It's talk with a purpose every Saturday night till noon, WPG talk radio 95.5. I'm John DeMasi. We bring in the one and only Seth Grossman, Liberty and Prosperity, the website libertyandprosperity.com. Seth, good morning, and, happy Hanukkah. Good morning, and, Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah both in the same day for the, the third time, in a 100 years. By the way, I don't know if this is, happening to all the callers, but when you're on hold, we're listening to Christmas music instead of listening to your program. So I I wasn't able to follow the details, of, the conversation about that that that, you know, horrible shooting in, Wisconsin. And I I think part of the reason is all these unintended consequences because we're so overwhelmed with illegal immigrants, because we're all, you know, so overwhelmed with the criminals, out on a loose, that we we can't lock them up with homeless wandering all over because we're in total chaos. We're not able to take care of some basic things like having the schools notice problems, like having parents, you know, you know, the thing we never talk about is parents who aren't home because it used to be one parent could afford a house and support a family. And now you need 2 parents sometimes even with the 3 jobs between 2 parents and, and stuff is falling through the cracks. But in in any case, a lot of stuff going on, I was I was fascinated by the international news report on the networks where they said there was this tragic, car accident in Germany where a car just happened to drive into a Christmas festival, and, mowed down 11 people and 3 or 4 dead, many are are crippled. But somehow the, the news did not mention that that was a Saudi Arabian doctor who was living in Germany, who deliberately ran his car at full speed through a crowd of people trying to celebrate the Christmas holiday. And, of course, you know, why why Saudi Arabia? What's going on in Saudi Arabia? Well, of course, Saudi Arabia is the center of this cult of Islam called the Wahhabi or Salafi cult. And whereas most people in the West think that the golden age of Islam was wonderful, When you had Baghdad and we had literature and you had, algebra and mathematics and science, all that thing was was good, to this particular cult from Saudi Arabia called the Wahhabi or the Salafis. They said, oh, no. That was that was horrible. That was a corruption of Islam because that was an age of tolerance and and people enjoying their lives. We have to go back to the the pure Islam of, Mohammed and and his companions 1400 years ago in the middle of Arabia. So so that's the cult of Islam. And for years, that Wahhabi or Salafi cult was a fringe. But because of all that Saudi oil money, they've been promoting that cult for the past 30 years, and that's now the dominant thing of Islam. And one of the basic doctrines of that Wahhabi cult is that jihad is the peak or pinnacle of Islam, and death by doing jihad is the loftiest wish. And and then if you die while doing jihad, and the and the jihad is just killed non believers, all your sins are forgiven and you get eternal life. Now now why is that such a dangerous doctrine? It's because somebody could be perfectly normal, a normal family. But if their child gets involved in this Wahhabi or Salafi cult, and they're having a problem in life. If if they fail in business, if if they if they get dumped by their girlfriend, if anything goes wrong in their life and they feel guilty. Whereas someone who's Jewish would go to the labavich or the Chabad house or something and you know and and and put on you know go to synagogue you know 6 days a week or or if someone who's Christian would become a priest or become a missionary or or become born again. Here, to to get forgiveness for all your sins and to get eternal life, all you have to do is kill people of a different faith, and you're instantly forgiven. So people like that are like walking time bombs, and we saw this in Atlantic City where we had that, that guy, Zulfi Hoxha, who grew up in Margate, graduates Atlantic City High School 2011, had a tough situation in life, and and suddenly he shows up in in Syria making videos saying you can avoid hellfire just like I did. You know, just, kill some non believers, just push someone in front of a car, push someone off the building, and this is how you get eternal life. And I and I wonder if that Saudi Arabian doctor who mowed down those Germans, in, at that Christmas festival saw that video by that Margate product, that Zulfi Hadza. You know, his parents own that that pizza place on Washington Avenue in Margate. Boy. But but It never ceases to never ceases to amaze me. Yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile, the, the government shutdown crisis, I think that was a great thing that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami basically forced Trump to do more to fix the government during the past week than Trump did during his 1st 4 years in the 1st term, by saying that you can't fix the government unless you cut the spending, and you can't trust Congress to control the spending. So, so as you know, it's messy for the last couple of days, but I think that that Trump and his administration sort of put a warning shot across the bow of the Republicans in congress. And, and I have a feeling this is just the beginning. So, let's get used