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Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, this is the

Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host Paul Engel.

So many people today blindly trust government for everything from healthcare to

education however with their track record have government actors earned that

trust. Hello there everyday Americans Paul Engel here with the Constitution

Study where we read instead of the Constitution teacher I can

generate should be so glad you could join me today you know it's this

interesting thing that I've seen more even over my lifetime in this idea that

government goes from the man the the one never to be trusted to well putting

blind faith that that government will do everything right and simply because

you get a government paycheck you're pure as a wind-driven snow and and never

need to be any sort of oversight. Now one of the ways I see this you may be

surprised maybe find it interesting is that the role of government has changed you

see you ask most people today and it appears they say that well the purpose of

government is to protect the American people but you go back to the

Declaration of Independence is that why government to create it? No that's a

secure these rights governments are instituted among men the purpose of

government is to protect our rights so that we can protect ourselves and as we

become dependent on government actors for our own protect as we literally

delegate our own safety into the hands of government actors well what's the

field saying you know when when seconds matter police are minutes away that's

kind of what we end up with and the latest example is a Detroit suburb known as

West Bloomfield Township where just a few days ago there was an attack on a

synagogue. Now according to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard the armed

suspect drove into the building down the hall before he engaged in gunfire with

the synagogue security team the vehicle sent a large cloud of black smoke into

the air visible to neighbors in the area. Now the suspects in front of the vehicle

died but at the time of the reporting Mr. Bouchard could not confirm if it was

from the gunfire or the fire that actually engulfed the vehicle after the

crash. Now thankfully no children or staff were injured during the incident but

again I want you to notice you to attack on a synagogue and let's face it the

Jewish people have been attacked enough that they tend to take their own

security pretty seriously so when this person who by the way

start out using a car not a gun to kill people

right everyone says we get rid of guns all the violence goes away

well this kind of proves it's that that's a lie he used a car to breach into

the into the compound into the building when he then started using the gun but

he was stopped by security guards. Now the lead security guard was hit by the

car and he was taken to the hospital but thankfully his injuries don't appear

to be life threatening and in another example of well why you can't trust

the media I see two different stories on this one claims that the the murderer

right the person that made the attack was filled with a a gun laden truck

through the front door of the synagogue they're claiming that there are

reports that the gun was loaded with improvised explosive devices while

another one says listen we brought in dogs but they they they they're

explosive sniffing dogs but they don't say anything about finding them so

I'm not sure if there were explosives in the vehicle or not my point is think of it

this way the when when this guy smashed his car into the front door of the

synagogue there were people which I'm I believe was actually hosting a a

a Hebrew school right when they talk about focusing on children

there were security guards that were ready to defend the children and the important

thing was yeah police showed up and that's that's good I'm glad police showed up

but just think of what could have happened in those minutes that it took for police to show up

so I'm I you know these are a group of people who decided we will defend ourselves

and we expect the police to come help us and another perfect example so the FBI now is

gotten involved here why has the FBI got in investigating this well it involved Jews

now I take a look at the constitution and I don't see federal jurisdiction over any

criminal event that happens to involve a religious minority

was this a target active violence against the Jewish community most likely right I say I only

say most likely because well these haven't been proven yet in court we were dealing with evidence

it's still fairly early days I would say the odds are very high but you know I'm I'm not

certain yet because well this guy could have just had some you know a beef with the the

children in the school maybe his his ex-wife was had a child in the school I don't know there's

could be other things it's why I say it's most likely but I want to notice this is a community

designed to be prepared to defend themselves and they're not the only one I remember a couple

of years ago when they were having the the the the church shootings including one right here in

Tennessee our church obviously they people were concerned about this because it gets a lot

of attention and we formed our own security team and I was asked to leave the team and the first

thing I did I told them is we're not going to focus on a church shooting because the odds of a

church shooting are very very low let's start by focusing on the things we're more likely to

encounter and then those will fold into an incident whether it be a a church shooting or some

other scenario so that's what we did we developed plans to deal with everything from medical

emergencies to tornado or other weather event to a fire and it was all about in our case finding

getting people to a safe place and having people who had thought about it ahead of time

so that when the emergency happened they weren't trying to figure it out on the spot we have plans

we have rally points we have roles at different people play and it's all about that proper preparation

now should an active shooter come into our whether they they're pissed at us for being Christians

or they've got an incident they've got an issue with somebody in the the church itself

our basic policy still provide right where's a safe place there are people who have their their job

