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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

Tariff Turmoil: Is It Worth It?

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

News, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

People don't like change. The Israelites begging to go back to slavery under Pharaoh is the perfect example. It shows how much people will choose what they know, even if they know it's bad for them.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:19.6

Welcome to politics by Faith.

0:21.5

Thank you for being here.

0:23.0

The kids are running around in the hallway here,

0:25.0

but they're having fun, so I don't really want to tell them to quiet down.

0:29.2

So you may hear kids yelling, having fun in the background.

0:32.6

We're talking about tariffs all week on my serious XM show.

0:43.2

That sounds like fun, it that's fun okay you got you got to judge you like is that fun or screaming in terror I know I think it's fun that's fun

0:47.8

okay I think they're having um we're talking about tariffs all week and it's more than a news cycle

0:53.0

we need to get more this topic more than one news cycle more than. A lot of topics, they'll be big on Monday and Tuesday, and by Wednesday, I'm like, you know, we should maybe move on. This, no, the reordering of the entire global economy deserves more than a day or two of coverage. So we're going to stay on this for quite a long time. And something that came

1:12.4

up today on the radio is how much, like we voted for this. The American people voted for this.

1:17.0

We knew exactly what was coming. This isn't a surprise. Trump's been talking about it for,

1:19.7

I don't know, 40 years. So we want change and not Obama's empty, you know, vapid, hope and change. They're like real, like genuine change. And we knew what it was. We knew the change we wanted. It was a real defined change. But now that it's happening, people are like, oh, but I don't really want change. You know, like, I wanted change, but not change. I didn't know what to like change. I don't want to go through a change in order to get to the change. I just want to change, but not change. I didn't know what to change. I don't want to go through a change in order

1:45.0

to get to the change. I just want to change, but not really change. Just change. It's like,

1:50.1

well, what are we doing here? People are. Do we want something to change or not? Now here's how we get

1:54.8

past this. Two things need to happen. First, we need to clearly identify the problem with where we were and where we were headed on this path.

2:05.1

Right. And then we need a clear vision of where we're going. So we need to clearly identify the

2:12.2

problem. Otherwise, it's like, well, why change? And we need to clearly articulate where we're going.

2:18.1

Otherwise, people will say, well, it's not worth it.

2:20.6

I don't really know where I'm going, and this isn't worth the cost of it.

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