote it's totally

1031
00:39:40,430 --> 00:39:38,339
possible to change at all it's it's

1032
00:39:42,769 --> 00:39:40,440
possible and probable people get so

1033
00:39:46,370 --> 00:39:42,779
apathetic and they get out there looking

1034
00:39:48,140 --> 00:39:46,380
for some grand sexy answer and they

1035
00:39:50,059 --> 00:39:48,150
don't want to hear you know just go in

1036
00:39:51,620 --> 00:39:50,069
there and check yes or no you know

1037
00:39:53,210 --> 00:39:51,630
they're like no forget about that we

1038
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:53,220
need to change things like well well

1039
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:55,170
maybe that's the way it works and maybe

1040
00:39:59,059 --> 00:39:56,970
we should i'm totally with you i think

1041
00:40:00,440 --> 00:39:59,069
if that stat was flipped and it was

1042
00:40:02,450 --> 00:40:00,450
ninety percent of people are out there

1043
00:40:04,039 --> 00:40:02,460
voting and we have this mess then yeah

1044
00:40:06,829 --> 00:40:04,049
there's not really much to be optimistic

1045
00:40:08,990 --> 00:40:06,839
about but the people do have power and

1046
00:40:10,190 --> 00:40:09,000
we've been kind of taught that we don't

1047
00:40:11,749 --> 00:40:10,200
have it you know we've been taught to

1048
00:40:13,670 --> 00:40:11,759
ignore our own power and we don't

1049
00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:13,680
realize it and what you're talking about

1050
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:16,230
is just realizing the power that we've

1051
00:40:19,579 --> 00:40:18,210
always had we've just completely gotten

1052
00:40:21,769 --> 00:40:19,589
away from it and gotten completely

1053
00:40:24,289 --> 00:40:21,779
apathetic whether that's can just

1054
00:40:25,490 --> 00:40:24,299
convenience for them or by design I mean

1055
00:40:28,430 --> 00:40:25,500
does it really matter they're definitely

1056
00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:28,440
getting the results they want yeah and I

1057
00:40:34,099 --> 00:40:31,230
don't even think it's apathy quite so

1058
00:40:38,380 --> 00:40:34,109
much I think it's ignorance maybe it's

1059
00:40:41,509 --> 00:40:38,390
not ignorance it's people who feel like

1060
00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:41,519
they don't want to participate in a

1061
00:40:46,370 --> 00:40:44,369
corrupted system and that's what I heard

1062
00:40:48,289 --> 00:40:46,380
over and over again they're waiting for

1063
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:48,299
the revolution whatever the hell they

1064
00:40:52,460 --> 00:40:50,970
think that's going to be but they they

1065
00:40:54,289 --> 00:40:52,470
don't want to participate in something

1066
00:40:56,269 --> 00:40:54,299
they think is wrong so they see their

1067
00:40:58,279 --> 00:40:56,279
government using the money for drones

1068
00:41:00,440 --> 00:40:58,289
and and for doing things that are just

1069
00:41:01,609 --> 00:41:00,450
so against everything that they believe

1070
00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:01,619
in and they say well I'm not going to

1071
00:41:04,370 --> 00:41:02,670
participate in something like that

1072
00:41:05,450 --> 00:41:04,380
except you don't have a choice like if

1073
00:41:07,190 --> 00:41:05,460
you are going to sit out and not pay

1074
00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:07,200
your taxes maybe that would make some

1075
00:41:12,769 --> 00:41:10,710
sense but by not voting that that you're

1076
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:12,779
not doing anything to change the system

1077
00:41:15,430 --> 00:41:13,410
that you're

1078
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:15,440
suck in any way you can't get out

1079
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:18,210
nervous system if you're a human there's

1080
00:41:22,850 --> 00:41:20,490
nowhere for you to go we all share this

1081
00:41:24,530 --> 00:41:22,860
one planet and the the disease that's

1082
00:41:28,150 --> 00:41:24,540
infecting us this whole corporate

1083
00:41:30,620 --> 00:41:28,160
control thing this is a global deal

1084
00:41:33,350 --> 00:41:30,630
what's great about being an American

1085
00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:33,360
though is that we are running the globe

1086
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:36,870
right now so we have enormous power of

1087
00:41:42,410 --> 00:41:39,510
what happens over the entire world and

1088
00:41:45,850 --> 00:41:42,420
if we can understand that and use this

1089
00:41:49,460 --> 00:41:45,860
democracy that we still kind of have

1090
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:49,470
before it's too late to change the faces

1091
00:41:54,530 --> 00:41:52,050
that are making the rules we can change

1092
00:41:56,140 --> 00:41:54,540
the entire world and what's beautiful is

1093
00:41:58,850 --> 00:41:56,150
that the House of Representatives

1094
00:42:01,100 --> 00:41:58,860
controls the money and he who controls

1095
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:01,110
the money controls the power I mean

1096
00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:03,510
that's just basics the house of

1097
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:06,510
representatives can be voted out in full

1098
00:42:12,950 --> 00:42:09,810
every two years it was designed that way

1099
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:12,960
for a reason so that's another thing

1100
00:42:17,540 --> 00:42:14,370
that's beautiful we don't have to wait

1101
00:42:20,270 --> 00:42:17,550
very long we need this idea to spread

1102
00:42:22,130 --> 00:42:20,280
for one election and with the internet

1103
00:42:24,110 --> 00:42:22,140
ideas can spread faster than they ever

1104
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:24,120
have before if this spreads for one

1105
00:42:32,660 --> 00:42:26,970
election just vote and vote for whoever

1106
00:42:34,370 --> 00:42:32,670
is on your ballot who is okay there's

1107
00:42:35,930 --> 00:42:34,380
the other side of this and people say

1108
00:42:38,090 --> 00:42:35,940
well I don't really have anyone great to

1109
00:42:41,420 --> 00:42:38,100
vote for that's a problem we do need

1110
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:41,430
more good people to volunteer to go to

1111
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:42,690
Congress and put their names on the

1112
00:42:49,060 --> 00:42:45,690
ballot but if you just showed up and at

1113
00:42:52,610 --> 00:42:49,070
least voted for the least worst option

1114
00:42:54,050 --> 00:42:52,620
that's a step to getting better amen we

1115
00:42:55,490 --> 00:42:54,060
could reel back some of this for sure

1116
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:55,500
there's a lot of third world nations

1117
00:43:00,110 --> 00:42:57,330
that are having their natural resources

1118
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:00,120
just plundered or their entire economies

1119
00:43:04,550 --> 00:43:02,010
tanked or their governments overthrown

1120
00:43:06,290 --> 00:43:04,560
and they're really powerless they're

1121
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:06,300
looking at us like they're just waiting

1122
00:43:09,350 --> 00:43:07,890
for the first world to just stop being

1123
00:43:10,970 --> 00:43:09,360
okay with this you're kind of looking

1124
00:43:12,110 --> 00:43:10,980
it's like are you guys gonna you know

1125
00:43:13,910 --> 00:43:12,120
right in your own government here

1126
00:43:15,650 --> 00:43:13,920
sometime soon I got three kids that are

1127
00:43:17,630 --> 00:43:15,660
going to die this week it'd be nice if

1128
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:17,640
you you know did something well

