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you for for joining us. You know we haven't talked much. I don't even know that we've talked at all now that I've really thought about this, But there is the possibility of a government shutdown. I think one of the reasons I there's a couple of reasons. I don't get too much into this. Number one. Number one, this whole thing is blown out of proportion. Now it can hurt people, certain people, and I recognize that. My problem with it is that it seems to me to be hurting certain people.
In the event of a government shutdown, for example, military personnel wouldn't get paid. Ironically, Congress gets paid. Now does that seem right to you? By the way, we'll talk about some of this today, So I'm not. It definitely impacts certain people, and it can create a lot of pain. I don't like that it seems to be targeted. I don't think that it's necessary. There's a lot of reasons that I don't like this.
I think I think it's you. I think I think it's used more to scare Americans or shame Americans into just going along with what is being done in Washington, DC. Basically saying, if you're a Republican, if you're someone who's a conservative, if you care about reigning in the cost of government, how dare you demand it? How dare you act as though something has to be done, We'll just print more money. That's that's really that's really
the choices that we are we are given. But my friends, is it not the people who are running this government in the ground that are bankrupting it both morally and financially, that they are the ones to blame for this. They don't want any accountability, they don't want any fiscal responsibility. They want all of the credit, just as Michael J. Excuse me, Michael G. Scott Michael Gary Scotts of the Office told David Wallace, David I would
like all of the credits without any of the blame. That summarizes the position of our elected officials today. They want the seats of honor, they want the praise they want, they want real adoration and praise. I say it at the beginning, little tongue in cheek, I really candidly. It's mocking. It's mocking the arrogance of people that are in positions of media who want you to think that they're all very humble and down to earth. But my
friends, they think nothing of you. They think that you that me were morons and buffoons. That's what they think. They think that they are the enlightened ones. They think that they are the ones that should be making the decisions for everyone else. And even though they don't say it, they would act as though they would never say, give me adoration and praise. That's really what they think they deserve. I, on the other hand, and
the opposite. I say it to point out how silly they're arrogance and condescension is, and just to have a little bit of fun. But the ones that really want your adoration and praise are you're governing officials. Now there's always exceptions. I know this is a broad broad brush, but you know what I'm talking about. And they, of course want all of the credit and none of the blind. In fact, they want to somehow trick you and to trick me into saying that they can control the sea levels in fifty or
one hundred years. But they can't balance the budget today, they can't close the border today, they can't effectively do with financial problems, inflation or anything else. It's somebody else's fault. They're kicking the can down the proverbial road. Yet they want your adoration, your praise, your applause, the seats of honor. That's what they want, that's what they desire, and it's sick it's sickening. And what does it get us. It gets us this
mess that we have in Washington, DC today. So I want to talk about this today, even though I don't really want to talk about it. I think that its impact is blown out of proportion. Again, I recognize, and I point out that it impacts some people specifically. It's kind of like it's kind of like if you work for a big corporation that was going bankrupt, have to file chapter what is a Chapter seven or whatever it is, and maybe they're they're selling the business even and there will be lots of
job cuts and everything else. While that may not cause massive problems across the whole economy, it certainly impacts the lives of the people that are involved or who are employed by that particular company. It's the same sort it's the same sort of thing. So we're on this road to a potential shutdown. I'm not sure that we'll get there, obviously. I mean, there's two ways that I look at this. On the one hand, I think, you know, we should be able to operate our government. It shouldn't have to
shut down. But I also think that's in the perfect world. By the way, I also think that it's not working. We are engaging in deficit spending, and it never ceases to even come close to ending. In fact, last year, this past well, the fiscal year that ends any day now, I think we are what one trillion dollars We've spent one trillion dollars more than the government has brought in. Next year, estimates are that we're going to be two trillion, two trillion dollars short trillion. The amount of
money that that is is incomprehensible. And that's how much we are short. That's not how much we've spent in total. That's how much we've spent above and beyond what we've brought in. And so I would say what is extreme. The wine House, by the way, is saying that the shutdown, if there is a shutdown, it's an extreme GOP Republicans shutdown, and it will hurt farmers, it will hurt women, it will hurt children. I'm sure they'll tell us it'll hurt minorities. This is the way that they want
to do it. They want to make it about targeting certain groups of people, so that if you're not in that group, if you're a white person, and you say what I just said, if you're a white guy, it's like, oh, well, you're not a mother, to which I say, how do you know how I identify? Maybe I do identify as a mother. Maybe I identify as a child. Actually that's probably closer to
truth than anything. But the point is the point is that someone somewhere along the way, the adults are going to have to regain control of what happens in Washington, DC. And it's not going to be pretty. That's the thing, no matter where this happens, no matter what the point is.
