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Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now,

while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheetz, I am your host, and today on the show, I want to talk with you about

one of those big picture financial topics. It's not about personal finance. It is, however,

about how the world works. And I think it's important that you and I pay attention to these things

when they come across our desks. I watched today on Twitter. I watched a comment from

Senator McConnell in the United States Senator, that comment that he made here on Twitter.

I want to read it to you, published September 7, 2023 at 10.44 AM from Leader McConnell,

in the United States Senate. Quote, standing with our allies against Russian aggression isn't charity.

In fact, it's a direct investment in replenishing America's arsenal with American weapons

built by American workers. Expanding our defense industrial base puts America in a stronger

position to outcompete China. Now, this particular Twitter comment to me is rather shocking,

because it seems like a textbook example of what we sometimes refer to as saying the quiet part

out loud. And I thought, you know, there is a very important essay that I have thought about

for many years, read many years ago, probably reread it, at least every couple of years or so,

I've talked about it on the show, but I've never read to you. And I believe this is

one of the more useful essays for you to have in the back of your mind. You see,

current events are hard to parse through. They're confusing, hard to figure out, etc. But sometimes

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