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Glenn Beck (0:00)
Are we on the wrong side of deportations? Representative Jayapal from Seattle, normally I don't agree with her, but she makes a case that's very appealing to keep our slaves. I mean, our undocumented workers. Also, Vivek Ramaswamy, he's now running for governor of Ohio. We talked to him about that. And the future, what does the future look like with AI and how do states prepare? And Senator Mike Lee on Gold and the Rains act, all on today's podcast. You know, one of those things that stands out the most to me about American Financing, more than just about any other company that I talk about on this program, is they had to prove themselves to me because this is a mortgage company. And when they first came to me, I said to them, yeah, no thanks. Because I saw the collapse of 2008 when it was coming. They called me and wanted to be a sponsor on the program. And I said no to them in 2007. And I said, call me after the collapse. And they're like, no, no, Glenn, we actually believe you're right about the collapse that's coming. And we don't do all of those things. I said, well, we'll see how your people fare after the collapse. And I talked to them after, and their people were fine because they don't work for the banks, they work for you. They had an uphill climb proving themselves if I was going to endorse them to you. And here we are all those years later because they did prove themselves and continue to, and now they are saving people in this audience over $800 a month. All you have to to them about your finances. It's American Financing. 8009-0624-4080-0906-240American Financing.net.
Vivek Ramaswamy (1:48)
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Glenn Beck (1:53)
You know, I heard something yesterday that I wanted to share with you because I thought, you know, I'm from Seattle. Representative Jayapal is from Seattle. She can't be totally bat crap crazy, right? Maybe. Maybe I just haven't thought of things in the correct fashion. So here's what she said yesterday. We can't let them deport the millions of families across this country who have been doing the work that that keeps our economy going every day. We can't let them scapegoat and criminalize immigrants who contribute, who are our neighbors, our friends, our churchgoers. If you look at the food that's on your table, think about who picked it. If you look at your homes, think about who built them. Oh, My God, if you look at your vulnerable elders and your kids, think about who's taking care of them, who's caring for them, who. Boy, you know, I heard that case and that just struck right to my heart. You know, I thought to myself, my gosh, maybe we're wrong. She could be correct. Let's look at her side of the argument. I mean, just for a minute. I don't expect you to change, but I. I want you to listen with compa. You sons of. You people who just don't. You just hate people of other colors for no apparent reason. That's the only reason why you want these illegals, as you might call them out. Have some compassion, man. So let me just. I want you to. Unless you're driving, close your eyes for just a minute and I want you to imagine a twilight world shadowed and stilled, where the hum of life is faded to a whisper. Picture the sprawling farmland, its fields once ablaze with golden week and wheat and beautiful verdant rows of produce. Just. It's a painting, except now it's desolate. Stocks are brittle, fruit rotting where it falls on the ground. Zoom closer in. A construction site. Skeletal beams rising like bones of some forgotten beast abandoned mid creation. A restaurant there on Main street, in your own hometown. Its windows dark, its tables bare, the aroma simmering, spices replaced now just by the dust of neglect. Oh, you might say I'm finding that hard to imagine. But it is the precipice which we teeter upon when we contemplate casting out the undocumented souls who breathe life into our nation's veins. Let's really look at her case. These workers, vilified yet so rarely beheld, are the unseen architects of our own prosperity. Yes, consider the ledger here of reality. Over 70% of those who tend our fields are foreign born. And of that number, nearly half lack the papers we demand. They're not peripheral, they're foundational. In 2023, their labor laid. Their labor fueled an economy that extracted $128 billion in taxes from their sweat. And this. These are funds that they'll never recover from Social Security or Medicare. Their unemployment rate stands at 3.2%, outpacing the native born. Right, you might say, well, that's not really good. That means jobs aren't. No, they're just willing to work. These are not the idle. They are the relentless, filling the. The chasms in our agriculture and construction and hospitality. Can you imagine going to one of your rich banquets held in some banquet hall, the banquet belly of some corporate monstrosity hotel chain. Where are you going to get the servers to feed you, you corporate fat cat. American sectors would buckle without them. The American Farm Bureau calculates that expelling the undocumented labor would slash agricultural output by 60%. Your breakfast orange juice price triples. The milk in your coffee doubles. Overnight. Construction costs soar as half the workforce, 1.5 million strong, just vanishes, stalling homes and highways all throughout the country. Hospitality, already fragile, loses 1.2 million workers. Go ahead, See if you can find somebody that will wash the dishes. Restaurants, clothes, hotels just mothball rooms. This isn't just speculation. It's the arithmetic of survival. Cato institute pegs the GDP loss at $1.6 trillion over a decade. If we purge these contributors that you call illegals, who bears that burden? I'll tell you who you do at the checkout and your rent with your tax bill. These are not the faceless cogs, but they're human beings propelled by the same hunger for betterment that drove pilgrims across the oceans. They'll tell you they rise before the sun, hands blistered, knees bent, harvesting what we consume without an even a second thought. Yes, California growers have said that. They've posted ads for