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And because it is Friday,
I have my Brian Fitzherbert on on Fitzherbert
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Brian, are you there?
I'm here, Anne. Thanks for having me. No.
Good morning, and,
welcome.
Did we bring a guest with us? I
am I am looking forward to that if,
in fact,
our assemblyman was able to, make it in.
We will have to delay that to another
Friday, but we will make that happen. Good.
Good. Because I noticed some of the bills
that our assemblyman, who are republicans,
try to pass for the good of the
citizens
that seem to not get anywhere. Gee. I
I wonder why that is.
Yeah. It's, it's almost like elections have consequences
and, even further when you're in the super
minority.
Yeah. Yeah. That is,
it's it's painful to think that that people
really don't do any research whatsoever
and continue to vote,
especially Democrats,
continue to vote just for Democrats
who have done really bad things for our
state, including pushing people out of our state
who otherwise might stay and actually wanna open
up businesses and things like that.
Well, yeah, I mean, aside from the individual
New Jerseyans that have made that decision, I
mean, obviously, U Haul tracks that data as
best as anyone, I guess, from those that
rent one way U Hauls
as well as,
you know, the businesses that make decisions that
they're no longer gonna stay here like Exxon
did in the last week.
Amazing.
Tell tell the listeners what happened.
So after a hundred and forty four years,
Exxon has made the decision to,
basically
relocate their incorporation,
to Texas
and severing their relationship with the Garden State
after, I mean, that long. That's that's an
exorbitant amount, but it's for one reason and
one reason only. New Jersey is not a
business friendly state. It's not a cost effective
state, and it's not an affordable state. And
that is due to the Democrats
having complete control
for,
a quarter of a century,
with the exception of, you know, governor Christie
being in there for eight years that only
put the pause button on most of this
stuff or at least, put the brakes on
some of it. But for the most part,
Democrats have had complete control, and they own
this. It's not affordable because the Democrats' policies,
perspectives, and principles, and even more so because
there are too many illegal immigrants in the
state of New Jersey that need to go.
How do we get rid of the sanctuary
state, sanctuary city garbage?
Is there is there a way as long
as Democrats are in charge?
It doesn't appear so. I mean, you can
bring attention to it. You can,
do rallies and do everything you possibly can.
But until there's actually a change in control
in one of the chambers as well as
the Governor's Mansion,
that's gonna continue. Lawsuits, you can go multiple
avenues,
which will take,
take some time. But this is this is
what happens when
elections occur. And this is what happens
when,
you know, you go to the process of
nominating individuals instead of having
a full blown competition
to hear ideas, let people be heard. Sometimes
their ideas are crap. Sometimes they're very good.
And, ultimately having a way to do this.
But, again,
in Jersey's problem is a math problem. There
just happens to be more Democrats
and independent leaning Democrats that favor these policies
that
inadvertently, and directly hurt them. And, you know,
they don't know. They're too stupid to know.
And that's why. I mean, when you have
an 800 to 900,000
voter registration advantage,
that's that's a math problem. And trying to
adopt Democrat policies and principles
as a Republican doesn't get anywhere. I mean,
there's no point. You have to have a
diametric difference
and a comparison.
You know? You can't be the light version
of the Democrats and think it's gonna work,
then you're not actually standing up for those
principles and values. And it's very unfortunate, and
this is, again, why elections have consequences.
Yeah.
One of the things that I thought was
important was,
the right to carry.
What is New Jersey's stance
on,
allowing people
who have had
in-depth
lessons in weaponry and being able to shoot
their weapon and having the ability to purchase
a weapon because they don't have,
a record of any illegalities.
Yeah. What's happening with that? Because we live
in a sanctuary city, sanctuary state, anything goes.
Illegals are allowed to roam the street. We
see how the crime rate, at least not
here in Atlantic City or in, Atlanta County
so much, but around our state, particularly in
blue cities,
the crime rate continues to go up.
Is there anything going on that will allow
people who know how to handle a weapon,
give them the ability to go and and
get whatever they need to in order to
carry
a weapon and perhaps
protect
the citizens of New Jersey who may come
across someone who is a violent criminal?
