Face It, We've Got A Recession - July 29th, Hour 1
Sean runs through the numbers again and it's obvious that we're officially in a recession. Today, we heard, June's prices have increased at the highest rate since 2005. The Biden administration is still in denial but the numbers just don't lie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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And you have White House officials come up here to say, no, no, no, that's not what a recession is.
It's something else.
How is that not redefining recession?
Because that's not the definition.
Two negative quarters of GDP growth is not uh the technical definition of recession.
It's not the definition that economists have traditionally uh relied on.
It's not a game.
There's a technical thing called a recession, and its definition is as I've described it.
That doesn't sound like a recession to me.
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So much news going on.
I I've had so much reaction.
Linda, the call that we had at the end of the show yesterday, this woman that had called in, and she had had an abortion.
What when she was 14 years old.
She's 60 years old now.
Yeah.
Um have you seen the stuff that Sweet Baby James has been reading about this?
It's horrible.
I mean, people are just so moved.
They were so moved by it, and you know, I thought back about it, and actually I had people reaching out to me that wanna want to help her.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
And you know, especially from a religious perspective, it's kind of became more of a religious conversation.
You know, we go there sometimes, but not a lot of times, uh, which is you know, obviously the very important part of my life, but um she's just been it seemed like it just was a spontaneous cathartic moment for her,
and it just came flooding out of her, and it was like for the first time ever, she was she she had to get this off her chest because she has been so guilt-ridden about it her entire life, and you know, one of the things about life.
You don't know too much just yet.
Yeah, you don't know uh you don't know Adam Schiff about anything at 14 years.
I think you do.
There you go.
Um, you know, I just I just felt bad for her.
And you know, this is the whole perception, too.
And we're gonna get to the issues of the day.
I know everybody's expecting that, but this is the thing.
There's nobody that has led a perfect life.
There's nobody that would want their worst moments on videotape.
There's nobody that wants to confess the worst things they've ever done in their life.
And for whatever reason, I guess the moment was right.
We had just talked to this crisis pregnancy center uh reverend who was reopening his place after I guess they had firebombed the place.
And it just reminded her and brought all these memories out and all these feelings she's had all these years.
And I just thought that the one thing that was missing, and I think there's a big misconception out there about people that are Christian or say that they're Christian or want to be Christians, that somehow these people are perfect, they're not perfect.
It's just the opposite.
The whole idea is you're seeking redemption, you're see seeking forgiveness.
You're you're the word repentance means you want to change your heart.
You want to be a better person.
And you just happen to believe that that God created the world.
It's this kind of fits into our governing philosophy that rights come from God, natural rights, they don't come from government.
We're endowed by a creator, we're not endowed by a government.
Um, and you notice that a lot of authoritarianism is rooted in the power of the state and rights coming from the state.
No, natural rights believes that life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, that that that comes directly from God.
It's a right of of birth, if you will.
And that if you live in a country that is free, you have the best opportunity and the best chance to take those natural God-given talents you have and bring them to fruition, and and then you start contributing, hopefully, for the betterment of humanity.
And you know, on the one hand, it's like people have misconstrued what that means.
You know, when I hear people are Christians, it doesn't mean, oh, you're perfect.
It the people that I know are the ones that are like me that are the sinners that need the the changed heart that need to be better, that want to be better, and strive to be better.
Um, but it was just interesting, you know, the reaction we got to that call that just happened, you know, came up out pretty much out of nowhere.
And I'll say, you know, I know that you said that you wanted to move on, and we'll get to the news of the day.
I gotta say, you know, not putting all my bias aside, obviously, because I'm obsessed with news and I live and eat it and breathe it just like you every day.
I think every once in a while it's kind of nice to have a segment that spontaneously happens, and it's just like it's humanity, right?
Like here she is, she's sixty years old, she's held this her whole life.
Um, she feels guilty, she feels sad, she feels like she can't unburden herself from it, and she wants to save others from shouldering that same feeling because it's like it's kind of like when somebody says, you never know what you're gonna feel like when you have kids until you have kids, right?
