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The Ramsey Show Highlights

Politicians Lie to Americans About This All the Time

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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📱Exclusive Extra: Watch more from this interview on the Ramsey Network app. Dave Ramsey sat down with Ben Shapiro for a real talk on work, building wealth, and what it really means to pursue the American Dream in 2024.   Founder and CEO of Ramsey Solutions, Dave Ramsey is a financial expert and national bestselling author. Over the last 30 years, Ramsey Solutions has delivered clear, no-nonsense money advice through radio shows, podcasts, books, courses and tools, helping millions of people take control of their money and build wealth. Each week, 8 million people tune in to The Ramsey Show across podcasts and YouTube for advice on money, careers, and relationships.  Learn more about Ramsey Solutions Next Steps 📞 Have a question for the show? Call 888-825-5225 Weekdays from 2-5pm ET or click here! Listen to more from Ramsey Network 🎙️ The Ramsey Show   🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show 💰 George Kamel 💼 The Ken Coleman Show 📈 EntreLeadership Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This idea that the American dream is dead, this hopelessness that is pervading out there.

0:13.0

What do you see about the American dream?

0:15.0

What's your feeling about that?

0:17.0

Because you're doing a whole lot of politics right now.

0:19.0

That's what you do, obviously.

0:20.0

But I mean, at this moment when we're taping this, you're traveling, stumping, going state to state,

0:25.2

working with the politicians out there. You think we're done? No, and I don't think we're remotely done.

0:31.3

I think that the ingratitude that it demonstrates to suggest that the American dream is dead

0:35.5

in a time of unique prosperity in human history,

0:38.8

where the poorest people in our society have the best technologies available to them,

0:42.0

literally in human history, where you have a magic machine in your pocket that you dial,

0:45.4

you hit a button, and a good arrives at your door for a cheap price inside of 24 hours,

0:50.0

and you're sitting there going, the dream is dead. I mean, we have these things that are time machines.

0:54.4

They're called airplanes. Fly to other places on Earth and spend like five minutes there,

0:58.6

and you realize just how much the American dream is not dead. And I think that politicians,

1:02.6

on all sides of the aisle, this does make me angry. I think politicians on all sides of the aisle

1:07.0

have an interest in lines to the American people people about this because there's this mentality that if I tell you that the American dream is dead, then only I can save you.

1:15.3

Only I have the ability to come in and rescue you from this crisis that has been created

1:19.0

for you.

1:19.4

When the reality is the steps towards success in a free society are the same as they always were.

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