Yeah. So there's there's multifaceted to this. So,
obviously, the second amendment baked into our,
constitution in The United States, and a decision
that was led by the Supreme Court had
led this to prevent any of these states
like New Jersey that tried to prevent concealed
carry.
Hence,
there was concealed carry reciprocity
in some states, but not in others. New
Jersey didn't recognize any other states, etcetera. And
you can get a concealed carry license,
once you go through
and pay for, in most cases,
training and certification,
fees, filing, all that kind of stuff. And
the Democrats have tried to make this as,
costly and expensive as possible, which is ironic
given their stance when it comes to having
voter ID and the fact that $30 to
get a driver's license or a non government
ID or nine driver's license ID or any
other thing with a passport is a poll
tax,
when it comes to,
getting concealed license. And even more so, you
have to show you have to get a
firearms ID,
to be able to buy ammunition in the
state of New Jersey, not notwithstanding buying actual
firearms where you can just go to Delaware,
pop in a Cabela's,
and walk in there without even showing an
idea to buy ammunition
and and other things because Delaware doesn't have
that kind of
scrutiny with regard to that. But it's all
and these two year concealed these concealed carry
license are for two years. You gotta re
up them. You gotta requalify showing that you
know how to use a firearm,
that gets certified,
you know, by,
you know, a gun ranger or or whatnot.
But it's costly each time you do this
in the hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
And, again, I guess the Democrats thought process
is maybe this will discourage people from doing
it if we make it so costly.
But, again, most people
are law abiding citizens that don't want to
have the thought of, I wish I had
my gun as their last one. Should they
be in a situation, god forbid,
where we've seen across the country
in grocery stores,
convenience stores, in movie theaters, in downtown cities,
in schools? I mean, you name it. It's
unfortunate, and this has become a thing where
you wanna be able to defend yourself and
those around you,
using deadly force if necessary.
So, again,
it's a very scary
situation. You never wanna have to use a
firearm to defend or protect yourself,
but you don't wanna be in a situation
where, yep,
this could have been avoided, and this is
the end, and you're you're completely powerless. And
not to tie this into,
you know, international situations, but this is precisely
why Iran
and the people within Iran cannot rise up
because they don't have a second amendment. Most
countries,
almost all of them do not have a
second amendment where the citizens are armed and
can deal with
a tyrannical
government.
Hence, when we broke away as 13 colonies
from the British Empire,
this was paramount
so that this would never happen again. We
were we were breaking away from the crown,
an entire
of a government. We wanted to make sure
that the individuals
as well as citizens
could defend themselves with firearms. Iran does not
have that. It's why you saw, unfortunately,
before all this happened,
with the recent, war campaign
where the Ayatollah
killed
thousands, if not tens of thousands of protesters
in the street
because they weren't even armed. They couldn't even
fight back. There couldn't be an uprising, and
that's why the second amendment's so important.
Notwithstanding in New Jersey and New Jersey Democrats
trying to do everything they can to make
it as impossible,
to carry a firearm. I I agree. I
don't you know, I think that every single
school should be required to have someone
who is allowed to carry, who has been
trained thoroughly
in how to protect,
the buildings or
building that, he or she is assigned to,
because we've seen far too many. I mean,
all all I have to do is go
back to Sandy Hook and my eyes fill
up.
It's
had there been anyone there at the front
desk who had in fact,
known how to handle a gun, had a
gun,
but they lived in a state where it
was anti gun, anti carry, all the other
things
that diminished their ability in the school systems
to protect the students that were sitting there,
you know, enjoying the day and to have
some monster come in with a gun and
be able to kill them willy nilly
as this person
did. Had there been someone there and and
quite frankly, I think it should be a
legal matter. I think every single school district
should have an expert
in,
dealing with guns,
sitting in the front and making sure that
no one attempts to get into a school,
and that should anyone show signs of,
wanting to commit violent acts, that they would
be there to stop them.
No. Absolutely. I mean, we shouldn't be spending
taxpayer dollars to get English as a second
language teachers to support illegal immigrant children in
our schools. That money should be used,
for hardening our schools and protection with someone
who's trained to use firearm.
