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Welcome to Conversations with the Hoff.
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I'm Steve Hoffman, your host, and with me in the studio today, as usual, is the executive producer of Liberty Crack Media, Trip Detmering.
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Hello, everybody.
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We also have a call-in guest today, uh Bill Reeside.
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He's running for election to South Carolina's U.S.
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House District 1.
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Being vacated by Representative Nancy Mace.
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Interesting character.
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Uh the last time Bill was a guest on my show, we talked about his uh key uh campaign platform points.
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Uh today we'll also address some of those points, but we'll also talk more about why it's important to elect somebody like Bill Reeside to Congress, who's committed to establishing fiscal discipline, protecting our civil liberties, and promoting free market solutions to our nation's problems.
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So welcome to the show, Bill.
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Uh what what's been going on in your campaign since the last time we talked?
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Oh, there's been a lot of things going on.
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Uh the Alliance Party candidate was disqualified.
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So that takes us down from four uh four candidates, excuse me, from five candidates down to four.
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Uh I've actually been reaching out to the Alliance Party to see if I can get their endorsement.
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Uh and of course, since the last time we talked, the Republicans and the Democrats have settled on their two candidates.
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So I know who I'm running against, uh what the issues are, and got a path to victory.
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When you say Alliance, are you talking about the United Patriots Alliance?
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No, no, there's that there's an actual party called the Alliance Party.
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Okay.
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And they they're on the ballot.
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They they have a ballot line in South Carolina, and they had nominated a candidate back, I believe, in April or May, and then they uh they reached out and disqualified her.
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So her name will not be on the ballot.
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Well, why did why was she disqualified?
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Well, I actually spoke to her, and uh it was an internal alliance party issue, and they chose, they said, uh, yes, we nominated you, but uh her behavior, which she admitted, uh was not up to their standards.
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So they withdrew the qualification and the nomination and told the state of South Carolina to take her name off the ballot.
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Oh uh okay.
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Well, don't start an OnlyFans page.
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That's uh warning to you.
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Yeah, I won't I won't do that.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I know uh also um one of your key platform points is uh getting a handle on the deficits.
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Uh, would you like to talk a little bit about uh uh deficits and the budget approval process?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So the the four things I'm focusing on in terms of bringing the deficit to zero.
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And by the way, the month of July, the federal government had its worst federal deficit month ever.
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$460 billion of overspending in one month.
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That's about half the military budget for the whole year.
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We went over.
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So it's critical that we get a handle on spending.
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So the four items that I want to focus on are Social Security, Medicare, SNAP, which is the nutritional assistance program, and Medicaid.
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If we can bring those four, stabilize them in the cases of Medicare and Social Security personalize them, we can make a huge dent in the uh in the yearly deficit and stop adding to the uh total deficit.
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So I'm looking to uh stabilize Social Security.
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We're gonna have to look at a couple of things, probably extend the age of uh applicability, same with Medicare, and then I want to put us on a long-term path to personalizing Social Security and Medicare, turn Medicare into a health savings account plan, uh turn Social Security into private retirement accounts, so the generations Alpha and Beta who are being born, uh that they when they retire 60 years from now, 70 years from now, they'll have an account with their name on it and their money, not the government's money, not expecting the next generation to pay for their retirement.
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Yeah, there's been proposals for decades now on privatizing Social Security, how to privatize uh health care in the United States.
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But uh, you know, the proposals get out there, but then nothing gets done.
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I even had a show one time where we talked about all the alternatives to Social Security, what countries like uh Chile have done has done, uh Singapore, Australia, where they have some levels of uh security at old age, but it's not government funded, it's private, privately funded.
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Right.
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Yeah, absolutely, and it can be done.
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We can put it on a 10 to 15 year program where the 13 percent, 12.5-13 percent that you uh put in now start with uh half a percent going into a personal account and the other 11.5 still feeding the government plan and eventually get to where all 12 or 13 percent of that goes into an account with your name on it.
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I'm trying to use the word personalize rather than the other P word because the other P word gets you in trouble.
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Oh yeah.
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Privatize gets you in in trouble?
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, I have to attract Democrats to this campaign.
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And anytime you anytime you use the word privatize, you're you become you lose their attention.
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Yeah, but don't you know it takes the village, you know?
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I know, but that's why I'm trying to use the word personalized rather than I understand.
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Yeah.
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So that's that's the number one thing.
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I'm not looking at at any point to raise taxes.
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Um, you know, the big the big budget busting bill that went through did reduce taxes, and the the plan that uh the current president put through in his first term did reduce taxes, and I'm always interested in reducing taxes, but you absolutely have to reduce spending uh if you're gonna reduce taxes, and we didn't do that.
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What do you mean when you say that military budgets have to be zero-based?
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Yeah, what that means is um I grew up in the corporate world.
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I spent my whole life working for large corporations, and every year when I turned in a budget, I couldn't just say, hey, you gave me uh$10 million last year, so I need 10% more this year, so give me, you know, 11 million this year.
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I couldn't, I couldn't do that budget.
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I had to go back and say, from zero, what do I what am I going to need to run my business for the next year?
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And if it's less than 10 million, well, that's good news.
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If it's more than 10 million, then I have to justify every expenditure.
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I can guarantee you that the military's fiscal year 2026 budget did not have a line item to invade Iran.
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And now, so they just go and invade Iran and then they come back and say, give me another hundred billion dollars because I invaded Iran.
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If you want to invade Iran or any other country, put it in your budget.
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Well, you know, little Mikey, I I realize that we really can't have a whole lot for dinner tonight, but we have to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon.
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Well, you've seen that meme on Facebook?
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Right.
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Well, uh Benjamin Netanyahu and George W.
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Bush are also still looking for the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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So uh I don't believe Benjamin Netanyahu uh about the nuclear weapon issue.
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And uh Iran is a country of 90 plus million people.
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We're there they've been around for 7,000 years.
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We've been around for 250 years.
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Uh we have bit off way more than we can chew.
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So if you don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, negotiate.
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Negotiate.
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Negotiate.
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Well, Bill, uh just as a point of fact, Iran hasn't been along that for that long, but Persia has.
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So you're kind of melding the two.
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Yep.
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Well, they've been around.
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Same place.
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As far as reducing taxes, there's been many proposals out there over the years.
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Um where you have to have uh you have to cut one cent out of every department per year, you know, out of their budget.
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One cent per dollar.
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Uh the latest one I heard was like four cents per dollar.
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Um what what type of proposal would you favor to actually reduce government spending and reduce taxes?
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Yeah, Rand Paul has famously he's got a penny thing that I think uh one one penny per year for six years we get out of this.
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I I don't know the details.
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I'm not a big fan of across the board cutting, making every department cut five percent.
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I think that's kind of artificial and unnecessary.
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I think you go in and you look for things that just don't work anymore.
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And I'll give you an example: the United States Postal Service.
