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What a wonderful day. Yeah. First off, what do you expect to happen on healthcare? Yeah, look, this is a huge problem. Obviously, you know, the Affordable Care Act was passed 15 years ago on a lie.
The founder of it, the guy who is the architect, this Jonathan Gruber, famously said, you know, if it weren't for the stupidity of the American people and the lack of transparency, we never could have gotten this through. The CBO wouldn't have scored it in a way that would have been beneficial, and we couldn't have gotten the votes.
So guess what we have? We have a disaster created by the Democrats, and we continue to subsidize the failure of Obamacare. And that's what worries me as we go into. We have about 30 days, about 29 days left until this continuing resolution comes up. And I'm guaranteeing you that the Democrats are going to use this issue again to justify shutting down the government, using it as a hostage situation to make us give more money to insurance companies to continue to make the Affordable Care Act even more expensive for the small businesses that are the ones that are suffering the most from it.
And I can tell you this from personal experience, our family business has only Paid even more, and it really threatens even the stability of all of us. If we continue to subsidize insurance companies and the middlemen, we're going to continue to have a very unsuccessful insurance program without health care, and that the relationship between patients and doctors, which has been eviscerated pretty much by Obamacare, is going to continue to get worse.
So, I know it's hard for people to vote against these subsidies, but it's the only way we're going to put sanity into the system. We have got to stop the insanity which is hurting our small businesses. It's counterintuitive to many, and we feel like we need to placate the Democrats, but it only makes it worse.
So, right now, the House this week, I guess next week, will bring a vote on a three-year clean extension? Is that going to get Republican support?
Well, the clean extension that we're looking at, I think you're referring to, is part of what was a resolution that was signed by the Democrats on the floor, and some of the Republicans got it out there. I can't vote for a clean reauthorization if it's part of a continuing resolution. I've got to see some reforms. We have to have some kind of fraud, abuse, and waste in there, some age limitations. I mean, right now, people are making $700,000 a year are getting Obamacare subsidies.
You know, this was intended to be a program for everyone. And what we're dealing with, Brian, what people need to know is only about 7 million people in the entire nation are benefiting from these subsidies. And most of that is the insurance companies taking most of the benefit, and the costs aren't going to go down. The rest of the country has to pay even more.
So the Democrats want to protect their $7 million because they don't have any other issue. They want to just talk about health care. But the real problem is the rest of the country is going to pay for this. And that's the rest of our constituents, and it's particularly acute in places like mine in upstate New York, where 95% of the people every day go to a small business to work. And those are the people that are paying the highest costs in a state like New York that does not offer association health plans, health savings accounts, and things where people have a choice in being able to buy affordable care.
And you have huge deductibles, they say, on average, $6,000.
So I don't know. Yeah, good to have catastrophic. But I saw Josh Gottheimer as well as Brian Fitzpatrick said, what about a one-year extension that would allow us to negotiate the next year and try to figure it out? That seems to be the most practical. Have you seen that?
Why can't we do a one-year extension with reforms in it? Why can't we put in an income cap? Make sure that we have we retain choice, make sure that some of the things that aren't being done are done even in a one-year extension, then we can finally get to the problem, which is a huge problem, of trying to fix this disaster that was started 15 years ago. I mean, we've destroyed the health care system. I don't think you can talk to a credible doctor that thinks that this is a good thing, especially small practitioners who've been forced out of business, forced into being hospitalists.
They can't even operate independent practices where the insurance companies and the middlemen are all in this. You don't see this in veterinary practices because they don't have mandatory insurance. They don't have the government in the middle of it. They can actually have direct patient care when they deal with their animals that people are having issues with.
So, I mean, I hate to use that as an example, but I deal with the veterinarians all the time, and they go, we don't have that problem. It's a lot cheaper to get an MRI if you're a dog than if you're a human being. All right, so let's talk about what happened yesterday. The mayor of New York City takes over. Zohra Mamdani swore in on a Quran.
Interesting choice. No Bible around. But he did talk about being a proud democratic socialist. And it not being radical. Listen to what happened when Bernie Sanders, who is his mentor.
Was talking and how he gets interrupted. Cut 24. Lastly. And maybe most importantly, Demanding that the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. They were chanting Tax the Rich.
Maybe we should tell everybody in New York State. Uh the top 1.9 percent pay 50 percent of the state income tax, top 25 percent pay 90 percent. Of the state income tax, people below the fifty percent, point two percent.
So, what are they even talking about? Tax the rich. Why would that even be something that came out of an educated person's mouth?
Well, gee, Brian, I thought that they were saying go bills. Isn't that what Kathy Hochl said when they were screaming tax the rich west? Absolutely. Yeah, insane. I mean, this is like this is just part of the Democrat false talking points.
You know, I look at this thing, and I lived in a communist country. I lived in the former Yugoslavia. It was a little bit of communist light. I know what the outcomes are. I know what it looks like.
We've seen this. It's so dangerous that history is repeating itself. And these young people, here we are again, fighting back communism. And yet, everything Mandami sounded like, he sounded like a combination of Stalin, Mao. Mussolini, and now all these things he's talking about, condemning the individual, talking about the collective.
I mean, these are the kind of stuff that you would have had a McCarthyism investigation on. This is the exact opposite of everything our Constitution stands for, everything he's doing, reversing the executive orders. When you look at our U.S. Constitution, the founding principles are freedom, individual rights. And the concept that's mentioned the most, not directly but indirectly in terms of preserving this right, is the right of individuals to own private property.
