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You know, everybody who pays attention, and that's about 50% of the American population who actively seek information and think about what's happening around them. The other 50% are zombies. They're lost in cyberspace. They don't give a wit. Don't pay attention. some of them aren't smart enough to assimilate information. That's 50% of the country. That's a lot of people. But anyway, those of us who are interested in the United States of America, we know things aren't right.

The best example, of course, the open border, that is a catastrophe. And day in and day out, President Biden doesn't do anything about it. Oh, the Republicans' fault for not passing a bill. The bill is terrible. Okay, if it were good, I would be waving that flag. it's not. I wouldn't vote for it if I were a senator or a congressperson. Biden does not want to close the border. It puts all of us in danger. And then in the big cities, I'm about 20 miles outside of New York City, outside of Manhattan, about 10 miles outside

of Queen. Nobody's safe. And I mean nobody. The criminals will run a while all over the city because the progressive politicians control New York, state, and city will not enforce the law. And that is a subject again, and I'm sorry to be redundant here, but this is outrageous what I'm about to tell you. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points memo. So listen to this. I'm going to go through it slowly. On March 27th, all right, last week, the NYPD answered a call in the Bronx, New York. They went to a house. The house was occupied by eight squatters, adults, and a couple of children.

The squatters were illegal aliens, or are illegal aliens. They came up from the border, they saw this dwelling in the Bronx that nobody lived in, they moved in. Almost immediately, they opened a cocaine store. They sold cocaine. And if you're going to do that in the Bronx or the tough neighborhoods, you've got to have guns and they had a slew of the guns. They had handguns, they had automatic guns, they had all this is illegal aliens now. The cops go, they arrest eight of them. Okay.

Three of them, four of them, I want to get this right, four of them appear before a judge named Eugene Bowen. He is notorious for being the softest judge. judge on crime in New York City, and that's going something. This guy doesn't want to put anyone away. So what does he do? He releases three out of four illegal aliens who had cocaine and guns. No bail. That alone should get the man impeached.

He only started to be a judge in Bronx in January. He's already created mass chaos, this guy. who's going to impeach him, not the progressives. All right, so now you've got three guys who are violent guys out on the streets. One of them is a particularly egregious person. Hector de Sousa Villata, all right, 24 years old. He shot a guy. He was arrested for shooting a guy in the leg, all right?

And the guy was so scared he wouldn't testify against half. Hector, so they dropped the charges. But the judge knew that Hector had shot a guy, all right? And the reason the case wouldn't go forward is because the wounded guy was too terrified to testify. But he knew that. He lets Hector out anyway. So Hector's picture gets on the front page of the New York Post. Good job, New York Post. And ICE shows up and takes Hector and the two other guys. guys into custody. Okay, they're going to be deported. No thanks to Judge Eugene Bowen, who would have them race around the city doing whatever they wanted to do when they shouldn't even be in a country. New York City is a sanctuary city. New York didn't contact Homeland Security ICE.

No. They had to see it in the paper, and they showed up and grabbed these guys. Okay, so last night, I'm on News Nation. discussing this case. Roll it. There is a judge in the Bronx. His name is Eugene Bowen. Every prosecutor in the borough of the Bronx doesn't want to appear before him. He's the most lenient judge in New York City. He simply will not enforce the law. He believes that the justice system in New York State is corrupt and bigoted against African Americans. He himself is African American. So, when these six criminal migrants are brought by the prosecutors in front of him, prosecutors knew that this guy was going to let all of them out.

They were wrong. He actually kept two in. But one of the guys that he let out is Hector de Sousa Villaratta, okay, who was arrested with a nine millimeter pistol. Of course, the case not adjudicated in New York because they don't care. So, Judge Bowen led Hector out. No bell. Even though Hector had been arrested, shouldn't be here in the first place. On and on and on and on.

Now, I submit to you, it does not get any worse than this. When you have prosecutors who don't want to prosecute, remember, in New York City, 80% of the arrests the NYPD make. Let me get this earpiece in here. I'm sorry about this. 80% are not prosecuted to the full extent of a law. Eight out of ten. And that doesn't count the ones that the prosecutors just say, I'm not going to do it.