years. And locals just don't apply. These jobs are theirs because no one else will do these jobs. And the data concurs. In states like Texas and Florida, native born workers shun the fields, leaving 80% of crop labor to the immigrants documented or undocumented. They don't displace, they sustain. Quote without this labor, our way of life will crumble. Quote this is a necessary good. Look where they came from. They're better off in our fields and in the shadows than where they were. Where. Where they. When they came here. Look at where they came from. Is there an echo in here? Maybe it's just the ghost of arguments past that I hear. I'm not sure, but it seemed without this labor, we will starve. Our way of life will collapse. This is a necessary good. It's necessary for us and good for them. Look at where they came from. They're better off in our fields than where they came from. The prosperity of the superior depends on the toil of the inferior. Oh, wait a minute. I have heard these phrases before. It seems as though they've just been rinsed out and repurposed. Without this labor, our way of life crumbles. Hmm. That's a mirror, gang. The words aren't new. They're borrowed from a time when men in frock coats deemed human bondage a necessary good. Because if we don't have these slaves in the field, our very way of life will crumble. You won't be able to afford any products. It's a pillar of economic order. James Henry Hammond, 1858. In all social systems, there must be a class to perform the drudgery, freeing the refined for higher purposes. Wow, that almost sounds like Harare, doesn't it? From the World Economic Forum. There will be a permanent underclass of useless people. We'll just need to keep busy doing stuff. Oh, my gosh, the compassion. You're right. He's speaking right from the heart. John Calhoun, 1837. It's a positive good. It's good for them and it's good for us. It's an institution that if we don't have it, civilization falters. End quote. Then it was cotton and tobacco. Now it's lettuce and drywall. But it's the same thing. Then it was chains, now it's fear. The fear of ice, raids, fractured families, a life uprooted. It's still fear, isn't it? Both rest on the same calculus. Look, they're going to have to do this because it's good for the rest of us. All we've done is we've polished the rhetoric, we've swapped shackles for shadows, but it's exactly the same. Other than that, an underclass, indispensable, yet discarded. But it's. It's vital. Although we can't really give them dignity. I mean, they gotta live in the shadows here. Is the left this stupid? Do they really think we don't see the parallels here? Are they so naive to think that a costume change can absolve us? Why is it so many people just swallow this? Why do we let our politicians the. And I mean this literally, the heirs to those same voices of the 19th century that were defending slavery. Those errors. Why do we listen to them? This isn't mercy. It's cowardice. Masked as practicality, masked again as compassion. There's no compassion in the shadows. The left joins the chorus. This is exploitation. All just dressed in progressive crap, as if calling it essential washes the stain clean. But it doesn't. It's a lie that so many Americans are telling themselves to keep the tomatoes cheap and the guilt at bay. So we can walk around with our cell phones from Apple and pretend we're better than everybody else because we're against slavery. But we buy our crap from China. We'll. We'll allow people to live in the shadows. We can't get them to go back home and come through the front door. What kind of compassion is that? It's so much better for them to live in a state of fear their whole life. Here in Americ. You know, there is another option. We could innovate. We could mechanize the fields. That's. That's coming. That's coming. We could train the idol. We could actually say to our kids, get your fat, lazy off the couch, away from the gaming system and go out and work. We could also pay wages that tempt the unwilling. Instead, we'll let these corporations, these corporate farms, undercut a reasonable living wage and just keep people pushed in the shadows so you could have a ripe tomato. You know, everybody always says, oh, the right side of history. I would have been on the right side of history. Would you? Would you have been really 1860, you're walking around going, I don't know. I mean, this cotton, this shirt, it's fantastic. It breathes. I mean, how are we gonna get all that cotton picked in the field if we don't have slaves? You know, this is necessary. Our whole society collapses without the slave. You really would have been on the other side back then. And yet, somehow or another, you're not on that side now. My guess is you would have been sitting someplace in. In maybe in Charleston, in a parlor, sipping tea. Why? I just don't understand why all these people don't understand why we need to have these slaves. I mean, they're really not good for much else. They're not really like us. I mean, they can make my tea and wash my dishes and pick the cotton in the fields and grow our food. I'm gonna have my son do that. Well, I don't think so. I think you would have been sitting in the parlor out front having a nice, cool iced tea. This is a house built on sand. Its contradictions are almost hysterical. If it didn't involve, I don't know, real people. But just remember this. History doesn't forgive repetition. It condemns it. We've read this script before. Its ending is pretty ugly, but it's not inevitable. We can rewrite it. We can make it easier for the hard worker to come here legally. We can invest in machines to lighten the load. We can demand a system where no one's humanity is a bargaining chip for lower prices. That's not charity. That's justice. But equal justice, not social justice. You know, everything in the fields, it doesn't grow in shadow. It only grows in sunlight. You want to end corruption here's a place we could start because I can't believe how loud the echo of history is getting. I'm just, you know, I say this all the time. It's going to be interesting to see how all this works out. 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