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AMFEST 2024, Student Loans, Department of Education & Healthcare Reform | Charlie Kirk DSH #1017
Thu, 26 Dec 2024
The $20K Mistake 99% of College Grads Make | Charlie Kirk spills the truth! 🎓💸 Ready for some hard-hitting insights? 🔥 Charlie Kirk drops knowledge bombs on student loans, crypto, healthcare, and more! Don't miss this eye-opening conversation that'll make you rethink everything you know about college and success. 🚀 Kirk's take on education will shock you! He reveals why the Department of Education might be a scam and offers actionable advice for parents. Plus, get the inside scoop on crypto investments you've never heard before! 💡 Curious about the biggest threats to America? Kirk doesn't hold back! From intel agencies to the Chinese Communist Party, he breaks it all down. 🏫 Ever wonder which college campuses welcomed Kirk with open arms? (Spoiler: It's not the ones you'd expect!) He shares his best and worst experiences on campuses across the nation. 💰 Flat tax, US dollar, Syria - Kirk tackles these hot topics and more! You'll be amazed at his fresh perspectives on issues that affect us all. Tune in now for a rollercoaster of controversial opinions and thought-provoking ideas. Whether you agree or disagree, this conversation will get you talking! Hit that play button and join the debate. 🗣️ Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more game-changing conversations! 🔔 Let's keep the dialogue going in the comments below. What's your take on Kirk's views? #currentaffairs #studentloanplanner #educationaleffectiveness #debtfreecommunity #failinginstitutions CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:44 - Department of Education Scam 01:42 - Pro-Crypto Stance 02:26 - Healthcare Changes Desired 04:07 - Biggest Threats to America 06:38 - Lowering Tuition Debate 07:00 - Student Loan Forgiveness Discussion 07:32 - Flat Tax Support 08:18 - US Dollar Insights 08:41 - Syria Discussion 09:37 - China Relations 10:24 - Charlie's Debate Potential 11:34 - Future Plans for Charlie APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Charlie Kirk https://www.instagram.com/charliekirk1776/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-charlie-kirk-show/id1460600818 LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What does Charlie Kirk think about student loan forgiveness?
No. Let me give you the reason why. Number one, I didn't go to college and I've succeeded. So why should my taxpayer dollars go for pay for somebody else's mistakes? Number two, let's look at all the amazing people that are plumbers, electricians, welders, police officers that didn't go to college. So they have to pay more taxes to go pay for somebody that did go to college.
That's morally indefensible. What about kids that went to different schools to try to graduate with less debt? Are we punishing their good decisions? So no.
Chapter 2: Why does Charlie Kirk consider the Department of Education a scam?
All right, guys. We are at AmFest here with the man himself, Charlie Kirk. Thanks for coming on, man.
Great to have you, man. I've been trying to make this work for a while, so thank you.
I mean, you've been the busiest man on the planet lately. Dude, thanks for having me. It's my first AmFest. We'll have you back anytime. Yeah, it's been incredible. Thank you. Obviously, your take on college, it's a scam. I want to take it one step further.
Sure.
Do you believe the Department of Education is a scam?
Yes, it should be eliminated. Absolutely.
Why do you feel that way?
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Chapter 3: What is Charlie Kirk's perspective on crypto investments?
Well, first of all, constitutionally, I'm not certain that it's even consistent with the constitutional intent that the federal government should have a role in education. Number two, ever since the formation of the Department of Education, it used to be called Health, Education, and Welfare, HEW. Test scores have gone down. Our schools are a disaster. Education is the most personal thing.
It's the development of the soul. It's the development of the character of an individual. And the federal government has failed miserably in the education of our children. We rank like 36 of industrialized countries when it comes to education. We are significantly behind many of our competitors. We need to send all the education back to the states and local municipalities.
What do you think parents watching this should do? Something actionable.
Well, again, I understand that everyone has different financial pressures and sensitivities. But if you're able to do it, homeschool your kids. Take your kids out of the public education system, out of the government education system, and educate them yourself. Absolutely.
Are you pro-crypto? I've never seen you talk about crypto.
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Chapter 4: What changes does Charlie Kirk want to see in healthcare?
Very pro-crypto. You got some Bitcoin? I actually have better stuff than that. I am a significant investor in the plumbing of how crypto is made. Really? So I won't say any more than that. But done some good private equity deals in the actual back end on the technology of actually blockchain on how all these coins go public. Now, not Bitcoin itself, but of all the other types of coins.
And so if you are long on crypto, I encourage people to understand that there is a needed multibillion dollar infrastructure that needs to be there to actually for all these coins to be able to go through process, to be made public, to go through ICOs. But yes, I'm very pro crypto and I got some coins. I love it. What changes do you want to see in the healthcare industry coming up?
What changes do I want to see? Well, the entire premise of the healthcare industry right now is a sick care industry where we are only treating ailments, not root causes. I'm so excited that Bobby Kennedy is going to be HHS secretary. I want to start to see a couple of things. I want to make sure that we no longer allow pharmaceutical advertisements on television.