1129
00:43:22,790 --> 00:43:21,330
unfortunately the the dirty little truth

1130
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:22,800
here is that a lot of times it's the

1131
00:43:26,870 --> 00:43:24,930
first world doing it to that exactly

1132
00:43:28,220 --> 00:43:26,880
yeah right and

1133
00:43:30,170 --> 00:43:28,230
that's that's the but it's not that

1134
00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:30,180
we're just sitting back and allowing

1135
00:43:33,589 --> 00:43:31,710
horrible things to happen in a lot of

1136
00:43:35,779 --> 00:43:33,599
cases and this is uncomfortable to say

1137
00:43:39,890 --> 00:43:35,789
and it's uncomfortable to hear and

1138
00:43:41,839 --> 00:43:39,900
understand but we are not exactly seen

1139
00:43:43,460 --> 00:43:41,849
as a force for good in this world right

1140
00:43:46,730 --> 00:43:43,470
now because we've done some very bad

1141
00:43:48,980 --> 00:43:46,740
things to allow multinational

1142
00:43:51,620 --> 00:43:48,990
corporations to go into every country

1143
00:43:55,039 --> 00:43:51,630
that they want to and take the resources

1144
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:55,049
and sell them for profits right and we

1145
00:43:59,870 --> 00:43:58,170
have overthrown governments all over the

1146
00:44:02,359 --> 00:43:59,880
world all over South America this

1147
00:44:04,099 --> 00:44:02,369
started in the you know 60s and 70s we

1148
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:04,109
start in South America we've done it in

1149
00:44:10,970 --> 00:44:07,650
the island nations we recently did it in

1150
00:44:13,069 --> 00:44:10,980
Ukraine you know it Ukraine didn't want

1151
00:44:16,039 --> 00:44:13,079
to sign a free trade agreement with

1152
00:44:17,720 --> 00:44:16,049
Europe and so their government was

1153
00:44:19,730 --> 00:44:17,730
thrown out their elected government a

1154
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:19,740
new one installed and oh look at that

1155
00:44:23,450 --> 00:44:21,930
they signed the free trade agreement

1156
00:44:26,660 --> 00:44:23,460
with Europe and now they're selling off

1157
00:44:29,569 --> 00:44:26,670
all of their very lucrative shale

1158
00:44:31,819 --> 00:44:29,579
formations to multinational fossil fuel

1159
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:31,829
corporations and it's a very strategic

1160
00:44:37,059 --> 00:44:33,930
place as far as pipelines are concerned

1161
00:44:39,529 --> 00:44:37,069
because their pipelines from Russia to

1162
00:44:40,849 --> 00:44:39,539
Europe that go right through Ukraine and

1163
00:44:43,999 --> 00:44:40,859
so there's all these things going on and

1164
00:44:46,009 --> 00:44:44,009
it's all done with our money in our name

1165
00:44:48,170 --> 00:44:46,019
in a lot of cases with our CIA so we

1166
00:44:50,539 --> 00:44:48,180
don't really know that it's us but it is

1167
00:44:53,990 --> 00:44:50,549
um we're funding all these things and

1168
00:44:56,390 --> 00:44:54,000
we're pissing off the entire world and a

1169
00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:56,400
big reason that us Americans are sitting

1170
00:45:00,950 --> 00:44:58,170
back and doing nothing is because we're

1171
00:45:02,839 --> 00:45:00,960
not aware of it happening you know I

1172
00:45:04,190 --> 00:45:02,849
love it when people from Europe and

1173
00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:04,200
other countries come here and they turn

1174
00:45:10,279 --> 00:45:07,589
on our news and they go oh my god is

1175
00:45:12,710 --> 00:45:10,289
this what's news here because i was

1176
00:45:14,329 --> 00:45:12,720
living in germany when the iraq war

1177
00:45:17,650 --> 00:45:14,339
started I can tell you their news is

1178
00:45:19,819 --> 00:45:17,660
different it's actually news you know um

1179
00:45:22,599 --> 00:45:19,829
and so I think if the rest the world

1180
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:22,609
understood that we're being lied to and

1181
00:45:28,309 --> 00:45:25,490
propagandized even worse than they are

1182
00:45:30,170 --> 00:45:28,319
at least they might understand where

1183
00:45:31,370 --> 00:45:30,180
we're coming from but it's at some point

1184
00:45:33,380 --> 00:45:31,380
the rest of the world is going to say

1185
00:45:35,809 --> 00:45:33,390
enough mm-hmm and that's the day that

1186
00:45:36,890 --> 00:45:35,819
I'm afraid of right and and since we are

1187
00:45:38,509 --> 00:45:36,900
kind of talking about these smaller

1188
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:38,519
countries I did want to talk to you

1189
00:45:41,990 --> 00:45:40,170
about privatization and so

1190
00:45:44,359 --> 00:45:42,000
the content in one of your very very

1191
00:45:46,099 --> 00:45:44,369
early episodes it was all about the free

1192
00:45:48,289 --> 00:45:46,109
market fallacy and this kind of touches

1193
00:45:49,940 --> 00:45:48,299
on a lot of what John Perkins talks

1194
00:45:51,859 --> 00:45:49,950
about who wrote the book Confessions of

1195
00:45:53,870 --> 00:45:51,869
an economic hitman great book great

1196
00:45:56,539 --> 00:45:53,880
examples of what happens to countries

1197
00:45:58,220 --> 00:45:56,549
that follow the policies that they're

1198
00:45:59,870 --> 00:45:58,230
trying to push here with privatization

1199
00:46:02,240 --> 00:45:59,880
and the direction that we seem to be

1200
00:46:03,559 --> 00:46:02,250
going and there's plenty of examples you

1201
00:46:05,569 --> 00:46:03,569
mentioned a couple but can you tell us

1202
00:46:06,620 --> 00:46:05,579
about some of the things that may have

1203
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:06,630
happened in a couple of these other

1204
00:46:12,620 --> 00:46:08,970
places like chili or Indonesia or

1205
00:46:15,470 --> 00:46:12,630
Argentina sure um you know Chile is a

1206
00:46:17,210 --> 00:46:15,480
really fascinating example and it's when

1207
00:46:18,650 --> 00:46:17,220
you look at their history it really

1208
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:18,660
helps you understand what's going on

1209
00:46:24,049 --> 00:46:21,930
here in the 1970s during the nineteen

1210
00:46:27,020 --> 00:46:24,059
seventy election all of the parties that

1211
00:46:29,089 --> 00:46:27,030
ran for Chile's presidency they all said

1212
00:46:30,559 --> 00:46:29,099
they wanted to nationalize the copper

1213
00:46:33,740 --> 00:46:30,569
mines because that was one of their most

1214
00:46:35,660 --> 00:46:33,750
lucrative natural resources and they

1215
00:46:37,490 --> 00:46:35,670
were controlled at the time by us mining

1216
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:37,500
corporations and the u.s. mining

