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Good evening and welcome to another edition of What's Right, What's Left on this eighth day of August 2024. And he's more than just a pretty face with a pompadour. He is our producer Maximus style. I am? You don't even know what a pompadour is, did you? Hey, what do you think I ask when I get my hair cut every time?
Twice a year. Well, you know, I used to have a pompadour, but then again I used to have hair. Well, I've still got some, you know, right?
Actually, you don't see any skin there. And you've heard the cackle all her own. Lisa Hickman. Good evening everyone. Tonight we have in here the very well-known pastor and longtime friend Richard Lewis. Welcome, everyone.
Glad to be here. And then he's the Missouri legend. Boy, he's out there. I think it was Jesse James who was from Missouri, wasn't he? I mean, Jesse James in one of our big caves not too far from where I live.
Yeah. And there he was, former cave-dweller. Pastor Joe Larson.
Oh, boy. Anyway, whatever I am, that God-sharing, Bible-believing, you know, patriot, I'm here ready to go to work, boss. Let's get it done. Do you remember the title of the message? Better Understanding of Why We Do What We Do. Alrighty, so we ended up, we're talking about things that we get questions on all the time.
Right. Well, of course you covered baptism. And tonight we're going to take a look at the Lord's Supper, Communion. And so we start over in 1 Corinthians chapter 11. Joe, would you read verses 1 through 28? And Richard, would you read 29 through 32?
Sure. Now, in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you. No, you wanted to start here at verse 23, Joe.
Oh, I'm sorry, 23, I thought you, okay, never mind. Sometimes. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And when he'd given thanks, he'd break it, and said, Take eat, for this is my body which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, and when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood, this do ye as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
Okay, go ahead, Richard, pick it up in 28 and read it through 32. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Okay, we go back to verse 24. And when he had given thanks, he breaketh to take and eat.
This is my body. So here now, verse 23, For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, he took bread. So what did he take? He took bread, right?
What did he break? He broke bread right now. So he was speaking symbolically. He wasn't, when it came to referring to this as his body, you could look and see that he wasn't handing out fingers or toes, he was handing out bread, but he was speaking symbolically.
So the question is, was the symbolism, was it any less significant here in the fact that he was speaking symbolically? Not at all, because Scripture is referred to as the bread of life. Bread was the main staple of life for mankind, and Christ is the staple of life spiritually and spiritually for all of us.
So it's a very good example. Okay, now there are those that teach that when he partook of the bread and he broke the bread and he ate the bread, that that bread actually became his flesh. Why would we know that that would absolutely not be the case? Because he tells you life is in the blood and we are never to eat or eat or drink blood in the Old Testament. Well, he condemns cannibalism, he condemns eating the flesh. Would God ever go against his own laws?
Never. No, but he did make the children of Israel eat their own as a punishment because it was so horrific because of their disobedience and unbelief. Well, he reduced them to cannibalism, you're absolutely right in fact. But it was a severe punishment. In fact, and what was the punishment for? The punishment was for the same thing that America is so guilty of. America's national sin is what? Killing of his children. So you'll find that in Leviticus 26 verse 29 where he condemns, he gives them cannibalism before they have to end up eating their own children that they kill. They're wicked people, okay?
But are they any less wicked than what we have today? Let me ask you this. Would Kamala Harris kill as many babies as she could kill if she had the chance? You know she would.
Well, they would never do it with their own hand, but do they... Well, wait a minute. What if she could do it? What if she could take up little babies and just choke them and twist her heads off with her own hands? Would she do that? I think she would. She's an extremely wicked, she is extremely pro-death, pro-abortion.
What about this guy that she has who is supposed to be her vice president, vice presidential candidate, Demi Walsh, Timothy Walsh? This guy here, you know, he... Tampons, Tim, you mean? Well, yeah, you know, I mean, that's woke, putting tampons in boys' bathroom. Don't make a lot of sense. Does confuse the kids a little bit, you know, but... Yeah, it does cause trouble with the children.
