The Economic Consequences of Bad Legislation

With in Texas, the the Kimpaks and Drowel, right? And part of that that came out through that whole thing was was them talking about the the speaker. They phthalen. Drunk. Right? And he couldn't he couldn't even talk. It could like I mean he was in his elected position. Doing what he's supposed to do. Drug. And I mean, drunk. Oh, on the job. On the job. Yeah. And somehow he keeps his job. You're gonna tell me that if if you were in a a law enforcement role or which which is a legal role. This guy's an elected official. You're a official, right? If you showed up drunk, are you keeping your job? You want to save this one for another episode? No. I they This is this is why we're talking about though because these elected officials are acting like a hypocritical behavior of both sides Yep. Is completely out of hand. It is. Not one side or the other. This is not a political thing. It is called people on their behalf. It's both sides. It's Republicans, it's Democrats, it's the federal level, the state level, the local level. I mean, we can even get as far down as, as school boards and we'll get into that conversation here in a little while. People not holding anyone accountable. When there's blatant evidence put in front of people's face, documents, and no one wants to do anything. Nothing. Well, I mean, we've seen it from from state agencies. Like, I don't wanna see the truth. I don't wanna or you wanna see the date? Verbatim. Yeah. Verbatim. State agencies responsible for the safety and security of your kids have literally told us verbatim. I don't wanna see the data because if I see the data and there's something there that I need to report, and it just slips through the cracks and we don't report it, then we don't want to be held responsible. I could be call news flash. Yeah. You're gonna be responsible anyway. That's their job. That's their job. Yeah. Exactly. They are the highest ranking agency and they are the support staff and they don't wanna see it. We don't wanna see it. We don't wanna see it, Dave. Yeah. When they How long does this acceptable? When they don't even understand, they're so they're so ridiculously incompetent to to not even understand that it's the data that is what's going to tell us who's going to kill himself or somebody else you have to be able to process and sift through the data to determine patterns of behaviors in individuals. How about administrators who are cooking the data because they they don't wanna get back in there. I mean, it's just it's just this over and over and over again. And it goes at the at the highest levels. I mean, you just saw, you know, at the White House, right? Cocaine found. Who's is it? Then magically the evidence just disappears. It was gotten rid of. Come on, man. You gotta tell me the secret service doesn't know, and I don't want to put you on a spot because I know you're there. So I'm just gonna talk But the deal is is that if that's the highest level of office and this kind of crap is going on there, And when we see in the senate, we see the house, we see this local house and senate, we see our school board. It's it's all the way down. Like it's all the way down. Like it said it from the highest level to the absolute lowest level It it it's really hard to to not be so cynical and try to lump all of the the representatives into one It really is. And we I feel like we we we try to stay out of politics because we don't feel that everybody fits in that bucket. But when you see this example day in and day out, it's really hard to do so. You know, for us being business owners, it's it's hard for us, right? Like, we, you know, me, especially, I have my own opinions, and because they're my opinions, you know, and not all of them are opinions. Lot of it's fact, you know, you have this this hurdle and this obstacle that we have to really either decide to either go over it or go around it in regards to, you know, these these particular types of things that we see in in American society because we're red blooded Americans. We want America to thrive, and we want it to succeed, and the the economic, impact of our business is affected by poor legislation and there's a lot of business owners that they they just stay away from politics in general. And that's probably a good rule of thumb. But but at the end of the day, what are you doing? Like, you you have to understand that yes, you you have a business you need to feed your family. I certainly understand that. But you still have a duty to your country you still have a duty to serve. You still have a duty to hold people accountable. And regardless if I'm a business owner or not, my personal opinions or my political affiliations or views should have no impact on the expertise that I bring to you as the client. Because I don't look at you, whether you be a school district or an industry, leader or, you know, whatever vertical politics has no business and what I do as a professional. It has absolutely no business than that. And so What I will say to you business owners who are scared to speak the truth that dance around it, stop dancing. You start walking the straight line, start saying what needs to be said because people are looking to you as a successful business owner as a leader, as a CEO, a COO, a chief financial officer, they're looking to you for guidance because they see you as a success. Start speaking the truth, start holding people who represent us who affect our business with their decisions Start holding them accountable. Don't be afraid to speak. Don't be afraid to call out your own party because that what has got us to where we are today in American society. And so, you know, that's my campaign speech. Save it for another day. I don't know when it's gonna be. Maybe it'll be in the next couple years. I don't know. No. No. But I will tuck you off that list. Man, I have a tremendous