is to find what the safe place is and that specific situation and how guide people to that place

while others may or may not engage a threat somewhere else right that's that's the basic I don't

want to go into too much because well basic security right I don't want anybody that says who

will go after Paul's church because we know how these things go that's for for the point is we

prepared the synagogue in Michigan had prepared and we expect government to support us not to do it

for us in other words we're not going to sit there waiting for the police to show up if something

like this God forbid but if something like this were to happen we're not sitting around waiting

for government to show up we will deal we will protect ourselves and expect government to come

support us as quickly as possible so that that's part of it right it's just your your playing

physical safety if you're depending on government to keep you safe God help you

because you're never really sure are you going to get the police in national Tennessee when there

was a shooter a murderer in a school they quickly got together figured something out and

went into the school to stop the threat or is it going to be the Texas school where the police

actually crater perimeter did not go in to try and save children and in fact prevented parents

from trying to go in to save children which government attitude will show up when you need them

most don't get me wrong I fully support police and fire and and EMTs that run towards the threat

I don't denigrate them but you know I also tend not to call them first responders because

hopefully they're not the first people responding to the threat right you respond to the threat

and then the police come in and the fire come in and the ambulance comes in

they do great work and I don't I don't denigrate them when they do their job properly

but if you're sitting around waiting for someone else to respond you're in a very dangerous situation

and now here's another reason why and we're going to stay in education one right we're in another

reason why I don't trust government right what did Ronald Reagan say the the the nine most

dangerous worlds in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help

there are now 17 states that have filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Education

because they have a policy requiring colleges and universities to collect data

that shows that they're not considering the race in in the students admissions

now there's a little bit to this let me explain back in 2023 the Supreme Court filed it in an

opinion that was supposed to end affirmative action in higher education in other words

colleges and universities were not to use race as a predominating factor in admissions right

if you have two students that are applying the the students race should not impact who

gets the the slot this by the way was supported by Donald Trump signed an executive order

establishing a policy that raised concerns at colleges and universities were still using

basically personal statements and other proxies to race in other words they didn't come in and

mark the race of the student but they would use these these other tools to kind of uh okay you

didn't say you're black but it certainly sounds like you're black so we're going to consider that

as we consider in incomes and in response to that the federal Department of Education

said listen schools and universities you have to show us that you're complying with this this

I want to call race neutral admissions now the memorandum demanded that these schools

provide information including the acceptance rates enrollment figures incomes average applicant

grade point averages and standardized tests or SAT scores by race and gender so yeah we want you

to follow by race and gender now I I agree with part of what President Trump wrote when he said

race-based admission practices are not only unfair but also threatened our national security and

well-being um that's what security may be a bit of a stretch but yeah well-being however

she went on to say and I disagree with this it is therefore the policy of my administration to

ensure institutions of higher education receiving federal financial assistance are transparent in

their admissions practices well there's a basic fundamental problem here the federal government is

not authorized to provide federal assistance to higher education look throughout the constitution

United States that power is not delegated to the United States therefore under the 10th amendment

it's reserved to the states or to the people and no don't give me the general welfare clause because

it says article one section eight clause one congress law of the right to link collect taxes

incomes duties exposing in in in post and exercises to pay the debts provide the common

defense and the general welfare of the United States not of individuals not of individual states

so it's the general welfare of the union but that's not what we're doing here this is looking at

saying well we're trying to give better so this whole thing if you're dependent on government for

this well then think of it this way so let's say uh yeah you believe race-based admission practice

they're unfair the court has said they're unconstitutional did they stop no the kind of one

underground well Donald Trump's doing something yeah what happens when Donald Trump's not in office

Biden didn't do anything about this Biden promoted racial discrimination why why should we not

expect somebody in the future to do that now let me ask you know so if it's not the government's

going to do it what can you do well see it's real simple you look at the at the data from the

student from the schools and say hey are they basing it on race yes i'm not sending my child

there and funding these these illegal practices if you're not going to follow the law if you're not

going to follow the constitution i don't want to support you it's a responsibility that as citizens

we should be taking on just like our own safety our education is something that we should be

controlling we control our student our children's education the government if it's constitutionally

allowed maybe there to help meaning your state may provide public schools your county may collect

taxes to help fund those public schools those are constitutionally authorized by the state

constitution then they're there to help you they're not authorized by the federal government because

they don't want the government of Washington controlling all the education so that's not legal

but it's also they spend less time seeing it's trying to to help you and more time trying to tell

you what things are going to be like so yeah your trust in government i believe you're out of fool's