Okay. Can you imagine, like, when I... I hate to say this, but I know when I was a kid, if I was, you know, a third or fourth or third grader and they had one of those machines, there's no telling what we would be doing with those things. I mean, in the men's, you know, if you can imagine a bunch of boys, it would be... Let's don't even go there, those of us that have... I could just picture them, you know, I could just picture them sticking them up their nose and pretending like they're walruses, you know? Something, yeah.
Yeah, something like this or, you know, I mean, you know, yeah, I could just picture that, but here... But I'm talking about this guy, this Wallace, this guy, well, you know, we'll talk about him later, but I think he would literally kill as many babies as possible. He's the one that wanted to, once he survived abortion, he demanded they be put on a shelf and let die. He's wicked, very wicked.
I think they're wicked. Have you ever noticed that the people that are the biggest promoters are the ones that always want other people to do their dirty work for them? I think people like that are inside, I think they're horrible cowards. Yeah, yeah, well, let's come back to this guy... ...when they get other people to do their evil deeds.
Let's come back to this guy, Joe, because what you just said there about him being a coward, there's a whole lot of evidence of that. But anyhow, verse 25, after the same manner also, he took the cup, and when he had supped, he said, this cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do you as often as you drink in remembrance of me.
Okay, so here, what is he saying? So then how often do we take the Lord's table? As often as ye see fit. Right, and we do it in remembrance of what? What are we to remember? Christ and his sacrifice, his broken body on the cross, his shed blood that he shed for us for the remission of sin.
Okay, very good. For as often as ye do eat this bread and drink the cup ye do show the Lord's death till he comes. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. Okay, so, who is worthy to take the Lord's table? Who is worthy to do that? Surely none of us are, but if we go to the Lord before we take of the Lord's Supper and we ask him to forgive us of our sins, we are then cleansed by the very blood that we are going to be representing. We're made worthy through the substitutionary death of Christ on the cross, therefore we receive God's glory. We don't have any glory, but we receive God's glory, okay?
Go ahead, Richard. Yeah, just to back up a little bit, the bread and the fruit of the vine, it's interesting that in the Scriptures, both of those are without leaven. That's unleavened bread.
Absolutely. And you notice when it refers to the grape juice, it's always referred to as the fruit of the vine. It's never referred to in the Bible as wine. Because wine could be alcoholic or non-alcoholic in the Bible, but the Lord's Supper is never referred to as wine.
It's always the fruit of the vine. And that's to make it very clear that it had no leaven in it. And the way you prove that is looking at Exodus 13, and it shows clearly that the Passover feast, you couldn't have any leaven in your whole house during the Passover feast. So it absolutely had to be, when Jesus instituted it in Matthew 26, that it had to be unleavened bread and absolutely pure grape juice, fruit of the vine. Okay, so now, when Jesus, at the wedding that his mother hosted, they ran out of wine, and Jesus gave them new wine, okay? So new wine is wine that is not fermented.
Right. Okay, and so what he did is he gave them wine, the fruit juice, and they said, you've saved the best for last, okay? And so here you go. So he says, Now for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till you come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
Now, so we are, by God's grace, because of Christ's substitutionary death, we are worthy. What about Bill Gates? Is Bill Gates, he's got billions, is he worthy to take the Lord's table? No, this Lord's table is for true believers only.
It's not something that should be opened up to the public or anybody that might drift into your assembly. It's for the true believers. So how do we know now, every now and then you'll hear somebody who was supposedly, that guy was in top notch, he was in really good shape, and he just dropped dead. Why is it if he had taken the Lord's table? We have examples in the scripture where certain kings tried to hold, the office of a priest had tried to give the sacrifice in the temple, and bad things happened to them.
Their hands were withered up and so here now, every now and then you see someone or you hear someone who seemed like they were just a picture of health and all of a sudden they just drop dead. Do you think if the news media knew that this person had taken the Lord's table unworthily, do you think they'd even announce it? They wouldn't even come near it. It never occurred to them to look or ask.
I don't think they'd ever researched that far. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the cup, for if he eateth and drinketh unworthily, he eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. Okay, now that's a strong term, damnation. What's the difference between damnation and condemnation? Condemnation means you've been condemned. Damnation means sentence has passed, okay? And so now you have, he says, for this cause many are weak and many are sickly among you and many sleep, which means they're dead. So when I give the Lord's table, I always make it very clear that the most important thing here is you have no one confess sin.
