Calls on WORD Talk line: Lindsey Graham, Save Act, Rhinos in Gov't

00:02 All right, somebody said over on the Common Sense Retirement Planning text line, Charlie Graham voted for Thune. I'm pretty sure he did. But I can't be positive. Because I did a little research into that. I wanted to find out who voted for John Thune to be the Senate Majority Leader. And did you know that's a secret vote? It's a secret ballot. I'm to have to kill the camera here real quick over on the stream. Did you know that? 00:31 That is a secret ballot. But here's my thing. In Washington, D.C., I don't think there should ever be a secret ballot. I think every single vote that they take, I don't care if they vote on where to go for lunch. I want to know about it. All right, Jimmy Johns has 80 % of the vote, therefore we're going to Jimmy Johns. I want to know who voted for Jimmy Johns over Subway. 01:02 That's what I want to know. Every single vote. So while we can assume that Lindsey Graham did vote for John Thune, can't be positive. uh Let's see. Let's go to Larry in Greenville. Larry, welcome. Hey, Charlie. How you doing? I'm doing good. What's up, I'd like to some numbers on the number of people in the primaries that even know who they're voting for. 01:32 i guarantee the majority of the people that vote in the primaries even though the turnout is low you know i started people about in the primaries are voting on name recognition you know i think you know what my uh... i'm to have nothing hold up i think more people in the general election don't know than in the primaries 01:53 well i think the primary the general election in less than port the uh... turnout is more important in the general no no no no i'm i'm gonna disagree with you on that one not here in south carolina because whoever wins the primary goes on to win the general 02:14 And I would say, and I appreciate that, would say 90 % of the time. 90 % of the time. So last non-presidential primary, 85, I'm sorry, 86.5 % of the people decided they were not gonna vote. And because of that, we got what we got. Let's go to Esther in Powdersville. Esther, welcome. Oh, thank you. Most United States senators and congressmen make $174,000 a year. Yeah. Correct? Right. 02:43 but yet they spend millions and millions of dollars to get elected. Isn't that interesting? How does that math add up, of the perks for that kind of a job. Oh, well, here's what I do know. We're hearing that John Thune is a big investor in Mitch McConnell's wife's father's shipping business, you know, the Chinese shipping magnate. Oh, there's plenty of perks. Plenty. 03:13 listen up don't let me go to the end of the question i think you're right here uh well this mission that's new in my next question but uh... we just want to come out and ask me the grand did you know the john de 03:27 Well, if you ever had the guts to call this show, I Well, I'd call him up on over. I'll call him up tomorrow and ask his office if he voted for him. All right. That's a good idea. That's a good idea. Everybody's trying to call the office and say, did Lindsey Graham vote for John Thune? Also, why can't they get rid of John Thune like they got rid of Kevin McCarthy? That's a good question. That is a real good question because they could vacate the chair in the Senate. I mean, it only... 03:55 It only, I read this last night, it takes like five senators, five senators have to come up with a resolution to vacate the seat and then they have to get a big vote on it I think that takes two thirds. I know. Okay, this is the other question I want to ask you about. I understand William Cannon's uh response to the slush fund, okay? Right. But this is my response to him. 04:24 Aren't the taxpayers paying for that? Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's our money. That's true. That's true. So if my husband and I are paying for their indiscretions, I want names and I have a right to know who I'm paying for. Yeah. But I also understand that there are a lot of victims there that don't want their identities. Now, w ...