The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Sen. Mike Lee | 6/1/23

Episode Date: June 1, 2023

Sen. Mike Lee goes through the debt ceiling deal and explains why every aspect is lackluster. Will enough Senate Republicans fight back against the debt ceiling bill to allow for some worthwhile provi...sions? Looking at the billions of dollars being sent to Ukraine, Glenn explains why we must stop the out-of-control spending by our government. Where did all the anti-war people go? Will traveling be banned by 2030? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Today was a fun show, an interesting show, a scary show. So it's something for the whole family to enjoy. You know, I'd start with the scary stuff with the kids. They won't sleep for a week. So you don't want to miss a minute of today's podcast. Brought to you by Jace Medical. Hey, here's something that we talk about in today's podcast. and that is a massive drug shortage in America.
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Starting point is 00:02:03 And to make sure that the United States Senate has the opportunity to cast votes on a few amendments that identify some of the more egregious errors. You could either call them drafting errors if you wanted to assume good faith on the part of those who wrote them, or you could call them efforts to repair malicious damage inflicted by whoever wrote this, trying to make virtually every cost-savings measure in this bill effectless and almost ineffective. Okay, so go through some of them. All right, so my personal favorite
Starting point is 00:02:39 and the sense of it really getting me worked up is this section 265 of the bill. Section 265 nullifies completely the regulatory pay-as-you-go measure or pay-go as they call it. The reg pay-go provision is section 263. Then in 265, just after the provision that promised to bring about accountability for government as it expands the regulatory footprint of the federal government.
Starting point is 00:03:05 It says, oh, by the way, the director of President Biden's Office of Management and Budget, Shalonda Young, may at her sole discretion decide not to follow these. Oh, my gosh. She just exempt herself from it. And you know, Glenn, the funny thing is I discovered this about 48 hours ago. And it was Tuesday morning when I was reading through that. particular provision and discovered, oh, my gosh, this could be a problem. And a lot of people aren't going to read this or understand what it means. So I've got to talk about it. I kid you
Starting point is 00:03:37 not, by the end of the day, Shalonda Young herself, OMB director at a White House briefing, came out and said, yeah, of course I will use that provision. And I will use that provision to defend and prop up President Biden's regulatory agenda. So they're not even being mysterious about this. So this regulatory accountability, it was supposed to start with an. end with, the Raines Act, which would put Congress back in charge of making the law, instead of allowing law to be made by unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic tendons. They stripped that out, and they put this one as a replacement with Kevin McCarthy, who I genuinely like as a human being.
Starting point is 00:04:16 I've long really liked Kevin personally. But he came out and said, yeah, we didn't get rains. We didn't even get a short-term reins, which is something they should have used as a fallback, which I had suggested, at least rains where they took. duration of the Congress. But we did get something almost as good as that, which is this regulatory pay-go feature. Only it doesn't work. It was built to fail, built to do nothing. What is the regulatory pay-go of which the one you just talked about? Okay. So it would require the administration, each time it issues a new regulation to establish what the cost of it would be and to ensure that
Starting point is 00:04:54 they're not increasing the net cost of regulatory compliance. Right. This may seem odd to put in a debt-hilling deal, but it actually makes perfect sense because we can't get out of our debt crisis solely by cutting. We need to cut, yes, and we need to cut a lot. We need to grow. Our debt is so huge that we need to grow at the same time we cut. And so what we're left with is no real cuts, at least not very much. And I'll go over that in a second. And the pro-growth stuff doesn't work either because it was built to fail.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Now, I don't think Kevin knew this. I think he was deceived by someone giving him batted. advice, but it is what it is. And I'm pushing the amendment today to strike Section 265 to make this thing at least less bad. Okay. So, Mike, you know, we've got Romney's coming out of our nose in Washington. Are you going to be able to get enough Republicans to help? Look, I'm whipping to vote among Senate Republicans. I believe that we're going to have at least 20 no votes. I'm going to try to push that figure higher. I'd like to get it north of 25. Between 25 and 30 would be a good outcome. What would be an even better outcome, Glenn,
Starting point is 00:06:12 is we get through some of this and we start voting on some of these amendments to strike some of the more egregious provisions and also at the same time highlight the bill's deficiencies. And in the process, perhaps either repair it so that it actually does something good or all alternatively, if it can't be repaired, defeat this thing so that we can go back to the drawing board and get something that actually works. There's no reason we have to be up against this false deadline established by Janet Yellen. We're just days away from the moment when we're going to start receiving these quarterly tax payments that once they're in, we'll take us into mid to late July before we have to do a thing. We shouldn't wait that long. We ought to act now, but there's no reason we have to act at this.
