February 10, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/10) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about egg prices and some stores that are limiting the amount of eggs customers can purchase. More on all of the cuts and audits that DOGE has been doing now that Pres. Trump is back in office.
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two rounds of it on Friday. Now, price veggs comes
up every minute, every hour, and now there are egg
crimes increasing around the country. In fact, it was quite
an entertaining one in Seattle. And Alex Stone is on
the egg theft beat don on Done Eggs. Yeah, I
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mean it's like bank heis going on right now. You
remember the one hundred thousand eggs that were stolen in
Pennsylvania last week and that truck that had forty thousand
dollars worth of eggs on it and Pennsylvania police still
have no idea who took those eggs. So now Seattle
is the next one where there was an egg heist
from a cafe. About five hundred and fifty eggs were stolen,
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and they stole some other breakfast foods as well, a
little bit of bacon, but it's mainly eggs and liquid eggs.
And they loaded up a white van. They took off
with it and with some of the Luna Cafe employees
in hot pursuit when they came back and tried to.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Do it again.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
This is David Park, the general manager of Luna Cafe
in Seattle, And.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
We saw the guy with the van and then we
try to block them, and then they just like almost
crossed shaws and then they.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Just ran away.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean they tried to block them with their vehicles,
with their cars, and then they busted through and took
off with these eggs and they were out of there.
And the cafe, like a lot of cafes, relies on eggs.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They do breakfast service and getting new eggs.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
He says it has been tough to do and because
they lost all of their eggs, everything was taken in
the form of an egg, and he says they've been
doing everything they can new egg We couldn't.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Like order any egg, so we had to drive herround
all the markets to get the egg. But you know,
if you go to Costco or you know.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Some grocery store.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
It's hard to get me.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So it was very difficult.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And then John thattt heist in Pennsylvania of eggs. They
don't know where they went, probably onto the black market.
But we're hearing now from the owner of that company
that had those eggs stolen, the forty thousand dollars worth.
And I mean like they're locking up gold or money.
He says, they're beefing up security to watch their eggs.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's additional security on the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's making sure that we're just we have better lighting
in our facilities, maybe some additional cameras.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You've got eggs in your fridge at home, watch out
because the bad guys may come a knock in. Then
I was going to say, I mean, we got enough
fluting going on in Los Angeles. You don't imagine during
the wildfires, had the eggs been so high end that
that's what the looters would have been going in to get. Man,
there's so many bad guys. Do people steal anything? I mean,
I mean, how much money can you make you got.
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I mean, that's a low even for looting that that's
a low margin theft, don't you think, Yeah, well, you
got to turn them around. Really quick. It's not yeah,
it's not gold. Who's gonna buy black market eggs? I
guess restaurants who want to buy off the black market maybe,
I don't know, yeah, Because you don't know how those
eggs have been stored. You don't know where they're from,
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how long they've been out in a hot car maybe,
or the back of somebody's truck.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
They're going to go bad pretty quickly. Today.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Trader Joe's they're implementing a limit now one carton of
eggs per day per customer because of a lack of supply.
Costco says many of its stores are doing the same thing.
Sprouts announce that they are all the has been doing it.
But the problem is that people have been going in
and like toilet paper during the pandemic, filling up their
shopping carts with eggs just stacked so high that it's
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a falling.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Out of the Wait.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Wait, wait, the toilet paper you can keep till the
end of time, right, you can't keep eggs very long
in the refrigerer. I know what these people are doing
with the eggs now. Some of them may be restaurants
that are having a hard time getting them, and that
they are now going into regular stores and getting them
that way. But there have been some some of the
social media. I mean people have been putting memes up
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and showing everybody coming out with their carts full of
them that it doesn't look like that that person is
probably going to use it at a at a restaurant,
but maybe they've got some outlet from it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There's got to be some black market.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And I think it's human nature that people are told
you there's a limit, you can't you may not be
able to get them, and they go oh and they
run down and get more of it. Just havenferent. I
have never gotten the panic hoording. I guess I don't
have that gene. But you know, we all saw it
during the pandemic. It's like calm down. I mean I
saw people going berserk over toilet paper right in front
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of me. Fights were breaking out in a grocery store.
I went to a Rouse during the pandemic and people
are screaming at each other over toilet paper because they
were trying to enforce the lists, Like what's wrong with you?
What some of that is going on with eggs now
And that's why Costco people are complaining that they go
in and within like the first fifteen minutes, they go
back into the dairy cooler at Costco and everything's gone,
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all the eggs are gone. And so Costco says that
they've got to do it. I mean, some of the
restaurants that we're hearing from, they say that it is
now more expensive for them to get their eggs through
their restaurant supplier than to just go to Costco. So
I think some of these people are restaurants that are
filling up that way. Listen to Jimmy and Jessica Bow.
They own a diner in Indianapolis, and they say that
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they've got to go and buy them like everybody else,
because they can't get them through a restaurant supplier anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I feel like we're on a scavenger a hundred times,
you know, But being a mom and pop shop, you know,
I mean, that's what we have to do to survive.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I don't want to have to pay those kind of prices.
It's nice to have them delivered, but you know, it's
that's a hurting on you.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, and even from their supplier that she was telling
us this week.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
We were quoted one hundred and ten dollars for fifteen.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So that makes them about seven bucks a dozen. And
she says she it's cheaper if she goes to Sam's
Club to Costco and gets them that way. But that's
why now Sam's Club and Costco. I don't about sam Club,
but Costco is saying, you can't do this anymore. You
can get one carton, two cartons of the you know,
the big extended Costco versions of cartons, but you can't
fill up the whole cart People are just hysterical, dumb animals,
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you know they are, Yeah, all right, well, very good, Alex,
thank you, all right, come out, thanks don a right,
that's Alex Stone, ABC News. Now we come back. Got
a lot of good stuff here. This is this is great.
