Jim Bakker Show - Fixing American Infrastructure - Dr. William Forstchen
Aired: 2017-01-19
Duration: 02:35


=== Chicago's Deadly Crisis (02:35) ===

[00:00:00]  Chicago, what has happened during the holidays?
[00:00:06]  Record deaths, record murders.
[00:00:09]  It's what, 500 dead this year?
[00:00:12]  Yes.
[00:00:12]  Over 500 dead just this year.
[00:00:14]  The casualty rate in Chicago is higher than our combat casualty rate in Afghanistan.
[00:00:22]  Higher.
[00:00:24]  And remember, that was a big issue.
[00:00:26]  Yeah, but that was a big issue in 2008.
[00:00:28]  I'm going to get all the Americans out of there because we're tired of seeing Americans being killed there.
[00:00:33]  And yet the person who was saying that, the very city he came from, has a casualty rate higher than that war, and he is totally silent.
[00:00:43]  If you were given Detroit or you were President, what would you recommend we do with Detroit, Michigan?
[00:00:56]  We have to rebuild our infrastructure, and we have given away open trade agreements and trade agreements that favor our opponents and not us.
[00:01:10]  Again, Robin and I were driving to, we were going to some conference or something last week, and there was a big, one of those oversized vehicles with the warning trucks, and on it was this huge transformer, electrical transformer.
[00:01:25]  And I commented to her.
[00:01:26]  I said, see that?
[00:01:28]  Definitely not made in America.
[00:01:31]  Our whole infrastructure is dependent upon those supersized transformers that are big oversized boxes in a way.
[00:01:39]  They are made in China.
[00:01:41]  They are made in Sweden.
[00:01:44]  One of the phrases I would do as President is, no, they are going to be made in America.
[00:01:48]  I would revitalize our American industry.
[00:01:50]  I would like to see this is going to get me in trouble because I am a college professor.
[00:01:58]  Do we really need more degrees in medieval poetry that cost $100,000 to $200,000 to get?
[00:02:05]  Now, I am for freedom of speech.
[00:02:07]  You want to study medieval poetry?
[00:02:09]  Great, but don't expect me to pay off your student loan and that you are going to get a $100,000 job interpreting Nordic poems from the 12th century.
[00:02:19]  But if you want to learn a skill, a true skill of manufacturing in a technological age, by golly, we are going to see you get there because you will be getting a $100,000 a year job, revitalizing American industry.
[00:02:34]  Those things that are hard to find.