Ep. 5314: Democrats have been boondoggling as long as we can remember.

the addiction is so very deep. And I'm not saying this to try to be funny or clever. This is the same addiction. This is an addiction to your money, your taxes. Man. I hate starting a show like this, but not seriously. This is just absurd, the anger and venom in vitriol and the wild claims Chuck Schumer putting up a website Senate Democrats for whistleblowers and on retaliatory. You mean, like the ones you you claim to want

to take against Supreme Court justices. You mean, like those like any number of things that you guys have done. Is that what you're talking about? I mean it's just, but I have to remind myself we're not fighting against flesh and blood, but we're fighting against principalities and powers. These This reaction that you're getting is demonic. I mean, if you look in the Bible that accounts of demons being cast out.

not of it. As a Christian, we've been redeemed from that because of Christ, everything suddenly falls into place. It's crazy because scripture, people that don't know Jesus and don't read God's word and pray and they're not seeking that truth. God's word is just gibberish whatever. And so here's what's interesting is that the world still just is. I mean, if it makes sense to a carnal mind, that makes

perfect sense. But when you're when you're a Christian and you look at the world and you see it through the lens of scripture, man, it just everything falls into place. You get it. You get why we are where we are, and why we are what we are, and why people behave the way they behave. It all just fits. It's like, oh, that's why one Corinthians thirteen four and five. Love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It's not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its

own way. It is not irritable or resentful. That kind of a gape. That's a type of love that is only God can bestow that on us. Because you look around and it's tough. It really is. All right, friends, Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott Use Radio one hundred point seven. Doubufla Gotta be efficient here twelve

past the hour. Quick announcement February sixteenth, in Tallahassee, the United Prayer Summit is going on once again at the Moon on East Lafayette Street from three thirty to five. Doors open at three so yeah, there you go if you are interested. It's it's kind of a thing sponsored by altrua good people over there. And yeah, so if you're in so inclined, there you go. I'll remind you

again later this week. February eleventh, seventeen fifty two, Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, opens in Philadelphia. I think that's where Eagle fans send victims of their taunting. It's the Pennsylvania Hospital. Eighteen oh nine, Robert Fulton patents his steamboat. Eighteen twelve, Massachusetts Governor Eldridge l Bridge, Sorry, Jerry signs a law that redraws district lines in his party's favor. That's where the term Jerry Mandarin comes from

from Elbridge, Jerry, eighteen sixty one. How'd you that's like? That's like, that's right up there with Bennedict Arnold, I mean an infamous name. How would I mean? How would you like it that your name is forever known as Trader synonymous with be in just a rat? What a dubious distinction that you, Benedict Ar Enough let's see eighteen sixty one President Elect Abraham Lincoln leave Springfield, Illinois for Washington. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I

may return. He never does, he never does. Nineteen thirty three President who designates Death of Valley as a national monument. So there you go. Let's take a peek now at the national day of It is National Inventor's Day, So think of something and write it down. National Peppermint Patty Day. No, we're not talking about peanuts. We're talking about the actual peppermint patty, National shut in Visitation Day. All there you go. And it's National white shirt or white T shirt Day.

So there you have. At fifteen past the hour today in the program, Justin Haskins will join us. Yeah, yeah, Justin's gonna join us. We've got at us Senator Rick Scott joining US. Staff reached out and said, hey, you got a few minutes for the senator. I said, I will make a few minutes for the senator. And also expected this week, newly minted Senator Ashley Moody expected to join us on the program. And we're working on Florida Governor round de Santa special session has been called for today.

It's going to be busy downtown. So if you own a restaurant downtown smile. Lawmakers are back in. They have apparently ironed out an agreement. The Agriculture Commissioner will not be the immigration officer. It will be shared by the cabinet, as I had some information shared with me yesterday indicating that it will be a cabinet set of decis visions on anything that's made and it needs to be unanimous.

I think that's the agreement. So the States CFO, Commissioner of Agriculture, Governor, and Attorney General make up the cabinet, not the Lieutenant governor. Don't know if you knew that. So there you go. So that they're coming in and I'm expecting that they're going to announce the bill and gabble it a you know, meeting called order, and they're going to vote and then they're going to journ it. I think it's going to get done in no time. Sixteen past the hour.

a parent. I stopped the Valentine's stuff to my boys probably when they were in middle school. You leave the boy up to moms after at a certain point. It's to me, always across kind of sex thing, moms take care of the guys, dads take care of the girls. So dads take care of their daughters indefinitely mom's sons however long you like. I mean, honestly, I just I just don't think guys need to be the focus of

Valentine's Day. It's awesome if they are. And you know, if you've got a spouse, that is just I mean, she just like my wife, never forgets. She's incredible, and so there's I never ever have any doubt about that. But I don't need a card from her because she shows it every day and I know that. You know I got a note from a listener. I'm one of those weird wives. I don't need anything for Valentine's Day.