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There is no in this in 1790, when the U.S.
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Postal Service was founded, we needed it.
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Well, in uh 2026, we don't need the United States Postal Service, and it's a drain of billions of dollars a year that we just don't need.
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We just don't need it.
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So I'd rather instead of telling the Postal Service, you along with everybody else, cut 5%, just get rid of the Postal Service altogether.
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Yeah, it's not necessary.
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It's kind of like trying to keeping keeping the Pony Express alive.
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Right.
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So I I'm I'm more in favor of looking for the things that just don't belong.
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The Department of Education.
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Don't ask them to cut 5%.
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Wave them, wave goodbye to them and turn all their duties over to either other agencies or, in my view, back to the states.
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The states should all be in charge of education from pre-K through 12th grade through college.
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The states should own education.
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The federal government should get 100% out of the business.
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So I'd rather cut the things that just don't work or just aren't necessary than doing an across the board cut.
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I I've never seen that work in private industry.
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And if we didn't have a Department of Agriculture, who would grow our food?
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Well, yeah, I again, the Department of Agriculture, I'm okay with things like doing research, figuring out what's the best way.
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I'm actually, when I get done here, I'm going back into the room for an organization that's uh talking about sustainability.
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Absolutely.
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The federal government may have a role in some research, helping farmers know what the best practices are.
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But in terms of dictating things, uh again, get them out of the get them out of the way.
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Yeah, most of their budget is dictating with the subsidies.
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You know, they're basically tell telling the farmers what to grow, they're interfering with the free market.
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So yeah, well, the the biggest one that doesn't get a lot of attention is sugar.
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Uh the sugar industry in the United States is subsidized to the tune of multi-billions of dollars, uh, which is totally unnecessary.
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The free market should rule when it comes to sugar.
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Plus, we'd be less fat.
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Yes, that I I agree with that.
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So I also notice uh in your campaign that you spent a lot of time talking about the uh Article I of the Constitution about uh the balance of power, congressional powers.
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You want to tell us a little bit about your position there?
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Yeah, that's that's probably at the 30,000-foot level, that is the number one reason I'm running.
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We're in trouble in this country because we have taken the beauty of a three-branch government and turned it into a two-branch government, and really almost a one-branch government.
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The Democrats Socialists of America, I went over their platform last two um shows, and they want a one-branch government.
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They just want a legislative branch.
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That's about it.
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Right.
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And uh if we could prevent the executive from becoming a king, I might agree with that because that's the problem.
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The problem is Congress.
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Oh, and it's been going on, in my view, really since Abraham Lincoln.
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Congress has given away its powers.
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The uh the tariff that Trump is putting on now after being told by the third judicial branch that he couldn't use the first ways he was doing it, is a law that was passed in the 1930s and never used for almost a hundred years.
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Congress gave away its tariff authority.
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So one of the first things I want to do is get back into Congress or get into Congress and search and repeal all these tariff authorizations that Congress has given away.
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Then the next thing I want to do is do away with all the authorizations to use military force that the Congress has given away.
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Congress is piddling around with these resolutions that say, oh, please, Mr.
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President, please involve us.
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And even when it passes, he ignores it.
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It's time to take away the authorization to use military force.
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And in parallel, cut the cut the budget.
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Go back to the zero-based budget.
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You want a budget line for invading foreign countries, for blockading Cuba, or going in and kidnapping the sovereign uh leader of a nation in South America, put it in your budget so that we can debate it and either vote for it or vote against it.
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Yeah, Congress is giving away so much power, we're barely hanging on.
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The Supreme Court is the only thing that's keeping the executive branch from becoming the royalty branch.
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Yeah, when it comes to the military and all these wars, Article 1, Section 8, uh, it's up only Congress can declare war.
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But we've been at war without all kinds of undeclared wars for decades.
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Yeah, there has not been there has not been a declared war since Japan invaded Hawaii.
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We have not actually declared war.
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Even when George Bush went to Congress about going to war in Iraq, they still didn't declare war.
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They just said, yeah, go ahead and do it anyway.
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We'll we're fine, we'll just sit back and watch.
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So even then, when the president sort of did the right thing, Congress did not step up.
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Congress is uh is very cowardly when it comes to uh authorizing sending our troops to die in foreign countries.
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And also, according to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, it's Congress that actually funds military activities.
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And they do that in they're supposed to do it on a two-year basis.
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And they've given up that also.
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Go ahead.
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Yep, they've given it away.
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And uh Secretary of Defense Hages went back in there and asked for I don't know how many tens of billions of dollars for this excursion in Iran.
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And I know so far Congress has basically just ignored it, but they ought to just vote it down.
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Just vote it down, tell the Pentagon, no, we're not gonna give you money for this.
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And by the way, if it's cost you$50 billion so far, which I think is way low, uh your budget for next year will be cut fifty billion dollars.
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Since you mentioned that, what's your feelings on Senator Massey's uh proposal to uh upend uh Pete Hegseth?
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Having the Congress go after cabinet officials, I think, is a complete waste of time.
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Uh the Senate had their chance.
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They heard both sides of the story about that particular person, and they chose to uh approve his nomination or approve his uh placement in there at all.
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I I don't think I think it's a complete waste of time.
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Yeah.
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Complete waste of time.
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So I've heard you mention the archaic insurrection act when you're talking about Article I.
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What's that all about?
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Yeah, I have I need I need to go back and refresh myself.
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But the president wants to use the Insurrection Act to go after his political enemies.
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And I think that act is from the 1800s when we were a brand new nation, and there's always the fear of you know another country trying to come in and pick us off.
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Uh it's just not necessary.
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It's it's anti-free choice, it's anti-free speech.
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Um, but uh it's a tool that we cannot put in the hands of the executive.
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Again, Congress should make decisions, legislate, and appropriate funds.
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So, yeah, these archaic things that the president is dragging out to uh attack his political enemies is just not necessary and it's not right.
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Sounds like uh John Adams' uh Aliens and Sedition Act.
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Yeah, it's it's along the same lines.
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It's uh uh you know, it's the old communist under every bed, so let's go after people.
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Uh that's not what this country is about.
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It's not what this country's about.
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Okay.
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I yeah, I also know that you're concerned about the endless wars.
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We've mentioned it also.
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Uh when uh Trump came into power, he said, I'm gonna do away with all these endless wars.
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Well, ever since he's been in office, we have military in all kinds of countries constantly fighting battles overseas.
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One endless war after another.
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Right.
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Well, what could you do about that if you were elected to Congress?
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Well, all the authorizations to use military force, the one that allowed the Tonkin resolution that allowed uh Lyndon Johnson to expand the war, Johnson and uh Nixon to expand the war in uh Vietnam, it has to be repealed.
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Um, all these authorizations use military force have to be repealed.
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So I would institute legislation that says we're repealing all those, we're taking that power back.