Starting point is 00:07:00 recklessly now and Monday. So, you know, you've got Mitch McConnell standing there saying we're going to pass it today. Yeah, he wants to pass it today. And I respectfully, but very, very strongly disagree with him. Look, we've got to make sure that the American people, and those they elected to represent them, know what this thing does. And I believe a lot of the people who voted for this last night, at least the Republicans didn't fully understand what it did. They had drunk the Kool-A. They had been fed misinformation, perhaps in good faith, I don't know, by Republican leadership over there. But you know, Glenn, something interesting happened. First, 71 House heroes were born last night. 71 house heroes who emerged despite aggressive efforts by Republican leadership and the news media to force them
Starting point is 00:07:55 to vote for something. They stood up and they voted no. You know what's interesting, Glenn? More Democrats voted for this bill in the House than a Republican. I know. More Democrats voted for. I have heard, I don't know if this is true, but I have heard that there were earmarks given to key Democrats to help them whip the vote. There may well have been. I have no way of knowing that. But what I do know is more of them voted for vanded Republicans and more Republicans voted against it than did Democrats.
Starting point is 00:08:28 And yet this was an effort that was supposed to be some sort of. win. And within minutes after that vote was cast and the result was known, you had Democrats in the House saying things like, okay, I guess we can gloat now. We can finally gloat now that this is past. That we totally played them.
Starting point is 00:08:44 And they did, in fact, play Republican. Of course they did. Of course they did. Because I swear to you, we have the IQ among all Republican leadership in my opinion. We have the IQ of a dog and a
Starting point is 00:09:00 dumb dog, possibly a dead dog at that? Look, I won't speak to their IQ, and I don't know that that is the problem. I don't think it is. I think that the problem is they're too eager to hear what they want to hear, that something can be done easily, that there can be a kumbaya moment that's not going to have problems with it. And so sometimes they look the other way when it comes to the language. I'm sorry. I mean, I appreciate you're being much more Christ-like than I am.
Starting point is 00:09:28 by, you know, you're not questioning their IQ, but how dumb do you have to be to fall for the same trick every time since the day I was born? Look, Glenn, you're not going to tell me Santa Claus isn't real again, are you? Because that really is actually when you go there. I mean. Look, let's let's get back for a second to the spending issues. Because this is another glaring omission.
Starting point is 00:09:51 It's something that irritates me to know and what they're saying. They're claiming that this thing saves between, I don't know, 1.5, $2 trillion. It doesn't. It's smoke in mirrors. Look, in year one, the Limits Save Grow Act, the one passed a few weeks ago by the house, would have saved about a trillion dollars in the first year alone. That's how you tell whether it's serious is what it does in the first year.
Starting point is 00:10:15 Correct. Because that's the one that's immediately under our control as we're doing this thing. It's the same Congress acting in the same moment in the same legislation. This one, do you want to know how much it saves in year one? About $12 billion. 12 billion as compared to about 1.2 trillion. And some would say even more because the expense, the cost of the Green New Deal tax credits adopted by the Democrats,
Starting point is 00:10:43 which they were clawing back, which they were going to halt, are now understood as likely to be even more expensive than we expected. But this one saves only about $12 billion, possibly as few as six. You know, they claw back $28 billion of unspent COVID funds. And then they immediately create a new slush fund in the Department of Commerce for $22 billion. Nobody knows what it does. Nobody knows what it means. They're just moving it there so they can spend it somewhere else.