And people say, Oh, whatever.
And then you have kids, you're like, Oh, I get it.
I get it now.
Sometimes you're gonna be able to do that.
I was a broadcaster in Alabama, and just I was tweaking people and having fun.
It was more of a a bit that I was doing on on air.
And parents would call in, and in the South, they they would hit a kid with what they called a switch.
They'd have a kid go out in the backyard, grab a stick, and you know, if you did something wrong, you get a swat on the backside, you know, spare the rod, spoil the child, that sort of thing.
I I never hit my kids.
I found just taking their stuff worked better, and whatever works.
It definitely works.
Oh, my, but my father ripped off his belt and kicked the crap out of me.
And by the way, I can look back in retrospect, and I deserved every bit of it and probably a lot more.
Um at certain points in my young, in my young age, my youth, I was a bit incorrigible, would be the word I'd use, or the nuns would use, or the priests would use in high school.
Um, but uh I think that the whole the whole beauty of Christianity is is that God so loved the world he sent his only begotten son.
And if you believe in him, you know, that you will be forgiven and reconciled to God the Father, and that that is the whole message that He is the source of your salvation, a belief in that system.
Doesn't mean that you go ahead.
If if I may, you know, so even for those who are more secular in nature, right?
So we have a we have a large constituent of listeners who may not be as religious as we are.
And even putting that aside, she really just added a very humane aspect to the whole conversation.
Obviously, she was driven by her belief in Christ and how she found even a little bit of salvation in that.
But I think overall, what she's saying is we're not giving people enough information.
And even when we had Reverend Hardin on, where we didn't agree on every issue, it was a conversation that nobody is having, which is the conversation about life.
And why is it okay to only have one side of the conversation and not both?
And why are people firebombing information centers about life?
I it's that's all it is.
It's a good thing.
And then people and they're offering alternatives.
They're saying, okay, we will pay for your health care.
If you need help with housing, we're gonna help you there too.
If you need uh if you're not able at this point in your life to raise the child, we'll we'll find a good home for your babies to to live in.
And it's just an option, it's a choice.
People don't have to follow through, they're not forced to walk into that center, and they're not forced to do uh what what they might be asked to do or accept the help that is being offered.
Um to your credit, Sean, you kind of let her talk.
It was a very I think when someone says, I've never said this before, and I'm gonna say it right now on your show in front of you know millions of listeners, you're like, uh, okay, what are you gonna say?
And I think if there was some part of it, I mean, who knows?
I mean, I think everything happens for a reason.
Katie and I were talking about it today.
I know you were just saying you and Sweet Baby were talking about it.
Everybody started reaching out.
Can we talk to her?
Can can she help me?
Um, what can we do?
Pastors wanting to mentor, wanting to help her work through her demons, whatever, you know.
And I think that that's the type of humanity that we miss every day in general conversation.
You know, you look at these kids beating up cops in the subway, they literally have no humanity in them.
They've no one has taught it to them, they have not been given it, they are not giving it back.
I mean, it it's just a foreign concept at this point.
We're life is so cheap.
It's one other thing too, though.
But you know, the fact that somebody feels guilty, I don't think guilt is a bad thing.
I think guilt is uh an awareness in your mind that you're doing something wrong, and when that guilt becomes so burdensome, um, you want to change it.
The only thing that I would have added, and uh it was a pastor friend of mine that that pointed this out, and sweet baby James is the one that has always pointed out to me that the most powerful prayer is the Lord's prayer, because that's the one that Jesus gave to his disciples when they said, Well, how do you pray?
What do you have you know, what he's praying, you know, when he took said the Lord's prayer, the the words forgive us as we forgive.
Now, I'm not you, I know for sure, you're like the world's worst forgiver, or you used to be.
No, I think I'm pretty bad at it.
Yeah, all right.
So I'm that's not my greatest strength either.
I'm not the world's best forgiver.
And knowing that, but this it's there's a kind of magic to it when you think about it, says forgive us as we forgive.
