Episode 034: The POOR MIDDLE CLASS

In this episode of The Jeremiah Gunn Show, Jeremiah explores what it means to “change the world” through truth, personal responsibility, and private charity. He argues that modern political and cultural systems have distorted words like “poor,” “charity,” and “compassion,” and contends that government-led solutions often worsen the problems they aim to fix. Drawing on religious references, historical figures, and personal anecdotes, Jeremiah makes the case that authentic compassion comes from individuals—not institutions—and that meaningful change begins with personal accountability, voluntary giving, and rejecting what he sees as performative virtue signaling.

Key Topics Covered:

• The idea of “changing the world” through truth and individual responsibility
• Concerns about surveillance, media influence, and cultural narratives
• Definitions of communism, socialism, and “the poor” in modern discourse
• The concept of “WTF: Window, Table, Floor” — misidentifying real problems
• Religious teachings on charity, hypocrisy, and personal giving
• Arguments against government-managed welfare and public charity
• Examples and anecdotes about fraud, inefficiency, and “compassion fatigue”
• The distinction between private charity and political redistribution
• The role of churches, faith, and civic engagement
• A call for personal action, voluntary generosity, and cultural change

Takeaway:
Jeremiah emphasizes that real compassion requires personal sacrifice and direct involvement, arguing that charity is most effective when practiced privately rather than through government programs. He encourages listeners to question prevailing narratives, seek truth, and take individual responsibility for helping others.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Okay, well, this is the Jeremiah Gunn Show. I want to change the world, and I do know what to do. That was a beautiful, beautiful rendition there from days gone by. And uh so so that's what I want to talk about here. I want to talk about how to change the world. Welcome to the Jeremiah. The Jeremiah Gunn Show. The Jeremiah Gunn Experience. Study all day. Study study whole life. Podcast in the morning. Hey, this is the Jeremiah Gunn Show. Let me see if I can get that set right. I'm trying to do a uh uh uh what is that called uh a witness protection thing where I change, modulate the voice so that uh you can't tell where where this is coming from. Oh, it's coming from behind enemy lines. It's part of the resistance, broadcasting to the resistance. And uh sorry my wife was telling me uh about the news recently that uh you know all of the devices of your social network are tracking you now. They're gonna track you. They're gonna track you. I what I've been saying, it's 1984. I mean, what else is new? You know, one time Google or one of those uh lords and dukes and barons up in Silicon Valley, they were working with China to they were gonna try to help China. I think it was the one whose original mission statement was first uh, you know, uh don't be evil. And they were going to help China take out words like freedom and liberty out of their search engines and things. They actually almost signed the contract. The sales guy had a booking and decided not to, I guess. I don't know. But we saw what happened with all of that Twitter sphere and uh Dorsey and all that all that stuff. But but they want to track you. So so I think may maybe I ought to do a w you know a voice recognition change so that they can't track me down. But uh uh if they want to, they can. And so we are living behind enemy lines in the Civil War that never ended. And it's you know, Charlie Kirk used to say, what time is it? Well, 1776, 1984, 1864. Take your pick. So this is the Jeremiah Gunn Show. Um I'm on broadcasting on CSN, the Common Sense Network, part of the ISI network. And uh this show is dedicated to Charlie Kirk, and therefore it's dedicated to truth, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This is your moment of truth. I have not heard anybody who gives you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I've been looking for it for since the late 1900s. Don't see it. So if you're if you want to be part of the resistance against uh our imperialist occupiers here behind enemy lines in the blue, no matter who states of the Confederacy, the Democrat Party started the Confederacy, and now they want to keep it going. They want to rebel against the Constitution, and uh, frankly, to hell with you if you happen to be a person that loves this country and lives under their regime. That'll be explained on other shows, anyway. This this show is is about the uh the poor, the poor middle class, the poor and the misunderstanding. That's going on right now, the twisted, twisted lies. What what is a communist? What is a communist? You hear that word a lot. Young people are saying it's cool. It's cool to be a communist. It's cool to be a socialist. Nope, nope, no problem. I know our fathers and our our uncles and our grandfathers and fought against it, gave their lives, but uh but uh you know it's kind of cool. It's kind of cool. Bernie was cool. Marxism was cool. Oh Obama brought it in. So what is a communist? It's probably appropriate that we ask that. In in about the 1830s or something, I didn't even know the word existed, but someone wrote a poem in England. What is a communist, but one who is yearning for equal sharing of unequal earnings. Uh bumbler or idler or both. He is willing to fork out his copper and pocket your shilling. And then and that's