1217
00:46:41,059 --> 00:46:38,970
corporations went in there and yes they

1218
00:46:42,980 --> 00:46:41,069
invested a billion dollars over 50 years

1219
00:46:46,849 --> 00:46:42,990
into building up that industry but they

1220
00:46:48,589 --> 00:46:46,859
sent 7.2 billion dollars home you know

1221
00:46:50,089 --> 00:46:48,599
so they went in and they took a lot of

1222
00:46:52,730 --> 00:46:50,099
chilean money and put it in their

1223
00:46:55,460 --> 00:46:52,740
pockets and at the same time there was a

1224
00:46:59,270 --> 00:46:55,470
phone company which owns like seventy

1225
00:47:01,069 --> 00:46:59,280
percent of Chile's phone infrastructure

1226
00:47:03,740 --> 00:47:01,079
and they wanted the national eyes that

1227
00:47:06,250 --> 00:47:03,750
too and so the guy that won the

1228
00:47:10,309 --> 00:47:06,260
presidency one on this national

1229
00:47:13,730 --> 00:47:10,319
nationalization plan and the CIA threw

1230
00:47:16,099 --> 00:47:13,740
him out and they the new government used

1231
00:47:17,750 --> 00:47:16,109
something called the brick which was an

1232
00:47:20,270 --> 00:47:17,760
economic program that was based on

1233
00:47:22,099 --> 00:47:20,280
Milton Friedman's free market ideas and

1234
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:22,109
here's the thing about free market

1235
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:25,410
theory it's a theory it's never ever

1236
00:47:30,890 --> 00:47:28,770
been in existence there's never been a

1237
00:47:33,740 --> 00:47:30,900
true free market because at some point

1238
00:47:36,109 --> 00:47:33,750
rules need to be made you know the whole

1239
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:36,119
world can't exist just for profit it's

1240
00:47:40,490 --> 00:47:38,010
because then there's no morals

1241
00:47:43,339 --> 00:47:40,500
calculated into it so exactly but the

1242
00:47:45,530 --> 00:47:43,349
the the phrase free market has gotten to

1243
00:47:48,319 --> 00:47:45,540
the point now that people just assume oh

1244
00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:48,329
well we want a free market it is good it

1245
00:47:52,970 --> 00:47:50,730
shall be the goal so they kind of sold

1246
00:47:53,989 --> 00:47:52,980
this to chill a before they even did it

1247
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:53,999
to us here

1248
00:47:59,239 --> 00:47:56,729
and so these free market ideas were were

1249
00:48:01,099 --> 00:47:59,249
put forth by the the new guy that was

1250
00:48:02,629 --> 00:48:01,109
installed at a CIA in his name you've

1251
00:48:05,869 --> 00:48:02,639
probably heard of him augusto pinochet

1252
00:48:08,479 --> 00:48:05,879
and what he did he privatized the banks

1253
00:48:10,549 --> 00:48:08,489
he opened the borders to foreign imports

1254
00:48:11,779 --> 00:48:10,559
he cut government spending by ten

1255
00:48:13,669 --> 00:48:11,789
percent while at the same time

1256
00:48:16,249 --> 00:48:13,679
increasing the funding for the military

1257
00:48:17,959 --> 00:48:16,259
and he eliminated eliminated all price

1258
00:48:19,939 --> 00:48:17,969
controls so if the government had said

1259
00:48:21,829 --> 00:48:19,949
you know your phone bill can only be

1260
00:48:23,769 --> 00:48:21,839
five dollars well then that just

1261
00:48:25,789 --> 00:48:23,779
disappeared now your phone bill can be

1262
00:48:28,279 --> 00:48:25,799
$55 we see that here in this country

1263
00:48:29,869 --> 00:48:28,289
with our internet you know like there's

1264
00:48:31,879 --> 00:48:29,879
no reason it should cable and internet

1265
00:48:34,519 --> 00:48:31,889
should be this expensive except you only

1266
00:48:36,939 --> 00:48:34,529
have one company to choose from so all

1267
00:48:39,619 --> 00:48:36,949
of this stuff was made legal in Chile

1268
00:48:41,089 --> 00:48:39,629
naturally the people were pissed and so

1269
00:48:42,979 --> 00:48:41,099
Pinochet took to murdering and torturing

1270
00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:42,989
people to keep the population under

1271
00:48:48,139 --> 00:48:45,569
control and here in the United States we

1272
00:48:51,609 --> 00:48:48,149
haven't quite well we've kinda don their

1273
00:48:54,049 --> 00:48:51,619
asthma no Eric garner how he's doing

1274
00:48:55,849 --> 00:48:54,059
we're not quite there yet but we do have

1275
00:48:58,969 --> 00:48:55,859
so many people that are locked up in

1276
00:49:00,499 --> 00:48:58,979
prisons and we have minimums of the

1277
00:49:02,359 --> 00:49:00,509
number of people we need to keep locked

1278
00:49:06,319 --> 00:49:02,369
in cages so we're kind of on this track

1279
00:49:07,519 --> 00:49:06,329
and so in so Pinochet goes murderers

1280
00:49:10,279 --> 00:49:07,529
tortures people to keep him under

1281
00:49:12,349 --> 00:49:10,289
control and by 1975 five years after

1282
00:49:14,479 --> 00:49:12,359
this coup he had cut public spending by

1283
00:49:16,969 --> 00:49:14,489
twenty-seven percent and by 1980 it was

1284
00:49:18,469 --> 00:49:16,979
cut in half and the results of that

1285
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:18,479
where that unemployment went up from

1286
00:49:21,979 --> 00:49:20,249
three to twenty percent here in this

1287
00:49:23,539 --> 00:49:21,989
country you know that unemployment's

1288
00:49:25,699 --> 00:49:23,549
gone up here and they're rigging the

1289
00:49:26,929 --> 00:49:25,709
numbers by the way so all the time that

1290
00:49:29,419 --> 00:49:26,939
they're getting on the TV and saying

1291
00:49:31,489 --> 00:49:29,429
unemployment's down to five percent BS

1292
00:49:33,139 --> 00:49:31,499
it's down to five percent what happens

1293
00:49:35,749 --> 00:49:33,149
is if you're unemployed for long enough

1294
00:49:37,819 --> 00:49:35,759
and you stop looking for a job you just

1295
00:49:39,349 --> 00:49:37,829
magically don't count anymore and so

1296
00:49:42,169 --> 00:49:39,359
that's one of the reasons that's going

1297
00:49:44,149 --> 00:49:42,179
down so unemployment went up in Chile

1298
00:49:46,069 --> 00:49:44,159
just as it's going here the public

1299
00:49:47,599 --> 00:49:46,079
schools were replaced by voucher systems

1300
00:49:49,339 --> 00:49:47,609
and charter schools which you'll hear a

1301
00:49:51,529 --> 00:49:49,349
lot about in this new Congress it's a

1302
00:49:54,829 --> 00:49:51,539
big-time goal health care became

1303
00:49:56,179 --> 00:49:54,839
pay-as-you-go which is when you hear the

1304
00:49:59,089 --> 00:49:56,189
people in Congress saying they want to

1305
00:50:02,119 --> 00:49:59,099
repeal Obamacare they want to make the

1306
00:50:04,309 --> 00:50:02,129
rules go away and have you pay to stay

1307
00:50:06,229 --> 00:50:04,319
alive because it's huge for profit so

1308
00:50:07,790 --> 00:50:06,239
they did that in Chile they privatize

1309
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:07,800
Chile social security system

