e is additive as hell. Even when he doesn't get his way, he always extends the argument. He makes you think about it a little bit more clearly. He always adds some context. And he seems to be always on the side of the public. Seems like it. I mean, I can't read his mind. Maybe everybody has his secret evil thoughts or something, but it doesn't look like it. It looks like he's literally just on our side.

Now, would this work? Well, he'll never get Congress to act on it because we don't have a Congress that can do smart hard things. They can do smart things sometimes. They could do hard things other times, but they can't seem to put the two of them together that they need to do something that's smart but also hard. You know, otherwise if they could do that, the budget would already be balanced. But it's by design, they're unable to do that because they will lose their jobs. As soon as somebody said, "Well, let's do something good for the public. You know, we hate it, but we're going to have to cut these prices or cut these expenses." They'd get fired. They wouldn't get reelected. So we have a system that by its design can't solve problems that are both smart and hard. That's why you need a billionaire occasionally because they can do that. What can Elon Musk do that the government can't do? He can solve a problem that's smart and hard and we're watching him do it every day.

Anyway, here's what I love about the way Rand Paul presented this. Instead of saying cut 6%, which sometimes could sound like a lot, depending on the domain, 6% would be a lot. If you lost 6% in the stock market, it'd feel like a lot. If you had to pay 6% interest rate on a mortgage, it would feel like a lot. But what if it's six cents? Six cents. Remember, I always tell you that if somebody tells you the dollar amount without the percentage or the percentage without the dollar amount, it's always propaganda. It's at least persuasion. So because I like Rand Paul, I'm not going to call this propaganda. I'll call it persuasion. It's kind of clever to call it six cents. Doesn't that sound like less? 6% feels like it reminds you of other 6% things that would be too expensive. But if somebody said here you can buy this item, whatever it is, it wouldn't matter if it's a piece of candy or an automobile. If they said it's 6 cents, you would say, "Oh, you mean like nothing? You mean like it's basically zero?" So it's a very clever way to put it. I don't think you'll get support in Congress.

All right. Did I tell you that today's news is all fun? Okay. If you haven't seen Pam Bondi testifying before Congress, I guess yesterday, and responding to Adam Schiff and then to Richard Blumenthal, do yourself a treat. Now, I don't know that this is true. I'm going to add a little speculation here, but I think it's true. It looks to me like the top administration people have decided that if they have to testify in front of pencil neck Adam Schiff that they're not going to take any of it seriously and they're going to spend the entire time that Schiff has insulting him personally and never stopping, never answering the question, just insulting him personally while it's on CNN and MSNBC until he runs out of time and Pam Bondi did that to both Adam Schiff and then a little bit less but also s