You have no one confess sin. Some people seem to take the notion that this is not in effect today. God's Word is as in effect today as it's ever been, is it not?
Absolutely. This is a command. This is a function of the Church. That's one of the functions of the Church. That's when Jesus instituted it. It made it very clear and we see them doing it here in Corinthians, also in Acts 20.
Breaking of bread, it's referred to in Acts 20. For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged, but when we are judged, we are chastened to the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world. So we're not, we're chastened with the Lord but we're not condemned with the world because we're in the world but we're not of the world anymore. We're separatists. We're supposed to be anyway if we're Christian. Now separatists are not supremacists.
The media, the collective media always tries to make it appear that the separatists and supremacists are one and the same when we're not. No, not even close. And so, anyhow, let's find, let's go over now, Joe, I wonder if anybody, maybe Lisa, did you learn anything there?
Yes. Boy, it's about time. I wish more people would come to our Bible class too. All right, very good. Now, let's find out about church attendance. Is church attendance, is that required or is that just a suggestion or is it a command?
That's required. Let's turn to Hebrews 10, verse 25. Okay, Hebrews 10, verse 25, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much more as you see the day approaching.
Now, this is not a suggestion to forsake the assembling of ourselves together. If you do that, it's a blatant neglect of God's command. Now, if you're going to show disrespect for God's commands, there will be consequences, folks, there always are. A lot of people don't understand that. They don't think that, it seems like they don't think that God's watching them. They can't see God, he can't see them, right? Exactly. Now, there are times, there are times when missing church is excusable, right? If you're sick and you got to COVID, you don't want to come to church, do you? No. You don't want to share with that, okay?
Give the gift that keeps on giving. Or, if you've come up like, oh, by the way, I wanted to tell the folks there, I got a lot of calls in that people thinking that I was in the hospital. No, let me just explain that, okay? I re-injured an old injury in my knee, and that's what happened. I re-injured, and boy, I did it big time too.
So that's why I wasn't here on the radio. I said you were under the weather, that didn't sound like being in the hospital to me. Well, a lot of people got the idea that I was in the hospital. And so, anyhow, so here now, if you're sick or you're lame, okay?
What about if you have to take care of somebody else that is sick? Then that's, you know, that would be inexcusable. What about, there's a fellow that I know that has missed three times in church. Apparently he's been playing golf. Is that excusable, playing golf? No. No. Now there's some other people I know that have missed church, and they justify it because they went fishing, and they say Jesus and Peter went fishing, right? Not on the Lord's Day. No, they didn't do that on the Lord's Day.
No. Okay, now- Things like we have out where I live, everybody is in the community, most of the adult men that are fit are on the Volunteer Fire Department. And, or, you know, assisting the Sheriff's Department, emergency medics, things happen, emergencies happen, they happen on Sunday like they do any day of the week, and those people always are available to help people in need. That is a good excuse for missing church. Yep, okay.
But going to a sporting event or a concert or even a picnic's not right? Nope, nope, won't cut it. Okay, very good. I think we're going to take a break right here, and we'll be back right after this. I'm a tribute to the IRS, and for his disobedience they planned his fiery death. And now all is fair in love and war, Christian blood has been shed before, and though these tents of flesh may fail, the gates of hell shall never prevail, because he gave his life for me. I shall not fear adversity, and we shall all meet at heaven's door, because all is fair in love, in love and war. 5.45 p.m. on a North Dakota road, February 83, that's when the war began, two federal marshals died for the sake of tyranny, they both would underestimate the courage of one man, who only shot in self-defense to save his promised land, because all is fair in love and war, Christian blood has been shed before, and though these tents of flesh may fail, the gates of hell shall never prevail, because he gave his life for me. I shall not fear adversity, and we shall all meet at heaven's door, because all is fair in love, in love and war.
6. When all was said and done, and the verdicts handed down, someone had to take the fall, and it was Gordon's son, who was wounded in the fray. Please won't you pray for your recall, who now must waste his life away, inside some stinkin' jail.
