[Lost Episodes] Chris Markowski and Clayton Cramer - #30
The Tom Barnard Podcast
Complete Disaster Network
4.1 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Chris is, or at least hosts, The Watchdog on Wall Street. What were the dogs watching back in 2012? The government making making money off prescriptions. Because nothing ever really changes. And speaking of nothing changing, Clayton was on for his book My Brother Ron, which is about mental illness and institutionalization. I bet you can guess what Tom talked about with him.
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| 0:00.0 | Christopher Markowski, how you doing, sir? |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, how are you? |
| 0:03.0 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:03.8 | The watchdog on Wall Street, political and economic expert, |
| 0:06.3 | host one of the longest running nationally syndicated financial radio shows. |
| 0:10.8 | I love the title, Uncle Sam the Drug Pusher. |
| 0:16.2 | That's really nice. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's talk about Uncle. |
| 0:19.5 | We want you. |
| 0:20.7 | Yeah, yeah, exactly. Walter White has got |
| 0:23.3 | nothing on Uncle Sam. There you go. I'm just reading some of these figures and facts. I don't even |
| 0:32.3 | know where to begin with this interview because there's so much to talk about. A slew of government |
| 0:37.4 | welfare programs spending on the rise slew of government welfare programs, |
| 0:38.5 | spending on the rise. Should the government check into rehab? Well, we are what now? Is it |
| 0:44.3 | $16 trillion in debt? Is that where we are now? |
| 0:47.7 | Well, why would the government want to check into rehab? They're the ones that's peddling the dope. |
| 0:53.0 | You know, it's just so many different analogies you can use to talk about how detrimental |
| 0:58.0 | the welfare state has been on our society as a whole. |
| 1:02.4 | And, you know, you take a look at, you know, some of the symptoms of things that go along |
| 1:06.8 | with welfare here in our society, and it's very much akin to drug abuse and |
| 1:12.9 | indeed don't tell me people do not get addicted to government assistance that |
| 1:18.1 | we we have a problem here in this country with some 50 million close to 50 |
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