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And now, Mr.
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President, if you want to go to war, you got to come to us first.
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I did a little research when Japan attacked uh Hawaii.
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The president went to Congress and said, I need a declaration of war.
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It took them two hours, and they did it.
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So that's that was the last example of the executive branch cooperating with Congress to be united in going to war.
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It's the last time it happened.
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It was I think it actually ended up being late 1941, early 1942, uh, to get that declaration of war.
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And it can work.
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And I guarantee you, we would not have a blockade around Cuba right now if the Congress would stand up and tell the president you don't have the authorization to do that.
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We do.
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If you think it's a good idea, come to us, ask us for the money, ask us for the authorization, and we'll vote on it.
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It can be done quickly.
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I would vote against it, of course.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I know um if you're a fiscal conservative, you definitely have to be concerned about the endless wars because they suck dollars right like uh like like nothing else.
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I mean, it's part of our paying for the wars.
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Again, an example of the endless wars is Ukraine.
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Uh obviously Russia invaded Ukraine, they took over the Crimea over 12 years ago.
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It's not right.
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But that really Europe should be leading the support of Ukraine, not the United States.
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Uh Ukraine is not part of NATO.
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Crimea was not part of NATO, so our agreement there uh is not appropriate, doesn't apply.
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So Europe should be stepping up.
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We've spent the last 80 years protecting Europe and using our treasure to protect Europe.
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In the meantime, they can spend all their money on social programs.
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Now, I'm not advocating us taking the military budget and turning it into social programs.
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I'd rather take the budget and give it back to the folks who paid the taxes in the first place.
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But Europe should be dealing with that.
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And the same way in Asia, uh Korea, rich country, Japan, rich country, New Zealand, rich country, Australia, rich country.
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They should be stepping up to defend their part of the world against China, not us.
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Well, when it comes to the Philippines, we just signed an agreement.
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We're gonna reopen uh Subic Bay, we're gonna expand the naval facilities of Subic Bay.
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Right.
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And as part of getting back to this zero-based budget for the Pentagon, if we're gonna do that, then the Philippines should pay the full cost, operating costs, capital costs, plus a hundred percent.
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They should pay us.
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If they want if they want a U.S.
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military base in Subic Bay, pay us all the cost plus a hundred percent profit.
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I second that motion.
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Okay, so uh you can't turn on the TV these days without hearing about immigration issues, whether it's in the United States or whether it's in Europe.
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Immigration is a hot topic.
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So tell tell us your stance on immigration.
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Right.
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So this is probably one place where I'm not I probably wouldn't pass the purity test when it comes to being a libertarian.
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None of us at Liberty Crack Media pass that purity test, I'll tell you.
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Yeah.
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So I do believe, again, starting at The 30,000 foot level.
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I do believe that nations need borders.
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Then nations have to have borders.
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If you could guarantee me that every other country in the world, the other 190 countries, would adopt our constitution and our way of government, our three branches of government, well then maybe we could do away with the borders.
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But I don't think that's going to happen.
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So I do believe we should have borders.
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I also believe that immigration is absolutely crucial to the future of our country.
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It's absolutely crucial.
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Legal immigration.
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Now, so how do we get down to the ground level?
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I believe that the two things that have caused chaos when it comes to immigration are unlimited asylum applications and practically unlimited use of what's called temporary protected status.
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Uh that's gotten in the news.
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I believe that on day one, we should just totally tell every embassy of the world, and excuse me, at all of our border crossings, we are no longer accepting applications for asylum, and we are no longer going to use temporary protected status.
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That will cut administratively, that'll cut immigration to a very, very, very low number.
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Now you just show up at the border, ask for asylum, you disappear, you get a court date for two or three years out.
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That's just not a that's not a process.
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So to do that, that was that will help stop the inflow.
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Now, to help the legal side of immigration, I believe that the work visas, both the H2 plan, the H1 plan, and I think there's a third plan, uh two-letter designation is escaping me, that works to get workers into this country.
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And if you're getting if you're approved to come here to work and you have the paperwork that says you're here to work and you have an employer waiting for you, that's the immigration that we need.
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Same way with student visas.
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We should make student visas easier to get, and then once they come here and prove themselves in the classroom by working, then have a path to citizenship if they do not want to go back to their country.
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So my plan is a two-part plan.
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Stop asylum, stop temporary protective status, increase work visas.
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The president now wants to charge$100,000 for an H-1B visa.
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The price of that should be about$200 for administrative costs.
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H-1Bs should be essentially free.
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We need workers.
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And when I get the argument, well, you've got to protect the American worker.
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Hey, let's go find somebody in a foreign country that wants to work, wants to become an American, and let them become an American worker and let the employer decide who they pick to work for them.
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Now, the third part of this is immigration customs enforcement absolutely should be an unarmed, administrative only program.
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ICE officers should not be armed.
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If they need protection or they need muscle, when they go in to perform their administrative function, they should use local police.
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Yeah, my concern is that uh many of the immigrants we have come over here and they have no desire to assimilate.
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They don't want to become Americans.
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They want to maintain their own identity that they had in their in their in their old country with their own old beliefs and everything, and then they have no desire to assimilate.
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So what do you think about the things that we're doing?
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And that's why they believe that's why we should that's why we should typically limit the folks that can get here to students, because students got to come to study.
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Workers got to come to work in the ag agriculture industry or tech industry.
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So if you're coming here to work and you you can only get here with a work visa and you don't show up for work, well the employer's gonna send you home.
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We don't need ice, the employer will send you home.
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And I can see where you've elimin eliminated the asylum and temporary protected status uh immigrants that you do away with a lot of that too.
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You'd get people who come here that really want to assimilate.
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We treated the folks from Haiti badly.
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They had a horrible weather event, or I guess it was an earthquake.
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And so we supposedly temporarily allowed large numbers of Haitians to come to the U.S.
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Well, that needs to be temporary.
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I think that earthquake was over ten years ago, and yet we never closed the loop.
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So we treated them badly by letting them come here with the false promise that they could stay.
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And now the current president is in hot water because now he's going back and saying, well, you know, this temporary protective status isn't going to last forever.
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It should have only lasted six months or or maybe even less.
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And so we've created the chaos.
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And let me just also add, I am absolutely not in favor of building any kind of physical barrier at the southern border.
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They are tearing up one of our national treasures, Big Ben National Park, to build this ridiculous wall.
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So what one of the attractions for um foreigners to come to this country is our massive welfare system.
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I think you can solve a lot of the immigration problems if we did away with welfare.
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That's pretty radical.
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Yeah, no, it's not radical.
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It and welfare should be turned back over to the state.
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There should be no national welfare, whether it's medical hair, medical care, food, schooling, all should be at the state level.
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And there's a couple reasons for that.
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First of all, it should be at the state level because the states are closest to the problem.
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And secondly, guess what?
