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Alfonse D'Amato Former U.S. Senator from New York

White House is seriously flawed.

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Speaker 1 What is today on fourth of July is Senator Alfonse to Motto and one of the best Senators New York State has ever had. Senator to Moatto a happy fourth of July. And on Thursday and Friday, there was Supreme Court rulings. Uh, and I wanted to get your take on it because you your one common sense individual, and

how do you feel about it? First of all, on the Harvard case with the with the kids of going to going to school or being exempted from school, or you explain it to your average American better than I do.

Speaker 2 Well, let me say this, Steve. What the court did a is you cooled that schools like hard had a very discriminatory program so that students were not being admitted on the basis of their ability. Now, it’s one thing to say we want minority students, we want to see that all of them get an opportunity. But it’s another thing.

For example, if you were asing and you were way at the top, you had perfect scores, many of them were not getting in, and you had others who had scores who were much much lower, who were getting in, who were minorities. Well, we want to give minorities an opportunity, but you don’t do it at the expense of other minorities,

and you don’t do it at the expense of other students who are doing well and just drop out. And if you looked at the numbers, the disparity was incredible. You had aging students who are doing so fantastically well and other minority students. And guess what more other minority students were getting in than the Asian students, who is

superior in terms of their scores. Now, America is about giving people an opportunity, but it’s not about discriminating against people because they’re white, because they’re Asian, or because of their color. You take people because of their ability. But if Supreme Court was right and saying you can’t do it, you’re going too far. It’s one thing to have a

program where you allow a certain percentage of minorities in, but it’s another thing when you absolutely have a program that has tilted so badly that you have a two to one ratio of minorities who are way below academically getting in over other minorities like the Asian community. The Asians are the ones who really brought this case. So

the Supreme Court did the right thing. You said, no, you’re gonna do it on the basis of people’s ability. You just cannot say, well, because you are a minority, we’re gonna let you come in, notwithstanding that your grades are way below And that’s what they did there. Now everybody’s screaming and yelling, and the left wing they’re all

for the nonsense. They’re wrong. The Supreme Court did the right thing. I think we want people on the basis of their ability, and not on the basis of their background, their economic background, their their cultural background, et cetera. But on the basis of their ability. That’s what this country is about.

Speaker 1 I agree with you, fairness. And you know, when I was going to uh to go to college, I worried about getting into school because uh, my English was not as good as uh as other people because it was my second language. But Senator, also, what happened on Friday, it seems like the Supreme Court said, it’s not the

President of the United States cannot say he’s forgiving four hundred billion dollars worth of a student loans. It has to go normal course of business through Congress. Well, and what’s a bigger problem. What’s a bigger problem is he used that dialogue to get twenty six million students the idea that he’s going to do it for them, and guess.

Speaker 2 What politics to sign them off. Yet, twenty six million people that he signed up kids, they were going to give you up the twenty thousand dollars of pax payers money. And by the way, what about the middle class families to mortgage their homes to send their kids to school?

And we have to be paying these families have to be paying big into dollars, billions of dollars that you’re giving away, somebody has to pay for it. Well, the other taxpayers in the court said you can’t do that. Well, of course Biden’s out there now campaigning, Oh you know, twenty six million kids are signed up for this sure

I promise to give you a cent to twenty thousand dollars for nothing. You don’t have to pay, but somebody’s got to pay. The other taxpayers have to pay, the other working families that have to pay, those families that make over one hundred thousand dollars and don’t qualify, they’re paying for that. The debt goes up, we all pay

for that. So Joe Biden is just campaigning. This is nothing more than cheap political theater at the country’s expense. And the debt keeps going up, and fighting keeps going up, prices keeps going up. What do you think more? Joe borrow more, promise more, and that’s what he’s doing. I understand Court said the right thing.

Speaker 1 No, I agree to Court to the right thing. But all those students voted a certain way on November of twenty twenty two because they thought that the President of the United States promised them. And as I explained to our Republican friends, that’s why there was no red wave.

Speaker 2 Well that’s one of the reasons there was no red waves. Joe and his nonsense about giving hard working people’s money away and buying votes for himself.

Speaker 1 And it understood, Senator al Tomatto, I gotta go. We We hope you have a great Sunday and a great Fourth Light weekend and we’ll catch up real soon.

Speaker 2 Look forward, Jo John, thank you, thank you,

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