His way out the door, the donald may drawdown or outright end the u. S. Wars in afghanistan and iraq. That, that hit the washington d. C. Where it hurts the most right between its military Industrial Complex legs. In fact, the hill is now reporting that acting defense secretary, Christopher Miller announced on tuesday that President Trump has ordered the pentagon. The pole 2500 u. S. Troops from afghanistan, iraq by mid january. And that the Defense Department will cut the number of troops in that ghana stand from 452500. The number of forces in iraq from 322505 january 15th, just 5 days before joe biden would get sworn in. Naturally cries of National Security dominated the airwaves in response to this news. Yes, it was an all out political news media blitz to convince you that somehow removing us troops and bringing them home from war are now multigenerational wars. That somehow puts them in more danger than being in a never ending war. But that wasnt the only bad news for the pentagon this week, as it appears once again. They just cant seem to get the old books right. Reuters is now reporting that the pentagon failed, failed its comprehensive audit in fiscal 2, fiscal year 2020. Thats the 3rd year. The pentagon has failed since the 1st audit was conducted back in 2018. But apparently my friends there misuse and disregard for keeping proper accounting of how they spend billions and billions of our tax dollars. Apparently thats ok. You know, because golly gee, we have a, theyre Getting Better at it. At least thats according to department of defense comptroller, thomas harker, who told the media that hopefully by 2027 the pentagon will finally have a clean audit. Its time to start watching if you want to go on a city street, you want to see that this is joyce state, great city. This least systemic deception is the late show which some welcome one and all to watch in the harsh winter. And im going to cry, so let me show you. Here we go, man 2, big stories coming out of the military Industrial Complex. This week we got donald trump saying, hey, i might. d of afghanistan, iraq, even syria, before he leaves office on the 20th of january and the pentagon just cant seem to get its books right over. I mean, both of those stories are really being the one thats getting more, you know, news coverage. And the other one is obviously trumps pull out methods in part because nobody knew this was coming beforehand. He didnt talk about this during his campaign cycle. Aside from you know that the ongoing, he just doesnt like wars. He had no real strategy of what the pullout was going to look like, who was going to still be there if anyone was going to still be there, and what that drawdown when that drawdown would start . So i think that now there are people who are questioning it basically on the basis of whether he can actually pull it off more so than anything else. Yeah, i mean, other, i mean, ive always noticed over the years and nothing gets washington more frightening than someone saying, hey, we might, we might slow down the war machine a little bit. Look, i, i am not a fan of donald trump by a member pertaining to be a fan of donald trump, but if someone wants to talk peace or at least get our soldiers out of harms way, so were stop killing civilians overseas. We stop seeing our guys die overseas and just stop that. I dont care who the guy is or woman, theres the bring our troops home. I just want to see him brought home. And i think that there are a lot of people who would agree with that. For me personally, it is more of a what are his alterio motives because im trying to pull troops out a long time ago. So youre going to need a full 4 term president. He could have done this towards the beginning of his time. We couldve done in the middle, he couldve done any time other than the time. Hes also arguing that the results of the most recent election were false and the ballots went missing and all the crazy things he thing right now, i think that theres something more here. And there i dont think youre alone. And no also remember too is that its not like trumps ago because as well as he was talking about pulling troops out of syria down a stand, they were at you still talking about potentially bombing iran. So its not like hes some big peacenik coming along. The other big story of this audit, which is really interesting, that the pentagon spot being audited for decades. And people forget that as our money at the end of the day that theyre using, that they should be responsible for. Despite Congress Passing a law way back in 1990, requiring all federal departments of the government to be audited every year. It took nearly 2 decades, but the 1st pentagon oughtnt to ever even be attempted. Ridiculous. Were digging less and quite sad because it seems like federal agencies have no problem auditing individuals and more other federal agencies. So i think that when it comes to the pentagon, there is a lack left their process because in all honesty, there are a lot of skeletons there. Everybody knows that. And i think that, you know, as best as they can, theyve been trying to keep a lot of things under cody. Oh yeah. Thomas harker of the