In other words, when you forgive others for the things that they do to you, whatever it happens to be, you know, in a way you're you're kind of lifting the burden on yourself.
And my hope for that woman the day after would be that that she would understand that that was the whole purpose.
I mean, it's kind of an amazing thing that you know, here's a guy that has been beaten and humiliated and spit at and and nailed to a cross.
Uh, and and in his last words pretty much are forgive them, father, they don't know what they do.
Or having the guy on the other side of him say, I belong here, I deserve this.
Um, this is justice.
You what's happening to you is not just and Jesus and all that pain and in that moment turned to that guy, this day you'll be with me in paradise.
And then, of course, my favorite biblical saying as everybody knows is let not your heart be troubled.
And then Jesus goes on to explain to my father's house are many mansions, and I go there to prepare a place for you.
But go ahead.
So I think there's a funny so Liam's birthday was yesterday, and uh, he turned seven, and he says to me, and I said, No, I said, enjoy it, it's gonna end soon.
So I said, No, I was like, this is the day that God made mommy so happy.
And he goes, What do you mean?
I'm like, because God gave you life, and we gotta thank him.
And he goes, Mom, I'm already alive.
And so this starts a whole conversation.
And he goes, Can I ask you a question?
I said, sure.
He goes, How come God died for us?
And I said, Well, God so saved the world.
God loved the world so much that you know he gave his only begotten son.
And he was like, So God gave up Jesus because he loved us so much.
And I said, Yeah.
And he looks at me.
That's a lot of love.
And I said, Yeah.
And I'm thinking, I wonder how many parents are having this conversation with their kids.
You know, I mean, whatever your religion is, however, you follow it.
Not in a public school.
You're not allowed to mention God.
You can only gender identity.
You can only do that.
I don't think any of those things should be at school.
I think they should all be home with their, unless you're going to a religious school.
This is by the way, I have a deep respect and profound respect for many all other religions.
I mean, America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
That's that is not an issue in dispute.
And but we're also a nation that believes in freedom of religion.
And that means pretty much any religion.
And we're tolerant of people that have varying religious views, or you know, I've I've debated many atheists in my life as well.
The only thing I want being taught at school is the Pledge of Allegiance, math, science, English, the rest of it, Jim, you know, kindness, the rest of it leave it to me.
You know, uh Math Science, English, computers, reading, writing.
You know, let's stick to the basics, and the mom and dad deal with the the value systems at home.
I have one important note.
Charlie Daniels texted me.
He said that um Charlie Daniels Sr. used to let him pick his switch before he got whooped.
That a lot of parents did.
My father didn't wait, it just ripped off the belt and boom, here it comes.
It was funny.
My mother would come in the room.
Yoy, you're gonna have a heart attack.
Stop, stop.
You're gonna have a heart attack.
If it was snowing outside, you know, and I was procrastinating.
I didn't feel like going out and shoveling the huge driveway.
Or when you were sketching on the back of buses, maybe.
All right, all right.
My kids uh-huh.
That that has gotten back to my kids thanks to people like you.
They're all no.
No, my my daughter's reaction was, you dad, you used to do that?
I'm like, no, no, that's not true.
I didn't really.
That was just a joke.
We were just kidding.
Yeah, we're just they're just talking.
Just talking.
All right.
But I hope that woman can take her foot off her neck a little bit.
Yeah.
Because that message, that's that to me is the essence of it.
You don't deserve the forgiveness, but you get the forgiveness.
100%.
A lot of love behind that.
Your brother, Liam, gets the gold star of the day.
All right.
As we told you in the beginning of the week, it was not gonna be a good week economically in terms of news, consumer confidence now, an all-time low.
Uh, the Fed, 75 basis point increase in interest rates.
That's not good.
Now it's hitting the housing market market as we've been predicting, and new home construction is coming to a screeching halt.
It's gonna stop even further.
Uh, sales of pre-existing homes, that will stop because nobody's gonna give up their low rates that they locked in, 30-year fixed rate, 3%.
Why would you go for a seven and a half percent rate at 30 years?