the game. That's the game that's going on. You know, here here's the problem. The word poor has been twisted. It's a lie. It's it's it's it's an upside-down lie. And that and that has to do with uh a word the the word adultery. Whenever you see a bizarre sort of cultic double standard, it it you y that'll that'll indicate that you've got this sort of cultic uh detrimental demonic thing going on. Adultery means adultery means you know, it's it's not an affair. Adultery means in in the good book, in the wisdom literature, it means taking two things that don't belong together or more than two things and putting them together. And you know, he in in the in those in the wisdom literature he tried to keep us from doing that. He talked about the mixed multitude, people that get married to people that have other gods, other other belief systems. Other belief systems. And and so what happened is Chris. You know something? I told that guy not to call me, and he calls me right during the See well, see what I'm talking about? Anyway, let me get back on track here. So people are more interested in their own ideas than listening to yours. So I hope that's not you, but that here's what we're gonna talk about. So, how did the adultery take place here? Christians, I'm doing that in air quotes, they enable the government, education, media attainment complex to pervert words like social gospel. And then they and then the left cries separation separation of church and state. So it's always ironic, isn't it? So I talk about this idea of WTF. Whenever you're looking at a problem, uh, and remember, the chief cause of problems is solutions. The chief cause of problems is solutions. So uh we're looking at uh this I have this concept called WTF. Whenever you've got a problem, whenever there's a problem presented, say to yourself, I'd suggest WTF, window, table, floor. Think of it as a PowerPoint slide and it's got a picture of a window, a table, and a floor. One half is talking about the left half talking about, oh, it's a window, it's a window, it's a window. Don't you get it? The other side's saying it's a table, it's a table, it's a table. You you're the one that doesn't get it. And in reality, it's neither of those. It's it's the floor. Nobody's talking about the real problem. So so the the biggest, you know, there was a guy named Jesus of Nazareth came along, kind of a fundamental, instrumental watershed moment, iconic moment in history, tipping point, crisis, which is is really just when things change, comes from the word cross. Boy, this arms and things better, super sorry. All right, so so the only Jesus crossed paths with a lot of people, a lot of people who were considered sinners in his religious tradition, which was Judaism. And and you know, the only people that he had a problem with are the ones that put him to death, the Jews. No, it wasn't the Jews, it was the religious authorities. All of his posse were Jews. He was a Jew. His parents were Jews. So that there's a there's a little weird twist right there for you, Nick Fuentes or whatever out there. The Nazis, you know, it wasn't the Jews that killed Christ, it was the religious system. And and and so a Pharisee, you know, when when Jesus called them Pharisees, th this kind of gets this point about, oh, you should be nicer, you should you should be nicer to people. Well, John the Baptizer was called by Jesus the greatest man born of a woman on earth. And he he he called them snakes when the Pharisees came. When the Pharisees were through the religious authorities, when they came down to be baptized by him, he goes, Hey, you b you brood of vipers. Jesus said they were like graves, painted white, look nice, but inside they're full of dead men's bones. And and you know, touching dead bodies was a was a was a bad thing in in that Jewish culture, in that religious tradition. So he was kind of slamming them pretty hard. That's all he did. That's all he did. You know? So what happened is they they they they cooperated together in adultery, the Christians and the government, education, media attainment complex, and twisted what those words mean. Christianity, social gospel, poor, good works, you know, do good deeds, charity, the word charity. The good book says it's the greatest. Faith, hope, charity, the greatest is charity. It means love shown in doing good works. So, you know I I'm just gonna go through this kind of as fast as I can. Madison, who the father of our Constitution, all five foot four of them, he said and and they should teach the Federalist papers in high school. They really should. But he said that there's no place for charity. There's no place for charity in in the legislature. Because what happened was somebody in Connecticut or something, they had had a fire in their part of their town burned down and the Congress was trying to get together money to help them. Makes sense, doesn't it? No, it doesn't. No, that's not the purpose of government. That's not the purpose of government. It's not meant to be a charity. And these same people that want to do all this stuff. What did we just find out with Doge? What did we find out about the UN and and and Doge and all that stuff? Is that they they want to take money from you and do Christian deeds. Wait a minute. Separation of church and state. Is it secular government that is supposed to do good deeds and charity? And yet they say things like, uh, you know, I'm you know, oh, you're not your brother's keeper? What are they doing? They they commanded that you take the Ten Commandments out of the schools, even though it's