April 18, 2010 - Dan Bidondi Show
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| - Move, the Commonwealth of Lincoln. | |
| Good. | |
| I didn't hear you. | |
| How y'all doing? | |
| Good. | |
| Are you excited? | |
| Yes. | |
| You should be. | |
| Because we're planning on some things that will turn you here gray, turn you here, but make you pay attention to the first thing. | |
| My name is John Reynolds. | |
| And I'm from the cultural epicenter of the North World, Woonsocket, Rhode Island. | |
| Tonight, we're going to have a few things that we want to bring to your attention. | |
| And I know looking over the agenda, we have some really cool things. | |
| I wanted to bring your attention to a few things, though. | |
| On the back table are some resources you really need to get a hold of. | |
| Because if you leave here without getting them, you're not going to know what's going on as far as having a tangible piece of paper in print that lets you know who's responsible for the mess we're in. | |
| If you're out of school, you're still going to do some studying and take quizzes every single day of your life. | |
| This is the world's smallest political quiz. | |
| If you've not taken it online yet, you can have it at your own leisure if it's on the back table too. | |
| You know, the Tea Party is making waves. | |
| All of you are making waves. | |
| Tonight we have representatives from the media. | |
| We have Dan Badani, his cousin Jason Badani, and Uncle Phil Davis from WMALE 990 AM radio. | |
| Sit up, man. | |
| I have a phone up here. | |
| Dan and I, we went back as, for those of you who aren't in the know, I used to be a professional wrestler, and Dan was my tag team partner at some time. | |
| I'd like to say hello to Terry Gorman up there from RILE. | |
| Welcome tonight. | |
| That's right. | |
| R-I-L-E. | |
| Now, for those of you who look at the media, look at the papers, watch TV, listen to radio, you'll know that even in Rhode Island, we're creating waves that make people very uneasy. | |
| Here's the latest piece of evidence as I hold up this rack. | |
| They're talking about us, folks. | |
| They're talking about you. | |
| They're talking about everybody who's a part of America Who believes in our values? | |
| Is this right? | |
| Are you going to stand for people calling us terrorists? | |
| Well, you know what? | |
| The media thinks we are, but they also think that we're unorganized. | |
| We're going to prove them wrong. | |
| Because tonight I'm going to show you how organized we can be. | |
| I know that we have an important date coming up on Thursday, but that's something in the future. | |
| Tonight we have to worry about tonight. | |
| And so, without further ado, I'd like to introduce Bill Perry, who's responsible for getting us this all. | |
| Thank you, Bill! | |
| We also have the chairman of the Maraima Libertarian Party, Mr. David Bebo. | |
| David Bebo is here. | |
| We'll share a video presentation in just a few minutes, but right now on a general one to Kevin Ryan and Sue Wynn, our Black Stambali Party leaders. | |
| A video presentation in just a few minutes, but right now I want to turn around to Kevin Ryan and Sue Wynn, our Black Sambali Party leaders. | |
| A few weeks ago, I heard the Obamacare vote was going to be held in two days, so about $40 notice, a dozen dollars rented a van, and a dozen dollars rented a van, and we went down to V.C. | |
| We left at 3:00 in the morning on Saturday morning, and we made signs and stuff on the way down there. | |
| We ranted and raved and chanted and said, "No, no, no, Obamacare." And then, of course, they ultimately had to vote when Obamacare was enacted. | |
| And our lives are going to, I believe anyway, radically change in a way that we're not prepared for. | |
| But we're going to be able to do that. | |
| Um, they're going to be reaching into our pockets, reaching into the business people's pockets who employ us, and they're going to be, uh, taking control of our own personal decisions, uh, in many ways that isn't even quite spelled out yet. | |
| In fact, they don't even know yet. | |
| They have committees to figure this out. | |
| So anyways, the only way to stop this sort of thing from happening and to modify their plans is to vote them out. | |
| And so when the vote took place in Washington, D.C., I was thinking, like, how do we fight this sort of thing? | |
| We can't, obviously, there was 30,000 or 40,000 of us on the lawns of the Capitol building, and they didn't care. | |
| So if we mobilize tens of thousands of people and they don't listen to us, the only way they'll listen to us is if we vote them out and then they watch on the television versus being in the Capitol building itself and acting the laws. | |