Starting point is 00:11:15 What, I mean, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. There shouldn't be any slush funds for any department. I mean, what, what, Mike, what does the Commerce Department do? What could they possibly do? Oh, very important things. And in this provision, I believe the language is something along the lines of establishing business, necessary hot tech business infrastructure. Who the hell knows what that means?
Starting point is 00:11:43 I think, honestly, it's there to serve as a slush fund to make sure that they have money when they feel like it for something else. Mike, how can we help you? Okay. So, first of all, I hope and pray that senators will pay attention today. They will continue to read the bill, that they'll study the bill, that they will listen to arguments being made. When those of us who are proposing amendments and demanding that they be debated and voted on, will pay attention carefully to what's being said and ask the question,
Starting point is 00:12:24 is this really what the American people need? not just what they deserve, but what they desperately need right now. Could we do better? And secondly, anyone who has the ear of a United States senator, as most constituents do in one way or another, reach out to them and ask how they're voting and express your views about how you feel about this bill. If you feel as I do that this bill is a whole lot of smoke in mirrors
Starting point is 00:12:55 and that doesn't really save anything and that it may end up costing more money. Let them know. Yet another point, they promised work requirements. There were work requirements attached to Medicaid, attached to food stamps, and attached to another federal welfare program called TANF in the original Limit Save Grow plan.
Starting point is 00:13:13 They were great reforms. It would have saved money and would have also helped people get out of poverty, making poverty temporary rather than tolerable and sustainable long-term, thriving sort of measure. got work requirements until you read the fine print. And you see that they stripped out all of the Medicaid work requirements. The TANF requirements are essentially a wash, essentially meaningless at best.
Starting point is 00:13:44 Then you've got the food stamp work requirements. Those appeared at first blush to do something to save money. And then we found out last night that according to the Congressional Budget Office, it actually costs more money. It's going to cost us a couple of billion dollars. not save us anything, but cost. Yeah, but we're, but wait, we're saving. And we're saving money with the IRS, though, right? Yeah. Okay, so I think it's less than $2 billion out of $80 billion.
Starting point is 00:14:17 Two billion. Two billion out of 80 billion. That is not just a drop in the bucket, that is a drop in the ocean as far as we're concerned. It still puts us in a position where we've deployed this veritable, of people to harass the American people. And we don't want that. We don't need that. And we need the money to not be spent.
Starting point is 00:14:39 The last thing, Thomas Massey was on yesterday, said, this is going to avoid an omnibus bill. And I've heard now that people are saying, no, this is going to cause another omnibus bill. Look, I love Thomas Massey. It's one of my favorite people in all of Congress. And he's someone I rarely disagree with. and I don't question his motives. I don't either. He's intelligence for one minute.
Starting point is 00:15:04 He's dead wrong. Get wrong here. Look, everyone makes mistakes from time to time. He's definitely made one here. He's dead wrong. This provision he's talking about that supposedly bring about an automatic 1% cut. Now, now, it might have that effect. If the 1% cut kicked in on October 1st, the day after Congress failed to adopt a spending bill or a series of spending bills,
Starting point is 00:15:28 It doesn't kick in until January 1st, so that three-month interregnum between Congress's failure to pass something and the moment the 1% kick, the cut kick in, kicks in. During that period, there's going to be enormous groundswell pressure from the Unip Party, from Washington swamp. To pass. It will encourage Congress to pass a giant, bloated, expensive omnibus, or perhaps a large CR with some omnibus like. creatures dwelling within it or a series of what they call many bus bills. Either way, we're going to spend more money, not less as a result of this. Mike, Thomas Messi, we're right. He's dead wrong here. We will, uh, hopefully the phones will ring in the Senate today. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Keep fighting, Mike. Thanks so much, Glenn. You bet. Thanks so much for keeping America informed.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Thanks. Please call your senator today. Got to call all of your Republican senators. Uh, yeah, of waste, don't waste your dime on Mitt Romney's of the world, but call all of them, all of them. Make it clear. No on this. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. I think one of the bravest and most honest speeches given by any president in the last 70 to 100 years came from Dwight Eisenhower. Here's just a clip of what he said in his farewell address.
