April 7, 2025 · 50:49

“America First” requires immediate and long term thinking.

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0:00 - 15:00. Proverbs 13:3-4. Diligence is richly supplied. 15:00 - 31:00. “America First” requires immediate and long term thinking. 31:00 - 48:00. DOGE’s effectiveness will continue regardless of Musk’s presence at the helm. To donate call : 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links EU President, Ursula von Der Leyen Benjamin Netanyahu

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:07This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28and now the Hamilton Corner.
0:31Good evening, everyone.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third.
0:37It's my name.
0:38I am host of this program as we are on today, a Sherathon Eve
0:44that we'll be kicking off tomorrow.
0:47Amidst all that is transpiring.
0:50But I am joined as usual by the corner contingent right
0:52across from me, my man, 100 grand, Mr. Bobby.
0:55And in the screening room produced extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated the real J.
1:02Mac.
1:04Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program.
1:09While you have all manner of things that are swirling around our nation, one of the major
1:15things that has drawn lots of eyeballs and attention is President Trump's tariff announcement,
1:23global reaction to it, and the stock market here,
1:27domestically, we'll get to some of that in a moment.
1:31You guys know I called them like I see them.
1:33Equal opportunity, true teller here.
1:35So I'm gonna give you my assessment
1:38of what's going on so far.
1:40Some things I'll tell you, I think,
1:42I would have hoped it would have been in place before.
1:46These other things, but we'll get into that.
1:47We'll get into that at this very moment.
1:49Many of you, if not most of you,
1:50are making your transition from your part-time jobs,
1:53where you generate an income to your full time jobs
1:57where you cultivate an outcome.
1:58And as you do so, I want to remind you
2:01to make your moves with intentionality,
2:03recognize the significance that God places on family,
2:06recognize the opportunities that we have
2:09within our familial makeups, God knows all of the variables
2:13that are at play within our families and within our homes
2:17and welcome God's view of this reality
2:22to inform our own and respond accordingly.
2:25True to word, what goes on in your house
2:30is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
2:33I certainly do not say that in an effort
2:36to diminish the significance of what transpires
2:38in the White House.
2:39I mean, right now it's a great example
2:42of how things that happen in the White House
2:44are very important, but they're not more important
2:48than what goes on in our homes.
2:50We will never be able to out politic, outvote, out church, out tariff deficiencies that about
3:02in our homes.
3:04It's just a simple fact.
3:06While many of us are taking note of what is transpiring on the tariff front, it makes me
3:17introspective, how are we regulating and navigating our finances at home?
3:21You know? Are we a demanding of others, a level of
3:27discipline and self-control that we are not incorporating and implementing in
3:31our own lives? It's just something that I ask myself,
3:35as we're navigating these issues. But as you're making your transition to your
3:40full-time jobs, refuse to offer your families just the leftovers
3:47of a day gone by. You know, we poured ourselves out in our income generating capacities, interacted
3:54with all kinds of people only to go home and isolate ourselves or, you know, to leave our
4:01families to fend for themselves. It's not saying that they're not capable of accomplishing
4:07various tasks and various things, but they need us. Fathers, you're listening to me right
4:13now. Your families need you. There's a difference between physical presence and functional presence.
4:20You could be physically present and not functionally present.
4:24We need to be both physically present and functionally present.
4:28For those who may not yet be physically present, we need to accomplish that step first.
4:34There's never been a person in my experience nor have I read about or learned from others,
4:40a person at the end of their lives who thought to themselves, you know what?
4:43The one thing I wish I could have done before I expire, though, I could just work one more
4:49over time shift.
4:51I wish I could just pull one more all night or pull one more double shift.
4:55I've never heard that.
4:57The one thing that I have heard repeatedly is, man, I wish I would have been more engaged at
5:01home.
5:02I wish I would have been a better husband.
5:03I wish I'd have been a better father.
5:05And if you are in a position where you are, as I am in the life stage where we have children
5:10in our homes, man, we don't have to wait until we're in a place where they say, man, I wish
5:14I could.
5:15I wish I would have.
5:16We can respond right now with the attention that our current life stage requires.
5:22In all of us, regardless of the life stage that we're in, we should and must respond to
5:26it accordingly so that we don't have to express regret at a later stage.
5:32To the Word of God we go, Proverbs 13, Proverbs 13 verses 3 and 4.
5:44It's amazing the wisdom that God has provided for us right in His Word.
5:49We have to take full advantage of it.
5:52We have to take full advantage of it.
5:54Proverbs 13, verses three and four.
5:58This is what God's word says.
5:59Whoever guards his mouth, preserves his life.