| So I came up with this idea, and it's no intellectual breakthrough, it's no basic, that the way we vote them out is by getting groups like this started in every town and in every neighborhood, and we win the votes in our districts. | |
| We field candidates in the districts where we don't have good candidates that we like, and we vote for those people or we vote out the people that we don't like, and we basically take over the General Assembly and our own representation in Washington, D.C. | |
| And it requires that people burn calories. | |
| It requires people to get off the couch, start meetings, for example. | |
| Bill is responsible for bringing many people out here the first time. | |
| He handed out flyers. | |
| He made phone copies. | |
| He went to the stock shop with Dunkin' Donuts or whatever else. | |
| He talked to people. | |
| It's not rocket science. | |
| It just requires a little bit of gumption and a little bit of calories. | |
| I don't know, would you spend an hour a night or something? | |
| Yeah. | |
| About an hour a night for, you know, a little bit of time. | |
| When I get the calories, it's better. | |
| There you go. | |
| A little bit of pasta goes a long way. | |
| So really, we need more groups and more people in more towns and villages, and ultimately down to the voting districts. | |
| I handed out some flyers here. | |
| These are your Senate district maps and your representation district maps. | |
| There is four or five districts between Lincoln and Pumplin, and we need to start a group in each district and get out the vote in those districts. | |
| It also helps, obviously, to know who to go for and against, and there's been people here who have a lot to say about that. | |
| So anyway, people have to get engaged. | |
| People have to not be shy and start groups and intent groups. | |
| And when we leave here tonight, people have to go home and think, what am I going to do? | |
| And you have to be willing to spend the calories. | |
| If you're not willing to get up, get out, and do something, just a little bit, it's not going to work. | |
| You have to get up, get out, and do something. | |
| And so anyway, I'm going to hand this over to Dave. | |
| He's got a lot to say about what he knows about who's good and bad in the General Assembly. | |
| And of course, his own candidate sits here. | |
| You're running for what district? | |
| 22. | |
| District 22, Senate. | |
| and then we'll come back to how we get out the vote and what we do about basically voting up the problems that are putting us in this mess. | |
| So I think it's over Dave. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Okay, I'm sure everybody knows the big problem in the state of Rhode Island is probably the public employee unions. | |
| That's where basically all of our money goes. | |
| It's not really unions per se. | |
| The general union member isn't really a problem. | |
| It's the public employee unions because basically they can give money to the representatives who vote on their raises, their pension benefits, and everything else. | |
| That doesn't happen in the private sector. | |
| Um, private sector unions are a little different. | |
| The market forces usually hold union pay so that the company can still be competitive. | |
| Although that didn't quite work on general voters. | |
| Yeah, I told you I only voted three hours ago. | |
| So basically, state employee salaries are really not that out of line with the private sector. | |
| The problem is the benefits and the pensions. | |
| How many here get pensions of, like, 80% of your last three years' pay? | |
| Anybody? | |
| Well, that's the way the state pension system works. | |
| It's based on your last three years' pay, and of course they work a lot of overtime, and police and fire usually what they do is they don't retire, they vote on disability, because then it's tax-free on top of that. | |
| Social security, social service programs are a big problem also. | |
| I mean, Rhode Island has some of the highest welfare benefits in the country. | |
| I think 10% of the people on medical assistance live right in one socket in this state, and By trade, I'm a pharmacist. | |
| And I've got so many stories of fraud and abuse in the welfare system. | |
| It's incredible. | |
| I was working in One Socket, and a woman on medical assistance wanted to get a six-month supply of good medicine. | |
| And I told her, no, you can only get a month's supply at a time, and get it refilled, so you have to come back every month. | |
| She didn't like that idea, so she went home and called her social worker. | |
| The social worker called me about an hour later, |
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