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Everyone is talking about government spending, nobody has a realistic answer, congress won't do anything and military cuts are small change. We need to massivly deregulate through executive decree. This will halve prices in many industries. Healthcare spending is 25% of the budget, we can cut that in half...

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Today, City Hall announced that we are facing a growing and unprecedented budget deficit. San Franciscans voted for accountability and change from the unsustainable status quo at City Hall. The budget deficit is a crisis that we must face head-on, and it will require us to make difficult decisions. We can’t simply cut our way out of this nor can we balance the budget on the backs of working people. We need to stop spending more than we can afford while prioritizing investments that are critical to a full economic recovery and the maintenance of essential services. Beyond living within our means, fostering a diverse and growing economy is critical to eliminating chronic budget deficits. This moment requires all of us to work together to advance the best interests of San Franciscans.

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If you confiscated all the wealth of all the billionaires in the country--and let's just pretend you could actually liquidate it for that much--you would cover about ONE YEAR of federal government spending. As Dave Smith points out in his reply to this clip, we're not taxing our way out of this, and the idea that we ever had a Friedmanite government at any point is simply ahistorical. "Which year did Ronald Reagan cut spending? Oh, wait, it increased EVERY year?" We aren't going to fix this country with Hamiltonian economics. We need to embrace a Misesian/Rothbardian understanding of economics, and until the right understands that, they're going to keep losing to the left in the long run because they are fundamentally thinking of government and economics on the left's terms.

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President Trump and Congress MUST do 3 things to fix our economy before we lose the dollar: 1. Stabilize our laws to make sure they apply to everyone equally. That means reforming the DOJ and FBI. President Trump is doing that. 2. Cut spending STRATEGICALLY. That's what DOGE is doing. Congress needs to join in NOW. 3. Most importantly, reduce government regulations by passing the REINS Act. We cannot just cut our way out of this debt. We must GROW out of it too.

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Chaffetz: When we do need to spend money on legitimate things like the war—we never have a discussion about maybe we will have to sacrifice something else. Maybe we have to cut something. White: The defense budget is a minuscule part of our federal spending, if you want to get serious about cutting down on waste and fraud in the federal government, we would take a look at the entitlements

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198,324 views • 5 months ago

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DNI Tulsi Gabbard just gave an answer about accountability that will be remembered for decades. She said the more “we shine a light” on deep state tactics, the “more hope we have” for real change. GABBARD: “It’s important to push for accountability.” “First step is exposing the truth to the American people.” “That is a huge step towards accountability because the more we shine a light on the truth of these deep state tactics to undermine our republic and the will of the American people, the more likely it is that we have hope for change.” “Accountability can come after the presentation of the truth and in this case, documents that had not been released publicly before.” “I’m leaving it up to the lawyers in the Department of Justice to take a look at this and to determine the specific legal parameters.” “But it was important for us to to refer this along with all of the information that we have so that the Department of Justice can do exactly that and investigate it.”

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106,894 views • 4 months ago

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Elon Musk: We had to print out 25,000 pages of paper to start Tesla's factory in Germany. Alice Weidel: “We need to free our firms, our companies, and the individuals of these obnoxious bureaucratic conditions here [in Germany]. Do you know how long it takes, how many days it takes to get a business permit in Germany?” Elon Musk: “As it turns out, I do, because we built a gigantic car factory just near Berlin. We had many, many challenges. To be clear, we actually had a lot of support, a lot of local support, a lot of local support from the local government, from the national government. And despite all that support, just the sheer number of rules that the people in the government are required to follow is completely crazy. I think our permit was 25,000 pages, and it had to be all printed on paper. I think maybe more than that in the end. There has to be many, many copies made. It literally was a truck of paper. We were like, surely we can make this electronic? Isn't that better for everyone? And they said, no, it has to be paper. This is crazy. This was only a few years ago. It's not the distant past. We're a quarter of the way through the 21st century. It's like, guys, 25,000 actual printed pages ... I believe every page needed to be stamped with a physical stamp. Honestly, it's going to really tire somebody out to do so much stamping. They're going to get some sort of repetitive stress injury. They will end up in the hospital, I mean, that's too much. But I'm not trying to blame the individuals who are doing this because they are just following the rules. So, we have to change the rules.” Conversation with Alice Weidel, January 9, 2025