Please pray the Lord might set him free, through faith we shall prevail. They say all is fair in love and war, Christian blood has been shed before, and though these tents of flesh may fail, the gates of hell shall never prevail, because he gave his life for me. I shall not fear adversity, and we shall all meet at heaven's door, because all is fair in love, in love and war, in love and war. All right, all is fair in love and war, and you know what, we have three prayer requests, and what we're going to do, my brother just had a very serious back surgery hours ago, brother Dave, and he runs a missionary in Mexico for an orphanage, and then Wendy Wilson called me earlier, and Debbie, that Hurricane Debbie was after her down there, and she was huckled down and praying, asking me to pray that the trees didn't fall in her house. She was very worried. Mike Brodwick, a fellow who called, he's in the hospital today with heart failure.
So, I'm going to go with my brother. Joe, would you pray for Wendy Wilson's protection, as she's asked, and then Richard, would you pray for Mike Brodwick, who's got heart failure, he's in the hospital with heart failure. So, let's pray. Heavenly Father, and folks out there listening all over the country, boy, we know what it was like, too, because I tell you, those tornadoes came through out there, and my wife said to me, I told her, I says, you know, maybe we'd better head down, and she says, oh, I'll listen. She said, I can hear a train coming, and I said, honey, I said, that's really not a train, it's a tornado, get out of, get down, and it was, and the boys came out and watched trees just flying by, by God's grace, and I thanked the good Lord. It didn't touch my house, but it came so close, so close to the house, and I praised the good Lord. Mine, too. I know yours, too. And so, anyhow, it was something, so praise the good Lord for, thank you, Lord, that we didn't get taken away.
Yes. I would say, folks out there, I'm going to pray for my brother, and remember, there's power in prayer, power in prayer. All of you folks out there listening, if you don't need prayer right now, you will need it soon, and that's guaranteed, we all need prayer. Those that show mercy will receive mercy, so pray along with us tonight, all of us, if you would.
So let's lift up, my brother, Heavenly Father, Lord God, David spent his whole, so much of his life out there with the children, taking in innocent children out there that have been abandoned out there by people, mothers who just couldn't take care of them, just dumped the children, and they've taken them in, given them a good education, taken care of them, and Lord God, it's been harder and harder because now they have to deal with drug cartels who, they have to watch the young boys, they want to recruit them for gangs, and the young girls for prostitutes, and so Lord, again, I just want to ask that you would touch my brother as he received that, take away the pain, give him a clear mind, Lord, a clear mind, a pain-free body, and Lord, heal him, bless him in every area, and then put him back to work, because we know there's a lot to do, Lord, yet. This we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
Go ahead, Joe. Oh, dear Heavenly Father, you know our sister, Wendy, and you know what the situation with the storm, and you know every tree that's going to fall, and every creek that's going to flood, every street that's going to flood, and we just ask you to put your loving arms around her, protect her, keep her, her home safe, and just protect, so many out there need your protection, Lord, and there are many lifting up prayers to you for protection from the storms and the tornadoes and the hurricanes and the floods, and Lord, Wendy, we especially ask for her because she's a part of this ministry, but we pray for all those who are in danger that you would watch over and protect. We ask this in Jesus' precious name. Amen.
Amen. And we pray for Mike Broadway. We just pray about this heart failure that he's having. We just pray, Lord, as he's administered and taken care of with the medical profession, that you would allow them for the care of him to be your hands and your mind to touch the doctors and the medical staff to be able to do what needs to be done to take care of him and restore him to a normal portion of health, Lord, and we just lift him up in prayer and just ask for that healing, Lord, whether it's through the doctors or a miraculous healing, that you would be able to restore him, Lord. We just thank you so very much, Lord. In Jesus Christ's name we pray. Amen.
Thank you, Richard. I wanted to say real quick to the folks out there, too, again, this has been a very tough year for us and here with these storms coming through, that sure didn't help either. It caused us more times. We still haven't had any power in the church. We wouldn't get a generator, but it's only enough just to keep the refrigerators cold and our offices have actually been shut down.