There is so much filth and rot going on in
our government in Washington, d C. And it's going on
here in La and Sacramento too. And I swear to God,
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if you have some like naive, childlike belief that all
these government workers, these bureaucrats, well they're still trying to
do good their civil servants, you know, you really got
your head up your rear end, because.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
What the these.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
These are grifters, criminals, the leeves. At best, they're lazy
slobs who can't get fired from do nothing jobs. But
it's just fascinating. All this is fascinating what Musk and
Trump are doing. It's what has to be done when
you're thirty six trillion dollars in debt. You have to
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do a line by line audit of every single department,
every agency, every contract, every expense.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
This is what you have to do.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
This is what you do in your house if you
find yourself going bankrupt. And now they're doing it, and
they're fighting a lot of garbage, and the bureaucracy and
the Democrats who've been running things for twelve of the
last sixteen years are all screaming bloody murder. It's like,
what are you talking about? They're thirty six trillion in debt.
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Something's got to get caught. Why not start with all
the criminal activity? Tell you about it when we return.
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Speaker 1 (08:02):
All right, so there you've probably heard the constant.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Brattlings coming from Washington in the news about all the
investigation and auditing and cuts that Trump and Elon Musk
want to make. There's something that's overwhelmingly obvious and still
is rarely discussed with our stupid media. We're thirty six
trillion dollars in debt, thirty six trillion in debt. Obviously
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something's got to be cut. It must be cut. I
don't know what happens when you get excessive debt, but
when it happens, it'll probably come flying out of the
blue and nobody will have anticipated it. Remember what happened
in two thousand and eight with the mortgage meltdown. There
might have been three people in the finance industry who
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understood what was going to happen. If you saw that
movie The Big Short It chronicle the few people on
the inside who knew what was coming, and they made
appropriate bets and ended up getting very rich off it.
But most of the people in the mortgage industry, on
Wall Street, in the investment world, they either didn't understand
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what was going on or didn't care, and then suddenly
something happened and boom. Same thing with the crash of
nineteen twenty nine on Wall Street. You know, the day before,
everything was fine, and then suddenly, boom, something happens and
everybody's life is turned upside down forever. This will happen
one day with the excessive debt that the country has,
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but just nobody knows exactly what. And when you obviously
can't run up thirty six trillion in debt, that's just absurd.
So what Trump and Musk are doing is appropriate. You start,
and first of all, you track every single dime to
see what's going on here. And reading one of Musk's
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posts that he put on X, what he's describing is
something that is happening here in California, in Sacramento and
also in Los Angeles. It is the same. It is
the same fraudulent tactics are being used. When I read
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what Musk was writing about this weekend, I thought, wait
a second, this sounds familiar and is very much what
they found when auditors started investigating high speed rail and
when auditors started investigating the homeless industry here in LA
the billions of dollars we spend on homelessness. And here's
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what Musk wrote with the DOGE team and the US
Treasury have jointly agreed makes sense. And here's what they've discovered.
When you make a payment, when the government makes a payment,
all right, this is outgoing payments. They have to have
a payment categorization code, which is necessary to pass financial audits.
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In other words, you put down that, hey, we're paying
this twelve thousand dollars bill, and there are codes for
different kinds of expenditures. Well, what they found is on
the paperwork or on the screen, that box is left blank,
which makes the audit impossible. All you'll have there is
twelve thousand dollars, but it won't say what category that
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the payment is being made to. And this is exactly
what the auditors found with high speed rail, that they
could see that money was paid out, but there was
no record of who it was.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Paid to or why it was paid to them.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Same thing with the homelessness, the twenty four billion dollars
that Newsome admitted that they spent and did not track.
And this is the trick we've seen it now at
the state level, at the local level in Los Angeles
and out the level. What you do is you make payments,
you never fill out the forms, so no one could
ever gather evidence as to where the money goes, and
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there's no oversight.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You can see what.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Happens with Trump and must trying to do a little
oversight for what for the last two weeks, Holy hell
breaks loose. Everybody starts screaming. Well, of course they start
screaming because they're afraid that, well, maybe they're gonna get caught.
That's what the screaming is about. Not to mention that
this is how they've been. They've been collect everybody screaming
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has been collectively ripping off the US taxpayer for decades,
and now that the scam is over, they're looking at
taking a serious personal hit in their finances in addition
to maybe who they don't know if there's going to
be charges down the road, there should be. Musk writes,
all payments must include a rationale for the payment. In
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the comment field on the forum, there's a little bit
that says comment, and that's where it's like the little
notation you put the at the bottom of your checks,
right if you pay two thousand dollars at the bottom
you put rent. Well, government had the same thing. You
put the code for the type of payment you're making,
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and then you put a comment which is specifically what
the payment is being made for. Importantly, he says, we're
requiring now that some attempt to be made to explain
these payments, because right now.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
They're getting nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
They're looking at all these screens and they're scrolling and
scrolling and scrolling all these screens, all these forms filled out,
and everything's blank. There's there's no authorization code, and there
is no nothing in the comment box to explain exactly
what it's being paid for. In addition, Musk found that
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there's a do not pay list that the government has
entities known to be fraudulent, or people who are dead,
or organizations that are probable fronts for terrorists, and it
can take up a year to a year to get
on this list. You could be ripping off the government
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as a terrorist, as a criminal organization, as some fraudster,
or as a dead person. And because they don't update
the list, the money goes out. The money goes out,
The money goes out. You cash the checks, you take
the direct deposits. I'll give you an example here. Okay,
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continue this after the news you might have heard this week.