My husband shows me he loves me every single day, and those moments are worth more than being pressured into it for commercial show boat reasons. His heart for God, has love for me and his family is more than enough. I won't object if he brings me tacos or chocolate, but I'm not upset when we do absolutely nothing for Valentine's Day. Maybe I'm an anomaly who knows that's awesome,

but you hear what she said. I won't turn away a taco or some chocolate thee they because even if you are that guy that shows your love all the time, it's just it's there's I can't explain it. Just it's something that I recommend never leaved out. It's kind of like my kids. I don't ever want them to doubt they're loved ever. You know, my dad never said I don't want to be that dad. I want to be

the dad with her like one day going. Dad never ever ended a conversation, text, a phone call, a visit without a hug and an I love you another email here. I'll expand on this one in just a few minutes. This email actually actually led to a story in the show today, so i'll hold that. And then this gentleman wrote in, So Republicans with twenty to forty year ten year in Congress are completely innocent. Never saw one ounce of things coming to light talking about you know, usaid

we can't be hypocrites like the Dems. We need to hold all accountable. Yeah. I don't disagree with that, But I also tell you that there are rhino Republicans. We've had them for years, the John Bainers, the Mitch McConnell's that behind closed doors are best buddies with the Left, and it's all about keeping power. So they put on the dog and pony show in front of everybody and fight and have harsh words, but behind closed doors they're

all buds, they're friends. I'm sorry. I can't be a friend with someone that I have such grave philosophical differences with. I can be kind, I can be polite, I can be cordial, I can be diplomatic. I don't have to be rude, but they're not going to be my friend. But I would say that the Republicans that are absolutely aware have been screaming about it for decades just like we have. So I don't worry about holding them accountable.

The rest. We do the best we can. We have a president office right now that is causing them to have to swallow their kind of their Washington inside the beltwagh in cestuous attitudes, and they're having to vote and support things that they inside they probably hate. That's fine. I don't care. I just don't. Twenty seven past the hour, do the big stories in the press Box.

gaps he would leave behind. You pull Mark Rubio, Boom, Ashley Moody, you pull members of Congress for different roles. You're going to have safely pulled from districts that are going to elect another Republican. Here's where he messed up. He picked a least Stephanic from New York. Here's what's happening. She was the one that I could have said to you, there is not a chance they're going to fight her

appointment as ambassador to the United Nations. Why for what we're about to see right now, Democrats in New York are trying to craft a new law that delays the appointment or the special election for that seat of Elis Stefanic till November. That reduces the margins Democrats have by one vote until then, and then by then, who knows what will happen. Is that a safe Republican district. Maybe it is, but you're still delaying that margin by another

seven months, No, not nine months, ten months. It's ridiculous, But this is what they're going to try to do. Under current law, the governor has to schedule a special election within ninety days of the vacancy. They're trying to get it delayed. That's why you don't pick from states that have Democrat leadership. Mistake. It was just a mistake. I'm not mad at him. It's just a mistake. And and you know it's it's like we talked to Kat Cammick.

She said, yeah, ultimately I was really not going to be considered for the role because of the margins in the House. Well, there you go, and that should have been a consideration. And by role, i'm talking about being a US senator. They're going to get that. They just they didn't want to take a chance on the Gainesville air in that district going Democrat. We have nineteen states that have officially called for a Convention of States, and Article five Convention of States, you got to get to

thirty four to make it happen. There are fifteen states that have legislation pending this year that gets you to thirty four. There seems to be some uniform agreement. Government's too big and we have to rein it in and we have to do that. There are a lot of people that have misgivings and concerns about an Article five constitutional convention. It does not change anything other than what's on the agenda, what's been approved by state legislators. So

this runaway convention thing, it's not possible to happen. It's just one of those wives tales, and I think this is worth sharing. The guy who shot. Sorry, the guy who's accused of shooting the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, more than ten thousand people have given him nearly three hundred thousand dollars for his defense. What a bunch of sick buds forty minutes after the outBut I'm sorry,

that's sickness. I can't imagine what it takes in your mind to give money to defend someone that is so clearly involved in the shooting and murder, shooting a guy in the back. The evidence circumstantially is overwhelming. And then there's the video evidence that they have of the guy dressed that way that was seen with his mask off and flirting with a clerk at a store, and it's all on video taming. Come on, three hundred thousand dollars.