Goodbye. It's dismissed. 80%. Okay? And then when they finally do prosecute, they go in front of guys like Judge Bowen and say, I don't really care. Even if he's found guilty,

I'm not going to give him a suspended sentence. Even if he's here illegally, I'm not. turn them over to ice. This is anarchy. I mean, there's no two sides to the story. This is anarchy and puts all of us in danger. So there's another judge, too, that my staff came up with. His name is Lawrence Bushing. So Lawrence Bushing, almost identical, lets a guy name Yadira O'Royo in the Bronx out on March 16th to without any bail and I'm sorry, Yadira O'Royo is the dead person. All right. She's dead. Murdered by Jose Gonzalez who Judge Bushing let out of prison on no bail. This happens time and time and time again.

It happened for Detective Diller. We went over that. Okay. So, This is not unusual. This happens all the time. And the result is that if you live in New York City or New York State, they're in danger. Roll the tape. Anybody watching us tonight worldwide, if you don't know that the state of New York's justice system has collapsed entirely, you don't want to know. You're lying to yourself. This is beyond disgraceful. This is so dangerous. There is not one resident in this state where we both are tonight, who is safe, not one. And then it goes down from the governor to the mayor to the judges. And believe me, this Bowen's the worst of them.

But there are scores of these judges. So we in New York have a choice. We can leave and hundreds of thousands of citizens are leaving. But they are. Or we can be so cautious, and I tell my daughter lives in Manhattan, all right? I pick up, I said, do not go on that subway. Do not do that. A young woman, I will pick up all the ground in transportation.

Because that's how dangerous this is. I know New York City as well as any human being on a certain planet. I've never seen it, even in the crack war days of the 90s, It wasn't like this. Because in the crack war days, if they caught you, if the police caught you, you went upstate, you went to prison. Now, drug dealers in New York City can sell heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, anything they want. They're not prosecuted. It's a victimless crime.

You know who started that? Barack Obama started that. That's victimless. No. You sell them poison. You're killing people. This progressive mindset is destroying the fabric of the United States and the only solution is for the voters to throw the bums out.

Now, are they going to do that in the Bronx? I don't think so. But surely everybody in that borough knows that they're in personal danger. They're poor. Most people live in the Bronx. They're poor. You can't hire cars to protect them or anything. They have to take the subway.

And that's a memo. I never thought in a million years I would see this. And this all goes back to this progressive movement whose standard bearer, leader, is Joe Biden. Do you ever hear him speak out against this crime and chaos or sanctuary cities? Never. If this guy wins in November, I guess we're all going to go to Ireland, right? I don't know.

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Have you seen all the discovery in the case so far? Have you seen everything that the police had? At this point, we've had very voluminous discovery. I point, I point, that we have very voluminous discovery. I point, We originally took Mr. Penny's case on as pro bono because both my partner, Stephen Razor and I are Iraq war veterans and Mr. Penny being a Marine. And we set up the give-send-go campaign within the firm. Of course, we never knew. We could never know it was going to be as successful as it was without taking off and raising millions of dollars. So you have not seen what Bragg's office is going to present, even though they had to present it to a grand jury. You're privy to that, right?

we were pretty i mean we we first of all we saw the the the transcripts of the whole grand jury presentation about 550 pages of testimony from including about a dozen individuals who were on the train and that was probably the most eye-opening thing let me stop you there because i want to walk through this did any of the individuals in the subway car according to the grand jury testimony say that your client, Daniel Penny, was hostile, aggressive, should not have done what he did. Did they have witnesses that are going to come in and say, hey, Penny killed him and he shouldn't have done it? They don't. The closest they have to that is one individual who has approaching 50 prior criminal convictions had just been convicted and sentenced for bludgeoning one of his friends with a baseball about a year before.

That's all they have. It was not in the subway car, but walked up as the incident was already. According to the grand jury testimony, they have nothing. They have nobody pointing a finger at your client. Why then did the grand jury indict? So those who understand the grand jury process, and I've been practicing criminal law as a prosecutor, defense attorney for over 20 years in this city,

the standard that a grand jury applies is reasonable cause. That's lower than the standard of police officers. would need to summons you on the street for a petty offense. Moreover, a grand jury is comprised in 23 individuals. Only 12 of those 23 have to vote to indict, unlike a criminal trial where you obviously need a unanimous verdict. In addition, in a grand jury, the defense plays no role. The only time a defense attorney would be anywhere near the grand jury would be if the defendant