A lot of people are screaming about usaid. They provide
forty billion dollars in foreign aid. Senator Jony Ernst, he's
not a crazy person. She's a Republican senator from Iowa,
and she said she's been trying for quite some time
to get USAID to give them a list, give her
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a list of the recipients of all the money they
pay out because it's US tax dollars, and they refused,
claiming the information was classified. For example Ukraine. She wanted
to know with the money that's being said to Ukraine,
what's it going for, because they'll tell.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
You, well, it's for people who were homeless, they had
their homes bombed and they're starving, and it's children.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And okay, just prove that well, she said. Her staff
found that they were spending money such as sending Ukrainian
models and designers on junkets to New York City. The
models and designers also were going to London for fashion Week,
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to Paris for Fashion Week, and to the south By
Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. So that's what some of
the tax money was going. It wasn't going to widows
and orphans to buy food and medicine.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It was going to.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Send Ukrainian models and fashion designers on junkets. Your tax
money laundered through this US eight outfit. Got more about
this about this particular agency. When we come back.
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Speaker 1 (16:29):
All right, we continue with what are they cutting in Washington?
D C? Musk and Trump?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Why Why all the screaming, why all the squealing going on?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Well we told you that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And this is where if you if you get hysterical
people or lying politicians, they'll say.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Can you believe we're cutting aid to the to Ukraine
and all those all those terrible uh people in Washington.
Now there they're cutting eight to women and children and
you know it's a war and there's so much suffering.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Well, one of the things they're cutting is the money
that USAID. The agency it was sending Ukrainian models and
designers on fashion junkets to New York, London, Paris, and
in Austin, Texas. And this is according to Jony Ernst,
who's a US senator from Iowa. Here's some of the
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other things USAID has been involved in over the last
so many years.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
She says.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Investigators in two thousand and five caught the agency sending
US tax money to an organization involved with the trafficking
of teenage girls in Asia. USAID vehemently denied those charges,
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but the evidence, Jony Ernst said, proved otherwise. See what
they did is they had and they set up a
series of pass through organizations. It's like shell companies. And
this is what nonprofits do. They set up a shell
within a shell within a shell. You pass the money
through each shell company so that anyone investigating can't tell
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where the money came from or where it went, which
is exactly what fraudulent businesses do.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It's what the mob does. It works.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
There are people who set up shell companies all the time.
It's called money laundering. It's a term money laundering. And
that's what the government was doing with your tax money.
This is how the gain of function research for the
COVID virus was funded. Both FAUCI and the National Institute
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of Health and USAID we're financing coronavirus research. You couldn't
find the grants to the Wuhan Institute in any government
document because the audits uncovered that the money was being
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sent from one nonprofit to the next and to the next.
And it turned out that you and I spent more
than a million dollars in our tax money to pay
for the COVID research that led to the pandemic. That
was our COVID research that we were financing in Wuhan, China.
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The virus that killed people that you may have known,
friends and relatives came from the Wuhan lab and it
was our tax dollars to the tune of a million
dollars that financed the research. You had FAUCI funding it
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on one end, and then you had USAID funding it
from another. This is the organization that Musk is trying
to defund now. And when people complain, it's like, well,
he's not been elected. It's like, well, we elected five
hundred and thirty five senators and congress people and they
didn't do anything about it. They just stood there and
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let the pandemic happen. Why hadn't they investigated how how
the tax money is being spent. Maybe they could have
flagged this ridiculous research. Imagine this enhancing, enhancing a deadly
virus so that it would kill millions of people. Well,
the research worked, didn't it. We got our money's worth
for that million dollars. This really is going on. Here's
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some more USAID projects. More than nine million dollars intended
for food and medical supplies in Syria ended up in
the hands of violent terrorists. This is from Senator Jony Ernst.
Another two million dollars was spent promoting tourism to Lebanon,
which the State Department warns against Americans traveling to because
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of the terrorism and the kidnapping and the unexploded land mines.
That's Hesblah has been ruling Lebanon and Hezbala will kidnap Americans,
kill Americans, blow Americans up, and we gave them two
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million dollars to promote tourism. USAID spent millions of dollars
paying people to dig irrigation ditches to Afghanistan. Afghanistan, and
this is under the Taliban and encouraging farmers to grow
food crops instead of poppies. So we sent them a
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ton of money and said would you please grow regular
food and not poppies because the poppies make the heroin. Well,
the result was they grew more poppies because who tracks it.
So we were funding the heroin supply coming out of Afghanistan.
And this is the stuff that Trump and musk are investigating.
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And now all the employees are screaming bloody murder because
God knows what's in there. And this has been going
on for decades, and we're thirty six trillion in debt,
so I have no idea how anybody in their right
mind could object to what's going on. And of course
they're claiming it's going to women and children. Of course
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they are, because they lie all the time. Here's another story.
You've heard of NGOs. They're nonprofits, non governmental organizations, that's
what NGO stands for. They're involved in all the big
rackets they're they're involved in homelessness and drug treatment and
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all the stuff I've just been laying out. In Jony
Ernst report, it turns out that these NGOs, these non
governmental organizations, had created shelters for illegal aliens. They have
them in Arizona, and for example, there's one in Tucson
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that houses six hundred and fifty migrants. There's another one
called Casa Alitas that provides services to another one hundred migrants.