And the defense team, of course, is we will accept the ten thousand plus donations from people on average giving less than thirty dollars each. That's just that's incredible to me. Elon Musk, I told you I had another email, got an email from some and said, I it's unverified, but this is a screen capture from Elon Musk's official X page, and it in fact became a news story. So thank you, Ray.

We mentioned it yesterday. Fifty nine million dollars spent by FEMA to put and this was just spent last week. This is this is now Trump has given orders and they're sending the money anyway. Now to me, that's not just grounds of termination. That's now criminal. They're they're defying an order. That's that's they're spending your tax dollars against a an executive order. They're saying, screw you, We'll do

what we want. This is the problem in Washington, friends, and this is why it has to be rooted out. And this is why I told you this was going to be an ugly, messy, difficult process. I warned you, I warned you in December. This is what's happening, is needed, wanted by many of us. We're excited, but don't lose

sight of how ugly this is going to be. So you've got people in North Carolina that have been decimated by what was left over of a hurricane that flooded and destroyed a region, and we're giving fifty nine million dollars. What do you think that fifty nine million might do in North Carolina? I think it might speed up, getting some roads built, getting some infrastructure back up, helping people rebuild their homes. And we're spending that fifty nine I

didn't even finish this sentence. We're spending fifty nine million to house illegals in luxury hotels. That's the fifty nine million is a disbursement for however many, however many weeks it takes to house them. Did they get a room tab, do they get room service, limousine shuttles tickets to Broadway? This is as Representative Mark Harris of New York North Carolina said, this is a betrayal forty six minutes after.

don't want to build up. I don't. I don't, and so I I deal with it and I assign rules to as much as I can and block as much as I can. But it's like those scam phone calls you get. You always know it's a scam. Maybe your phone service tells you it's likely spam phone call, and you say hello, and there's a pause, and then you hear the pep and then the boiler room in the background with all kinds of voices, you know. I just

sometimes I laugh, just hang up, block the number. But then they rotate and they this is the travel agency. I don't have a travel account. I don't stop it go away. Sometimes I'm argumentative. I just am in the mood and I'll say things like, do you really do you think your mom's proud of you lying to people for a living, trying to scam people. Seriously, are your parents proud? Do you sleep at night? Think? And of course that's just for me. It's just that's for me.

And then there's the email geek Squad. See, they just randomly push stuff out hoping that a percentage of people have an account with the geek Squad, and they use their logos. They'll use FedEx. They'll use UPS, they'll use the US Postal Service, they'll use the IRS. They don't care.

They'll steal anybody's logo and they'll try to make it look official, but they'll misspell a keyword here or there or in this one, the Geek Squad renewal successful payment seven hundred and ninety nine dollars in ninety nine cents, And they want you to go, wait what and then click the link to no no, no, no, no no, never click those links. I laugh. I look at the return address sssat r IAA n GGA at gmail dot com. Give me a break, geek Squad. Yeah whatever. Then I get, uh,

couldn't deliver your package USPS. Here's the United States Postal Service. And then the return address is SS four four eight seven two seven seven six four nine at Tapa Tapa Sierra Jeniquera dot com. Yeah. That sure seems like a government website to me, doesn't it? Government email address? I have two different ones from there. USPS cannot deliver your package, and this one has a number of postal number two

seven four five three sixty six. So then postal number nine zero three eight one seven five and these are within hours of each other. It's like, I don't have any packages coming from the postal service. I know, I don't, I know. So what it's just friends, be vigilant. That is how your computer gets infected and take it over. That's how they then get in and start stealing everything

that they can. They steal passwords to your bank accounts, they steal passwords to your any investments accounts that you have that you check up on. I mean, it's just it's everywhere. So I share these from my own personal email address that I get personally, not at the radio station. This is just my personal email address. And if you're a friend of mine, if you're really a friend, you

don't get my personal email address to anybody. Every now and then I get an email from someone that listens to the show that writes to me personally, and that's a big no no. That's a that's a no no, no, no no. And I'll be pulled once once hour two of the show's next Welcome friends to the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He's Jose. Great to be with you. Us Senator Rick Scott. Later on this hour, Justin Haskins at the Heartland Institute next hour.