Uh, it's thousands of more dollars, especially over the course of your loan.
And uh, you know, and then of course we are now officially in a recession, although they try to lie to us continually and say we're not in an in a recession.
More information out today.
Inflation surged in June.
Workers' average wages accelerated this spring.
Signs that Americans won't feel likely any relief from all these rising prices anytime soon, and that the Fed will feel compelled to further raise borrowing costs.
Now, the inflation gauge that is closely tracked by the Fed jumped 6.8% in June from just a year ago.
We just got this number today.
That's the biggest jump in four decades.
Much of the increase driven by energy and food on a month-to-month basis.
Prices surged in June, the biggest increase in 2005.
So every indicator, even the ones that the Fed uses, shows rapid decline, and they're still in denial.
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You know, listen to how many Democrats, and this is now this goes to the heart of what happened yesterday.
New York Post has their front cover today.
They have a picture of Joe Biden in the lower right-hand corner, looking dazed and confused as always, uh, with his finger at his head, like he's trying to think.
The word you're looking for, Joe, recession.
A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in the GDP in two successive quarters.
The country is in the depths of a recession, because two consecutive quarters of negative decline represents a recession.
So now the answer is what are they going to do?
Now the answer is they're going to come back and they're going to raise taxes nearly a trillion dollars.
Now, Democrats themselves listen to the likes of uh Geitner and Joe Manchin and even Barack Obama, you don't raise taxes in the middle of a recession.
Listen in your own their own words.
I don't think during a time of recession you mess with any of the taxes or increase any taxes.
And it does not make sense to raise taxes in a recession.
So getting growth on track led by the five sector is gonna is still our most important priority.
The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of uh a recession uh because that would just suck up, take more demand out of the economy and put businesses uh in a further hole.
So we're not in a recession, according to them, even though by everybody's definition, going back just to 2020, they all used the current definition reasonable people are using.
What bothers me is they they think so little of us.
You know, when people like when my kids were young and they would try to lie to me, and I'd say, you gotta stop.
You're insulting my intelligence.
They're insulting all of us by saying, oh no, this is not a recession.
Yes, it is a recession.
Yeah, but unemployment is low.
We haven't even reached pre-pandemic levels of employment.
Stop lying about that, too.
Because it's just a misdirection on their part.
The central reason the job market is so tight is many companies are finding it impossible to hire people because that they have left the workplace in droves.
And the economies only now recovering some of the jobs lost in the pandemic.
Not all of the jobs lost in the pandemic.
And yet they all go out there with the same lie, because that's what it is.
It's a lie.
I hate I just hate being lied to.
And out of nowhere, in comes Joe Manchin and pulling that game that he played.
There was a where did I see this today?
I am a firm believer in the people.
If they're given the truth, they can be dependent upon to meet any national crisis.
That's a blinking.
So the numbers come out yesterday, and this is Joe Biden.
Well, it doesn't sound like a recession.
Uh does that sound like a guy that's in touch with anything?
It's a recession.
Every statistic is screaming it is a recession.
Every indicator is it is a recession.
And it's and now in the middle of this, you make the dumb decision of doing exactly what even your your beloved Barack Obama and Joe Manchin said, and that is you don't raise taxes during a recession.
You know, and anyway, we have what?
What are you saying in my ear?
Oh, and so then Joe Biden starts lecturing us.
Joe Biden's mad.
Joe Biden isn't like he's very irritable.
I mean, it goes hand in hand with people that are in cognitive decline, by the way.
They're very can be very cranky people.
And Joe Biden, a little confused over America's uh recession fears, then starts kind of yelling at the American people, whoa, because we're not giving you $8,000 checks.
Listen.
But I started thinking about it.
Just as uh, you know, somebody who's raised a middle class kid.
One year, even though you didn't have the job you have now, even though you didn't get a raise that year, the difference between having a job, having a five percent raise or whatever, three, five seven, whatever it happens to be in the face of inflation.
Price of the pump, although that's down every day so far.
But, you know, it's like, whoa, I feel worse off.