6:05He who opens wide his lips, comes to ruin.
6:11The soul of the slugger craves and gets nothing.
6:16While the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
6:21So often when we think about the necessity of having self-control and how the Apostle James
6:28explains that the tongue is a fire, remember, you can control it, you can govern your entire
6:37person.
6:40Sometimes we don't recognize that self-control applies to how we use our words, to how we
6:47We use our tongues as a life saver, not only for others, but for us.
6:55I was just talking to a brother today.
6:57And we were talking about things that people say that sometimes we wouldn't even realize
7:01the impact of the words that they say, just to throw away, you know, words here, words
7:05there.
7:09And there's a reason why the Lord gives us clear instruction, you know, that we don't use our
7:16words.
7:17We don't use our tongues to tear people down.
7:19But we use our words for edifying purposes, not for flattery.
7:24The Bible condemns that, not to blow smoke in somebody's direction, to lie to people, but
7:32to use our words as a fountain of life, a source of encouragement, a source of rebuke
7:38when appropriate, appropriately applied.
7:43A source of godly provocation when appropriately applied.
7:48and I can't speak today.
7:50I say appropriate oblige.
7:51I'm like, oh, you boy on a fat Albert, much mouth.
7:57Is that a badabaduba?
8:04We have the capacity guys by exercising self-control
8:09and notice what this text says.
8:11By guarding our mouths, we preserve our own lives.
8:16It's a benefit for us to exercise self-control.
8:20Then the contrast is offered in this proverb.
8:23He opens wide his lips.
8:26That is a word picture minting of a somebody
8:30who is just reckless in speech, disregarding in speech,
8:35not diligent or careful in what they say.
8:39I'm not talking about self-censorship.
8:41I'm talking about someone who is unwise
8:44in how they use words.
8:47A lack of wisdom in how words are utilized
8:52is often to the detriment of the word user.
8:57It should also be noted, and Dr. Kathy Cook,
9:00she's gonna be at the Culture Proof Conference this summer.
9:02In Bartlett, Tennessee, I'll have the privilege
9:04of being there as well.
9:07She wrote the book, Eight Great Smarts,
9:09an amazing and amazing book.
9:12I've been able to hear her minister and to read
9:14some of her writings.
9:15She talks about people who are gifted in communication
9:18are often tempted in that same area.
9:23Some of you listening to me, God has gifted you in communication,
9:26but you're tempted to use that gift for wicked purposes.
9:30That's why often people who can communicate well
9:32often tempted to lie.
9:38The scripture instructs prudence, diligence, caution,
9:44and carefulness in how we use words.
9:47That's why the Bible says we should be slow to speak.
9:50Quick to listen.
9:52I tell my children all the time,
9:53how many eyes that God give you,
9:55how many ears that God give you,
9:56How many miles that God give you is a biological reminder that we should observe and listen at
10:03least twice as much as we speak.
10:11Then the text goes on in verse four to say, the slugger craves the slugger yearns the slugger
10:19covets the slugger always wants and wants and wants and wants.
10:25But it's never satiated.
10:26It's never satisfied because slothfulness laziness has lot to desires.
10:37no follow through, but in contrast here with this loss,
10:42notice self control over the tongue contrasted with a lack of
10:49self control over the tongue.
10:51Slothfulness here is being contrasted with diligence.
10:55The soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
11:00We live in a society that has made covetousness marketable.
11:08We made entitlement almost a social currency.
11:15But we don't often hear very much conversation about diligence, work ethic, constancy over
11:21time.
11:23You know, one of the amazing lessons that you get from the scripture is that you develop
11:28a disdain for rich quick schemes because you realize, you know, such thing is getting
11:33rich quick.
11:37How often do you see the, the, the, the, the circumstances when a person, you know, a lottery
11:42or a winner or something like that, or someone who hasn't developed the capacity to exercise
11:48self-control and diligence over time who may even acquire a significant amount in a short amount of
11:54time. And the next thing you know, they have wasted that acquired amount in a short amount of time
12:03because the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. Diligence is richly supplied, not rewarding
12:12covetousness, not rewarding someone who has no capacity for delayed gratification. We live in a
12:21Insta face Instagram Insta cart
12:25Insta burger instant instant instant instant instant
12:30society we so instant with it
12:35they want to put door dash on layaway you
12:41you put your ham and cheese sandwich on a credit card
12:46not credit credit card I gladly
12:51play pay you on Tuesday for my tacos today
12:59That's how instant we are instead of having the wherewithal
13:04to a diligence is a social currency.
13:08Like Bobby, Bobby can't recover,
13:09he still only tacos or leo way.