to the same kind of turmoil that, I saw in Argentina with, with with, Malay, Javier Malay, where he he just cut down the spending and there were demonstrations or protests, but he cut the spending. And after a year, the currency is stable, the inflation is gone, and the economy is recovering. But you had to go through that 1 year of pain to get there. And I hope that Trump, with the people he's with now are going to do that. Yeah. I hope so too, but be prepared as you said for more turmoil. And and and by the way, this this out of control spending where there's just not enough money, there was actually something very interesting in Atlantic City last Wednesday night. I was there for the, hearing on the wind turbines. But before they talked about the wind turbines, city council was talking about what was going on in the public housing project in Atlantic City known as Stanley Homes. And, of course, for a couple years, there's no heat, there's no hot water, it's overrun with bugs and rodents. And you had one of the councilwomen, Latoya Dunston, was saying, can you imagine people having to live like this? And what can we do? And what what I was surprised by was that 3 of the black councilmen, the Sporty Randolph, Kalim Shabazz, and Stephanie Marshall were really the adults in the room and said, you know, we just can't spend all the money to fix every single problem. And they pointed out that the this public housing project was built as emergency housing by the federal government during the 19 thirties. It was never built to be around for 90 years. It was supposed to just deal with a temporary crisis of the depression. And when that crisis was over after World War 2, it should have been torn down. I mean, there was no need for it, and and that's the real problem. And every dollars they're spending to try to get pipes, you know, these 90 year old pipes working that are just falling apart, it was heartbreaking. Every time they turn on the heat, the steam goes into these pipes and another pipe breaks. So you can't fix a pipe, you know, every other day, and the the thing has to close down. And the other thing that we we have to point out is, you know, obviously if if you're living in a place that's so horrible, why don't you move? Why don't you go somewhere else? And that gets into questions, well, well, I guess the rents are too high in other places. But why are the rents so high in other places? It's because are they because the property taxes are too high? Or is it because the zoning laws are too crazy so builders can't build anything? Do we make too many rules that make it difficult for landlords to evict bad tenants? So we're not going into the cause of the problem. We're just dealing with the symptom of the problem. And also why aren't people making enough money to pay for a decent rent? Is it because we have open borders that are depressing wages? We're not making regulations that are putting business out of business. So in other words, whenever you have a problem that people can't afford rent and you say, okay, we're going to have the government be the landlord. That's almost like if someone has a high fever, and you say, oh, this person has a 105 fever. Let's bring the fever down by putting in a in a bathtub filled with ice. You know, that'll bring the fever down, but it'll kill the patient because you're not dealing with the cause of the fever. So it just raised some some very interesting questions in Atlantic City last night. Yeah. That that's a been a problem for years, and and I bet you it doesn't get solved this year either. Well, the the solution will be, obviously, to close the building, to find the other homes, to find out what kind of counseling to get people who don't have good jobs. And hopefully, if, Trump's mass deportations go into effect, there'll be a lot of good job openings and and wages will go up again. You know, it's interesting when, when people talk about Americans being the best paid, most productive workers in the world, you'll see the union leaders say, see, that's what the unions did. But that, took place, during the 19 twenties and what triggered America having the highest paid workers in the world and the most productive was when we had immigration laws kick in in 1920s that limited immigrants to a 100,000 a year. The minute America did that workers were in short supply, the wages went up, the factories were forced to pay, higher wages to get good workers and to make that the higher paid workers more productive, they invested in a lot of machines to make their workers more productive. So maybe the long term solution will be to end this reliance on, open borders and and and low cost wages. It's almost like, we the democrats have created a serving class and and a lot of your big business republicans are okay with it because they want cheap compliant labor. And it's like a drug, we just have to get rid of it and maybe this will be the time we deal with the real problems instead of just trying to to fix the the symptoms of the problem. So that's what's going on. Oh, okay. What I'm sorry. What else? That was I'm I'm gonna give a homework assignment. I want you, and the listeners to look up a word called dunkelflaute. D u n k e l flaute, f l a u t e. It means when the wind stops blowing in German. And and why is that word important? It's important because the entire wind energy