All Episodes
Previous Next
Aug. 10, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
29:38
Spending to Oblivion
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
This is an iHeart Podcast.
All right, news roundup and information overload hour, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Um, we've spoken at length about how dumb some Senate Republicans have been, some to go along with this ridiculous uh quote bipartisan infrastructure plan for $1.2 trillion because Democrats weren't really negotiating because the whole plan that they weren't even hiding it was to write from the beginning to move towards well,
plan B, which is is they're gonna ram everything else through by using the reconciliation process.
I mean, it just that that's what the plan was from the very beginning.
And it was just a bad idea for Republicans to give Biden the ability to say, oh, it's all bipartisan.
Twenty, seven hundred pages, an awful bad bill, won't pay for itself.
Only a tenth of its spending is for roads and bridges and other real infrastructure projects.
The bill drops all this money on the Democratic, you know, New Green Deal socialist wish list, you know, expand broadband internet access, include a new federal entitlement for low-income households, $73 billion for clean energy transmission, $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging networks.
You know, the the pay for the itself stuff, even the CBO said it was $256 billion in terms of the deficit over the next decade.
So that was a big lie.
And right behind it, remember they already spent $600 billion.
Now they're adding another what, $3.5 trillion, uh, which makes it $4.1 trillion.
You know, oh, okay, so what's what's what's in this, you know, spending free for all?
Well, it's the new Green Deal.
This is the Bernie Sanders Biden manifesto.
This is the squad's great dream.
This is free community college.
This is subsidized child care.
This is free housing.
This is, you know, it goes on paid and family and sick leave.
This is free pre-K for three and four-year-olds.
This is about climate change.
It's all in these bills.
Child tax uh credit extensions, electric cars, green cards, uh it's immigration, in other words.
Uh tax hikes on business.
Business doesn't pay higher tax price uh taxes.
They pass that on to you.
Taxes on income.
That's that's there too.
They vaguely call for the salt cap relief.
Well, that's to benefit people like Schumer and Gillibrand and California Democrats because you can't deduct state and local income taxes.
Donald Trump stopped it.
By the way, I paid a price for that.
As a matter of fact, I ended up paying a lot more because that deduction was taken away from me.
I should be doing a backflip over it, but it's not fair to the states that uh that actually elect politicians that balance their budgets and fund their pensions.
Anyway, here to weigh in on all of this.
Uh Michelle Steele is with us and Republican whip Steve Scalise.
Uh they put up on Fox News.com uh an op-ed that when the White House celebrated a 16% decrease in in prices for select Fourth of July cookout items.
Americans were left wondering if they were, you know, making a joke because we're now paying, oh, well, let's see, about uh a dollar thirty more per gallon of gasoline.
We have five point five percent inflation, which means we're paying more for everything we buy, then it's costing us more to transport everything that's in our grocery stores and in our and our lows on our home depots and in our pharmacies.
That's all because of of energy costs now soaring.
And then, of course, the corporate income tax gets passed on to you.
So it's all one big lie that you're not gonna pay for it.
Everybody's paying through the nose.
Anyway, uh, welcome back to the program.
Uh Congressman, I will begin with you, your take on this, and what else am I missing here?
Yeah, Sean, good to be with you.
There's so much in this bill that has nothing to do with infrastructure.
And of course, they call it an infrastructure bill.
Uh Pelosi made it clear from the very beginning.
The two bills, the infrastructure bill is directly tied to the tax hike bill.
So think about this.
The infrastructure is the gateway drug to tax hikes to more spending.
And I'm not talking about hundreds of billions.
I'm talking about trillions of dollars.
And that's why Michelle Steele and I wrote that op-ed, because it highlights all the things people are paying for already in inflation, and you will get even more inflation if you add trillions more in spending.
And it's gonna only hurt lower in middle income families.
Think about it.
Bernie Sanders is the guy writing the bill.
