My Town Hall Conversation With TPUSA Students and Treasury Secretary Bessent
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Hey everybody, it's the Charlie Kirk Show, my conversation with the Treasury Secretary of the United States and thousands of Turning Point USA students. Some of them zoom in for an exclusive conversation on financial literacy that you can only hear here on the Charlie Kirk Show. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and become a member today, members.charliekirk.com, that is members.charliekirk.com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com, that is tpusa.com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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uh we know with all the economic pressures that are facing the next generation as you can see they're populating up on screen all of our amazing turning point leaders hey guys great to see you that's the future of america right there i'll tell you what with all of the financial pressures facing the next generation inflation cost of housing it's more important than ever to teach financial literacy how to save money how to invest what does it mean to have compound interest What is debt? What is good debt versus bad debt? What is consumer debt? What is credit card debt? What is a mortgage? Should you take out two mortgages on your home? What is a reverse mortgage? This stuff needs to be taught in our schools, and we are trying to lead the charge here with our Turning Point USA students.
Without any further ado, let me welcome the Secretary of Treasury of the United States, who's doing a phenomenal job in the first 100 days here, Scott Besson. Mr. Secretary, great to see you. Thank you for taking the time.
Hey, Charlie, great to see you. And this is part of Financial Literacy Month. And I think that there's nothing more important.
Well, thank you. I agree. And what we have here is over a thousand of our Turning Point USA chapters, high school and college chapters, that quite honestly, in the next half an hour to 45 minutes, they're going to learn more about financial literacy because it's not taught in our schools. It's not taught in high schools, not taught in colleges. And let me just ask you before we go to our first question, which is Trey from University of South Carolina. Why is it, do you think, that financial literacy has not been in our curriculum, Mr. Secretary? Can you comment on that? Because it's a major failing.
Yeah, Charlie, I don't know, because somehow I got a bad name. I'm older than all of you. I'm 62, but when I was younger, it actually used to be taught. And everyone used to think home economics was like how to cook, how to keep a house, but it was also how to keep a budget. And somehow home economics disappeared, shop disappeared. And all these other kind of strange transgender studies things showed up and somehow they were more important than teaching people how to be self-sufficient.
You know, I was on the last curve. It's funny. I went to MacArthur Middle School and we had home ec and they got rid of it a couple of years later. And it was very helpful because it was all about how to balance a checkbook. What is saving? What is investing as well as some of the more basic stuff, how to do laundry, how to. Iron your shirts and quite honestly, one that I appreciated.
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