And, unfortunately, again, this is where priorities differ
in terms of the political parties,
and it's just it it breaks your heart
when you see these stories. It breaks your
heart when you see the catastrophic ones like,
like Sandy Hook, like you mentioned, and others
that have that have happened over the years.
It just like you said, it wells up
the eyes, and it could have been avoided.
But there is just a fundamental
difference. And, again,
there are evil people out there, and there
is no understanding
them. And it's not like most of these
instances,
again, from a mental health standpoint or or
however you wanna put it, breakdown
the American family, the nuclear family,
from broken homes, broken families, you name it.
It's it's all we've seen it before. Like,
it's it's very unfortunate,
and this all ties together.
And,
you know, New Jersey is is just continuing
this trek to this failed blue state status
that is not safe, that is not law
abiding,
that makes it very, very difficult to stay
here, and a lot of people are making
a very specific decision to leave based on
a number of those things. Seriously.
Businesses are going to
business friendly states.
They are leaving. And when they leave, the
people who have worked for them for years
also have to leave, which means that our
state is going to be getting less and
less in tax dollars
because businesses have left and the people who
work for them have left as well.
Is there anything that you think can be
done? I mean, I I know that assemblyman
Bergen was going to be on with you,
and we will have him on somewhere down
the line.
But is there anything that any Republican can
do here in New Jersey
that would force an issue
before the state, before the citizens that would
actually push them to do what was best
for the taxpayer?
Right.
Again, it's continuing to introduce bills. I mean,
they likely will not get out of committee,
much less on the floor to be voted
on. So you can see where the representatives
stand on these things,
especially with Republicans and the super minority, but
it's it's talking about it. It's bringing attention
to all kinds of ridiculousness
and the spending. I mean, it's just
unbelievably
absurd,
but this is where we are. This is
what happens when there's twenty five years of
one party rule,
and this this,
ludicrous nonsense of trying to compromise so you
can get scraps and crumbs. Guess what? At
the end of the day, you still have
scraps and crumbs, and you sacrificed your principles
and your values to get them. So, ultimately,
it's again, you have, stark leaders like Kenitra,
like Bergen, and others in the assembly that
continue to bring attention
to not only conservative principles, but cons common
sense when it comes to to spending or
policy or any of this stuff. It's it's
you have to bring attention to it. You
have to rally, and you have to build
a case, and this does not happen overnight,
especially when there's people who are resistant.
And even further, when you're outnumbered, again, it's
a sad fact, but it is a fact.
It is a math problem in in the
state of New Jersey, and it's gonna continue
to be a math problem because the people
that would probably help our cause are making
their individual decision, and no one can blame
them to leave the Garden State. And guess
what? They were replenished by people
in crazy places like New York City that
are looking at New Jersey relatively speaking. Like,
this is not
Brian, I I have been looking at what
our the new governor is doing,
what she has done,
that takes away
our,
ability to protect ourselves
because we are sanctuary a sanctuary state.
Also,
because sanctuary states are here because she wants
to protect illegal immigrants.
Is there any way that we will ever
be able to get beyond that? And will
governors begin to pay attention
to what they should or shouldn't do
to make sure that their citizens are safe
or not? Because this governor
obviously wants illegal immigrants to have all the
freedom
of citizens
despite the fact that they may have a
long and awful, ugly,
violent record.
Yeah. So, again, this is this is where
my stance, again, is
is very specific. Right? Any and all legal
aliens that are here are criminals regardless of
how long they've been here, regardless
of how long their rap sheet is, which
it shouldn't even have been there,
and,
you name it. It's their first their first
act on American soil was a criminal one,
and that is deport deportation for all of
them. However, it's very difficult to do this
when you have a state like New Jersey
that is resistant to working with the federal
government,
with,
basically,
the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, etcetera.