We're trying to do office work from other places if we can. So keep that in prayer that we can, and all the folks, because there's a whole lot of people out there that are without electricity out there, I mean a lot, so keep that in prayer. But it's been really a tough year for this ministry.
It has been a terribly tough year. And we were supposed to have pledge week next week, which we needed, but it looks like we're going to have to postpone it for a week, because without any power we can't even get the newsletter put together and get it out. So keep this ministry in prayer. We really could use your prayers right now. And Joe, tell them all the many different ways they can help us.
Well, they can do several things. You can go, well, other than compare, which we desperately need, you can write to us at WRWL Ministries, the address is 14781 Sperry Road, S-P-E-R-R-Y Road in Newberry, N-E-W-B-U-R-Y, Ohio, 44065, or you can go and check us out on WRWL.org. Donations could be made there with the PayPal credit card, and you can check us out. And if you have questions, you can call and leave a message at 440-338-1367. That's 440-338-1367. And I believe you can make a donation between, what, 1 and 5 p.m. East Coast time during the week. All right, and they can write, they can call between 1 and 5, between 1 and 5, Monday through Friday, and if they want to have credit cards, we can take it there between 1 and 5 now with those phone numbers.
And again, like you said, go up to WRWL.org, and it tells you all the different ways. We really appreciate it. It's been a very, very tough year. And I got to say, within the next little more than the next five weeks, we're going to have to make some real serious decision here on whether we're going to be here or not, okay? And it depends on what, it all depends on what we can raise between now and then. Like I said, it's been an extremely tough year. The price of, the amount of our donations have dropped, and we're one of many, many ministries that that's happened to big time, but the price of airtime has not gone down.
It should go down. We will be talking about some of the economic problems tonight. Well, why don't you talk about that, because did you know, first of all, a whole lot of businesses are going out of business.
They're shutting down. I mean, all across the country. But we're not hearing, because they keep telling us how great things are on NBC, the collective media. And I had to watch even PMS NBC on their money station, even those people that are, they had a guy on there today who was just lying through his teeth, and one of the other guests came in that just really fronted him off, okay? Folks, the economy stinks.
I don't care what they try to tell you. They're trying to tell us it's a lot better than people know. It's a lot worse than people know, okay? I don't know how many businesses went out because of COVID. I mean, the small businesses and the, I hear about that just in the general area where we live, that businesses just closed up, and even now, since COVID, a lot of businesses have gone out. Well, your big box stores and your big corporations work together to put mom and pop out of business.
Oh, yeah. Well, they're not doing real well either. Look at the headlines. Big Lots could potentially close 315 stores. They have 1,300 locations. That's a lot of stores they're closing, and they've also mentioned to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is a possibility of more coming, and there's a long story about it, but they're having huge troubles. CVS Pharmacy cuts outlook plans, $2 billion cost-cutting effort, and it's cut its shares of stock. It's trimming down the shoplifting, retail, crime, driving customers away from stores.
HomeGoods, a lot of the women like HomeGoods out there. Conz files for bankruptcy, closing 70 stores, 13 states, so HomeGoods is one, and then there's a furniture retailer, Conz Incorporated, filed Chapter 11. They're going out of business in dire straits. They had a lot of stores, too, didn't they have about 500 stores? Yeah.
Yeah. It's unbelievable how many all of these, but they keep telling us how great the economy is. The furniture stores all over the country, they're closing, and we've got, what is it, Andy Puzder, if I say that right. He's the former CEO of CKE Restaurants, and he's saying whether or not there's a technical recession, the American working middle class feels like it's in a recession, because they are.
He said there's all these technical definitions of a recession, but he said the middle class, and if the middle class is in recession, what about the poor? They're in depression. They're in a depression, he says, and he says this problem has been in the past three and a half years, and the problem is inflation. People have exhausted their savings account. They've ramped up their credit cards. They have very high default rates, and I went and looked. The average American carries almost $6,500 in credit card debt, and if you look at the Federal Reserve Bank, they say that there's almost $1.4 trillion in credit cards. The balance is almost 10 percent are in delinquencies.
So you look at savings accounts are zeroed out. Credit cards are maxed out. People are defaulting on car loans, credit card loans. They are no longer able to go to McDonald's.
