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Dan Bongino (0:00)
Have you seen the news from some economists forecasting a depression by the year 2030. Some are even forecasting that Social Security and Medicare are headed to hit a breaking point. Our national debt and cost of living continue to rise. We can have a big problem. Help protect your family's future with gold from Birch Gold held in A tax deferred IRA. Text DAN to 989-898. Get your free copy the Ultimate Guide for Gold in the Trump Era with a forward by Donald Trump Jr. Text DAN to 989-898 message and data rates apply. Dan Bongino welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. You ever wonder this? This is the easiest poll ever. Tell Bongino, but I don't even want to waste your time on this one. You ever wonder how these freaking politicians get so rich? They have no life skills. Their only life skills are they have connections to other politicians or their daddy or mommy was a politician. They don't really know anything. They add no value. They didn't invent like some big smart, super ridiculous AI tech company or send like a rocket into space. And yet they're really rich. This is Doge account that put this out. NANCY PELOSI Annual salary 223,000 Net worth 202 million. I'm always a little skeptical these net worth figures because the ones about mine online are really off and it's so easy to figure out if you just go to like the publicly traded companies. However, I think we could both agree it's worth a lot of money. Mitch McConnell says his annual salary 200 net worth 95 million. Chuck Schumer 75 million. Elizabeth Warren 67 million. Folks divide these numbers by 10. Say they're not pretend for a second. They're not even accurate. Say Pelosi is worth 20 million and McConnell's worth 9.5 and Elizabeth Warren 6.7. Where the hell did they get this money? Folks work for a thousand years. That's actually not a bad point. I mean, I just watched Nosferatu. That's. Should I. He's like, this is. You know, we may have to. Michael says if you do the math, he's a math major. Maybe she worked a thousand years. Maybe, maybe. I don't know. I mean, the United States isn't that old, but whatevs, who knows? Maybe there reminds me of an interview with a vampire. Like, what's that? I want some more. Remember that? Who knows what she was up to. But I'm gonna tell you how this works. You ready? Some of you may have heard this segment before in a prior podcast, but if you haven't, you're making a big mistake if you don't listen again, because I want you to tattoo this on your brain. Okay? I was running for office a while ago. This guy, Chuck Ecker was the Howard county executive on running in Maryland. And we got in this conversation about how people in government get rich and why government just continues to grow despite the fact that everybody, sane person, hates big government. And he said, dan, you got to understand, buddy, there is no power in yes. There is only power in government bureaucrats telling people no. And I said, I mean, I got what he was saying, but I said, explain. I said, I want you to think about it. You're whatever, something simple out there. You're a building inspector in a place. You know, my dad was once. I'm not knocking him. But if you have a tendency to corruption, there's no power in you approving everybody's building permits. If you're corrupt, you want to say no a lot so that people have to slip you some money under the table to figure it out, right? There is no power in yes, ladies and gentlemen. There's only power in no. That's why government likes to expand regulations and rules, because it's more rules you have to obey that they have to date. When you go to them, you're going to have to ask them, am I following the rules by building this building? You get the point. There is no power in yes. There's only power in no. And that's how these people get rich. They lobby you to yes. Remember that line. There is a lot of money in lobbying you to yes. That's why dumb people get really rich. More in a minute. But first, hey, One of my favorite traditions is choosing New Year's resolutions. We all get the opportunity. Start the year fresh, set goals, tackle new challenges. This new year, I encourage you to learn something new. With Hillsdale College, they have more than 40 free online courses. More than 40, 40 free online courses. Learn about the works of C.S. lewis, stories in Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history of the ancient Christian church. With Hillsdale College's free online courses. They're really incredible. I've been enjoying lately American Heritage. It examines the history of America from the colonial era to the present, including the major challenges to the Founders principles and great controversies in America's history, including the current crisis of progressivism. They have centered around the meaning of those basic foundational principles. These Courses are self paced so you can start whenever and wherever you like. So go today to Hillsdale Edu Dan and enroll. There's no cost, it's easy to get started and you'll get smarter by the day. You'll become a better debater too. That's Hillsdale Edu Dan to enroll for free. Hillsdale Edu Dan. The courses are great. Check them out. The Roman Republic one is fantastic too. Here, I want you to play this clip with Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas, who's lied about everything to get ahead. A woman with no life skills other than making powwow chow. I want you to listen to this segment about banks where she throws out a completely ridiculous, absurd, obscene charge that banks under the last three weeks of Donald Trump are now free to scam people. I'm going to play the response in a second, but this is the left in a post truth world just fabricating charges to scare banks out there because they want to be paid off to get to. Yes, check this out.
