Back to episode — Episode 2608 CWSA 09/25/24
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← Previous segment →tting close to it. And you have to say that energy is your economy. Everything else has to happen too but energy equals economy. Wall equals immigration. Energy is economy. Energy if you have enough you have a chance of paying down your national debt. Trump says that directly. He says we have trillions of dollars in the ground you know enough to pay off the national debt. Now you don't pay off the debt because the government doesn't own the oil but economic activity can boost your GDP and it can get you to the point where the government has enough income to pay the debt.
Now I do not believe that Trump will succeed in most of his plans about lowering taxes because it would have too much impact on the deficit. I do think I love his idea of having an ambassador to bring back manufacturing to the United States. Now that's not unlike what Biden was trying to do. Biden has had success in repatriating manufacturing. We could do a lot more so I'm not going to give Biden's administration a hard time on that. I think they were directionally right. I think that Trump might go harder and he said he'd get an ambassador. If you get the right person it makes a big difference. And secondly he wanted to have it sounded like maybe some lower taxes for manufacturing that would come back to the US because we would have to deal with the fact that our labor is more expensive. So maybe he can cut regulations which would lower prices if you do it right. Maybe he can lower the cost of energy which would make it cheaper to manufacture here. Maybe the fact that moving things internationally is getting harder because of the Houthis and everything else that if you get rid of the transportation costs the costs come down again. You make a lot of jobs with all this stuff.
So he's talking about lower corporate taxes for I think specifically for people who bring manufacturing back. Now what does Trump understand that I always say Democrats never get right? Human motivation. I would say Republicans consistently get right the human motivation part. Maybe not every time but far more consistently. So if you say everybody come back and manufacture in the US they say why? And Trump says how about I lower your taxes and make energy less expensive and give you some government land to build your factory and I'll get rid of some regulations. Then suddenly you go oh those are good incentives. I actually would look into that pretty seriously. So yes I think Trump maybe won't get all of his tax reductions that he wants but man what a crowd pleaser the no tax on tips is and what a crowd pleaser no tax on overtime is. I like both of those things because if you've got somebody who's so valuable that their company wants them to work twice as much I think that deserves a reward more than just overtime. You know if we could get our top I don't know 10% of employees and entrepreneurs to do even more that's going to be better than making the other 99% a little bit better. If you can make the real go-getters really go get a little more that's way bigger lever than helping everybody to be 5% better. In the long run everybody gets more that way.
All right also Sam Altman said that we might get AI super intelligent in a few thousand days and that it could lead to massive prosperity. Now massive disruption but I don't disagree with massive prosperity. Do you know what you would need to pay off the national debt? You would need massive prosperity which would require massive energy for the AI. So Trump is the one I would trust to give us massive energy. The other thing you'd have to do is find out how to cut expenses in the government. There's only one candidate who's offering a reasonable plan to do that. It's called Trump and Elon Musk as the person to help redesign government to make it cheaper. That's a real plan right? If you gave me almost any other name and said oh this other person will help reinvent government and make it cheaper do you know what I would have said about that? And no they won't. Maybe at the margins but you know nothing we'll look back at in 20 years and be impressed by it. But you tell me that Elon Musk has volunteered and he's enthusiastic about reinventing the government to lower expenses without losing function and I say okay it's go time. That's go time. Because I can't think of any harder, worse, less thankful job than that. And when you have your most capable entrepreneur, richest man in the world who just stood up and said basically he's going to risk his life to get it done because that's the only way he plays. The only way he plays is for keeps. You need that.
So let me put it all together. Economy is energy. Energy is Trump. If you tell me that Harris is the energy person well you're not paying attention. No energy is Trump. Energy is economy. Energy is the AI. AI is the productivity. And the only other thing you got to get right is cutting the government expenses and there's only one person with a real plan to do that and it's Trump. It's not close people. So what happens when you have one who is just obviously the right one on all the big stuff and one who's obviously wrong? Well you get 400 economists who back Harris. What do you know about economists? Let's see they went to a good school. What do you know about people who went to college? They've been brainwashed. Yeah so unfortunately you know I was joking that no economist had backed Harris on her price caps and maybe that's still true but she still somehow got 400 in the bag economists to ignore their entire professional fiduciary responsibility to back her because she's a Democrat too. So that happened. Yeah it's funny if you were a casual viewer of news and you saw that 400 economists backed Harris you would think that was real wouldn't you? Well here's what I think now that we know we have corruption in let's see the Department of Justice, the Democrats, the media, the Secret Service, the FBI, the CIA, every one of our regulatory bodies. Well I think you see where I'm going with this.
Anyway according to The Hill there are 22 states, the Democrat states of course, that want to employ a million people in climate apprenticeships by 2035. Is that because these Democrats have realized that we need to train the young people in the vital sciences that are important to the future of the world? No this is a brainwashing operation. If you can get a million young people to believe in climate change and it's the most important thing you've created a million brainwashed Democrat voters who will try to convince other people that dumb old Trump is going to destroy the world unless lots of Democrat vendors get money for things that won't work out. So that looks corrupt to me. Just an assumption. I don't have proof but it looks like it's just a brainwashing operation.
I saw that Asian Americans are very strongly in favor of Harris now. You might say to yourself wait a minute are Asian Americans the one who couldn't get into college because of Democrat policies about DEI? Yes. Wait a minute are Asian Americans still hired in corporations as much as they used to or is DEI working against them? Well I don't know actually. I don't know about corporations. I don't know if you're Asian American if is that a plus or a minus for getting a corporate job? Does it count? Does that count as diversity if you're Asian American? I feel like as soon as you're successful you get removed from the list of whether it counts and Asian Americans are super successful in the United States. So here's what I think. I think that the reason Asian Americans for Harris has to do with the fact that they're a highly educated part of the public. And I'm going to throw out a stereotype and you're allowed to criticize me but just remember no stereotype applies to all people in any group. Can we agree there's no stereotype that applies to all the people in the group? Yet there are some things that are true right? White people like to eat cheese. It's just true. We like cheese. It's not good or bad we just like cheese.
I would say that part of what makes Asian Americans so successful is not only that they have higher education levels but that they're also better at staying out of trouble. Just staying out of trouble. And the trouble in one sense is legal trouble and Asian Americans do a great job of staying out of jail but they also stay out of I think fights that aren't going to benefit them. L
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ike there's just more. So here's my stereotype and again it doesn't apply to all the people in the stereotype but Asian Americans just seem to run their lives smartly. Can we all accept that? If you show me just randomly, just throw a dart, well not a dart you don't want to hurt anybody but just randomly pick an Asian American you know and say all right what's your plan for success and what are yo…
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