in the in the Supreme Court. Etched onto the wall. So so is it separation of church and state, or is it government does all the Christian duties in a false, phony way? The word Pharisee, and these are the only guys that Jesus had a problem with on planet Earth, the ones who killed him. He he said, uh you're Pharisees. Well you're you're you're hypocrites, hypocrites, that's the word that we're looking for. Phony. It means a phony. It's a Greek word that means to speak from, you know, like hypo, like hypodermic, speak from behind or under a mask. They used them in the theater, popular Greek theater. You're a phony, you're playing a role. And that's what they do. That's what they do. They do it with other people's money. There used to be a thing in finance about use other people's money. They're virtue signaling. The Pharisees, you know, Jesus called them out because what they would do is, you know, you were supposed to, by the terms of religion, do good things for the poor, for the legitimate poor. And what would they do? He said they'd they'd go out with a trumpet. They'd have somebody come out and say, Time to give to the poor, so everybody could see them doing it. Jesus said, Don't be like that. He said, Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. How often do we do that with charity? Even Christian or Judeo-Christian churches, how often do they do that with charity? Not even let their left hand know what their right hand's doing. They're doing it to be celebrated by man. They're virtue signaling. And they and they try to guilt trip us. They try to guilt trip us. It's just exactly like Lincoln told this story about the uh about a stagecoach. This is the Democrat Party, this is the left. We don't even have to say the left and the Democrat Party and the Communists and the Socialists and the Anarchists and the Islamists. We don't even have to say it anymore. Just say Democrats. All rolled into one now. They're proud of it. They're trying to figure out what to do about it, because most America doesn't like that mix, that adultery, but that that's what they do. Well, he told a story about this guy, stagecoach robber who robs a stagecoach, and he says, give me all your all your valuables or or I'll kill you, and then you'll be guilty of murder. So they they they they try to guilt trip you. This uh pop singer with a $14 million mansion and Kamala Harris, her new neighbor, says, I'm on stolen land. Okay, give it back. Don't don't guilt trip me into giving taking my money. Rob Reiner, living large, Bel Air, always was, always has been. Did he earn that money himself? Yeah, I mean he made a bunch of movies after he did All in the Family. His dad got him in the business, probably, but he did a good job. So what does he do? He takes our money to give it to some stupid thing that doesn't work, and he doesn't even feel obligated to find out whether it works or not. He just pats himself on the back and gets awards. Ted Turner famously gives a billion dollars to the UN. To the UN? It was the Oil for Palaces program. Kofi Anand and his sons were skimming off the top, taking the money. They they they once described foreign aid as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Can anybody honestly say that's not true? What about Rachel Madkow? She makes twenty million dollars a year? She got a pay cut from twenty-five million to twenty or something for one show? One show, they cut her down to one show a week. I mean, uh how could she do even do more than that? How could she? She's too busy going and collecting awards from the press on how wonderful she is, but she doesn't do anything. Except glare at the camera and mug and goon and do these goofy faces like her counterpart, her feminine version, Colbert. 15 million a year for 20 years? While the network is losing 40 to 60 million? Costing a hundred million bucks to put on that show with 200 people? You ever watch that show and and ask yourself if it takes 200 people to put that on? So why would a network that's a private entity, why would they keep a tax write-off like that? What is he doing with that money? What kind of Christian is he? But he can feel good about himself. This is the beauty of it. You know, Al Gore can save the world. That's the uniqueness and in our period of our life. That's the uniqueness of it. They can they can take other people's money, like Ted Kennedy, this multimillionaire trust fund baby, and do things with your money and then pat himself on the back about it. Al Gorica, no, no, I'm thinking, why do they do this? They have enough power, they have enough money. This is a way of getting using money from other people. That's always been a thing in finance, other people's money to grow your wealth. But they can use it and they can pat themselves. I'm the one who cares about the planet. I'm a I'm a grown-up Greta Thunberg. So I'm not only I'm Saint Al. I not only save the world from certain death through lying and lying and lying. But I I I get rewarded and awarded. Got a Nobel Prize, got a a Grammy or No, an Oscar, right? I think one uh Conan O'Brien or somebody said that was the highest grossing PowerPoint slideshow in history. She gets a Nobel Peace Prize, gets a Academy Award for a piece of crap that turned out to be nothing but lies, built in on lies, and nothing but lies. You know, uh somebody said a leftist is someone who feels a debt to their fellow man, which he proposes to pay off with your money. So why is it important for charity to be private, not government? Why is that important? I I want to play a little clip. This is a caller from Seattle who called in, frankly, the greatest Bible teacher in the world and asked him a question. And if you you don't have any doubts about that, don't. But because I can prove it. He's not right about every single thing, but man, he's been teaching for almost 70 years or 60 years. He really started as a teenager, and he really, really works hard to know what it says and what it doesn't say. There's plenty of people that tell you what it doesn't say. Just go to a church on Sunday. They'll tell you emphatically what it doesn't say. And that's the problem. So just listen to this for a second. Let's see here.