1310
00:50:13,610 --> 00:50:09,210
which they're also going to try to do

1311
00:50:16,310 --> 00:50:13,620
this year in our Congress and in 1982 12

1312
00:50:17,990 --> 00:50:16,320
years after this began Shelley's economy

1313
00:50:19,430 --> 00:50:18,000
crashed and their debt exploded and

1314
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:19,440
their unemployment hit thirty percent

1315
00:50:24,260 --> 00:50:22,290
and you know by the end of the 1980s

1316
00:50:26,180 --> 00:50:24,270
half the population was below the

1317
00:50:27,740 --> 00:50:26,190
poverty line yet the richest ten percent

1318
00:50:30,620 --> 00:50:27,750
of Chileans had seen their incomes

1319
00:50:33,410 --> 00:50:30,630
increased by like eighty-five percent so

1320
00:50:35,540 --> 00:50:33,420
you know so much of that just mirrors

1321
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:35,550
what's happening here we all know that

1322
00:50:41,930 --> 00:50:39,090
the income inequality is getting worse

1323
00:50:44,810 --> 00:50:41,940
and worse and worse and it's because in

1324
00:50:47,900 --> 00:50:44,820
large part to these free market economic

1325
00:50:50,690 --> 00:50:47,910
theories you know yeah and then that's

1326
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:50,700
the reason that look at the clothes

1327
00:50:55,820 --> 00:50:52,290
you're wearing right now they're

1328
00:50:58,100 --> 00:50:55,830
probably from China Indonesia you know

1329
00:51:00,140 --> 00:50:58,110
your TV is definitely from somewhere

1330
00:51:02,210 --> 00:51:00,150
else everything we have now none of it

1331
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:02,220
is made in America and this was a part

1332
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:05,370
of it too Detroit is a ruined city

1333
00:51:09,770 --> 00:51:07,890
because our entire industry all those

1334
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:09,780
factories all those car companies they

1335
00:51:15,710 --> 00:51:12,090
all disappeared and they went with free

1336
00:51:18,020 --> 00:51:15,720
market permission to go and find people

1337
00:51:20,150 --> 00:51:18,030
that would work for pennies you know

1338
00:51:21,650 --> 00:51:20,160
right um and so all this stuff that we

1339
00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:21,660
did to other countries well we've done

1340
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:23,250
this around the world now and now

1341
00:51:25,910 --> 00:51:24,810
they're just bringing the ideas home and

1342
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:25,920
we're going to suffer for this but it

1343
00:51:29,990 --> 00:51:28,770
was never about America these people

1344
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:30,000
aren't working for the United States

1345
00:51:34,070 --> 00:51:32,370
they're working for the multinationals

1346
00:51:36,230 --> 00:51:34,080
and until we understand that we're not

1347
00:51:38,810 --> 00:51:36,240
gonna change it yeah it drives me nuts

1348
00:51:40,430 --> 00:51:38,820
when people actually talk about the

1349
00:51:41,810 --> 00:51:40,440
minimum wage like we should we should

1350
00:51:43,970 --> 00:51:41,820
get rid of the minimum wage and it's

1351
00:51:46,940 --> 00:51:43,980
like are you crazy what if corporations

1352
00:51:48,860 --> 00:51:46,950
ever paid you more just because you were

1353
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:48,870
worth it you know obviously it's going

1354
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:50,850
to be worse wages know like oh well

1355
00:51:54,950 --> 00:51:52,290
these corporations would be able to hire

1356
00:51:57,410 --> 00:51:54,960
more people sure McDonald's can hire two

1357
00:51:59,450 --> 00:51:57,420
thousand people at four cents an hour is

1358
00:52:01,730 --> 00:51:59,460
that a good thing unemployment will go

1359
00:52:03,380 --> 00:52:01,740
down yeah but at what cost you know it's

1360
00:52:04,910 --> 00:52:03,390
not like you can have a living wage like

1361
00:52:06,590 --> 00:52:04,920
if you don't have a living wage I don't

1362
00:52:08,660 --> 00:52:06,600
consider you employed all those people

1363
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:08,670
that are getting screwed over at walmart

1364
00:52:14,150 --> 00:52:10,530
I consider those people barely employed

1365
00:52:15,890 --> 00:52:14,160
we've had stats where the the amount of

1366
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:15,900
public assistance those people need to

1367
00:52:19,550 --> 00:52:18,330
get by is staggering so basically they

1368
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:19,560
don't have to pay their own employees

1369
00:52:23,060 --> 00:52:21,090
they have some weird

1370
00:52:25,430 --> 00:52:23,070
nebulous state between kind of a slave

1371
00:52:27,410 --> 00:52:25,440
and a person that can we live a

1372
00:52:29,780 --> 00:52:27,420
respectable life on the wages they earn

1373
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:29,790
at their job yes messed up yeah it's

1374
00:52:33,410 --> 00:52:31,170
very messed up and that's why free

1375
00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:33,420
market doesn't work because of course if

1376
00:52:37,460 --> 00:52:35,310
there's a lot of people unemployed and

1377
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:37,470
they'll work for anything they can get

1378
00:52:41,180 --> 00:52:39,450
well the market says pay him as little

1379
00:52:43,220 --> 00:52:41,190
as possible that's what's best for the

1380
00:52:44,930 --> 00:52:43,230
market that's what's best for and the

1381
00:52:46,550 --> 00:52:44,940
market is the stock market that's what's

1382
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:46,560
best for the stockholders the people

1383
00:52:49,130 --> 00:52:47,850
that sit around and wait for their

1384
00:52:51,050 --> 00:52:49,140
checks to come in the people who make

1385
00:52:53,090 --> 00:52:51,060
money with the money they already have

1386
00:52:55,310 --> 00:52:53,100
but the people who actually work which

1387
00:52:57,020 --> 00:52:55,320
are human beings in order to make sure

1388
00:52:58,610 --> 00:52:57,030
that they have enough food on their

1389
00:53:01,520 --> 00:52:58,620
table and they're getting compensated

1390
00:53:04,670 --> 00:53:01,530
fairly you need to have rules and by

1391
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:04,680
definition a market with rules is not

1392
00:53:10,910 --> 00:53:08,370
completely free and so this whole it's a

1393
00:53:14,420 --> 00:53:10,920
fascinating thing away it was able to be

1394
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:14,430
taught in universities not only in our

1395
00:53:20,780 --> 00:53:16,530
country but around the world and people

1396
00:53:23,030 --> 00:53:20,790
just buy this theory all the people that

1397
00:53:26,510 --> 00:53:23,040
buy into free market they sound

1398
00:53:29,660 --> 00:53:26,520
religious right now it's true it's

1399
00:53:32,060 --> 00:53:29,670
amazing and they can they only come back

1400
00:53:34,850 --> 00:53:32,070
with theoretical explanations because

1401
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:34,860
there isn't a single example of it ever

1402
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:38,490
working in all of human history but yet

1403
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:40,770
we're still our government right now our