There's Arizona shelters, there's shelters in Texas, and there's a
constant influx going on. And we have spent six hundred
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and fifty million dollars in tax money for this shelter
and services program. Congress appropriated this in twenty twenty four.
This is what the elected officials do. People scream about
Muska cutting this stuff as oh, you know we have
elected officials.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, to me, this is an emergency. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I don't care how they cut, how they stopped this
kind of spending. I don't care if it's legal, illegal, constitutional, unconstitutional.
Enough is enough already six hundred and fifty million dollars
for sheltering illegal aliens that our government is encouraging to
cross the border to come here. Here's another one. Trump
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today announced that we're no longer going to make pennies.
You know why, every penny that the US Treasury produced,
or the US Mint produced, every penny costs three dollars
and sixty nine cents to manufacture and distribute.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's right, every.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Penny that the US government made, we lost two point
sixty nine cents on. Last year, the Mint issued over
three billion pennies, and nobody wanted any of those three
billion pennies, and the Mint lost eighty five point three
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million dollars. We lost eighty five point three million dollars
minting pennies because the cost of minting the pennies far
exceeds the cost of the penny. Canada stopped producing pennies
twelve years ago, Australia stopped producing them thirty two years ago. Sweden,
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New Zealand stopped minting pennies even before that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
How about nickels. We're still going to produce nickels.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
We shouldn't because nickels, which you'll get, you know, supposedly
worth five cents. It costs thirteen point seven eight cents
per nickel, over thirteen cents to produce a nickel that's
worth five cents. And again, this has been going on
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for decades, so please spare me all the squealing, all
the squealing and howling. We've had a criminal government on
every level. God knows what goes on in Sacramento, Look
what goes on in Los Angeles. That's how you end
up with half a fire department, half a fire department,
and more money going to the homeless. You know why,
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because there are hundreds of homeless agencies stealing the tax
money meant for the homeless. And that's why the homeless
are still on the streets. We're getting more every year.
And everybody in the government, including Karen Bass, knows this.
They know what the game is. There just hasn't been
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a Musk or a Trump to bust through and convince
the public that you're being scammed for billions of dollars
and make it. And of course they'd want to make
the problem worse. Of course they want homelessness to go
up because then they have a justification to tax you
for more. I mean, they got you to vote for
homeless tax just three months ago, right November in La County.
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They got you to vote to increase the homeless tax
the sales tax. It's by design, they're scamming everybody.
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Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with
Katie Grimes again from California Globe dot com. She went
on a walking tour in Pacific Palisades and she was
with Rick Grennell, who is Trump's special envoy overseeing what's
going on with the recovery effort here and the federal
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government's role and also the EPA had Lee Zelden met
with residents. They did a walk on Friday and FEMA
was there, the Army Corps of Engineers, various La County
political hacks. We'll talk to Katie Grimes about what that was,
what all that was about. One more note on Musk
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and people squealing over what is he doing. Imagine every
time somebody says, hey, you know, to balance the budget,
you're gonna have to cut Medicare, and people say.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Oh my god, you're gonna be cutting money from the elderly.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
There's sick and they're die.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
You're cruel.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Well, Musk says that the there are some employees in
the Department of Treasury US Treasury Department who told him
that there are currently over one hundred billion dollars a
year of entitlement payments going to people who don't have
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Social Security numbers or even a temporary ID number. You
got that one hundred billion dollars a year in medical
care and similar programs. And this is from employees in
the Treasury Department who are interested in doing the cuts,
but their bosses have never been. You see, you could
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be you could be inclined to want to run a streamlined,
honest agency, but often your bosses don't want to go there.
Maybe some of their friends are involved in the fraud.
But one hundred billion dollars a year of entitlements to
people with no Social Security numbers or temporary ID numbers,
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and Musk wrote, if accurate, this is extremely suspicious. When
I asked if anybody at the Treasury Department had a
rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal
obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half
fifty billion dollars a year for sure fraud, A billion
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dollars a week, A billion dollars a week for sure fraud.
This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Uh. I mean, I don't know how anybody argues with this.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
This is what when I when I see people squealing
on television, including a lot of political a holes, It's like,
what are you squealing about? Do you want to keep
giving a billion dollars a week to criminals? Give your
tax money and it's not not my tax money. I
didn't know how anybody. I don't know how anybody who
lives in this country can be happy with a billion
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dollars a week going to Medicare fraud. And and then
and getting upset when Trump and Musk are trying to
root it out?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
What's wrong with you? Why? Why?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Why didn't the Biden crowd or the Obama crowd do this?
So I don't understand. This is absolutely what has to
be done is both parties should be doing this.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I don't understand how one party could.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Be against rooting out a billion dollars a week in
fraud in just one agency. How could you be screaming
against that, protesting marching? What's wrong with you? Oh, maybe
you're getting a cut. Oh, I see, maybe you're getting
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a piece of the action. That's what I assume. And
I see any political figures protesting these kind of cuts.
It's like, all right, how much are you getting from
the scam? Because no rational person would protest this stuff?
All right, We've got more coming up. In fact, we're
going to talk to Katie Grimes. We've got a group
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of government officials walked around Pacific Palisades on Friday or
Thursday actually, and including Rick Grenelle, who's Trump's special envoy
here on the ground, and Lee Zelden, who's head of
the EPA, along with many other government officials from FEMA,
Army Corps of Engineers, and Katie Grimes from Californiaglobe dot
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Com is gonna tell us what was happening.