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welcome back every day americans you read join the constitution study day we're pointing out

that trusting government is really a fool's errand that uh we forget you know we treat government

something special it's an entity created by people that that's made up of people and those people

are human they're flawed they make mistakes sometimes they make mistakes by accident

sometimes they do it on purpose sometimes they just think that they know better and get to tell

us how to live our lives and if there's one place where that happens oh so often it's california

or california's i like to call it in the latest example the the california had a policy there's

a california school that had a policy that prohibited school personnel from informing parents

when the students requested a change to their gender their quote unquote gender identity at school

right if a student came in a girl came in says hey i want you to call i want to be a boy

i want to put me down as as a boy i want to attend boys classes i'm a boys gym class uh you know

and whatever the school prohibited was prohibited from telling the parents this to me is a very

important foundational question because it's really who owns the children who is responsible

for radiance you know who gets to make the decisions about the children and in california they say

well it's the state we get to decide we're concerned that you know you might discourage a child

from change pretending to change their gender so we can't dare tell you that that well you might

disagree with the child well that case went to supreme court case called mirror belly versus

bontan i'm writing an article on it but the short version is um yeah guess what uh no you you

you this state doesn't have the authority to hide that information from parents um reading from

the opinion plaintiffs alleged that california's policy permitted disclosure of a student's gender

transitioning at school only if the student consented plaintiffs claim that these policies

violated their rights under the free exercise clause of the first amendment and to do process

clause of the 14th amendment okay let's start with with a couple things here because first of all

this is not a first amendment issue congress did not make this law it's not a first amendment issue

however it is a due process clause of the 14th amendment because children are raised by parents

the court has recognized this for decades and to say that the parents are not at liberty to raise

their children as they see fit that denying them this critical information denies them that liberty

is a violation of the 14th amendments due process clause clear and simple now justice on the court

did say well you know uh there the parents are likely to uh uh succeed in their for their free

exercise clause their first amendment uh uh uh uh clause their first one claim uh because judges

apparently can't read the constitution anymore they're more interested in what other judges say

than actually the document they claim to they took an oath to support to uphold and defend but you

know i come back to this question so we we hand our children over at so many of us hand our

children at five years old to a government actor and say you raise them and then we're shocked

shocked when they actually not only raise them but claim that they raise them not the parents

that their decisions overrule those of the parents how safe is your are your rights then because now

you have you have the government raising your children determining molding the next generation

and um well the court says no but who's going to enforce it okay let's stay in california because

the trump administration has sued the state of california specifically the uh the transportation

department the US transportation department sued the california air resource board in district court

in california claiming that the the carb rules um ovilate federal law right that they are illegal

and preempted by federal law now listen again calm me for you this far as i'm concerned this is

kuku la la land is not just uh you know lost angeles but let's point something out here first of all

the federal department transportation doesn't legally exist i know that sounds crazy but listen me for a

second the constitution does not delegate to the united states the authority to regulate transportation

only interstate commerce so this law that created the department transportation was not made

pursuant to the constitution and the supreme court has decided on at least three occasions right

marbury versus madison x part a seabold norton v shell b county that an unconstitutional law is

void therefore the transportation department doesn't legally exist but they go on right so this

let's pull we've got the federal law the supremacy clause wait read the stupid supremacy clause

article six clause two this constitution and the laws the united states made in pursuance

thereof and treaties made which have made under the authority the united states shall be the

supreme law of the land so tell me what if the federal government is not authorized to regulate

transportation if they're not authorized to regulate emissions or environmental issues

then that federal law was not made pursuant to the constitution therefore it is not the supreme

law of the land and does not preempt state law again i think california and their resource board

i mean i think it's actually kuku but i don't live in california i don't have a say in california

laws and rules i don't but that doesn't mean that because i dislike it i'm going to expect

the federal government to illegally go in and fight all this i'm kind of curious i guess i did

they've they've sued in district court we're kind of have to see how this goes because if there's

one thing i've observed over the years is lawyers ability to twist simple logical truths into

theoretical pretzels to try and get the outcome that they want well though you know the the

vehicles that are regulated by car they passed through interstate commerce therefore

congress can regulate them didn't get no congress doesn't have the authority to regulate everything

that passes through interstate commerce only the interstate commerce itself so will we get judges

that actually know what the constitution says not likely will we get judges that actually follow their

oath of sports constitution i'm not holding my breath but this shows what happens when you trust