1404
00:53:45,290 --> 00:53:43,170
Congress the ones making the rules they

1405
00:53:46,790 --> 00:53:45,300
believe in this stuff wholeheartedly and

1406
00:53:48,410 --> 00:53:46,800
it's not just the Republicans the

1407
00:53:52,190 --> 00:53:48,420
Democrats talk about the free market all

1408
00:53:53,510 --> 00:53:52,200
the time they've all I don't know if

1409
00:53:55,130 --> 00:53:53,520
they've bought into the theories but

1410
00:53:57,590 --> 00:53:55,140
they're sure buying into the language

1411
00:53:59,720 --> 00:53:57,600
and they're using it in order to get

1412
00:54:03,440 --> 00:53:59,730
these things passed I mean and the thing

1413
00:54:05,300 --> 00:54:03,450
specifically that the free market ideas

1414
00:54:06,980 --> 00:54:05,310
push is that the government needs to

1415
00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:06,990
remove all rules and regulations

1416
00:54:11,450 --> 00:54:08,730
standing in the way of the accumulation

1417
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:11,460
of profits they need to sell off any

1418
00:54:14,750 --> 00:54:13,410
assets that the government owns that

1419
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:14,760
corporations could be running for a

1420
00:54:19,910 --> 00:54:17,850
profit and funding of social programs

1421
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:19,920
needs to be cut back dramatically those

1422
00:54:23,750 --> 00:54:22,170
are really the three pillars and if you

1423
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:23,760
look at what's happening in Congress

1424
00:54:28,460 --> 00:54:25,530
through my show or through your own

1425
00:54:31,490 --> 00:54:28,470
research or whatever it makes perfect

1426
00:54:33,290 --> 00:54:31,500
sense right it all falls into place you

1427
00:54:34,460 --> 00:54:33,300
can turn on c-span right now and

1428
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:34,470
understand exactly

1429
00:54:37,820 --> 00:54:36,330
they're doing when you understand that

1430
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:37,830
they're trying to remove all rules and

1431
00:54:43,609 --> 00:54:39,570
regulations that stand in the way of

1432
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:43,619
profits it all makes sense it does and I

1433
00:54:47,060 --> 00:54:44,970
wanted to ask you a little bit about the

1434
00:54:49,820 --> 00:54:47,070
crime and corruption increased with the

1435
00:54:51,710 --> 00:54:49,830
rise of military privatization because

1436
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:51,720
when we see the privatization go

1437
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:53,450
specifically into the military this is a

1438
00:54:58,010 --> 00:54:55,890
huge problem because this is life or

1439
00:55:00,470 --> 00:54:58,020
death for people and we're outsourcing

1440
00:55:02,510 --> 00:55:00,480
it and one thing I didn't even know

1441
00:55:04,339 --> 00:55:02,520
about was these burn pits can you tell

1442
00:55:05,780 --> 00:55:04,349
us about them I learned this from your

1443
00:55:08,599 --> 00:55:05,790
show and it really pissed me off because

1444
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:08,609
I had no idea that anything so blatant

1445
00:55:13,490 --> 00:55:10,650
and so bold was going on in terms of

1446
00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:13,500
waste well yeah this went on for over 10

1447
00:55:18,230 --> 00:55:15,510
years in fact I'm I think they just

1448
00:55:20,750 --> 00:55:18,240
stopped doing it in June of 2013 and

1449
00:55:23,540 --> 00:55:20,760
what it was is that in Afghanistan in

1450
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:23,550
particular but also in Iraq companies

1451
00:55:27,950 --> 00:55:25,890
like KBR caviar is a subsidiary of

1452
00:55:31,849 --> 00:55:27,960
Halliburton which is Dick Cheney's

1453
00:55:35,270 --> 00:55:31,859
company KBR was given a massive contract

1454
00:55:37,730 --> 00:55:35,280
to get rid of the trash on the bases in

1455
00:55:39,980 --> 00:55:37,740
Iraq and Afghanistan willing instead of

1456
00:55:41,270 --> 00:55:39,990
recycling and shipping it to wherever it

1457
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:41,280
needs to go stuff like that they just

1458
00:55:48,050 --> 00:55:43,650
put it in giant holes in the ground and

1459
00:55:50,750 --> 00:55:48,060
set it on fire and and also what they

1460
00:55:52,550 --> 00:55:50,760
would do is let's say you know the group

1461
00:55:54,829 --> 00:55:52,560
was leaving Fallujah and going to

1462
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:54,839
another city in Iraq instead of moving

1463
00:55:59,660 --> 00:55:57,050
all that stuff they would throw the

1464
00:56:00,920 --> 00:55:59,670
computers and the clothes and the boots

1465
00:56:02,780 --> 00:56:00,930
and all these things that were sometimes

1466
00:56:05,030 --> 00:56:02,790
perfectly fine some of them perfectly

1467
00:56:07,310 --> 00:56:05,040
knew they'd throw them in the burn pits

1468
00:56:10,010 --> 00:56:07,320
set them on fire and then they'd have to

1469
00:56:12,740 --> 00:56:10,020
buy new ones and so it's all this big

1470
00:56:16,190 --> 00:56:12,750
scam in order to buy more stuff from the

1471
00:56:17,900 --> 00:56:16,200
military-industrial complex and and one

1472
00:56:20,870 --> 00:56:17,910
of the problems we're having now like I

1473
00:56:22,670 --> 00:56:20,880
said we're spending well over where is

1474
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:22,680
that stat I wrote it down yesterday but

1475
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:25,530
we am are spending like 150 billion

1476
00:56:30,829 --> 00:56:28,290
dollars this year which is an enormous

1477
00:56:32,030 --> 00:56:30,839
number treating our veterans and one of

1478
00:56:33,980 --> 00:56:32,040
the diseases that we're finding that

1479
00:56:35,599 --> 00:56:33,990
they have is this really nasty lung

1480
00:56:38,450 --> 00:56:35,609
disease because they're breathing in

1481
00:56:41,180 --> 00:56:38,460
plastic and jet fuel and all this stuff

1482
00:56:43,099 --> 00:56:41,190
that was in the burn pits and these burn

1483
00:56:44,690 --> 00:56:43,109
pits were just going nonstop and if the

1484
00:56:46,830 --> 00:56:44,700
wind would blow you had no choice you

1485
00:56:48,450 --> 00:56:46,840
had to bring it breathe it in

1486
00:56:49,650 --> 00:56:48,460
and this wasn't just the Bush

1487
00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:49,660
administration this was the Obama

1488
00:56:54,690 --> 00:56:51,250
administration to it didn't stop until

1489
00:56:56,490 --> 00:56:54,700
very very recently hmm yeah that's so

1490
00:56:58,380 --> 00:56:56,500
messed up the idea that they'd even

1491
00:57:00,180 --> 00:56:58,390
throw away good stuff it's like wolf if

1492
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:00,190
you've got a blank check if you've got