acting department. The prince comptroller is kind of overseeing the audit that he said, what you are seeing is a much a mature ation of the process. Many of the individual agencies or services are developing more capability and better accounting skills so that they can resolve a lot of the problems youre seeing. Youre seeing significant process progress in certain areas. Q magine telling the i. R. S. That if they came to audit, you dont pay to get out. Thats true. You know. But if you imagine the average citizen telling the i. R. S. Look, i know your audience and i know i failed this audit for the last 20 years. But look, im progressing, its getting a little better or youll be in jail period. No question that they would come, they would take all of your stuff in you and that would be the end of it. And yet, and yet we let the pentagon get away with this and guess how much it cost to just audit the pentagon 203000000. 00 and about a 1000000000. 00 in remediate cost to fix identified problems, not even the ones we havent identified. The effort covers really roughly the 2. 00 trillion tax dollars in Department Assets including and i didnt even know this. The roughly 26500000 acres of the way on the pentagon homes talk about a massive agency that is a lot not only cash, but also assets. The last interesting thing i got a note on this too, is its interesting how quickly both sides come together. Were talking earlier today when it comes to like saying, oh, maybe we should pull some troops out of certain areas of the world. And you have democrats and republicans jumping together to say no, dont do that, which is interesting that theyd let it go. But when donalds talking about subverting the election process, no, i again, i think youre absolutely correct there because if they can stand out on this thing, they should have also been able to stand out on the total failure of the president to acknowledge that this election is over most of mississippi known for its lack of civil rights progress, holding on to the Confederate Flag for far too long. And systemic oppression has something new up its sleeve. Recently mississippi governor and trump loving republican take reeves call for 3 1000000. 00 to protect children from far left socialist teaching. Thats right. In the midst of a fiscal crisis cope with 19 job loss, the state that consistently falls at the bottom of the rankings in education, health care, and Economic Development wants to throw the dollars. It doesnt have a conservative driven conspiracy theory. The Patriotic Education fund, as its now been deemed, has a few goals. According to governor reeves who claims democracy, capitalism and other American Values are quote, the victims of a targeted campaign from foreign and domestic influence. And no other nation has done more for its citizens or to advance freedom and prosperity across the globe. Well, not to be outdone by the magnolia state florida too has its share of problems. The States Democratic Party is under fire not only for its lack of unity and failure to deliver a win for buying, but for mismanagement from top to bottom. The florida Democratic Party has had one bad cycle after another, but 2020 takes the cake with question defeats all the way down the ballot, and internal party fighting hasnt helped with trucks decisive win margin 2016. The state once considered a valuable swing state, lost that status completely in 2020, in the democratic stronghold, Miami Dade County jail as well. Democrat sean shell, a former state representative, summed it up with a quote, we have to turn out problems, messaging problems, coalition problems. Its up and down the board. Well, florida seems to have 99 problems and theyre all long standing. Florida democrats have until the Governors Office in over 2 decades and have been out of power in the state legislature for a quarter century. And that since obama won florida in 2012, democrats have only won one statewide race. A lot of blame is going on. The lack of latino support there for democrats. Other call outs are centrist and socialist battles. And of course, funding issues. Florida 99 problems and a democrat will mean one of their better hurt. And i mean, thats crazy. When you look at the issues that were seeing in michigan and florida, i think both of these cases or indictments of both parties do certain degree because you see the, you know, whats happening in florida. The democrats just cant seem to get a win because they said, we dont know our message and we dont know what to do. And then in mississippi to waste 3000000. 