is testified, which almost never happens. With 500 pages of testimony and no one pointing the finger at your client as being the aggressor or out of line here. It seems to me that it's almost impossible, but it is New York City. And this is not really America anymore. Now on your side, you're going to be able to bring in a bevy of witnesses, I assume, they're going to say they feared for their life, that they thought this Jordan Neely was a dangerous character and that your client, Penny, did the right thing in protecting them. I assume you have. that locked down right absolutely it's overwhelming and it's locked down one because it's

already to testify to in the grand juries no one could run away from it not that they want to and secondly i mean it's really going to be the district attorney is going to be incumbent upon them to call these witnesses and if they don't then obviously we have subpoena power so we're not going to have any issue we're never okay how many people approximately do you have that are going to testify that um Daniel um help them How many? There are, as I said, there are approximately a dozen witnesses, give or take a couple that are, you know, overwhelmingly.

I got it. So you have, and of course, going in in October, 12 Americans that are going to say, we were afraid of this guy. He was at the level where anything could have happened. And you have one convicted felon who wasn't even on the train saying the opposite. So it seems to me that any district attorney faced with on the record, because all this on a record, would drop the case. Doesn't that seem to you that any honest district attorney would? Particularly in light of what we've seen just in the last few weeks, right?

You know, the incident in Brooklyn, you know, before that there were the shootings and the subways in the Bronx. And the immediate aftermath of this incident, about week later, there was a case in Brooklyn. So, you know, yeah, you would hope, and I still hope, I still have some hope that somehow, some way, someone, the cooler heads will prevail in this case, won't have to go to trial. Could the judge in the case dismiss it before it goes to trial? So we have already submitted and had the judge rule on motions to dismiss. They were denied, obviously, or we still wouldn't be here. But you have to remember, the judge, and I like the judge in this case. I've tried cases in front of him before.

He's a very good judge. But he is constrained by the same legal standard that the grand jury is constrained by. So he has to review it based on that standard. You know, the old cliche you can indict a ham sandwich. It may be a cliche, but it's pretty accurate. So, you know, getting an indictment and dismissed is next to impossible. Remember, and I'm sure you do. Brad pulled this in a bodega owner and charged him, and it was obvious because they had it on.

Jose Alba. Right, that the bodega owner was defending himself against an armed criminal. And Bragg charged him, Alba, but then dropped it because of the public outcry. And I think the public outcry on Penny is going to be even worse. So here's the final question. And I don't want you to be a psychiatrist, but certainly you're a savvy defense attorney. The villain here, in addition to the deceased, Jordan Neely, okay, is Alvin Bragg, the district attorney. He didn't have to do this.

Do you have any idea why he's doing it? You know, I've been asked these questions before. I ran against DA Bragg in 2021. We have, you know, stark differences as we view the criminal justice system. But I'd like to think that Alvin Bragg is a decent human being. I can't opine on why this case is going forward and so many others aren't. To some extent, look, for my position, I got a case to defend and I'm not doing my client any favors by, you know, pontificating on why a case may be going on. You don't want to bash that.

But as I said before, you know, I do still hold out hope and maybe aspirational it probably is that, you know, somehow there'll be an off ramp here. Well, Brian's going to be embarrassed, but I don't think Brad cares at this point. I mean, he's been the worst district attorney in the history of this city. And it's not even close, by the way. The amount of horrific crime on his watch, I mean, you're looking at, you know, we're being compared to Haiti here in New York City. That's how violent and bad the city is at this point. We saw that just last night.

And I'm, look, if I hope if nothing else, if the two sides of the political spectrum can't agree on anything else, can we at least come together now with the death of a hero NYPD cop in cold blood between yesterday, and come together and say, look, you know, this progressive new age criminal justice experiment just doesn't work. And let's put it in the ass sheep of history and move on and we'll argue about everything else there is to argue about in the world. That's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. and these people will never admit a mistake ever. And I know that from, you know, 25 years of experience. All right, Counselor, we really appreciate your time. It's nice of you to come on and explain the case to the international and national audience

who may not be up to speed on it. And please keep us posted every step of the way. I do think there is a good chance that this will not go to trial. It's a guess, but Bragg, if he loses this case, it's just going to be a very, embarrassing. That's going to be the final nail for him. And I think he knows that, but I could be wrong. All right, Counsel, thanks again. We really appreciate it. Okay, so very disturbing because I live here. I live here. And I see it and I know it. And I know the cops. And I know people in the DA's office. And I know people in Albany. And I see it. It's so bad. I can't tell you how bad it is.