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two rounds of it on Friday. Now, price veggs comes
up every minute, every hour, and now there are egg
crimes increasing around the country. In fact, it was quite
an entertaining one in Seattle. And Alex Stone is on
the egg theft beat don on Done Eggs. Yeah, I
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mean it's like bank heis going on right now. You
remember the one hundred thousand eggs that were stolen in
Pennsylvania last week and that truck that had forty thousand
dollars worth of eggs on it and Pennsylvania police still
have no idea who took those eggs. So now Seattle
is the next one where there was an egg heist
from a cafe. About five hundred and fifty eggs were stolen,
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and they stole some other breakfast foods as well, a
little bit of bacon, but it's mainly eggs and liquid eggs.
And they loaded up a white van. They took off
with it and with some of the Luna Cafe employees
in hot pursuit when they came back and tried to.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Do it again.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
This is David Park, the general manager of Luna Cafe
in Seattle, And.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
We saw the guy with the van and then we
try to block them, and then they just like almost
crossed shaws and then they.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Just ran away.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean they tried to block them with their vehicles,
with their cars, and then they busted through and took
off with these eggs and they were out of there.
And the cafe, like a lot of cafes, relies on eggs.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They do breakfast service and getting new eggs.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
He says it has been tough to do and because
they lost all of their eggs, everything was taken in
the form of an egg, and he says they've been
doing everything they can new egg We couldn't.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Like order any egg, so we had to drive herround
all the markets to get the egg. But you know,
if you go to Costco or you know.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Some grocery store.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
It's hard to get me.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So it was very difficult.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And then John thattt heist in Pennsylvania of eggs. They
don't know where they went, probably onto the black market.
But we're hearing now from the owner of that company
that had those eggs stolen, the forty thousand dollars worth.
And I mean like they're locking up gold or money.
He says, they're beefing up security to watch their eggs.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's additional security on the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's making sure that we're just we have better lighting
in our facilities, maybe some additional cameras.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You've got eggs in your fridge at home, watch out
because the bad guys may come a knock in. Then
I was going to say, I mean, we got enough
fluting going on in Los Angeles. You don't imagine during
the wildfires, had the eggs been so high end that
that's what the looters would have been going in to get. Man,
there's so many bad guys. Do people steal anything? I mean,
I mean, how much money can you make you got.
(03:00):
I mean, that's a low even for looting that that's
a low margin theft, don't you think, Yeah, well, you
got to turn them around. Really quick. It's not yeah,
it's not gold. Who's gonna buy black market eggs? I
guess restaurants who want to buy off the black market maybe,
I don't know, yeah, Because you don't know how those
eggs have been stored. You don't know where they're from,
(03:20):
how long they've been out in a hot car maybe,
or the back of somebody's truck.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
They're going to go bad pretty quickly. Today.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Trader Joe's they're implementing a limit now one carton of
eggs per day per customer because of a lack of supply.
Costco says many of its stores are doing the same thing.
Sprouts announce that they are all the has been doing it.
But the problem is that people have been going in
and like toilet paper during the pandemic, filling up their
shopping carts with eggs just stacked so high that it's
(03:49):
a falling.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Out of the Wait.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Wait, wait, the toilet paper you can keep till the
end of time, right, you can't keep eggs very long
in the refrigerer. I know what these people are doing
with the eggs now. Some of them may be restaurants
that are having a hard time getting them, and that
they are now going into regular stores and getting them
that way. But there have been some some of the
social media. I mean people have been putting memes up
(04:11):
and showing everybody coming out with their carts full of
them that it doesn't look like that that person is
probably going to use it at a at a restaurant,
but maybe they've got some outlet from it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There's got to be some black market.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And I think it's human nature that people are told
you there's a limit, you can't you may not be
able to get them, and they go oh and they
run down and get more of it. Just havenferent. I
have never gotten the panic hoording. I guess I don't
have that gene. But you know, we all saw it
during the pandemic. It's like calm down. I mean I
saw people going berserk over toilet paper right in front
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of me. Fights were breaking out in a grocery store.
I went to a Rouse during the pandemic and people
are screaming at each other over toilet paper because they
were trying to enforce the lists, Like what's wrong with you?
What some of that is going on with eggs now
And that's why Costco people are complaining that they go
in and within like the first fifteen minutes, they go
back into the dairy cooler at Costco and everything's gone,
(05:06):
all the eggs are gone. And so Costco says that
they've got to do it. I mean, some of the
restaurants that we're hearing from, they say that it is
now more expensive for them to get their eggs through
their restaurant supplier than to just go to Costco. So
I think some of these people are restaurants that are
filling up that way. Listen to Jimmy and Jessica Bow.
They own a diner in Indianapolis, and they say that
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they've got to go and buy them like everybody else,
because they can't get them through a restaurant supplier anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I feel like we're on a scavenger a hundred times,
you know, But being a mom and pop shop, you know,
I mean, that's what we have to do to survive.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I don't want to have to pay those kind of prices.
It's nice to have them delivered, but you know, it's
that's a hurting on you.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, and even from their supplier that she was telling
us this week.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
We were quoted one hundred and ten dollars for fifteen.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So that makes them about seven bucks a dozen. And
she says she it's cheaper if she goes to Sam's
Club to Costco and gets them that way. But that's
why now Sam's Club and Costco. I don't about sam Club,
but Costco is saying, you can't do this anymore. You
can get one carton, two cartons of the you know,
the big extended Costco versions of cartons, but you can't
fill up the whole cart People are just hysterical, dumb animals,
(06:20):
you know they are, Yeah, all right, well, very good, Alex,
thank you, all right, come out, thanks don a right,
that's Alex Stone, ABC News. Now we come back. Got
a lot of good stuff here. This is this is great.
