Episode 379 Scott Adams: Solving the Border Funding Problem and Opening Government in 48 Hours

Date: 2019-01-17 | Duration: 9:19

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Solving the border funding problem and opening government in 48 hours

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[0:08]

[Music] bum bum bum hey everybody it's time for a very special coffee with Scott Adams I'll be your host Scott Adams and I hope you have an afternoon appropriate beverage to join me for yet another simultaneous sip this one in the Serv of solving the country's biggest Mo Problem at the moment which is the government shutdown a big hardship for many people on top of that the disagreement about the budget for the border wall and are you ready to join me for this simultaneous
sip that's good afternoon sipping all right so here's the launch point I think you're all following the news you know that uh the Democrats uh don't want to agree to president Trump's uh request for 5.7 billion for some kind of barrier

[1:10]

for 5.7 billion for some kind of barrier structure situation but at the same time they also agree that we need border security so we civilians watching this the people who vote the people who own this country the voters in this Democratic like process we look at these politicians who seem to be saying the same freaking thing and because they can't agree to agree on the thing that they agree on literally that's what's happening they're they're failing to agree on the stuff that they agree on which is Engineers should figure out some good way to secure the border so in the meanwhile uh they've got the best jobs in the world where if they don't do their jobs you hear I'm talking about the president as well as Congress if they don't do their jobs they get to punish strangers like literally they're punishing strangers I never wanted to be in

[2:11]

strangers I never wanted to be in Congress so much as I do right now because I'm thinking every other time I've had a job or done something you know that required making money if I did something terrible usually something happened to me it's true but apparently there are jobs or if you do a really bad job they just punish other people and they will just keep punishing them until you start doing your job and fact they will punish them as hard as they need to to make you do your job so I thought I would solve all this and as you know I like to jump in and talk about uh persuasion as a filter on the news and I'm going to give you a suggestion that you haven't seen yet no one has no one has yet discussed this option and it's a simple reframe framing of the problem so that you move from the political uh you know loggerhead situation and you move it into you know a problem solving frame and the this the solution goes like this

[3:15]

and the this the solution goes like this you simply ask the Democrats and you give them time you know that it doesn't have to have happen in a week or anything but you just say could you draw a picture for the country of what your preferred version of border security looks like and if you want and if you want you know if you want big uh parts that don't have fences don't have Borders or anything you know maybe you have a drone yeah maybe you say that the there water features that stop enough people that you know that's good enough but just draw us a picture so this one's just conceptual and label it you might label it like what does this part cost you might label that you're going to add a bunch of uh I think they're going to add some scanning technology they want to when they are I think maybe they need some extra dogs there are a theoretical number of dogs that make this a lot uh safer so let's just see their

[4:15]

safer so let's just see their budget on a picture of the border that says yeah you know we'll put a little we'll put a little uh steel lattice there this is a special case or they'll say we just need some low barb wire with you know some sensors you know even Israel does that in some places and they put a little dollar amount on it and say this is this is a 10 million or whatever it is so just show us what you would do because remember the the thing that both sides both sides have agreed to at this point is that they want strong border security they want capable border security but they want it to be moral now if you the Republicans how exactly do you negotiate with someone whose standard is the morality of barriers and that I guess there are some that are more moral than others there's nothing you can do with

[5:16]

others there's nothing you can do with that so you have to take that completely out of that frame and simply ask them to lead so the president could or in fact Let me let me take the president out of this what does the president have to do with this nothing at this point so what I'm saying you don't need the president's involvement whatsoever you know you you and I are enough suppose we say I would love to see your plan and mean it all right here's the key you have to really mean it and I mean it I'm I'm 100% sincere and I think pretty much everybody watching this is going to have the same reaction right wouldn't you like to see what we already have maybe overlaid with you know some let's say some information from border security or border patrol whatever this says you know we're letting this many people are coming in this way and you know this many people are coming in this way you know put a little high level statistics on it whatever you think is important

[6:18]

on it whatever you think is important and then just draw us a picture it might be a few different pages you know because of the you know the size of things Etc but just make it simple show us a picture of what we got and show us a picture of what you'd like to get us to and I will make a firm commitment here if it looks good if it looks good and it doesn't have an ounce of wall I'm good with it wouldn't you be I mean is there anybody who really cares if there's a wall I I think we're way past that right if they could make the cake that a wall in all cases doesn't make sense wouldn't you accept that now it would have to be a really good case right and you know there are lots of experts who can give you an idea of when walls work and when they don't now my full expectation to be fair my full

[7:18]

my full expectation to be fair my full expectation is that nobody could make a case for no walls the entire border I don't think anybody could make the case but don't you think you owe it to the country to listen to the case all they have to do is make it just let it make the case uh I would listen to this and I would I would get behind whatever solution the experts said now the news networks of course need fodder they need stuff to talk about how much fun would it be and I mean this seriously to get sort of the highlevel uh education about how all this stuff is done you know wouldn't you love to know exactly what an elect Ric wall looks like wouldn't you love to see some of the startups that are doing things would you sort of geekish wouldn't you like to know why has worked in other places it would be kind of fun yeah I I I would be addicted to it frankly uh just from the engineering nerdiness of it all

[8:23]

so let's uh let's see if we can uh get the Democrats and I mean this completely seriously to get out of the frame they're in and into a frame of here's what we would do CU it doesn't help us to say we won't do it because it's immoral it just doesn't help now I probably wouldn't care about any of this frankly like I I'm not that invested in most issues but when you've got 800,000 freaking Americans who are being tortured because some other people who can't do their jobs well maybe they need a little help so I thought i' jum jump in and see if I could maybe uh maybe make a difference so that's all I've got to say I want to just keep it on this one topic
uh all right looking at your comments looks like uh we've done what we need to do here and I will talk to you later