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She didn't last very long, less than a week. We went over it yesterday in great to tell. If you missed it, it's on Bill O'Reilly.com. You see the Cliffs News Nation. I talked about it in depth last night with Leland Vittert. Basically, Ms. McDaniel was attacked by personnel at MSNBC and NBC News. And now the bosses over there have folded and are firing her. Why do you hire her in the first place?

You had to know this was going to happen. You don't have a news agency. over there at NBC. It's an ideological agency. That's what it is. What a shame. And tomorrow I got Bernie Globerg and went to talk about it

because both Goldberg and I were in the network apparatus when NBC was at its peak. And boy, the deterioration. So anyway, probably the final nail in Ms. McDaniel's coffin. I hate to use a cliche,

but this was probably the final nail. Go. I want to associate myself with all my colleagues, both at MSNBC and at NBC News, who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll, someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government. Well, number one, madam, you're not a journalist. You never covered a story that I know of. You're a liberal pundit. That's who you are. And getting rid of our system of government, it's a little overstatement, you know.

And Rachel Maddow is one of the major strident voices pushing the bogus Russian collusion charges against Trump and his operation. It's what you said on March 9, 2017. Go. dramatic news tonight from politico dot com this incident that happened last year last summer on the trump campaign it was one of the first direct signs that we had that something strange was up in the trump campaign when it came to the issue of russia of course nothing strange was up because nothing happened according to the special counsel did she apologize for that why is she still working. If Ronna McDaniel made a mistake, and she did, in trying to stop the electoral vote

count of the 2020 election, if she made that mistake, and I believe Ms. McDaniel had said time and again, it was a mistake that she made, it's owned up to it. Well, Madhouse and owned up to what she did, and the whole crew at MSNMDC did it for two years. They convicted Trump of Russian collusion. That's what they did. Everybody knows it. And even now, there's still peddling that, rolling. Because it feels like we went from, you know, the Russia hoax to damn right we're colluding, and it's not illegal.

We'll prove it. I mean, it went from like, I didn't do it to, yeah, I did it and watch us do it again. No. Nobody did anything. I was in February, that woman said that. It's just crazy. Really crazy over there. Anyway, our

reporting has been stellar on this. Thank you. I know I'm bragging. But we now it every step of the way. The hypocrisy, the foolishness, what the NBC news operation is now, 100%. And we have it all on Bill O'Reilly Document.com documented. All right, let's go to President Oberdeur in Mexico. Thank God he's out in September. He can't run again. He's gone. Now, I don't know whether Oberdor is taking money from the cartels. I know people around him are. Okay? This guy is a socialist, communist. He doesn't like the United States.

is helping the drug cartels sell narcotics and smuggle migrants into the United States. Obrador helps them. So on 60 minutes, he was confronted. Go. The State Department says most of it's coming from Mexico. Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada, and in Mexico, and the chemical precursors come from Asia. You know why we don't have the drug consumption that you have in the United States? We have customs, traditions, and we don't have the problem of the disintegration of the family. But there is drug consumption in Mexico?

But very little. So why the violence then in Mexico? Because drug trafficking exists, but not the consumption. Well, that's what you're bull. But Oberdor was forced by Donald Trump to close the border. Trump said to Oberdor, if you do not put Mexican troops on the Guatemalan border and the USA border, okay, if you do not, then we're going to raise tariffs through the roof on Mexican goods. And we're going to slow everything down the border.

So Obador folded, had to do it. First day in office, as you know, Biden threw all of that out the window. But Obador is a villain. He is right about drug consumption in the USA. As you know, I don't feel sorry for most drug addicts. I have compassion for those who are trying to get off the narcotics and the booze. And I do give money to charities that help them do that. But if you are an active alcoholic or drug addict, you are hurting not only yourself, but

this country. I have no respect for you. But there's plenty of drug consumption in Mexico. All right, Donald Trump getting involved in the Israeli situation. He does an interview with some Israeli press at Mahalago. Yesterday it was released. Here's what he said. You have to finish up your war.

You have to finish it up. You've got to get it done. And I'm sure you'll do that. And we've got to get to peace. You can't have this going on. And I will say, Israel has to be very careful because you're losing a lot of the world. You're losing a lot of support. But you have to finish up.

You have to get the job done. Okay. but that's not that easy because Hamas won't release the hostages. You know, if they're not going to release the hostages, you can't have a ceasefire. Smart life. Okay, a survey of 2,000 American adults by one poll finds that two-thirds of us, 67% are stressed out when we eat in a restaurant. I believe it. Okay?