There is so much filth and rot going on in
our government in Washington, d C. And it's going on
here in La and Sacramento too. And I swear to God,
(06:43):
if you have some like naive, childlike belief that all
these government workers, these bureaucrats, well they're still trying to
do good their civil servants, you know, you really got
your head up your rear end, because.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
What the these.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
These are grifters, criminals, the leeves. At best, they're lazy
slobs who can't get fired from do nothing jobs. But
it's just fascinating. All this is fascinating what Musk and
Trump are doing. It's what has to be done when
you're thirty six trillion dollars in debt. You have to
(07:18):
do a line by line audit of every single department,
every agency, every contract, every expense.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
This is what you have to do.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
This is what you do in your house if you
find yourself going bankrupt. And now they're doing it, and
they're fighting a lot of garbage, and the bureaucracy and
the Democrats who've been running things for twelve of the
last sixteen years are all screaming bloody murder. It's like,
what are you talking about? They're thirty six trillion in debt.
(07:48):
Something's got to get caught. Why not start with all
the criminal activity? Tell you about it when we return.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
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Speaker 1 (08:02):
All right, so there you've probably heard the constant.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Brattlings coming from Washington in the news about all the
investigation and auditing and cuts that Trump and Elon Musk
want to make. There's something that's overwhelmingly obvious and still
is rarely discussed with our stupid media. We're thirty six
trillion dollars in debt, thirty six trillion in debt. Obviously
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something's got to be cut. It must be cut. I
don't know what happens when you get excessive debt, but
when it happens, it'll probably come flying out of the
blue and nobody will have anticipated it. Remember what happened
in two thousand and eight with the mortgage meltdown. There
might have been three people in the finance industry who
(08:53):
understood what was going to happen. If you saw that
movie The Big Short It chronicle the few people on
the inside who knew what was coming, and they made
appropriate bets and ended up getting very rich off it.
But most of the people in the mortgage industry, on
Wall Street, in the investment world, they either didn't understand
(09:16):
what was going on or didn't care, and then suddenly
something happened and boom. Same thing with the crash of
nineteen twenty nine on Wall Street. You know, the day before,
everything was fine, and then suddenly, boom, something happens and
everybody's life is turned upside down forever. This will happen
one day with the excessive debt that the country has,
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but just nobody knows exactly what. And when you obviously
can't run up thirty six trillion in debt, that's just absurd.
So what Trump and Musk are doing is appropriate. You start,
and first of all, you track every single dime to
see what's going on here. And reading one of Musk's
(09:59):
posts that he put on X, what he's describing is
something that is happening here in California, in Sacramento and
also in Los Angeles. It is the same. It is
the same fraudulent tactics are being used. When I read
(10:20):
what Musk was writing about this weekend, I thought, wait
a second, this sounds familiar and is very much what
they found when auditors started investigating high speed rail and
when auditors started investigating the homeless industry here in LA
the billions of dollars we spend on homelessness. And here's
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what Musk wrote with the DOGE team and the US
Treasury have jointly agreed makes sense. And here's what they've discovered.
When you make a payment, when the government makes a payment,
all right, this is outgoing payments. They have to have
a payment categorization code, which is necessary to pass financial audits.
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In other words, you put down that, hey, we're paying
this twelve thousand dollars bill, and there are codes for
different kinds of expenditures. Well, what they found is on
the paperwork or on the screen, that box is left blank,
which makes the audit impossible. All you'll have there is
twelve thousand dollars, but it won't say what category that
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the payment is being made to. And this is exactly
what the auditors found with high speed rail, that they
could see that money was paid out, but there was
no record of who it was.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Paid to or why it was paid to them.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Same thing with the homelessness, the twenty four billion dollars
that Newsome admitted that they spent and did not track.
And this is the trick we've seen it now at
the state level, at the local level in Los Angeles
and out the level. What you do is you make payments,
you never fill out the forms, so no one could
ever gather evidence as to where the money goes, and
(12:09):
there's no oversight.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You can see what.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Happens with Trump and must trying to do a little
oversight for what for the last two weeks, Holy hell
breaks loose. Everybody starts screaming. Well, of course they start
screaming because they're afraid that, well, maybe they're gonna get caught.
That's what the screaming is about. Not to mention that
this is how they've been. They've been collect everybody screaming
(12:33):
has been collectively ripping off the US taxpayer for decades,
and now that the scam is over, they're looking at
taking a serious personal hit in their finances in addition
to maybe who they don't know if there's going to
be charges down the road, there should be. Musk writes,
all payments must include a rationale for the payment. In
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the comment field on the forum, there's a little bit
that says comment, and that's where it's like the little
notation you put the at the bottom of your checks,
right if you pay two thousand dollars at the bottom
you put rent. Well, government had the same thing. You
put the code for the type of payment you're making,
(13:16):
and then you put a comment which is specifically what
the payment is being made for. Importantly, he says, we're
requiring now that some attempt to be made to explain
these payments, because right now.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
They're getting nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
They're looking at all these screens and they're scrolling and
scrolling and scrolling all these screens, all these forms filled out,
and everything's blank. There's there's no authorization code, and there
is no nothing in the comment box to explain exactly
what it's being paid for. In addition, Musk found that
(13:56):
there's a do not pay list that the government has
entities known to be fraudulent, or people who are dead,
or organizations that are probable fronts for terrorists, and it
can take up a year to a year to get
on this list. You could be ripping off the government
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as a terrorist, as a criminal organization, as some fraudster,
or as a dead person. And because they don't update
the list, the money goes out. The money goes out,
The money goes out. You cash the checks, you take
the direct deposits. I'll give you an example here. Okay,
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continue this after the news you might have heard this week.
