Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, March 23, 2022

Episode Date: March 23, 2022

President Biden travels to Europe, New York City’s unemployment rate the highest in the nation, Disney workers walk-off the job over gay rights, Gas prices smash records in Southern California. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, America's crime and addiction problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. President Biden travels to Europe, New York City's unemployment rate, the highest in the nation. Disney workers walk off the job over gay rights. Gas prices smash records in Southern California. Also, how illegal narcotics are harming every American. But first, President Biden arriving in Belgium to meet with Western allies. The president holding talks with leaders of NATO, the G7 European Union, to counter Putin's invasion of Ukraine. New sanctions are expected. Mr. Biden then travels to Poland on Friday. The White House will unveil another strategy to stop Putin. U.S. Intel

agencies believe the conflict in Eastern Europe has killed at least 15,000 people in the last four weeks. The unemployment rate in New York City rising to 8%, the highest for any major city, and double the national average. By comparison, Miami unemployment, 3%. Boston, 4%. Chicago, 5%. Again, New York City, 8%. The Chamber of Commerce blames the situation in the Big Apple on COVID and high crime. Just 50% of employees have returned to the workplace in New York City since the shutdown in April 2020. Group of Disney employees in Florida staging walkouts this week demanding the House of Mouse

do something to protect LGBT rights. Workers said the company took too long to condemn Florida's so-called don't say gay bill, which ban schools from teaching gender identity to children between the ages of five and seven. Woke Disney executives are encouraging the walkout. There will be a backlash, I believe, against the Disney Corporation. Los Angeles is the first city in America where average gas prices top six bucks a gallon. Some stations in L.A. and Orange County to the south charging $7.50 a gallon. California lawmakers are considering a $400 tax rebate for people who commute to work by car.

That would be pretty much everybody. Others want to suspend the state's gas tax, which is a whopping $1.20 a gallon in California. In a moment, drugs are destroying our society. Right back. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door. Or place in a tax advantage, gold, I

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First, the stats from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control. More than one million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 19, 99. One million. 100,000 plus deaths occurred last year. One in five children grow up with a parent who has a substance problem. 80% of all child abuse cases in the USA involve alcohol or drug use. Children of addicted parents are three times more likely to be neglected physically or sexually abused. The divorce rate among addicted parents three times the national average. So you can see the carnage that drug use causes. Want more? Here we go. The Department of Labor reports

65% of on-the-job accidents, drug or alcohol related. Addiction causes $250 billion. in lost productivity. Half of all unemployed men in America are addicted to opioids. Half. 70% of the homeless are addicted to drugs or alcohol. 70%. Now, some say addiction is a disease. So addicts should not be held responsible for that.

disease. But let's look at history. When the communists took over China after World War 2, about a quarter of the population in China was addicted to opium. Did you know that? It was a huge opium problem in mainland China. So the communist dictator Mazitong ordered drug addicts shot. The disease quickly disappeared in China. In Singapore, the fascist government there forces drug addicts into confined rehabilitation centers. Presto, the drug marketplace in Singapore has vanished. If you want narcotics, you have to drive across a bridge to Malaysia where the pushers are lined up waiting for you.

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And many addicts are doing grave harm to our society. It's largely secret inside the home where all of these children's, millions of them. are being abused by drug-addicted people. And you see it on the streets and the homeless camps, and 70% of street crime is caused by drug-addicted people. Here in America, there should be mandatory drug rehabilitation. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it.

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I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce Every week, I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, lawmakers, and even the President of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. weaponized space. After his election in 1980, Mr. Reagan believed the key to defeating the Soviet Union

was to neutralize their massive nuclear arsenal. The Star Wars program created a system of space-based satellites capable of destroying intercontinental missiles in mid-flight. The satellites use lasers to take down rockets as they flew towards their targets. Over the course of 10 years, government spent more than $30 billion on developing the concept, supporters claim Star Wars could provide permanent protection from nuke attacks. Critics say, this system barely worked. Early tests show that just 20% of incoming missiles could be destroyed by the Star Wars lasers. The program was scrapped by President Clinton in 1993. Nearly 40 years after Reagan announced Star Wars, many still asked, did it work? Was all that taxpayer money wasted? Right now, there's just one

aspect of the program still operating the Missile Defense Agency. The MDA works to defend North America from ballistic missiles and other airborne threats. It deploys top secret technology like lasers and sound waves to neutralize incoming warheads. The agency has 3,000 full-time employees now, another 5,000 part-time, and maintains an annual budget of $9 billion. And here's something else you might not know. Until a few months ago, the Missile Defense Agency focused on three foreign threats, North Korea, China, Iran. But just three weeks ago, The group added another country to the list, Russia. The group is now monitoring a potential threat from Putin

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