Do you really think you're not gonna pay more in your paycheck for a bill that Bernie Sanders writes to raise taxes so that they can do the Green New Deal, amnesty over a hundred billion dollars with a B for amnesty for illegals as President Bordens got an open border crisis that's now a super spreader event at our southern border.
That's what this is all about.
The two are tied inextricably tax hikes with very little infrastructure.
What's your take, Congresswoman?
You know what?
There is actually they are creating vehicle mileage tax on the top of gas tax.
So this is a double taxation.
So this is one point two trillion dollars infrastructure that you know money that we the Senate just passed out of the 550 billion dollars are new funding and rest are tax gimmicks to pay for it.
So this is going to cost next 10 years, maybe more than 10 years our kids and our grandchildren have to pay for it.
So why under Governor Newsom in California, I came from California and you know Governor Newsom we call him is a dictator because he's the one shut down that all the businesses and all the schools last year and why you know we are as as of now we are drowned in high taxes and insane spending why federal government nationalize it because it's been already failed.
That's why we have a recalled election on September 14th it's been set.
So people are not happy about it.
We have to value taxpayers'hard-earned savings and prioritize the American interest, not just raising taxes.
Now, when they talk about going up the corporate income tax from 21% to 28%, Congressman, and when they talk about, well, this is only going to impact people that make $400,000 a year annually, well, first of all, that's not true.
It's not individuals.
That's couples.
So it's really $200,000 per individual.
Am I correct on that point?
Yeah, Sean, that's exactly right.
And it's like these liberals, they want to have amnesia or think that you're going to forget about the past.
past just a few years ago before we were able to work with Donald Trump to cut taxes when we had that highest rate in the world the highest corporate rate in the industrialized world millions of jobs were leaving America great companies thousands of great companies recognizable companies were moving out of America in droves because our tax rate was so high.
Those are the middle class jobs that will leave again and people get this by the way you know that the the liberals in Washington think that you're not going to know just like they they throw their fancy parties they tell you to stay at home with three masks on by yourself and they're out partying with their friends with no masks on they're going to tell you it's not going to affect you if you're a certain income level.
Well when that corporation gets a high enough rate to where they move their company overseas and this happened just a few years ago then those jobs are the first things to go.
The the CEO that's making thirty million dollars isn't going to leave America but he's going to ship the jobs to America and those are the lower income middle class jobs that we were building back.
President Trump brought our middle class back he created a middle class again he fought for those hardworking men and women who were left behind by Washington.
President Biden's trying to leave them behind again by shipping their jobs over to foreign countries with a high tax rate and then creating amnesty with a hundred billion dollars of their tax money to give amnesty to people that came here legally you talk about uh an irony people get this they're fed up with it and I hope we can kill it in the House.
And as we continue, Congresswoman Michelle Steele, Congressman Steve Scalise on this infrastructure spending spree madness, unlike anything we've ever seen in history and the lies behind it.
Congresswoman, I mean, it's actually one hundred and seven billion allocated with immigration and a pathway to amnesty.
And my question is, you only what need a few Democrats to flip and not go along with this.
Are there any moderate voices in the House?
of representatives on the Democratic side that are not going to go along with this?
I hope not because Pelosi far left progressives are pushing that you hope not you mean you hope that they will they won't go along with it.
None of the republic Republicans are going to go with them.
Because my question is, will Democrats go along with Republicans and stop it?
I hope so.
I'm not really sure that you know what Democrats are doing because it seems like that you know they are working together and try to work with the progress episode.
So I'm not really sure, but I hope so.
Because we really have to maybe maybe I guess you're the spirit the whip for those people that don't understand the Washington speak terminology, and um you're you're the vote counter for the Republican side.
Uh I can't imagine a single Republican member of the House is going along with this.
Uh there's only a five seed difference, my at my last count.
Are there any Democrats you see wavering saying that this is not going to help me with my reelection?
Too bad I'm not going along with this madness, Steve?