13:14Is that not a great example of what I'm talking about?
13:17I mean, delayed gratification, why are you using curse words?
13:21I said, man, can you wait?
13:23Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait for the waiter,
13:27waiter, Garçon, no, wait, delayed gratification.
13:32The soul of the diligent, diligence is richly supplied.
13:40Man, how detrimental it is for us to reject,
13:47neglect the word of God, delayed gratification.
13:57Not saying denied gratification, delayed gratification.
14:03Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life.
14:07He opens wide his lips, comes to ruin.
14:12The soul of the sluggared craves and gets nothing
14:16while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
14:21Let us be among the ranks of the diligent.
14:25Let us be among the ranks of those who guard our mouths
14:30that we use this powerful member for edifying,
14:34for building up, for speaking the truth in love,
14:38not for as a destructive mechanism,
14:42not as a tool to harm.
14:45And we're not flatterers, no, not at the least,
14:47but we're not gonna lie to people
14:50under the guides of encouragement,
14:51but we will speak to truth and love.
14:53He who guards his mouth, preserves his life.
15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:04A big part of the Christian life is listening to God.
15:07We listen to God by reading and meditating on his word.
15:10We listen by his spirit because yes, God speaks
15:12to all of his children every day.
15:14Sometimes what you think is a passing thought through your mind,
15:16maybe the Holy Spirit speaking to you,
15:19giving you guidance, insider wisdom about a matter.
15:22Now by no means am I saying that every passing thought
15:24in your mind is the Holy Spirit, not at all,
15:26but often what you might think is a passing thought
15:30is the Holy Spirit speaking to you.
15:32Write down thoughts, ideas, or insights
15:36that just come to your mind that you think,
15:37maybe that's God speaking to you.
15:39The more you're looking for God to speak to you,
15:43The more he will speak to you.
15:45Being deliberate about listening for the voice of God
15:47is very important.
15:48And remember, you can always hear the voice of God
15:51through his word.
15:52Spend more time reading the word of God
15:54and the voice of the Holy Spirit in life
15:56will get louder and louder and louder.
16:05Shiting light into the darkness.
16:07This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
16:13Abraham Hamilton III here, Liberation Day.
16:16Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man.
16:20There's been lots of conversations about this.
16:24Historically, the Republican party has had members that have been opposed to terrorists.
16:30I personally am not a big fan of terrorists while at the exact same time I understand that
16:38there's this thing in America called the Rust Belt.
16:42That's a big problem for me and for those who don't know, most of you know, but those who
16:46who may not know the Rust Belt is indicative of the area in our country that used to house
16:52massive manufacturing facilities, to where the carcasses of the facilities are still there
16:59in many places, but the buildings have become sources of blight as much of the American workers'
17:10jobs have been shipped overseas.
17:12And sometimes people don't realize this.
17:15The companies, many of them are American companies
17:19that are simply doing their manufacturing overseas
17:22because to get this, it's more profitable
17:26for American companies to make their products
17:28outside of America.
17:33Somebody make that make sense.
17:36How do you square that circle?
17:39So we have this phenomenon.
17:41I wanna first say that I am certainly
17:46empathetic toward those who are at different life stages and you're at the
17:52place or the stage in your life where you are dependent upon retirement incomes,
17:58living off what you've earned over your time of employment, active employment,
18:05and are immediately impacted by the fluctuations, and most recently,
18:14appreciations in the stock market.
18:17But we need to be clear about one thing
18:21that generally speaking, the stock market
18:23is not synonymous with the economy.
18:26And to be even more frank about the scenario,
18:30much of the hollowing out of America's manufacturing sector,
18:34even beyond the Rust Belt area is driven by greed,
18:44driven by greed.
18:46So while the reality of the stock market fluctuations are real,
18:50you have much of the American people,
18:52many of whom voted for President Trump for this very reason,
18:56and are saying, hey, we have to make some type of adjustment.
18:58So now I wanna say a couple of things,
19:01and I've been very slow to discuss this from a critical sense,
19:07because as I've said, and I will continue to say,
19:09I think President Trump has earned the right to govern
19:12since we've elected him.
19:14And though he has done some things
19:16and maybe doing some things differently
19:18than I would do them,
19:19I think he's earned the right first of all, I can see.
19:21Now, some of the beginnings of the machinations
19:24are happening now.
19:25So I will never to be fair and assess them
19:29by offering my view on these things.
19:31So a couple of things that I was hoping
19:34would be solidified and in place
19:38prior to President Trump implementing his tariff vision,
19:43which as I've said before,
19:44He talked about a years before he ever even ran for president.