But we have a regular listener. He sends stuff my way, always fascinating stuff. Who works with the Postal Service, And he flagged an article about the US Postal Service Regulator warning that we could have a downgrade in services nationwide. Significant. Now it should be noted that for those of you, for example, listening in Tallahassee, you already know this. You send a letter across the street, it's going to Jacksonville before it comes back. That's patently absurd, and I've long

wondered what's the private market solution to that. You know, the Postal Service is in the package delivery business now, and the problem is coming that they have facilities that are designed for primarily letters. They're not designed to deal with a billion packages. And so you've got this tug of war in the marketplace where you've got FedEx and UPS and maybe DHL and a couple other random delivery services out there. Of course, Amazon now doing its own

delivery in certain markets. I mean, it's just doing it itself. It's bypassing ups, FedEx and the Mail service. Sometimes it uses it, sometimes it doesn't. But what do you do with the postal service. How do you fix it? Is there a private sector solution to this, using the infrastructure and doing it more efficiently. I don't necessarily argue that it's inefficient. It might be I don't know enough. I've always believed that I don't know what it costs now

sixty three cents or whatever to mail a letter. I've always felt like mailing something was relatively was a bargain when you consider the number of hands something is going through, of effort it takes to go from my house to somebody's business or somebody else's house across the country. I always think to myself, seventy cents or whatever, that's fair. I mean it just to me, It just seems that way.

Now packages are getting a little little pricey. But I wonder because for example, and again I'm sorry for zeroing in here, but for those that, for example, live in Claren Lakes, do you know that you're in a rural area, and that if the changes that are expected to go through happen as part of the Delivering for America plan, that forty of first class mail would see a downgrade in services, impacting rural areas the greatest, and that for example,

Colaren Lakes is considered a rural area. That's crazy. Like my in law's farmland up in Upper Ohio is rural. Well, that makes sense. It's out there in the farmland. It's away from any major city. But yeah, so are you prepared. USBs has seen a decrease in volume of thirty percent in the last decade of regular mail. Of course, people are going paperless email bills, texting bills, I mean bills delivered electronically. I guess I'm bringing this up because I

don't have a solution. I've thought about it. Could some enterprising entrepreneur, for example, in Florida's capital city, develop a mail service for just the local community, And what does that look like. I don't know that it's practical just in a town this size, I don't know that that's practical. Postal service is the only ones allowed to use a mailbox. That would have to change that. You would have to change the laws on that alone. So I just thought

this was an interesting story because it impacts everybody. There's some people that say stop Saturday delivery. Others are saying, no, I have a home business, I need Saturday delivery. In fact, I'd love Sunday delivery. Others are like, ah, twice a week is fine for me. I don't know what the solution is, but I've given it thought and I challenge you to do the same. What would you do to

overhaul the United States Postal Service? Well, I'm sure there's somebody out there, one of you has an idea that I've not thought of that would be fascinating to hear. Maybe we'll do a segment one day and we take some calls, but in the meantime, just think about it. Postal Service is going to change service. The Postal Regulatory Commission may or may not allow it. I don't know, but we'll see. Eleven past the Hour.

Vessel Sanitation Program are now remotely monitoring this situation. Yeah you think, but I'm not going on. There a bunch of people getting sick, but there is Crud's crud is definitely floating around a lot of people sick. So wash your hands, wash your hands. And if you're touching stuff and you're not sure who else is touching that stuff, uh, definitely wash your hands. And uh and and don't touch eyes, you know, nose face until you can wash your hands.

Just but I got a niche don't. Don't give in now, seriously. That's that's that's a bige. And I would also add, if there are things that you do to boost your immune system, now would be a very good time to do them. We're not We're not done with flu season. And it's just flu season. It's just this is what happens, you know. I I will never ever fall prey to what happened to this country. I just won't. I will not buy into the fear and the lie and the nonsense.