But then again, I didn't get a check for eight grand from the government.
They just, among other things.
Does that make any sense to anybody, or is it just me?
Oh.
Does that make any sense or is that just me?
It's just you, Joe.
So he's saying it doesn't feel like a recession, even though it's a reality.
You know, he said the very definition is met.
Then, of course, Corin Jean-Pierre will say anything that Joe Biden needs to have her say.
No, we're not in a recession.
Uh transition into a stable and steady growth.
This transition thing that they keep going back to.
Their transition means, yeah, we're gonna force the American people to pay high energy prices until we get renewable energy independence, which is not gonna happen for the next 20 years at a minimum.
It's not happening.
Yellin says the economy's not in a recession.
They've been wrong the whole time.
By the way, there's a story about Wikipedia has suspended the edit feature on its recession page after users flocked to amend it to concur with Biden's claim that the U.S. isn't suffering a downturn.
The page apparently was altered 47 times over a roughly 24 hour period with an ad administrator locking unregistered users out until August in an effort to curb what the encyclopedia website characterizes as vandalism and malicious edits.
Uh they don't seem to care when it comes to my Wikipedia page because I've seen nothing but lies the few times I've looked at it.
Um anyway, so Manchin shifts into uh defense is as Dem's, you know, he himself that they're going forward with this idiotic reconciliation bill that they say will raise, you know, nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes, in spite of even Barack Obama's warning.
You know, it's um it's good policy, I guess makes for good politics, but the reverse is also true.
Senate Republicans proved uh all of this as their, you know, home state handouts paved a runway for Biden's long-sought climate tax and health care agenda, and we can't afford what they're doing to this country.
And it's only gonna move, it's not gonna move the the needle.
Well, we're gonna tax rich corporations.
Corporations don't pay taxes.
Biden says it's no surprise after negative GDP report for two straight quarters signaling a recession, but it's not a recession.
The Schumer Mansion Tax and Subsidy Pact.
That's how the Wall Street Journal characterized this.
715-page bill.
A more accurate name would be the Business Investment Reduction and Distortion Act, uh, since the result of the 433 billion dollars in climate and health care spending and 615 billion in new taxes and quote drug price control savings,
a 15% minimum tax on corporations uh book income, they are claiming over a billion dollars, so they're claiming a billion dollars of new tax increases, and the Democrats will claim will raise $313 billion by 2031.
This new alternative minimum tax will slam businesses whose taxable income is lower than their profits on their financial statements, owing to the likes of investment expenses, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Um, this is just gonna worsen inflation.
This is all just gonna backfire on all of them.
House Republicans have a plan.
Their leadership in the House is forming a, you know, after Manchum agreed to go with Chuck Schumer, uh, anyway, in a in a Republican, the Democrats have been looking to pass this CHIP Act.
Um, it's called the Chips and Science Act, and House Minority Whip and is Steve Scalise office is urging members now to vote no against that.
This legislation comes to the House precisely as the Senate Democrats struck this deal on this reconciliation bill, you know, pairing up a tone-deaf agenda with one that hands out billions of dollars in corporate handouts, and on the other hand, undoes historic tax cuts implemented by Republicans,
and the U.S. Senate passed this thing through legislation, the CHIP Act 6433, though it was not until after the bill passed the body that Manchin and Schumer announced their agreement anyway, in a in a column for Town Hall.
Uh, one writer suggesting that the CHIPS Act invariably grows the budget deficit.
So now maybe the Republicans will fight back on that front.
We'll see.
I don't know what the Republicans are gonna do here.
The reality is they're just making the economy worse.
But Joe Biden's angry, complaining about inflation that we forgot that we sent that they were sent a check for $8,000.
By the way, who was sent the check for $8,000?
Were you sent a check, Linda, for $8,000?
I never got $8,000.
I I think it got lost in the mail.
I think it got lost in the mail.
Now they did send me two checks for something like $800.
I don't know, 400, or what was it, $600 each?
And I sent it to my accountant and said, Whatever you do, don't cash it.