And maybe I mean, maybe we never reached the point where the adults collectively don't have enough willpower to stop the buzz saw that is the tax and spend government, that is the government that provides or wants to provide for your every need, for everyone's, every single need from cradle to grave. Maybe no one, at some point, maybe not enough people are going to step in front of that buzz saw because it does, of course inflict damage. It
damages them personally politically in many cases. Of course it strengthens the support what they have from conservative or limited government people. But it creates so much negative press, It creates so much, so many I should say, consequences that are sometimes difficult to deal with. I mean, I don't know, are you're going to get audited or you're gonna get targeted by the bureaucratic state.
These are real questions that one has to ask in twenty twenty three, And so when they do try to stand up to what is happening every day in our government for decades, we have to we need to support that while at the same time understanding understanding that in a perfect world, the government wouldn't need to shut down. But then again, there wouldn't be so many things the
government was doing that would require this massive process of shutting down. My friends, when the government shuts down, they begin to use language that says essential and non essential services. Well, I have a question. If we have a limited government, if that is what we have enacted in this country via the Constitution, which is clearly what it's supposed to be enacted in this country, a limited government, then my friends, why should we have anything that's
not essential? I get, I mean to a point. I understand that we can quibble on the periphery about that. But if we have a whole entire classification of massive amounts of non essential services or departments or people or whatever
in government? Are they not by definition largely and I'm not saying this is a carte blanche statement, but are they not largely identifying to the next well, hopefully Republican administration, Republican conservative congressional leaders, Senate leaders who say, oh, they've self identified the groups of people that we really don't need in our day to day government. But why should a limited government have anything that's
quote unquote non essential. Why is it essential to pay Congress and not pay the military. It's true that Social Security checks are going to continue going out, but why our government workers not going to get paid? Well, Todd, that's because they have to approve the money is to be spent. By the way, government workers, you don't get checks during this time, are
going to receive are going to receive back pay. I will tell you incidentally, that that is unlike what happened when the governments shut down every aspect of the economy during COVID. If you were self employed, if you were running a business and they told you you could not have any business, you weren't given back pay. Yes, they gave some COVID money which they created out of thin air, which we're all paying for now. In the form of
inflation. But this is just not how it works in the private sector. We have a mess in Washington, DC. We have a fight. It's going to have to be it's going to have to be painful to fix this problem. All problems, all problems, my friends. Pain. You know a lot of times as individuals we steer clear of pain, right, We don't want I don't want to do that because that hurts. Well. Pain is usually necessary to do a couple of things. Number One, pain is
necessary to get our attentions so that we change our behavior. That's an important quality of pain. Number Two, sometimes pain is along the journey of success. I mean, there's a saying that people say that used to be more popular back in the eighties. I think, no pain, no gain. Right, you put those signs up in the weight room. You're going to
be tired, You're going to be sore. You're going to be going through a bit of a difficult time physically because you are transforming, You're changing habits or using muscles you haven't used before. Pain is not necessarily some bad things. Some people will avoid it at all costs, thereby thereby avoiding any real
personal growth. Pain is a part of the process and the idea that we can fix this problem of massive government spending of out of control bloated governments and budgets, and the size of the bureaucratic state, the amount of the minutia that small business owners and American citizens and taxpayers have to deal with, the size of the IRS tax code pertending, you know, not just the tax put itself, but the case law that interprets that tax code and so forth