So then
the irony is if they had actually
worked hand in hand with these federal agencies,
you wouldn't have a situation where which we've
seen in Minnesota and other states where they
go in and they cast a wide web
because they're going after
the criminals first because that's easy because they're
in a database,
to go after first. And then by doing
a wide net, they're they're also capturing
those that may be associates that are also
illegal aliens,
which is again, that kinda makes me laugh
because if they didn't have these policies in
place and they actually coordinated that once they
were held in jail,
that they would be handed off instead of
releasing them into the community that that endangers
you, me, and everybody listening,
for ICE to go in and actually surgically
find these in the community.
So, again, it's very difficult with the state
of New Jersey,
and all you can really do is bring
attention to this and bring it up and
actually have a platform.
You know, the Republican Party statewide and even
the counties, you have no idea what they
stand for. They have no platform. They have
no issues,
that they specify, and you just assume that
they are in line with the Republican Party
that's on a national stage. But are they?
I mean, most people don't even know where
Republican candidates on the local level even stand
on issues.
And
are they vetted? Do they stay you know,
no questions are ever asked, much less what
are five things that the Republican Party in
New Jersey stands for that you can use
to run
on as a campaign against these Democrats
to build,
a coalition. We don't even do that. We
don't even have the fundamentals of that. It's
it's really
it's really unfortunate.
It is, but I don't know how to
get beyond it. I I I look at
Democrats now. We just had a budget,
where, the governor, governor Mikey,
told everyone what,
how much we're in debt and what we're
gonna do and how much she's gonna spend.
And I'm thinking to myself, well, once more,
we've got someone who really doesn't give a
darn whether or not our taxes go up
or not.
And then I thought, well, maybe, you know,
she's terrible.
Yeah. But then I look at mayor Parker
from Philadelphia.
And, again, she reminds me of Ma'am Dani,
a a truth socialist communist.
She wants she wanted to allocate $25,000,000
for zero
fair
rides,
you know, bus,
whatever, SEPTA.
And I'm thinking to myself, how does she
expect a business to make any money and
to be able to stay viable
if, in fact, she's willing to
give free rides for however long it's going
to take to get to that $25,000,000?
Because you know that it's going to,
really cost so much more than that when
everybody wants a free ride.
Oh, absolutely. And and
the the thing that cracks me up is
William Bradford did this, you know, four hundred
years ago,
the experiment of all these
Democrats pushing socialism and and free stuff and
the backs off of those that actually produce
versus those that don't. I mean,
it's the same old same old. You can't
you you wanna unleash prosperity. You wanna unleash
productivity.
You don't have these burdensome regulations, and you
don't give
freebies
like there's like there's like, it's free candy.
I know. I mean, it's absurd. No work.
No food.
Okay. Yeah. We've gotta, take a quick break,
Brian, but keep that in mind, please, especially
about mister Bradford.
Okay.
What can we possibly bring to,
our country
that William Bradford
had in mind
when he was,
when he headed the the Plymouth,
congregation, so to speak? Is there anything? Yeah.
So when he was yeah. So when he
was the governor, you know, they tried the
experiment of,
everyone pitching in to do things
as a group, as a, you know,
settlement. Right? And turned out that there were
people that,
did not contribute, that slacked, you name it.
Right? So So then he decided, I'm just
gonna carve up
individual lots
for families to work on to build
and
farm and grow their their crops, etcetera. And
lo and behold, when it was individual
empowerment, they
got to reap the benefits of what they
worked for, and it incentivized them to work
for it.
I mean, this is so basic, and yet
it doesn't happen
as much as we'd like in The United
States. Say, the amount of welfare,
the amount of I mean, there's a specific
need. Right?
People,
Americans in particular, are very generous to help
people that are in need.
However, they get very, very ticked off
when that generosity is taken advantage of and
people just
live off something.
And, you know,
the same argument that if someone
gets disabled and then they're on disability
from the government forever because they can't do
their job, what's to stop them from being
trained to do something else? If you're physically
unable to do something,
but you can run a phone, you can
do there's plenty of customer service jobs out
there that are that people are willing to
hire for, that you don't have to be
on the government dime for and training programs
to make that happen. But that's not how
things operate, and there isn't,
there isn't that ability. And, you know, what
what Doge continues to uncover in the federal
government going from each agency to each agency
to each organization to each organization, the amount
of fraud that is there is just
mind numbing,
absolute mind numbing. And it's because we tolerate
this notion
to avoid
individual,
responsibility
among others, but individual
empowerment and dependence. We want people to take
care of themselves, not the government take care
of you. And the Democrats' position Mhmm. Over
and over again is a sheer fact that
guess what?