Yeah, Sean.
There's probably about 30 to 40 Democrats right now that no, they probably already cast so many votes that we're going to be able to beat most of them anyway.
But this bill, the tax hike bill, especially, uh, is incredibly unpopular.
As much as they think the class warfare games working for them, people get that when you raise taxes, no matter who you raise taxes on, it's going to hurt low and middle income workers and it's going to ship millions of jobs out.
So they right now can only lose three votes because there's two special elections that don't happen until November.
So Sean, between now and November, Pelosi only has a three vote majority.
And if we hold all Republicans together on the tax hike bill, which I'm very confident we will, that means if just three Democrats vote with us, and there are a lot more Democrats in moderate districts than three, uh, then she doesn't have the votes.
Today she doesn't have the votes.
She's working to get them, and they're gonna try to throw hundreds of billions of dollars around to buy those off.
But right now they don't have to be able to do that.
How many people do you think are leading against this bill because they know that that's the end of their political career back in their home district?
I'm talking about Democrats.
A dozen members.
You have at least a dozen Democrats right now who've expressed concerns with the bill.
Doesn't mean they'll vote no right now, but they're not for it now.
Which means even if you're so you have a you have a lot of listeners, Sean.
You have millions of people listening right now.
Even if you're represented by a Democrat, pick up the phone and call your member of Congress and let them know how strongly you are opposed to this bill.
Uh the bill borrowing money from our kids.
Think about it.
Our kids are gonna get the this isn't paid for, even with the tax hikes, there will be hundreds of billions of dollars of debt, which means you're gonna give every one of our kids in America a mortgage, but they don't get the house.
They will have a mortgage to pay off without the house because of the debt in this bill.
That leads to higher inflation, not not least of which is gonna be less opportunity for our kids.
So call your member of Congress right now and tell them why you're against this.
Uh, I think we can still hold at least a dozen of them off right now, and and then let's just give us time to get more of the information about what's in the bill.
There's so much bad stuff in the bill that we just need to keep getting the information out.
Well, that I agree with.
Uh listen, I wish you both luck.
Um I'm not that optimistic.
I've seen this movie before.
Uh, but I will tell you this.
This this plan is laid out.
We can't afford it, number one.
Number two, the American people won't want it.
And number three, that this is the end of it.
This this this will now put be the this this will be the rise of the the Tea Party 2.0, and Americans are gonna reject it because they're gonna be paying through the nose.
And all the lies that are being told, oh, only if you make 400,000 a year.
First of all, that's per couple.
That's not an individual.
Oh, we're just gonna we're gonna we're gonna punish these evil corporations.
Yeah, they're gonna pass that cost on to you.
Yeah, the high cost of energy and all this money that they're throwing around all over the place.
It's gotta come from some place.
Well, that's gonna come from the American taxpayer, and then we're gonna pay more for every single good and service we get.
And listen, I uh I I can afford all the bacon I want.
I do my own grocery shopping.
And you know, Oscarmeyer bacon, thick cut bacon used to be, you know, 550, you know, for what, a pound of bacon.
Now it's eight fifty for a pound of bacon where I go Shopping.
Now, is that impact Sean Hannity?
No, it doesn't.
At one point in my life it impacted me.
I wouldn't have gotten it.
But I'm at a point where it doesn't.
But it's impacting literally the middle class in this country and people that don't deserve this.
And we had an economy that was just on a roll, a historic roll with record low unemployment for every demographic group, and we've thrown it all away.
We've thrown energy independence away.
We've opened up the borders for the biggest super spreader event in history.
You got China, you know, following through on their, you know, geographical ambitions uh all across the China Sea and lecturing us on human rights.
You got Putin hacking us left and right, and he's rewarded with a pipeline waiver and a summit.
Uh then you got the Iranian mullahs getting seven billion because of Biden pressure to South Korea to release that money.