we're talking about. I think it's truly millions. I think it's a million. I think I saw a million page. When you factor in all of those the tax code and then you factor in the court cases that interpret the tax code, it's a lot. The idea that we're just going to snap our fingers and fix that it's crazy. It's going to require pain, it's going to require complicated and difficult, intense situations. And I'm not saying that we're gonna win this one, but I am saying at some point along the
way it requires this sort of showdown. It's going to Now I still think that McCarthy will ultimately more than likely fold. I think it makes me wonder the ramifications of his position. How many is it going to be enough for someone like Matt Gates. I don't know that remains to be seen to challenges
his speakership. Remember, there was some rules that were put in because of the holdouts like Lauren Boeboard and Matt Gates that said just a single I think it's a single Republican House member can make a motion to vacate the chair, which means remove him as speaker. Now, I'm not saying we're there yet, but we've along that path. He's McCarthy has not acted as the Conservatives had wished that he did along the way, So I mean we're moving toward
that. That's a possibility as well. There's all sorts of potential consequences and so forth from this, but we're on the verge of this. We're on the verge of this just a couple of days away. Reports are that no one's near, they're not near a decision to be able to keep the government open, and of course the paranoia and the pandemonium begins, the fear mongering and so forth. But anyway, time out, I want to talk a little bit more about this. I want to talk about who Americans are blaming.
I just want to talk about this a little bit more as it is impending. So time outs in order of my friends. You're listening here to conservative not better talk. I am your host, Todd huff Back in just a minute. Back of my friends. This whole government shut down situation is look and again, I know it causes pain for select For I say select people, people that the government has said they need to feel pain. And that's ridiculous. They're the ones that have set this up. They make the
rules, not me. But I think this whole thing is absolutely living in the world of absurdity. And let me explain what I mean. So, we have a constitution, a constitution that sets forth what the government is supposed
to be involved with, what the government's role is. We have the consent of the government, which means the American people, through the found Fathers, when they wrote and eventually adopted the Constitution of the United States of America, we said, hey, government, this is going to be things are going to be done differently here, right. So instead of you telling us what
we can do, we're going to tell you what you can do. We're going to say, we understand that our liberties come from God, from our creator, and we're not going to just let you tell us which of those freedoms and liberties we are allowed to have. Instead, we're going to tell you what lane you can operate in. And so they crafted the Constitution, and they did this very clearly. I mean, there's really I mean, there's always things you can argue about again around the edges, but it's the
core of what the Constitution is is very straightforward. It's got very clear, very clear roles for the government. It's very clear responsibilities. And then there's even a thing called the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution, which enumerate which lists some, but not all, of the rights,
some of the liberties retained by the people. And in that list of amendments you will find an amendment that says, if it's I mean, i'm paraphrasing here, but if it's not listed, if something's not listed here in the Constitution, it doesn't mean that the people have failed to retain it. No no, no, no, no no. It means we have failed to give you government the authority to take to have that, to lord it over us. We haven't given it to you. It's not the other way
around. So anything that isn't listed in here is reserved to the states and to the people. Don't think that by the omission of something that that means that you government can take it over. So we've gone from that to a scenario that if the government shuts down, some people believe the society you can't
function. Now, I think that that's grossly exaggerated. Again, it will hurt and impact certain people, but the vast majority of people aren't going to feel this if we do get to a shutdown, whether that be now or the next time this stupid stuff happens or whatever. But how did that happen? Is this not also evidence as to why the founders were smart and established
something? I mean, if we had the Founders government, we wouldn't be having this discussion, and candidly, candidly, if we had a government that wasn't extended into all these other areas of our lives, we would even care less if it's shut down again. It shouldn't it has a role. I'm not I'm not. I don't want to completely say that government shouldn't do anything.