We believe that you're too stupid to take
care of yourself. Hence, you need all these
government programs. So, hence, vote for us, and
we can take care of you. That's their
position.
I know big government, that sort of identifies
you as
a democrat,
someone who wants everyone to have the ability
to eat,
to be clothed, to have shelter without working.
And, we've seen that that really is is
not a very good idea because
when Biden allowed all these illegal immigrants to
come into our country, they they simply fell
into that same pot. We gave them everything
they needed. Why would it be,
impossible to believe that they wouldn't wanna leave?
They would find places to hide in the
shadows
so that they could continue to take from
America rather than be participating
in making it a better
country by doing it legally.
Yeah.
I mean,
it used to be and this is where
this drives me nuts. You used to be
able to prove that you could take care
of yourself, that you wouldn't be a burden
to society,
that you didn't have any health issues, much
less diseases
that would be a burden on society,
and that you could assimilate, integrate, and speak
the language, I e English.
That notion
I mean, there's even a resistance of assimilation
these days. It's ridiculous.
This is our country, and we have every
right to decide who
and what
comes into our country for whatever reason. Some
of us have been here for fifty years.
Some of us have been here for hundreds
of years. We have every right to make
a decision with regard to that and expect
our representatives
to carry out and be the vehicle to
represent us in this constitutional republic. And, unfortunately,
a lot of times, on both sides of
the aisle, that has not happened.
No. Democrats believe in big government. They will
do whatever is necessary
to expand
government and bureaucracy.
And when they do so, it's
it's like how can people vote for them?
Don't they recognize the fact that when you
expand bureaucracy that you need tax dollars,
en masse to to pay these people off
to expand your power base, which is the
bureaucracy.
Yep. A 100%.
And that's why, again, the Save Act
is very crucial
when it's a literally
85%
plus
issue
for Americans poll after poll regardless of race,
regardless
of sex, regardless of anything. 85% of Americans
believe this and wanna support voter ID for
any and all elections. And yet you have
resistance, not just from the Democrats, but there's
even some resistance from some of the Republicans.
Now this will be put to the floor,
but unless it gets 60 votes to end,
cloture and and the filibuster, it's not going
anywhere unless
the senate majority leader Thune decides to go
back to a talking filibuster
instead of what it is right now that
if you don't support something, you just tell
the clerk, I don't I don't support this.
So there's not gonna be 60 votes. So
why even go through the exercise of putting
it on the floor
even if it fails,
through a vote anyway? But we wanna get
people on record if they're opposed to this
because the excuses
of why is ridiculous.
The idea that, a driver's license
or any other form of ID, you need
multiple forms of ID whenever you do anything
else. What is the big deal,
excuse me, with regard to anything,
on on voting,
which is the most important aspect? You need
to show who you are and prove who
you are
and to have that in place.
It's just absurd that there's pushback,
and it's absurd because the pushback is we're
gonna have election integrity. It means it makes
it very, very hard for people to cheat.
It makes it very, very hard for people
to, claim
other thing. I mean, voting by mail, especially
what we've seen since COVID, where apartment complexes,
where people have lived,
which are so transient, come and gone, and
voter registration
may not have been updated even if people
have left the state because you it's your
personal responsibility to do that, but if you
leave the state or whatever, it's, you know,
it's just left there. We don't have voter
purge,
laws like there are in Ohio where if
you don't vote in two consecutive elections, you're
purged from the voters rules, and you have
to reregister
because the assumption is that you left the
state or moved away or or whatever. We
don't have that in the state of New
Jersey. So,
even if you had this from a federal
standpoint, from federal elections that, yep, I show
a passport or I show
a driver's license and or a Social Security
card or whatever it is in terms of
forms of ID so that you can vote,
there's nothing wrong with that. And if people
can't do it, there are avenues to be
able to get that.