government actors when you aren't aware of what the supreme law of the land says to begin with

and you simply follow along with government actors because remember courts are the third branch

of government they are government actors and i can't tell you how often i hear people say well

we'll just sue we'll just you know put our future in the hands of a court often too i should say

too often based on a lack of understanding of the constitution or laws or decisions you know just

kind of a a um i want to say this idea that you know well i heard it on the i read it on the

internet or i heard it on a program and therefore must be true and not actually following through and

again you're putting your trust in in government i another perfect example and and this one i'd

love to see explored a little more deeply in criminal cases you have a right to assistance of

council right six amendment it says nothing about that council being approved by the state

so when we have you know laws that say well in order to actually be a council in the state you must

you know take this law class and you must pass this test and be accepted by this this private

organization that's all governments creating barriers to entry for someone that may be able to

give great council but they haven't been brow beaten into the the mold that government actors

want them to be but i want you to remember well the first amendment protects you from congress

prohibiting you from seeking a redress of grievance petition the government for a redress

agreements by the way something they did in the national vaccine in for an injury compensation

program in the the prep act they did it and we keep following you know people fall on i can't tell

you how many times they hear attorneys saying well you know we can't sue because of this law and i'm

like read the constitution it violates the first amendment why won't anybody argue that

that's what happens when you put your trust your dependence on government actors and too often

they're more interested in their own agenda than anywhere else now that doesn't mean that courts

always get it wrong uh for example uh West Virginia uh they're allegedly to put a ban on

on covering using their Medicaid dollars to cover uh the so-called uh transgender surgical

procedures right from using surgery to assist people with gender dysphoria and of course they

got sued how dare you not you'll use government stolen dollars that were illegally appropriated

embezzled from the American people and then use them for this politically protected

for idea of that men can become women just because of some cosmetic surgery

but once again the twisted and convoluted method of coming to this answer nearly shows how dangerous

it is to let governments go without any oversight see the fourth circuit panel the fourth

circuit judge I heard this um I didn't say that well let's say you know the the didn't say that

Medicare was unconstitutional they didn't say that listen states have the right to control their

dollars literally what they said in their decision was at a 2025 Supreme Court case

what it means that uh that the ban does not violate the Constitution's equal protection clause

or the Affordable Care Act um okay let's stop and think of that for a second uh the Supreme

Court doesn't make law they offer opinions so just because the court decided that doesn't mean

something is true um the equal protection clause again it may be a valid argument under under

the 14th amendment but the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional uh a piece of legislation

it's the only it's the only court case where a single justice wrote both the opinion and a dissent

in the same case it's that twisted and convoluted but again you don't have the appeals courts

not saying well the Constitution says this is okay they said well a court said that the Constitution

said this is okay and a court said that the law says this Constitution you're dealing with judges

that aren't thinking for themselves they're simply consuming and regurgitating what some other

judge said in some other case with some other other set of facts now the fact that I agree with

the ultimate decision doesn't mean I agree with the way they got there another the conclusion

the holding that West Virginia's ban on Medicare funding for these the surgery is constitutional

I don't have a problem with that I think that's the right answer but the convoluted twisted nonsense

to get there is how so often we end up with bad opinions bad decisions based not in the law

the basis some twisted logic that some judge came with came up with at some time and that goes

all the way back to again early in the republic remember the Supreme Court once said that a black

man had no rights a white man had to honor that illegally detaining people simply because of their

their nationality Japanese was perfectly constitutional even though it violated the very the

most sacred premises of that document when you put your trust in government you're not always

going to get the answer you want and when the answer you want is based on a truly evil and twisted

look at how the judiciary structured how can you trust that you're going to get the right answer

in the future is it not a fool's errand because of very same panel of circuit judges that that said

yep this is okay here could turn around under the same circumstances on the same set of facts

find a completely different answer if they really really wanted to and how are your rights protected

then how are your rights protected if they are based on nothing more than uh well then the uh the

whim of a bunch of high priests in black robes see that's why we have a constitutional it's why courts

have no power as uh uh Alexander Hamilton put it they have neither force nor will but merely judgment

and sometimes that judgment is really evil and twisted and you think about it you know so many of