a tremendous need to serve, you know, and and I, you know, and it's it's tough because you know, we we've had those discussions personally. And, you know, it's it's the compromises. You know, I feel like, you know, no matter which party you identify with, I think if anybody asked, you can't look at any of the candidates that we've seen, whether it's the highest office or for some of these other offices, that that's the most qualified individual. Right? And it it goes to the need of how much money it takes to campaign. Right? And so you look at, you know, trump or some of these other guys who that have run, the only reason why they even made it as far as they did is they funded campaigns through their own wealth. And so, you see some really wealthy people who are stepping out in there, but they're having to do it but funded themselves. Yeah. Otherwise, you've gotta play the political game to work your way up to get where you need to go. And there's it it seems like my opinion is that there's so many compromises made in what you stand for and what you believe because the money's tied to it. Right? It's it's this this bloody action campaign. Whatever it may be. And there's that's a reason why I shouldn't run. I know that. You know? It's because I refused I had an opportunity. You did? And I backed out because I chose to stand on my values and not compromise them. You know, whether I believed what the issue was was right or wrong, it had nothing to do with what my beliefs were. It had everything to do with what the US constitution says is that we should live a life full of, you know, life liberty in the pursuit of happiness without having government interference in our lives. Right? And I refuse to impose my personal beliefs and my personal, faith upon the will in in the mass of the United States people or the people of Texas. That's why I backed out. Well, and we'll do it. That's why I I I, you know, it will do so much to try to make sure that you're successful and help any way that I can because it's so difficult to find people who are willing to tell it like it is, and who are willing to stand up, right? It it is harder and harder to find. I mean, I know you and I come across people all the time who talk to us about, hey, I heard about this. I heard you guys did this or, you know, this on your podcast or whatever. And and I I feel like we're not really doing anything special here. Oh, we're talking. I I feel like I don't feel like that you and I are some superhero or anything else. But but we're willing to say what it is. Like, we're willing to call somebody out. Like, you know, Jamal here. Yeah. You know, it's in there and turn around and go and you're, representative. That's the thing is, I mean, turn around and say, dude, you act like a child. We called out Lauren Broker two weeks ago. We talked we'd call out Jamal Bowman today. Yep. I'll talk about and I'll continue to talk about Marjorie Taylor Green. Alright. Matt Gates, it it it doesn't I mean, let's let's talk about Menendez that was just just indicted down. Where's the outrage? I I guarantee you the majority of the American public does not even know that one of our elected officials was just indicted on Rico. Yeah. And in gold bars and, cash and diamonds, who has hundreds of thousands of dollars in their house? Elected officials apparently. Why are we not outraged? And and this is just one person that that got caught. Like how how big is this? It it goes down to how can you have a job that pays ninety thousand dollars, enter an office with a net worth of half a million dollars. And four year later leave with a net worth of seventeen million or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. How does that happen? I I don't I can do math. Right? Four times ninety Yeah. Three hundred and sixty thousand. I don't have any fingers to get it. Even if you kept all of the money and did spend a single dollar. Yeah. We're talking about three hundred and sixty plus the half a million. That's carry the nine It doesn't work. Shit. Let me not seventeen million. No. Doesn't work. Right. And in anybody else in any other position in the public space that wasn't an elected official. If you went to work in four years, and you made that type of money. Mhmm. Right? In that amount of time. There's just there would there's there's only one way to do that and it's illegal. Every single solitary way It's illegal. There's no way that you can be an elected official and work four years and increase your network that that kind of might. It there's no legal way to get there. Yeah. None? Well, they probably find legal loopholes. They because they have the best and the brightest advising them, Mike, there's no way. There is no legal loophole where you can make that kind of money. I I There's no legal loophole where you're trying to have the gold bar. Or, or sell art for this conflated number, or or have this kind of cash, or be have this amount of diamonds in your possession. There is no legal way, which is why we see things like gold diamonds, art. Going on. Offshore bank accounts. IRS, the government and IRS pass laws, right? They're supposed to disclose as an American citizen. If you have funds offshore in an offshore bank account, you're supposed to you're supposed to, yeah, reporting. Right? Here's the deal. They're not scared of the IRS. Because a lot of these individuals have weaponized not only the IRS, but the FBI. Right? And we can go down that rabbit hole, all day long, but But an individual like myself who's been grinding, you know, for the last three years trying to build a business in an honest way. Yeah. You step out of line. I owe twenty six thousand dollars right now to the IRS. I know that I owe that, and I will pay them before the end of the year. I lay awake at night a because I can't sleep worrying about it. Where some of these individuals who are elected owe millions of