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Just about every state in this country has a constitutional requirement to balance their budget.
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So if they have a constitutional requirement to balance their budget, they will watch the nickels and the dimes and the dollars uh and make sure the right people get the care, whether it's food, education, uh, health care.
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So, yeah, at the federal level, I'd like to get all that to zero and then turn it over to the state.
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Yeah, but it's a basic human right that every individual should have a cell phone.
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Isn't that one of our rights?
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Maybe not.
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I don't think I don't think that's uh in the declaration or the constitution.
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Okay.
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So obviously I'm I'm I'm talking conservatarian here.
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Uh so you you've got a pretty good campaign, and then you've really been uh go going out there every day and uh doing what needs to be done.
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So what what what are you doing?
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Who why do you think that you have a good chance in this particular election?
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Yeah, that's great.
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The the path to victory is uh it's challenging.
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Third parties uh just have the infrastructure that you don't have going in is makes it hard.
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Politics is a it's a personal thing.
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I mean, you can have tons of money for TV and billboards and all that, but it comes down to making a personal connection with the voter.
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So the path of victory is as follows.
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First of all, there's no incumbent in the race, and incumbency.
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Yeah, Nancy Mason's out, yeah.
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Right.
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It's really hard to beat an incumbent, uh, no matter how they perform.
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Uh so there's no incumbent.
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Uh the Republican candidate is probably in the lead, but she doesn't have a lot of experience either, and she has really tied herself to the current president.
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She's asked for his endorsement, she's gotten it, she's gotten endorsement from some of the Republicans currently in the House.
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But the House approval rating is 10%.
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So I'm trying to tie her to that 10%.
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I'm also trying to tie her to the fact that the current president is about at about 32% approval and is actually underwater on how he's handling the economy.
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So that that is my message to defeat the Republican candidate.
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The Democratic candidate, this is a uh this is an R plus six district.
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She's a lifelong Republican running as a Democrat, so I point that out regularly.
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She has not lived in the district even a year, so um I'm I'm using that as a little bit of ammunition there.
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And we need about a hundred thousand votes.
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So I'll give you an example.
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We I have a um I have a Hispanic friend who uh speaks fluent Spanish and fluent English.
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We have given him a list of sixteen hundred Hispanic regular voters in this district, and he's calling every one of them to uh send my message to the Hispanic vote in this district.
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So my goal is to turn those 1,600 phone calls into five, 10,000 votes.
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So we need 100,000.
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Um we're out knocking on doors.
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Uh fundraising has been an incredible challenge because we just don't have the infrastructure to uh and and have that money.
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My Democrat opponent uh is a woman, so she's getting a lot of PAC money from women's groups, she's getting a lot of PAC money from veterans' groups, and so that's a big hill to climb.
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But I have enough money to be credible, to be viable, to get our message out.
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We've made three physical mailers to 150,000 likely voters.
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We're sending out uh one text message per week to about that same 150,000 uh cohort of likely voters, uh, and that's what we're gonna do to win in November.
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And uh I think you have another window of opportunity in this election, and that has to do with the number of independent voters these days.
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There used to be a time when mom and dad went to the poll, they were either a Republican or a Democrat.
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So they voted straight line Republican or straight line Democrat.
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Well, uh recent information, data that's come out for those states where you have to register by party show that in those states 30 percent of the voters identify as independent.
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Right.
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Well, there's a lot of states that you don't register by party.
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So the Gallup poll went out there and did another poll, and they found that almost 40 percent of all voters today identify as independent.
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So the Republicans and the Democrats are losing people.
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They're walking away from those parties, and a lot of them say, Well, I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.
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So you have an ideal opportunity to go after those independents, and I think you mentioned that earlier in your conversation that you are doing that, and I think that will help out considerably uh in your campaign.
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Yeah, I'm actually sitting at the Independent National Convention right now here in Washington, D.C.
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It's a three-day event, and I'm here talking to folks trying to get on uh well, the Larry Sharp show.
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He's here.
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I I just met him about an hour ago.
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I'm gonna try to get on his show.
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But here's the here's the downside.
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You are correct, but here's the downside.
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This group, excuse me, this group put up a slide last night that was actually quite chilling, and it showed just what you said.
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Polling shows that 45% of people call themselves independent, but only 3% have actually ever voted for an independent or third-party candidate.
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So that's the problem.
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Yeah, we like to say we're independent, but when we get in that booth, do we really look for and support an independent?
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And that's part of my get out the vote message is South Carolina, unfortunately, is one of the six states left that allows straight party ticket voting.
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So I have to tell people my position on the ballot is about two-thirds of the way down because all the state level stuff is above us.
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So the temptation is for people to go in and push that R or that D and then go home.
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So I have to educate folks, hey, you have a third choice.
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You must go all the way through the ballot and find the libertarian vote so you can side with reside.
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Yeah, I think you're gonna have more uh luck here in South Carolina because the Republicans really blew it.
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What with their selection of their senatorial candidate?
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I mean, that really divided the party.
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A lot of people said, I've had it with the Republican Party.
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This this is ridiculous.
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Uh and uh who knows, many of those may say may start looking for a a third party uh for this.
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And that's what we have yeah, that's what we have to do.
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Uh it's gonna be hard, but a hundred thousand votes I think is doable.
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Well, great.
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Um Bill, I wish you luck on your campaign, and thanks again for being a guest on Conversations with the Hoff.
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I hope our listening audience can appreciate the need to elect more libertarians to public office.
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Libertarian policies and solutions to current problems, like those presented by Bill Reeside, are a viable alternative to the current tax and spend, over-regulated, big government solution that we get from the Uni Party.
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I believe that electing libertarians to public office is essential in making less government more freedom, as well as less government more prosperity, the new American reality.
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So thanks a lot, Bill, and uh good luck in your campaign.
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If you want to learn more about Bill Reside's campaign, go to www.reside, R-E-E-S-I-D-E for Congress.com.
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And now a word from our glorious leader, the executive producer of Liberty Crack Media, Trip Detmaring.
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Uh yes, and if I'm not mistaken, Bill, uh in the website, there's uh an area where you can sign um uh saying that uh we want to hear you in the debates.
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Is that not correct?
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Yeah, uh the way it's been created is it's actually a separate website.
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So if you want to go there to help get me on the debate stage, it's actually the word debate.resideforcongress.com.
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And that will take you to the website, but I don't think you can go to the website first and find that debate letter.
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You have to go to debate.resideforcongress.com, and it'll give you a chance to send a letter, sign a letter to the TV stations that are denying me the opportunity to have these uh policies presented to the public.
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Well, thank you, Bill.
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And we are definitely going to have that link for our listeners in the show notes.
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And uh yeah, demand that we get to hear his voice when we have uh the debates coming up here in South Carolina.
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And again, I want to thank everybody for participating in another wonderful edition of conversations with Paul.