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Nice to have you. Um I wonder if you could um uh give a few words on the matter of uh Christians and civics slash government slash politics, and specifically the church that is the family of God. How do we want to engage with one another um using the scriptures and the whole thing with wisdom? Using um other guys, but it seems to me um, for example, the point of them as well. There is so much suffering due to I think people completely disengage on civic matters, but it doesn't really simple to watch. Um, what is possible? Even to discuss basically um which is um the public we're not accustomed in the body to discussing civic matters in a lot of money.

SPEAKER_03 20:28

And I just wonder what is the thing, what do you think about the whole topic? Well, no, it is but it's Christians cannot discuss differences of the things in the civil matter. Uh that must be because it's not a which are Christians, or because which are Christians don't fight with each other on the differences of the problem, we should try to display each other. But no, but we don't think all, you know, instead of in front of those who are in opposition. Um but I'm also finding what you're pushing. Um, I'll take a question. I'm not gonna love the women. Some people think what you just want the four. Um well. There are poor people who are poor not because no one gives enough money, but because they don't want to do money, but they just don't give them money. But then likewise, we uh give them money like money to hold. Uh likewise, we take the money away from which people want to do that. If somebody does that legally, then we urge it, maybe earn it, but they've legally quite well. So it's not going to take that away from you. Um this isn't generous. It's generous to give your own money, it's generous to use it. Tell somebody else. That's the money to elect politicians. To take the money away from somebody else is to compet that person's money, and then those politicians will give it up. The people who call that isn't working to me. Uh we're gonna disappear the fall, we're gonna take work in people, and then we're gonna distribute the people that all that being supportive. Uh there are a lot of people suffering of hobbies and stuff, but many of these are suffering because uh we're not gonna make the choices knowing how much money you need them. Uh the lifestyle changes that will pull another problem. Um just pouring money down the hall when there's people who can work, who can make lifestyle changes or wouldn't wouldn't be a problem, wouldn't need to be support. Uh, then we can also use the money to help people who are poor because they're disabled, or you know, we can't work in some way. But there's a lot of people. The only reason they're poor is they're making choices on a regular basis that they shouldn't be making. Uh and and so discipling people, uh, isn't displaying money on them uh so that they so that they have enough meals, but just teaching them how to live a life that not only isn't a black hole consuming all kinds of business, but I think this product so they can get all these things for the things don't deal with them link over to the money so that people have something to give other disposal. So if I can disciple somebody, it doesn't mean just give money to the sponsor the self-destructive lifestyle. That's not love. Uh if I can do something for them at all, I'm going to do it and help them find a way out of that situation that's caused by their own doing. So again, Christians have different ideas about health system. Lots of people feel like you just give people money, you'll feel less about yourself. Well, if we feel good about yourself, it's really what does Christian mind itself. It's actually loving people, doing for them what will do them good. And this is where Christians do have different ideas. That's what we're doing. How in the world are we loving person of ourselves? We're not engaging with other people. Um we we need to be doing those things that we can do that will help other people have you know lives that are less difficult and more productive and more fun to God. Um, you know, I don't have a solution to the problem with Christians. Don't find the problem. But uh I would say don't don't fight over already. You don't you don't waste the time trying to tell the truth, but uh but a lot of people don't want to put the truth and consciousness and we're talking about closest. That's not the question. He helped a person. But helping a person who finds a guy in the consciousness, he listening for his wounds, he gives him a roof over his head. Now long term, that guy wasn't living a bad life, he was just following C's. But if he was living a bad life, he's gonna keep him in in poverty. Then loving him is doing something to help him change that. I'm not a time you've been listening to the narrow pass. My name is T Gregor, let's say it's the narrowpass dot com.

