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Good morning. Everybody's that time again, Sunday morning, eight o'clock
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right here, seven ninety kNs T. This is Dean Greenberg
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and this is the Money Matter Show. And we do
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appreciate from the bottom of our hearts that you listen
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every single week for thirty five years. I've been seeing
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people that come into our office that said, I've been
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listening for twenty years. Twenty five years. I even had
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one that said thirty years. That's pretty cool when you
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realize that you are able to help people for that
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period of time, that you're able to give back to
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this community, that you're able to do the things that
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you love to do, and people appreciate it, and all
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all it does is make me want to do it
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more and keep going and everything. Hopefully, hopefully you've taken
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some of the advice, because some of the advice has
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been better than others. It's been good, not at all.
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Sometimes it's wrong, but a lot of times it's been
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pretty darn good. All right, So what do we got
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this week? We're down. We're down, not a lot, like
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two percent point one percent.
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That's it.
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And at the end of the day, we can handle
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a little bit of a pullback were coming into September.
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We've been talking about this for a while. We're still
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up for the month. We did a good job doing that,
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We're still up for the year. I want to be
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surprised to see a little bit of a pullback in September,
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and then after September. I think we're going to have
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a nice little rally. Why because I do think that
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the Federal Reserve is going to get on board and
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lower interest rates. Whether you think it's the right thing
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to do, with him firing FED, shair of FED people
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putting pressure on Powell. I want to give you a
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different side of this, okay, And I guess this is
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maybe how I always look at it compared to others
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for years now. For years, have you been listening to me.
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I said, we're going to be in trouble if we
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don't do something with our debt. We need to run
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the government efficiently. We need to run the government like
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it's a business. And I've had so much pushback for
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probably fifteen twenty five years, people saying to me, well,
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the government is not a business. You don't need to
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run it for the business. We need to protect people.
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We've got to have something I said, yes, but you
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need money to do that, and you cannot keep taxing
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the heck out of people to keep being able to
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pay for everything that our politicians want without having some
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type of ramifications down the road. We need defence number one.
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We need to help during you know, anything, that are
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disasters on our shores. We need to be able to
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take care of the people that are disabled that need
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our help. We need to take care of the poor.
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But we've done it in such a bad way so
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so many years. You know, people talk about helping the homeless. Well,
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the hopeless need to be able to help them sells.
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Sometimes you can give money all day long, but when
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people have the mentality of you know, I just like
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the simple life. I get enough money from the government.
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I don't need to do anything, and I just wake
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up every day and do whatever. And the bad ones
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obviously drink and take drugs and eliminate themselves from what
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real life is all about. We need to change that.
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We need to change the way people think and help
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those that really need the help. We have a very
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bad mental health problem. We have to approach it totally
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different than we do. There are good things happening someplaces
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Gospel Rescue Mission is probably one of the coolest ideas
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I've seen, and it's right here, right here Tucson and'm
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Bert the Lopez who owned the holiday and turned it
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into a homeless shelter, not just to give them places
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to eat and live, but to actually get them back
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on their feet, get off drugs, alcohol, make them feel
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like a human being, find them jobs, train them, be
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able to put them out in the real world so
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where they have self worth. Again. An incredible thing he
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did there, incredible and I think it's becoming known and
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other places in the country are starting to look at it.
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And that's what we need. We need those in the
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big cities. We don't need people saying it's okay for
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everyone to be homeless and have these tense cities and
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and and and be these cities that just okay with crime,
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okay with stealing and robbing. I don't care how big
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a city are. You don't need that. What we need
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to do is take different approach and help the people
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go forward. So you know, so you have this government
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and they don't want it to be like a business,
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But where's the money going to come from? That's the
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thing I always ask people, and where we are sitting
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now at the situation of thirty six thirty seven trillion
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dollars in debt. It's honest, it's not It's undustainable to
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keep going the way we are period. It costs US
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trillions of dollars just to pay the interest and we
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don't go anywhere and keep going forward. We need to
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stop spending and eyveryone. Oh, you can't stop spending. You're
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taking away Medica, you're taking away this. They're not even
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started taking away doing that yet. What they have done
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is taken away from the people that don't deserve it.
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If you're not a US citizen, if you're not an American,
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if you are an illegal immigrant, you do not deserve
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to get our tax payer money to survive. Do it legally,
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and yes, you are able to use our tax payer
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money to survive, But nobody should be on Medicaid, Medicare,
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social Security that is an illegal immigrant in our country, period.
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So you start there. Now, You've got to get disabled
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body people that are acting like they're disabled back to work.
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I agree, I you know what, And a lot of
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my friends on the other side agree one hundred percent
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with this, So I don't know why we have arguments.
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I don't know why politicians are on both sides of this.
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These are actual subjects that everybody can get behind and
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push and that will help us reduce the debt and
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everything else we're doing. What do I think we need
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better education system? One hundred percent. We need to change
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the education system basically from junior high up. We need
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to stop indoctrinating people that come in and it's more
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of a political idolization in high schools and colleges and
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even in grade schools, and turn it into learning subjects,
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not just for the few, but for the all of them.
