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Well, good morning everybody. It's Sunday morning. It's eight o'clock
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and it is the Money Matter Show right here on
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seven ninety. It is a show that we've been doing
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for a long period of time, and there's one we're
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going to continue to do. We run thirty five years.
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Thirty five years. I've been talking to you people in
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Tucson about financial management, about how to make money. What
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we're doing as money managers. Remember financial Greenberg Financial Group
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has been a money management firm since nineteen eighty eight,
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and now it's morphed into a financial planning and money
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management firm. We actually not only do the plans, which
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is great because it builds the relationships and the trust.
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Dylan is a CFP.
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We'll help on the taxi, we help on to stay planning,
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We help on everything while we put your portfolios together,
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and then we manage it. We don't give it to
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somebody else. We manage it. And the reason we do
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that is because I believe in responsibility. It's much easier
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to be flexible, it's much easier to be able to
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tweak for individuals when the stress gets to home or not.
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A few weeks ago, we were looking and listening to
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the media talk about how bad everything was and how
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bad the markets were, and how everything is going to
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go down, and we can down go down thirty percent,
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fifty percent, and that's when we hit down around forty
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eight hundred on the SMP. We're back over fifty six
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hundred on the SMP in a very short a period
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of time, a few weeks. And why is that? Well, first,
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why did it go down so much? It went down
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so much at first, it's because we've been talking about
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how the underpinnings of the market weren't very strong. So
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as soon as there was some news out there that
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people couldn't really comprehend, they sold first and asked questions later.
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The professionals that have been in this market for a
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long time that trade their own money other people's money,
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when those things have, you noticed, they just get out
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of the way for a day or two or three
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and let the markets go down because they're always going
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to get new money in from people. They're always going
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to have institutional when they're always going to have things
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that they can do. They wait, they wait, and they
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wait and they wait until they basically something comes out
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with some news that changes and they and then the
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short start. The people that are short the market, who
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are betting on the downside, then they have to then
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starts hitting their criteria, they start buying. Then the fomos,
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the fear of missing out, people start buying, and the
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next thing you know, the market's back up fifteen sixteen,
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seventeen percent. That's how it works. And then what they say,
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it's volatility, it's chaos, it's this, it's that. I've been
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watching this happen for over forty years.
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Forty years.
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I've listened to these economists be wrong for over forty years.
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I've been listening to the media just go ahead and
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try to get everyone excited one way or the other,
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just so they can get eyeballs on their TV. Now
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there's some smart people out there. There are, and eventually
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everyone's going to be right eventually. If you keep saying
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the market's going down, when it goes down, oh look
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at that person they called that. It could have been
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a year and a half ago, it could have been
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thousand points ago, but they called that. That's not where
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the respect comes from. The respect comes from the person
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that you deal with, that does your allocations and then
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actually presses the button to make the buys and the cells.
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At the end of the day, the score card is
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the buys and the cells. How did I mitigate risk?
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How did I buy when it was lower? How am
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I still? Where's my position now? It's not in the past,
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it's in the future. I know so many people that go, oh,
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you should have bought that, or you should have bought this,
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And I said, well, we bought this and this. Maybe
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it wasn't what you thought we should buy, but we
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bought this and this, and look where this is. And
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then we sell some stuff, and we sell some stuff
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as they're coming down, and they go down another ten
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or twenty or thirty points, but they still have a
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little bit and.
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Like, whoa, why do we still have that?
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Being good in this business, being good for clients is
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understanding their fear. Not so much the agreed that's easy
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to deal with. It's their fear and you have to
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understand the type of relationship you have so they don't
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go ahead and make the wrong mistake. Everybody gets older.
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Everybody the next time the markets go down will be
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older than they will when the last time the markets
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went down. So when you put your portfolio together and
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the markets are high and you're investing, and you're fully invested,
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you want to be more and you want to be greedy.
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Then when the markets go down, you're gonna get scared.
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So you've got to build portfolios around the ability to
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reduce the stress for individuals when the markets go down.
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That's how you meet gate risks. You can have a
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big cash position, which helps if they can go buy,
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if they if they're if they're taking money out of
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the account and using it on a monthly basis as
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a supplemental income, you have to set the ink the
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portfolio up as if it's a supplemental pension for them.
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Pensions go up and down, you just don't see them.
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But there's a way to go ahead. If you take
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it four or five percent out of your account, a
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six percent even, to go ahead and make sure you
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have enough money for.
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The rest of your lives.
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That doesn't mean if you have a million dollars in
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there and you're taking five, six, seven, eight percent out,
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that that million dollars is still going to be there.
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It could be three hundred, could be four hundred. After
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twenty years, could be five hundred, eight hundred, It could
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be a million and a half. But at the end
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of the day, the whole idea is, did you go
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ahead and live the lifestyle you wanted out of what
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you were able to handle from what what it's able
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to give to you. Remember, if you're getting three thousand
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dollars a month or five thousand dollars a month from
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your pension and you say, oh, I want six or seven,
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they're not going to give it to you. So we
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have to find other ways to get you that money
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and do things. And that's what we do. That's why
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we're our cfps, Our experience, our understanding of the markets,
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the models I put together for over the last twenty
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five thirty years, these are the things that will get
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you through all this. So now the markets are up,
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we just don't sit back and say, hey, this is great, wonderful. No,
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we started to reduce our risk a little bit by
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raising a little bit more cash. This week. I said,
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if it got over fifty six fifty seven hundred, I'll
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start doing that. At fifty eight hundred, I'll do it
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even bigger. Can we go to six thousand? We can.