SPEAKER_00 25:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

We can't we'll talk in letting others.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

Alright, so uh I didn't mean to give away the source, but uh there's not nothing better, nobody better. So you know, the the good book says a lot of things. Jesus said a lot of things. One of them is d don't be like children. Don't be like children. You know, he he he he kind of mocked that idea. He says, You this generation, this wicked generation, you know, you're like children in the marketplace, playing, chastising their friends. Hey, we tried to play funeral and you wouldn't you wouldn't cry, and we tried to play we tried to play wedding and you wouldn't dance. I mean, we're not supposed to be children, especially the shepherd, the that word means pastor. Jehovah is me pastor. The Lord is my shepherd. So if you're gonna be a shepherd, you don't be as much a child as your congregation. That's not gonna work. So Jesus said a lot of things. Here's one of them. He said, Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and you do not what I say? So part of this message is to air quote Christians. The good book says you need to ask yourself whether you really are one or not. Don't just throw the name around. You got Joy Behar throwing it around on the view. She's talking about what Jesus wanted. So so for you Christians, uh committing adultery with this the church and state, with the government education media attainment complex that has taken over. So you know, Jesus uh said, Why do you call me Lord, Lord and do not things that I say and do not what I say? Somebody etched this into the wall uh in a supposedly in a in a cathedral in Germany. It says, You call me master and obey me not. You call me light and see me not. You call me the way and walk me not. You call me life and live me not. You call me wise and follow me not, you call me fair and love me not, you call me rich and ask me not, you call me eternal and seek me not. If I condemn you, blame me not. So you know we we we've gotta we've gotta break this adultery between the church and the state. So uh let me try and and give you w why government is no good at charity. I'm gonna try and go as fast as I can. Um You know what they call compassion. Uh first of all, the founder of our of our country, uh Madison, the founder of our constitution, said that's not the purpose of government. Well, here's a reason here here's some of the reasons why, and how smart these guys were. You know. What they call compassion is allowing a certain micro part of the of the community of the United States, of the citizenship, to live under a blue tarp and shoot up drugs. Uh Mom Dummy, you know, the warmth of collectivism is in the warm mansion that he gets to be governor, he's allowing uh homeless to die freezing in the streets. You don't bring them into his house. He's not a good Samaritan. He's not even a Christian. He's a Muslim uh communist. You know, they're always linked. Look it up. Greg Gutfeld called him hobops. It's kind of funny, but it's kind of sad. Yes, Elizabeth Folkahannis, you built it yourself. Little business. Small business. So their their answer to compassion is it besides virtue signaling, it actually does harm. What's the first line of the Hippocratic oath? First do no harm. They're actually doing harm going into debt doing it. We uh I took a class at um I took a class in college, it was an upper division, what they called cross-cultural, well, it has kind of religious component to it. And it was uh called um Um Moral Issues Today. It had a textbook and everything, and we had to do a a term paper at the end of the year and a speech on a moral issue, and it had to be cut controversial. Uh uh one of the ladies in the class, uh, they were mostly nurses. I think they had to take it for ethics, uh continuing education. Anyway, she she did one on poverty, and I gave her an article that I found in a newspaper called Doing Too Much for the Poor, and it pointed out how, you know, we have the same rate of poverty as we did when the war on poverty started. We have the same exact rate of poverty as we did when the war on poverty started. Reagan said the war on poverty is over, poverty won. So wouldn't you think that anybody who wants to be efficient and careful and a good steward would look and say, How are we doing on this? Nope. I gave her this article called Doing Too Much for the Poor. And it pointed out real statistics, real facts. Like, for example, um, there was less crime during the Depression. So they have this idea. They well, we'll get to that later, but uh I I mentioned it to my dad who went through the depression, he was the World War II generation, he said, yeah, there was there was nothing to steal. He was a very funny guy. Very funny. Anyway, do I have to bring up the $9 billion Somali daycare scam? You know? The the the local newspaper had this article where they had a kid, they'd show a kid with these shoes, like you couldn't believe that what did they do? Get those from 1800 and