48% are more likely only to eat out after they get paid. So the prices are high. You know how crazy the prices are. And the people going to the restaurants feel guilty because they don't have enough money to get by yet they're going in. So here's smart life. And I've said this before. I don't want to be repetitive, but this is a good strategy. I think that we all should get a break and go to a restaurant that we like that has good food. I don't go to the ultra expensive places. Once in a while for business, I have to. But in my own time, I never do. All right? I got my own places that are,

I can live with that, the pricing. If I do go to an upscale restaurant, Smart life. Number one, I do not buy booze. It's $15 a pop. You're crazy. I don't drink anyway, but even if I did drink, I wouldn't buy $15 drink. Okay. Me, two, just a sprite is $6 or $7.

I drink water, and it's fine. Many times I will order two appetizers, and that's more than enough food. so you get two nice appetizers instead of an appetizer and an entree never dessert i got a carvel down the street if i want dessert i whip in there i got 18 Dunkin donuts around here so picking up dessert on a way home is not a problem if i want it anyway but i'm cutting the sugar down but anyway if you do two appetizers and water and you get a little bread or whatever it may be, you should be satisfied there. And you'll cut your bill down 30, 40%. Now, they're not going to like you, but tip well, okay, if you go in and do that. Smart life. All right,

Puff Daddy. I still call him Puff Daddy because I don't know why he names himself every hour on the hour, but Puff Daddy, 54, record mogul, FBI, Homeland Security Investigator, local police, searches homes in L.A. and Miami. Big thing. Press was tipped off. This is the key to the story. If the media is tipped off by law enforcement on a raid, and they certainly were here, because the media was ready to photograph both L.A. Mansion and Miami Mansion. That means the feds want everybody to know what they are doing, and they have a strong. case. Now, I watched some of the coverage last night. It was just foolish and stupid. The usual speculation, well, he might have done this, he might have done that. I don't do that. I don't know

what he did. All right? And he's innocent until proving guilty. That's the due process. I do know when you see federal law enforcement agencies go out of their way to embarrass somebody like that, they have to have something. So we'll follow it. announces vice presidential selection, woman named Nicole Shanahan, 38 years old, one of the wealthiest woman in the country because she was married at one time to the co-founder of Google and got a lot of money and the separation. She describes herself as a left-wing progressive, and that's perfect for RFK. Roll the tape. The Fed works for Wall Street and allows millionaire our bankers to prey upon Main Street and the American worker.

And that's why Nicole and I both left the Democratic Party. Okay. So our values didn't change, but the Democratic Party. Okay, so RFK is running to the left of the Democratic Party, which is his right to do. He has one sliver connection to the right in America, and that's the anti-vax stuff. There are conservatives who don't like vaccinations and all of that. Okay, so how many states do you think RFK Jr. is on the ballot right now? How many do you think? The number is four. New Hampshire, Nevada, Utah, and Hawaii. Now, Nevada is a swing state. Utah will go for Trump. Hawaii will go for Biden. New Hampshire doesn't like Trump very much, but it's in play. Now, in order to get on

the other 46 state ballots, RFK Jr. had to appoint a vice president. That's one of the criteria in each state is different. So this costs an enormous amount of money, and I'm sure Ms. Shanahan is going to be kicking a lot of money into RFK's campaign. You've got to go through the procedures in each state to get on the ballot. And each state is different. So only four have taken RFK now. I don't know how many is going to get on. And the Democrats can try block that because according to all the polls, RFK is taking more votes away from Biden than he is from Trump. It's about two, three to one. The Democrats don't want him at all. In fact, RFK Jr.'s Own family doesn't want him.

Go. When you say you see your brother's campaign as a danger, is it more about siphoning votes away from Joe Biden, or is it because of his policies? It's really about siphoning votes from Biden. The polls I'm seeing, Bobby, takes 70% of the votes from Biden and 30% from Trump. And I feel strongly that this is the most important.

election of our lifetime. Okay. Now we go to Fairfax County, Virginia, just south of the District of Columbia. So on Easter Sunday, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, there are nine of them, 10 of them, nine Democrats, one Republicans, have unanimously voted to celebrate transgender day of visibility. on Easter Sunday. Now, the excuse is, well, March 31st is Chan's Dender Day of visibility all over the world, so we have, no.

