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Chapter 1: What are the dangers of government ownership of technology?
So we begin the monologues today with AI and what is happening with AI. The president says he wants to own some of these AI companies, some sort of sovereign fund. What is that? This is not a new idea. This is actually Hamilton. Hamilton's bargain is what it's actually called. And there's a lesson to it. I take you through that.
Also, we tell you some great stories of founders and, you know, the war We think the war started when we declared our independence. The war was already going on. Declaration of Independence came after the battleships, and this week, is the 250th anniversary of a really important battle in South Carolina. We tell you a story that I had never heard before.
I mean, I'm sure people in South Carolina are like, you dummy.
Chapter 2: How does Hamilton's bargain relate to modern AI ownership?
Of course that's what it is. I didn't know. And you'd be fascinated by it. And we have special guest Tim Barton in Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor. It's the story of the 56 Americans. It's a book that is on sale today. They tell the best stories and get it right because they have the documents. Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor get it at bookstores.
And you'll hear a little bit of that all in today's best of podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. America, welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We have just taken another giant leap for mankind. Kind of. Giant leap for mankind. The president yesterday
Chapter 3: What historical events led to the Declaration of Independence?
Signing an executive order that America will lead in the quantum tech race. What does that mean? Oh, it means everything. And we'll get into that here in just a second. Also, the president is floating a trial balloon about taking pieces of the AI companies. Let's not. I'll explain why this is actually something that Hamilton was for, believe it or not.
I mean, you know, the founders, you know, people like, they could have never seen this coming. No, but they saw a lot of things that are exactly like today. And I'll explain. Alexander Hamilton saw AI coming. No, but he saw this problem coming.
Chapter 4: What significance does the 250th anniversary hold for American history?
All right, so let me give you a couple of stories here. Trump has just signed an executive order to lead the quantum tech race. It's the first order that pushes for a U.S. quantum computer at a national lab by 2028, plus sensors and networks in five years, while expanding training and supply chains across agencies, energy, commerce, and NASA.
Quantum computing is something you're not going to have access to. Quantum computing is everything. Quantum computing coupled with artificial super intelligence changes the entire world. The problem with all of this stuff is you're not going to have access to it. The government will. The government, you know, we're in this catch-22.
The government has to have control of quantum computing for their own sake because there will be no secrets. Your bank account will be gone. The minute we have quantum computing, any country can destroy the other because they'll just wipe out bank accounts overnight. They'll just wipe them out. There's no secrets. There's no national secrets.
Chapter 5: Who were the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence?
You'll be able to go into, hack into our codes to launch missiles. There are no secrets. There are no doors that have any locks once you have quantum computing. That's the biggest problem. And that's the second post that he did for the executive order.
Chapter 6: What insights does Tim Barton provide about the signers?
And that is we have to have by 2030, 2031, encryption that is quantum that will stop any kind of quantum attack on encryption. So we have to have it. I just don't like the government having access to things that the average person can have access to. and I don't want access to encryption technology, et cetera, et cetera. But this is much more than that.
And you combine it with the other thing that was floated yesterday. J.D. Vance said yesterday, the president is supportive of the United States owning these big AI companies. He likes the idea sort of as a sovereign wealth fund idea. Okay. That's good. I understand the sovereign wealth thing, and I understand where Trump is coming from on this.
Where he's coming from is he believes that the nation needs to be strong. You know, this is the same argument that was made back in the colonial era. Let me tell you a story about an argument, okay? Because it just walked into the room with a new face. But it's the same argument. It's the winter 1791. Two men are sitting in the same cabinet and they can't stand each other.
They can't stand what the other one wanted to build. Alexander Hamilton, he was an orphan. He was an immigrant. He was a genius. He was the first secretary, treasury secretary. And he looked at this fragile, broke, barely stitched together republic and saw... What America could be great someday. We could be a great power.
Chapter 7: How did personal sacrifices shape the founding of America?
He saw way over the horizon. But he believed that to get there, the government had to do something really, really bold. It had to partner with the biggest power on earth. And that wasn't a government, that was money. He wanted a national bank.
the federal government would assume the state's debts in his report on manufacturers, the open argument that the state should encourage industry directly through tariffs and subsidies and a thumb on the scale. He said, we can build national champions, we'll fuse the strength of the government to the muscle of commerce, and you get a giant. And he's right, you would.