That's not true. There are there is a role for government. It's just that ninety five percent of what it does today is not in that role. In fact, if you listen I alluded to this earlier, if you listen to what people in government promise that they want to do, you set, as far as their agenda, objectives, they're campaign platform or whatever else, the reasons you should vote for them nine times out of ten the things
well, definitely ten times out of ten for the radical left. The things that they tell us they want to do have nothing to do with the role of government, or it is in much excess of what the role of government should be. But they always fail. They fail the five percent of the
things they should be doing. They are absolutely abysmal at doing. But yet we're supposed to give them more responsibility, more money, allow them to have more deficit spending impacting our economy and dramatic ways impacting the value of your dollar. We've got you know, you have this UAW strike, and I try to be very fair minded about this stuff. I try to be very fair
minded about this, and I know that a lot of these problems. I've talked to my dad about this, who agains retired but from the UAW. He's not been in the union for fifteen almost twenty years. I think he retired from it, But you know, there's I have no problem with anyone making as much money as they can. I just find it so it is aggravating to me that the only people that some on the left or in the Democrat Party, or just people that don't maybe understand economics, the only people
they want to blame are capitalists. And I'm not saying that there aren't individually bad capitalists, because there are, but they don't blame the government for anything. Look at the case with the UAWW. There has now been information that we've I've read. I just read it imposed today before the show, or yesterday or whatever. But as I was reading, basically the federal government or
state governments. In the case of governments, how about just governments in general requiring electric vehicles, whether they be in their states or in the United States. The push towards electric vehicles, which is being pushed by the government is going to reduce I saw. I think a CEO of one of the Big Three, I think that's who it was, said it will reduce the workforce.
The number of people required to make an electric vehicle is forty percent less than the number of people required to make a gas powered or diesel powered vehicle forty percent less. And so the very politicians who are out there, by the way, patronizing, patronizing the union workers, like Biden. By the way, Trump spoke during the debate, Right, that's another thing. Who even cares about the debate. I don't know, You've got the debate going
on with seven candidates. It's Trump's to win or Trump's to lose, I should say, But you've got all this stuff happening, people patronizing union workers, government officials, people in the administration, and they're responsible, at least in part for the problem. They're responsible for making people's money worthless. They are responsible for taxing people more. They are responsible for pushing policies that basically eliminate their jobs in the future, as in the case of electric vehicles.
And this is I mean, it's something like two hundred to four hundred thousand jobs are going to be lost. Yet these unions applaud President Bribery when he comes and says you deserve a raise. I don't know why that's Biden's decision as to who deserves a raise. I mean, how patronizing is that you deserve a raise. I think maybe if Biden thinks they should get a raise.
I'm thinking about this earlier. I think maybe Biden should look into the money that he allegedly and Hunter allegedly got from these foreign governments or foreign business associates, and what is shaping up to look like allegedly a pay to play scandal. Maybe he should start cutting checks. If he thinks they deserve a raised, then pay for it, hot shot, pay for it, President Bribery. I just this whole thing is just annoying. Is all get out
to me? Because it is a self created problem. You make a government too big to fail, right, you make it. You make a government that says we do it, does everything for everybody, or so much that we can't even stand for it to be shut down at all, not even to take a two week hiatus, forty five minute break from the insanity. No, no, no, can't have it. And by the way, not only can we not have it, we're going to intentionally inflict harm upon
people so that they feel it when it's shut down. Who does this stuff? And people defend the government and attacked, attack the capitalists. And again I'm not saying no capitalists needs to be attacked or questioned or anything. But again, the capitalists can't make you do anything. The government can, and the government does, they're all too happy to use that force, to use
that power. Now. Ultimately they really shouldn't be able to because the Constitution says that there are limits on the power in the size and the scope of government. But unfortunately people don't know it, people don't care about it. People ignore it because they think that what the government provides them is worth giving up their liberty and independence for. And it's death by a thousand cuts as we've added to the size and scope of our government over time, death by
a thousand cuts. And then we blame the capitalists. And then when it when the economy runs into problems, government says, hey, we've tried it
their way, But the truth is we haven't. We haven't because, my friends, if we have a government this big, a government that can't even stand to be shut down for a minute, because it's going to impact the lives of so many Americans, if you follow the narrative here, If that's the case, If that's the case, it's really hard to then also simultaneously say that the government is just letting society run and not be involved in the free market. Those two things, to me are very hard to reconcile.
