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I guess to to begin with,

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what you have described with our healthcare system

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happened,

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identical thing happened to me, you know, except

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with, you know, a different medical condition

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where,

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I get a certain test. It's an alarming

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test. They say you gotta have a set

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up an appointment right away,

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with a specialist. I called a specialist and

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they say, oh, we have an appointment for

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May or June, two or three months away.

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And and of course, you have to personally

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advocate for yourself.

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And and unfortunately we're boomers

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and fortunately we know doctors who are still

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in practice and for for fortunately

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you know we get through to somebody and

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we get what we need. But I really

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feel sorry for the younger people who don't

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have those personal contacts and let's face it

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all those doctors who we have personal contacts

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with they're retiring,

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you know, they're leaving.

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And it is a real crisis

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that we have.

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I I know I think when they enacted

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the Obamacare in 2010 or 2011,

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the primary doctor who I had for like

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thirty years and and I went to the

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guy's father before him.

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You know I'd say eight out of 10

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of my doctors just retired or went out

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of business or joined big practices.

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It's horrible what's happened

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and you're right.

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You know nobody cares now that the government

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is paying, now that the government decides who

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gets paid, who doesn't get paid,

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the interest is in pleasing the government bureaucrats,

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not the patients. And it's a very, very

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bad thing.

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Yes. It is. Yes. It is. And fortunately,

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like you said,

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I know people who know people, and that

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got me in. You know? So

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but but you're right. What if you didn't

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have that?

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I mean, really,

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when a doctor tells you you may have

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this is serious stuff.

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doesn't really realize that it's serious, and the

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per the patient needs to be seen. So

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it's it's it's very frustrating. Let me tell

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you. I was frustrated for a couple of

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days. Believe me.

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Well, a a lot of people are, and,

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unfortunately, that's the new normal.

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And when you have any medical condition, you

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know, you just have to change the way

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you do things that you just can't go

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by yourself. You almost have to get

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a friend or family member involved,

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to be your your advocate. Because sometimes when

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you're concerned about your medical condition and the

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doctor or nurse is telling you stuff, you're

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worried about your condition. You're not not focusing

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on on how to see, you know, the

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next person or what the procedure is or

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what form has to be sold out. So

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you almost need an advocate with you at

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every step of the health care, process.

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again, it it it didn't used to be

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that way. It then doesn't have to be

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that way, but that's what happens when people

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want something for nothing, when people want something

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where somebody else is paying for it.

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Back in the day, you know, when we

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paid our own doctors for everything

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except for major medical,

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we were spending a lot less money. And

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again,

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we were the customer. We were the person

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in charge. We controlled our health care and

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we had a very nice country back then.

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So I I don't wanna sit well on

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that, but Yeah. I'm I'm but it is

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it is a major problem that few people

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talk about it until it happens to them.

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Then people talk about it, but a lot

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of times it's too late. Yeah.

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Well May may may meanwhile, other things going

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on,

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in Egg Harbor Township,

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the voters approved

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of borrowing 16

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rather not $1,636,000,000

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dollars

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to basically do routine maintenance

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on public schools in Egg Harbor Township.

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And when I say the voters approved,

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the vote was

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fourteen

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seventy one voted yes

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and 857

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voted no.

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And that's out of 37,520

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voters in Egg Harbor Township. Wow.

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So you had a total of 2,400

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people

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turned out to vote in an election

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to borrow 36,000,000

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And, you have not everyone who who is

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registered to vote votes, but normally in Egg

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Harbor Township in the local elections, you'll have

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about 24,000

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people voted.

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So only 10%

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of the Egg Harbor Township people voted,

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on this major borrowing,

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that that would

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that should never have happened.

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But this is exactly the way it was

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designed.

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By the way, if you divide the the

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$36,000,000

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by the 1,400

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voters, it's almost like each voter got $11,000.

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So,

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the Egg Harbor Township School Board Members

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designed it that way.

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They spent a $100,000

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roughly to have a special election on March

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10. They could have had it on about

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November,

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but they know knew darn well that if

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they had it November with the regular 24,000

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people voting, this thing would have been voted

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down by a landslide.

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But they hired these high paid consultants

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who who said, if you want to borrow

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this money, you have to do the special

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election so that 90% of the voters

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won't even know about this thing. And now

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you could slip it through.

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And and that's the new norm, Ed. So

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I I talked about it for the last

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two weeks about how awful this was

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That,

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you know, when you have a condominium,

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yeah, you have the the condominium association

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has the budget for the roof needing to

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be fixed every twenty years. The elevator needing

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to be fixed after, you know, at every

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twelve years. The place having to be painted

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every eight years. And in Florida, if you

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don't budget that money and you're on the

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condominium board and and a repair needs to

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be made, you could go to jail.

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But in New Jersey, it's normal practice.