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Welcome to Conversations with the Hoff.
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I'm Steve Hoffman, your host, and with me in the studio today, as usual, is the executive producer of Liberty Crack Media, Trip Detmering.
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Hello, everybody.
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We also have a call-in guest today, uh Bill Reeside.
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He's running for election to South Carolina's U.S.
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House District 1.
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Being vacated by Representative Nancy Mace.
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Interesting character.
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Uh the last time Bill was a guest on my show, we talked about his uh key uh campaign platform points.
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Uh today we'll also address some of those points, but we'll also talk more about why it's important to elect somebody like Bill Reeside to Congress, who's committed to establishing fiscal discipline, protecting our civil liberties, and promoting free market solutions to our nation's problems.
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So welcome to the show, Bill.
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Uh what what's been going on in your campaign since the last time we talked?
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Oh, there's been a lot of things going on.
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Uh the Alliance Party candidate was disqualified.
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So that takes us down from four uh four candidates, excuse me, from five candidates down to four.
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Uh I've actually been reaching out to the Alliance Party to see if I can get their endorsement.
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Uh and of course, since the last time we talked, the Republicans and the Democrats have settled on their two candidates.
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So I know who I'm running against, uh what the issues are, and got a path to victory.
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When you say Alliance, are you talking about the United Patriots Alliance?
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No, no, there's that there's an actual party called the Alliance Party.
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Okay.
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And they they're on the ballot.
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They they have a ballot line in South Carolina, and they had nominated a candidate back, I believe, in April or May, and then they uh they reached out and disqualified her.
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So her name will not be on the ballot.
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Well, why did why was she disqualified?
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Well, I actually spoke to her, and uh it was an internal alliance party issue, and they chose, they said, uh, yes, we nominated you, but uh her behavior, which she admitted, uh was not up to their standards.
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So they withdrew the qualification and the nomination and told the state of South Carolina to take her name off the ballot.
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Oh uh okay.
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Well, don't start an OnlyFans page.
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That's uh warning to you.
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Yeah, I won't I won't do that.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I know uh also um one of your key platform points is uh getting a handle on the deficits.
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Uh, would you like to talk a little bit about uh uh deficits and the budget approval process?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So the the four things I'm focusing on in terms of bringing the deficit to zero.
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And by the way, the month of July, the federal government had its worst federal deficit month ever.
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$460 billion of overspending in one month.
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That's about half the military budget for the whole year.
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We went over.
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So it's critical that we get a handle on spending.
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So the four items that I want to focus on are Social Security, Medicare, SNAP, which is the nutritional assistance program, and Medicaid.
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If we can bring those four, stabilize them in the cases of Medicare and Social Security personalize them, we can make a huge dent in the uh in the yearly deficit and stop adding to the uh total deficit.
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So I'm looking to uh stabilize Social Security.
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We're gonna have to look at a couple of things, probably extend the age of uh applicability, same with Medicare, and then I want to put us on a long-term path to personalizing Social Security and Medicare, turn Medicare into a health savings account plan, uh turn Social Security into private retirement accounts, so the generations Alpha and Beta who are being born, uh that they when they retire 60 years from now, 70 years from now, they'll have an account with their name on it and their money, not the government's money, not expecting the next generation to pay for their retirement.
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Yeah, there's been proposals for decades now on privatizing Social Security, how to privatize uh health care in the United States.
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But uh, you know, the proposals get out there, but then nothing gets done.
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I even had a show one time where we talked about all the alternatives to Social Security, what countries like uh Chile have done has done, uh Singapore, Australia, where they have some levels of uh security at old age, but it's not government funded, it's private, privately funded.
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Right.
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Yeah, absolutely, and it can be done.
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We can put it on a 10 to 15 year program where the 13 percent, 12.5-13 percent that you uh put in now start with uh half a percent going into a personal account and the other 11.5 still feeding the government plan and eventually get to where all 12 or 13 percent of that goes into an account with your name on it.
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I'm trying to use the word personalize rather than the other P word because the other P word gets you in trouble.
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Oh yeah.
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Privatize gets you in in trouble?
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, I have to attract Democrats to this campaign.
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And anytime you anytime you use the word privatize, you're you become you lose their attention.
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Yeah, but don't you know it takes the village, you know?
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I know, but that's why I'm trying to use the word personalized rather than I understand.
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Yeah.
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So that's that's the number one thing.
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I'm not looking at at any point to raise taxes.
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Um, you know, the big the big budget busting bill that went through did reduce taxes, and the the plan that uh the current president put through in his first term did reduce taxes, and I'm always interested in reducing taxes, but you absolutely have to reduce spending uh if you're gonna reduce taxes, and we didn't do that.
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What do you mean when you say that military budgets have to be zero-based?
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Yeah, what that means is um I grew up in the corporate world.
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I spent my whole life working for large corporations, and every year when I turned in a budget, I couldn't just say, hey, you gave me uh$10 million last year, so I need 10% more this year, so give me, you know, 11 million this year.
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I couldn't, I couldn't do that budget.
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I had to go back and say, from zero, what do I what am I going to need to run my business for the next year?
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And if it's less than 10 million, well, that's good news.
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If it's more than 10 million, then I have to justify every expenditure.
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I can guarantee you that the military's fiscal year 2026 budget did not have a line item to invade Iran.
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And now, so they just go and invade Iran and then they come back and say, give me another hundred billion dollars because I invaded Iran.
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If you want to invade Iran or any other country, put it in your budget.
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Well, you know, little Mikey, I I realize that we really can't have a whole lot for dinner tonight, but we have to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon.
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Well, you've seen that meme on Facebook?
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Right.
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Well, uh Benjamin Netanyahu and George W.
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Bush are also still looking for the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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So uh I don't believe Benjamin Netanyahu uh about the nuclear weapon issue.
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And uh Iran is a country of 90 plus million people.
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We're there they've been around for 7,000 years.
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We've been around for 250 years.
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Uh we have bit off way more than we can chew.
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So if you don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, negotiate.
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Negotiate.
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Negotiate.
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Well, Bill, uh just as a point of fact, Iran hasn't been along that for that long, but Persia has.
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So you're kind of melding the two.
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Yep.
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Well, they've been around.
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Same place.
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As far as reducing taxes, there's been many proposals out there over the years.
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Um where you have to have uh you have to cut one cent out of every department per year, you know, out of their budget.
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One cent per dollar.
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Uh the latest one I heard was like four cents per dollar.
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Um what what type of proposal would you favor to actually reduce government spending and reduce taxes?
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Yeah, Rand Paul has famously he's got a penny thing that I think uh one one penny per year for six years we get out of this.
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I I don't know the details.
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I'm not a big fan of across the board cutting, making every department cut five percent.
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I think that's kind of artificial and unnecessary.
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I think you go in and you look for things that just don't work anymore.
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And I'll give you an example: the United States Postal Service.