And it's and it just breaks my heart that I see people wearing masks, It really does. But it's flu season. You just said it, and you're hurting yourself, you really are. Will doctors wear one well when they're opening a cavity in your body and they don't want to sneeze in you? Yes, they do. But there's never been any set of studies that show efficacy of masking to prevent spread of disease. It just doesn't work. And oh, by the way, you end up harming yourself, You end up inhibiting your own

immune system from working properly. But hey, you do you And just know that if you didn't wear a mask before COVID and you're wearing one now, you have fallen victim. You have been brainwashed. And I feel badly, and I seriously do when I see you at the grocery store. I feel badly for you. I might laugh. I'm just being honest. I might but have thing to keep from crying because I'm sad and I heard for you, because yeah, sixteen minutes past we come back a few did you knows?

Already getting some great email on suggestions for the postal service, Greg writes in and said mail could be delivered every other day for residential Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Tuesday Thursday Saturday. I think most people could live with every other day. You're probably right, but I don't think most people could live with every other day if it's going. For example, if cities like ours exist all over the country where it leaves our region and it takes perhaps weeks to

come back, that's just untenable to me. I just the fact that our mail goes to Jacksonville. I have on more than one occasion of late just hand delivered. It's like I was going to mail a gift card to a friend of mine at Christmas and it was like, yeah, no, I'm not doing that. I'm gonna what's your address, I'm not mailing it, I'm talk me to your home. I'm going to hand deliver. This just wasn't gonna do it, not going to send it out of town. Another note here,

this was interesting. Here's see ideas. Here we go. Government should sell the postal service to UPS and be done with the money pit. If UPS won't buy it, give it to him. Just give it to him. Here you go. Interesting idea. Speaking of interesting ideas, now you might remember a few weeks ago we had a discussion on the assassination of JFK and I have been ridiculed. You've turned into one of those kuks. No, I have come to I've read an awful lot about this because I was

fascinated by it when I was a kid. I'm that guy that reads about these things. I've always believed not enough time was spent on the assassination of Medgar Evers or Malcolm X. The assassination Medgar Evers preceded JFK by five months. Some of you are like, who exactly. It's a shameful case of a white supremacist that got away

with murder until he didn't. He walked freely having bragged about murdering Medgar Evers, until he was finally brought to trial and had a real trial, not a mistrial, when a group of other white guys from the Deep South said, I don't know what you told. They had miss trials. Thankfully, he wasn't acquitted. They were mistrials. So he got brought to trial and was found guilty. Oh, I don't know.

Maybe it was his rifle and his fingerprints at the scene of the crime where he shot Medgrevers in the back. Maybe that did it. Byron D. Della beeck with anyway, I'm sorry I used his name. It was a mistake, but interesting column I came across by Jacob Hornberger. His blog is the Future of Freedom Foundation, and he's asking about the release of the records of JFK. And he mentioned something in here that he's written a book about, So he's really promoting his book that I'd never heard

in my life. Now I believe that it was a conspiracy, that there was absolutely more than one shooter. And to me, it's not even debatable. And I just rely on the witnesses that were in the hospital trauma room at Parkland Memorial Hospital, the doctors who were there, and I've recommended the whether it's Amazon Prime Paramount plus JFK what they saw. You just need to watch that, look at the photos,

look at the evidence, Listen to the evidence. Look, you and I weren't there when Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed, but yet we know what happened based on the testimony of people who were there. I wasn't there in the Parkland Trauma Center, so I'm going to listen to the doctors who were there and form my opinion based on people who were there. If you haven't read or heard their opinion, you have an incomplete set of information from which you formed an opinion, and that's your right. But

listen to what I'm about to tell you. This guy said that the CIA got the Zuppruder film and that what was in fact now shown to the public as an altered film, that they altered the film. Now. I don't know how much they could have altered it, because what's shown to me is clearly a shot from the front that blows out the back of Kennedy's head. But anyway, that's the contention. Hadn't heard that before, just thought I'd

throw it out there. Hadn't heard that. Speaking of Donald Trump, is demanding the Secret Service give him all of the information about the two that tried to kill him, one that actually got the shot off and the other who we know didn't. But he's asking why did one guy have six cell phones? Why did the other guy have foreign apps? And maybe bank accounts? Just saying twenty seven past the hour, Big stories in the press box coming up next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. The

