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for children. Learn more at child advocates.net. So I had an interesting conversation last night.

Yeah. And I thought I would share, well, I won't share who it was with.

I will share the contents of it because I think it, I think it would be very,

uh, I think it'd be very eye opening to our audience about why we can't get the spending

under control in this country at any level.

So if it'd be all right, you know, kind of a fun Friday, and we'll spend a lot of time in this hour talking about the race.

But I thought this conversation, because it's something I really, really have struggled with Casey, which is why in our country at all levels,

governments will not, it doesn't matter how many Republicans you elect, it doesn't matter

what offices you elect them to. I mean, look at this state.

You have a $44 billion budget,

and they can't balance it without raising taxes.

They just, they can't do it.

You look at property taxes that are totally out of control,

these local governments,

many of them run by all Republican communities.

They claim, these local school boards claim, they can't do it without referendums.

Look at our federal government.

They're all these Republicans from the House, the Senate, and the presidency.

They're about to add $20 trillion to our nation's debt.

And I really struggle with how and why this keeps happening and how we do something about it because

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