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There is no in this in 1790, when the U.S.
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Postal Service was founded, we needed it.
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Well, in uh 2026, we don't need the United States Postal Service, and it's a drain of billions of dollars a year that we just don't need.
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We just don't need it.
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So I'd rather instead of telling the Postal Service, you along with everybody else, cut 5%, just get rid of the Postal Service altogether.
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Yeah, it's not necessary.
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It's kind of like trying to keeping keeping the Pony Express alive.
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Right.
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So I I'm I'm more in favor of looking for the things that just don't belong.
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The Department of Education.
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Don't ask them to cut 5%.
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Wave them, wave goodbye to them and turn all their duties over to either other agencies or, in my view, back to the states.
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The states should all be in charge of education from pre-K through 12th grade through college.
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The states should own education.
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The federal government should get 100% out of the business.
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So I'd rather cut the things that just don't work or just aren't necessary than doing an across the board cut.
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I I've never seen that work in private industry.
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And if we didn't have a Department of Agriculture, who would grow our food?
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Well, yeah, I again, the Department of Agriculture, I'm okay with things like doing research, figuring out what's the best way.
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I'm actually, when I get done here, I'm going back into the room for an organization that's uh talking about sustainability.
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Absolutely.
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The federal government may have a role in some research, helping farmers know what the best practices are.
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But in terms of dictating things, uh again, get them out of the get them out of the way.
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Yeah, most of their budget is dictating with the subsidies.
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You know, they're basically tell telling the farmers what to grow, they're interfering with the free market.
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So yeah, well, the the biggest one that doesn't get a lot of attention is sugar.
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Uh the sugar industry in the United States is subsidized to the tune of multi-billions of dollars, uh, which is totally unnecessary.
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The free market should rule when it comes to sugar.
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Plus, we'd be less fat.
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Yes, that I I agree with that.
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So I also notice uh in your campaign that you spent a lot of time talking about the uh Article I of the Constitution about uh the balance of power, congressional powers.
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You want to tell us a little bit about your position there?
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Yeah, that's that's probably at the 30,000-foot level, that is the number one reason I'm running.
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We're in trouble in this country because we have taken the beauty of a three-branch government and turned it into a two-branch government, and really almost a one-branch government.
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The Democrats Socialists of America, I went over their platform last two um shows, and they want a one-branch government.
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They just want a legislative branch.
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That's about it.
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Right.
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And uh if we could prevent the executive from becoming a king, I might agree with that because that's the problem.
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The problem is Congress.
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Oh, and it's been going on, in my view, really since Abraham Lincoln.
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Congress has given away its powers.
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The uh the tariff that Trump is putting on now after being told by the third judicial branch that he couldn't use the first ways he was doing it, is a law that was passed in the 1930s and never used for almost a hundred years.
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Congress gave away its tariff authority.
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So one of the first things I want to do is get back into Congress or get into Congress and search and repeal all these tariff authorizations that Congress has given away.
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Then the next thing I want to do is do away with all the authorizations to use military force that the Congress has given away.
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Congress is piddling around with these resolutions that say, oh, please, Mr.
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President, please involve us.
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And even when it passes, he ignores it.
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It's time to take away the authorization to use military force.
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And in parallel, cut the cut the budget.
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Go back to the zero-based budget.
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You want a budget line for invading foreign countries, for blockading Cuba, or going in and kidnapping the sovereign uh leader of a nation in South America, put it in your budget so that we can debate it and either vote for it or vote against it.
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Yeah, Congress is giving away so much power, we're barely hanging on.
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The Supreme Court is the only thing that's keeping the executive branch from becoming the royalty branch.
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Yeah, when it comes to the military and all these wars, Article 1, Section 8, uh, it's up only Congress can declare war.
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But we've been at war without all kinds of undeclared wars for decades.
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Yeah, there has not been there has not been a declared war since Japan invaded Hawaii.
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We have not actually declared war.
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Even when George Bush went to Congress about going to war in Iraq, they still didn't declare war.
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They just said, yeah, go ahead and do it anyway.
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We'll we're fine, we'll just sit back and watch.
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So even then, when the president sort of did the right thing, Congress did not step up.
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Congress is uh is very cowardly when it comes to uh authorizing sending our troops to die in foreign countries.
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And also, according to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, it's Congress that actually funds military activities.
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And they do that in they're supposed to do it on a two-year basis.
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And they've given up that also.
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Go ahead.
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Yep, they've given it away.
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And uh Secretary of Defense Hages went back in there and asked for I don't know how many tens of billions of dollars for this excursion in Iran.
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And I know so far Congress has basically just ignored it, but they ought to just vote it down.
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Just vote it down, tell the Pentagon, no, we're not gonna give you money for this.
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And by the way, if it's cost you$50 billion so far, which I think is way low, uh your budget for next year will be cut fifty billion dollars.
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Since you mentioned that, what's your feelings on Senator Massey's uh proposal to uh upend uh Pete Hegseth?
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Having the Congress go after cabinet officials, I think, is a complete waste of time.
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Uh the Senate had their chance.
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They heard both sides of the story about that particular person, and they chose to uh approve his nomination or approve his uh placement in there at all.
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I I don't think I think it's a complete waste of time.
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Yeah.
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Complete waste of time.
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So I've heard you mention the archaic insurrection act when you're talking about Article I.
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What's that all about?
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Yeah, I have I need I need to go back and refresh myself.
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But the president wants to use the Insurrection Act to go after his political enemies.
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And I think that act is from the 1800s when we were a brand new nation, and there's always the fear of you know another country trying to come in and pick us off.
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Uh it's just not necessary.
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It's it's anti-free choice, it's anti-free speech.
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Um, but uh it's a tool that we cannot put in the hands of the executive.
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Again, Congress should make decisions, legislate, and appropriate funds.
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So, yeah, these archaic things that the president is dragging out to uh attack his political enemies is just not necessary and it's not right.
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Sounds like uh John Adams' uh Aliens and Sedition Act.
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Yeah, it's it's along the same lines.
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It's uh uh you know, it's the old communist under every bed, so let's go after people.
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Uh that's not what this country is about.
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It's not what this country's about.
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Okay.
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I yeah, I also know that you're concerned about the endless wars.
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We've mentioned it also.
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Uh when uh Trump came into power, he said, I'm gonna do away with all these endless wars.
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Well, ever since he's been in office, we have military in all kinds of countries constantly fighting battles overseas.
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One endless war after another.
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Right.
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Well, what could you do about that if you were elected to Congress?
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Well, all the authorizations to use military force, the one that allowed the Tonkin resolution that allowed uh Lyndon Johnson to expand the war, Johnson and uh Nixon to expand the war in uh Vietnam, it has to be repealed.
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Um, all these authorizations use military force have to be repealed.
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So I would institute legislation that says we're repealing all those, we're taking that power back.
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And now, Mr.
