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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Okay, there's a lot of stuff going on in today's show. We talked to you about the SPLC, an update on that.
Chapter 2: What are the allegations against the Southern Poverty Law Center?
The rot runs really, really deep. And if I hear one more person say, well, the FBI does it. They're not the FBI. I couldn't get all of that out of my system. In the monologue, you'll hear that. Also, talk about the housing market. What is actually happening with the housing market? What is the problem there? And some real solutions. Also, are we turning into Canada?
And what is Canada turning into? All that and so much more on today's podcast. So right now, everybody's watching the war in Iran, hoping that it ends quickly. But there's something that people are not talking about. Even if it does end tomorrow, the aftershocks are just getting started because the Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted. And that doesn't just fix itself overnight.
Chapter 3: How is the housing market affecting home ownership in America?
Ships that are arriving today left ports months ago. And right now, shipments are backed up and supplies are tightening.
Chapter 4: What are the root causes of skyrocketing home prices?
And other parts of the world are already feeling the shortages that we haven't fully felt yet. which means what you're seeing now is the beginning. This affects shipping, manufacturing, and eventually medical supply chains. And when the system slows down, medication shortages do follow. And by the time that you get it at your local pharmacy, it's too late. That's why I recommend Jace Medical.
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Chapter 5: Are we losing the essence of a free nation in Canada?
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So there's a couple of things that we have to talk about that have to be done. If you want to fix our economy, we have to fix the fraud. The latest now, the latest numbers from the GAO, the Government Accounting Office, is that they estimate that our government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion every year based on fraud between 2018 through 2022. Can you imagine how bad it is now?
Half a billion dollars. Sorry, half a trillion dollars. How many trillions are we in debt? In two years, just based on fraud, in two years, we will add another trillion dollars to our debt. And that entire number of trillion will be because of fraud. I don't know. Does that sound important? That's not cutting pennies here. That's cutting a trillion dollars every two years.
That seems really important. Because we're just not going to make it with this kind of spending. And if this fraud continues like this, we're not going to have a country left to protect. And I don't mean just because of the fraud. I mean because we're not going to believe anybody. People are going to start saying, I'm not paying for it anymore. You're wasting my money.
You're wasting everything that I have worked hard for. I work four months out of the year just to pay my income tax. That's not reasonable. When you're... losing half a trillion dollars in fraud, people are just going to have enough of it. That has to be addressed. But then we also have to address something that is both partially a lie and partially true.
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Chapter 6: What defines a free nation according to the host?
Millions of soldiers came home and they wanted to start a family and they wanted their own home. So there was this massive housing shortage, far, far worse in many ways than what we're facing today. Demand exploded overnight. So what happened there? Because I don't remember almost going into revolution in the late 1940s and early 1950s because there were home shortages.
In fact, I don't really remember reading much about the home shortages except for right after the war. What happened? Because we had to study it for decades, right? I mean, we held hearings and we passed rules to slow things down. Nope, nope. We did something different back in the 1950s. We built. We built entire communities almost overnight.
I don't know if you've ever heard of Levittown, but Levittown is a great example. Homes were built like cars on an assembly line. Homes were built in days, not months.
Chapter 7: How does Canada compare to the concept of a free nation?
Days. Can you imagine days? I'm building something now in Florida. I'm building a new building in Florida. I'm hoping that I can have just the permitting done by this summer. And that's Florida, one that is not a problem. The GI Bill made the financing available.
Chapter 8: What recent actions have undermined democracy in Canada?
Millions of veterans. They served their country. They came back. The interstate highway system opened up the land that had never been reachable before. And perhaps most importantly, the government got out of the way. The government made it easy to build. So what happened? Prices rose at first because everybody needed a home, and then they stabilized because supply caught up with demand.
That's how markets are supposed to work. Now fast forward to today. We have a shortage again. But this time, are we unleashing builders? No, we're restraining them. Are we expanding supply? No, we're constraining it. Instead of saying, yes, like Donald Trump just did with the oil, drill, baby, drill, build, baby, build. Instead of that, we say, not here, not here, not here.
And then we act surprised when skyrockets, you know, prices skyrocket. This is why the most important number is not the price of a home. It is the ratio between a home price and income. In 1960, the average cost was two times the average annual income. Today, it's over five times. That's the difference between opportunity and exclusion.
That's the difference between a young family starting a life and one stuck renting indefinitely. So when your kids ask, you know, how did your parents do it? How do you do it? The honest answer is this. We lived in a country that believed in building. A country that saw the problem and solved it with action, not obstruction.
We were actually trying to make people's lives better because we cared about the individual person, not the planet over people. We cared for the planet, but we also cared for people. You know, the country believed that growth was good, expansion was good, opportunity was something that you created, not something that you rationed.
And somewhere along the way, that whole mindset of America changed. We didn't lose the land. We didn't lose the resources. We've lost the will. And until that changes, this doesn't get fixed. The American dream is not dead. We've just been lied about what it actually is. Some of us are being lied to because they say there's no way out. We're never going to be able to do it.
You're lying because we're Americans. We solve problems. We build. That's who we are. We're builders. That's the difference between America and the rest of the world. We build. We invent our way out of these problems, but that's not what's happening. And then the other half of the problem is the lie that just keeps continuing that you're not going to be able to live the American dream.
Well, what is the American dream? Because if you want to live the way your parents did, it's not in a 2,500 square foot house. That's new. And that's not even what people are even really hoping for. They want to live in a 5,000-square-foot house or a 10,000-square-foot house. The American dream was never about a mansion.
And so anybody who is watching life on Facebook or on TikTok or on Instagram, that's not real life. That's not. The American dream is about freedom and opportunity and hard work and faith and building a life with the people that you love. Not in a homeless shelter, but not necessarily in a home that is built just to impress. Let's remember what it means to actually be happy.
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