If government is responsible for all these things and is you know, people can't function without it, and they're intentionally inflicting harm on people who who are supposed to get checks. Not their checks, by the way, No no, no, you're congressman. Your senators will get their paychecks, so rest assured there, and of course the bribery checks allegedly those will keep rolling in as
well. I'm sure, but the average person doesn't see that the people who are claiming to want to help them are actually the ones that have caused and inflicted the most harm in their lives. So it annoys me. It annoys me to hear about this stuff because the obvious thing that needs to happen is the government needs to be cut down in size and scope. I know that that's not going to happen with the current folks we have running the show.
I get that. I'm a realist, but I also understand that the people demanding that it go back to what the constitutions say, that the people who point out that the burden that has been placed upon the American people by the size and scope of our government is the main culprit those folks. Those folks need to continue speaking louder, because, my friends, the problem is right there for anybody who wants to see it. The problem with the gas pump
can be blamed largely, not exclusively, but largely on the government. The problem on the border can blame be blamed almost exclusively on the government. The problem of inflation can be blamed exclusively on the government. The problem when the UAW strike situation can be blamed in large parts or in a fair amount of part, on the government, going back to the bailout, going back to
the requirements for electric vehicles. Their fingerprints are everywhere at the crime scene, but yet they're the ones, of course, responsible for investigating the crimes. And who are they going to blame. They're gonna blame the free market. They're gonna blame the American people. They're gonna blame the people that want to cut down the size and scope of government. That's what's happening here, and it's maddening for those of us who are freethinkers, who know who the royal
culprits are here. But I'm gonna take your break, my friends, you're listening to conservative not better talk. I am your host Hot Health back in
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I want to share with you a little bit later in the program. But I do as a case endpoint kind of to echo what we were saying last segments. Last segment, here's a headline from the Epic Times food stamp program is losing a billion dollars every month, a billion dollars every month to alleged fraud and errors, according to Senator Joanie Ernst. And that's just one federal program, one whole I guess of just funds gushing out through alleged fraud and
errors. So I mean you factor that times everything going on in the federal government. So you've got mismanagement, you've got corruption, you've got fraud, you've got errors, You've got I mean, friends, are so much wrong. There is so much wrong with the government. And I don't mean that
to be a downer. I actually think that more people are aware of this today than I don't know, if it's awareness, if it's just that they're no longer apathetic, they felt it enough in their pocketbooks to where they know, hey, something's got a change here. But the food stamp program is losing a billion dollars every month to alleged fraud and errors. What the world if this happened in a corporation, which I mean there are examples, of
course of corporations having massive fraud and things like this as well. But these things get fixed in the government. We just throw more money at it, more of your tax dollars, more of my tax dollars, more of you know, money made out made up out of than air, which of course contributes to inflation. This is one tiny microcosm of the problem. And again
it doesn't mean that the government can't do anything. We can debate what the government should do regarding food stamps, the role of charities and churches and nonprofits and all this sort of stuff. That's another debate for another day. But I think surely to heaven we can all agree that a billion dollars being lost every month to alleged fraud in errors that needs to be addressed at least needs to be considered and needs to be a priority for getting fixed. But I
just how long has it been going on. It's as though no one cares. It's not their money. I mean, there's just again, there's so many fundamental problems as to why you don't want a big government. If this was your business, you'd think, wow, we lost a billion dollars last month. I'm gonna get to the bottom of this immediately, and I'm gonna fire the people who have been responsible for this. And by the way, if there's fraud, I'm gonna file charges on people. None of this stuff
seems to ever happen when it comes to our government. It's like, well, chucky dern, I guess we'll just see what happens next month. Throw a little bit more money at it. Bill, Let's just see what happens here. Cross our fingers, and then you go off and take your six weeks vacation and just it doesn't personally impact it's just it's craziness to me. The amount of problems that's caused, just on a fundamental level by having a
large government that minimizes the power and liberty and prosperity of American people. Is this should This should infuriate people how this is set up? And it's not set up this way by our founders. It's set up this way by the people who are currently occupying the levers of power political power here in this country. Congress, Senate, the White House, in some cases the Supreme Court.
