Straight Talk with Bill Frady 9/2/26 Hour 2 - Tony Dale contrasts capitalism with socialism, noting positive job growth and expressing concern over societal decline.

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Tony Dale: Well, howdy, howdy! I'm so glad that you are here. Just a reminder: should you wish to chat verbally, you can do that on the Ingles Market Talk Line at 800-905-0989, which is also the same number for the Common Sense Retirement Planning text line. Which—I will start with that, and then we'll get to some other thoughts here. From the text line: "I'm so tired of hearing people that think they have some special compassion looking for ways to justify murdering three children." I think we can all agree with you on that one. Okay, so some—actually, some good news. There are some things in play here that I think are encouraging. And one of them is what happened yesterday in Congress. So, there was a vote in Congress to denounce socialism in all of its forms. And it went into great detail if you read the document—I don't have it in front of me—but they mentioned the millions of people who died under the Soviet Union, and in China, and all of the elements of what socialism has wrought historically. So the vote—actually, there were two Democrats that crossed the aisle and voted with House Republicans on this. So they adopted this resolution to denounce socialism in all of its forms. And the House adopted the resolution in a 220 to 192 Yea-to-Nay vote, so eight Democrats joined in favor. So the first vote was in committee; the second was the larger vote. Now, and by the way, one of them was Don Davis from North Carolina, so we appreciate that. Well, as you can well imagine, Hakeem Jeffries was apoplectic about all of this. And I'm getting such a kick watching the Democratic Party come into this convoluted sort of mindset of, "Oh, there is a way that we can all work together, the Democratic Socialists..." When you read what these people believe, it's hilarious! Oh, before I forget this, you need to go watch this. You can look this up; it's on YouTube and probably other places. But there is a two-minute video that was produced by women who are people who left socialist countries to come here—many of them as children. Just as an aside, I have a close friend who—she and her family escaped barely with their lives when she was a small child from Yugoslavia. And boy, I'm telling you, she can give you chapter and verse on what's wrong with that. But there's this two-minute video out there; it's called "Take Me Back," and it debuted a couple of weeks ago, I saw it. So basically, what it is—it's hilarious. They use kind of like Back to the Future. So there's this woman, Maya, who meets this guy that looks like the actor in Back to the Future, and she goes "back to the future." Well, the name of the people who produced it—you need to look them up, too—Independent Women's Voice, it's called. So there are some sane women; these are some of them. I guarantee you this bunch isn't cheering for Clancy. And one of the things—I'll just share this, cause this is their worldview—she says, Nuñez is the lady's name, Yali Nuñez, so she came here from, I think, Cuba: "Capitalism places faith in people; socialism assumes government planners can best direct it." Well, so anyway, so it starts off with this Christopher Lloyd character, and I will just describe it, but it's hilarious. The woman—she wants to go to the future, and it's going to be all wonderful, she's expecting it, right? And he says, "Everyone gets a home here, and that's nice, they're all assigned. And there's zero waste! But there's also no milk for coffee, the government-run grocery store only takes coupons, and the groceries are so high they're unaffordable. There's no police if the grocery store gets robbed, and of course, public transit's a disaster because, well, none of the workers want to come in, they don't have to, because they deserve more! So you can't get anywhere." And it goes on from there. So there is a genuine line of demarcation that is now taking shape as we head toward these midterm elections and presidential elections. And I think, in part, the normies—whi ...

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