I'm like, I wouldn't why are we fighting for the mules in Iran?
This is America last.
This is what it means.
I hope you get the three votes.
If anybody can do it, Steve Scalise, I know it's you.
Uh Congresswoman, it's great to have you on as well.
I wish you both success in what you're doing, but um uh I'm not gonna sit here and and tell you that I'm optimistic.
I'm not.
And this is gonna be disastrous, and we're all gonna pay the price.
We're paying it now.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean is our number.
We'll get to your call's final half hour of the program.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Let's take the news of Cuomo in chronological order here.
First, we're gonna play him saying that the allegations are false.
Then now today saying I take full responsibility for my actions.
I didn't realize I crossed a line.
I made a mistake inappropriately touching a female trooper, uh, announcing his resignation.
I'll play it so you can hear it in kind of chronological order.
The report said I sexually harassed eleven women.
That was the headline people heard and saw and reacted to.
The reaction was outrage.
It should have been.
However, it was also false.
My lawyers, as you just heard from Rita Glavin, have reviewed the report over the past several days, and have already raised serious issues and flaws that should concern all New Yorkers.
Because when there is a bias or a lack of fairness in the justice system, it is a concern for everyone, not just those immediately affected.
The most serious allegations made against me had no credible factual basis in the report.
And there is a difference between alleged improper conduct and concluding sexual harassment.
At public events, troopers will often hold doors open or guard the doorways.
When I walk past them, I often will give them a grip of the arm, a pat on the face, a touch on the stomach, a slap on the back.
It's my way of saying, I see you.
And I thank you.
I'm not comfortable just walking past and ignoring them.
Of course, usually they are male troopers.
In this case, I don't remember doing it at all.
I didn't do it consciously with the female trooper.
I did not mean any sexual connotation.
I did not mean any intimacy by it.
I just wasn't thinking.
It was totally thoughtless in the literal sense of the word.
But it was also insensitive.
It was embarrassing to her, and it was disrespectful.
It was a mistake.
And I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing.
And therefore, that's what I'll do.
Because I work for you.
And doing the right thing is doing the right Thing for you.
Because as we say, it's not about me.
It's about we.
Kathy Hoakham, my lieutenant governor is smart and competent.
This transition must be seamless.
We have a lot going on.
I'm very worried about the Delta variant.
And so should you be.
But she can come up to speed quickly.
and my resignation will be effective in 14 days uh here is what i i think tipped the balance in all of this it was it was a powerful interview I had to go over to the mansion to help the governor with a state of the state speech.
And while I was upstairs in the office, the governor said, Why don't you take a selfie?
So his suggestion you said.
Yes.
With your phone?
With my phone.
I then felt while taking the selfie, his hand go down my back onto my butt, and he started rubbing it.
Not sliding it, not you know, quickly brushing over it, rubbing my butt.
And did you ask him, What are you doing?
Well, this was while I was taking the selfie, I became so nervous that my hands were clearly shaking, and a lot of the photos that I was snapping were completely blurry.
I showed him them, and he said, Oh, you know, those aren't, you know, those aren't good.
And he said, Why don't we go sit on the couch?
And we can take a better one.
So you said on the couch.
Um, I sat on the couch because I thought to myself, okay, I don't think on the couch that he would have a way to just do what he just did.
So I felt safer, actually, on the couch.
And in the photo, you know, I had my arm wrapped around his shoulder.
You know, almost as if you know, we were taking a picture with a buddy.
And that is the one that has been blurred out that has been now released to the public.
Now that's the second woman that's come on the record.
That's Brittany Camiso.
So that is said, groping, grabbing, fondling, unwanted touching, etc.
etc.
Again, both crimes.
I mean, the last statement is this is criminal, and it's um, you know, it's it's just not gonna fly.
Anyway, or anyway, let's get to our phones.
Uh the one thing I can say is for those of you living in New York, don't think New York's gonna change politically.
That's not gonna happen right now.