00. And it is frustrating and ive talked to you about this before though im from chicago, i grew up in mississippi and florida. Mississippi is a state that is consistently the butt of all the rest of the state jokes because they rank poorly in Health Care Outcomes in education. There isnt a marker of success that mississippi has done well. So we talk about 3000000 dollars for the poorest state in the union. Youre going to throw it Patriotic Education, which is something as you probably can recall, came up during against b. L. And he didnt want you to black lives matter. He didnt want to have a conversation about Racial Equity in classrooms. So his pushback was, lets talk about Patriotic Education. Lets remove things that have to do a black people, even though schools talk very little about, you know, the plight of africanamericans or the civil rights movement, or our time from slavery to now in their classrooms. Any way the majority of schools have whitewashed education. Now, the governor of mississippi wants to replace an already incredibly, you wore a blue Education System with what he calls Patriotic Education. What they need to focus on is actually math science, reading skills, you know, the regular education curriculum. And you know, if you have 3000000. 00 to spend mississippi, dont throw it, its something that a measure of the thing is you cant read the propaganda if you cant read, if youre going to change, or like at least teach kids how to read 1st, and thats when the and that tragically is one of the big problems. You see a lot of schools across the mississippi is just the basic level. Like you said, mass science really focus on that. Who cares about what the core bunda mentals they dont have yet. This is red meat for a conservative base, which this is the irony here is ridiculous because mississippi is a solidly red state. It has no means or motive of turning blue. There is nothing that can be done, im sorry to, you know, the democrats have to live there. Theres nothing that can be done to quake that it went so hard. Trump, but actually every single republican since reconstruction. It is very interesting that this is where they want to go. Its interesting. Heres the other thing too. Well, its look at florida because you have to bring the sort of florida is interesting because look, big passed a 15. 00 minimum wage there. Thats a very left on with the leftist is under the terminology, leftist progressive kind of thing, but you have to hold up on that. So why arent they getting behind democrats . So its an interesting question you ask and i think that to flow back to a previous conversation weve had florida is a state that is very much a workers state at the end of the day. We have so many people who are Blue Collar Workers who have a lot of people who work in who work in the hospitality industry, people who work in the tourism industry. These are individuals who want to see more in their wages. That doesnt necessarily mean that theyre the same folks who stand in whole boners under the socialist mob. I think that what the democrats can learn from this is that dont run away from things that people actually want to see happen. If you think that they are democratic socialist who also agree that between element of a wage or living wage is a good thing. Thats cool, but people outside of that want to see it happen as well. You know, i think thats the problem is that the democrats right now are so afraid theyre having such an identity. Crisis of being so afraid to be labeled as social, you know, part of the party is like all over socialism is so terrible. Then the other party is like, no, no, we love this. And the problem is i think that they have lost a lot. This election showed us at least they lost a lot of a blue collar base that they know that thats absolutely true. And i think the other big story about Florida Democrats are focusing on is you, as you can recall, former d. N. C. Chair, debbie wasserman, although shes a floridian. Im still a representative there. It becomes very hard for democrats to figure out what happened in florida when the diverse counties, miami dade didnt show up when you have the latino population, which they claim to invest in for the past few years showed up in large numbers for donald trump in the largest number of any state in the country florida did in terms of its latino voters. What can you do . I think the problem at the end of the day for me is i think, i think theres too Many Democrats who are trying to utilize the old ninetys era ideology of, well, weve got to go more, right. If we go more right and become republican lite or you know, prochoice republicans and then suddenly miraculously will get those republican vote. Its not about giving republican votes, its about getting blue collar and worker votes and blue Collar Worker votes respond to things like 15. 00 in which they respond to things Like Universal Health care. Not because theyre socialist ideas, but because we need those ideas that could have saved us from the situation were in the country. Absolutely wrecked. Thats why were seeing them link up with, f. B. I. You know, which is something that nobody would have ever expected. But that 15. 00 minimum wage matters good point. All right. 