That's now a luxury to go to a McDonald's restaurant. And I want the veterans to hear this one, if you haven't heard already. The VA is about $3 billion short in its veterans benefits, and coming up here in October, unless Congress gets this thing fixed, there's going to be people on VA disability, and all the education benefits are not going to be able to be paid. Well, how do you expect them to pay it, Joe, when they're giving all to illegal aliens?
I mean, they're giving illegal aliens much greater benefits than they are veterans. Well, they took the money for the community care where veterans, you know, very far from a VA facility could go to a local doctor. That money has been siphoned off to go to pay for health care for the illegals.
And this really is bad because Congress is getting ready to go on a break, and when they come back, they're going to have two weeks to fix this. And what we have also, the VA about four months ago put in a budget. They didn't mention they were $15 billion short for next year. Oh, all of a sudden, four months after they gave the budget to Biden, now they're saying they're $15 billion short for next year. And so we've got to come up with $3 billion for the disability benefits just for October. And now we've got another $12 billion for medical care next year on top of the $15 billion budget shortfall for disability and education benefits. So that's a whole bunch of billions of dollars that our government has somebody in the VA, and nobody got fired. All of a sudden, they can't pay.
The people sent in an incorrect budget didn't say they were in the hole. I mean, this government, the more you mess up, the more you cause trouble, the more powerful you seem to become. Nobody seems to have to pay. That's the way communism works, Joe.
That's the way communism works. They reward the guilty, those that are non-productive. The incompetent. The incompetent. They reward the incompetent. I mean, look, these are people that are running this thing that don't know what a woman is.
These are people that put Tampax in boys' bathrooms, right? These are people that want open borders, and they want to provide. In fact, not only do they want open borders, but they expect the American people to take in these illegal aliens, okay? These are people that actually want to put a tax on a tax, okay? If it moves, tax it, right? Well, that's what Harris has said to our agenda is what they are going to increase taxes on the American people.
And you know what's interesting? Right now, our Social Security benefits, she's going to tax our income. At the same time, right now, Social Security benefits have fallen short. Here's what's happened. Inflation has cut into your Social Security checks, folks.
This, Pastor Ernie, is one reason our donations are down. Over $4,000 a year for an average family because of inflation. Over $4,000 per family. Right, because the COLA benefits, the government has fudged those, and so the COLA benefits have been way less than the actual inflationary costs.
So on the average, you're right. The average Social Security retiree would have to get an additional $4,500 a year, that's about $370 a month, to compensate for what has been lost because your cost of living adjustments has not gone up like it's supposed to. And the problem is going to get worse because recipients are supposed to get, in 2025, about 2.63, which is well below. We know that inflation is, what, now well over 4, 4.5%.
That's just the increase. Again, we're going to be maybe half of what inflation is. And on top of that, if people weren't paying attention, Social Security is running out of money.
And without some reforms coming, there's going to be some big problems. We're going to have about a huge cut in the next decade. There are going to be an automatic cut that could go up to $17,000 a year for the average family, the average couple in Social Security.
That's according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. It's set up, if the government does not figure out how to fix the problem, they have an automatic cut in place to solve the problem. Now, did you notice the liberal media hasn't talked about that? It's not in the news that they've already done this. They've already figured out if, when they go out of money here in 2000, whatever it is, it's about 10 years from now, 12 years from now, they've got an automatic cut already figured in.
That's quite a way to fix the problem, isn't it? Well, what they wanted to do, they wanted to keep lowering or hiring the age for Social Security, make it higher and higher. You get around 90 years old or 100, but anyhow. You remember when it was started? I think there were like 30 people paying in for every person using it, receiving it. When they started, it was closer to 45, 50, wasn't it? I thought it was about 30 people paying in for every person receiving it.
Now it's getting closer to almost one. When it started, it was supposed to be an untouchable pension for the people paying into it. Yep.
And they've touched it for everything they can imagine. Yeah, and the Post Office too keeps raising the price of postage, raising it, and they're always in debt. But here's the real problem, Joe. See, here's the real problem.