run them through a meat grinder? And you should have seen these shoes. And it says, you'd be surprised at how many children go to school with shoes like this. Well, I was heavily involved in schools, both with my own kids, volunteering, coaching, okay. Uh you'd be surprised. So so I called him up. I never saw shoes, anything close to that, not even in the third world. And it was the name of the paper, shoe fund. So you're supposed to send in money if it tugs at your heart when you see that. Oh my god, kids go to school with shoes like that? So I called a lady up, whoever's in charge of their fund there. I said, I I would I'm ready to be surprised. I want to be surprised. How many in this town, in this county, one of the biggest in the country, how how many go to school with shoes like that? Because I've never I've I've just seen Air Jordan's and uh Nike Pump or whatever it was, that cost a lot of money. I I don't s I've never seen a shoe like that. Ever. At a school that has free breakfast, free lunch, free free busing, free everything. So she kind of well uh actually we don't we uh we don't really have any numbers on it. In fact, uh it it's just an old fund that started with that picture. You know, they use they use um uh companies that are good at fundraising. World Vision uses them, all of them use them to tug at your heartstrings. And it creates compassion fatigue, which means it destroys people's inherent desire to help. So she finally said, you know, there really aren't any kids that go to school. So what what have they been doing with this money all these years? Running the ad in their paper, maybe getting money, probably. Anybody ever look at those books? IRS wants to look at your books every year. And they consider that a write-off. So so fast forward, so anyway, next week I look in the paper and the ad's gone. So you'd be surprised. Yeah, well, I'm ready to be. Okay, so I get this other thing from a food bank. You wouldn't be surprised at how many children go to home go to bed with hunger pangs in their stomach. How many so I call the lady up. What a jerk. Yeah. Sorry. The truth is more important than fantasy and waste. It's actually a good deed to point out fraud, waste, and abuse so we can get that money to use for proper purposes. Anyway, a at the end of the day, long story short, the lady says, Well, there really aren't that many kids. Uh I don't know if there's any that go to bed with hunger pangs every night. And so says that she said the charity fundraiser company that we use, the consultant, they they do that. They do that stuff. So uh you know, Ted Kennedy, she said they have a thing called food insecurity. And, you know, tet when Ted Kennedy said there's 20 million uh hungry children going to bed hungry every night in America, he didn't say that twenty million of them are aliens, which is a lie anyway, because they're all on Medicaid, Medicare, uh whatever, food aid-dependent families, whatever it's called, using their coupons. So that that's a lie to begin with. But they're not they're not American children if they're aliens. Sorry. And and it and it and his definition was that get ready for this. The definition of poverty is uh people who have to resort to the same meal twice in a week. And the person that wrote the article about that, exposing it, said, pass the riceroni, please. You know, I I was talking to an entrepreneur who was telling me if I want to be an entrepreneur and everything, he said for the first year or two it's gonna be rice and beans and beans and rice. He was a rich guy, but you know, he's telling the truth. So you know, they they have this idea uh that poverty causes crime. That's one of their false doctrines. No, no, crime causes poverty. Hello? You know, I see these neighborhoods. I I grew up in one. My my wife did. There's nothing wrong with that neighborhood whatsoever. Nothing except crime. You could say that about any ghetto, anywhere. It's so it's only the crime that's a problem. Anyway, uh uh three o'clock in the morning, I'm coming home from work and and I meet this woman at a 7-Eleven, and she says, I I want diapers, sir. I want diapers for my baby or formula. So I said, Okay, let's go get some. So we're walking down the aisles. Oh, he he the baby doesn't use any of these kind. Three o'clock in the morning? Uh he also needs diapers. I said, Oh, okay, let's get the diapers. Oh, he doesn't wear any of these kind. I said, Look, ma'am, I'm not gonna just give you cash, okay? She says, God bless you, sir. Another one that I did that to uh spit on the window. So anyway, I got home, I asked my wife, I'm not an expert on diapers and formula, but you are. She says, Yeah, yeah, at three in the morning you can use any formula, any diaper. You know what she wanted. So that that happens all the time. All the time. It's been exposed a million times. That's why we have compassion fatigue. You see the guy on the corner, hungry. We'll, you know, they stopped saying we'll work for food and just said, Give me a give me something. So, you know, I I had a boss one time, he