Starting point is 00:17:01 In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. He went on. This was used as you're a conspiracy theorist, if you believe in that. Huh. And it discredited a lot of people.
Starting point is 00:17:35 And I always remember hearing the vast right wing, the military industrial complex. I grew up believing it was a conspiracy. And interesting how that works. And yet, where are we today? Who's actually making the decisions? Why are we in Ukraine? Well, there's a couple of reasons, I think. It would be the way that usually when there is a collapse of trust, a trust implosion, I've talked about it for years.
Starting point is 00:18:07 Trust implosion is usually the last sign before a country goes to war and then it resets everything. So that's one theory. We just want to go to war to collapse the old system into a new system. And nobody will say anything because they just want the war to stop. The next one is, I think, a very good chance. We're just laundering money over in Ukraine. There's lots of money coming back into the United States. Your tax dollars.
Starting point is 00:18:35 Going to oligarchs and then coming back here. I think historians will find that everywhere. However, that's speculation. I will tell you that the military industrial complex, the educational industrial complex, which he also warned about, and the scientific industrial complex, which he also warned about, those three things and what he warned is happening. Back in March, the Pentagon announced a budget for a whopping $842 billion.
Starting point is 00:19:16 It expanded authority for multi-year contracts for the supply of aircraft, ships, and ammunition. Guess where the majority of that money is going to. to go to. Defense contractors, otherwise known as the military industrial complex. CBS just did a story that said half of the Pentagon's budget, half will go to defense contractors. Meanwhile, some of our soldiers have to have food stamps. Surprise, surprise, CBS found that these defense contractors are gouging the government with insanely inflated prices. Do you want to know why Ukraine is so important? I want you to listen to this.
Starting point is 00:20:04 The Pentagon granted companies unprecedented leeway to monitor themselves. Instead of saving money, Assad told us the price of almost everything began to rise. In the competitive environment before the companies consolidated, a shoulder-fired Stinger missile cost $25,000 in 1991. With Raytheon, now the sole supplier, it costs more than $400,000 to replace each missile sent to Ukraine. Even accounting for inflation and some improvements, that's a seven-fold increase. A seven-fold increase. Now, since when has technology made things more expensive? These have been around forever.
Starting point is 00:20:52 And they're getting more expensive? what technology does that, especially when you're making them in bulk. So a seven-fold increase. CNN reported that Ukraine has asked for 500 Stinger missiles, $400,000 apiece, 500 Stinger missiles. Per day. Per day. That's $20 million every day we're giving to UK. Ukraine just in Stinger missiles.
Starting point is 00:21:29 Last year, the Pentagon had allocated nearly $1.5 billion just to restock our own troops with that weapon. This is the fattest cash cow ever. The United States is giving these defense contractors all of this money. They're making things, shipping them. Do you know some of the stuff from Ukraine was just found on our border? Did you know that? How did that happen? How did that happen?
Starting point is 00:21:58 Defense contractors are making record shattering profits. Now, we looked at the list of the top 10 contractors in the country. Stu, when I say the military industrial complex, who do you think? I mean, big defense contractors. You like. Raytheon. Raytheon. Okay.
Starting point is 00:22:21 McDonald-Douglas. Sure. Stuff like that. Do you know four of the top ten? Are pharmaceutical companies? Four of the top ten. Two of the four were the largest vaccine providers. Moderna, which partnered with the government, creating the MRNA COVID vaccine.
Starting point is 00:22:42 Okay. Two of the four were the COVID vaccine providers and four of them are pharmaceutical companies. Is that just a one-off because of COVID? What's the reasoning for that? I don't, I mean, well, they have to make sure everybody's inoculated. Right. I got that going on. Now, they do have a bunch of other vaccines that the military members receive, right?
Starting point is 00:23:09 Four of the top ten are pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical companies and the guys making the Stinger missiles. Again, when one missile costs $400,000, how could these programs possibly be costing this? Remember who was the harshest? on getting the vaccines. The Pentagon. The vaccine doesn't cost $400,000 a shot. There's something else going on.