I know this because Treasury Secretary Yellen announced that climate change, yes, climate change is the emerging and increasing threat to U.S. financial stability. Now, I can say that in one word, that is nothing but, that is BS. That's what that is. That's absolutely BS.
I'll explain it. But there is one other thing you didn't mention. You see, way back, they kept talking about there was a lockbox in Social Security. What most people do not know is Social Security is a tax. Yes, and the tax can be kept according to law. Now, this has gone to the Supreme Court twice, so I know what I'm talking about.
It's been ruled. It could stop Social Security benefits next week and keep the Social Security tax. Yes, because it is a tax, there is no lockbox, and the money collected from the Social Security, you call them payments, they're actually taxes, go directly into the general Treasury. They don't go into a special lockbox or anything else. They just go right into the general fund, and they are spent out of the general fund, where they should have been put away into a separate account. Not always did that happen. Sometimes they put the money away. Sometimes, like Vietnam War, they spent a lot here and there, and they took that money right out of the general fund and used it for government, quote, emergencies.
And the people don't realize that, but there's two Supreme Court rulings that affirm that it is a tax. Well, Joe, listen. Do you just love our government and its truthfulness and its honesty? Of course we do. Look, the government, you can't beat it. They're efficient.
You know what DEI is. I heard Kamala. Cacklin just recently, she just spoke, and she said, woke, woke, we have to stay woke, we have to stay woke, we have to stay woke. Right. She said we can be woker or you can be the woke-est, but you've got to stay woke. Right.
Okay. So DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, well, you know, it cost us. The U.S. Army spent one million dollars, one million, to recruit one kid. And the message that they have out there today, if you're a white male, you're really not welcome here in the Army. And then they don't want to know why white men aren't going to the Army, aren't military. They're not signing up. Well, they don't like white men, they don't like Christians, they don't like straight men.
And if you're not a diversity hire, you're not really welcome. And not only was it that they spent all that money for the one recruit, they spent, they had an eleven million dollar deal with this rock star, or what his name is, that WWE superstar, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. And he was paid, yeah, pretty close to eleven million dollars to bring in thousands into the military, you know. And a couple articles in TheMilitary.com say they're not even sure that, you know, deal worked at all. But it could have actually hurt, according to NewsNation, according to Military.com, this eleven million dollar deal between the Army and the Football League and Dwayne Johnson might have actually hurt the recruiting efforts.
So, you know, now you can add that to the one million that got to one kid, and now we're running twelve million for a loss. Well, you know, go back to that Timmy Walls, you know, he was one of those, Joe, you remember Richard and being in the military, bootlickers. The one thing that nobody liked was a bootlicker. Always licking the boots of the brass.
And that was just, you know, very hard to tolerate on that, and they would betray you. Now, these bootlickers were usually the biggest cowards you ever want to run into. And this is this Timothy Walls. Listen, you show me someone who is a male that is pro-abortion, I'll show you a coward. I'll show you a coward. And all my years, fifty years out there, I ran into a lot of them out there in front of those bloody abortion mills out there. The thing of it is, is when they run into a man, right now, I have no doubts in my mind that Timothy Walls, like Joe Biden, I chased Joe Biden down the hallway of the Russell Building. He was so big, you know, he wasn't, you know, he might have scared popcorn or whatever his name was, but he sure didn't impress me. This Timothy Walls, he is exactly the same kind of a person. Anyone, any male that is in favor of killing little babies is a coward, a flat-out coward. And I tell you what, he would be enough to make me move out of the state of Minnesota.
I would be so ashamed, I mean, to have him as a governor. Unbelievable. We're going to be coming up to a break here in a minute.
Yeah, right after the break, I have got two big stories on the Kamala Harris team and disinformation, hiding the truth from us, doing all kinds of bad. Yeah, but John Voight says you have to be quiet until he's finished with what he's got to say, and then he says you can go ahead. Okay, well, we'll do it his way. Yeah, there you go.
He says he's the guest, so you have to kind of give him his way, right? Oh, something like that. Anyhow, it looks like being woke is, well, being woke is going broke.
All of these big corporations that went woke went broke, and they said they're not going woke anymore, and a lot of them. There you go. So, how much time do I have before the next break?
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