19:46So no one should be surprised that he's actually doing this because he has on so many fronts,
19:53been true to his word, what he campaigned on.
19:55He's followed through on that's just a simple fact.
19:58But one of the major things is I hoped one that deregulation for the American industry
20:08would have been more solidly in place.
20:10I know that EPA Administrator Lee Zaldin announced one of one of
20:14of the largest deregulatory announcements in American history.
20:18I would have liked some of that to be solidified and the impact of it
20:24beginning to resonate in our economy nationally.
20:28One of the other things that I don't think is getting enough attention at this
20:30moment, certainly in popular discourse, is President Trump's previous tax cuts
20:38being made permanent.
20:39one thing in it and I know we discuss things popularly and I and of course I blame our
20:46The line media we have gerbil zinc, you know
20:50And also blame not surprising our education system when people talk about tax cuts
20:56We need to be clear on something. There's a difference between tax rates and tax revenues
21:01All right, this every economist will tell you regardless of their partisan orientation if they are partisan by simple observations
21:08Historically, you go back to the 1960s.
21:11What happened under John F. Kennedy?
21:13He cut tax rates and what happened with tax revenues to the U.S. government, to the IRS?
21:18Tax rates were cut and tax revenues skyrocketed.
21:23Now rocket surgery, what happened under Ronald Reagan in the 80s?
21:27Tax rates were cut.
21:29What happened with tax revenues skyrocketed?
21:33Same thing happened under President Trump at his first go around.
21:36Tax rates were cut.
21:38Tax revenues skyrocketed.
21:40So what happens in the inverse?
21:42Oh, you're not so surprised to see.
21:46And this is one of the sleight of hand pieces
21:51when we had Dr. Walter Williams on the program
21:57and we discussed the inverse relationship
22:02between policies that are promulgated
22:06to harm the poor in America.
22:08Things like raising minimum wage
22:11are always accompanied by an expansion in the nanny state so that those who are victimized
22:17by these policies don't feel the pain as badly.
22:22And it's a shrewd, I would say, of demonically deceptive way of getting people to voluntarily
22:29absent themselves from being productive citizens of our society themselves and becoming dependents
22:37upon politicians and governmental programs.
22:42they know and y'all I've used the analogy before and many of you you listen to me you experience
22:46this as minimum wage rates have increased what have what has happened with the lowest earning
22:54in the lowest skilled employees jobs those jobs have gone away that's why in fast food places
23:00and many grocery stores when I was a child you go to a grocery store every aisle would
23:06be filled with a checker and you had a person working bagging those groceries now you go
23:11in many grocery stores, and you go in Walmart,
23:13and other places where you have one aisle, maybe,
23:16with a checker, maybe, and what do you have on the rest?
23:18Key-osks.
23:20Why?
23:22Because you'll have the upfront cost to pay for the computer,
23:26but you don't pay salaries, and wages,
23:29and benefits to a computer.
23:32So guess who ends up losing?
23:35The very people who are supposed to be helped
23:37by these policies.
23:38The similar thing happens when you have the arguments
23:42from regressives that say, oh, this is unfair.
23:47The tax rates are too low.
23:49Now, they're ignoring the fact that lower tax rates
23:52converge with higher tax revenues.
23:57They'll ignore that because their objective
24:00is not merely revenues.
24:01Their objective is redistributive policies
24:05to frankly create dependence.
24:06I've said to you before, if you had a party
24:08of elected officials that say they are the party
24:11for the poor, what do they need to stay in power?
24:14They need a continued source of poor people.
24:19They need the poor people to need them.
24:22And you have this give and take relationship
24:25that's developed that allows them to stay in power.
24:30So the inverse relationship tax rates are cut,
24:33tax revenues increase, well the inverse occurs.
24:36Tax rates are increased, what happens with tax revenues?
24:40Decrease.
24:40So then what's the response?
24:41What are the regressions response?
24:44More tax rate increases.
24:48More, what do you call it?
24:52Soak the rich policies.
24:56Even though if you just watched the ledger,
25:00it seems to be we lower rates,
25:01we increase revenues because what happens?
25:03When you lower rates, that also includes employers,
25:09you expand the tax base, you have more people,
25:12and so we have this inverse relationship.
25:14So in addition to established deregulatory efforts,
25:18combined with a permanence applied to tax rate reduction,
25:26you create an environment that provides
25:27a bit more stability prior to implementing
25:35the terrorist vision if you're gonna go with that.
