Episode 350 Scott Adams: Socialism, Mexico Paying for the Fence-Wall

Date: 2018-12-26 | Duration: 8:22

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Catch and Release continues, but now we release into Mexico Mexico is now absorbing the resulting cost Is there any reason a state couldn’t try socialism? A state like Vermont could go full socialist, see what happens

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[0:10]

bum bum bum bum bum ba ba ba ba ba hey everybody Tyler Morgan Sharona good to see you Jeremy Mike and Shelton and and Shawn and Angela it's about time you got here I'm glad you were ready finger at the ready waiting for coffee with Scott Adams this is the time this is the lucky time wake up everybody I'll use sleepy heads or taking the rest of the week up off it's time to raise your mug you're Stein you glass your tankard your chalice fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous sip
ah so it's not really a very newsy day all the big newsmakers are taking the day off

[1:11]

day off CNN is flogging yet another story of an unfortunate instance where a child died in I guess in border custody again that story you probably should ignore because the point of such stories is not really to talk about the individual it's to make you think something big about the policy is and the evil of borders and all that so while it's a tragedy it should not be informing us on our political opinions now here's an interesting thing that happened and I'm not sure why I'm not seeing this in the major media but in a non major media source and I'd like to see if like to see if you could factor in on this is it true that the president has signed some kind of a deal I guess with Mexico in which when we grab people who were

[2:14]

which when we grab people who were trying to cross the border illegally we used to release them into the United States but now I think the deal is we're going to release them back into Mexico while they're waiting for their paperwork to be processed yeah can somebody confirm that that was real all right so some people are saying yes let's assume that's real now think this through with me if those people were allowed to stay in the United States there are hundreds of thousands of them Arthur isn't it a tremendous number of people every year and if you have a tremendous number of people who were in the country illegally isn't the whole idea that they cost money they cost more than they add and that's the argument from the people who would like a wall right that the people coming in are subtracting more than they're adding and now that subtracting has moved from our

[3:16]

now that subtracting has moved from our side of the border to Mexicans the Mexican side of the border isn't that really expensive because Mexico apparently has agreed to give them some social services now what would that cost yeah so somebody's a little bit ahead of me
me it looks like Mexico's paying for the wall doesn't it because I don't know what that cost to house and give medical care and whatever else they need to give to hundreds of thousands of people that we capture and release back into Mexico but seems like that's pretty expensive so maybe they'll indirectly pay for the wall here's another thing that I was wondering so part of the reason with Mexico controlling the border on their side is that Mexico the government apparently doesn't really control their border the cartels do so there is for all practical purposes you know a big

[4:20]

all practical purposes you know a big chunk of Mexico is just owned by the cartels and they're the ones who charge the families five thousand dollars or whatever it is these days to come across the border yes I think there are several cartels they each own little parts of the border but I wonder if we've ever even floated the idea of paying the cartel to guard the border yeah I'm sure we can't do that for all kinds of ethical reasons but if we said to the cartel here's the deal you're going to start with a billion dollars a year and then we'll subtract five thousand dollars for every person who comes across illegally and then at the end of the year we'll pay you I know there are all kinds of problems there are all kinds of problems with that idea but the point is it would actually be cheaper I think

[5:21]

think to pay the cartels to prevent people from coming into the United States now are they trustworthy well we know how many people are coming in so we could just monitor the number of people come in and say uh looks like you didn't you didn't meet your quota this month so we pay you nothing there are a hundred reasons that's a bad idea you don't have to give them give them all to me now the President did tweet I think it was yesterday that he would be willing to call it a a slat Matt what do you say a fence or a wall I'm looking for that tweet but I can't find it so yeah let's call it a fence wall or a wall fence no apparently my my name Wentz is not catching on with anybody so it's not as

[6:24]

catching on with anybody so it's not as sticky which is no big surprise of course but suppose we call it a a fence wall fence - wall if we call it a fence wall then everybody gets what they want once was too complicated for people but if we call it a fence - wall then I think all we need to do is get that funding and go forth because who's going to turn down a fence okay so I understand that the Democrats are prepping to introduce full socialism some bills and of the house now there aren't enough people to get any of those laws passed but it will be interesting and I ask you again what would prevent let's say one state from being socialist suppose we said

[7:32]

some people are saying there's allowed might come and other people are saying there is not so as long as there are some people who are saying that it is not I'm gonna assume that there is not
what would stop let's say Rhode Island or Vermont
if Rhode Island or Vermont if they if they're not willing to try socialism you know why not why not let them try socialism for a little while see how it goes all right I'm gonna sign off because too many people are having trouble with the sound or they're just pranking me I can't tell but in any case it's no fun because all I'm getting is complaints so I'm gonna sign off and I'll talk to you later