Morning Show with Preston Scott, Morning Friends. Halfway through the program already he's Jose, I am Preston. US Senator Rick Scott just a little bit, Justin Haskins next our little money Talk next hour as well. It's going to move fast, you know. Every now and then you run across something that I think offers us a snapshot. And I don't know if you've are like me. You know, there are

photos that are taken that are very flattering, beautiful. They capture a moment that's worth treasuring and keeping for a lifetime. And then there though those other photos that you're like, yeah, let them set that one into the trash bin, looking the wrong way or whatever it might be. This story is a snapshot. Now, some say that that photos art beauty. It's all in the eye of the beholder. Whether you think it looks good or it looks bad, it's up

to you. The headline from town Hall on this story by Jeff Charles said this, you will be shocked at how much and they name the young man accused of shooting and killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on December fourth, You will be shocked at how much he's raised in donations for his legal defense. Now that headline, you could be shocked by nothing. Nothing's been raised, and

you're like well, now that's shocking. Or you could find out that, say, three hundred thousand dollars has been raised, and that's shocking. Which photos the flattering one zero or three hundred thousand? Which is the photo that you're like.

very cavalier about his actions. This is the type of hatred, unfiltered rage, irrational thought and behavior that quite frankly, almost always comes from the left. Almost always is angry that he would dare be tried for this crime, even though the evidence, like I said to me.

pulling out vehicles from the Cold War. We're talking back in the fifties and sixties and seventies. They've got them out of long term storage stocks of old tanks and other armored vehicles. But now those are the stockpiles of those are running low, and the problem becomes is anybody going out to those stockyards and firing those bad boys up once a week. Nope. Anyone that's a mechanic knows you let engine sit and don't run. It's not gonna be pretty when you try to run them. They're not

gonna last very long. I just thought it was funny the idea of these poor Russian soldiers and look, they're doing their job right. They've got a dictator as a president. He's not fairly elected. And everybody with an ounce of common sense knows that Vladimir Putin is a KGB dude from the to the core and he Isn't it interesting how anyone who gains popularity in that country that runs against him ends up dead ends the punished has a donut with a little little special added ingredient, little tee,

some added ingredient. Happens all the time. They end up in some gulag and some god forsaken part of the world. Come on, yeah, no, no, but I just I saw this headline and it was just the lads in Ukraine settled up. It's just too funny, man, They're back to horses. All right. We're gonna get out a little early in this segment because we got us Senator Rick Scott joining us in just a few minutes via the phone line. Got some things to talk about with the Senator. We'll

do that next forty five past the hour. A little early check of weather and traffic here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Ten minutes before the top of the hour The Morning Show. Good to be with you This Morning Show fifty three fourteen. He's osea. I am Preston and this is US Senator Rick Scott.

it's just stupidity. And so they're just in grieving that all this has been caught and they show up with the Department of Education, how many people, how many people they care about their kids' education, saying, boy, I am so excited that the Federal Department of Education is there because they are helping me so much. Or the thing about the bigger and for boys, the Army Corps of Engineers.

Aren't we excited they're helping us well all with our beachery nourishment, or I mean, let's name it, name the photo the FBI. Aren't we excited about their raid that they won't explain to us at mar A Lago? I mean, you just go on. I mean I just had a campaign and I would ask people. I said, how many of you think that Chris Ray is going to tell us everything that happen in Butler? Nobody? How about Mari Orcis nobody? How about the director of the FBI or

of Secret Service? Nobody? Says yes, So we're now starting to have some accountability. When people do the wrong thing, they get fired. I mean that's what happened. That's sure.

fault on our debt. So now the federal government has thirty six trillion dollars of the debt. And now finally we have a person and says, you know, we could balance the budget. We could act like what every American has to do is live within their means instead of bringing place in that in your freaks down, not this wasteful spending.

it's it's worth personally. Here's how bad it is. In five years, we've had a two percent increase in population and a fifty three percent increase in spending. Think about this.

have state governments if the federal government's funding everything? I mean, why it doesn't make sense to me. I've never understood why the federal government was involved in wants to be involved in every decision that happens in your life.

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with everything. And some of it was really difficult stuff like monetary policy type things, but things that are not normal to pay attention to. And so he was able to do a lot of really radical things behind the scenes without people noticing it. And I remember thinking at the time, I was just a college student back then.