said he comes home from work after a long day and the neighbor's cleaning fish. The neighbor, neighbor, went fishing. He loves to fish, this this my boss, but he can't. He's got to work. Why does he have to work? To pay taxes. So that this guy who went fishing, who was on welfare, spent the day fishing. You know, Bob Newhart was an accountant before he uh before he uh became a comedian. Anyway, he he told a story about he how he got out of the that business. He was worked for the unemployment office, and he uh his job was to meet with the people who came in once a week and give them a check for $35. And uh he took home $37, coming in 40 hours a week or more. And he he said he finally just realized once on the way home they only have to come in for an hour a week. They get the same amount of money as I get for 40 hours. And he kind of made a joke out of it, but it it's not really funny. My my son was at the dentist, and uh you know the Postal Service loses fifteen billion with a B dollars every year. That's that's $120 every year, $15 billion with a B. If you break that down, it's $128,000 a minute for for one man year in a normal 40-hour week. And so he and a couple of these older guys were talking about, they were glitching about, you know, the Postal Service doesn't even want to forget about 99% of what they deliver is junk mail. They they don't even want to quit doing it. I mean, t talk about an inefficient mess. And and this one lady, awful, in there, uh, she she says, Well, I I don't I want it they said they don't even want to quit delivery on Saturday. She says, uh, well, that's when I get my checks. I don't want them to quit delivery on Saturday. Yeah, sure. You know? George Bernard Shaw said, any any politician who promises to rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul. This is what their founders wanted to prevent. People voting for demagogues who will promise them free stuff on your money. They're destroying the middle class. Communists always do. That's their first target. FDR, when he set up welfare, you know, the Constitution says to promote the general welfare. And he took off from that and created this communist nightmare of socialism insecurity. He said he feared that the welfare would become a narcotic. We'll talk on another show about how he set that up and Otto von Bismarck as his pattern and what what a it was just born to fail, bent to fail. All of that social security. He said he feared it would become a narcotic. Well, do you think? Do you think he feared it enough? Do you think he feared it enough? What does the government pay for now? The narcotics and the needles to shoot them up in with? Right in front of your business, right in front of your apartment. Right in front of your condo, you've got to step over fecal matter to get out because of their compassion. Not compassionate for you. And the government's terrible at charity. They they say it costs five dollars to give away one. Something like that. Well why would you keep doing that? Do you think the private entity of the post office, any private entity could lose $15 billion a year and just keep cranking? Well, keep printing the money. We got, you know, Ben Franklin came up with a postal, so we've got to have it. And then we had all these layers and layers and layers of NGOs. What do we find out? So they interfere. They interfere. They print money to destroy the middle class, and then they just give it away to people. It's called legalized plunder. And you know, Democrat Party's been described as rich white people and black people now that are half-white, telling you that you're you're poor because of rich people. Think about that. It's class warfare, it's communism. How many examples of the bad policy do you need? Yeah. How many, how many, I you know, I I try to put my kid in a high school, charter high school. I'm paying for it on my taxes. And uh the lady gets up and speaks for it because they're gonna have a lottery and they've got to be careful about the lottery because you've got to do it right and fair and all that stuff. So they do they're they're they're treating my public high school as a lottery with the funds. And she says, she says that you know, grades are a socio-economic problem. No, more than that, they're economic, they're not social. That's a lie. That's a lie. I mean, if I want to destroy the meeting, I can get up and say, Well, what about the boat people? Come here with nothing and then one year win the national spelling be. You're a liar. It it has nothing to do. It's a poverty. When Jesus said, Blessed are the poor in spirit, or they shall be comforted, you know, it means humble. You know, the poor, when when he they said, you know, Judas stole the money from the collection. Um, and and then he said, Hey, you could have used this for the poor. You know, one of them, you know, you could have used it for the poor when you're you're using that that oil that expensive ointment. And he said, the poor you'll have with you always. You can always do something for them. We're talking about doing