Fighting Back Against Costly Regulations and Progressive Policies

0:00 Speaker 1 Well, Sunday morning, let’s go to New Jersey. We have Congressman Jeff Andrew. And, well, a lot of things are happening in New Jersey. Well, Congressman, give us an update. You’ve got nine days in the election.

0:15 Speaker 2 Yep, I was just going to say that. I think that’s what the update is at least partly about. It’s a big deal. It’s an important election. Now, we hear that every year. This is one of the most important elections ever. But it is, nevertheless. and we’re going to have some more important ones. It is in our generation’s hands,

0:33 some of us older, some of us middle-aged, some of us younger, but we’re going to be the ones that are going to determine whether we keep this United States of America. You know, and I like to point out, that doesn’t mean that Republicans are perfect or that we can’t do better as a country or a society or

0:52 everything’s absolutely the way it should be. It’s not. Yes, things are expensive. They’ve been worse. They were actually worse under Biden. But still, things are expensive. Oil is expensive. Gas is expensive. Much of that, though, is not only the Iran situation. It is the fact that we’ve had bad public energy policy under Joe Biden and Democrats in general.

1:18 They wouldn’t allow us to build new refineries, wouldn’t allow us to build new pipelines, wouldn’t allow us to build new gas plants and modernize gas plants. All of this has caused tremendous problems. Their answer to energy was that we should keep ourselves much hotter in the summertime, much colder in the wintertime, and that we need to be

1:41 more like Europe. And I don’t know how many times I’ve heard colleagues, quite frankly, say, on the other side of the aisle in Congress, in my committee, say, oh, no, we need to be a lot more like Europe. No, God help us. We don’t want to be a lot more like Europe. We want the United States to live

1:59 up to its full potential. That’s why really think about what you do when you vote this year. You know, you’re not voting for perfection. You’re voting to keep America.

2:11 Speaker 1 I think you’re right. And my biggest problem is that I’m a, I am for common sense Democrats and common sense Republicans, but it looks like the Democrats, because they’re socialists, they have lost their mind. And the problem I have, even if out there you think you’re voting for a common sense Democrat, well, if the leadership of the Democratic

2:36 Party is socialist, they dare not go against the socialists.

2:42 Speaker 2 No doubt. And this is going to absolutely be... It’s not just the word, by the way. You know, people say, well, what does that mean, socialist? It really does mean you have less freedom, that you do have less of an ability to start a new business, that you do have less opportunity. It means a lot that isn’t good, that

3:01 we don’t want to have in America. America... is the leader. America is a shining city on the hill. We can do extraordinary things in this country, and we haven’t even gotten near our full potential. If we unleash our American energy, we can have a better economy. Everybody can do better.

3:19 You know, people say, what’s your economic plan, you know, for economics in this country? Part of it is, just to really make sure we have energy dominance, which we can do. Europe cannot do it. The reason they have wind turbines, the reason that so many people there have to live in apartments and don’t have homes and all

3:39 that goes along with it is because they don’t have the ability to do that. America does. And I think we want to keep that. I think you have to think twice before you say you want to change everything.

3:50 So can we make some changes that are good? Absolutely. Do we need to do more with health care? absolutely without question. Do we need to do better with energy? Yes, we do. And there are ways to do that where we can do much, much better. It’s not going to happen in a day or a week or a month,

4:06 but we’ve got to work on that.

4:08 Speaker 1 Well, Congressman Jeff Van Drew, let’s pray for America. And we, uh, like to have you on more often and, uh, keep telling us what’s going on in New Jersey, because we have a lot of listeners in New Jersey and we’re number one in New York and New Jersey. And, uh, God bless you, and God bless America.

4:27 Speaker 2 You know what? I’ll leave with this final thought. One of the people I admired most in history was Winston Churchill. Not an American, but had a lot of American values and a great man. And he had a lot of great quotes. And one of the simple quotes he had, very simple, never, never, never give up. Ladies and gentlemen,

4:48 please don’t give up on the United States.