A lot of people are screaming about usaid. They provide
forty billion dollars in foreign aid. Senator Jony Ernst, he's
not a crazy person. She's a Republican senator from Iowa,
and she said she's been trying for quite some time
to get USAID to give them a list, give her
(15:04):
a list of the recipients of all the money they
pay out because it's US tax dollars, and they refused,
claiming the information was classified. For example Ukraine. She wanted
to know with the money that's being said to Ukraine,
what's it going for, because they'll tell.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
You, well, it's for people who were homeless, they had
their homes bombed and they're starving, and it's children.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And okay, just prove that well, she said. Her staff
found that they were spending money such as sending Ukrainian
models and designers on junkets to New York City. The
models and designers also were going to London for fashion Week,
(15:49):
to Paris for Fashion Week, and to the south By
Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. So that's what some of
the tax money was going. It wasn't going to widows
and orphans to buy food and medicine.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It was going to.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Send Ukrainian models and fashion designers on junkets. Your tax
money laundered through this US eight outfit. Got more about
this about this particular agency. When we come back.
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Speaker 1 (16:29):
All right, we continue with what are they cutting in Washington?
D C? Musk and Trump?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Why Why all the screaming, why all the squealing going on?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Well we told you that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And this is where if you if you get hysterical
people or lying politicians, they'll say.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Can you believe we're cutting aid to the to Ukraine
and all those all those terrible uh people in Washington.
Now there they're cutting eight to women and children and
you know it's a war and there's so much suffering.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Well, one of the things they're cutting is the money
that USAID. The agency it was sending Ukrainian models and
designers on fashion junkets to New York, London, Paris, and
in Austin, Texas. And this is according to Jony Ernst,
who's a US senator from Iowa. Here's some of the
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other things USAID has been involved in over the last
so many years.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
She says.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Investigators in two thousand and five caught the agency sending
US tax money to an organization involved with the trafficking
of teenage girls in Asia. USAID vehemently denied those charges,
(17:54):
but the evidence, Jony Ernst said, proved otherwise. See what
they did is they had and they set up a
series of pass through organizations. It's like shell companies. And
this is what nonprofits do. They set up a shell
within a shell within a shell. You pass the money
through each shell company so that anyone investigating can't tell
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where the money came from or where it went, which
is exactly what fraudulent businesses do.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It's what the mob does. It works.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
There are people who set up shell companies all the time.
It's called money laundering. It's a term money laundering. And
that's what the government was doing with your tax money.
This is how the gain of function research for the
COVID virus was funded. Both FAUCI and the National Institute
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of Health and USAID we're financing coronavirus research. You couldn't
find the grants to the Wuhan Institute in any government
document because the audits uncovered that the money was being
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sent from one nonprofit to the next and to the next.
And it turned out that you and I spent more
than a million dollars in our tax money to pay
for the COVID research that led to the pandemic. That
was our COVID research that we were financing in Wuhan, China.
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The virus that killed people that you may have known,
friends and relatives came from the Wuhan lab and it
was our tax dollars to the tune of a million
dollars that financed the research. You had FAUCI funding it
(19:55):
on one end, and then you had USAID funding it
from another. This is the organization that Musk is trying
to defund now. And when people complain, it's like, well,
he's not been elected. It's like, well, we elected five
hundred and thirty five senators and congress people and they
didn't do anything about it. They just stood there and
(20:17):
let the pandemic happen. Why hadn't they investigated how how
the tax money is being spent. Maybe they could have
flagged this ridiculous research. Imagine this enhancing, enhancing a deadly
virus so that it would kill millions of people. Well,
the research worked, didn't it. We got our money's worth
for that million dollars. This really is going on. Here's
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some more USAID projects. More than nine million dollars intended
for food and medical supplies in Syria ended up in
the hands of violent terrorists. This is from Senator Jony Ernst.
Another two million dollars was spent promoting tourism to Lebanon,
which the State Department warns against Americans traveling to because
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of the terrorism and the kidnapping and the unexploded land mines.
That's Hesblah has been ruling Lebanon and Hezbala will kidnap Americans,
kill Americans, blow Americans up, and we gave them two
(21:28):
million dollars to promote tourism. USAID spent millions of dollars
paying people to dig irrigation ditches to Afghanistan. Afghanistan, and
this is under the Taliban and encouraging farmers to grow
food crops instead of poppies. So we sent them a
(21:48):
ton of money and said would you please grow regular
food and not poppies because the poppies make the heroin. Well,
the result was they grew more poppies because who tracks it.
So we were funding the heroin supply coming out of Afghanistan.
And this is the stuff that Trump and musk are investigating.
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And now all the employees are screaming bloody murder because
God knows what's in there. And this has been going
on for decades, and we're thirty six trillion in debt,
so I have no idea how anybody in their right
mind could object to what's going on. And of course
they're claiming it's going to women and children. Of course
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they are, because they lie all the time. Here's another story.
You've heard of NGOs. They're nonprofits, non governmental organizations, that's
what NGO stands for. They're involved in all the big
rackets they're they're involved in homelessness and drug treatment and
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all the stuff I've just been laying out. In Jony
Ernst report, it turns out that these NGOs, these non
governmental organizations, had created shelters for illegal aliens. They have
them in Arizona, and for example, there's one in Tucson
(23:21):
that houses six hundred and fifty migrants. There's another one
called Casa Alitas that provides services to another one hundred migrants.
There's Arizona shelters, there's shelters in Texas, and there's a
constant influx going on. And we have spent six hundred
(23:44):
and fifty million dollars in tax money for this shelter
and services program. Congress appropriated this in twenty twenty four.