things for people that aren't poor. You know, when when Yeah, I worked at children's hospital as a volunteer for a number of years. And um yeah, I I kind of an amateur statistician, I've always have been. So I count, you know, fifty percent of the beds are empty, and fifty percent of the ones that are have somebody in them, a patient, they're illegal aliens. Yeah. Who we already have free health care. We already had it. This was a long time before Obamacare. Yeah. Um I I go to the emergency room every time. I've gone with my son, I've gone with myself, and I look around, I'm thinking I'm the only person here paying for this. Let's just be honest. I'm the only person paying. So we look around, look around that room doctors, nurses, ambulance, police, machinery, equipment, drugs, many you know, it's like uh Thomas Sowell, the great Thomas Sowell said. Said, some people think that we don't have enough money for doctors, nurses, and hospitals and drugs, but we have enough money for doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drugs, and a huge organization, maybe even an NGO, to run it all. Sure. Sure, Obama. That was brilliant. So so I was telling this to my how how is it what's her favorite word, sustainable? How is it sustainable for one person to be paying the only guy there that night, all night, and the only one paying for this? How is that even possible? So I was telling uh a sister about this, and she says, Well, I always think there, but for the grace of God, go I. I said, Well, you know, I didn't say this, but her landscaping costs more than my house. So I said, You and your husband, write a check. Write a check to these people. You're not doing a very good job of caring about it. It doesn't even count if you just vote for somebody who'll take my money and give it when I don't want to give it for waste and fraud and abuse. You sacrifice a citizen on the altar of I don't know what you call that. So, you know, the separation of church and state, you know? I I saw this bumper sticker. Uh it said, I remember during Obamacare stuff, oh, a brown-skinned Middle Eastern who um wants to give people free health care. That's not Obama, that's Jesus. So these people think that they think that their definition. When Bush was running, he wanted to have faith-based initiatives. He wanted, he he looked at the fact that, you know, the soup kitchen, the salvation army, whatever, they can do a way, way better job. But, you know, people like Bernie Sanders who jumped in and Ted Kenney or whatever said, oh, separation of church and state, separation of church and state. He just wanted to say, hey, let's just recognize the fact that they're doing a better job. They're not spending five bucks to give away one on somebody that isn't ready to be helped. So, you know, the government ruins everything. The number one reason to come off of welfare was to get married. What did the government do about that? They ruined marriage. They made it more beneficial to not be married. Another way to come out of poverty is to be adopted. The government ruined the biggest adoption force in the country, far and away, was the Catholic Adoption League. But they said, no, no, no, you can't, you can't have, you, you, you can't have separation, we we've got to have separation church and state, which is that's a whole nother show. That's just a lie. That's a it's a that's an upside-down understanding of that. So when you have a pastor say, oh, social gospel, social gospel, the the there is no such thing. There's no such thing. So, you know, shut up about that. Because there's only justice. There's no social justice. And the social justice that the good book talks about is open your mouth for the dumb. That's what I'm doing. It doesn't just mean people that can't speak, it's people that aren't allowed to speak. And and and dumb as in dumb, dumb and dumber. Dumb and dumber. Just like our last few candidates and our last few presidents. I I I I have I have I offended you by I become your enemy by telling you the truth? This is a moment of truth. I'm sorry if we have to say it to a pastor as well as a president, but they can't commit adultery with this word and become Pharisees, phonies who want to make themselves look good. I gotta get out here. Anyway, thank you. Thank you for taking enough time to listen to this. I I speak to you in truth and love. I love you, I care about you, and I want I want you to survive and thrive. And uh w we can go, if I wanted to let the left hand know what the right hand is doing, I can go into all the different charity that I have done. That's where charity belongs. Belongs at home. When you when you cut a check of your own, that that's that's charity. And if if the government would get out of the way, we could have we could have real nice we could do a lot. We could fix homelessness, quote unquote, unhouse, whatever it's called this week, in no time at all. Anyway, thank you. Take care, everybody. This is Jeremia Gunn Show, signing off. In truth, peace, justice, and love. No truth, no nothing. Thank you.