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Hey, welcome back to the Lars, Lars and Joe and the First Amendment Friday.
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Glad to welcome back our friend Ari Hoffman, who holds down the show that follows mine on our Seattle affiliate.
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That's KVI.
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I had to ask him about this.
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Ari, welcome to the program.
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How are you?
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Ari there.
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Did we lose him?
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We gotta put him on hold.
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Okay.
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See if we can get him back.
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I don't know what happened.
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Did he disappear from the line?
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I gotta tell you this.
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There is a Seattle festival that is going on right now.
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Uh and they are doing AIDS, not AIDS testing, they're doing COVID testing, even though the pandemic was over a long time ago.
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All right, welcome back.
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Good to be here.
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How are you doing?
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I'm doing fine, but what happened that this uh the pandemic was over a long, long time ago, but one Seattle festival is going ahead as though it never ended?
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Yeah, let's uh every single you have you have this crazy pride festival happening around here where what they have done is they're now requiring masks and requiring COVID tests.
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I don't even know where you get a COVID test anymore.
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Masks you can find at any liberal bookstore or coffee shop, but they're requiring you do all that to attend their festival.
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So all of that, are they testing for monkey pox as well?
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Because that one might yield SARS, any of these?
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So, and and by the way, the coincidence of this with the World Cup and the fact that did Seattle get some kind of special pleasure out of the idea of saying we're gonna have our Pride Festival at a time when there are people playing soccer in our town who are gonna be especially irritated by us having an LGBTQ uh uh in uh festival or you know, recognition during the month of June.
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They seem to take great pleasure in that.
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I love how this came back to bite them in the butt.
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Before the teams were even announced, and don't forget they're drawn by lottery.
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They had announced this was going to be the Pride event.
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I mean, we reported on this months ago.
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It's amazing the rest of the media has now finally spoken up.
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I think you and I actually discussed this a month ago when it first happened.
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Yeah.
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But now the five the rest of the media has finally woken up.
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Wait a minute, it's Pride Day?
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Yeah, they planned this before they even knew who was going to be in the match, and now you have two teams that both throw gay people off roofs or force them into conversion therapy or beat the hell out of them or just flat out execute them.
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So that's Seattle virtue signaling adds finest.
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Now, Lars, I'm going to take a position I don't normally take, which is America should say, yes, this is who we are.
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Seattle should say, yes, this is who we are, and you can love whoever you love, and you have freedom here, and you can do whatever you want.
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But it seems like at the press conferences, they don't want to do that.
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It seems like they're worried about offending Iran.
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Now, Lars, last time we had the World Cup, it was in Qatar.
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And if you recall, we had to tamp down a bunch of stuff there because we didn't want to offend the Arabs.
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Well, now they're saying, well, when they come here, we got to tamp this stuff down because we don't want to offend anybody.
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Either you actually want to showcase the pride stuff, or you're completely virtue signaling.
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And here's something else.
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These are two leftist causes, the jihadis and the pride stuff.
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Which one's going to win out?
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And it looks like the jihadis win out over the pride stuff.
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It sure sounds like it.
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Ari, thanks very much, and have a great uh have a great show this afternoon.
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We're always glad to be the warm-up act for Ari Hoffman on our Seattle affiliate KVI.
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Let me go to Jeff.
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Hey, Jeff, it's First Amendment Friday.
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What's on your mind?
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Hey, Lars, I was listening to you last night talking about the bill before Congress to raise taxes on people that make$180,000 by 12%.
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Yes.
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And that the money would be used to go to Social Security to fund Social Security for the benefit of everybody, right?
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Well, no, well, for the benefit of some, yeah.
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Okay, so it's kind of interesting that the very members of Congress who stole all the money out of Social Security from the American people and spent it are also the same people who will never pay into Social Security or collect it because they have a better situation for themselves, and they are the individuals who decide what we get.
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So uh they steal from us, they don't participate in it, and then they decide for us that we'll just reduce your benefits uh uh arbitrarily and we'll do it on the backs of people who have been quite successful.
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The only thing I want you to be careful about is when you say members of Congress don't pay into Social Security, that's not true.
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It hasn't been true for 40 years.
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Mandatory participation went into effect uh I think it was January of 84.
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So they've been paying in since January of 84 for the last 42 years.
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So I would say most there may be some of them who are old enough that they were in Congress before 1984, but everybody who's been in since 1984 does pay into it.
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You are right that they took the money, and uh because when when the uh when the United States government took uh took on the obligation of Social Security, they made promises to pay a bunch of money.