industry is completely collapsing in Europe because the wind has not blown hard enough to keep the wind turbines turning during the past 7 weeks. And so the Germans, they're burning natural gas, but it's cold. So they have to make a choice between burning natural gas for electricity or heating their homes. And so Germany is has these contracts with the rest of Europe to get electricity from Norway, from France, from all these neighboring countries, but they're paying exorbitant rates. And the electric rates in Germany are now $0.95 a kilowatt hour. We in New Jersey, we're paying a high rate at $0.18 a kilowatt hour and we think we're too high. So, why that word is important is if you would actually look it up on a Google search. Google, if you look at look up wind energy with any other words, it'll steer you into sites. They'll tell you how great it is because Google steers the search engines, and actually does propaganda. But because this phrase Gungeflout is so new you'll actually read all these stories about how wind energy is failing in Europe. And the other interesting thing is Gungeflout is also being used by the left the way we use a polar vortex. You notice how they politicize the weather reports. So whenever you have hot weather, they'll say, oh see here's more global warming and climate change. We better, you know, change the way we live. But if it's cold weather, they'll say, oh, it's just a polar vortex. It's it's not really cold. It's just cold once in a while. So this Dunkelfloutter term is is trying to tell people that this was just a fluke thing that the wind just didn't blow for 6 weeks. But if you look at the history of what's really causing the problem, it's that when you get 8% of your energy from the wind and the wind stops blowing you could compensate because you have other power plants to make up the difference. But once you become so dependent on wind that 30 to 40 percent of your energy comes from the wind, When the wind stops blowing, you have a catastrophe. And what governor Murphy is doing and by the way, you have a catastrophe right now in Germany. And and what governor Murphy is and Biden are trying to do for New Jersey is to make us also 40 to 50% dependent on wind. Right now New Jersey has 8% wind and solar. But the minute you get up to that 20, 30, 40 percent the minute there's any kind of problem with the wind, you have a catastrophe and there's no backup. And here in New Jersey, we saw that happen in front of our eyes. We blew up the power plant at Beasley's Point by the Garden State Parkway at milepost 30. We took down the nuclear power plant at Oyster Creek in Ocean County. So we're setting ourselves up for the same disaster that Germany has right now. And that's why I think that you ought to look up that word, because you'll learn a lot. And that leaves me with just, I guess, a couple minutes to talk about Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. You know, Chris, you know, what this holiday shows, you know, Hanukkah and Christmas happened on the same day this year. But what's even more important, if if you're Jewish and you want to learn all about the Hanukkah holiday and get the history and the tradition, you won't find it in the Jewish bible, and you won't find it in any Jewish holy book. You have to get a Roman Catholic Bible with something called the Apocrypha and there you'll read the book of the Maccabees. And it's a fascinating story of how when, when Jews sort of rejected the Hanukkah holiday, Christians preserved it because the, the story of, of Jews facing persecution from the Greeks and, and overcoming it and being saved by by clinging to the religion that inspired the Christian martyrs that are now, I believe you have a new, Fox Entertainment series called The Saints, which really shows what those early Christians went through with the persecutions, with the lions and the Roman Emperor emperors and being burned alive. Very similar to how the Jews suffered under the Greeks and how the Christians preserved the holiday that the Jews threw away. And a final word of course Kwanzaa, we have that post on our website. Kwanzaa was invented back in 1966. There was no Kwanzaa, it was specifically designed by a black nationalist, black power advocate in Los Angeles, after the Watts riots because he didn't want black Americans to celebrate a a holiday together with whites because he didn't want blacks to have anything to do with whites. So, all that stuff, if you look at the keywords, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, we tell the whole story. And now it's time for liberty and prosperity to talk about all this stuff. It's on our website, libertyandprosperity.com, but we also talked about all this stuff over breakfast, and that breakfast is now underway every Saturday morning, 9:30 to 10:30 at Sal's, pizza place where they serve a great breakfast in Somers Point on New Road by Groveland Avenue. So Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and I'll see you next year. Yes. That's right. Seth Grossman. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah, Seth. Seth Grossman, Liberty and Prosperity. That's the, meeting coming up at 9:30 this morning. And, of course, the website, libertyandprosperity.com. A lot of good information on that. It is Talk With A Purpose every Saturday, 9 till noon, WPG Talk Radio 95.5. I'm John DeMasi.