1493
00:57:04,410 --> 00:57:01,810
an unlimited credit card from the

1494
00:57:05,850 --> 00:57:04,420
American public why not why not just

1495
00:57:07,230 --> 00:57:05,860
burn all the stuff and buy it again it'd

1496
00:57:08,580 --> 00:57:07,240
be great if I could go back to all the

1497
00:57:10,170 --> 00:57:08,590
people who've bought a t-shirt from me

1498
00:57:11,790 --> 00:57:10,180
over the past three years and just

1499
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:11,800
destroy them and tell them all it just

1500
00:57:15,570 --> 00:57:13,330
buy another one it's cool we're gonna

1501
00:57:16,980 --> 00:57:15,580
just keep doing this yeah and if you

1502
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:16,990
google it right now you can see pictures

1503
00:57:21,630 --> 00:57:20,050
of trucks in the burn pits you know so

1504
00:57:23,910 --> 00:57:21,640
oh the truck boat down well let's burn

1505
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:23,920
it and buy a new one and they did right

1506
00:57:27,570 --> 00:57:25,530
all because we're not paying attention

1507
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:27,580
because we're not paying attention and

1508
00:57:34,350 --> 00:57:31,570
because privatization and the the making

1509
00:57:36,450 --> 00:57:34,360
of profits for these companies was the

1510
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:36,460
goal you know we weren't trying to bring

1511
00:57:39,990 --> 00:57:38,890
freedom to Iraq that's total crap we are

1512
00:57:42,090 --> 00:57:40,000
trying to bring oil to the

1513
00:57:45,750 --> 00:57:42,100
multinationals and we were trying to

1514
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:45,760
make a rack into this this free market

1515
00:57:50,730 --> 00:57:48,490
utopia like like I said never existed

1516
00:57:52,620 --> 00:57:50,740
well they tried in Iraq they tried to

1517
00:57:55,590 --> 00:57:52,630
wipe the slate clean and create this

1518
00:57:57,870 --> 00:57:55,600
free market zone and it just didn't work

1519
00:57:59,730 --> 00:57:57,880
out that well you know you had all these

1520
00:58:01,770 --> 00:57:59,740
companies in there with absolutely no

1521
00:58:03,750 --> 00:58:01,780
rules it was a market that was free and

1522
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:03,760
what you found is that companies took

1523
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:05,650
the money that they were given and cut

1524
00:58:11,100 --> 00:58:08,290
corners so we've had people in our

1525
00:58:13,590 --> 00:58:11,110
military get electrocuted because we

1526
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:13,600
contracted out the building of the

1527
00:58:17,610 --> 00:58:15,970
showers in our military bases we

1528
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:17,620
contracted out everything but this is

1529
00:58:22,860 --> 00:58:20,770
one example and they did shoddy wiring

1530
00:58:24,990 --> 00:58:22,870
they did a bad job and it electrocuted

1531
00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:25,000
our troops this continues to this day so

1532
00:58:31,050 --> 00:58:27,580
and here's the other thing with this too

1533
00:58:33,450 --> 00:58:31,060
from a financial standpoint not only is

1534
00:58:35,940 --> 00:58:33,460
the work probably not going to be done

1535
00:58:38,850 --> 00:58:35,950
that well if there's no rules but it's

1536
00:58:41,670 --> 00:58:38,860
also far more expensive to privatize

1537
00:58:44,070 --> 00:58:41,680
your military functions because we pay

1538
00:58:47,010 --> 00:58:44,080
our our military guys some of them as

1539
00:58:49,410 --> 00:58:47,020
low as 19 thousand dollars a year but

1540
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:49,420
almost all contractors get six figures

1541
00:58:54,150 --> 00:58:51,850
they get between 100 and 250 thousand

1542
00:58:56,340 --> 00:58:54,160
dollars a year and I am I lived in

1543
00:58:58,599 --> 00:58:56,350
Hawaii for quite a while which is a

1544
00:59:01,720 --> 00:58:58,609
military base basically

1545
00:59:04,839 --> 00:59:01,730
and i found out that these guys who were

1546
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:04,849
going and were the face of this war you

1547
00:59:09,460 --> 00:59:06,890
know going out and risking their lives

1548
00:59:11,349 --> 00:59:09,470
every day they were getting paid about

1549
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:11,359
thirty thousand dollars a year while the

1550
00:59:17,049 --> 00:59:13,970
girl that sat all day next to their

1551
00:59:19,870 --> 00:59:17,059
computers and turned them on was making

1552
00:59:22,029 --> 00:59:19,880
150 thousand dollars yet all of that

1553
00:59:24,130 --> 00:59:22,039
comes from the same source all of that

1554
00:59:26,319 --> 00:59:24,140
is US taxpayer money it's just a matter

1555
00:59:28,210 --> 00:59:26,329
of where it goes and then what you find

1556
00:59:30,279 --> 00:59:28,220
is that these people they're not stupid

1557
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:30,289
these military guys they'll say all

1558
00:59:33,579 --> 00:59:31,970
right well screw the Marines I'm going

1559
00:59:35,319 --> 00:59:33,589
to go work for black water and make five

1560
00:59:37,930 --> 00:59:35,329
times as much money doing the exact same

1561
00:59:39,519 --> 00:59:37,940
thing and it's not just the war fighters

1562
00:59:41,890 --> 00:59:39,529
you see this with all kinds of different

1563
00:59:43,989 --> 00:59:41,900
things you see it with intelligence in

1564
00:59:46,329 --> 00:59:43,999
with cybersecurity you can either work

1565
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:46,339
for the government or you can work for

1566
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:48,170
the private sector the only difference

1567
00:59:52,930 --> 00:59:50,210
between the job description is that one

1568
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:52,940
pays a lot more money but it's all

1569
00:59:59,890 --> 00:59:57,170
taxpayer-funded and if the goal is to

1570
01:00:02,559 --> 00:59:59,900
increase the value of the shares of that

1571
01:00:05,410 --> 01:00:02,569
company it's a brilliant strategy if the

1572
01:00:07,299 --> 01:00:05,420
goal is to have a functional government

1573
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:07,309
that collects as little and tax money as

1574
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:10,730
possible it's a horrible strategy and

1575
01:00:14,319 --> 01:00:12,650
and then there's also the lack of

1576
01:00:15,279 --> 01:00:14,329
accountability which is a big big deal

1577
01:00:19,089 --> 01:00:15,289
when you talk about military

1578
01:00:22,359 --> 01:00:19,099
privatization because in Iraq it was a

1579
01:00:24,910 --> 01:00:22,369
special especially bad because they they

1580
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:24,920
rigged the Iraqi laws to wear no

1581
01:00:30,789 --> 01:00:26,450
contractors could be held accountable

1582
01:00:32,829 --> 01:00:30,799
for anything and so you had people being

1583
01:00:34,450 --> 01:00:32,839
raped in shipping containers you had

1584
01:00:37,599 --> 01:00:34,460
people being gunned down in the streets

1585
01:00:39,940 --> 01:00:37,609
you had all of this these crimes these

1586
01:00:42,460 --> 01:00:39,950
outright crimes that were taking place

1587
01:00:44,769 --> 01:00:42,470
being paid for with our tax money and no

1588
01:00:46,809 --> 01:00:44,779
one goes to jail for this and the thing

1589
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:46,819
is when you have contractors instead of