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Now, the amount of money being paid in by those of us who are working and paying Social Security taxes is not enough to pay the benefits that are being paid out.
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And in 2032, about uh six years from now, they're going to run up against a wall.
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So what do you suggest that they do to solve that problem?
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Do you have any ideas?
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Well, I think for sure if you were not born in this country, I don't care if you're a citizen of this country or not, but if you came from another country, there's no way.
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I do not believe there's a single instance where any immigrant that came to this country should be able to collect Social Security percentage of what a a a normal tax paying person could get.
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If you're gonna reduce the Well, hold on.
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Let me ask you to clarify that a little, Jeff.
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If somebody emigrates to the United States legally, goes to work and works, I think the minimum for Social Security, uh, I haven't checked in a while.
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I think it's 11 years, 44 quarters that you have to work.
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So you have to work at least 11 years to qualify for Social Security.
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You're saying that somebody who comes to the country legally emigrates and then legally works 10 or 15 or 20 or 30 or 40 years should get no Social Security.
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How do you cut them out of the benefit that's written into the law if you were an American worker who paid into the system?
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Well, then it then it it then maybe it needs to be changed to like naturally born.
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Look, if you can pay every single natural-born American citizen their full benefits in in Social Security, then sure, include people who were not born here, whether or not they're you know, I don't care if they're legal or not.
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You shouldn't be able to collect here unless every single person born here gets to collect their full benefit.
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And that's just life.
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And that's the way it is every single place in the world.
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I'm not, you know, I'm 57 years old, and these guys are talking about reducing our payments, what, uh, seven years, ten years before I'm gonna retire.
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Yep.
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And you'll let some Hispanic come into this country and collect Social Security, but you're gonna cut my benefit.
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I do not accept that.
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I think that's completely wrong.
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And uh I don't think anyone that wasn't a natural-born U.S.
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citizen should ever be able to collect uh social security.
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Period.
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I don't care who you have.
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You know what?
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If somebody could propose if you propose that in Congress, the the question is could you get a majority of Congress to actually vote to change the law and say we are going to disqualify anybody who was not born in the United States?
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That might be a bit of a reach.
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This segment of the show is brought to you by Five Forty Training.com, concealed carry home invasion defense and personal defense online, five forty training.com.
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Hey, welcome back to the Lars, Lars and Joe and the First Amendment Friday.
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Glad to welcome back our friend Ari Hoffman, who holds down the show that follows mine on our Seattle affiliate.
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That's KVI.
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I had to ask him about this.
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Ari, welcome to the program.
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How are you?
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Ari there.
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Did we lose him?
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We gotta put him on hold.
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Okay.
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See if we can get him back.
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I don't know what happened.
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Did he disappear from the line?
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I gotta tell you this.
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There is a Seattle festival that is going on right now.
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Uh and they are doing AIDS, not AIDS testing, they're doing COVID testing, even though the pandemic was over a long time ago.
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All right, welcome back.
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Good to be here.
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How are you doing?
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I'm doing fine, but what happened that this uh the pandemic was over a long, long time ago, but one Seattle festival is going ahead as though it never ended?
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Yeah, let's uh every single you have you have this crazy pride festival happening around here where what they have done is they're now requiring masks and requiring COVID tests.
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I don't even know where you get a COVID test anymore.
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Masks you can find at any liberal bookstore or coffee shop, but they're requiring you do all that to attend their festival.
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So all of that, are they testing for monkey pox as well?
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Because that one might yield SARS, any of these?
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So, and and by the way, the coincidence of this with the World Cup and the fact that did Seattle get some kind of special pleasure out of the idea of saying we're gonna have our Pride Festival at a time when there are people playing soccer in our town who are gonna be especially irritated by us having an LGBTQ uh uh in uh festival or you know, recognition during the month of June.
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They seem to take great pleasure in that.
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I love how this came back to bite them in the butt.
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Before the teams were even announced, and don't forget they're drawn by lottery.
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They had announced this was going to be the Pride event.
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I mean, we reported on this months ago.
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It's amazing the rest of the media has now finally spoken up.
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I think you and I actually discussed this a month ago when it first happened.
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Yeah.
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But now the five the rest of the media has finally woken up.
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Wait a minute, it's Pride Day?
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Yeah, they planned this before they even knew who was going to be in the match, and now you have two teams that both throw gay people off roofs or force them into conversion therapy or beat the hell out of them or just flat out execute them.
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So that's Seattle virtue signaling adds finest.