You can do it Monday or Saturday. This is right in your face, right in your face to all Christians. That's what this is, Fairfax County, Virginia. Church attendance, according to Gallup poll, on the decline still, they surveyed 32,445 adults. That's a lot of survey. And there's a question, these are people who attend religious services weekly. Okay?

2013, 38% for all U.S. adults. 2023, 10 years later, 30%. Christians, that's Protestants. 213, 49, to 23, 44. Catholics, to 1340 to 23, 33%. So you can see that weekly attendance, a church, sinking, sinking, sinking. Okay. Smart life is being religious, believing in God, a positive for your life.

There is a study out of Great Britain, the Institute for the Faith in Life. life. Now, this is a pro-religious group. You should know that. Here's what they found out. 76% of religiously affiliated people say they were happy. 52% of atheists say they are happy. Big goal. So you're happier if you believe in religion, according to this study. 76% of religiously affiliated felt confident in dealing with life's challenges. 56% of atheists. 74% of religious people, say they have a high degree of self-control, 51 of atheists do. And finally, 42% of atheists were optimistic about the future.

69% of religious people are optimistic about the future. Maybe that's because of heaven, right? Going to heaven. So, you know, look, if you are a religious person, religious gives science. because you believe that there is justice in the universe and good people will be rewarded and bad people will be punished and psychologically that is a very strong emotional quotient okay that you want to break it down okay so here's a final thought of the day the mug's self-reliance in order to have self-reliance you have to have two things discipline and self-aware

awareness. So if you make a mistake, you've got to own up. Now, a lot of people won't do that in our narcissistic age. You know them. Never admit a mistake, ever. No matter what, no much haven't, no matter how much evidence there is, will not. And then when they're caught, they make excuses. Well, so-and-so did something worse, or I was under the influence of LSD. I mean, you know, excuses, you know, rationalization. So, and so, and so, so did something worse. Or I was under the influence of LSD. I mean, you know, Anyway, I'm walking into a diner and have breakfast this morning, and the door opens, there's a little stairs like this, and a family comes out. So there's three kids, mom and a dad, typical American family. Well, the kids wham down the stairs, on the stairs already, almost knocking me over.

I'm a big guy, so I wasn't in any peril, but they're like this. It was like, what are you doing blocking my way? Now, they were younger. So I didn't say anything, but I expected the parents to say something. No. So I got to look at the father like this. He looks away. He knew.

Awareness. Now, you can't expect the kids to be aware of anything unless you teach them to be aware. So, for example, when an elevator door opened, you let the people inside the elevator get off first. And that makes sense. Okay, but how many times have you seen people go in while there were people in the elevator? When there is an elderly senior citizen

going up against the door and you're right there, you open the door. I open the door for everybody. If I'm in a position and there's a bunch of people, I just yanked the door open and everybody goes in. Okay? Because I'm aware that that gets people moving quicker than everybody having to close and open, closing open. This is called self-awareness.

But you also have to be aware of other people and their feelings. So you can hurt people's feelings and you don't even know about it, right? But you can read it if you care. And that's the key. So if you care about yourself, you want to be operating at the highest level. that's self-reliance if you're dependent on anybody that's not the highest level and you're going to get hosed 90% chance if you are dependent upon another person or the government you will get hosed and I mean bad you're dependent on yourself and you protect yourself

and build you know protective measures like a nice bank account, things like that, going to be far better off. But in order to do that, you've got to be aware. How many of you have elderly parents that are broke? I had to support my mother for 15 years, and I was happy to do it. I'm of the Japanese philosophy where the elders are venerated. That's my philosophy. I was happy to support my mother. Kept her in the home, whatever she needed, it was there. At the end, 24-hour care, in the home, I didn't have to put her in facility. But I knew that I would have to budget for that years before because I wasn't always thinking about myself. I was thinking about awareness. It was awareness of my life, my situation,

others around. There's a key. And you know what the shame of it is in America is not taught anymore. It's all immediate gratification. Where it me, me, me, me, my, my, my, you know, I got to have this, I got to have that. Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to save. I'm not going to do this. I'm not going to deprive myself. I'm going to, no, no, no, man, you're going to get it. And, you know, your parents, your elderly parents or whatever, wait, you got to think. So anyway, this is a lecture. It's Holy Week, and I decided to do it. Awareness, very important to self-reliance. very important to your life.

If you start now, then you'll see a big turnaround fast. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We'll see you tomorrow.