25:37The other thing that I found that was interesting
25:40would President Trump's announcement
25:41because he promised reciprocal tariffs,
25:44but it wasn't necessarily reciprocal in the sense
25:46because when you think reciprocal tax rates,
25:49you know, you have, you know, foreign country A,
25:51that taxes American rice at 70%,
25:54then the reciprocal tax rate will be,
25:55well, we'll get the tax your rice at 70%.
25:57But that's not what happened.
25:59You know, the Trump team used some kind of formula
26:02where they did a divided,
26:05what they perceived as a deficit,
26:06and it was, it wasn't as clear cut a formula.
26:10And so what happens is you find,
26:11generally speaking, because at the end of the day,
26:13you saw a bit of a slowdown on the stock market dip.
26:25But the question is, so it's either status quo
26:31where the decimation of the job market for America continues.
26:36The obviously admitted lack of fairness
26:43in international trade markets continues,
26:45or you do something about it, interestingly enough.
26:48I thought this is kind of a big deal. You want to hear this from the talking snakes?
26:53You want to hear this one? But I want you to hear this for yourself.
26:56Feast your ears and eyes on Ursula Van der Lyen,
27:02the president of the European Union, to where she announced the light of President
27:08Trump's tariff plan. The EU is listening.
27:12How about we go with our offer with zero for zero tariffs on industrial goods?
27:16Listen and watch clip number one. Go.
27:18These tariffs come first and foremost at immense costs for U.S. consumers and businesses, but
27:27at the same time they have a massive impact on the global economy, especially hard hit
27:34the developing countries.
27:37And this is a major turning point for the United States.
27:40Nonetheless, we stand ready to negotiate with the United States.
27:45Indeed, we have offered zero for zero tariffs for industrial goods, as we have successfully
27:51done with many other trading partners, because Europe is always ready for good deal, so we
27:59keep it on the table.
28:00So, I got a couple of questions.
28:06I got some questions.
28:07So, did y'all hear that?
28:09So Ursula, you know, when I hear Ursula, I think about the Octo, which from Little
28:14You know, you know, you know,
28:16Paul, unfortunate souls, you know what I'm saying?
28:19But a worse little over there.
28:20She, she, she let it slip.
28:22Now you got to pay attention.
28:23You know, you got to, you got to pay attention to me picking up what people putting down.
28:25You see, did you hear her say zero for zero terrorists on industrial goods?
28:31Did you hear that?
28:33Did you hear that?
28:35See, I want you to understand folks, we don't currently have a zero for zero
28:39tariff on industrial goods with the European Union.
28:42You see, one industry in particular, for example, the auto will be your industry.
28:45You know, we have all kinds of Mercedes-Benz and BMWs and, you know, we have Volkswagen's,
28:55you know, we got all of them joints rolling all over our streets.
28:58Guess what you don't have in Germany?
28:59And you don't have any fords in GMC's rolling down the street in Germany, you know what
29:03I'm saying?
29:04Switzerland, you know, France, you know, you don't have Chevy Cobalt's running down the
29:10street there.
29:11You know why?
29:12Because of their unfair trade disparities.
29:17We take their industrial goods, including automobiles.
29:20They don't take ours, generally speaking.
29:24So Ursula Niles says that she's ready because she's always open for a good deal.
29:28We can go zero for zero tariffs on industrial goods, which I want to reiterate, that was
29:33not an offer on the table before President Trump announced his tariffs.
29:39The European Union consists of what, 37 nations?
29:44And she's representing 37 nations in the say that the US would be able to import our goods
29:49there with no tariffs and allow them to have,
29:54and we take theirs, guys, that's a huge deal.
29:58And that happened just like that, like that.
30:03Now ask yourselves why, because she also let it out.
30:07The zero over zero tariffs deal,
30:08like we have with many other trading partners,
30:10my question is, why haven't that been an offer
30:12for the United States of America?
30:14Until now, ma'am.
30:18You wanna explain to me why you hadn't made this offer
30:22before now, with the United States of America, the largest consumer market in the world,
30:29yet you have this with other, with your many other trading partners.
30:34Not the European Union President, you know, I'm not the American President, but I have
30:46questions.
30:48So you mean to tell me you will fix your face to be comfortable with having a zero for zero
30:53trading deal with another nation, but you won't have that with the United States of America,
31:00And it takes for President Trump to show up and to say, you know what?
31:03I'm tired of this.
31:06We're gonna six shoot it with some tariffs, 10 paces, turn and draw.
31:10And they said, well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, we didn't want a 10 pace.
31:13We didn't want a 10 pace and draw.
31:15How about this?
31:16We, we, how about zero for zero?
31:20That's a big deal, folks.