Now, whether one of the whether the people of New York have just had it with high taxes, Albany corruption, Andrew Cuomo, you know, at a a radical socialist assembly and Senate, and unequal justice under the law, defunding the police, you know, no fracking that would, you know, literally save New York in and of itself.
Um I don't uh I my hopes aren't high.
There's always a chance.
I mean, you got you got guys like you know, Rob Astorino and Andrew Giuliani and uh what's his name, Congressman Zeldon running for governor.
You got Curtis Slewa running as an independent Republican uh for mayor of New York City, he'd be a great mayor.
He's gonna he's running on Rudy Giuliani's platform.
What worked in the Giuliani years he will implement again and they'll work again if they use them.
And a guy has proven himself, you know, with a lot of street cred by going out there every day in the subways.
He's done it for decades to help protect New Yorkers.
And in the process, you know, taking even in some cases, kids that are are troubled and giving them a purpose in life and transforming their lives.
I've seen it, I've been there.
Uh I've seen these guys on the subway.
When I'm I don't do I go on the subway much down, no, I'm not really one.
I'm kind of canceled in New York.
When you say, Linda, half canceled at least.
Yeah, I think probably three quarters, 80% canceled.
Depends on where you are.
It depends on what put the what point what point of the day it might be.
Yeah.
And then a lot of people say, well, why do you always go to the same restaurants?
Because uh my friends in the restaurants protect me.
That's what that's very true.
They're all family.
Is there anybody that that when I become friends with people and I become a customer if I like people and owners and so on and so forth?
Well, what do I I go back again and again and again?
Oh, yeah.
You love the same place.
No, I was saying you love all the same places.
You're a creature habit.
Yeah, but I also, you know, all you know how much extra food I ordered during the pandemic.
If I ever added it up, it would probably rival my son's Uber Eat and Grubhub pills.
Which I don't know about that, boy.
That guy can eat.
My son graduates college and you know, he's he's now running his own thing.
He's doing you know, he's in he's making his own money.
And I'm like, okay, that's it.
You're on your own.
He goes, Dad, you said that I could have unlimited amount of money for food.
You're not gonna ever yell at me because I buy food.
I said, Nope.
And and you as many Ubers as I want.
You say unlimited Ubers, because who what parent wants in the age of Uber, you know, their kids to be driving if they've been out at a party, if they've had a couple of drinks, whatever.
Um, so yeah, I said, yeah.
I said you still have unlimited you know, amount of food you can buy and unlimited amount of Uber that you can use, but the only difference is now you have to pay for it.
He could not believe it.
And I'm like, then I'm telling his sister, yeah, that's you in three years.
And she's like, what?
I'm like, well what what is this?
A reality check here?
You know, what's my gift for graduation?
I supported you throughout college.
Now go make your money.
That's exactly right.
That's the perfect gift.
No debt really I like this.
I like this watch.
And I said, How much is the watch?
You now anybody that knows me knows I don't wear any jewelry.
I hate jewelry.
You know, I just wear baseball hats, uh, firemen, t-shirts and and police and FBI t-shirts and hats, and I wear my kids' school shirts that they bought me, which are really nice and I like I like that you know what I like now?
I'm into the long sleeve t-shirt.
I don't know why.
I just love it.
It's 98 degrees outside.
I know, but I like to sweat.
Like when I'm working out with sensei, I love to sweat.
So I like you you know, because when I s when I saw you recently, we were on the road, you saw you were like, what are you doing?
And I said, Don't you like this cool shirt?
And you Yeah, I like it in the winter time, not in the summertime when it's really hot.
Right now I have sweat beating off my head because I like to sweat because it just it it helps it helps my energy flow better.
Okay, well, that's just weird, but you do you.
No, I'm not being weird.
That's not weird.
One, you know, we had a good, you know, I had a good workout today, even though I'm really injured.
But now you're dressed long sleeved and you're sitting perfectly still.