But I'm gonna take a break of my friends. Sit tight. When I get back, I've got an update for you that you are going to want to hear, because it's something that we have chuckled out along the way. There are timeouts in order you're listening here to conservative not better talk. I'm your host back in just a minute. Back my friends, do you remember, I'm sure you do. A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you a story, share with you a story from a well regarding an
individual running for Congress. I think for the state. It wasn't they wouldn't be going this individual would not be going to DC. It would be for the Virginia House. I believe her name was or is Susannah Gibson. She's running for the fifty seventh district of the Virginia House of Delegates. She's married, she's got a couple of kids. Her husband I think was or is an attorney. She's I can't remember what she did, Weimer, I remember what she did, but there's Oh, she was a nurse, right,
a nurse. So she's a nurse. Her husband's an attorney. She's running for house in the state of Virginia and our commonwealth, Virginia commonwealth. Anyway, so she it's been reported it had been discovered that she was on a website doing explicit a sexual I mean her and her husband. I was her and her husband on a website and allegedly was taking tips. Oz was uncertain
that these were tips on how to do things better. I don't know how to say it nicely, but financial she was getting tips from from having, you know, being on that website. And I postulated that this might be the Democrats. Given the control the radical left has over the party today and they're complete disregard for anything moral or ethical today, I thought this would be a great fundraiser for the Democrats. I think they should still look into this
and see and see if it might be worth you know, applying. I mean, they've got mayoral candidates or people who are currently mayor Burbank mayor getting whipped by drag queens. I think they should just up the annie a little bit and just look at this. I just worth investigating. But fortunately sanity has made itself known here. Now you know that I write a column. In fact, you can get it for free by signing up on our website,
totepshow dot com. Called it's called Conservative Not Bitter, the Conservative not Bitter column. But the series that we're working on today is called common Ground. Common Ground because I think that there's a lot of common ground between Republicans and rank and file Democrats today. I'm not talking about radical leftists or extremist I'm talking about everyday average people. There's agreement, right, There's a lot of reasons why there's so much turmoil between people, But when you get down
to what we really want, I think there's a ton of agreement. And fortunately apparently we agree that people who are doing sex online with their husband and who have open relationships, where she's basically saying she's said in the previous article that that's what she wanted, but her husband gets jealous. Who would have thought anyway? So, but I think a lot of she's fallen, her support has fallen dramatically, like off the face of the planet, and so
I have hope for this country yet. Just wanted to share that quick update to a quick time out my friends back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I almost forgot to do this. I told you I was going to do this. I wanted to give you some data, some data points here regarding who Americans are blaming. I'm gonna go back to the shutdown situation, which is what we've talked about the majority of the program today. Other than that fundraising, I had idea I head for the left
last segment. But the Morning consult they did a survey. They found that over thirty four percent say that Republicans in Congress would be to blame for a government shutdown if that, of course is what happens. Twenty three percent blame President Joe Biden, President Bribery, twenty one percent would blame Democrats in Congress. So it's split fairly equally. But of course Republicans are according to polling here, according to polling, here are the ones who are going to be
going to be blamed for this. So that of course that and of course, knowing Kevin McCarthy's leadership style, if that's what you want to say, that's why I said that I don't see this ending in any other way besides Republican surrender, capitulation, what have you. But again, Republicans got to get the message out, have to explain, and I know, look, I know at some point people just don't want to hear if it's going to be painful today to cut but you know, to cut spending. They don't
want to deal with it. They want it to be tomorrow's problem. But it's going to be too massive if we don't deal with it soon. Folks, I gotta go, have a great day. We'll talk with you tomorrow. STG