So every everything against this is is just
ridiculous. It's all about power. It's all about
winning elections. And the Democrats know they don't
have the ability to do that when they
do ballot harvesting and when they push as
we've now seen in multiple states, countless examples
of illegal aliens
voting in elections that they had no business
voting.
Absolutely. Which really,
it really fries me.
I am so
disappointed
in,
some Democrats that I know who want all
these illegal immigrants to be able to come
in and, in fact, even speak of them
being able to become citizens very quickly so
they can vote. And I'm thinking myself, the
only reason that Biden, Harris, Mayorkas, and the
rest of those bums
wanted this border open
was to get people in that they would
then push
to have made citizens so they would be
voting for all these wonderful Democrats
who brought them into our country to relieve
us of our tax dollars to be well
taken care of.
When I look at other countries, and Will
Cain had this on his show. He had
Turkey and he had Qatar.
And the amount of time that needs to
be had to become a citizen of those
countries
is amazing.
I mean,
five years minimum residency for naturalization,
eight years for long term residents
status.
Citizenship by investment. You have to invest $400,000
in real estate or 500 in capital investment
to become a citizen of Turkey of all
places.
And and Qatar isn't any better. Twenty years
legal residence for permanent residency.
90%
of Qatar's population are foreigners,
but only the tiniest
fraction of them are naturalized.
Why? Because they make it difficult to become
a citizen to get, I guess, the benefits
of being a citizen.
Absolutely. And I have every right to do
that. And the fact that we don't even
consider that,
again, is just mind blowing. Again, chain migration
needs to go.
Greater scrutiny on asylum recruits,
temporary status, all this stuff on top
of the sheer fact of
all those instances to make sure
that people
are here for the right reasons and know
the right type of people. We have every
right to decide. It's no different than you
or me, anybody listening that make a determination
of whether or not someone can come into
our
house, whether it's for a short period of
time for a visit
or or whatever that may be. There's a
vetting process. And the fact that, again, Joe
Biden flew open the borders
that accelerate this even further, notwithstanding
the the millions upon million, tens of millions
of illegal aliens just since the turn of
the century that have come into this country
illegally and we haven't gotten out. I mean,
again, we know exactly
how to handle this,
and Trump is doing a lot of it.
And, obviously, the Supreme Court
is going to be ruling very shortly with
regard to birthright citizenship
as it's been interpreted right now because it's
never been challenged. That's going to be also
very interesting to see how that pans out,
with with,
subject to the constitution, etcetera.
But, again, we have every right, and everything
that has happened
is it makes me laugh because, again, there's
always this argument from the left that we're
The United States is a nation of immigrants.
No. We're not, and we never have been.
This nation was a
British and Dutch settlers who then decided over
time to allow more people to come into
the country. So that's absolute nonsense
from a from a summary standpoint. And, again,
they will do everything and anything they can
because guess what? Once people are wise to
the Democratic party's policies
and positions,
guess what? When you pay more taxes,
when you have more individual responsibility,
you associate more with a conservative principle and
Republican party. So what happens? They have to
find more voters, and the only way they
can find more voters
is to import them.
Really drives me crazy. We have Bill from
MIGS Landing. Good morning, Bill. Welcome. How are
you?
Hi. How you how you doing? Pretty good.
What's up?
Everybody talks about the immigrants
from Mexico with the wall and everything like
that and the Mexicans.
What about the Indians that that come into
this country that own
almost every gas station,
almost every liquor store, almost
every
what are they? Mini Marsh where they buy
the lottery ticket. You know, they how come
nobody does money about that? How come Americans
aren't owning these gas stations?
Brian.
Oh, I suspect most of these individuals that
are doing it the right way,
by coming into this country and they've legalized.
I mean, it's very, very difficult for illegal
aliens to basically get bank loans or come
up with cash to be able to have
capital to buy
a lot of these instances.
Even if they're legal,
how are they jumping ahead of regular Americans?