He's trying to reverse that in New York City. You know, once the bastion of capitalism and prosperity, he's turning this into this. It's going to be a communist collective hellscape if he's able to do a lot of the things he wants to do. And what worries me is a lot of this is going to come under the state law, but his election emboldens these so-called Democrat Socialists of America. I think they're communists, anarchists, they're everything in one.
It will embolden them, and there's many of them in the state legislature, and we have a weak, feckless governor that is not going to stand up to them. This is the defining moment for New York. If we don't change New York City and New York State, New York State is going to collapse Upon its own weight with what we're doing. I mean, we are chasing the wealth of these communities. And I'm talking relative wealth, Brian.
It could be somebody that has $20,000 or $5,000 in their bank account to people who have millions. The wealth is being just diverted and taken and given to the state. And it's just going to be this communist, authoritarian, anti-Semitic. You saw all the things he was doing yesterday. We're going to be living in subsidized, or we're living in housing that's owned by the government.
They're asking people to turn this over. This is going to be, if he's able to accomplish what he's trying to do, it's very dangerous. And they say he's charismatic. I find him to be a big fraudulent charlatan. I mean, AAOC, she's charming.
She doesn't do a darn thing for her district. I mean, what is wrong with the American people? How do we, we as Republicans have to realize this is the Democratic Party. This is who they are. When you go to the ballot and vote next year for governor or assembly or senate or congressional races.
You are voting for communism, the destruction of our state. And I think the Republicans have to get very bold right now and get out there and say, This is not, this is an either-or. You either, you know, leave the state or you have them take everything you and your family have earned, whether it's a small amount of money or a small piece of property or whatever it is. They are coming for it and they're going to take it. This is Ainslie Earhart.
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They will shape our future. And if for too long these communities have existed as distinct from one another. We will draw this city closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. If our Campaign demonstrated that the people of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it.
Unbelievable. I mean, collectivism, you had the fragility of the frigidity. fragility of rugged individualism that we that used to be a source of pride. It is a source of bread, and how is collectivism warm? I can tell you about the misery index from collectivism.
I can tell you about going into grocery stores in communist Yugoslavia back in the 80s when you could in the 80s, you know, when we were in the United States, was beginning to thrive, and going in and being able to, there's one tube of mustard on the shelf. You have to wait in line to get bread. I mean, this is what the Soviet Union was. This is what happens in Cuba. This is when you have these authoritarian communist regimes.
I hope we can stop this. I got to tell you, Brian, I'm a member of the intelligence committee. One of the most interesting things I've done all last year was I was an observer to the Honduran election down in Honduras on the weekend after Thanksgiving, their national election, and watching a third world country do a better job of verifying voters than we actually do. And there were three candidates, the communist regime in power, plus two other candidates. The guy, Asfura, who President Trump endorsed, won that election.
These people do not want communism. They see Nicaragua and Cuba and Venezuela nearby. They want what we have. And that's why people come to this country. They're not coming to this country to get what Zoran Mandami is selling.
Yeah, and the anti-Semitism taken off the website. They said, oh, we're just archiving it. Yeah, you know, it's really dangerous. I mean, Israel's fighting the war for Western civilization, and they're an important democratic ally where everyone in Israel has rights, regardless of your party, regardless of your ethnicity, regardless of your religion. The only country, by the way, in the Middle East where that is happening.
It's unbelievable. And the thing is, I don't think there's anything stopping it. Do you think Bruce Blakeman's got a shot against Governor Hokul? I do. I think Bruce seems to be the person, he seems to be, I don't know him well.
He's focused on the issues. He's not focused on attacking Kathy Hochul personally. I heard him in an interview a couple days ago saying that. He's focused on saying to the American people, do you want to vote? And I think he should run on this, a couple things.
He should run on, is this what you want? This is where the Democrats are. Is this what you want for your families? Do you want anarchy, lack of enforcement of law? The rule of law is critical to individual rights and the things that we stand for in our Constitution.
Is this, I think he has a chance. Run on that. And I'll tell you what I'm running on, Brian. I'm going to start giving out flashlights around the state and saying, make sure we keep the lights on. Vote for Claudia Tenney and Bruce Blakeman or whoever.
They're going to shut our. I mean, we are having huge weather events up in upstate New York right now, multiple feet of snow, difficulty getting around. You're not going to be driving electronic vehicles. We also do not have, we do not have the infrastructure to support that. And the Democrats.
Are shutting the lights out. They're shutting our freedom out. They're shutting our individualism out. They're creating anarchy and lack of rule of law and crime on our streets. That's the choice.
It should be a very binary choice. And if Bruce Lakeman can get around the state and get the money to get that message to enough people and we get Republicans motivated to get out and vote, and moderates and like-minded Democrats, I think he has a shot. I think for the first time we may actually get a chance to win a statewide election, which we haven't seen one since Governor George Pataki won. And do you think Mike Law is considering getting back in? Will he?
I don't think so. I think we need Mike Lawler to run in that seat. I think he's a strong candidate, and I think he's going to do that. I mean, I've heard possibly I think if he were going to do that, he would do that now. I think he really is a great advocate for his district, and I think that President Trump needs him there.
Obviously, we need to keep the House, and Mike Seed is critical in New York, and I think that's going to be he's going to be an important part of the team.
