 Just a similar package, $1.9 trillion has passed the House of Representatives. $1.9 trillion, which includes a $1,400 check to most of you, and maybe I'll get one, who knows. It also includes a huge amount of money. There's health for small businesses through the Paywall Protection Program. There's a massive amount of money that goes to state and local governments. There's a massive amount of money that just goes to a variety of different projects and different programs that have nothing to do with COVID. I mean, this is all built as a stimulus plan, but there's nothing stimulating about it other than handing people cash. Most of it is just throwing money away. Most of it is just growing government spending, growing government power and printing a lot of money. A lot of pork, a lot of pork, and there's going to be more as Biden works his way through his agendas. This is going to be a pork filled legislative Congress. Now, beyond that, the House stimulus package included an increase of $15 an hour to the minimum wage. All that would slowly increase and kick in in 2025. I've talked a lot about the minimum wage, and I'm going to talk about it again. I mean, it's an awful idea, really, really bad, really, really bad in particular for those that it pretends to help, that it lies to us about helping. But the thing about the bill is that the Senate will not vote for raising a minimum wage. The Senate has ruled already that it cannot vote as part of the package, so it would have to have a separate vote on the minimum wage to get that passed. They would have to have 60 votes. They don't have 60 votes. It's likely that they don't even have 50 votes, because at least two Democrats have said that they do not support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. The progressive part, the progressive part of the Democratic Party are flipping out. They're going nuts, because they think that this is an integral part of the agenda of the left, and it has to pass, and yet many Democrats oppose it. So it's just not going to happen the $15 minimum wage. Of course, Republicans, as always, are coming to the rescue. And so Mitch Romney is proposing a $10 minimum wage, and Josh Hawley is proposing instead of a minimum wage some income supplementation. So there's now a call among Democrats to unite with Romney and potentially with Josh Hawley to pass some kind of bill to raise wages of employees. Anyway, a total disaster. Instead of the Republicans holding the line, opposing raising the minimum wage unequivocally, and they would win that battle, they're already starting to negotiate and starting to compromise. So who knows? They might have a filibuster proof 60 votes to raise the minimum wage, just maybe not to 15, maybe to a lower number, but there's a good chance it will be raised. So thank you, Republicans, for being such a great opposition party. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I think at least 100 of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but at least the people who are liking it, I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this, and the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes. But if you like it, don't just sit there. Help get the show promoted. Of course, you should also share and you can support the show at your own book show.com slash support on Patreon or subscribe star or locals and show you support for all for the work, for the value. Hopefully you're receiving from this. And of course, don't forget, if you're not a subscriber, even if you just come here to troll, or even if you're here like Matthew to defend Marx, then you should subscribe because that way you'll know when to show up. You'll know what shows are on when they're on. You'll get notified. So yes, like, share, subscribe, support, like, share, subscribe, support. There you go. Easy. Do one or all of those, please.