31:21Now, I don't know how to Trump administration.
31:23They're going to respond to this, but this very well could be a great moment.
31:27This is what I would advise a Trump administration to do to seize upon this offer.
31:33Ursula Van Delayan, who has stated it publicly and continues to state it publicly, to announce
31:40to the American people, this is why we're doing this.
31:45You see, why did it take for me to come out and to say that we're going to tear up the
31:49European Union for the European to come up and say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, you know
31:54like Martin, when when he was threatened to jingle, stop jingle, stop, and you just start
31:57walking to the door and be like, jingle, jingle jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle,
32:04That's what just happened with the European Union.
32:09I didn't even get to.
32:11Did y'all realize BB Netanyahu was in Washington, DC last night?
32:15Oh, I'm gonna show you.
32:18Yeah, they're concerned about hostages.
32:24But you want to know what they're talking about?
32:25I'll show you how I'm gonna play when we come back.
32:29The way he's expressed his commitment to eradicate the trade deficit between American Israel.
32:36It's just a $7.4 billion deficit.
32:40They earned $22.2 billion from the US in 2024.
32:44We earned $14.8 billion from them.
32:46But that doesn't include all of the military support
32:49and things we've been providing for them.
32:51There's more to say on this,
32:52and we'll continue to say it on the other side of the break.
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34:01Bad Ideas Have Victims
34:03This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian Rural View.
34:07The death and depravity we see all around us, particularly millions of aborted babies in
34:12In all manner of sexual and gender perversion are the direct result of ideas from men and
34:17women who reject God in his design.
34:20In the 1916 Project documentary film by Seth Gruber, he shows that today's evil has been
34:26built on the worldview of Margaret Sanger in a whole line of deprivors.
34:30God's word says, Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even
34:35expose them.
34:37and pastors need to shine the light of Christ on the darkness with grace and truth.
34:42Here are most recent programs with Seth Gruber in preview the 1916 project film at TheChristian
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34:58American Family Radio.
35:04The Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Minute Common Terrors are available at AFR.net.
35:10to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
35:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner to the point that I was making before.
35:21I'm going to get to Israel, but Japan has communicated with the White House in an effort to negotiate
35:30concerning terror.
35:31So, European Union, sorry, United Kingdom, I already mentioned the European Union.
35:38The United Kingdom has communicated with the White House in an expression to secure a deal.
35:43and the tariffs Vietnam, one of the nations that I had a higher rate,
35:48impose upon them the, uh, the nation's leader,
35:54tolam has apparently offered to eliminate all tariffs in the deal with
36:02United States of America.
36:04All y'all again, y'all Lulu lemon spandex would not, because they bake them in
36:09Vietnam, you know, I'm talking about, uh,
36:16tolamas contacted Cambodia, Thailand, India.
36:19I mean, go down to the South Korea.
36:21No, no, I'm sorry.
36:22Not South Korea.
36:23South Korea has not formally expressed publicly yet.
36:27Australia, Argentina, even though Kydotrudo and them
36:33was talking big talk, they've been in communication
36:37with the White House, Mexico, Switzerland, Malaysia.
36:41I mean, this is happening.
36:42And again, I don't want anybody to miss
36:44because she's what I'm saying.
36:45I'm not saying that all is rosy.
36:46No, I'm not saying that.
36:47One of the major things is you're witnessing
36:49with the stock market.
36:50Again, not to be confused with the economy.
36:54All right, the stock market is the stock market.
36:57The economy is more mainstream,
37:00and they don't need to be pit against each other.
37:02Obviously, the stock market is important,
37:04but it's not synonymous with mainstream.
37:06That's just a simple reality.
37:10But you have some of the same people
37:12and some of the same entities that led to the lobbying
37:15to provide permanent normal relations with people like China,
37:20and that aided the exportation of our manufacturing sector
37:24overseas, these are some of the people that are offering the most consternation.
37:29And what you're witnessing there, one of the most important things to investors is a stability,
37:34stability in terms of what is predictable.
37:39So it's almost like to use a sports analogy.
37:42Playing basketball, you have some games, whatever reason, call it tight.
37:46Every little thing is a foul.
37:47You breathe the wrong way.
37:48Foul.
37:49But the only thing basketball players want is consistency.
37:53So if it's a file, if I blow on him, it's a file where he blows on me, you know, or if
37:58you're going to call it a bit more loosely, we can play a bit more like the, you know,
38:01the bad boys' Pistons as long as it's consistent.
38:05That's all we want.
38:06Because when it's consistent, we can adjust.
38:08That is what investors are looking for.
38:09So right now you have President Trump leading a seismic shift in what is status quo.