Yeah, and I mean I I can't even begin to tell you the the the level of pain I feel right now because I just am too stubborn and I'm not gonna stop working out.
All right.
Anyway, are we are we talking about that or are we not talking about that?
No, we're not gonna talk about the real part.
All right, we're not gonna talk about it.
All right, 800 941.
And you know, and you know why?
Because nobody really wants to hear it anyway.
Number one and number two, okay.
You know, we all have little aches and pains and and twists and turns and and this and that.
No, what do you want me to complain that I that you know I I twisted my knee?
That's what it has to do with, and then it's a bigger story than that, but I'm not gonna.
Well, yeah, because you twisted your knee and you were belligerent.
And you didn't know.
What do you mean I was belligerent?
I wasn't believing.
How long how long was your knee bothering you?
Okay, about two weeks.
Sorry, how long?
About two weeks.
So there you go.
What why does that amuse you?
Yes, because you could have gotten to healing faster if you would just admit that you're in a little bit of pizza.
I view prophin, and I took uh what I put ice on it, and I did all the.
What do you always say?
I'm not a doctor.
I'm not gonna pretend to be one on radio.
People throw my words right back in my face.
You're just like my kids.
That's so annoying.
I've been here long enough.
Sarah California, the United Socialist Utopia.
Hey, Sarah.
Uh September, what is it, 15th?
You got a big recall going on out there.
We sure do.
And I'm such a huge part of it right now.
I have recalls having me some stickers in my car, hanging off my door on my um front lawn, and I've got extras in the back just in case somebody decides to steal my my lawn sign.
Oh man.
Wow, you're excited.
Well, you know, it's gonna be about turnout.
I think that California this week is mailing out last I checked about 24 million ballots.
Good luck keeping the integrity in that system.
I yeah, I feel you on that.
And when they were talking about recall, I was talking about, well, what about our election integrity before we start even with the recall, but nobody removing from that.
Well, I'm I'm listening I'm I'm not gonna be dishonest.
I'm just gonna be honest.
I I do not have faith in the election integrity in a state like California that is run solely by one party.
It's a one party state like New York.
I don't trust you.
I totally agree.
I totally agree.
However, I can't sit back and do nothing.
My children are in school, they're back in masks, they're back in school.
They're we're we're looking at these uh vaccine mandates, and we are I I either move out or I push back as hard with everything I have.
And this is my last hold on my last push, my last hey, you know, I've been sitting on the sidelines for so long that I needed to get involved, and here I am, um, doing the best I can with what I've got, raising children and having a husband and you know, a career.
So life is hard.
What you're describing is everybody.
You know, you you were everybody works hard.
You're trying to do good do good by your kids and raise them right, and you know, get them to study, get good grades, take them to their activities, you know, find a a little time to have fun as a family.
But I mean, life's busy.
I mean, day-to-day life is a grind, and that's the way it's designed.
And I'm really, you know, it's kind of like the Brooks and Dunn song.
You know, that's what it's all about.
And if you haven't heard it, Google it and listen to it and watch the video.
And you know, these are the things that you you know, when you really think back, you're most fond of.
All right, we love you, Sarah.
We're gonna be watching you state closely, I promise.
800-941 Shauna's our number.
Wrap things up for today.
All right, Cuomo resigns.
We'll have the very latest.
We're we're not going to ignore what's in this insane infrastructure bill.
Uh, that yes, is going to tax and hurt every single American.
Uh loaded up tonight, the great one, Mark Levin, Senator Kennedy.
He's become like a program hero.
Uh, Janice Dean has been working hard to get rid of Cuomo.
She'll join us.
Joe Concha, Mike Huckabee, uh Greg Jarrett will join us, Sarah Carter's investigation, and Dana Lash.
And also maybe Gronda Santis.
Nine Eastern Hannity Fox.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow.
Thank you as always for being with us.
▲
Export Selection