This is what the elected officials do. People scream about
Muska cutting this stuff as oh, you know we have
elected officials.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, to me, this is an emergency. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I don't care how they cut, how they stopped this
kind of spending. I don't care if it's legal, illegal, constitutional, unconstitutional.
Enough is enough already six hundred and fifty million dollars
for sheltering illegal aliens that our government is encouraging to
cross the border to come here. Here's another one. Trump
(24:27):
today announced that we're no longer going to make pennies.
You know why, every penny that the US Treasury produced,
or the US Mint produced, every penny costs three dollars
and sixty nine cents to manufacture and distribute.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's right, every.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Penny that the US government made, we lost two point
sixty nine cents on. Last year, the Mint issued over
three billion pennies, and nobody wanted any of those three
billion pennies, and the Mint lost eighty five point three
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million dollars. We lost eighty five point three million dollars
minting pennies because the cost of minting the pennies far
exceeds the cost of the penny. Canada stopped producing pennies
twelve years ago, Australia stopped producing them thirty two years ago. Sweden,
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New Zealand stopped minting pennies even before that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
How about nickels. We're still going to produce nickels.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
We shouldn't because nickels, which you'll get, you know, supposedly
worth five cents. It costs thirteen point seven eight cents
per nickel, over thirteen cents to produce a nickel that's
worth five cents. And again, this has been going on
(26:00):
for decades, so please spare me all the squealing, all
the squealing and howling. We've had a criminal government on
every level. God knows what goes on in Sacramento, Look
what goes on in Los Angeles. That's how you end
up with half a fire department, half a fire department,
and more money going to the homeless. You know why,
(26:21):
because there are hundreds of homeless agencies stealing the tax
money meant for the homeless. And that's why the homeless
are still on the streets. We're getting more every year.
And everybody in the government, including Karen Bass, knows this.
They know what the game is. There just hasn't been
(26:43):
a Musk or a Trump to bust through and convince
the public that you're being scammed for billions of dollars
and make it. And of course they'd want to make
the problem worse. Of course they want homelessness to go
up because then they have a justification to tax you
for more. I mean, they got you to vote for
homeless tax just three months ago, right November in La County.
(27:07):
They got you to vote to increase the homeless tax
the sales tax. It's by design, they're scamming everybody.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
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Speaker 2 (27:26):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with
Katie Grimes again from California Globe dot com. She went
on a walking tour in Pacific Palisades and she was
with Rick Grennell, who is Trump's special envoy overseeing what's
going on with the recovery effort here and the federal
(27:47):
government's role and also the EPA had Lee Zelden met
with residents. They did a walk on Friday and FEMA
was there, the Army Corps of Engineers, various La County
political hacks. We'll talk to Katie Grimes about what that was,
what all that was about. One more note on Musk
(28:10):
and people squealing over what is he doing. Imagine every
time somebody says, hey, you know, to balance the budget,
you're gonna have to cut Medicare, and people say.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Oh my god, you're gonna be cutting money from the elderly.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
There's sick and they're die.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
You're cruel.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Well, Musk says that the there are some employees in
the Department of Treasury US Treasury Department who told him
that there are currently over one hundred billion dollars a
year of entitlement payments going to people who don't have
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Social Security numbers or even a temporary ID number. You
got that one hundred billion dollars a year in medical
care and similar programs. And this is from employees in
the Treasury Department who are interested in doing the cuts,
but their bosses have never been. You see, you could
(29:14):
be you could be inclined to want to run a streamlined,
honest agency, but often your bosses don't want to go there.
Maybe some of their friends are involved in the fraud.
But one hundred billion dollars a year of entitlements to
people with no Social Security numbers or temporary ID numbers,
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and Musk wrote, if accurate, this is extremely suspicious. When
I asked if anybody at the Treasury Department had a
rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal
obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half
fifty billion dollars a year for sure fraud, A billion
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dollars a week, A billion dollars a week for sure fraud.
This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Uh. I mean, I don't know how anybody argues with this.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
This is what when I when I see people squealing
on television, including a lot of political a holes, It's like,
what are you squealing about? Do you want to keep
giving a billion dollars a week to criminals? Give your
tax money and it's not not my tax money. I
didn't know how anybody. I don't know how anybody who
lives in this country can be happy with a billion
(30:37):
dollars a week going to Medicare fraud. And and then
and getting upset when Trump and Musk are trying to
root it out?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
What's wrong with you? Why? Why?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Why didn't the Biden crowd or the Obama crowd do this?
So I don't understand. This is absolutely what has to
be done is both parties should be doing this.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I don't understand how one party could.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Be against rooting out a billion dollars a week in
fraud in just one agency. How could you be screaming
against that, protesting marching? What's wrong with you? Oh, maybe
you're getting a cut. Oh, I see, maybe you're getting
(31:22):
a piece of the action. That's what I assume. And
I see any political figures protesting these kind of cuts.
It's like, all right, how much are you getting from
the scam? Because no rational person would protest this stuff?
All right, We've got more coming up. In fact, we're
going to talk to Katie Grimes. We've got a group
(31:43):
of government officials walked around Pacific Palisades on Friday or
Thursday actually, and including Rick Grenelle, who's Trump's special envoy
here on the ground, and Lee Zelden, who's head of
the EPA, along with many other government officials from FEMA,
Army Corps of Engineers, and Katie Grimes from Californiaglobe dot
(32:06):
Com is gonna tell us what was happening.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Debra Mark's off.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Today we got Prigidia Degostino live in the KFI twenty
four hour News Center.
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