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welcome back every day americans you rejoin the constitution today we're talking about

trusting government the fact that it's a fools errand because if there's one thing government

has shown and it's absolutely incapable of doing well it's managing money it seems like

anything involves money government just they have a a black thumb it just destroys absolutely

everything how else do you explain a thirty nine trillion dollar deficit you know the the idea

that again numbers beyond most of our expectations so I hear a lot of people that have a lot of

suggestions of how we could deal with the deficit and I saw this interesting article it was actually

on the federalist and it made me think about certain things let's start with a a a look at the

conventional budget office projections they're anticipating a one point eight five trillion dollar

deficit this year alone like you have to understand you know humans have a hard time with really

big and really small numbers so the best description I had is if you were to take a hundred dollar

bill and you were to stack hundred dollar bills on top of each other they're just laying

down flat stack look if you were to stack a trillion dollars worth of hundred dollar bills they

would be taller than the orbit of the international space station one point eight of those is how much

money the federal government spent that it didn't have this year alone that was after doge after

all these things were going to get rid of waste there's still one point eight trillion dollars

spending more than they they take in and that's number that number is expected to accumulate

to be a over twenty three trillion dollars in deficits over the coming decade now decades ten years

so if you got twenty three trillion in a decade that means they're averaging two point three trillion

dollars decade meaning the deficit's gonna get higher so how could we fix I mean no family I know

could survive long running deficits in that level what what could we do well first you have to

recognize that the federal government has certain things it's got to spend money on that not all

of them is what Congress thinks they are but they do have what they call discretionary spending the

things that the government not legally obligated to spend that's one point eight eight trillion

dollar this fiscal year meaning yep we could wipe out our deficit we just have to get rid of all

discretionary spending unfortunately that includes funding our military which I think would really

be a bad idea while we're at war with Iran it would include defunding border security which would

make the progressives very very happy uh education transportation interstate highways federal

prisons national parks national institutes of health and much more that would all be gone and we

could balance this nonsense out what about the health care programs right uh medicaid medicare obama

care exchanges the children's health insurance program all illegal unconstitutional programs but

they also consume 1.9 trillion dollars this fiscal year so that could take care of our deficit

but the big bugaboo most people think about is social security now again social security is a

Ponzi scheme established by the federal government back in the nineteen i think it's 30s 20s or 30s

and it was the idea of you give us money to invest to uh so you'd have a retirement account

money which the federal government never invested that they just spent somewhere else and require more

and more people to pay in to pay out their social security now this costs 1.66 trillion dollars

this fiscal year that means even if we got rid of sole security we would still run a deficit

but i want you to think about that so you've got major medical programs you've got

so retirement programs so security things the federal government's not legally authorized to do

and they're wasting two and a half trillion dollars a year on these illegal programs

that's not including the the illegal programs in the discretionary spending yeah um

houston i think we have a problem now of course when it comes to dealing with money you know

congress has the power to lay and collect taxes congress has spent you know authorizes

spending of money and the problem we run into is congress is often more worried about a political

partisanship than they are in their actual jobs that's why we we have this quote unquote

you know dhs shut down i say quote unquote because dhs isn't really shut down uh but

this whole thing is ridiculous so you have the democratic party that's pissed with ice and border

they're angry because well they're actually enforcing uh federal immigration law and sometimes

i believe they're doing it badly but they're that's their job so in order to punish the trump

administration for actually enforcing federal law they decided they're not going to fund the

department of homeland security even though ice and border patrol have already been funded

through the big beautiful bill act so yeah you're not you're not harming uh ice and border patrol

the ones you claim to be upset with but you are harming other things that like the the transportation

security association administration that they know those people that like to group you with

airports uh by the other illegal unconstitutional entity right graded by congress and uh in recent

reports which they've been going without they've had partial pay they've been going without pay some

of them and um at this point uh more than 300 TSA agents have uh quit they quit because of this

critical partial shutdown um according to a post from dhs on on x our hardworking TSA officers are

again being forced by the democrats to work without pay for the third time in nearly six

months um yeah that's because governments are really bad at handling money uh they're really bad

at handling security they're really bad at handling uh just about everything they put their hands to

but again this partial shutdown whatever you want to call it is not a a fight over uh TSA it's

it's a pissing match over ice and um uh things like well they don't want ice to our military style

uniforms they're okay with every other law enforcement wearing military not ice um they don't

like the fact that they wear a mask even though ice agents have been doxed repeatedly which is why

they're trying to keep their their identity secret because their families are being attacked uh both

physically and electronically because the a family member happens to work for ice

now listen if we had reasonable uh we had intelligent people that were actually in congress

they would look at this and say listen if we don't like the way ISIS operating we need to pass a

law to stop ice from doing the things we don't think they should do you don't think ice should