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President, if you want to go to war, you got to come to us first.
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I did a little research when Japan attacked uh Hawaii.
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The president went to Congress and said, I need a declaration of war.
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It took them two hours, and they did it.
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So that's that was the last example of the executive branch cooperating with Congress to be united in going to war.
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It's the last time it happened.
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It was I think it actually ended up being late 1941, early 1942, uh, to get that declaration of war.
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And it can work.
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And I guarantee you, we would not have a blockade around Cuba right now if the Congress would stand up and tell the president you don't have the authorization to do that.
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We do.
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If you think it's a good idea, come to us, ask us for the money, ask us for the authorization, and we'll vote on it.
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It can be done quickly.
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I would vote against it, of course.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I know um if you're a fiscal conservative, you definitely have to be concerned about the endless wars because they suck dollars right like uh like like nothing else.
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I mean, it's part of our paying for the wars.
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Again, an example of the endless wars is Ukraine.
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Uh obviously Russia invaded Ukraine, they took over the Crimea over 12 years ago.
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It's not right.
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But that really Europe should be leading the support of Ukraine, not the United States.
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Uh Ukraine is not part of NATO.
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Crimea was not part of NATO, so our agreement there uh is not appropriate, doesn't apply.
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So Europe should be stepping up.
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We've spent the last 80 years protecting Europe and using our treasure to protect Europe.
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In the meantime, they can spend all their money on social programs.
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Now, I'm not advocating us taking the military budget and turning it into social programs.
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I'd rather take the budget and give it back to the folks who paid the taxes in the first place.
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But Europe should be dealing with that.
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And the same way in Asia, uh Korea, rich country, Japan, rich country, New Zealand, rich country, Australia, rich country.
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They should be stepping up to defend their part of the world against China, not us.
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Well, when it comes to the Philippines, we just signed an agreement.
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We're gonna reopen uh Subic Bay, we're gonna expand the naval facilities of Subic Bay.
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Right.
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And as part of getting back to this zero-based budget for the Pentagon, if we're gonna do that, then the Philippines should pay the full cost, operating costs, capital costs, plus a hundred percent.
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They should pay us.
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If they want if they want a U.S.
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military base in Subic Bay, pay us all the cost plus a hundred percent profit.
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I second that motion.
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Okay, so uh you can't turn on the TV these days without hearing about immigration issues, whether it's in the United States or whether it's in Europe.
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Immigration is a hot topic.
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So tell tell us your stance on immigration.
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Right.
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So this is probably one place where I'm not I probably wouldn't pass the purity test when it comes to being a libertarian.
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None of us at Liberty Crack Media pass that purity test, I'll tell you.
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Yeah.
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So I do believe, again, starting at The 30,000 foot level.
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I do believe that nations need borders.
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Then nations have to have borders.
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If you could guarantee me that every other country in the world, the other 190 countries, would adopt our constitution and our way of government, our three branches of government, well then maybe we could do away with the borders.
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But I don't think that's going to happen.
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So I do believe we should have borders.
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I also believe that immigration is absolutely crucial to the future of our country.
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It's absolutely crucial.
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Legal immigration.
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Now, so how do we get down to the ground level?
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I believe that the two things that have caused chaos when it comes to immigration are unlimited asylum applications and practically unlimited use of what's called temporary protected status.
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Uh that's gotten in the news.
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I believe that on day one, we should just totally tell every embassy of the world, and excuse me, at all of our border crossings, we are no longer accepting applications for asylum, and we are no longer going to use temporary protected status.
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That will cut administratively, that'll cut immigration to a very, very, very low number.
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Now you just show up at the border, ask for asylum, you disappear, you get a court date for two or three years out.
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That's just not a that's not a process.
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So to do that, that was that will help stop the inflow.
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Now, to help the legal side of immigration, I believe that the work visas, both the H2 plan, the H1 plan, and I think there's a third plan, uh two-letter designation is escaping me, that works to get workers into this country.
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And if you're getting if you're approved to come here to work and you have the paperwork that says you're here to work and you have an employer waiting for you, that's the immigration that we need.
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Same way with student visas.
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We should make student visas easier to get, and then once they come here and prove themselves in the classroom by working, then have a path to citizenship if they do not want to go back to their country.
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So my plan is a two-part plan.
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Stop asylum, stop temporary protective status, increase work visas.
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The president now wants to charge$100,000 for an H-1B visa.
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The price of that should be about$200 for administrative costs.
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H-1Bs should be essentially free.
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We need workers.
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And when I get the argument, well, you've got to protect the American worker.
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Hey, let's go find somebody in a foreign country that wants to work, wants to become an American, and let them become an American worker and let the employer decide who they pick to work for them.
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Now, the third part of this is immigration customs enforcement absolutely should be an unarmed, administrative only program.
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ICE officers should not be armed.
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If they need protection or they need muscle, when they go in to perform their administrative function, they should use local police.
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Yeah, my concern is that uh many of the immigrants we have come over here and they have no desire to assimilate.
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They don't want to become Americans.
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They want to maintain their own identity that they had in their in their in their old country with their own old beliefs and everything, and then they have no desire to assimilate.
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So what do you think about the things that we're doing?
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And that's why they believe that's why we should that's why we should typically limit the folks that can get here to students, because students got to come to study.
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Workers got to come to work in the ag agriculture industry or tech industry.
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So if you're coming here to work and you you can only get here with a work visa and you don't show up for work, well the employer's gonna send you home.
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We don't need ice, the employer will send you home.
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And I can see where you've elimin eliminated the asylum and temporary protected status uh immigrants that you do away with a lot of that too.
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You'd get people who come here that really want to assimilate.
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We treated the folks from Haiti badly.
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They had a horrible weather event, or I guess it was an earthquake.
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And so we supposedly temporarily allowed large numbers of Haitians to come to the U.S.
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Well, that needs to be temporary.
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I think that earthquake was over ten years ago, and yet we never closed the loop.
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So we treated them badly by letting them come here with the false promise that they could stay.
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And now the current president is in hot water because now he's going back and saying, well, you know, this temporary protective status isn't going to last forever.
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It should have only lasted six months or or maybe even less.
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And so we've created the chaos.
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And let me just also add, I am absolutely not in favor of building any kind of physical barrier at the southern border.
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They are tearing up one of our national treasures, Big Ben National Park, to build this ridiculous wall.
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So what one of the attractions for um foreigners to come to this country is our massive welfare system.
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I think you can solve a lot of the immigration problems if we did away with welfare.
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That's pretty radical.
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Yeah, no, it's not radical.
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It and welfare should be turned back over to the state.
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There should be no national welfare, whether it's medical hair, medical care, food, schooling, all should be at the state level.
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And there's a couple reasons for that.
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First of all, it should be at the state level because the states are closest to the problem.
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And secondly, guess what?
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Just about every state in this country has a constitutional requirement to balance their budget.
