About the 10%.

Tom Cotton, a senator from Arkansas, a great guy, a friend of mine, a supporter of mine, big support, I'm a supporter of his too. And he wrote a pretty nasty story about the head of Intel. And I said, well, if that's right, he should resign and he came in, he saw me, we talked for a while. I liked him a lot. I thought he was very good. I thought he was somewhat a victim, but you know, nobody's a total victim, I guess. And I said, you know what? I think

the United States should be given 10% of intel. And he said, I would consider that. I said,

well, I'd like you to do that. Welcome to Liberty lockdown. This is Clint Russell. It's been a while.

I apologize. Took a little break. Internet connection issues, weather issues, running errands, travel,

you know, live in life. But the good news is while I was away, you and I became 10% owners of Intel.

Who would have thought? Didn't even have to buy it? Nope, that's actually not true.

That's not what happened. So I did a little digging because at first glance I was like, well,

this is concerning, odd, unusual. For those that are not familiar with recent history of crises

and government interaction in the private market,

probably the best case study on what we're describing here was 2008, which is really where I

cut my teeth. I just came out of college. I had entered the mortgage industry and I was right

in the heart of basically the Great Recession and it was not fun. But what we saw happen as a consequence of the Great

Recession was the federal government acquired multiple large institutions. I think they took on

like GM for a time, a bunch of liquidations, Washington Mutual got liquidated. Well, I mean,

Bear Stearns, all of these companies that were going bust and then

others that were being bailed out and being kind of technically acquired for a time by the United

States federal government. And I opposed all of it. And you shouldn't be surprised. I am a free market

capitalist. I believe in creative destruction. I believe that if you make bad business decisions,

as they did, which led to that crisis, they ought to go bust. But they did. capitalists. I believe in creative destruction. I believe that if you make bad business decisions as

they did, which led to that crisis, they ought to go bust, but they did not. George Bush and then

Barack Obama, they continued this process of bailing out these very large, many of them were Fortune

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