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Victor, so first thing I wanted to talk about was California. There's so many bills

passing the California Senate. It's just, I don't know whether it's infuriating or

just absolutely insane, but here are some of

them recently the proposal for allowing loans at zero interest and

without any down payment to illegal aliens.

Health care for illegal aliens.

And then there's also a bill that's going to go through where

electrical consumption will be based on income.

So if you have higher income and pay a higher premium, I guess they're a higher price for it.

I was wondering if you were some ideas about the craziness of California.

I wouldn't mind it if they were on us. So instead of California, they should just say the

California Socialist Republic.

It would be, are the California Socialist Republic of communist counties or something?

Just give us the truth.

Because what's happening is this two things are happening.

We got flooded the last 25 years with people coming in, very bright, and they created Silicon Valley.

And that became the world's siphon of cash, $9 trillion, larger than most countries' net worth.

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