2 as we go to break, remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new, portable t. V. Which is available on all platforms. Definitely pick it up, coming up americas lawyer. Yes, the one and only mike patton, tonio joins us to discuss and intrigue lawsuit coming out of florida against one of the worlds biggest multinational construction companies. Not want to miss this conversation. So stay tuned for watching. Is your media a reflection of reality . In a world transformed what will make you feel safe from isolation, full community . Are you going the right way or are you being that direct . What is true . Whats his face . In the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths of the shallowness. Just feel welcome you. Normal guy called a memory a little known welsh up in the open office in your ocean cruise. It was a march up on the board was to be with the one that you would need a new epoch times to lead you to surround us. One of the models on earth is such a legacy of the local, which is based on your own work or one with your leanings lead to such as pathetic little digital shipped out of the sea, of luthers, of which you might yes, infrastructure and Construction Projects keep america going, but the companies that make it possible rarely make headlines, but that all recently changed response to a Construction Industry giant that is making waves were all the wrong reasons. 23 sconce that construction barges carrying cranes, beans, and other equipment broke free during hurricane sally. This cause major devastation across the scandia and Santa Rosa County. And while thankfully, no injuries were reported. The barges cause damage leaving the pensacola bay bridge out of service for 6 months. Locals are holding stones go countable, because they are upset with the company hasnt been open about their world in the disaster, nor have they done much to remedy the affected parties. This is notable because gods good makes big money in the u. S. 2700000000. 00 in commercial and multifamily projects, the Company Built structures like the world trade center, met life stadium where the new york giants and jets play, as well as several airports, hospitals, and other structures. But scotts got also has a long history of problematic mistakes, and some are deadly. The company has been charged with fraudulent labor practices, bribe really bribery scandals, and black contractors filed racially motivated harassment claims against them. In florida, local businesses want found that the payout revenue losses resulted from the branch outing and claims a 1000 not following hurricane protocol have erupted. Here for more on this developing story, it might happen. Tony, a host of americas lawyers, welcome might thank you. Appreciate, you know, i think you, you know, as i listen to you all opened the program, i thought it was interesting. The story about the pentagon was so interesting because it, its, its kind of the macro of what were talking about here in a more of a micro story. And that is accountability, whos, who is watching the people who are making decisions about things like the pentagon and with americas lawyer. Weve been trying to analyze whats, whats happening with the new infrastructure build out. Ok, we, we have, we have a, a lot of the infrastructure, build up 2nd place all over the country in various places. But what were not doing is were not really looking we, its almost like weve abandoned our responsibility to say, let me show up. At the hearing that were going to have with a company like sconce, where they says, where they say were the people that are going to improve your infrastructure. Were going to build a 400000000 dollar bridge and you can count on us. And what we, what we, weve analyzed this ad not just in week. Weve taken a look at, you know, mass protests taking place on the streets. Individuals going to state the state on big national issues. But weve forgotten about whats happening in our backyard. This, this, this act of forgetting whats happening. Our backyard probably will cost this, this community billions of the economic loss. And as you pointed out, this was a company, its a Foreign Company that shows up in pensacola. They make a presentation to city council that are half asleep on whats going on in state. You know, state legislators who are completely out of the ball game politicians who care about how much money they can give me the media baron. We paying attention to it and we dont show up the people who live here dont show up at that meeting. And had they done that, they would have found out that this is a company thats paid 20000000 dollars. Fines accused of bribery in argentina. Critical to the fact that they almost cant be business in south america because of their criminal conduct, cited for using subs, sub standard quality equipment, subs, subs the standard materials. But heres my point. The point is we have to worry about those bigger stories. We have, there are things we have to show up in the streets about what we have to get back to the days when were showing up at those hearings. And were talking about a company that has 170000000000. 