I said, somehow, you know, it's it's gonna be a headline.
Hannity got money from the government.
I don't need that.
I don't need that headache.
It's not worth the 600 bucks.
I'm not sure what's going on.
Maybe Muriel Bowser for the first time wants the National Guard.
We were talking a little bit about that last night on TV.
We'll talk more about it tonight.
But the Biden administration seems to quietly be approving construction of the U.S. border wall near Yuma, Arizona and one other place.
Joe Biden once said that he's never gonna do this.
Trump campaigned on build that wall.
Are you willing to tear that wall down?
No, I'm there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration.
Number one.
Um I'm gonna make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it.
And at the ports of entry, that's rolling back.
What about the land confiscations?
And stop, done, over, not gonna do it.
Withdraw the lawsuits.
We're out.
We're not gonna confiscate the land.
We're out.
And look at the disaster at the border.
It's pretty unbelievable.
You know, the one thing that's working, the one thing that finally motivated Muriel Bowser to call up the National Guard is it was Governor Greg Abbott sending all of the illegal immigrants in this country to Washington, D.C. And we need to put this on steroids.
Every state, they're dumping illegal immigrants in every state.
Uh, and what they ought to do is the governors of Republican governors need to pack up buses and send every illegal immigrant.
You're not gonna participate in lawbreaking, you're not gonna aid in a bet what Biden is doing.
And if they wanna, if they want to break the law, send all the illegal immigrants they're bringing into the country, send them to Muriel Bowser and Joe Biden.
Send everybody to Washington, D.C. Greg Abbott had it right.
Uh it's gonna be very interesting.
We're not getting any heads up.
We don't know what Nancy Pelosi's gonna do.
I I guess she's taken off on her trip to Asia, but nobody knows if she's gonna stop at Taiwan, at least not at this point, especially after the beatdown that Joe Biden got from President Chi yesterday.
Those who play with fire will get burned.
You know, wouldn't you have preferred a president that stood up to the communist Chinese and said, when are you gonna compensate the world for what you did to the world with COVID-19?
The you know, everything you need to know is in this one travel ban.
Remember, they talked about the Trump travel ban.
The travel ban in China is way more revealing.
Because remember, China would not allow anybody in China outside of Wuhan province to travel to Wuhan province.
And if you were in Wuhan province, you are not allowed to travel outside of Wuhan province to any other part of China.
But while that was going on, that travel ban existed.
You were able to get on a plane in Wuhan province and go all over the world and conduct business.
Now, why do you think that is?
What did the Chinese government know that we didn't know?
When when where is the penalty for intellectual property theft?
And if the Chinese are not going to be willing to be fair trade partners, why would you eliminate the tariffs the way Joe Biden is doing it?
Why would you give them preferential treatment now, especially after they're threatening you?
Why would you give a million barrels of our strategic petroleum reserves to the communist Chinese at a time when we were paying more for a gallon of gasoline and a gallon of diesel that we've ever paid for in in the history in history?
I mean, it's nuts.
Play with fire, you'll get burned.
Fierce warning to Biden on Taiwan, two-hour call, tensions reaching a boiling point.
There's no word at all whether or not, you know, what about the oppression of the minority Uyghurs in China?
Did Joe bring that up?
Did Joe bring up compensating families that lost loved ones because of the virus from the Wuhan Virology lab and China's cover-up of that, along with the World Health Organization?
Did Joe bring up unfair trade practices?
Did Joe bring up intellectual property theft?
These are simple questions.
The White House refuses to say if Biden pressed President Qi on the origins of COVID-19.
You know, the greatest threat to the U.S. is now China.
The greatest, you know, access of evil threat to the world is China, Russia, and Iran, which has now formed an alliance.
And it shouldn't surprise anybody that the Kremlin today offered strong support for China amid the tensions with Taiwan, warning the United States against any provocation or any moves that would exacerbate the situation.
So now we're getting threatened by Putin again.
You know what?
You can't make this Adam Schiff up.
I'll tell you right now.
Pretty depressing.
Pretty sad.
All preventable.
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