There's no reason for that whatsoever. And we have to understand that food can either heal you or destroy you and kill you. So food is poison or food can be nourishing. And so we need to get back to foundational ideas that there's protein, fats and carbohydrates. All food will go into one of those three categories. We are way too carbohydrate dependent. The fats that we have.
are saturated fats and they're monosaturated fats.
Instead, when you get back to healthy, clean fats such as almonds, olive oil, avocado, so on and so forth, and then have a much more protein, lean protein, heavy diet, that alone can help us with type two diabetes, obesity, help us with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and so many other things that people are experiencing autoimmune conditions that are playing in the country right now.
So and then, yeah, beyond that, we need to be far less pharmaceutical dependent. A pill for every ill right now is what they say. I don't think that's always the case. I think lifestyle change is going to be entertained before we try to prescribe pharmacological agents into people's lifestyle.
Right, because right now they punish you for being preventative. Correct.
That's right. Yeah. And we need a preventative health care system that that is not just educating, but also properly incentivizing people to eat healthy, move, get proper vitamin D levels, get good sleep, hydrate and not poison their body.
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Chapter 5: What are the biggest threats to America according to Charlie Kirk?
Yeah, because right now health insurance won't fund preventative MRIs, advanced blood work, all of that stuff.
Health health insurance companies are not my favorite. What do you think the biggest threats to America are right now? Well, I think that within America, it is the intel agencies and the deep state. That's why I'm very excited for Tulsi Gabbard to become director of national intelligence.
Our intel agencies have been configured against the American people for far too long, and we need to do something significant and real to make sure that the intel agencies come to heel. The Chinese Communist Party is an existential threat against the American people and against the West, and we need to try to restrain them and keep them in check. And then I will say the American left.
I mean, we beat them in this last election, but they're going to come back and they are a force to be reckoned with.
Yeah.
Doge getting rid of a lot of jobs. You're excited about that? Government jobs. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I think that 80% of the federal government shouldn't exist. Yeah.
So I'm thrilled about it. Only 6% of them show up to work.
Yep, that's right. And what they do, they're probably taking second and third jobs. They're not even showing up, as you say. And when they do work, they're doing actively harmful things to our freedoms and liberties and the well-being of our country. Absolutely. What have been your favorite college campuses to visit? That's a really good question. No one has ever asked me that, actually.
My favorite. We had a great time at University of Georgia this last cycle. 5,000 kids showed up. I always love Arizona State University. Just wonderful people. I'm trying to think back. This last semester, I did 25. I've done well over 160 in the last decade. So I've visited almost every major college campus. So there's the Power 5, right? Well, it used to be this way.
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Chapter 6: Which college campuses does Charlie Kirk enjoy visiting?
And yes, of course, we need to try to drive down the price of tuition, which I think we can do through robust competition, more schools, more trade schools, more technical schools, and stopping subsidizing a failing scam, which is the four-year college education system.
Student loan forgiveness, are you for that? No, absolutely not.
No. Well, let me give you the reason why. Number one, I didn't go to college, and I've succeeded. So why should my taxpayer dollars go to pay for somebody else's mistakes? Right. That's number one. Number two, let's look at all the amazing people that are plumbers, electricians, welders, police officers that didn't go to college.
So they have to pay more taxes to go pay for somebody that did go to college. That's morally indefensible. And then finally, what are the kids that... We're student athletes, work second jobs, got scholarships, got good grades to try to limit their student loan burden. What about kids that went to different schools to try to graduate with less debt? Are we punishing their good decisions?
So, no, for those reasons, I'm against student loan forgiveness. Are you for a flat tax? Oh, yeah. I mean, ideally, I think a 10% tax across the board. I actually would love to get rid of income tax. Really? Yeah. I think it's possible. I think you can do it through national tariffs and a national sales tax.
People don't like that, but I think that there is something to be said that the income tax is somewhat immoral. The government does actually not have a right to your property in that way. Well, we used to not have those, right? That's right. We funded our government through tariffs. Wow. So do you think we could go back to that system? Potentially, yeah.
I mean, look, if you shrink the size of government, you don't need as much revenue. And look, tariffs are great. We should use them more. Our government is afraid of tariffs. They say it's going to raise prices. That's half true. It's not necessarily always true because companies can read domicile back in the United States and then sell their products here and therefore avoid the tariff.
But yeah, I think a flat tax across the board in the in the interim would be a phenomenal idea. Do you think the U.S. dollar can get back on track? Yes. Yes. I think that President Trump is going to break apart BRICS one by one. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, South Africa is just the DEI pick in there. They have no business being in the BRICS.
And then Brazil is they'll do whatever we tell them to do. But yes, right now, I think like 47 percent of all the world's reserve currency status is the U.S. dollar. I think President Trump will get that back to 60 percent.
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