dollars to the IRS. Yep. And they don't they don't miss them. It's not even it's not even owing the millions of dollars. It's all of the millions and millions of dollars of illegal funds. It's the things in the offshore bank accounts. It's the gold card. Do you think that, the indicted Mendez? Yeah. Right? Do you think that he paid taxes on those gold cards? No. Absolutely not. But, hey, you you better be, willing to to claim that six hundred dollars in your cash app. Right? Yep. It's the whole system is in need of a complete cleansing. You know, I'm not advocating for violence. I'm advocating for an up rising in the American voters on both sides, the Republicans and the Democrats, ask yourself is Jamal Bowman is Alexandria Osasio Cortez is Marjorie Taylor Green the best people to represent us. Yeah. Is Matt Gets, Lauren Baupert, are they the best to represent us? Mean, let's let's go even higher, right? Like, because we're going way down into this hole. Let's talk about Joe Biden, and let's talk about Donald Trump. Is that the best that we have? Yeah. As Americans? The answer is no. Two eighty year old men. Right. Here's the thing. Like, this is Anybody listening, you want to take me up on this offer? I'll do it. I promise you, and did you watch the Republican debate last week? I did. Complete shit show. Absolutely shit show. But but this is what? No substance. Yeah. All talking points. Everybody's trying to talk over somebody else. Trying to tear each other down. I promise you. I guarantee you. Listen. I would not intellectually be as smart as Vivik Ramoswamy. Okay? Got smart. Are given that? I promise you I would do a better job running this country of any one of them on that stage. Any one of them that I guarantee you that. Because you know why? Because I'm a normal American citizen who suffered like the rest of us who understands the struggles that we that we have. Right? Who understands that there are multiple levels of of lower socioeconomics. Right? Everything that these individuals do is scripted. I've seen it with my own eyes when I was on the presidential detail and when I was on the campaign with all of those knuckleheads. There is not a sentence spoken that is not scripted that is not well rehearsed. There's not a site that they visit that is not intended to tug at the heartstrings at someone. It's meant to All the optics. It's all optics, and it it's It's scripted. It's theater. It is. And At the highest level. You tell me how that Does any good for us as Americans? You're not ever seeing the real person. Any conversation they're having during that brief time in a campaign trail. If it's not a sound bite, it's not it's it's it's not happening and it's not genuine. Well, it's But even I mean, if you look at even here in the in the state of Texas, you know, we've we've had a lot to do with Texas legislation in regards to school security. I spoke to a representative. Wait. Wait. Let's clarify that. You have spoken. You have helped write legislation provided guidance. That then ultimately got cut and cut and cut and cut and then we ended up with something totally different With no teeth than what you actually helped. Politically motivated, a hundred percent, or driven. And you saw it firsthand Yeah. Over and over again. But these individuals, I don't care at what level it is. I'll tell you this. If you want to see a better representation of what politics looks like, for America, go to the local levels. There that's a better representation of what politics looks like of of representing those constituents who reside within your region or area that you represent at the at the federal level, even at the state level, these individuals just get a sound bite. They get enough to be able to have a thirty to forty five second conversation with you that they could persuade you that you know what the hell you're talking about. But when you start getting deeper into some of the bigger problems and issues, they can't hang. They can't have those conversations. That's why they won't sit down with individuals and experts to dig deeper because they're afraid that they're gonna look like complete morons. Right? Well, and I think that's why whenever whenever shit hits the van in schools, They wanna bring you in to talk to you, but then they also are afraid of what you would do if you were elected. Right? Because you would you would you don't have an off switch, right? You're gonna say say it like it is no matter what it is. But but shouldn't we be that way when it comes to the life safety of the future of America, our kids Absolutely. Into the people who are educating them? Shouldn't it be that way? It should. Should there ever be an off switch when we talk about preserving life? Not one bit. Right? You know? And and if you think about whenever the legislation happened after Santa Fe in Texas, if they would have left your legislation that you helped write alone, how different school safety would be today? Well, they wouldn't have had to create a position at TEA. They wouldn't have been doing the things that they're they're they're attempting to do now. And I give them some credit for moving forward. Some I don't give them any. Fifty million dollars in shields. No reporting systems, filling out your own forms, audit your self. I don't give them any credit. There's no credit. You like how these these regional math looks awfully familiar to the one that I pushed out to the governor's off hundred per year ago. Yeah. Looks pretty familiar, right? Yeah. It looks like a lot of the moves that are in there. But but why did it take so long? If they were truly serious, And, you know, we've we've had a lot of people here in the studio, parents who have victims. Right? And they told us about the governor and the things that they said and called and how it was supposed to be available and now the phone doesn't even work. The phone number they gave them.