Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Purchase Power

Episode Date: October 13, 2023

Bill calls for a consumer awakening. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So why am I doing this? Because I am fed up with not only large corporations which have corrupted the journalism industry in this country, which exploit people who can't afford to pay insurance premiums on their homes and cars. I'm fed up with it. I'm not a communist or a socialist. I'm a capitalist. But there is exploitative capitalism, as Teddy Roosevelt proved. And you can't allow it. And it's not just corporations. It's small businesses as well. I told you last week the story of a local deli that I've been going to for 20 years. And I wanted to buy some chicken rice soup. And a guy goes $14. I go, no.

Not only I'm not going to buy the stupid soup. I'm not coming here for a while. And I spent a lot of money in that deli. Once you go over the line and you're stealing from people, that chicken with rice soup, that cost the guy about a buck, maybe $1.50, a little chicken, broth, and rice, which is probably the cheapest food on the planet. And they put it in a carton, and they hand it to me, and they want $14. And no. No. It's like a $5 slice of pizza. No. We're not doing it. And I'm not a boycotter. I'm not. I haven't run around my town screaming about this deli. I want the guy to make a decent living. He's a good guy. But what he's doing is wrong. He's squeezing. And there's no sign up in the deli. It says, if you're If you want a large chicken with rice soup, it's $14. No, no, we don't have that.

So getting back to the Black Lives Matter corporations, all these corporations, they don't know what Black Lives Matter really is. Okay, they don't care. They want a virtue signal. They want to be woke. They want to tell their human rights division or whatever they call it. Oh, look, are we getting this money to this? Well, look at this, donation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it, okay? You want to run your corporation that way? You're the right to do that. But I'm a consumer, and I control what I spend and who I give my money to. And I want New Yorkers in particular, and New Jersey and Connecticut and Pennsylvania people, everybody listening to us, to make informed decisions about their purchases, even if it's soup. Because if the consumers do that, the exploitation has to stop. The only reason that we're overcharged is because people don't pay attention. The latest scam is you go into a restaurant. There's a price on the menu. It used to be if you wanted to pay for your meal with a credit card, that was no problem. And now they're charging an extra three or four percent because you're

using a credit card. But there's no, you know, it's like, where did that come from? What are you doing? So they don't raise their prices, three or four percent on the menu. They just do it in a stealth way. There's always, there's a little thing, you know, on a receipt or by the register, but come on. Me and me using credit cards and buy meals for 30, 40 years. It's never been and then three or four percent charge tacked onto it. And that's another thing, torques me off. And I tell them. I said, this isn't right.

What are you trying to do here? Because most people don't even notice it. They don't even notice it.