I'm sure there's plenty of Americans that are
looking for a business.
And we're we're giving it to the
end. Regardless of what anyone looks like or
where they come from, if they're here illegal,
that's a different that's that's a different story.
And if they're taking advantage of opportunities
that Native Americans,
that have been here aren't taking advantage of
because they'd rather not be, you
know,
excited to do so or competitive to do
so. Again, that's that's a free market. The
free market has allowed that to happen.
Yeah. We can look.
If I went to Canada,
I if I went to Canada, I wouldn't
be allowed to own a business,
and and that's the way it should be.
Well, then then that's where you encourage elected
representatives
to introduce bills and pass legislation that says
those certain things just like in my view,
we should have legislation that prevents Chinese nationals
from buying land in The United States. We
need to pass a law that prevents that
because I don't want any Chinese national that's
connected to the CCP
that hasn't come to this country, abandoned
their Chinese citizenship, and assimilated into this country
in order to buy land. And that's something
that has to be debated on, introduced as
a bill passed through legislation.
And if there is, support for it, it
passes. If there isn't, then then that idea
dies as well. Everything has an opportunity to
go through
the laboratories of democracy at the state level
or even the federal level, but it matters
when you get representatives. And if there isn't
any representatives willing to do it,
then you should get interested in running for
office and and going after a passion of
something like that and use Canada as an
example. And there you go. Bill, thank you
for the call.
Very interesting.
We've all seen it. We know that it
happens, but, I think we're talking about legal
citizens.
Anyway, thanks, Bill.
Brian, we've only got a few minutes left.
What
what what issue
would you like to tackle
in the in the few minutes that are
available
that I I
I know. I I think of you. I
think of Paul Kanitra. I I I think
of of the gentleman we were gonna have
today.
And I think to myself, you're the kind
of people that we need to have in
office
who will
push,
I suppose, with your legislation,
the very best things that could possibly happen
to New Jersey citizens.
You're the ones we need in office.
Well, you know, there's guys that continue to
fight in the state legislature like Assemblyman Kenitra,
Assemblyman Bergen,
Assemblyman
Greg Meyer up in Ocean County as well
and others
that
push conservative principles and common sense ideas. But,
again, if the math doesn't math, unfortunately, in
the state of New Jersey,
it makes it very difficult. I've said countless
times, a Republican in Texas is a whole
lot different than a Republican in Connecticut, and
a Republican in Massachusetts is a whole lot
different than a Republican in Pennsylvania, and a
Republican in Massachusetts is a whole lot different
than a Republican in
Massachusetts is a whole lot different than a
Republican in Pennsylvania,
and a Republican in Oklahoma is a whole
lot different than a Republican in New Jersey.
And that's again where the idea of having
a party platform
and things to run on of common principles
should be the should be a a message,
but we don't even have that here in
the state of New Jersey. You couldn't even
have a palm card, like, for instance,
nonprofit organizationally Prosperity has with regard to their
eleven and twelve points
that focus on issues,
for alignment. And it makes it very, very
difficult,
to get on board, especially when,
there's no strategy, there's no endgame, especially after
a 15
embarrassment this past November on the statewide level
as well as the the losses in in
predominantly Republican places,
down ballot
where the Democrats continue to to build on
their numbers. And, again, the the state legislature
is a super minority
for Republicans.
And,
basically,
this is apparently, it's not bad enough,
because usually when it gets to the point
of it's bad enough, the math is irrelevant
and people
turn the light switch. But twenty five years
of Democrat rule, quarter of a century in
the Garden State, and everything that has made
this state so unaffordable,
driven by Democrats and Democrat policy,
apparently, it's it's not bad enough. It's gotta
get worse for people.
Yeah. Isn't it amazing?
I did it myself,
because they they had made mention that it
was all the women who were in, you
know, Central North Jersey that just
you know, they embraced this woman, this helicopter
pilot, this cheater.
They embraced her,
and they brought her to a position of
huge power,
in our country.
And I'm thinking to myself, what's
what's the end line for this? Why would
they want someone
whose lack of integrity
was shown,
who
may have been in the military, but even
there, we we have questions about her military
service.