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There's no reason that we have to go to math
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and learn all this stuff other than the basics and
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then learn how to use calculators. Not everybody needs to
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know calculus. Not everybody needs to know all the other
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things that go into it that till you be part
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of other subjects. Most people that take those classes fail.
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They don't learn it, they don't want to learn it,
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they don't have the capacity to learn it. We have
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a whole new thing coming up. Why don't we starting
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teaching people about financial literacy? And why aren't we talking
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to people about where technology is going make it interesting
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for them. Use technology, use AI, use these things to
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help people. Kids still have to write papers, right, Probably
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eighty percent of them use chat, GPT, change a few words,
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put it through. Here's my thing. But they don't know anything.
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But you know what would be cool. That's fine. Get
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whatever sources you get, put it together. But you better
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learn what you're putting on the paper because you're going
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to have to get up in front of class and
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actually discuss what you put down. That's how you use AI,
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That's how you use chat GPT, that's how you use it.
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Make it part of an interactive way to go through school.
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I hope whoever becomes governor again changes our education system.
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That is the number one thing we need to change.
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The borders are shut, we don't need to worry about that.
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What we need to do is worry about policies that
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stunt our growth. We need to worry about people that
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don't want to work. We need to worry about our
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education system and take care of those that really need it.
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That's what we need to do. But on the bigger level,
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our debt is out of control that we need to stop.
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Why has anyone looked at what's going on in France.
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They're having a whole bunch of protests in France again,
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which you know, is a socialistic society, which means they
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love having all their time off their lifestyles. They love
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being able to retire early and get their big pensions.
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They love their being able to do that. But you
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know what, this is not the first time. It's not
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the first country. Now they're fighting it because they're in
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there saying, we can't afford this anymore. We've got to
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cut back on these benefits. And nobody wants to cut back. Well,
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who's going to pay for it? Vergic collapse, changing governments
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over you can't do it. And if you don't want
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to be the France, the Spain, the Greases of the world,
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we can't do it. No one's going to beat us
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militarily and put us into the ground. What they are
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trying to do is beat us economically, which they were
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doing very well over the last four years, to put
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us into the ground. Take whatever they could from us,
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want more from us, under the the the umbrella of
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we have to be a global country. We have to
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go ahead and help all these other nations. Do you
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think any of these other nations give it. Damn about America.
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If we went down, no, they would flock to or
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whoever was able to give them what they needed. That
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is why I am all pro economy, and that comes first.
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I don't want to see us in going on debt,
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and I think the Republicans are just as bad as
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the Democrats. We need to stop. We need to get
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our economy growing, which it is. People start keep saying, well,
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Trump is doing a horrible job. Economy isn't good. I disagree.
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A price is too high, Yes, they are too high.
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They keep talking about this inflation now because Trump's in,
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But when Biden was in, what they kept saying it's transitory.
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For over a year and a half we heard that
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inflation was transitory, and now they're because they don't want
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to lower interest rates. They want to say it's just
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lurking around the corner. These tariffs are going to make
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prices go through the sky. Well, let me tell you something.
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Earnings have been pretty don good on corporations. They've been
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beating earnings, So that means people are buying. If people
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didn't have money, if the inflation was hurting people too much,
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they not be buying. And that means that prices would
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be coming down. We're not in that scenario. People are
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making more money, which means they still have money to spend.
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Now you can go ahead and give me the argument, well,
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that's just the people with money. Well that's the way
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it's always going to be okay until the people at
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the bottom in our society start having the opportunities and
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taking advantage of the opportunities to go to school to
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become educated. And I'm not saying colleges, trade schools. Go
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to trade schools. Go find something that you can do
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to help make more money other than being in a
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fast food joint. Fast food locations are for younger adults
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that need to have flexibility in their schedules. It's not
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for the person to start at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years
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old and at forty years old is still working behind
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the counters. Maybe they become a manager, that's fantastic. But
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if they were that good and imagine they were doing
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something else where, they would be Our country is about underachievers.
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There are so many people underachievers, and it's okay to
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be underachievers in the eyes of many. I was told
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a story the other day with the person that's trying
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to build their business, and it really kind of opened
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my mind to what it's all about. And in high
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school he said that he got all a's, but one
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of his teachers told them, that's great, you got a's,
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but you were underachieved. He did not understand that. He
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didn't understand the teachers saying to him, hey, you might
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be getting all a's, but you can do more than that.
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And today now it's resonating with him and doesn't want
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to be that underachiever, doesn't want to be that person
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that's just okay with a's. What is he going to
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do to make his mark? And it's not all about money,
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But if you want to do certain things when you retire,
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and you have a certain journey to get there, you
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got to go to a certain level. To me, being rich,
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it's about being able to pay your bills and have
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some money left over. It's about being able to have
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a family and pay for their educations and have family
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vacations and have food on the table without being stressed out.
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It's about being able to plan for retirement and doing
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the things that you dream about within the basis you can.
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If you're making a hundred grand, you're at one other
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different level than someone that's making a million dollars or
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or three hundred thousand. But living within that and not
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having the stress, to me, is being rich going on
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family vacations and doing things at whatever level you can
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do it. I don't care if it's camping and and
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and bring in your own food and beer and wine
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and sitting there and eating crackers and cheese, that's great