I remember thinking at the time, Republicans should do stuff like that, And for the first time in my entire life, a Republican is doing what I like to call shock and awe public policy, where you just go in from day one and you say we are going to do everything right now, and good luck trying to stop all of it. They might stop some of it, but they're not going to stop all of it. And it is a genius policy of strategy, and it is working very

very well. There are just there is just no way for people to keep up with everything that the administration is doing. They are very well prepared compared to the first time around when they were not as well prepared, something they admit, and they are getting a ton of stuff done through executive action, which I have a problem with. We could talk about that later, but I think that that's I am very happy with what we've seen so far because of that aggressive approach. It is working.

addicted to government money spending in Largesse. And and it's kind of accurate, isn't it.

the more power the government has. It's not just about dollars and cents and making sure the dollar is you know, strong and all of that. It's also about government power. And the left has done an amazing job of increasing its power through executive action, through these gigantic spending bills that have all kinds of stuff in it, buried in it that nobody knows anything about. Republicans, the weaker ones, have gone along with all of this stuff. In some cases,

they've been part of the problem. Sure, and now you have these out of control agencies all over the place funded with these you know, massive budgets that nobody knows what they're doing. And so, yeah, with Donald Trump's mission here is to tear down the administrative state, and he is aggressively trying to do that. And this is sort of the this is this is the long term plan for success for the left for the past half century at least, and it's all being torn down piece by piece.

And yeah, if I was them, I'd probably be pretty upset and frustrated by that too.

clean your room. When I was asked to clean my room, it was a horrifying prospect because I had no idea where to start. So you mentioned just a few minutes ago that all of this is being done, massive amounts of work being done through executive orders. So where does the legislature start, Because I don't know what one area I would say they've got to focus on first.

skeptical that it will, but it needs to happen. But I think probably the best strategy would be, how can you pass a law that makes it harder for this to happen again in the future to begin with? You know, so, like we've had laws passed in previous congresses, like the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to kind of retroactively remove regulations and things like that, and there are other there are other kinds of systemic changes that they can make.

So if there are laws that they could pass that make it harder for the administrative state to develop again or to grow even further because they need additional approval from Congress or to do things, or decision making ability is taken away, or missions are more limited in their definitions so that courts can stop more of these actions from the administratives like these are the kinds of things that I think are less controversial in news headlines because

you're not taking money away from anybody or anything. But they have a huge effect long term on how things are done. So my recommendation to them would be change the systems so that things can't get worse in the future. That's something that's easier to do. You can probably slip that into some kind of budget bill or something like that and then focus on the other issues later perhaps, But I am very worried, very concerned that there really

is nothing happening and concrous. It seems on the surface that is a big sort of sweeping We're going to take that kind of action too. Everyone just seems to be kind of sitting back, yes, watching Trump, and that's not a long term solution.

we're learning it the hard way. All of the all of that, the entire agenda, four years worth of work, is being thrown out the window less than a month. That's essentially what has happened here. And and Donald Trump did a very similar thing to Barack Obama when he came into office the first time. This time is much better than that time, but very similar. And they did the same thing to him when Biden.

I think that the electorate was a little more naive under Barack Obama with some of the changes he was authoring, and didn't fully understand what they were really in for. I feel like Trump's actions doing exactly what he said he was which is going to do, is being embraced by some people in the middle and even in the moderate left, And I think that's different from before. Yeah.

well back up a little bit. I think what has happened since Trump became president the first time is that people have really woken up on both the left and the right to how corrupt and dysfunctional and in some ways authoritarian our government has become and how unresponsive it is to what people want. And they've lived now through COVID, They've lived through a president getting shot in the head.

They've lived through you know, all of the all of the scandals and the corruption from all kinds of different people involved in government, the prosecution of a president, you know, all the multiple impeachment, all this stuff. And I think they've realized this whole thing is completely out of control and somebody needs to stop it. And that's why Donald Trump was put back into office. He wasn't put back into office, you know, he's he was put there with

a sledgehammer. That was That's the whole point is to rip this whole thing down to the best of his ability. Now, unfortunately he can't do it all on his own. He does need Congress to actually make these changes permanent. But he's going to do the best job that he can and taking power away from these people. And I think that that's absolutely the case, you know, And Elon Musks is Everyone likes to talk about Elon, you know, for a lot of different reasons, but Elon Musk is a

really good example of it. Because he was a Barack Obama guy when this whole thing started, and now he's one of the biggest ring leaders in the world of ripping down government. I mean, think about the transition that that you know, that that this is an incredible transition to a person. So I think there's a lot of that going on right now in the left and the center, and it's great of.