Starting point is 00:23:36 There is something else going on. I don't know what it is, but the government has partnered with all of these people, and they are bilking you. They are taking your money and transferring that wealth, not to the poor, but to the Uber rich. That's who's who's,
Starting point is 00:23:57 running this country, the military industrial complex, the scientific industrial complex, and the educational industrial complex, all three warned about by Eisenhower. I mean, think of this, everything, just the military industrial complex, pandemic response, vaccines, forever wars. I don't know. When Biden announced his presidential transition team, it was discovered that one third of his Pentagon team came from organizations financed by defense contractors. Once he became president, he began filling top Pentagon positions with weapons suppliers.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Last year, Biden traveled to Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractor in the country, to cheer him on as they made the javelin missiles to be sent to Ukraine. So who's running this war? The figurehead in chief or the owner of the companies that are now making billions off of this war. Twenty-five members of Congress sat on the National Security Committee's. At the same time, those 25 members traded financial assets with the defense industry. You imagine how rich you can be if you know a giant contract. You've just been a part of approving, is going, and nobody else knows it, and it's not illegal for you to use that insider information. You know how my, this is
Starting point is 00:25:27 how these people go to Washington and become rich. You're working home. You're working, hard. They're trading on insider information and they're being led by the nose. The corruption is staggering, staggering. And the only way to stop it is to give the purse strings back to Congress as dictated in the Declaration or in the Constitution. of the United States. The Constitution is set up for a reason, checks and balances. The purse strings go to the branch that is the closest to the people, the House. And they tried to do something yesterday. And 70 members, 70 Republicans. I told you yesterday. I feel like we do actually
Starting point is 00:26:27 have some good Republicans in there. Those 70 members, I'm going to post them. I want you to know their names. Those are people that stood up and said, nope, we're not passing it because this is a game. Those 70 members, and I think there were 43 Democrats. We'll have to look and why they said they weren't going to, because some of them were like, you know, it's not a less communism. Right. Yeah. Mostly that's what that was the opposition there. Yeah. However, I think we have people fighting force. Today, it's going to the Senate. Everything you're hearing about this bill is garbage. I don't know about you. If I'm going to understand a bill, I'm going to go to Mike Lee.
Starting point is 00:27:10 Mike Lee is, I mean, Mike Lee is the guy in the Senate. Everybody goes to. Mike, what does this mean? He's the guy. He was just on, he said, Glenn, this is a disastrous bill. Disasterous. It cannot pass. He said, it is just free spending forever.
Starting point is 00:27:32 All of the little things. You know, we had Thomas Massey on and bless his heart. I don't mean that in a Southern sort of way. He is a good guy, but he was duped. He was duped. Today is the day. We are, if you don't act today, you may lose your country tomorrow. And I think there are far too few people in America that believe that could be true.
Starting point is 00:28:02 but I as sure as I I said in 1999 within 10 years there'll be blood bodies and buildings in the streets of this city New York City and it will have the signature of Osama bin Laden on it said that in 99 it didn't wait 10 years
Starting point is 00:28:22 everybody said that I was crazy I'm telling you one day you're going to wake up and you're going to realize it's gone it's gone stand up today and call your senator
Starting point is 00:28:40 and tell your senators call all of the Republicans do not I will remember how you voted and all of my friends and I will I will make sure
Starting point is 00:28:54 we remind everybody I don't care if it's in four years I'm going to remind everyone don't vote for you. This is the line. No. No more out of control spending. Because I can, I would bet you.
Starting point is 00:29:15 I can't guarantee. I would bet you. I'd bet you my house. That all this money sloshing around going over to Ukraine, a lot of it is being used to literally dismantle. our country from our enemies inside our country. And there's too many slush funds. And all of those dollars have your name on it.
Starting point is 00:29:43 No. Call the Senate and say no. The best of the Glenn Beck program. Stu, do you have on your to-do list to prepare for, you know, Trouble. Alcohol. Now, I'm asking you as an alcoholic. To prepare for trouble? No. To prepare for this weekend? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I think. Now remember, I'm an alcoholic whose faith also restricts alcohol. Right. And I'm saying, go to a liquor store. I'll see you later.