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And instead of cracking down

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on this real misconduct,

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the state actually encourages,

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school boards and elected officials to let their

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buildings run down and then borrow the money.

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And then the state actually gives some state

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aid to to sweeten the pie.

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And and and why do we get in

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this situation?

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Because everything in New Jersey

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is too expensive.

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We have all the union rules. We have

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all the environmental rules. We have all the

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diversity, equity, and inclusion rules. We have all

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the lawsuit rules. So it's,

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it's crazy, but this is normal.

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But as long as we,

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you know, instead of dealing with the problem,

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while we borrow the money and let our

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grandkids,

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pay for the problem,

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it's not gonna get any better, and we

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have to, talk about stuff like this.

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You know, you're mentioning this election. I didn't

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know about it. I I I this is

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the first time hearing about it. You know?

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Yeah. And and that's exactly how they designed

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it. Yes.

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So so, yeah, we're talking about affordability.

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Well, these are the things that make things

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unaffordable.

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The fact that, that we we, you know,

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taxes are too high because,

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you know, the cost of of building or

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repairing everything is too high. And instead of

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dealing with the situation as to how we

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lower the cost, it's just how do we

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borrow the money? How do we get the

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federal government to pay for it? How do

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we get the state government to pay for

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it? How do we get somebody else to

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pay for it instead of dealing with the

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problem?

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And and then speaking of,

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of of things that make unaffordable,

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we we now have the frivolous lawsuits.

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I don't know if you read the article

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that, remember back in 07/04/2020

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Oh, yes.

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The the

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George Floyd riots. Yes. Well, two two things

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happened in Atlantic City.

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First, on Memorial Day, you had an absolute

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riot

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where about a 100 people

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broke into stores,

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broke the windows, looted the stores,

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went off with the stuff, fought with the

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police,

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created total chaos. And basically,

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the shopping center known as the Walk in

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Atlantic City has really never been the same.

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And and so,

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Marty Small, the mayor,

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and worked with the local police at a

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heroic job.

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They called the neighborhood people. They could they

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did interviews. They looked at video. Hours and

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hours of, gumshoe detective work. They identified the

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95 people who who did that. They had

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them arrested

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and then suddenly nobody pressed the charges.

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Nothing happened.

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The cases disappeared,

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and,

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you know, there was no justice. And, it

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had to come from governor Murphy or the

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prosecutor at the time because in Trent, you

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had the identical thing. You had police cars

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set on fire. You had shops looted. You

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had windows broken.

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Nobody arrested.

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faced any consequence with that whatsoever.

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So, I I'm convinced that even though Atlantic

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City Police and Marty Small did a heroic

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job,

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somebody at the county and state level depressed

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those cases.

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That was in May 2020.

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Now, a couple months later, fourth of July

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weekend,

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you had a guy called, oh, I'm I'm

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I'm trying to think of his name. Steve

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Young. Steve

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Steve Young

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and and six other guys,

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they deliberately

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wanted to have a confrontation.

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They had about, you know, 30 of them.

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They they they started to block Atlantic Avenue.

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The police were accommodating.

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They walked to to try to block the

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Albany Avenue bridge coming in. Remember, this is

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the busiest

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weekend of the year That's right. That you

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killed that weekend, you killed the livelihood of

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thousands of people That's right. Without Atlantic City

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and put 100 you know, people thousand people

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out of work. It's the most awful thing

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you could do.

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And then,

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they they got steered away from Albany Avenue.

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Then they're gonna block the expressway.

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And and they actually went into the expressway.

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And only after putting up with them

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for, like, two or three hours, the LA

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City police arrested them.

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And and once again,

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somebody stopped them from being prosecuted.

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They should have been,

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you know, their evidence was overwhelming. They were

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blocking traffic. They ignored direct orders.

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But for whatever reason, they were not prosecuted.

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The cases got dismissed,

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and now they have filed papers to sue

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Atlantic City for $50,000,000.

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Sure.

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So

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so so this is, you know, why are

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taxes too high? Why are everything so affordable?

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Why is insurance expensive? Why are,

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lawsuits expensive? This is part of it. And

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then there's something else that's sort of related

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to this.

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I've been getting calls from a lot of

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merchants

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that there's a guy in a wheelchair,

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and he has no intention of being a

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customer.

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But he's going to dozens of small businesses

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in and around Atlantic City.

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And if his wheelchair

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doesn't completely fit

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in the door or if there's a bump

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or something,

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he is,

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you know, the the store owners get are

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getting these notices a week later from a

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lawyer saying if you don't pay us $2,500

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in damages,

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we're gonna sue you under some disabilities and

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accessibility,

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statute. And,

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and and so he he's shaking down, like,

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dozens of businesses,

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here in in the Atlantic City area. And

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by the way, it's all related

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because,

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you know, normally,

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people don't bring frivolous lawsuits.