But that philosophy seems really familiar, doesn't it? Now, across the table was Thomas Jefferson, and Jefferson looked at his blueprint and was like, oh my gosh, this is poison. This is slow-acting poison. His argument was not that it wouldn't work. His fear was it would work because Jefferson understood corruption the way the Romans understood, not a bribe.
you know, in a briefcase, but a marriage. You just marry people off. The moment you wed the government to moneyed interest, you create a class whose fortune depends on the state. Listen to this carefully. You create a class whose fortune depends on the state and a state whose appetite depends on that class. So those two grow together. By the way, you're not in that marriage.
You're not even a child in that marriage. That marriage will be between AI, high-tech, quantum, and the government. You're not in that. And they grow bigger and bigger quietly until one day you look up and you find out, I've been squeezed out of my own republic. Nobody even fired a shot. I'm out. This is Thomas Jefferson's argument. The argument got settled. A little bit.
They decided against the bank. But the actual argument, it just keeps changing clothes. The bank war. That was this argument. Then the railroads put these clothes on. They were like, we're too important. The New Deal, same argument. The 2008 bailouts, same argument.
And now we put on the newest suit it has ever worn because the vice president said out loud that the president is supportive of the United States owning the big artificial intelligence company, a sovereign wealth fund. That's the idea. A stake in the people's most important technology of the age.
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Chapter 8: What lessons can we learn from the stories of the signers today?
Now, Donald Trump is doing it because America first. He believes, you know, that America can be strong exactly the way Hamilton did, okay? When I first heard this, the first word that jumped into my head was fascism. And I've been saying this is Italian fascism. I want to tell you why this is a losing argument, okay? It's not entirely wrong, but I, you know, in doing my homework, it's...
We want strong arguments. Here's the thing about Italian fascism, okay? Italian fascism is not German fascism. Mussolini's economy didn't seize the factories like communism does. The owners kept their names on the door. What the state took was not the title. It was the steering wheel, okay? The company stayed private and ran at the pleasure of the regime in service of the regime.
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state. That's Mussolini. So, yes, the government that owns a piece and steers, it rhymes. I'm not going to pretend it doesn't. It rhymes with fascism. But here's why I want to correct myself. A, I want to correct myself because it's important that I do, and you can hold me to that. But it's important because people always think of race hatred.
You associate race hatred with fascism. That wasn't the engine of fascism. Mussolini didn't pass his race laws until 1938, and that was under German pressure, not from his own doctrine, okay? Anti-Semitism was essential to Nazism, not essential to fascism. So fascism without the race hatred, you know, doesn't reveal some secret core. It just describes early fascism.
Italian fascism, pretty accurately. Hatred is not required in it. But nobody's going to listen to that, okay? The part that really takes the word away from me, the government holding stake in a private industry, doesn't make a country anything. What Donald Trump is saying is Norway. Norway has the sovereign wealth fund. It owns roughly 1.5% of every company on the face of the earth.
It took stakes in the banks and the car makers in 2009. We did, and then it gave it back. Singapore does this. If state ownership equaled fascism, then Norway's a fascist state, and that's just ridiculous. What makes fascism fascism is the politics. The one party, the leadership worship, the boot on dissent, the deliberate dissolving of the individual into the organic nation.
Economics was a part of this. The reason why I'm afraid of this... is it's more than just state capitalism. That's a better word maybe than fascism. State or mercantilism. The thing that the kings did, it's worse than that because what this actually means is is more than what Hamilton was talking about. It's because of what the state would actually own. Hamilton's bank would just move money.
The railroads moved steel and grain, and you can see them, and you can argue with them. But artificial intelligence doesn't sit downstream of your life. It sits upstream of your thoughts. That's the real danger here. And I don't want the government anywhere near that. It's becoming the thing that answers your questions before you finished asking the question. It drafts the email.
It suggests the word. It frames the choice. It decides what you see and what order you see it in and what it leaves out. It's quietly becoming the surface on which free people do all of its thinking. And this is, I need you to think on this. There has never in human history been a tyrant who got to own the tool people use to form their own decisions, choices, and minds.
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