38:15And right now that instability is what you're experiencing in the market, but make no mistake
38:21about it.
38:22things re-stabilized, Lord willing, you will see an adjustment.
38:27Now for those that are a bit more shrewd, that are investors, and I am not a financial advisor,
38:32but you may want to talk to an advisor to see if you have disposable income, whether or not
38:36it'd be prudent for you to what's called in economic terms buying the dip.
38:42Stock prices are lower.
38:43You got just to make simple math.
38:45You have $100 to spend on shares of stock.
38:48You can get more stock with $100 today than you could have two weeks ago.
38:51That makes sense.
38:52and you hold your stock until the stock price values
38:55regain and then oh, it's kind of like buying Amazon in 1993.
39:03I got $1,000 on my boss on Amazon stock.
39:06You could have bought a pretty significant amount
39:08on Amazon stock before they became Amazon.
39:12If you had that $100,000, you invested in 1993
39:15and now it's 2025, those shares of stock
39:19will be worth a little bit more.
39:20You understand what I'm saying?
39:21So that's something that some people can take advantage of.
39:25Now again, you have certain people that are in a different stage in life, you know, that
39:29they're more dependent immediately upon that type of wealth.
39:32And I'm empathetic to that.
39:36I'm empathetic to that.
39:39But at some point, at some point, somebody has to care about the American people.
39:46I mean, it bothers me that there was a Rust Belt in our nation.
39:52It bothers me, like I've explained before, that when I was a little boy, I would go to
39:56the store with my dad.
39:57If it didn't say made in America, my dad would say, hey, that's a jump.
39:59that down, put that back. That's junk. Why is it junk that? That wasn't made in our country.
40:06Well, oh, that was made in China. That's junk. Now everything is made in China. How did that happen?
40:12This is how it happened. International trade deals, NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement,
40:18the TPP, all these other things. That's what happened. I mentioned earlier, Israel's Prime Minister
40:26Beebe Netanyahu. And this is just a miss on my part, but I didn't know that we had a trade deficit
40:32with Israel. I didn't know that. I didn't know Israel was placing tariffs on our goods and things
40:39of that nature. Well, simple facts. The United States is Israel's largest trading partner.
40:48It's a fact. The total goods trade estimated between the United States and Israel in 2024
40:56was $37 billion. All right. In 2024, US imports from Israel stood at $22.2 billion
41:03But exports to Israel stood at 14.8 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of 7.4 billion
41:10dollars.
41:11Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu got in town last night was at the White House with President
41:18Trump and he announced public, oh, wait, wait, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, Uncle Trump.
41:26We don't want, we don't want to smoke with America.
41:28We going to, we going to address this trade deficit in a hurry.
41:33to and watch clip number two clip two go.
42:00Yes, many countries ought to do the same.
42:03Yes, Bibi, Netanyahu, we send y'all all kinds of military toys.
42:09In a lot of ways, you know, we are part of your national defense, frankly.
42:19So yes, yes, we need trade barriers.
42:21Yes, trade different.
42:22Yes, eliminate it all.
42:25And so I'm encouraged by the number of heads of state from other nations that are
42:32Contact in the United States of America in order to negotiate
42:37appropriate rates, but can I cannot tell you a question I'm asking and I mean it's just like I mean reflecting again on Ursula
42:46Vandalayans
42:49Statement about zero for zero tariffs
42:51The so she's what they've done with other trade partners
42:54Why hadn't you come to the table to do that with the United States of America before now?
42:58Why does it have to take this threat of tears? Why haven't we been able to sell American vehicles on European streets before now?
43:06I'm not saying you know you just trust anything that Trump does just because it's Trump
43:16But I think he's earned the right for us so when I let's see what happens
43:22And like I said that he's doing things that I would necessarily have done him that way
43:25I would have at a minimum
43:28Done when I said earlier secured the deregulatory impact in our community and our economy first
43:34Permanent move for the permanent now it takes that takes Congress's participation understand that
43:38But you have reconciliation you have other measures available to it make it happen
43:43secure a permanence to the tax rate reduction in our own nation, which includes
43:52corporate tax rates, and then maybe have a bit more scalpel-like precision in your
44:00reciprocal, terrafing. You know? But hey, I wasn't on the ballot in 2024. I didn't
44:10run. Mr. Trump did, and we elected him. So I'm just saying, and I'll ask this
44:19question. In addition to one I asked earlier, do you think Ursula Van Delire would have come
44:23to the floor saying, hey, you know what, I have an idea. How about we have zero for zero tariffs
44:27to the United States of America if President Trump didn't announce his tariff plan? And when
44:33I'm saying what about the American people, I'm speaking most specifically about the jobs that
44:39have been shipped overseas. Do you understand the impact it would have if we could move so much
44:46So much of our society that are a part of the welfare state programs,
44:51off of those programs, into actionable and forwardly advancing careers.