1590
01:00:52,809 --> 01:00:49,730
military people the military has a code

1591
01:00:56,140 --> 01:00:52,819
of contact the code of conduct the

1592
01:00:58,089 --> 01:00:56,150
military has rules that are not rules

1593
01:00:59,499 --> 01:00:58,099
and has standards that you have to meet

1594
01:01:01,720 --> 01:00:59,509
before you'll even be accepted

1595
01:01:03,220 --> 01:01:01,730
contractors don't have any of that so a

1596
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:03,230
lot of the people that worked for

1597
01:01:09,339 --> 01:01:06,410
Pinochet in Chile and in a working in

1598
01:01:11,170 --> 01:01:09,349
Iraq for the private contractors so if

1599
01:01:11,890 --> 01:01:11,180
you're a rocky you're seeing someone

1600
01:01:13,750 --> 01:01:11,900
working for

1601
01:01:16,750 --> 01:01:13,760
the American army they're not American

1602
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:16,760
they're Chilean they're monsters but

1603
01:01:22,299 --> 01:01:18,650
they the Iraqis don't know any different

1604
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:22,309
we're paying them you know mm-hmm so you

1605
01:01:26,740 --> 01:01:24,890
have this you have the actual military

1606
01:01:29,170 --> 01:01:26,750
and then you have the secret military

1607
01:01:30,519 --> 01:01:29,180
and the secret one is so much more

1608
01:01:33,370 --> 01:01:30,529
dangerous on so many different levels

1609
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both financially and in real life and it

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01:01:39,099 --> 01:01:36,319
doesn't help us with our reputation to

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01:01:42,819 --> 01:01:39,109
have anyone do things that are lawless

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01:01:44,650 --> 01:01:42,829
in our name well son it is quite a mess

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01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:44,660
and before we get out of here would you

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01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:46,250
like to remind the people where they can

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01:01:49,750 --> 01:01:47,930
find the show again and find you on

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01:01:52,420 --> 01:01:49,760
social media and any of those plans for

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01:01:54,460 --> 01:01:52,430
the future all that good stuff sure and

1618
01:01:57,010 --> 01:01:54,470
thank you for letting me on the show is

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01:01:58,539 --> 01:01:57,020
called congressional dish and you can

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01:02:01,480 --> 01:01:58,549
find it on all the places where

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01:02:03,490 --> 01:02:01,490
podcaster found itunes stitcher but I

1622
01:02:06,039 --> 01:02:03,500
also now have a congressional dish app

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01:02:08,620 --> 01:02:06,049
and it's free so you can find that in

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01:02:10,180 --> 01:02:08,630
the apple store or in google play and I

1625
01:02:12,069 --> 01:02:10,190
did that specifically for the Android

1626
01:02:14,589 --> 01:02:12,079
users because I know getting podcast can

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01:02:17,109 --> 01:02:14,599
be really tough but through that app you

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01:02:19,329 --> 01:02:17,119
can scroll and find the show notes right

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01:02:22,599 --> 01:02:19,339
from the app itself which of course will

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01:02:24,849 --> 01:02:22,609
take you to the the bill passages it's

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01:02:27,339 --> 01:02:24,859
pretty good i like the app and then the

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01:02:29,650 --> 01:02:27,349
best way to talk to me is on twitter in

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01:02:31,569 --> 01:02:29,660
order and my twitter feed has gotten

1634
01:02:33,940 --> 01:02:31,579
kind of interesting because it's become

1635
01:02:35,319 --> 01:02:33,950
where i store my articles so if i find

1636
01:02:37,809 --> 01:02:35,329
an article that's going to help me with

1637
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:37,819
an episode I just retweet it and use my

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01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:40,250
own feed smart yeah and it works out

1639
01:02:43,809 --> 01:02:41,690
great and I can share with people and I

1640
01:02:46,779 --> 01:02:43,819
talk to people all the time so my

1641
01:02:49,870 --> 01:02:46,789
twitter handle is at gin briny my last

1642
01:02:51,549 --> 01:02:49,880
name bri any why and I'm I'm very big on

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01:02:53,559 --> 01:02:51,559
Twitter and I have a Facebook page if

1644
01:02:55,660 --> 01:02:53,569
you want to write longer stuff that's

1645
01:02:57,519 --> 01:02:55,670
congressional dish and then the website

1646
01:03:00,039 --> 01:02:57,529
of course is congressional discom and

1647
01:03:03,339 --> 01:03:00,049
you can find all of this stuff from

1648
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:03,349
there so very cool thank you very much

1649
01:03:06,940 --> 01:03:05,690
Greg this was fun yeah and thank you

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01:03:08,859 --> 01:03:06,950
keep doing what you do out there and

1651
01:03:10,390 --> 01:03:08,869
best of luck in making a career out of

1652
01:03:12,460 --> 01:03:10,400
podcasting without the corporate

1653
01:03:14,829 --> 01:03:12,470
advertisers if I can do it anybody can

1654
01:03:18,370 --> 01:03:14,839
do it so keep at it and and take care of

1655
01:03:20,470 --> 01:03:18,380
yourself out there you too bye there we

1656
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:20,480
have it guys another show in the bag I

1657
01:03:24,789 --> 01:03:22,490
thought it went great I know there's a

1658
01:03:25,329 --> 01:03:24,799
lot of scams and schemes and scandals

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01:03:26,589 --> 01:03:25,339
going on

1660
01:03:28,299 --> 01:03:26,599
Washington but it's good to get some

1661
01:03:30,039 --> 01:03:28,309
details on that rather than just

1662
01:03:31,630 --> 01:03:30,049
spouting off about how bad it is in

1663
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:31,640
general it's good to hear about the

1664
01:03:35,890 --> 01:03:33,410
riders on the current budget and how

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01:03:38,739 --> 01:03:35,900
they've dismantled the stock act and my

1666
01:03:40,839 --> 01:03:38,749
god the waist how can anyone say there's

1667
01:03:43,450 --> 01:03:40,849
not enough to go around or that a family

1668
01:03:45,789 --> 01:03:43,460
on welfare is what's tanking the economy

1669
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:45,799
when military contractors are burning

1670
01:03:50,859 --> 01:03:48,650
supplies just to buy more if you want to

1671
01:03:52,690 --> 01:03:50,869
build a wall I think it needs to go

1672
01:03:55,450 --> 01:03:52,700
between us and Halliburton not us in

1673
01:03:57,099 --> 01:03:55,460
Mexico but just so you know in the plus

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01:03:59,979 --> 01:03:57,109
show we talked about legislation

1675
01:04:01,479 --> 01:03:59,989
pertaining to GMOs and how the farming

1676
01:04:03,579 --> 01:04:01,489
corporations have gotten their way

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01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:03,589
against the people's best interest there

1678
01:04:07,479 --> 01:04:05,450
and we also talked about some of the

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01:04:09,819 --> 01:04:07,489
things to expect from the hundred and

1680
01:04:11,759 --> 01:04:09,829
fourteenth Congress with charter schools

1681
01:04:14,499 --> 01:04:11,769
and more favors for the banking world

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01:04:16,239 --> 01:04:14,509
it's a great show I hope a lot of you

1683
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:16,249
enjoyed it I hope that enough you go and