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So if they have a constitutional requirement to balance their budget, they will watch the nickels and the dimes and the dollars uh and make sure the right people get the care, whether it's food, education, uh, health care.
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So, yeah, at the federal level, I'd like to get all that to zero and then turn it over to the state.
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Yeah, but it's a basic human right that every individual should have a cell phone.
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Isn't that one of our rights?
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Maybe not.
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I don't think I don't think that's uh in the declaration or the constitution.
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Okay.
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So obviously I'm I'm I'm talking conservatarian here.
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Uh so you you've got a pretty good campaign, and then you've really been uh go going out there every day and uh doing what needs to be done.
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So what what what are you doing?
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Who why do you think that you have a good chance in this particular election?
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Yeah, that's great.
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The the path to victory is uh it's challenging.
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Third parties uh just have the infrastructure that you don't have going in is makes it hard.
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Politics is a it's a personal thing.
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I mean, you can have tons of money for TV and billboards and all that, but it comes down to making a personal connection with the voter.
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So the path of victory is as follows.
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First of all, there's no incumbent in the race, and incumbency.
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Yeah, Nancy Mason's out, yeah.
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Right.
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It's really hard to beat an incumbent, uh, no matter how they perform.
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Uh so there's no incumbent.
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Uh the Republican candidate is probably in the lead, but she doesn't have a lot of experience either, and she has really tied herself to the current president.
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She's asked for his endorsement, she's gotten it, she's gotten endorsement from some of the Republicans currently in the House.
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But the House approval rating is 10%.
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So I'm trying to tie her to that 10%.
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I'm also trying to tie her to the fact that the current president is about at about 32% approval and is actually underwater on how he's handling the economy.
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So that that is my message to defeat the Republican candidate.
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The Democratic candidate, this is a uh this is an R plus six district.
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She's a lifelong Republican running as a Democrat, so I point that out regularly.
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She has not lived in the district even a year, so um I'm I'm using that as a little bit of ammunition there.
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And we need about a hundred thousand votes.
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So I'll give you an example.
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We I have a um I have a Hispanic friend who uh speaks fluent Spanish and fluent English.
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We have given him a list of sixteen hundred Hispanic regular voters in this district, and he's calling every one of them to uh send my message to the Hispanic vote in this district.
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So my goal is to turn those 1,600 phone calls into five, 10,000 votes.
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So we need 100,000.
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Um we're out knocking on doors.
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Uh fundraising has been an incredible challenge because we just don't have the infrastructure to uh and and have that money.
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My Democrat opponent uh is a woman, so she's getting a lot of PAC money from women's groups, she's getting a lot of PAC money from veterans' groups, and so that's a big hill to climb.
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But I have enough money to be credible, to be viable, to get our message out.
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We've made three physical mailers to 150,000 likely voters.
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We're sending out uh one text message per week to about that same 150,000 uh cohort of likely voters, uh, and that's what we're gonna do to win in November.
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And uh I think you have another window of opportunity in this election, and that has to do with the number of independent voters these days.
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There used to be a time when mom and dad went to the poll, they were either a Republican or a Democrat.
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So they voted straight line Republican or straight line Democrat.
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Well, uh recent information, data that's come out for those states where you have to register by party show that in those states 30 percent of the voters identify as independent.
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Right.
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Well, there's a lot of states that you don't register by party.
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So the Gallup poll went out there and did another poll, and they found that almost 40 percent of all voters today identify as independent.
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So the Republicans and the Democrats are losing people.
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They're walking away from those parties, and a lot of them say, Well, I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.
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So you have an ideal opportunity to go after those independents, and I think you mentioned that earlier in your conversation that you are doing that, and I think that will help out considerably uh in your campaign.
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Yeah, I'm actually sitting at the Independent National Convention right now here in Washington, D.C.
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It's a three-day event, and I'm here talking to folks trying to get on uh well, the Larry Sharp show.
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He's here.
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I I just met him about an hour ago.
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I'm gonna try to get on his show.
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But here's the here's the downside.
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You are correct, but here's the downside.
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This group, excuse me, this group put up a slide last night that was actually quite chilling, and it showed just what you said.
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Polling shows that 45% of people call themselves independent, but only 3% have actually ever voted for an independent or third-party candidate.
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So that's the problem.
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Yeah, we like to say we're independent, but when we get in that booth, do we really look for and support an independent?
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And that's part of my get out the vote message is South Carolina, unfortunately, is one of the six states left that allows straight party ticket voting.
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So I have to tell people my position on the ballot is about two-thirds of the way down because all the state level stuff is above us.
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So the temptation is for people to go in and push that R or that D and then go home.
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So I have to educate folks, hey, you have a third choice.
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You must go all the way through the ballot and find the libertarian vote so you can side with reside.
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Yeah, I think you're gonna have more uh luck here in South Carolina because the Republicans really blew it.
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What with their selection of their senatorial candidate?
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I mean, that really divided the party.
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A lot of people said, I've had it with the Republican Party.
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This this is ridiculous.
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Uh and uh who knows, many of those may say may start looking for a a third party uh for this.
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And that's what we have yeah, that's what we have to do.
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Uh it's gonna be hard, but a hundred thousand votes I think is doable.
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Well, great.
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Um Bill, I wish you luck on your campaign, and thanks again for being a guest on Conversations with the Hoff.
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I hope our listening audience can appreciate the need to elect more libertarians to public office.
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Libertarian policies and solutions to current problems, like those presented by Bill Reeside, are a viable alternative to the current tax and spend, over-regulated, big government solution that we get from the Uni Party.
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I believe that electing libertarians to public office is essential in making less government more freedom, as well as less government more prosperity, the new American reality.
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So thanks a lot, Bill, and uh good luck in your campaign.
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If you want to learn more about Bill Reside's campaign, go to www.reside, R-E-E-S-I-D-E for Congress.com.
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And now a word from our glorious leader, the executive producer of Liberty Crack Media, Trip Detmaring.
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Uh yes, and if I'm not mistaken, Bill, uh in the website, there's uh an area where you can sign um uh saying that uh we want to hear you in the debates.
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Is that not correct?
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Yeah, uh the way it's been created is it's actually a separate website.
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So if you want to go there to help get me on the debate stage, it's actually the word debate.resideforcongress.com.
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And that will take you to the website, but I don't think you can go to the website first and find that debate letter.
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You have to go to debate.resideforcongress.com, and it'll give you a chance to send a letter, sign a letter to the TV stations that are denying me the opportunity to have these uh policies presented to the public.
00:38:36.489 --> 00:38:37.369
Well, thank you, Bill.
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And we are definitely going to have that link for our listeners in the show notes.
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And uh yeah, demand that we get to hear his voice when we have uh the debates coming up here in South Carolina.
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And again, I want to thank everybody for participating in another wonderful edition of conversations with Paul.