44:58You want to talk about how attractive would spending cuts become if we could reduce the size
45:02of some of these entitlement programs?
45:06In order to have an America-first vision, the vision must include, yes,
45:12immediate action, but also long-term thought processing.
45:19And I believe that that is what President Trump is aiming for.
45:23And I know we need to have a significant adjustment
45:27on the international stage.
45:28So though I may not have gone about it
45:31the way that President Trump is going about it,
45:33I am willing to prayerfully watch and see what is happening.
45:41what is happening to be honest about what's happening.
45:45The tumultuous nature of things happening currently
45:48is solely at the Wall Street level,
45:50at this juncture as we speak today,
45:52because of the instability.
45:54Investors don't like instability in terms of the framework.
45:59All right, nobody can predict how companies
46:01go belly up, belly down, that kind of thing.
46:03But there is something as blue chip stocks,
46:05you do have the S&P index, you have these kind of things.
46:08But what I'm talking about is the framework
46:11for an investment, the environment for investing,
46:15stabilization in terms of what you can expect
46:18for manufacturers, stabilization in tax rates.
46:22These are the kinds of things that we're looking for.
46:25But it's high time that we had somebody
46:27looking out for the American people.
46:32I'm looking forward to an America
46:34where we can have a reduction of entitlement programs.
46:38Then we have fewer people who would want to
46:41or need to be on a public assistance framework.
46:46I want to see people to have the heartening
46:49of their own capacity to be functional, fully committed,
46:53and invested citizens in our nation.
46:57I don't want to have a repetition of generational people
47:00that are living in public housing.
47:08And this is what has to transpire.
47:13So this is what the beginnings of that.
47:18And I think a major thing, listen,
47:21I know some of President Trump's who listened to this program.
47:24Pick up the flag of Ursula,
47:26Van de Liers, publicly expressed
47:31offer of a zero for zero tariff,
47:34make it like a flag and wave it around the world.
47:38And wave it in our own nation, telling our citizens,
47:41see folks, this is what I'm talking about.
47:43This is what America first is,
47:45because when you put the American people
47:47and the American manufacturer on the same footing
47:51other people around the world watch Americans get to work watch what we do in
48:00the same vein what happened to all those other previous presidents were they not
48:06aware of the Bobby laugh because he's he knows me I'm saying this tongue and cheek
48:12were they unaware of the imbalances were they unaware because they're really only
48:20two options either you were ignorant or you were complicit are we gonna revisit
48:29the Clinton Tony in effort to, you know, invite China into the world trade organization.
48:36And we're going to talk about that.
48:38It's trying to export a whole lot to us and all those around the world.
48:42But guys, how much do they import?
48:44Nothing.
48:46Nothing.
48:47Guys, we need a populace where, as many people are saying in the chat, where we're teaching
48:51men to fish, one of the best ways to address runaway inflation and the our national deficit.
48:59including our debt is to reduce the size and scope of our entitlement programs.
49:06How do you do that?
49:07We get people off of the government door and get them back to work.
49:11How do you do that?
49:12One of the best ways is to re-establish this thing called manufacturing in our own
49:17nation to where we're not merely a consumer nation, where we make stuff again.
49:25I want to be able to go to the store with my sons and they pick up something
49:30and I say, son, look at the tag.
49:32Where was that made?
49:33That is his name.
49:36God, I put that back on his shelf.
49:38That's junk.
49:42We need stuff that's made in America.
49:43That's my, that was my experience.
49:46Daddy, I want this.
49:47Where is that made?
49:48Well, that is made in God.
49:49Put, made it right now.
49:50Put that back, little ape.
49:51That's junk.
49:55We cannot continue to be a consumer nation.
49:58It can't happen.
50:00You have to make adjustments.
50:01I think we're seeing the beginning
50:03of that reconfiguration.
50:07Ursula Van der Lyre was one of the first,
50:09but I kind of have a feeling she won't be the last.
50:12I mean, for her to come to the table publicly with a zero for zero offer.
50:17It's kind of a big deal.
50:19Put that on a t-shirt, Mr. Trump.
50:22Put on a bumper sticker, put on a flag, run around the nation and run around the
50:25world to say this is what I'm talking about.
50:28We're going to make America manufacture again.
50:33Y'all have a great evening.
50:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect
50:44those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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