1684
01:04:19,299 --> 01:04:17,930
check out congressional dish or hit up

1685
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:19,309
Jen on Twitter let her know you

1686
01:04:23,559 --> 01:04:21,650
appreciate what she does and keep up

1687
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:23,569
with her the episodes aren't that long

1688
01:04:28,269 --> 01:04:26,450
they have great production value and I

1689
01:04:30,940 --> 01:04:28,279
consider a congressional dish the

1690
01:04:32,410 --> 01:04:30,950
necessary cliff notes to Congress you

1691
01:04:33,940 --> 01:04:32,420
know the elite put a lot of time and

1692
01:04:36,009 --> 01:04:33,950
energy into making sure you're not

1693
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:36,019
paying attention and that it's really

1694
01:04:40,150 --> 01:04:38,210
really boring and Jenn puts a lot of

1695
01:04:42,099 --> 01:04:40,160
energy into counteracting all those

1696
01:04:44,410 --> 01:04:42,109
measures so please show her some support

1697
01:04:46,779 --> 01:04:44,420
I also wanted to mention I was a recent

1698
01:04:49,029 --> 01:04:46,789
guest on Marty leads Matt the magical

1699
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:49,039
hour along with mike from the midwest

1700
01:04:52,779 --> 01:04:50,930
real podcast we had a nice little round

1701
01:04:54,729 --> 01:04:52,789
table there and i thought it was a lot

1702
01:04:57,069 --> 01:04:54,739
of fun and I love Marty so I will

1703
01:04:59,440 --> 01:04:57,079
include a link to that with this episode

1704
01:05:01,719 --> 01:04:59,450
so feel free to check it out if you

1705
01:05:03,999 --> 01:05:01,729
might be interested as for the state of

1706
01:05:05,890 --> 01:05:04,009
things man I know it's easy to think

1707
01:05:07,690 --> 01:05:05,900
there's nothing we can do or that our

1708
01:05:09,430 --> 01:05:07,700
change needs to be so massive and

1709
01:05:11,739 --> 01:05:09,440
sweeping that voting isn't going to be

1710
01:05:13,839 --> 01:05:11,749
enough I have those days where I think

1711
01:05:15,519 --> 01:05:13,849
that but I also have the days where I

1712
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:15,529
think Jen's right the system is corrupt

1713
01:05:18,789 --> 01:05:17,210
in a lot of ways because good people

1714
01:05:20,650 --> 01:05:18,799
aren't participating we really should

1715
01:05:22,630 --> 01:05:20,660
participate because the criminals in

1716
01:05:24,430 --> 01:05:22,640
office are way more bold about their

1717
01:05:26,109 --> 01:05:24,440
scams when they think nobody's watching

1718
01:05:27,940 --> 01:05:26,119
shouldn't we at least make them jump

1719
01:05:29,709 --> 01:05:27,950
through a few hoops I think we should

1720
01:05:31,390 --> 01:05:29,719
even though I know there's nothing we

1721
01:05:33,430 --> 01:05:31,400
can do about presidential elections

1722
01:05:35,709 --> 01:05:33,440
which means we have also no say over the

1723
01:05:38,289 --> 01:05:35,719
Supreme Court either but you can affect

1724
01:05:39,069 --> 01:05:38,299
Congress you can affect also your local

1725
01:05:42,549 --> 01:05:39,079
government

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01:05:44,289 --> 01:05:42,559
the most any way you want fluoride out

1727
01:05:46,299 --> 01:05:44,299
of your water go get it done you want

1728
01:05:48,489 --> 01:05:46,309
public lightning speed internet like

1729
01:05:50,380 --> 01:05:48,499
Chattanooga you can go get that to you

1730
01:05:53,140 --> 01:05:50,390
want to break up the two-party monopoly

1731
01:05:55,509 --> 01:05:53,150
refuse to vote for the parties make them

1732
01:05:58,059 --> 01:05:55,519
more of a liability than an asset both

1733
01:06:00,190 --> 01:05:58,069
of them but keep voting how about the

1734
01:06:01,479 --> 01:06:00,200
weed laws in your state have you been

1735
01:06:04,180 --> 01:06:01,489
getting involved or just sitting around

1736
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:04,190
waiting to hear some good news just

1737
01:06:08,019 --> 01:06:06,410
something to think about I know there's

1738
01:06:10,269 --> 01:06:08,029
a lot of major problems that we can't

1739
01:06:12,789 --> 01:06:10,279
solve with voting or at all and probably

1740
01:06:14,620 --> 01:06:12,799
won't change in our lifetimes but if I

1741
01:06:16,269 --> 01:06:14,630
can't fix fractional reserve banking at

1742
01:06:18,519 --> 01:06:16,279
least let me smoke a joint on the beach

1743
01:06:20,079 --> 01:06:18,529
and if I can't end drone strikes in the

1744
01:06:22,359 --> 01:06:20,089
Middle East at least I could push for

1745
01:06:25,089 --> 01:06:22,369
community gardens for free public use

1746
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:25,099
and if I can't keep American sniper from

1747
01:06:29,799 --> 01:06:27,650
being made at least I can go see Birdman

1748
01:06:31,870 --> 01:06:29,809
or horrible bosses 2 and hopes that the

1749
01:06:33,910 --> 01:06:31,880
embarrassment to humanity can get bumped

1750
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:33,920
off the number one spot for the sake of

1751
01:06:39,339 --> 01:06:36,170
our image around the world you know the

1752
01:06:41,829 --> 01:06:39,349
important things people anyway do what

1753
01:06:43,900 --> 01:06:41,839
you do check out conspiracies dunnet

1754
01:06:47,829 --> 01:06:43,910
enjoy yourself break free from the

1755
01:06:51,710 --> 01:06:47,839
chains I'm getting out of here your move

1756
01:06:56,870 --> 01:06:51,720
gasps tickly your brick in

1757
01:07:01,430 --> 01:06:56,880
I know this pain why do you lock

1758
01:07:08,229 --> 01:07:04,010
no one can change your life except for

1759
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:08,239
you don't know

1760
01:07:11,770 --> 01:07:19,880
your heart

1761
01:07:19,890 --> 01:07:32,420
this way is

1762
01:07:32,430 --> 01:07:36,059
don't you know

1763
01:07:36,069 --> 01:07:40,630
away

1764
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:46,579
one more day if you

1765
01:07:46,589 --> 01:07:51,109
things'll go away

1766
01:07:51,119 --> 01:08:25,730
one more day

1767
01:08:25,740 --> 01:08:31,499
change

1768
01:08:36,890 --> 01:08:34,120
is gonna make you wanna tell her

1769
01:08:41,849 --> 01:08:36,900
it

1770
01:08:41,859 --> 01:08:52,999
things of God

1771
01:08:53,009 --> 01:08:57,959
things are go away

1772
01:09:02,700 --> 01:09:01,140
one more day someday somebody's gonna

1773
01:09:06,989 --> 01:09:02,710
make you wanna turn around and say

1774
01:09:09,979 --> 01:09:06,999
goodbye baby are you gonna let him hold

1775
01:09:30,910 --> 01:09:09,989
you down and make you cry don't you