Sharon McMahon
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324 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 25 Feb
Sharon McMahon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How about we make sure that you haven't been flagged for being a potential school shooter? How about we just have safe storage laws that require you to lock up your weapon and lock up your ammunition? If you are a law abiding citizen, you should want other people to be law abiding citizens. Just like when I am driving safely on the road, I don't want it to be permissible for drunk drivers.
I want you to follow the rules of the road as well. Right. Just like I want to follow the rules of the road. Normal firearms owners want other people to be law abiding firearms owners.
What about the rights of children to not be shot in their schools? It's not in the Constitution. Most people agree with that. That's the thing. Exactly.
To your point, if Congress is supposed to reflect, generally speaking, the will of the people and they are absolutely shirking that duty, it makes people feel like the government is not legitimate. It makes people feel like I'm not going to listen to what they have to say. I'm just going to violate whatever rules they come up with because they're not a legitimate lawmaking group.
This has been the least productive Congress in United States history. That's not my opinion. I mean, like the number of laws that have been passed, the least productive Congress in U.S. history. Again, that doesn't play well in Peoria.
If you're from a blue collar area like I am, where people literally work on ore ships or they mine iron ore or they work in health care, like they are working hard for their money. It seems really frustrating. that I should pay you $170,000 plus a year plus great benefits to sit around and just do press conferences about how stupid your opponents are.
That really sticks in people's craw where they're like, I'm working two jobs to put food on the table and y'all are sitting around being shitty on television. That's not how it's supposed to work. Meanwhile, it's fine that the kids keep getting shot in the schools and we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to go on TV and say, well, it's just an unfortunate reality is how it is.
We're not going to do anything to fix it. That doesn't fly in any other line of work. If you just straight up refuse to do the job that you were hired to do, you would soon find yourself out of a job. Yes.
The problem with it'd be great if everybody could do it is that they can also wield that power to do bad things, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If that person has too much power, that's how we get dictatorships.
They intentionally restrain the power of the president significantly on purpose because the framers of the Constitution were all coming from monarchies where the governments were saying, here's the religion you have to belong to. The idea that whatever I say, whatever whim that's at the top of my head, we're just going to go with that thing.
They intentionally created a system that constrained the power of the president. This is one of my pet peeves when a president is like, I've created 82 million jobs.
You sure did not.
Yes, you might have some ideas that can help promote job growth. Maybe you have some ideas. And you can call up some of the people in Congress and be like, listen, we should pass the CHIPS Act. We should start getting more microchips made in the United States. We should start passing some tax incentives so that people bring manufacturing back to the United States. Yes, you can do things like that.
But the idea that you get like, oh, attaboy, pat on the back, you made all those jobs. That's really annoying to me. Also, the same is true of the economy. The president gets a lot of blame or a lot of credit for how the economy overall is doing.
When the economy is so multifactorial and so complicated, the factors that go into creating low unemployment reach so far beyond what a president has the power to do with his little pen.
Pull it down and move it to the low position. We want low unemployment.
Totally. Your state and local government has a lot more to do with your day to day because on a day to day basis, with the exception of a few big hot button issues, if you are in the military, sure, I'm willing to grant you that the federal government has more impact on your life if you're in the military or if You're a federal employee. The things that they're doing impact you more.
But if you just like live here in a normal neighborhood, you have a job and you're not the recipient of government benefits by and large, you're just working for a living. The things that are impacting your life are like, what kind of schools do my kids have to go to? How well are my streets cleaned? Do somebody pick up my trash? Do I have clean drinking water?
Do people have the ability to pursue an education, you know, if they can't pay for it? By and large, these are state schools, their state and local programs, their local school boards that are impacting our daily lives. And we get so hung up on who the president is. This is not to say they're not important because they are. That's not to say they don't set the tone because they do.
And that's not to say you shouldn't vote for president because it does matter.
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