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I'll tell you right now. If something good comes from
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the from the discussions with China at some time and
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we resolve a deal with them in the India and
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everybody else, then great, we'll rally up big and then
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we'll sell into it. Because it will not hold for
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a while, we will have another downturn. I don't think
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we can go down as far as we were unless
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there's problems. But by the time deals get done, it
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takes a long time. And as you saw by the numbers,
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it's not affecting our economy yet. When by the time
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it starts affecting economy, you got to weigh that against
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the deals that are being made, and then you have
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to look out three, four, five, six months later, so
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on declines, you'd be a buyer again. You stay ahead
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by understanding what's happening today and how the markets will
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react later on. Eventually, the Fed for lower interest rates
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that will stimulate the economy. We have low inflation, right, No,
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the energy prices are way down, Okay, other prices are
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coming down. That's what we wanted. It just baffles me.
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He was able to lower the interest rates in September
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and October in the face of higher inflation, in the
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face of a job market that was very, very tight.
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All the things he was looking at in anticipation of
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the election. I don't understand how he did that. And
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now he looks at it and said, well, tariffs are
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going to be probably could be inflationary, but at least
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we know those tariffs are temporary. You remember when he
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said that inflation was just a temporary thing, but it
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turned out to be a three year thing. Okay, Well,
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I could tell you tariffs are a temporary thing. Good
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one way or the other. It's going to be resolved
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with some type of meeting. Now here's the thing. Now,
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we are changing the way the United States of America
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does business. We're changing the way we are spending, We're
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changing the way we're going to move forward as a country.
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And some people just can't get their hands around that.
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They think the government is here for handouts, the government
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is here for the support of that, and they can
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never go broke. Well, I'm telling you it's happened many
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times to many empires throughout the entire world. The Roman
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Empire thought it would never do anything but conquer the world.
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They came tumbling down the United Kingdom, England. They thought
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they were the strongest and the best ever. Look what happened.
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China is on the right. Soviet unions on the rise
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in the United States of America. If we fall, they
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both will rise. Communism will rise because people will be
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needing the fact of being helped by the government. I
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don't think that most people that live in America want
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to be socialism or communism. They don't understand by giving
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away things to everybody, that is socialism. And when socialism
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gets to the point that you can't afford things and
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the government has to give you everything, that becomes communism.
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And if you think that we don't have a middle
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class now, we will never have a middle class under
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those circumstances. President Trump is trying to put a middle
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class back, the blue collar worker back, the person that
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actually works and does things on an everyday basis. What
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we took away from Ohio and Pennsylvania and the rust
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belt industries. We're trying to put things back in a
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Marria for number one, safety reasons. Can you imagine we
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had a World war right now and we had to
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weight on parts for a military from outside the United States,
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or god forbid, we have another pandemic and China says
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we're not giving you the drugs you need. Think about that.
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We know, we had healthcare essentials that we couldn't get
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our hands on. Thank goodness that China still gave it
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to us. We were still on good terms. But if
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you had war, why would they do it now? Going
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back to our economy, going back to where we are
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right now, and I've been asking this question a lot
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to people.
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Have you.
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Sat and thought about where we were thirty forty fifty
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years ago when it came to government assistance for people
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food stamps, welfare, unemployment, and where we are today. Does
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anyone give a thought or wonder why today we have
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to give so much government assistance to able bodied people.
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That's horrendous. We can't survive doing that. We need to
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help the people that need to help the most physically
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or mentally disability people need help. I get that. I
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don't have a problem with that elderly that's got to
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the point that they can't afford things. We need to
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help them. I get that. But we need to reduce
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the number of people that are on government assistance immediately.
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We get to start with the fraud, start with the overcharges,
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start with all the looting payments that everybody needs. You know,
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this whole thing with Doge right like it or not.
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They're exposing things that have been incredible fifty million dollars
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that don't have to have any tax receipt on it,
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any code on it, to where it went, and you
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find out it went to parties and planes and trips
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and how much in their pockets. I know I've said
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this for a long time, and I know you've thought it.
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How do these people that go in and get a
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job for one hundred and fifty to maybe two hundred
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thousand a year become not millionaires, but twenty million, fifty million,
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one hundred million dollars they walk out with after being
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a lifer in this in Congress. It makes absolutely no sense.
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And now we're realizing that money's been going into places
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that we had no idea where it was going, and
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that should never happen. You ever wonder why they don't
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want to have term limits because the party's over. Say
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what you want about what's going on. Say you don't
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like it, but you don't have a better plan. And
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I want to stop all this just taking thinking it's theirs.
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I've said it before, say it again. If we can
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give hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars away to
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around the world.
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We are being.
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Taxed too much. We are being taxed too much. It