Starting point is 00:30:27 Okay. Here's why. It is anesthesia. If there is no painkillers. It is also, you know, not as good as rubbing alcohol, but tastes better. You can use it for many things. And there's going to be a lot of people that are just going to want to trade for alcohol. Wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:30:51 You have alcohol. Now tell them that you have it buried in a backyard some far, far away place from your house. house. But there's, there, we have to start thinking about trade and trading. You know, and you can get Bud Light cheap right now. So go out and buy Bud Light is what Glenbeck just said. Here's what I want. I want a Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light can. They were only like 10 made or something like that. I thought there's only one made. No, I thought Dylan Mulvaney had it. Yeah, I'm not sure. I think that there was a few of them that were made. Because didn't he come up with a tray of a bunch of them? Maybe you're right. Yeah. But, but, but.
Starting point is 00:31:27 They didn't do, they didn't sell them. That I know. Not that I would trade that. I just think that is an important piece of American history. It's a pretty important piece. Yeah. But obviously, you know, you don't necessarily want to go with the carbonated beverage route for your particular needs here. Would that be something that be allowable, you know, faith-wise for you?
Starting point is 00:31:46 Like, are, like, if you're using it for medicinal purposes. Yes. Yes. So, you know, there you go. I get there's your route, Glenn. I mean, I don't know if the, Glenn, I don't know if the church was. Glenn. Am I?
Starting point is 00:31:58 Yeah. Really? You know, I should diagnose myself. I am a doctor. Yeah, that's right. You've found your way around all the rules. This is really not good. No.
Starting point is 00:32:08 No, but you really think that that is something. Yeah, I think there's, and I think we have to start really, I mean, there's not a lot of people that are thinking this way. Not enough. Not enough. That are, that really understand this could come flying apart at any minute. at any minute you go to war with Russia done you you have if they don't pass this you actually have a secretary of our treasury and a president that might actually default on the
Starting point is 00:32:43 the the the debt to win their message to send a message there's no way we default on the debt none There should be no reason. You would just pay. Well, you would not pay other bills first. Yes. Right? Like, you would just make sure our creditors got their money. Correct.
Starting point is 00:33:03 Just like, by the way, everyone would do, right? Everyone does. When you have a problem financially for a month, you make sure your credit cards are paid. Your mortgage is paid. Your car payments paid. And maybe you don't go out to the movies. Maybe you don't do those extra things that month. If you're cutting corners, maybe you don't go buy new clothes that month.
Starting point is 00:33:20 You want to fix the country? That's honestly what you do. Because you just don't. You don't raise the debt ceiling, period. There's no deal you can make. I'm not raising the debt ceiling. No. Do you think 31.4 trillion is enough?
Starting point is 00:33:36 Is that what you're trying to tell me right now? I mean, more is always better, you know, but I'm thinking no. Right. Like, you know, and like if we were in a rational society where we could say, all right, let's say 35 trillion, but it will be constitutionally guaranteed we could never go over that number. Like something crazy like that, which would never happen. But if that were to be true, like, you could make the argument, all right, we've gone a long way down this really wrong road. Let's turn ourselves around. Might take a few steps.
Starting point is 00:34:06 We've got a lot of momentum going down here. Take a few steps to slow ourselves down and then turn around and go around and go the other way. Stay away from that $35 trillion number at all costs. But we have no ability to do that. We're not even considering it. I mean, all these deals don't plan to actually keep us under some future debt limit number. it's just a negotiation point to do a little bit of cost cutting around the edges. And if he'll talk to Mike Lee, you're not even really getting that.
Starting point is 00:34:33 But like, if they were trying to sell this to us, Glenn, is like, okay, look, the president in the United States told us he wasn't even going to talk about this. He just wanted it raised for nothing. He spent 97 days, not even negotiating. The only reason we're close to this deadline at all is because of him saying, no, I won't talk to you. So considering we started with absolutely nothing. the fact that we reclaim $2 billion from the IRS is a win.