And yet,
because she was a woman and a liberal
progressive,
are liberal progressive women that dimwitted
that they don't look at the issues of
taxes,
of education,
of,
medical care, of all of the things that
are included in becoming the best leader of
a state? Didn't they bother to look?
Well, it wasn't even just that. I mean,
it was hijacking affordability
as a campaign issue, which is ludicrous
to think about that Democrats would say that
they're gonna be in the party of affordability.
And even more so,
it's it's like I said before, it's a
it's a math problem. It's your team versus
my team. She happened to be on the
team of all these women and all these
voters that decided
that that's that's our team. We're gonna stick
with our team no matter what,
And that's how we're gonna vote regardless.
And you know what? You get what you
vote for good and hard, and a lot
of these individuals are gonna do. And that's
why it's so ironic when you have someone
like senator Cory Booker, who obviously has presidential
aspirations for 2028, trying to copy Trump and
the Republicans
by trying to address,
his tax plan, which, again,
Trump talked about this by making it again,
you can't repeal the sixteenth amendment, but you
can increase the standard deduction,
which right now is somewhere in the $30,000
range for a married couple.
And you have someone like Booker and Van
Holland in Maryland who I I guess he
has presidential aspirations as well to try to
crank this up to 75,000
or a $100,000
standard deduction, which is which is good on
that front. Great. That's what Trump and the
Republican have talked about for years. But but
to quote, unquote quote, pay for it as
they put it, which ridiculous comment, you can
never pay for tax cuts because, again, it's
spending Mhmm.
That you raise the rate on all the
high income earners. Well, guess what? Supply side
economics says, if you tax something more, you're
gonna get less of it. Meaning, people have
options. They're gonna make different decisions on
taking risks and all that kind of stuff.
So and, again, to raise the corporate tax
rate, all this other nonsense. So, again, Democrats
haven't really learned this, but it is interesting
that they are,
going back to a JFK
mindset of
all,
basically, the the tide raises all boats by
cutting taxes across the board.
And instead of cord poker in particular representing
the state of New Jersey realizing, you know
what? Maybe we spend too much money. Maybe
there's too much fraud. Maybe we need to
pull back on this. Maybe there's too many,
illegal immigrants in this country. We gotta get
them out because it's causing too much demand
in terms of housing, raising the price of
right and everything else. And there's too much
demand for for education because illegal aliens send
their kids to schools, then we gotta go
higher English as second language teachers, and driver's
license
that incur
no,
for, you know, for illegal aliens that you
can't get insurance. So, obviously, those of us
who have car insurance have to pay for
more of it. I mean, all these costs
and then going to, basically health care,
urgent care hospitals, all that kind of stuff.
Nope. Does Cory Booker think about that? No.
The common sense is to eliminate the demand,
which is illegal aliens that aren't here that
are driving up the cost as well as
cutting spending and finding all this fraud that's
clearly evident
in multiple places
at state and federal government. But, no, they
don't they don't think to do that. No.
Well, I think bureaucracy sometimes that's bloated, that's
allowed to fester because somebody,
wants power.
I think if you began cutting
the bureaucracy,
if Elon
Musk was still in charge of Doge.
I know that Doge is still out there,
but we need to,
cut across the board
so many of these bureaucratic departments that are
not doing the job, that are totally unnecessary.
And as you said, you know, Brian, each
and every one of us should be independent
workers. We should want to make our success
based on how hard we are willing to
work or how great our mind works. And
other than that,
it's all BS.
Anyway,
Brian Fitzherbert, thank you for being here with
me. I so appreciate the fact that I've
got my Fitzherbert Friday
and that,
you are on and
looking forward to having you back next Friday.
And, tell Assemblyman Bergen when he's available. We'd
love to have him back.
Anyway next Friday. Yeah. We'll do it next
Friday. Wonderful. Wonderful.
Brian, take care.
Love to you and the family, and God
bless you. You do such a beautiful job
here
and where you work in the weapons industry.
Thank you.
Likewise. Thanks for having me. My pleasure.