ELON CLIPS

5,576,525 views • 1 year ago

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos attempted to trip up Secretary of State Marco Rubio by asking the same question about Venezuela three different times. “What is the legal authority for the United States to be running Venezuela?” And three times, Rubio shut him down. RUBIO: “I explained to you what our goals are and how we’re going to use the leverage to make it happen.” “As far as our legal authority on the quarantine, simple. We have court orders. These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders from courts to go after and seize these sanctions. Is a court not a legal authority?” STEPHANOPOULOS: “Is the United States running Venezuela right now?” RUBIO: “Well, I’ve explained once again, I’ll do it one more time.” “What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward, and that is we have leverage.” “This leverage we are using and we intend to use. We started using already. You can see where they are running out of storage capacity. In a few weeks, they’re going to have to start pumping oil, unless they make changes.” “That leverage that we have with the armada of boats that are currently positioned, allow us to seize any sanctioned boats coming into or out of Venezuela loaded with oil or on its way in to pick up oil.” “We can pick and choose which ones we go after. We have court orders for each one.” “That will continue to be in place until the people who have control over the levers of power in that country make changes that are not just in the interest of the people of Venezuela but are in the interest of the United States and the things that we care about.” “The legal authority is the court orders that we have.”
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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos attempted to trip up Secretary of State Marco Rubio by asking the same question about Venezuela three different times. “What is the legal authority for the United States to be running Venezuela?” And three times, Rubio shut him down. RUBIO: “I explained to you what our goals are and how we’re going to use the leverage to make it happen.” “As far as our legal authority on the quarantine, simple. We have court orders. These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders from courts to go after and seize these sanctions. Is a court not a legal authority?” STEPHANOPOULOS: “Is the United States running Venezuela right now?” RUBIO: “Well, I’ve explained once again, I’ll do it one more time.” “What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward, and that is we have leverage.” “This leverage we are using and we intend to use. We started using already. You can see where they are running out of storage capacity. In a few weeks, they’re going to have to start pumping oil, unless they make changes.” “That leverage that we have with the armada of boats that are currently positioned, allow us to seize any sanctioned boats coming into or out of Venezuela loaded with oil or on its way in to pick up oil.” “We can pick and choose which ones we go after. We have court orders for each one.” “That will continue to be in place until the people who have control over the levers of power in that country make changes that are not just in the interest of the people of Venezuela but are in the interest of the United States and the things that we care about.” “The legal authority is the court orders that we have.”

Overton

213,086 views • 8 months ago

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🚨 NEW: Steve Hilton just FLIPPED THE SCRIPT on the debate moderator with a MASTERFUL reply after he tried to label Trump’s endorsement as a negative attack line. MODERATOR: “Mr. Hilton, you said you were ‘deeply honored’ to recently receive President Trump’s endorsement.” “That’s despite the fact that 62% of Californians disapprove of the job he is doing. Are those Californians wrong?” HILTON: “One of the proudest days of my life was the day I became an American citizen. It happened in a ceremony right here in San Francisco.” “So it is a deep honor for me to be endorsed by the President of the United States.” “And he’s going to help every Californian when I’m governor, we will have a constructive relationship and partnership with the federal government.. to make things better in California.” “Work WITH the President and his administration to manage our forests better, to harvest the timber so we can build the single-family homes we need for young families...” “To work to increase California energy production as he wants to do so we can lower gas prices, to fight the fraud in our government so we can cut spending and cut taxes, to work to enforce our immigration laws.” “In all these areas and more it will benefit every Californian to have a governor who is a partner on these issues with the President and his team.”

TV News Now

402,581 views • 4 months ago

RFK Jr. implores you to resist digital ID and CBDCs. "They are putting in place all of these technological mechanisms for control... that will make it so none of us can run and none of us can hide." "Digital currency that will allow them to punish us from a distance and cut off our food supply." "Every right that you have is transformed into a privilege, contingent upon your obedience to arbitrary government dictates. It will make you a slave." "What do we do about this? We resist." "Nobody in the history of the planet has ever complied their way out of totalitarian control." "That's why we need to resist today."
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RFK Jr. implores you to resist digital ID and CBDCs. "They are putting in place all of these technological mechanisms for control... that will make it so none of us can run and none of us can hide." "Digital currency that will allow them to punish us from a distance and cut off our food supply." "Every right that you have is transformed into a privilege, contingent upon your obedience to arbitrary government dictates. It will make you a slave." "What do we do about this? We resist." "Nobody in the history of the planet has ever complied their way out of totalitarian control." "That's why we need to resist today."

Wide Awake Media

1,255,914 views • 10 months ago