00, global revenue, who has now left us in a position in this community. And i can take this story and i can superimpose it all over the country, whether its building roads, whether its building bridges, building infrastructure, where the People Living in that community have abdicated their responsibility to show up and ask questions. Why its so bad that what weve done it with our, with our farmers, we were committing ourselves to following scans wherever they go in the country, wherever they make a presentation. Were going to be there with askance with story. The outrageous quality of negligence that took place there their absolute denial of any responsibility. So were going to show up with those stories. But i think we have to go back to the days where maybe, you know, it was a generation that always showed up for the year. And you know, if there was, if theres a public hearing about a building, a new park, if theres a public hearing about building a new road, people were there. And its almost like theres a generational disconnect where were not showing up. Like i want to ask you, how often do you see these big super conglomerate Multinational Companies like cisco and building our infrastructure in our backyard here in this country . Because to me that seems like a job that the government should be doing itself with, by adding those jobs, not outsourcing it to some company from sweden or scandinavia. Yeah. You hit it on the head. You have you stolen my talking. Sorry. But theres no, youre going on the hit. There was a time when we had government that did this. We didnt go to sweden or germany or china, or, you know, japan to build our infrastructure force. You remember . I mean, where you can still see it in your, in your, in your head, the building of the sky scrapers, the place of the turn of the 19th century. You know that the, you have there was visuals when it was an american, it was american undertaking. And then we got into this idea where we can send our business to Companies Like scans, rather than holding a local Company Responsible for what were doing. We, we become so globalized, that its become a point that we have forgotten our responsibility to show up at hearings in stop and use thing. No matter, no matter whether i win this case or not, there will be no way to correct the damage thats been done to hundreds of businesses. 2nd, 3rd generation businesses. You remember i handled the b. P. Chase. It was the same kind of problem, but there they are. That was a different now says here, weve invited them into our house. Theyve taken advantage of us and now theyre going to go back to sweden and do it to somebody else unless we change the way we think about how we do business and us in this infrastructure. This infrastructure to this is a really sad situation. Mike and i, full disclosure, i lived in pensacola and pastes both gambia and Santa Rosa County respectively. So i know the importance of that, of that bridge to those businesses. But this isnt the 1st time the Construction Company had a foray into bad press or lawsuits. How were the other allegations handled, you know, 5 deaths in orlando highway project project labor practices, racially motivated harassment. Theres so much the list goes on and on how they got above those things to him. How did, how do you think this is going to play out just about a minute . Have you all been written . Have you been reading my notes from it . The only way it plays the only way it plays out is this. We have to perp walk criminals. When people do things wrong, knowingly, when they engage in bribery, whether its in argentina or anywhere in the country. When they, when we have, when we find them, theyre using substandard quality material to build our bridges or our roads. We have to treat them the same way. We would anybody else whos guilty of those violations . We have to put them in, in a perp walk. We have to say, who made this decision . Who stepped, knowing that it was going to be our 1st suitably resulting in the kind of disasters that you bring from that kind of business. So you have to, we have to treat them like we have to treat them like they are just because theyre dressed up in armani suits, doesnt change anything. Most certainly i might, we need a lot more folks like you and thank you for that call action. A people to get out and Pay Attention to whats happening in their local neighborhoods in their backyards, because thats how you get a change of government front to back. Thank you so much for the good work youre doing and always welcome on the show. I was a pleasure having you on, sir. Thank you. I sure appreciate it. Love might get his fireman and use hes right though people got to get out. Hes definitely ready. And i think that that call out was extremely important because there was a time where people were a lot more engaged before business than Business Practices came in. That might have some type of negative effect. Now, there are very few people who show up to those meetings, but this generation, these jonesy, of the millions theyre taking to the streets. So we might see if we might see in the future, hopefully. All right, everybody about is our show for you today. Remember in this world we are not told we love them up, so i tell you all, i love you, i am tired. And im on the. Keep on watching all those hawks another great day and let everybody join me every thursday on the alex simon show. And ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics, sports business, im showbusiness. Ill see that anyone else seems wrong. Why dont we all just dont let me get to shape out just days after and jean schmidt because the trail went something and find themselves worlds apart. 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