Starting point is 00:34:57 It's a crappy... $2 billion. Now, you know I don't believe this argument, but if you're pitching it that way, and you said, all right, look, they had $80 billion, now they got $78. It's a little bit better. We don't have any power to do with this by ourselves.
Starting point is 00:35:14 They still have the presidency. They still have the Senate. So, look, we take the small win here and fight it out later on. So the IRS, we just got $2 billion, but not really. $2 billion. They were given, what, $87 billion per new workforce? I thought it was 80. So 78 remaining.
Starting point is 00:35:34 Okay, 78 remaining. You think about what they can buy with $78 billion. $78 billion. That should be a decade of funding to the IRS? Oh, yeah. So try this on, try this on for size. The IRS, just in the last two years. has spent over $10 million on weaponry and gear.
Starting point is 00:35:58 They also began hiring agents that will carry guns and make arrests with job openings now in all 50 states. Broken down, $2.3 million has been spent on ammunition alone. The remaining has gone into shields, rifles, and tactical shotguns. They better not be black rifles. If someone breaks the law, I guess it's a tax law. Do we have to have the SWAT team? Open the books, broke down the numbers, indicating 4,500 guns, over 5 million rounds of ammunition, have been stockpiled. There are now more federal agents with arrest and firearm authority, 200,000, than there are U.S. Marines, 100,000.
Starting point is 00:36:51 I don't know. I think they can, you know, we lasted this long without SWAT teams for the farmers and the tax accountants. That's what you have an FBI for, I thought. It's almost like it's building an army. Hmm. I have to tell you, I am, I told you today that I'm, uh, I'm in the middle of acquiring a lot. of history. I just purchased the bell from the bell tower. I can't remember the name of the Catholic Church, but it was the Catholic Church. Most people don't know. Nagasaki was where Christians hit out for years up until like 1900. It was illegal to be Christian. So all the underground church in Japan was in Nagasaki. And then when it became legal.
Starting point is 00:37:58 legal, the Catholics built this giant cathedral there. It was a thousand yards away from the bomb. And so it was holding mass at the time. Obviously, everyone vaporized, and you should see the pictures of this cathedral before and after. There's nothing left. All of the bells, but one melted. Gone. One remained.
Starting point is 00:38:25 I just acquired that. You'll see that insane. St. George. It's going to be really incredible stuff. It's incredible stuff. Incredible stuff. And you know some of the other things that I'm trying to acquire now that are incredible. Stunning, right? It's overwhelming, honestly. I mean, we've done museums before that were really good, but the level that this is at now is really getting insane. Insane. Insane. And we're taking a lot of it, not all of it by far. You'll fact probably see maybe 2% 1% of the museum's collection.
Starting point is 00:39:05 And I have a family member, an uncle who's a history teacher. And he was down here, I don't know, two years ago now. Yeah. And you took him on a tour of the museum, which is what, half the size of what it is now? And he was completely blown away about all the stuff that was in there. I mean, it's incredible. You'll learn more about history just in that 90 minutes that you're there than you'll ever. You've ever learned in your life, most likely, unless you're a, well, I think even if you went to school, but if you went to school recently especially.
Starting point is 00:39:37 But I am really becoming concerned that this is not going to be able to be seen soon. I really think that we are headed down a road where this stuff could be claimed. It would be destroyed. It would be claimed as the government just coming in and saying, those is that's national treasure whatever um destroyed uh come see it come see it this summer take your family uh there's only and they're generally in the later afternoon or early early morning or later later at night uh for a few days um are left the tickets already sold out in idaho about 90 percent sold out in uh in st george
Starting point is 00:40:28 And I mean, this was a test to see if I could put it on the road year round. I'm not sure that we can. Some of the things we have to do to protect it and everything else. And I'm just not sure. It might have to be, it might. Pray that it's not lost in a horrible boating accident because that would be, well, take a very big boat and a very big lake, but it could happen. It's really irresponsible for you to take them out on the water.
Starting point is 00:40:53 I know. I'm not planning on it, but you never know. You never know. All right. You can find the tickets at united we pledge.org. Unitedwe pledge.org. And there's also dinner. The dinner in St. George all sold out,
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