be wearing mask pass a law you can't pass a law well then it's up to you to find enough support

to pass this law to make it palatable to enough people to make enough of a compromise

that people will go along with you no in this case we just gonna uh have a temper tantrum and no

it's not just democrats republicans have done this in the past as well it's literally uh i don't know

if somewhere between brinkmanship and uh extortion to get a political outcome and sadly that's

pretty much how the government works nowadays it works by bribery it works by extortion so this

is really nothing new now i got one more i want to look at and this is a senate bill uh recently

passed it was of course bipartisan support it passed 89 to 10 which means reach for your wallet

ladies and gentlemen the government's coming for your money what are they how are you at this time

it's called the the road to housing act and it's supposed to well they'd say make housing more

affordable now i want you to remember each and every time congress has passed a law trying to make

housing more affordable we end up in a housing crash right the 2008 housing crash was created by

congress forcing banks to issue basically paying them to issue bad loans and then

reprimanding them when they didn't issue these bad loans so how is congress supposed to make housing

more for since congress doesn't regulate the cost of housing how are they gonna make it more

affordable of course you read the articles oh it's it's gonna boost the housing supply it's

gonna bring down costs it's gonna rain in bad guys it's it's supposed to be it's gonna ensure

that families can buy homes it's got a lot of rhetoric it's mostly BS barnyard substances

a friend of mine likes to call it so what does this thing actually supposed to do well

at one point it claims to cut red tape for environmental reviews well that actually

would be a good thing that would be a way to lower housing costs is to get rid of some of the

ridiculous red tape but that's not all it does so they want to offer money they want to offer

grants to us this state local and tribal governments to create regional housing planning oh central

planning has never been a bad idea in any of the things that that we do they they want to require

the federal housing administration another illegal unconstitutional federal agency to increase

loan limits for multi-family properties so we want to increase the loans that we didn't we try

that once before and we ended up with again with the housing crisis there's a a movie out where

they went through that the the big short I think it was and they they actually showed the crazy

stupid programs put in place by the federal government that led to the the housing crisis the

housing meltdown they also claim to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family

homes this the federal government has no legal authority to do that doesn't not going to stop

repassing a law and the idea is interesting because so they assume that when in when big companies

buy tracks of land now where I live there's a lot of old farmland and not a lot of farm families

anymore so developers come in these institutional investors and they buy up that land and they make

houses they build houses on it which they then sell to people oh no we don't want to do that we

want the we want the uh uh supposedly you're going to make housing more cheaper cheaper by making

it harder for companies to build houses in land in it with less area land um yeah this allegation

that that this program is going to make uh housing more affordable I predict just like with

everything else the government touches it'll make housing less affordable remember the affordable

care act it was supposed to make your your health care more affordable and now health care

premiums are what triple what they were when the act was passed I expect something very similar

with this remember when the government said hey you know we'll we'll guarantee loans with ridiculous

people have no income but we'll guarantee a mortgage for them and ever the pros you know first

housing prices crashed and now then housing prices exploded it's funny we know the the house the

farm that that we bought my wife and I bought 10 years ago now I got people offering three times

what I paid for it now I don't know if they'd actually settle for that you know but I'm getting

people telling me this worth more than three times what we paid for it does that sound like making

housing more affordable now I I predict I predict that these programs by adding more red tape by

continuing to distort the market are actually going to lead to more expensive housing why

well just take this one example of institutional in so um somebody come out here they buy an old farm

and they chop it up into say two three acre lots and they build a modest home on it and they sell it

for a modest price and now you have more homes in inventory hey isn't that great

but Congress wants to prevent that they don't want the institution to come in which means

they want somebody come in and buy the whole farm but that costs a lot of money and if you're

gonna buy if you're gonna own a whole farm well um for you're gonna put a single family home on it

now you have a hundred acres of land that could have had 15 20 homes on it now it has one

how does that make inventory greater you got a bunch of idiots to think they know how

markets work they think they know how real estate work they have no clue it's political nonsense

ry but that's what happens when you trust government to do the right thing governments made up of

people those people have their own agenda and often that agenda leads to our pain it's a fool's

errand and it's one that we've seen so many times we're like you know we're like Charlie Brown right

we still believe that government Lucy is gonna hold that football for us so we can kick it no matter

how many times they yank the football away we keep believing they're gonna do it it's insanity

according to Einstein doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome

so will we recognize the fool's errand I doubt it history says it's quite unlikely

and I think until the American people get a little of their own education

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