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Now, Lars, I'm going to take a position I don't normally take, which is America should say, yes, this is who we are.
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Seattle should say, yes, this is who we are, and you can love whoever you love, and you have freedom here, and you can do whatever you want.
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But it seems like at the press conferences, they don't want to do that.
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It seems like they're worried about offending Iran.
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Now, Lars, last time we had the World Cup, it was in Qatar.
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And if you recall, we had to tamp down a bunch of stuff there because we didn't want to offend the Arabs.
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Well, now they're saying, well, when they come here, we got to tamp this stuff down because we don't want to offend anybody.
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Either you actually want to showcase the pride stuff, or you're completely virtue signaling.
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And here's something else.
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These are two leftist causes, the jihadis and the pride stuff.
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Which one's going to win out?
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And it looks like the jihadis win out over the pride stuff.
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It sure sounds like it.
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Ari, thanks very much, and have a great uh have a great show this afternoon.
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We're always glad to be the warm-up act for Ari Hoffman on our Seattle affiliate KVI.
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Let me go to Jeff.
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Hey, Jeff, it's First Amendment Friday.
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What's on your mind?
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Hey, Lars, I was listening to you last night talking about the bill before Congress to raise taxes on people that make$180,000 by 12%.
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Yes.
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And that the money would be used to go to Social Security to fund Social Security for the benefit of everybody, right?
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Well, no, well, for the benefit of some, yeah.
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Okay, so it's kind of interesting that the very members of Congress who stole all the money out of Social Security from the American people and spent it are also the same people who will never pay into Social Security or collect it because they have a better situation for themselves, and they are the individuals who decide what we get.
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So uh they steal from us, they don't participate in it, and then they decide for us that we'll just reduce your benefits uh uh arbitrarily and we'll do it on the backs of people who have been quite successful.
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The only thing I want you to be careful about is when you say members of Congress don't pay into Social Security, that's not true.
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It hasn't been true for 40 years.
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Mandatory participation went into effect uh I think it was January of 84.
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So they've been paying in since January of 84 for the last 42 years.
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So I would say most there may be some of them who are old enough that they were in Congress before 1984, but everybody who's been in since 1984 does pay into it.
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You are right that they took the money, and uh because when when the uh when the United States government took uh took on the obligation of Social Security, they made promises to pay a bunch of money.
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Now, the amount of money being paid in by those of us who are working and paying Social Security taxes is not enough to pay the benefits that are being paid out.
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And in 2032, about uh six years from now, they're going to run up against a wall.
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So what do you suggest that they do to solve that problem?
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Do you have any ideas?
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Well, I think for sure if you were not born in this country, I don't care if you're a citizen of this country or not, but if you came from another country, there's no way.
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I do not believe there's a single instance where any immigrant that came to this country should be able to collect Social Security percentage of what a a a normal tax paying person could get.
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If you're gonna reduce the Well, hold on.
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Let me ask you to clarify that a little, Jeff.
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If somebody emigrates to the United States legally, goes to work and works, I think the minimum for Social Security, uh, I haven't checked in a while.
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I think it's 11 years, 44 quarters that you have to work.
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So you have to work at least 11 years to qualify for Social Security.
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You're saying that somebody who comes to the country legally emigrates and then legally works 10 or 15 or 20 or 30 or 40 years should get no Social Security.
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How do you cut them out of the benefit that's written into the law if you were an American worker who paid into the system?
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Well, then it then it it then maybe it needs to be changed to like naturally born.
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Look, if you can pay every single natural-born American citizen their full benefits in in Social Security, then sure, include people who were not born here, whether or not they're you know, I don't care if they're legal or not.
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You shouldn't be able to collect here unless every single person born here gets to collect their full benefit.
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And that's just life.
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And that's the way it is every single place in the world.
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I'm not, you know, I'm 57 years old, and these guys are talking about reducing our payments, what, uh, seven years, ten years before I'm gonna retire.
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Yep.
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And you'll let some Hispanic come into this country and collect Social Security, but you're gonna cut my benefit.
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I do not accept that.
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I think that's completely wrong.
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And uh I don't think anyone that wasn't a natural-born U.S.
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citizen should ever be able to collect uh social security.
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Period.
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I don't care who you have.
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You know what?
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If somebody could propose if you propose that in Congress, the the question is could you get a majority of Congress to actually vote to change the law and say we are going to disqualify anybody who was not born in the United States?
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That might be a bit of a reach.
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This segment of the show is brought to you by Five Forty Training.com, concealed carry home invasion defense and personal defense online, five forty training.com.