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I mean, I was a lawyer,

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for more than fifty years. And and if

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somebody comes to me and they said, oh,

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this this person hurt my feelings, I I

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wanna sue them. I'd say, look, you know,

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I'm gonna have to do 10 or $15,000

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worth of work

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just to get to a trial.

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And you're probably gonna lose, but even if

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you win, the jury is not gonna give

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you more than 2 or $300

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for the inconvenience.

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So nobody's gonna spend $10,000

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in legal fees

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to sue for for something where you might

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get a couple of $100.

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However,

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there are certain

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special what they call civil rights,

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laws

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that say if you're in a protected category,

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if you're,

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disabled,

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or if you are a minority, or if

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you're a woman, or if you're gay, if

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you're Hispanic, if you're transgender, if you fall

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into one of these categories

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and somebody hurt your feelings,

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you are presumed to have,

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emotional distress.

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And you could sue for triple damages. You

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could sue for punitive damages.

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And even if you are not successful

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and even if the jury only gives you

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$50,

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your lawyer will get paid a 100%

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for doing $20,000

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worth of work.

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And that's why you see all these ridiculous

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cases

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where the cities pay $5,000,

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$10,000,

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$20,000.

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Businesses pay this money to settle cases

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because if they don't settle the case, it

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goes to a trial.

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The the person suing them might only get

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$50,

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but the lawyer is gonna get 30 or

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1,000 or $50,000.

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So you so, you know, everybody blames the

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lawyers. Everybody, blames the frivolous lawsuits.

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But the politicians make these laws.

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And and I thought it was very interesting

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that even though we're doing absolutely nothing about

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this in America

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and and I remember each time I would

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run for public office, I'd talk about,

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how these frivolous lawsuits are making everything,

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so expensive and no one is doing anything

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about it. But my audience yawns and nobody

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even cares about it. But in Argentina,

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you know, Javier Molay, who's really doing all

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the right stuff to turn

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Argentina around.

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Two weeks ago, he made a a a

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major change in the law that makes it

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easier to fire bad employees,

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easier to deal with all these lawsuits,

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where people,

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you know, where where where you're not rewarded

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for being a victim and you're not being

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rewarded for being a lawyer who represents a

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victim. So,

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you know, instead of, saying, well, everything's unaffordable.

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We need a a government program to take

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money from someone else and give it to

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me. We actually have to talk about how

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we,

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you know, dealing with the problem.

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And,

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I I guess, the the final point,

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that,

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I'm thinking of when we talk about liberty

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and prosperity breakfast,

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the things that,

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you know, that that happened in our open

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discussions.

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I was at a business association meeting a

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couple days ago,

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and you had a representative from the,

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person who does the,

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what they call it the visitvisitatlanticcity.com

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or used to be the Atlantic City visitors

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bureau.

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And he was talking about the great job

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we're doing because we're spending $450,000

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for an air show, to give a free

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air show. And we're doing concerts for $50,000.

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And aren't we wonderful? You know, look at

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look at, how much,

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peep how many people we're bringing to Atlantic

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City. And he said the big problem,

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with Atlantic City is,

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70% of the people who come to Atlantic

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City only spend one day in a hotel.

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And he said by having all these events,

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we're gonna get people to stay longer.

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And, of course, at a business association, nobody

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asked questions, and everybody said, oh, that's a

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great idea.

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But when you come to a liberty and

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prosperity meeting,

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we ask other questions like, where is the

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money coming from for the free air show

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and for the free concert and for the

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billboards on Times Square and all that stuff?

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Well, $7,000,000

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is is coming from the casinos with CRDA.

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That was money the casinos are supposed to

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use to fix up their casinos.

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And, it's going to have these, free air

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shows.

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Maybe people are not staying because the casinos

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are getting shabby because they don't have the

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money to reinvest in their hotels.

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But here's something even more important.

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When you check into a hotel in Atlanta

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City,

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and you think you're paying $200 for the

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room,

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when you check out, you find out you're

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paying for double the sales tax, a 13.6%

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hotel motel tax.

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On top of that, you pay a $3

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per night state occupancy tax, a $2 casino

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hotel surcharge,

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a $2 tourist promotion fee, and then there's

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a 45¢

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sales tax on the taxes,

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plus a $3 tax on free parking.

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So do you know any people who come

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to Atlantic City and they say, gee, I'm

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disgusted with all these ridiculous charges. I'm gonna

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stay somewhere else.

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So, a lot of times when you have

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the

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the government says, well, look at all the

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tours we're bringing with these programs.

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They don't talk about who they're chasing away.

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Anyway,

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we'll be talking about this, every Saturday morning,

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liberty and prosperity,

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09:30 to 10:30 at Sal's coal fired,

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cafe. And, thank you very much for letting

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me just talk for twenty minutes. Okay. Set

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it for three hours. Okay. Thanks again, Seth.