So I think that's really important. But I think at the end of the day, my hope is that they rip down the Department of Education and that the greatest legacy for any of them is Lynda the command basically

just destroying the whole thing. But I don't know if that's going to happen, but I think long term, for the sake of our children and just sort of the ideological future of the country, getting the federal government out of state education is absolutely vital, absolutely vital, and I hope that that is what we remember her for.

be involved in this. I would argue it's actually unconstitutional vast majority of what they do. So if I was president, I would just destroy it, almost all of it, ninety five percent of it, and then say I destroyed it because it's unconstitutional, and then go to the Supreme Court and fight over it and hope that you win. I think that would be a perfectly fine strategy. It's not part of the enumerated powers. There's no reason to think

Congress has the right to do it. We didn't have a Department of Education for a long time in this country. This is an invention of the left. There is a limited purpose to the Department of Education to fight segregation and things like that that I think is valid under the fourteenth Amendment.

you put her seat in the hands of Democrats. And now Democrats are trying to pass a bill that would allow Governor Kathy Hockel or Hockel to delay the special election until the fall, which leaves Republicans even with a narrower margin than they already have, and that leaves the seat open for nine months. It's just that was a poor calculation by the team advising the president. But there haven't been many mistakes, but that's one of them. The

call for Convention of States is growing. They need thirty four to get a Convention of States called, and then anything proposed would have to get three fourths of the states or thirty eight states to approve. You've got a shot at things that makes sense.

a tax code. That to me, is how you get this across the finish as you go back and you have them reform the Convention of States to do away with the tax code as it is, and you do something different like the fair Tax, and then the young man who for all intents and purposes it would appear, shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the back in Manhattan in December. He's actually received three hundred thousand dollars in donations for his defense from more than ten thousand

people in this country. And it's mind numbing. It is absolutely sickening to me that people would give their money to fund this young man's high high priced defense lawyers and they're going to make a lot of money and it's not going to make a bit of difference, trust me. Forty minutes past the hour. Little money talk is coming up next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Time for a little money talk with investment advisor Howard

Heisman with Enhanced Financial Services. Securities and advisory service is offered through NBC Securities Inc. Member Finner and s I p CE. NBC Securities Inc. Is a wholly owned subsidiary of RBC Bank USA. The opinions expressed are not those of NBC Securities Inc. Or iHeartMedia. On appropriate matters, seek professional tax and or legal advice. Do you the Moneys? Good morning sir, how.

one trillion. These are just public companies. And you compare that, Presston to the nation's gross domestic product, which is in the neighborhood of twenty seven trillion. Back and his thesis is pretty simple. If the stock market value is greater than our gross domestic product, in all likelihood, it's overvalued. And today the index is at two hundred percent or

more than double his estimate of fair value GDP. And his quote back in two thousand and one when he was interviewed in Fortune magazine was if it gets to two hundred percent or more quotes, you're playing with fire.

And here's the key part, with eighty six percent of the time, if it's up in January, the market's been up for the full year. And conversely, though in the thirty years that have passed since nineteen fifty three, of January has been a bad month, a down month, the rest of the year has averaged about a three and a half percent return versus thirteen and a half percent, and so we've had gains about sixty percent of the time,

even when January has been negative. So it's kind of a barometer, but more so, I think for the folks and talking heads on Wall Street than what the typical investor might pay attention to.

So I would I would say that that's kind of a bram, a good parameter to look at when we're looking at the state of not all, but certainly some of our fellow consumers and citizens.

the players over the PA system. The PA announcer would just sort of lay out and they would patch in the play by play guy. So this is my dad, and this is the final Super Bowl that he called doing the introductions.

obviously we had Howard Heisman talking a little money. I gave up the manly minute to talk to US Senator Rick Scott. I thought that was worth doing. Just you know, I made a programming call. Maybe you wouldn't have made that same call. That's okay, but that's what I did. And then we had a great visit as always with our friend Justin Haskins of the Heartland Institute. I hope you understand and appreciate how incredible Justin Haskins is for our nation. The stuff he writes, the research he does,

the knowledge he has. He is just and he's his ability to articulate it is just next level. I think very highly of him, and I'm grateful for the favor that we have and the friendship that we've forged. Though we've never met face to face, maybe one day I'll get to shake his hand. It'll probably be a hug of his neck. He's like a son to me, you know, he's just he's just a good guy. All right. When we resume tomorrow, we'll have animal stories Doctor Bob McClure,

James Madison Institut. We'll join us, get his take on what's happening in the special session today, what's probably going to get done today is good, and what's likely to happen coming ahead, and of course we'll have the news of the day and everything else. Until then, friends, thanks for spending time with us and have a great day,