 Tonight, critics on Capitol Hill are squealing that pork is back. Pork spending, that is. We must cut this out of control spending. Funding for pet projects was banned five years ago, but according to the annual pig book, the practice hasn't gone away. Here's an example they point to. There are currently 2,000 spare tanks sitting unused in this California desert. Even though the Army didn't ask for it, last year lawmakers snuck in an extra $40 million to upgrade some of the tanks. They are made at this factory in Lima, Ohio in Congressman Jim Jordan's district. He said he had no time for an interview, but this fight has been going on for years. What? No time for an interview? What happened to what we were just talking about being accountable? Well, Jason Troy is a top business and executive coach. He's a sales leadership trainer. He has a passion for accountability. Keep them accountable. Come on, that's what makes our country work. Right? Jason, thank you for joining us. Jason Troy. Well, thanks for having me on the show. And yes, you need to be accountable, and I'm in Dallas, Texas, and you gave me all the rain today because we're in the middle of a month. You know, I say I'm sorry, but I'm really not. I'm not going to lie to you. No, I know. You're too into accountability. You'll hold me accountable for that. Now, you may have read Jason's best-selling book, Social Wealth, The How-To Guide on Building Personal and Professional Relationships. It's sold more than 36,000 copies, and it's been in the number one in four business and self-help categories. So this is something that you're passionate about, where money, business, relationships are concerned. And yet, right there at the crops, right there at the base is accountability. It sounds like character matters. It does matter a lot, and I think that's what you're seeing with this pig book, right? You can even track back to who it's going to. I mean, you're having to do some deep-level analysis to figure this stuff out, and there is supposed to be more transparency, and in fact, there's less than ever. And in these pet projects, they decreased, but now they're increasing significantly, right? Last year it was $4.2 billion, and now it's up to $5.1 billion, right? And so it's exploding, and it's a ridiculous project, and no one even wants them. But then the government agencies have to spend the money, and then we wonder why our taxes are going up, and where is the money happening? And no one's holding Congress accountable for this. No, and Citizens Against Government Waste in their latest report found the cost of airmarks increased 21% from fiscal 2015, and that is despite the moratorium about, you know, five years ago that said no more airmarks, no more porkbarrow. It was imposed by the then House Speaker John Boehner, but how do they warm their way in? How does this pork seep in back in? Well, everyone, it's about self-interest, right? And so when you let anyone have power like that in Congress, that's why people are so outraged about them having more power, because it's less transparent, and now that's what's happening right here. They're just finding new ways to go through these bills and hide money for their districts, right? Because it's special interest, and I think that's why you're seeing people like Donald Trump get a lot more votes, because people are sad what's happening inside the bill. Yeah, it's true indeed, and today as we talk about it being tax day, it's a little uncomfortable when you've got to pay taxes, and you realize what's being done with our money. It does come back to accountability. I had read a quote earlier from JFK, and he had said that a hero is someone who understands, I'm sorry, that's not him, that's Bob Dylan, a hero is someone who understands the degree of responsibility and accountability which comes with freedom. JFK said, the men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, true enough. But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable. So that's what we're doing. We're questioning what's going on with our money today. Jason Troy is with us. He is an executive coach. He is a best-selling author, and he is also our guest. So where are we seeing the worst offenders? I mean, I just mean, going through some of these projects, it's like ridiculous, that the Pentagon is receiving $20 million for alternative energy research, and they're not even the right department. The Pentagon is not in charge of research on alternative energy. Why are they getting $20 million that they're spending? There's like $5.9 million in Hawaii for Asian-Pacific relations. Like, why are you doing this in Hawaii? The stuff that's just in here, there's tons of things for defense, and they don't even want the things that are in there, right? So it's like a jobs bill. I feel like this is like back in FDR. People are just putting these things for jobs bill to their district, and they're just hiding them. And I just think like, if you're going to go put an earmark, stand up in Congress and put your name to it, and say why you wanted it, and stand behind it. Don't try to hide with even less transparency of now having another body having to go back it out and figure out where is this money going to and what person is benefiting from it. I mean, no one's standing up to the stuff and claiming these earmarks, which again goes back to the thing government is accountability and responsibility, and that's why people are so outraged right now during these elections, because people are just getting sick of getting fleeced and lied to and misled. Indeed, and I think that we're in a place where we're fed up with it. The left is fed up, the right is fed up, everyone in the middle who is not as politically motivated or involved are fed up as well. But we just don't know how to go about holding people accountable. I mean, it seems like I had played a funny sound bite earlier, Jason, from George Lopez, who was saying that he supports Bernie Sanders, but I just can't pay any more taxes. You could be a Bernie Sanders supporter, but to say I support him, but I can't pay any more taxes is like, do you even know what you're saying? You can't say that when this is the basis of his platform, and yet then you say, but I can't pay any more taxes. What does that mean? Does that mean I can't, but you can? Because sometimes, Jason, when it comes to accountability, we're talking about the government, but let's just be straight. Somewhere along the line, and as a coach, you probably tell people, you have to be accountable. And as the American people, we have to be accountable. Isn't it time that we stop saying, I can't do this, but you can. You have to do this. I need this from you. You have to pay more taxes. You have to be accountable. Your rights need to be stripped. Mine? No, not so much. Yeah, I just think it's ridiculous, right? I think you're seeing it right now in the primary, but when you ask a candidate how they're going to accomplish all the things that they're claiming now, there are almost no details at all. I mean, none of them are getting any Bernie Sanders is up there talking about how to dismantle a bank. He's not getting any details or any of these things, right? So we're transparency. I tell all my clients, you know, there's three things that you must be to be a great leader. One, you have to be authentic. You have to be vulnerable, and you have to be willing to speak your own truth. And if you can't do those three things, you cannot be a great leader, nor can you be an effective leader, right? So that's what we're seeing now. We're advocating those things. And then if you add on the fact that accountability and responsibility should be plumbing, right? I mean, at this point, they should know that they need to do this stuff, but everyone wants to stuff things in their back pocket because they're worried about, when am I going to get mine? And if I leave Congress, who's going to take care of me? Well put, and here is the chink in the armor is that it comes back to us. I'm not going to say it's the candidate's fault. I'm not going to blame Trump, Cruz, Sanders, Clinton, any of them. It's my fault. It's our fault because we like our ears tickled. We like to hear, okay, what's in it for me? We have gone past the point where we're willing to lay our life down for a friend, that we are a selfless place where we say, okay, we want to get back to an America where I think of others before myself. We live by the golden rule. We've kind of thrown that away, and now we're living with the pig books, example of what that leads to. And what you said is right down at the powerhouse of our hope for the future. Authenticity, vulnerability, and truth. Jason Troy has been our guest. You can find him at his website, Be Extraordinary TV. Be Extraordinary Dot TV, rather. Be Extraordinary Dot TV. You can find more out about his book, Social Wealth. It's available on Amazon. Jason, come back and join us again, will ya? I will. Thanks a lot for having me on the show. Let me ask you one question. Did you get your taxes done? I did get my taxes done, so right at the end, but they did get filed. All right. Way to go. That's one down and a few million to go. I don't know if you have your taxes done yet, but we're taking on taxes today, Jason. Thanks for being with us. We'll continue. So much more to come live from Seattle on this tax day. This is what's in store for you. We're going to be talking about some of the things going on around the world, some of the interesting ways other countries collect taxes. And we're going to talk with Chuck Bentley from Crown Financial about what our attitude biblically should be about taxation. That is going to be fascinating. I can't wait for that. I'm Michelle Mendoza. Your friend in this beautiful afternoon live from Seattle. 820 AM KG NW.